m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

Sonja har ett nytt favoritställe, men vi vågar inte tala om för henne att det är tillfälligt. 😬
#Photography #Darktable #olympus #mft #MicroFourThirds #CatsOfMastodon

#TrolleyProblem #meme

@Evil_Bender Yee

@m0xee @lain @catto @SuperDicq mine are part Siamese too, I've got another half bred Siamese cat and a pure blood too

#Putin continues centralisation of power in #Russia, summary by Russia Election Monitor:

By the end of the fall, the State Duma will adopt a bill on municipal reform. According to the bill, by 2028 all rural and urban settlements should be merged into municipal or urban districts, and their councils and administrations should be liquidated, - Vedomosti wrote.

As a result of the reform, Russia will have only three elected levels of government - federal, regional and district (municipal). The councils that existed below the district level - city and village councils - will be eliminated. The elimination of city and village councils and administrations means that the local residents are deprived of the most accessible and understandable elected bodies.

Personal comment: rural and urban district councils were the highest level of Russian system where some actual democracy was allowed and people could have been actually elected. This was because Kremlin believed that challenges such as installation of park porches or planting trees were uncontroversial politically and not attractive from financial point of view. From 2028 even this will be taken under strict party control.

Source: https://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/articles/2024/09/24/1064105-gosduma-primet-zakonoproekt-o-munitsipalnoi-reforme

Fellow Russia watchers may have seen this screenshot making the rounds today. It’s from the anon founder of the online library Flibusta — a treasure trove of pirated literature. “Stiver” says he is dying and the project is ending. Here’s the backstory: https://meduza.io/en/brief/2024/09/25/the-real-russia-today

Stop using "the web" for everything. There's still an internet out there, you know. Trying to do everything with HTTP is causing more problems than it's solving. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

And here the (first cut at a) Fediverse “gradient” logo from my #lasttoot which I reproduced from memory (and because the OP from ±a year ago used a proprietary vector editor) today by hand-editing XML+SVG. Attached as transparent bitmap, the scalable file can be downloaded as well.

Suggestions for improvements welcome… and I need to search for the toot from the person who did it (or something like it which I vaguely recalled) first, for proper credits.

(Also, Eukombos says they are “co-creator” of the (nōn-gradient) #Fediverse logo, but who are the other creators then? They did licence theirs as CC0, so I felt fine basing this on that, but…)

© 2018 Eukombos, 2024 mirabilos; Ⓕ CC0 (except that § 2 does not apply (except in the case of § 3 Satz 2 UrhG or similar) because licensor cannot legally waive copyright; Affirmer holds no trademark or patent rights on the Work) or MirBSD. Licensor does not disclaim the mandatory warranties from cases of wilful misconduct or damages directly caused to natural persons, in accordance with EU law.