Thank you so much! Of course, no worries if you drop it at any time.

I've seen a few of your posts around on the fedi and they've always made me think, so thank you for sharing! Would you consider a full-text RSS feed by any chance? I'd love to add your blog to my reading list.

The presentation of the medical pause, repurposing the snack zone theme was really funny. As was the tick tock overlay.

Ben and Sam's dynamic is great. Ben will just go "Sam, do this!" and Sam just goes along with it. And I love that Ben shut down Choo Choo Chew hard :D

Ah, the AI crawlers have screwed everything up again :( I'm sorry that it's so difficult. Anyway, no pressure.

would a RSS feed for the last post be enough for the feed to have the text and the remaning be just a link

Yeah, that would be enough for me! Or even a separate feed with just the latest article. I'm pretty sure my feed reader would notice a change to the existing entry and download it again when it updated to be just the link, although I'm sure I could filter that out.

The main part is the party's support for so-called "remigration", which is

ethnic cleansing[1] via mass deportation of non-white minority populations, especially immigrants and sometimes including native-born citizens, to their place of racial ancestry

About the immigration policy of the party:

Markus Allard initiated heavy debate in 2025 by claiming that Sweden is "the land for/belongs to the Swedes" and that the Örebro party favors a large scale remigration policy. He also criticized the Sweden Democrats for, according to him, allowing too many immigrants into the country under their watch as confidence and supply to the Kristersson cabinet.

In 2026 ÖP party leader Markus Allard sparked controversy on several occasions. In a debate hosted by Studio3 with Liberal member of parliament Martin Melin, Allard asked: "why won't the Liberals push for deporting 100 000 social welfare-Somalis?" and in the same debate said that "Sweden belongs to the Swedes. We have to make sure that we take care of our own damn people and we must deport these damn parasites who sit and live at our expense." [45]

In a podcast segment about immigration and deportations Allard stated his opinion and said that "They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish." [46]

About the foreign policy of the party:

In a podcast in May 2026 Allard clarifies some positions that his party holds and among other things made clear that leaving the EU and NATO were on the table for ÖP. Regarding NATO Allard claimed that Sweden cannot trust or rely on NATO and that the country should instead seek to massively increase its weapons production and also become a major arms exporter, arguing it would benefit the Swedish economy.[47][48]

There were many crazy things, but the one that affected me the most was my RE teacher's insistence that all non-Catholics would go to hell. My best friend's dad, who was an atheist and a very kind person, had died a few days before and it made me really upset. My parents complained to the school about it.

Personally, I donate less to more projects. But, if you don't have a strong opinion of what to donate to, you can get the best of both worlds by donating to NLnet.

They fund open source projects up and down the stack, from open source CPUs all the way up to applications like Lemmy, and everything in between. Some are quite speculative and others are tangible improvements to existing projects.

Who decides what goes on that list? How do you ensure measurement/enforcement of these rules is accurate and fair? How do you prevent takeover of whatever body manages/enforces this list by people with bad intentions?

I would love it if people who disagreed with my fundamental beliefs weren't allowed to vote too, but I think it's the wrong level to attack the problem. You have to have a political debate and bring people on side instead. Otherwise, why do we have a democracy anyway?

I actually want that. Not so I can chat to the AI, but so that everyone else who is forced into the office so that they can be on a call with their teammates in other regions don't distract me, and vice versa. I have noise cancelling headphones, but even they aren't enough.

Will you be allowed to lie about the age? If yes, then it's a pointless law. If no, then whoever is checking needs to have more control over your device than you do, DRM style. That's gives them an entry point through which they can put whatever they want without you being able to control it.

Because they're probably doing ok, and they don't want to think about how much is out of their control, and how easily they could be in the same situation.

The idea that success is just down to hard work is comforting, because they think "if I just keep working hard then I'll be ok", and "I'm deserving of this lifestyle". It also lets them not feel any guilt or spend time thinking about those less fortunate - they can simply say "well it must be their fault".

Time and again it seems that the entire purpose of the royal family is to seem a bit mystical and special to the Americans.

I'd like their constitutional role to be completely removed from the UK, but we should just not tell the Americans them and keep sending them over.

You can trust the software in your distro's repositories (if you run a distro with well-maintained repositories). This is because, generally only well-known software gets packaged, the packager should be familiar with both the project and the code, and everything is rebuilt on the distro's own infrastructure, to ensure that a given binary actually corresponds to the source.

It might still be possible for things to slip through, but it's certainly much safer than random programs from online.

They use the classic AGPL + license assignment CLA combo.

This lets them relicense community contributions however they want, including making them proprietary. Everyone has to abide by the AGPL terms, apart from them. This puts them in a privileged position compared to the rest of the community, which I don't like.

Edit: @[email protected] pointed to a commit that removes the CLA from many places in the repo. They didn't (forgot to?) remove it from the LICENSING.md file, which is where I found the requirement when digging around the repository.

When I saw the requirement in LICENSING.md, I took that at face value. I think that was a fair assumption to make, but I'm still sorry that I got it wrong, especially as this became the top comment.

It's an alternative to Lemmy with some different features. Since it uses the same protocol under the hood, its instances federate with Lemmy. There's more info on the differences here.

My partner, dad's partner, and so many colleagues at my job, wasted so many weeks cramming for this stupid, irrelevant test. If you add up all the people who have to take this, how many person hours have we wasted as a society, all to be forgotten anyway, because it's useless information.

We really need to get rid of this test, or at a minimum strip it down and make it about how to vote and access public services. But even then, if someone wants to learn that, they will of their own accord and in their own time anyway.

I was hoping we wouldn't have to deal with another summer of this bullshit.

What's the best response to this? Put up flags of other countries alongside? Use their move against them and see if they take yours down?

I'm wary of taking them down because 1) you get assaulted and used for content and 2) I feel they're looking for a provocation and an excuse to dog whistle "I'm being censored and can't even be proud of my country anymore". But then maybe you should just take them down anyway because you can't win either way.

NHS England is demanding that data workers across the NHS, from local hospitals to national teams, put huge amounts of sensitive health data into Palantir's FDP. Meanwhile, Palantir's UK CEO, Louis Mosley, publicly confirmed that if Reform UK wins the next election with a “clear public mandate” to share health data for the purposes of mass deportation efforts, the company will adhere to this.

Many very small services will just not bother with compliance. And the risk of enforcement on them might be low.

If you use a federated alternative, you can switch to a server that doesn't bother with compliance without losing your contacts.

Many of the laws don't specify how the age check should be done. There are more privacy-friendly ways to comply, like running a server for your friends or family and already knowing they're over 18.

Zulip has a big jump, but worth pointing out that this is part of a wider trend, and other software has seen bigger jumps.

The export function doesn't include the legend, so the order from top to bottom by the final day of the graph is:

• Matrix
• Signal
• XMPP
• Zulip
• Stoat
• Rocket.Chat
• Mattermost
• Discourse

Thanks for introducing me to this tool. I hadn't come across it before and it's pretty nifty!