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The petition to revoke article 50 and remain in the EU is still gathering steam (currently ~2.75M).

If you are a UK citizen or resident, don’t wish to leave the EU and haven’t yet signed, please consider doing so.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584

If you have signed and wish to monitor the results, please help server stability to enable more signatories by viewing via an indirect method such as

https://odileeds.org/projects/petitions/241584

or

https://petitions.acadweb.co.uk/overview/241584

The odileeds site theoretically polls for data every 5 minutes and the acadweb site every 10 but they are also subject to the outages and server downtime at the parliament website.

It seems that MP Andrea Leadsom has said that she’ll pay attention once the petition hits 17 million signatures.. which would be an uphill challenge under normal circumstances but with the petitions website being flaky it’s nigh on impossible.

Under normal circumstances I too have doubts over the efficacy of petitions to make any real change but well.. we’re not in Kansas any more..

#brexit #petition

LEAKED!

Second EU referendum voting slips.

#politics #Brexit

Top #oil firms spending millions #lobbying to block #ClimateChange policies, says report | Business | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/22/top-oil-firms-spending-millions-lobbying-to-block-climate-change-policies-says-report

#GlobalWarming #FossilFuels

Looking for a simple newsgroup reader for Android. #usenet

@sheogorath need to be careful. I know #Github's sale means we have to move elsewhere, and #Gitlab's source code is open, but, #Gitlab's code is not a piece of cake to host because it's hungry, and their server is not owned by the community.

I was ready to throw me at their arms when I realised that history can repeat itself with them.

If you see this the same way, then we ought to endorse & promote a community-run service.

PS: #Gitea is a lot easier to self host in view.
PS2: Typo correction

Former minister & Tory MP George Eustice said about #Brexit negotiations with the EU:

"We will literally be over the barrel of a gun"

No we won't, what an eejit.

Of course, Britain has experience of putting putting people over the barrel of a gun/cannon.

During the British Raj "mutineers" involved in the Indian "Rebellion" of 1857 were executed by tying them to cannons and then firing them.

#politics #India #colonialism

I've written a how-to regarding my slrn + slrnpull client setup for @orbifx 's NNTPS server
https://svn.riouxsvn.com/sehnsucht_dots/slrn_howto
#nntp #usenet #newgroups

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@strangecorn
Check out the newborn @orbifx 's snews://orbitalfox.eu NNTPS server. We've grown a pretty nice community already, posting interesting articles and having good debate https://notes.orbitalfox.eu/orbitalfox-news-server.html