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The analysis also found Tory ads focus heavily on negative messaging, with many ads attacking Labour rather than promoting Tory policies.

Since 22 May, the Conservatives have run 1,686 ads on Meta - which owns Facebook and Instagram - with only seven (0.4%) mentioning Tory policies, according to Who Targets Me.

Less than 15 seconds from leaving the shop and a passing girl (in good humour) harasses her man - "look, *he* bought flowers!"

Sorry pal, I'll try to spend a moment longer at the tills next time

Choking down insufferably written blogs because the core concept is interesting

Yet again another banger from the Scottish Consulate at #emf2024, and it's not even started yet

Shout out to McDonalds Long Egg, gotta be one of my favourite breakfast based manmade horrors beyond early morning comprehension

@coin UK in the public vote

Hahahha

0 points!

why does eurovision put a little marker about flashing lights/strobes before songs

its eurovision

the entire thing is flashing lights/strobes, please

So beautiful

Girl next to me on the tube doesn't like mastodon

the uncanny valley existing means at some point there was an evolutionary advantage in spotting and being scared of things that tried to look like, but didn't quite manage, a human.

If you use PuTTY to SSH at all, you should read this, it may be that your private key is compromised:

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html

Is it possible to just relax hard enough to die?

@coin The town is over 1000 years old, it's no small wonder it's slowly made its way from "sheep town" to "skipton".
Mostly I'm more surprised there's still sheep there.

@dwarf @coin there's truly not a language that English hasn't robbed something from! Good spot!

@coin Skip is a butchered form of the old word for Sheep - "Sceap".

I wonder what they have there.

One of the things I like about the UK is how brutally up front our place names are.

You're from a town called Ironbridge? I wonder what they have there.

ahm driver

This girl's telling me all about her childhood cartoons and I have to hide my powerlevel

Mercury my beloved~~~~

You know you can run Linux on a toaster but also now a trashcan.