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6 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19

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Please point me at a music player that can reliably handle this.

Android 14 phone. Running Google standard Android. 1Tb micro-SD. ~65k music tracks in ~650Gb. 20 playlists. Largest playlist is 17k tracks.

Maintained in a mirrored /music/$artist/$album folder tree via winamp and tagscanner. Transferred with Windows USB support.

Currently using Blackplayer EX 20.62. Last year's 20.63 release is broken in small ways and the developer has left the building.

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As the heat wave bites.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/10/england-poorest-families-ethnic-minorities-most-at-risk-dangerously-hot-homes

Lower-income householders, minority ethnic people and those with young children are more likely to live in homes at risk from dangerous overheating, research has found.

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A history of how we got to where we are now in the UK with hotels being used as temporary housing. From Blair, through 14 years of misrule and austerity to the current Labour Government.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/09/britain-asylum-hotels-racism-culture-war

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Right now there's a big argument going on inside Reform as part of the elections for board members. About what happens to party funds and why the branches don't get any of it. Which will only get worse when they start accepting crypto.

Simple. It's all gone into the pockets of the founders.

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The grift and the long con is not always about money. Even if it starts like that, it changes into the need for power and influence. To make more money.

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If I call Farage a grifter, it's because he actually is a con artist.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/09/grifter-political-insult-2025-con-artist

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Reform UK Party Ltd is a long con, owned & run by a bunch of fascist, racist grifters. They don't have members & supporters. They have donors & marks.

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Right now there's a big argument going on inside Reform as part of the elections for board members. About what happens to party funds and why the branches don't get any of it. Which will only get worse when they start accepting crypto.

Simple. It's all gone into the pockets of the founders.

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@jbond@mastodon.social

If I call Farage a grifter, it's because he actually is a con artist.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/09/grifter-political-insult-2025-con-artist

Taps sign :
Reform UK Party Ltd is a long con, owned & run by a bunch of fascist, racist grifters. They don't have members & supporters. They have donors & marks.

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The average sea surface temperature (SST) for July 2025 over 60°S–60°N was 20.77°C, the third-highest value on record for the month, 0.12°C below the July 2023 record.

Arctic sea ice extent was 10% below average, ranking joint second-lowest for July in the 47-year satellite record, virtually tied with 2012 and 2021.

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Thankful for every month this data [Mauna Lau CO2] is published.

The bad news is that CO2 is still rising at nearly a record rate.

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#Climate It's official.

July 2025 was the third-warmest July globally [in the records], with an average ERA5 surface air temperature of 16.68°C, 0.45°C above the 1991-2020 average for July.

https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-third-warmest-july-marks-slight-respite-record-global-temperatures

July 2025 was 1.25°C above the estimated 1850-1900 average used to define the pre-industrial level. It was only the fourth month in the last 25 with a global temperature less than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level.*

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The average sea surface temperature (SST) for July 2025 over 60°S–60°N was 20.77°C, the third-highest value on record for the month, 0.12°C below the July 2023 record.

Arctic sea ice extent was 10% below average, ranking joint second-lowest for July in the 47-year satellite record, virtually tied with 2012 and 2021.

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#Climate It's official.

July 2025 was the third-warmest July globally [in the records], with an average ERA5 surface air temperature of 16.68°C, 0.45°C above the 1991-2020 average for July.

July 2025 was 1.25°C above the estimated 1850-1900 average used to define the pre-industrial level. It was only the fourth month in the last 25 with a global temperature less than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level.*