I’m probably not going to pay $10 a year with additional fees to have my music on a website unless a lot of people are already using it

1. almost every major political party in the UK has an anti-immigration stance, so they certainly do act like it’s an issue
2. despite media scaremongering about immigration, there’s no credible evidence that immigration in the UK has negative social or economic consequences overall
3. the lovely people behind reform UK previously campaigned for us to leave the EU in order to reduce immigration, and not only did it not reduce immigration but it was also a multi-year political shitshow (and it tanked the economy, and it pulled us out of the EU human rights convention, and it fucked up supply chains, and it decimated arts and science funding, etc etc)

to be honest I’m kind of amazed that UK voters would fall for the same obvious grift twice

last time I signed into my Microsoft 365 account for work I got two separate 2fa prompts and two captchas, it was like being in an episode of the crystal maze. the mere act of signing into something is now tedious and difficult

when people on the internet say something: ideology

when the extremely conservative british government says something: not ideology

I love kde, I love the file picker, I love window management, I love dolphin, I love the panels, I love Kate, etc… but every time I have to switch to a new tty to restart kwin, part of my soul dies