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[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 7 points 21 hours ago

Yes. Are you done deflecting for Reform?

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cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/37035115

Hey people,

Thank you again for coming together and submitting songs to Lemmyvision, it's heartwarming to see different communities of the fediverse participate in sharing their musical interest.

The voting form is available here: https://tally.so/r/GxY0ze

Everyone is welcome to vote, even if your instance or community did not participate! This is a great opportunity to discover new music, and cultures.

@Ategon@programming.dev took the time to create a playlist over at https://d2jam.com/c/lemmyvision-3 feel free to check it out!

Here's the full list of submitted songs:

The form will be available until around the 11th of May, I will then collect the results and publish them shortly after. I hope you’ll have a lot of fun listening to the 13 songs submitted for this edition. Don’t hesitate if you have any question!

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago

I've never seen him claim to be a spokesperson for them and he doesn't claim to be one in the example in the article. Not saying he didn't, but if he did then it's poor journalism not quoting it in the article.

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[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago

And Votings closed! Thanks everyone for participating, Hyphen is our submission this year: https://feddit.uk/post/48455465

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[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 5 days ago

Update: Support has been revoked:

Newcastle Green Party are appalled by the racist material written by Tina Ion, one of the Green Party candidates for Blakelaw and Cowgate.

This case was referred to the Green Party's disciplinary process as soon as we became aware of the material. Furthermore, Newcastle Green Party has withdrawn support for the candidate in the upcoming election.

An urgent review of our vetting process is taking place to ensure all of our candidates reflect our views as an anti-racist party.

We sincerely apologise for the distress this has caused, in particular, to the Jewish community who are already experiencing a shocking rise in antisemitism and targeted attacks.

Antisemitism and hate should have no place in our party or society.

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

What's the point being made here?

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah, it'd be nice if Polanski could come out with a stronger statement about antisemitic candidates than this. I don't know if publicly rebuking Ali is the right move though, but something should be done. One of the deputy leaders saying the disciplinary process has been weaponised and telling them to seek legal advice (TERF tactics) while they have ongoing cases just isn't a very good look.

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 6 days ago

I hate to deflect with procedure, but Polanski genuinely has little-to-no power in deciding or suspending candidates. The disciplinary process is laid out here. Given the Newcastle Greens said they applied to the GPC (Green Party Council, I think the article got this wrong) that likely means they applied for a no-fault suspension, which would get this person immediately barred from all party activities. This is the same process as when the Brighton Greens suspended Tony Greenstein.

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The two weeks of leave for a woman and her partner is paid at the statutory level of just more than £194 per week, or 90% of weekly pay if that's lower.

It can be taken as one continuous period, or as two separate weeks, within 56 weeks of miscarriage and parents do not have to provide medical evidence - they only have to tell their employer what happened.

Before the change, parents in Northern Ireland were only entitled to two weeks' paid bereavement leave following a stillbirth after at least 24 weeks of pregnancy, if they had been in their job for 26 weeks.

That remains the law in the rest of the UK.

However, the Westminster government is planning to bring in a change for England, Scotland and Wales in 2027 – to provide parents with a right to take unpaid leave for a minimum of one week following a miscarriage at any stage of pregnancy.

Across the UK, parents are also entitled to paid statutory maternity and paternity leave after a stillbirth at 24 weeks or later.

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Opening major new fields in the North Sea would make almost no difference to the UK’s reliance on gas imports, research has shown.

The Jackdaw field, one of the largest unexploited gasfields in the North Sea, would displace only 2% of the UK’s current imports of gas, which would leave the UK still almost entirely dependent on supplies from Norway and a few other sources.

The Rosebank field, also in Scottish waters but mainly containing oil, would displace only about 1% of the UK’s gas imports.

Tessa Khan, executive director of Uplift, the campaign group, which compiled the data from public sources, said: “New fields like Jackdaw and Rosebank would do vanishingly little to boost UK gas production. Even in the most optimistic scenario, and assuming none of its gas is exported, Jackdaw would provide just 2% of UK demand over its nine- to 12-year lifetime.”

It has already been shown, by authorities including the UK Energy Research Centre, that new drilling would not reduce oil and gas prices, or improve the UK’s energy security. It is also unlikely to produce durable jobs or major new tax revenues, as 90% of the UK’s North Sea oil and gas has already been burned, putting the industry in steep and irrecoverable decline. Companies are also demanding tax breaks to tap the new fields, which are harder to access than existing supplies.

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[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 262 points 2 months ago

Admin that had access to the server went AWOL in October and now the server has died.

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 161 points 4 months ago

Bryan Lunduke, Linux Youtuber/'influencer' who went down the antivaxx rabbit hole and became a raving conspiracy theorist.

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