A total law unto themselves. No interaction; no investigation; no clarification of why. Just "you are suspended, you have appealed, and we may just ban you outright."

This is what happens when we allow a single corporation to become instrumental in our daily lives. This notice appeared within seconds of lining an article on Facebook about Israel faking their propaganda with digital assets stolen from (of all places) Scottish boating history web site.

Brilliant! Needs a full length version. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw5z...

Cloud-managed "smart" products means self-obsoleting products. It puts ongoing product usefulness in the hands of the manufacturer - a manufacturer whose entire business and profit relies on you needing a new product in the future. Always remember that. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Holy crap! x.com/WhiteHouse/s... The Whitehouse just announced it is anti-anti-fascist. You do the maths... (Yes, I'm sharing a Xitter link, but just so you know it is direct from source.) And if it gets pulled, here's an indirect archived copy: xcancel.com/WhiteHouse/s...

"Your selfie will be stored securely and deleted within 30 days after we've finished confirming your identity. Learn more" That fills me with confidence. Not. (Facial recognition training, much?)

Yay for age verification... www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

Brilliant description of the current state of GenAI: plausible bullshit engine.

Well that's nice. I post a link to an article about Israel faking their propaganda from a Scottish museum's internal scans, on Facebook and seconds later my account is suspended and the only way to get it back is to send them a selfie. Suspicious, much?

Presented without comment: theferret.scot/idf-scottish...

Darling Just don't put down your guns yet If there really was a God here He'd have raised a hand by now Now darling You're born, get old and die here Well that's quite enough for me We'll find our own way home somehow

Eek! I get that to some extent you're paying for clever IP and the underlying distribution infrastructure, but 25 quid for a t-shirt!? You gotta be kidding me.

I had reason to roast a shoulder of pork and a chicken last night. (Both needed cooking, at the same temperature, for approximately the same time so it seemed daft to spend twice the energy just to do them on separate occasions. But that is an aside.)

I don't believe in Karma, but if I did... san.com/cc/app-for-o...

In a land of hate and horror We set an exclamation mark So hail your kings and hail your queens We're rigid; we're the children of the dark

Just discovered a composer new to me... Love this track: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhv_...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGIx... Watching this from across the Atlantic is extraordinarily unsettling, if it is an indicator of things to come this side...

"The British spelling of ..." So the correct spelling then, England being part of Britain, and "English" being the language?

Today I discovered that what was once the official domain of Action Fraud (the online arm of national UK policing that covers fraud and cyber crime*) "actionfraud.org.uk" was allowed to lapse, and is now used by some kind of middle-man business.

More Virgin Media stupidity: You can't forward scam emails to the NCSC's official reporting mailbox because they "contain spam content". No shit, Sherlock.

It seems Facebook have an ideal tool for scammers: posters of an advert appear to be able to silently mute a commenter's account so that their replies appear to them only. Awesome tool for scammers. They can silence their critics while allowing their shills free rein.

All the times Trump said the president is responsible for any government shut down and should be fired for it.

Hmmm. Are ntp{1,2}.npl.co.uk no longer available for public use? NPL's NTP service user guide last published in 2007 is still accessible, and the guide specifies those servers.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/deafening-... There's a church shooting in America. The MAGA great and good are up in arms and shouting retribution, yes? Well, no. Turns out the culprit was a veteran and one of their own, and the absence of a response is conspicuous.

If you wouldn’t hire a convict to run your business, you shouldn’t vote for a criminal to run your country.

The apple didn't fall far 🍎

1. A day after the Michigan church shooting, Republicans are silent after learning the shooter was a MAGA extremist. No investigations of Trump supporters as terrorists. No national conversations about the rights of cisgender men. The silence is deafening. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I hate sites where "Contact Us" leads to a whole set of options for avoiding contact but never any actual contact details.

Anyone know where I can get one of these 3.5mm to stereo phono socket adapters in London, over the counter or by Friday delivery?

So, if someone - even someone famous - does not have their own Facebook account you can't report an impostor posing as them, because they only accept reports of people posing as existing accounts.

Interesting. The UK parliament petition against Digital ID cards already surpassed 2 million signatures before midnight. According to the map [https://petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com/?petition=730194] it crosses party lines; pretty uniform with the lowest voting density in urban concentrations.

Have Google hidden CALDAV access to Google calendars? I want to integrate a Google calendar into my desktop application, but all I can find are the read-only remote iCal resources.

The UK parliamentary petition against the introduction of Digital ID cards now stands at over 1.5 million signatures. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

If we support free speech then we should support it for everyone, up to the limits of the rights and freedoms of others. When the loudest proponents of free speech do the opposite, it's pretty obvious that the principle of free speech was never really their cause to begin with.

Is Putin really in control, or is he somehow beholden to the hawks amongst his top brass? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Who the hell pays to have their refuse bin cleaned?

The Tangerine Troll handing yet more economic leverage to his billionaire techbro sycophants: they're going to be the only ones who can afford to bring in people with intricate specialities. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

From Facebook 10 years ago. The racism is not newly resurgent.

The BSidesLondon 2025 CFV has opened. Tracking stripped URL is to a Google form. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

WTF is it with UK government and government-related sites refusing email addresses with "+" in them? Is it really that they all employ second-rate incompetent programmers that can't help but use "URLDECODE" as an email validator, or is there some daft underlying policy?

What’s at stake here is free speech. Across the board, we’ve seen the Trump administration use the power of government to go after anybody who’s criticized them — and in this case, Jimmy Kimmel. We need to all stand up and speak out.

Users of LinkedIn may want to consult their settings, and turn off Mickey$oft's use of individual data for "AI training". www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Freedom of expression, eh? www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-...

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

There's no excuse for the Vice President of the United States to use a heinous killing as an occasion to baselessly frame political opponents as accomplices to murder while threatening to use the power of the government to attack them. This dangerous rhetoric will only fan the flames.

So Elon spends $1 billion on Tesla shares. His purchase drives up investor confidence and further boosts share value. Rising Tesla share value is integral to his new compensation package, which could end up making him the first trillionaire. Is it any wonder why so many think the game is rigged?

We don’t celebrate his death, but we won’t hide the truth about his life.