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Alex<p>To the surprise of no one the most signatures for the current silly <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/petition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>petition</span></a> come from constituencies with <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservative</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/reform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reform</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/mps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mps</span></a>. I wonder if this one liner could be extended to get the data from <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/theyworkforyou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theyworkforyou</span></a>: </p><p>wget -O - <a href="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700143.json" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">petition.parliament.uk/petitio</span><span class="invisible">ns/700143.json</span></a> | jq -r '.data.attributes.signatures_by_constituency[] | [.signature_count, .name] | @csv' | sort -nrk 1</p>
alecm<p><strong>TheyWorkForYou is 20 years old and is starting a new project!</strong></p><p>TWFY is a stalwart of British online democracy, a tool for tracking MPs and their voting interests and enabling their constituents to contact them directly.</p><p>Their new project: WhoFundsThem — is self-explanatory in its importance.</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mysociety_support-whofundsthem-activity-7194275068888186880-cfd7" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mysociety_support-whofundsthem-activity-7194275068888186880-cfd7</a></p><p><a href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/109794" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://alecmuffett.com/article/109794</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/my-society" target="_blank">#mySociety</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/they-work-for-you" target="_blank">#theyWorkForYou</a></p>
Peter Brett<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://boing.world/@pre" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pre</span></a></span> TL;DR the new Labour MP was previously a Tory MP and was subject to the Tory whip in the Commons, and therefore voted accordingly.</p><p>The "<a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/TheyWorkForYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheyWorkForYou</span></a>" vote tracker is routinely mentioned by <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/MySociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MySociety</span></a> as one of their biggest regrets because it is almost always used solely for social media dunks.</p>
Catherine Brown<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/@byroon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>byroon</span></a></span> I don’t know if <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/theyworkforyou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theyworkforyou</span></a> would help you?</p>
Dailingual<p>Diolch i Dylan Ebenezer am y cyfle i drafod gwefan newydd <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/TheyWorkForYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheyWorkForYou</span></a> bore &#39;ma ar <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/PostCyntaf" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PostCyntaf</span></a> Radio Cymru</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001mshh" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001mshh</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>1:39 on the iPlayer marks the start of the interview today with <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BBC</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/RadioCymru" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RadioCymru</span></a>&#39;s Dylan Ebenezer following the launch of <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/mySociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mySociety</span></a>&#39;s TheyWorkForYou in Wales that shares <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Senedd" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Senedd</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Cymru" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cymru</span></a>&#39;s work in a super-accessible manner:</p><p><a href="https://cy.theyworkforyou.com/senedd/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">cy.theyworkforyou.com/senedd/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Dailingual<p>V chuffed to be part of the <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/MySociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MySociety</span></a> team launching the Welsh version of <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/TheyWorkForYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheyWorkForYou</span></a> today.</p><p><a href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/senedd/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">theyworkforyou.com/senedd/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p>Diolch @likeaword@data-folks.masto.host @data_orchard@data-folks.masto.host for the intro to polite society : )</p>
Dailingual<p>Wrth fy modd yn lansio fersiwn <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Cymraeg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cymraeg</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/TheyWorkForYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheyWorkForYou</span></a> heddiw ar gyfer <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Senedd" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Senedd</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Cymru" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cymru</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://cy.theyworkforyou.com/senedd/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">cy.theyworkforyou.com/senedd/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Catherine Brown<p><a href="https://www.mysociety.org/2023/01/31/mysociety-is-20/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mysociety.org/2023/01/31/mysoc</span><span class="invisible">iety-is-20/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mySociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mySociety</span></a> has been helping underpin UK democracy for 20 years this year, with its services <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writetothem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writetothem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/theyworkforyou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theyworkforyou</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/whatdotheyknow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whatdotheyknow</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fixmystreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fixmystreet</span></a> used by millions of people every year, and its open code used by other freedom of information sites and services around the world. People still need help to hold government to account and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/civiltech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civiltech</span></a> still has a vital contribution to making that happen. Here’s to the next 20 years…</p>
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