It's fine and take some rest! From reading it seems to be a small part of the CDU pushing it not the whole party but not sure... reclaimthenet.org/germanys-cdu...

I'm going grey at an alarming rate, quite frankly. Even have one lone, singular, white eyelash. Lmao.

Why are the rich and powerful all like this? Not even talking about millionaires tbh, billionaires are a whole other level of fucked in the head.

Donnot disturd the me wehn I’m ryding mine invesibal bycicle.

@eff.org @fightforthefuture.org Could you help with fighting that proposed law, please? (2/2)

I'm not German, but I know how to help! Germans, please contact your represantives and tell them how the law violates basic human rights and privacy rights! Even threaten not to vote for them the next election cycle! And also (1/2)

Christ alive this proposal is another level of nasty, as if the current trendy "safety" bills aren't bad enough.

#savespeech #chatcontrol #stopchatcontrol If the ID requirements weren't bad enough, this is a whole extra layer of no thank you

Germans, do something about this. This one has the potential to get rid of me off of social media altogether. It also doesn't help in the way they think: People are required to use their real names and faces on Facebook and as a platform it's, in some cases, worse than X. youtu.be/WFrEnvDgZGY?...

Way too many British people are justifying internet identity verification by saying "all these companies already have all of your data anyway, so it's good that we use face scans and ID scans to make sure children can't access social media," and I hate it so much.

Imgur doesn't work in the UK, without a VPN. This leads to some very frustrating experiences on Table Top Simulator custom tables - sourced images replaced with blank purple placeholders. Other times, funny ones. Behond, the Tree I cannot see because the UK government wants to "protect children"

A socially incapable autistic person's worst fear.

To be honest, we need far fewer old people in politics and positions of power. Forced retirement after 65 for politicians would be a start.

The British government has fallen prey to this via activists that don't understand the internet, that didn't understand they could always censor the internet for their own households via parental controls, and as a result, the internet is dying, globally.

It absolutely is. Discord’s based in Cali, right? Guess what’s ALSO based in Cali. cppa.ca.gov/webapplicati...

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

Less of "distancing", and more of people realizing who Discord is patnerning up with. All the more reason to keep up the pressure. Keep canceling your Nitro, bombard with with complaints, and look for alternatives.

oh wow the draconian ID system was really an attempt to scrub data by fascists that want to make it easier to police the internet no way

🧵 in response to Kotaku's article on Discord's use of Persona.

The article doesnt actually mention them "distancing" themselves from Palantir, only that prompts to give your ID to Persona were "a test, which has concluded" Continue to cancel Nitro and migrate elsewhere

They managed to get the three Blockz sets I was missing today, so I've been building them this evening lol. Started off by building the last small set, with two Blockz-people. Finally found a knack for putting the people together lmao, though I'm not sure a child would be able to do it.

this is something I also sometimes fall into but we gotta stop enforcing the social panopticon

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Period is due basically anytime from now until about halfway through next week. I am so tired, like drained, no energy. If only I could hibernate through it all.

I've done an - admittedly very small - amount of screen and live performance fighting and this is dogshit. No weight, no dynamism, no movement.

Important Online Safety Act-related Update: Discord shifted UK identity verification from k-ID, which touts that face scans do not leave the user's device, to Persona, who stores a database of scanned faces, and is the service that Roblox uses.

Reminder: Age-Verification is not about protecting kids, it's about data gathering & monitoring. If you still believe it is about kids safety online, then I have a bridge, a cave, & a box of wonders to sell you.

And of course, the wonderful new Online Safety Act means millions of services that never stored personal information now do, because they have to. And almost none of them are secure.

Important Online Safety Act-related Update: Discord shifted UK identity verification from k-ID, which touts that face scans do not leave the user's device, to Persona, who stores a database of scanned faces, and is the service that Roblox uses.

This is worse than deep fried mars bars. 😂

Labour glazers in the replies to the post quoted earlier are flat out memory-holing this (see vid below). All to make the argument that only "extremists" make these sorts of accusations, all while they mock Sultana's name. Absolute bloody hypocrites, high on copium. youtu.be/y-MaeOLISlA?...

No

There are people like this that just exist out in the wild, and people think I'm weird and rude for not wanting to shake hands with others. Okay, so tbf, the not wanting to shake hands is a 'tism thing. It feels similar to eye contact for me; way too intimate. But still.

As if Labour didn't spend the past half a year stomping their feet, calling everyone against the AI biometric data harvesting scheme - known as the OSA - that they mandated for us to continue to use the internet as normal, "child predators" and the like?

Just in case you think this is remotely credible, no parliament can bind a future parliament and if Starmer didn't want to be blamed for the Online Safety Act and its impacts he could simply have repealed it.

Once again: Keir Starmer has ruined something not just for Britain, but for the entire world.

Like I wish people would stop scapegoating Labour's own actions onto other groups/people. We don't need to be doing this, Labour will scapegoat their own actions well enough by themselves. Do not play spin doctor for them for free, people, at least get paid for your service!

This frustrates me. The addition of the identity verification stuff was voted on and introduced to the Act early last year. Ofcom brought it to Labour, yes, but: 1. Ofcom was created by Tony Blair's Labour. 2. Starmer's Labour thought what Ofcom brought to them was an excellent idea, and went ahead.

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

friend was thinking "what if gummy dratini" so this happened... i also used to really like gummy sharks #b3d #pokemon #art

More people should listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.

Having beans on toast for dinner today, in case you needed a reminder that I am, indeed, very Bri'ish.

Honestly the more platforms tell me I'm not allowed to express myself in certain ways, the more I REALLY want to express myself in those ways, specifically.

@bsky.app, take note how people are reacting to Discord's move towards biometric data harvesting. People are ending subscriptions, deleting accounts, and sharing alternative platforms. Take. Note. If Discord is replaceable, so are YOU. Ever try this shit, we are GONE.

While Amazon touts the surveillance state enabled by its Ring cameras, remember... Amazon's U.S. tax bill dropped by 87% in 2025, mostly thanks to Trump's tax cuts. Meanwhile, its profits jumped by 45% to nearly $90 billion — and it announced 30,000 job cuts. Is this the world we want to live in?

Has Joseph Gordon-Levitt always been this way? Has he been paid off? I liked him better when we only ever saw or heard from him when he was acting in movies and such. Like please, man, don't ruin 10 Things I Hate About You for me, please.

Fuckin' valid concern, man. Time to stop obsessively thinking about the children, and time to start thinking of Bigfoot's right to privacy and security. He deserves a simple, quiet life, free from govt-corpo surveillance. As do we all, man. As do we all.

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