Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

This weekend I will be working more on the "United Federation of Instances"

First thing I want to do is go through all the issues in the repo and try to comment or add my opinion on them.

Feel free to get in on the conversation here, its open to everyone.

https://gitlab.com/ufoi/constitution/-/issues

Next I will work more on finishing the full bylaws, and try to incorperate any new perspectives from the discussions in the issues (eventually we can vote on the final wording).

Anyone interested in seeing the progress on that (the first draft isnt done) you can check that out here:

https://ufoi.gitlab.io/constitution/united_federation_of_instances_bylaws.pdf

Of course you can see the original proposal document (which is the easier read and sumarizes the bylaws) here:

https://ufoi.gitlab.io/constitution/united_federation_of_instances_proposal.pdf

If anyone wants to contribute just join the first link I mentioned and feel free to offer merge requests. Also if anyone wants to help work on things like a website for us please speak up.

As always if you want to get into the conversation there are two ways other than the gitlab.

The first is fediverse groups: @ufoi

The other is our matrix chat room: #UFoI:matrix.org

Hope to see you all there.

#UFoI #UFI #mastoadmin

I never thought, when I trained or worked as a GP, that Diphtheria and Polio or, to a large extent, measles, would again be things that I might have to recognise. Nor would I have believed that malnutrition on a scale currently seen would be tolerated by society. I was wrong - how quickly are the hard-fought gains lost.

#introduction #introductions

Hi, I'm Yasmine. I live in the North Pennines in England. I have a border collie and a no-dig allotment, and I occasionally dabble with mosaics and pen and ink. Trying to be a runner!!

I'm not sure yet what I'll be sharing over here, but on the bird place it was wildlife, regenerative farming, general ranting about UK politics, and feeling helpless at the horrors humans are inflicting on the planet and each other.

St. David’s Hall in Cardiff could be sold off into private hands by Cardiff City Council. This would result in
the loss of a cultural treasure 🎶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Please consider signing the petition
https://chng.it/FLdKy9FbkM

I'm from Abertawe, I suffer with GAD (General Anxiety Disorder) and comorbid Agrophobia, social platforms are the only way I have to make friends

#introduction

“The realisation that Britain is not, by north European standards, a rich country is entering the country’s bloodstream.”

The coming brain drain.

🐘

https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/12/01/emigration-is-in-the-air-for-britons Emigration is in the air for Britons from TheEconomist

@LenoreSimson and god forbid they make use of our public #health expertise - demonstrating its evil to destroy it as is their ideology.
Government put the whole response into the hands of Sirco.
Even local GPs didn’t know which of their patients had contracted Covid. This information was kept from them by the Tory government.
They’d rather we died in our thousands than admit pubic health is essential for our welfare.
‘Let the bodies pile high’ Boris Johnson Christmas 2020.

W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the most important & influential African American intellectuals of the 20th century. "It is difficult to think of anyone, at any time, who examined the "race problem" in its many aspects more profoundly, extensively & subtly than [he]. Du Bois was an activist, journalist, historian, sociologist, novelist, critic & philosopher. He believed capitalism was a primary cause of #Racism & fought relentlessly for #CivilRights
#BlackHistory #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter

#FoodBank Britain: five months on the frontline of the new emergency service - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/03/food-bank-britain-five-months-on-the-frontline-of-the-new-emergency-service "between April and September, more than 320,000 people used Trussell Trust food banks for the first time and 1.3m food parcels were distributed." #shameful for this country

Down the drain: how billions of pounds are sucked out of #England’s #water system | Water | The Guardian

An object lesson in why public utilities like water and electricity generation shown not me in private hands as they are a necessity.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2022/dec/01/down-the-drain-how-billions-of-pounds-are-sucked-out-of-englands-water-system

#UK #Politics #Privatization

Some people in the UK now reduced to eating pet food and trying to heat food up on a radiator. This is where we are in 2022 and the most sickening thing about this is that it's all completely unnecessary. What have we become?

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/people-eating-pet-food-says-community-worker/ar-AA14L1yN

#Poverty #PovertyAwareness #UKPolitics #EnoughIsEnough

I hold the philosophical position that if two things are indistinguishable, their difference is irrelevant.

"What if we live in a simulation?" -- irrelevant
"What if you couldn't tell the difference between taking to a computer and a real person?" -- irrelevant

But more precisely, it's begging the question to say "imagine something was indistinguishable, now how would you treat it differently???"

'The UK has gone backwards on its #Covid vaccine capability and preparedness for a fresh pandemic, experts have warned.'

'Dame Kate Bingham, the former head of the UK vaccines taskforce, said the country had lost its leadership, developed in the early months of the pandemic, by weakening its ability to access vaccinations that could tackle new Covid #variants. https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/uk-playing-with-fire-after-covid-jabs-u-turn-warn-scientists-2003300?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Weekly_01.12.22&tpcc=Weekly_01.12.22

Hi everyone, this is my first toot. I have no idea how this works... but I guess you learn by doing so let's go! Hope I'll be in touch here with all of you I exchanged with and learnt from on now... dying twitter. We organize here! Let's go!

A #terrestrial demonstration of why it’s just about impossible to see the #Moon's surface and #stars simultaneously. Tonight the Moon and #Jupiter (a wandering star or #planet) are in #conjunction – well just about. There follow two #images taken with two different #exposure time.

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Autumn #BackyardAstronomy

Just now, the #Fediverse (#ActivityPub) has surpassed 8 million users! It just took 13 days from 7 to 8m users!

All ActivityPub-connected #SocialMedia are at 8,012,580 users (5.2m active six months, 3.4m monthly active). Thanks to #Mastodon 7.0m users, #PeerTube 388k, #Pixelfed 130k , #Pleroma 127k, #WriteFreely 65k #Lemmy 40k, #Wordpress 35k, #Plume 28k, #Friendica 20k, #Mobilizon 14k, #bookwyrm 14k and many more.

https://the-federation.info/

#Fedigrowth #Misskey #Funkwhale #Hubzilla #hometown

I wanted an instance
- in #english
- with reasonable and #openMinded rule set
- #LGBTQ+ friendly (even if I am not, but most of my #friends are)
- that did not block other #instances, at most muted but open
- with open minded #admins
- with extended functionalities
- #STEM oriented

I ended up with #qoto, pretty happy about it!

Have also considered:
- #Japan, #Linux, #art, #3D, #vfx, #FOSS, #FLOSS, #blender oriented ones.

At #today, would also consider their aderation at the #UnitedFederationOfInstances ( #UFI )

I know for a fact that @freemo might want to participate in the #conversation @thibaultamartin @matrix

Revealed: more than 70% of English water industry is in foreign ownership - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/30/more-than-70-per-cent-english-water-industry-foreign-ownership you'd think those braying, jingoistic #brexiters would be doing something about this, but no, they encourage it...

England’s privatised #water system is owned by funds, banks and billionaires across the world - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2022/nov/30/englands-water-the-worlds-piggy-bank madness: water supply is a natural #monopoly. these people are squeezing out as much money, with no thought for the environmental considerations

Palm oil is not vegan. Palm oil is the destroyer of the rainforest. It kills the animals that call it home. It takes away the lands of indigenous people. Palm oil is ecocide. If we continue to use this wretched oil, we are complicit in the destruction. Please, #BoycottPalmOil