The inevitable end point to age verification rules: you train people to hand over their ID to use a site, and you get scammers setting up sites that don't even need to have malware on them

My latest. I’ve been watching the media coverage of the murders of Dr. Cerina Fairfax and Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer. One way media can fight back against male violence: If you kill your wife, you don’t get to be called a “husband” any more. You’re her killer. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

This is a crime of a headline

Do we think Bluesky has crossed some sort of line recently? Not only have a couple of people* managed to identify films and suchlike through the magic of crowds, but also it had a shutdown and threw everyone's day off *Albeit people who had large followings

The first scarf I knitted was one I took over when my kid got bored (I frogged it, so all errors my own). When I washed it, it stretched enormously I am now wondering whether the scarf I am currently knitting will do the same The items in between have been small, not actual wool/not chunky wool

This is how I ended up buying Tom Bihn bags. The oldest of mine are 17 years old, and we now have a slightly embarrassing number of them 😳 Also we have had one zip repaired under warranty and I managed to fall on another and scrape the fabric enough that it shows. The bag is otherwise fine

Rather than preach about how to remain happy & deal with times so stressful, even cruel, & hard, I thought today I'd help & simply post this. It had me in stitches yesterday. A very #GoodMorning, everyone.

I just heard someone asking why the US and Israeli settlers are shitting on Catholics rn Look, evangelicals didn't care about abortion: they just used an issue Catholics cared about to gain power Now the Pope is saying inconvenient things, like stop the bombs, and they are back to hating Catholics

I miss LiveJournal and the ability to choose, with each post, who could see it. Want to post about a trip? The people on the trip can see it, and you don't end up with 47 overlapping WhatsApp groups

Scottish Labour manifesto is out, don’t vote for them

Did some readings for this little BBC piece on extinct English pronouns www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The universe gives back

Dear easyJet, I know you want to extract as much money out of your passengers as possible, but until the queues calm down, every flight will have spare seats because people did not get through fast enough Maybe you could consider the goodwill you would generate by being helpful?

This weekend, you can snap up my gothic fantasy rom-com novella A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence for just $1.99/£1.49 as part of he Narratess Indie Book sale! Snap up AHoGC here: books2read.com/honeymoonGrave And check out the full, fabulous sale here: indiebook.sale #romancelandia

A group of devoted volunteers is methodically researching, cataloging and digitizing more than 10,000 concerts that one music fan recorded over four decades.

Ok, I worked it out and managed to get a bit further with it. Note to self, you just knitted row 4 Also, it's very weird going from a sock wool version of the Hitchhikers scarf* to a chunky wool scarf that is all of 33 stitches wide *Surprisingly useful, and the variegated wool hides my many sins

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE SCOOP BY THE DAILY PLOVER: ROOF GOSLINGS HAVE HATCHED!! 🪶 🐣

This artist has captured the essence of a British summer Paintings by Georgina Westley, posters available at her site (georginawestley.co.uk) Buy both to maximise your chance of starting a punch up

I mean, it's not a bad name for a skincare brand, to be honest 🤷

mice and all references to them are now illegal on Texas campuses

Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu. Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran? Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to President Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused.

SO looking forward to receiving mine! If you're able, support Pina and buy this book, her work is amazing ✨️ #ADHD #BookSky

Politics has unexpectedly hit a special interest of mine so here is a quick rundown on the Avignon Papacy.

So, in the UK, we are watching our rightwing party get hollowed out by the cut-price fascists. Our former leftwing party is sagging into do-nothingism, and is therefore being outflanked by the Green Party The first nationwide election under these conditions is going to be fascinating

So far, the only good thing about today is that my UK Audible preorder for @johnchu.bsky.social's The Subtle Art of Folding Space has arrived I had cancelled Audible and completely forgotten about this preorder, so it's an extra nice surprise

The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military. The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him. Words aren't enough - it's time for action.

Drop some rabbits One of the rabbits living on campus at my old university, photographed last year

Universal means universal. Plus, one of the best ways to make a policy untouchable is for wealthy people to benefit from it, while not feeling like it forces them to deal with The Poors They will never want to give up free childcare. Including a wealthy neighbourhood was a genius move

Ooh, grabby hands The first one of this series was lovely, as were the other books I have read by this author

This is proof that sometimes you never know how good things can get, and even then, they can sometimes get even better. 13/10 for all (TT: matiastapia2409)

A lot of men who were actually named David are about to either catch a lot of flak for whatever happens to their friends and family, or spend the entire weekend making jokes about this A smaller number of kids actually called Dave will be mortified

The post I saw mention this was locked down so imma respect that. But a lot of airlines have policies that ensure that all children in your group will sit with one of you, even if you don't pay extra for the seat Try to book those airlines, whether you have kids or want to avoid moving seats

I hate this fucking timeline (This post is about the UK being crap, because "hold my beer, we can be shit too" is apparently still a thing)

Timeline cleanse in the form of turtle drama

Why the hell are stenographers only tested on standard English? I don't get why America won't accept it's multilingual Mind you, apparently a Devon firm was supposed to be transcribing for Scottish courts a while ago and they made a right pig's ear of it (UK makes transcrpts of recordings)

Shades of his previous attempts to stop people doing something useful with public transit by siphoning off the cash to Boring Company projects that end up being unusable tunnels

I did my best to put those wine mom skills to good use.

So, if I saw a guy clutching a bike seat earlier, and crouching down around the corner, refusing to look up, and now there's a bike lock cut off outside the neighbours house, that was probably the guy who nicked the bike, wasn't it? Bugger

Crap. This has been me forever

As a cis woman it is hard to find the words to articulate how I feel about my safety being used as a pretence for this egregious bullying of children

rare good news

The mouse ones destroyed me. But also: people telling their cats what time it is. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 www.instagram.com/reel/DRSir2h...

Nice exercise in historical disputation and impressive in how a technical argument is set out in such an accessible and interesting way.

lotta “look at this stupid woman who fell for a satire post” in my mentions today, and while I’m glad we can let OP off the hook because he was doing a bit and had not fallen for a scam himself, he didn’t actually MAKE UP anything. look at this shit cryptoslate.com/rip-metavers...

Uh. So to be clear: first power the data centres, then the human settlement? I dunno, that seems… bad?

Oh FFS, Trainline has decided to turn their delay repay into some kind of AI nonsense. I can already tell that this means that I will be directed to the train company site, instead of the one-click experience I had last time I got delayed on a train that was delayed

Another toxic site was cleaned to a healthy state for agriculture by using mushroom compost and grasses! This time by the Quawpaw Nation of OK. Less than a few inches of topsoil keeps earth from becoming like Mars. Learning to tend it, remove waste, rotate crops and animals benefits all of us! 🌱🌸🚪

#comedy #sleep

ok i am linking to the ig post since so many people like this SHE DID A STOP MOTION APPA CABBAGE:

Top wordnerding here about why English quite has two meanings