I'm impressed by the gov.uk petition server's resilience, frankly. It's racked up over 760,000 signatures on the "no to a digital ID card" petition in little over an hour, and each of those requires an email confirmation. That mail server's throughput is *scary*! (20M emails/day.)

Needle marks.

This Labour government seems to determined to create all the tools necessary for a future government of the far-right to control, surveille, and discipline the entire population.

Apparently there will be a Consultation. Time to open the files from when Blair, Straw and Blunkett tried this shit.

Entirely predictably, Scottish mastodon is kicking off against "Starmer's Brit Card", which is being received as yet more English colonialism. Oh dear. How sad. Never mind ...

Indeed

It is a way to make the EHRC’s new anti-trans guidance work without having to repeal the GRA. Only the ID card will be acceptable proof of gender.

I called it: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/25/keir-starmer-expected-to-announce-plans-for-digital-id-cards Keir Starmer expected to announce plans for digital ID cards Measure could be announced as soon as Friday as government looks for ways to tackle illegal immigration to the UK

Relax, this will be handled in the best possible way. The national ID card system will be implemented by a consortium whose major members will be Palantir and Fujitsu.

Do you like how they have a crushing majority, which means they can do more or less anything they want. And *this* is what they want to do, the thing they’re ploughing energy into.

The Brit Card: Nobody asked for it, it wasn’t in the election manifesto, it’s unclear why anyone would want one and the malicious uses for it are obvious, and loads of people hate the idea, but you know what? *Fuck you*, that’s what. We’re in charge. Fuck. You.

Sometimes, just a part of a sentence tells you everything: "Kennedy had been the most popular Trump official at the start of this month, with a net approval rating of minus-7 points"

Does this mean every pothole will be issued a digital ID so that the troublemaking ones can be "disappeared"?

Ooh, do you suppose this might be why the Bony T. Liar foundation is suddenly bleating about digital ID cards and pot-holes all of a sudden? A Blairite dead cat on the table to distract from Blair's culpability in the Libyan civil war (and other crimes against humanity)?

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Tony Blair's think tank badly needs to be stabbed in the thought shower.

At 60 meters long, 40 meters wide and 40 meters tall, it is by far the largest floating wind-power generator ever built, with the main airfoil and annular wing together forming a giant duct that houses 12 turbine-generator sets, each rated at 100 kW.

China's home-designed megawatt-scale commercial buoyant airborne turbine, the S1500, has successfully completed its maiden flight in northwest China's Hami after passing tests including full desert assembly and continuous high-wind deployment and retrieval.

Could we make a legally-mandated drinking game where if you mention Blair in the media or Westminster you immediately have to drink a mug of cocoa and go to bed for a week?

Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men. There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years

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Ah, the Ferengi School of Gender Research strikes again

It's pretty great.

Hot take: the UK would be a MUCH better place if we deported the right un-British people. The right-wing ones, I mean. Nazism is un-British, yes? (Faragists out!)

additionally: I am uncomfortable with monetised fanfic from a copyright point of view, but can accept that an idea can change and mutate sufficiently to have become a new story with new characters. However that stops being an excuse when you market it based on the original IP.

Oh dear. My friend @martiell wanted a picture of an angry porg, so he typed "cross porg" into ChatGPT ... https://chaos.social/@judy2k/115258137221499155

Trump, pounding shoe: "We will bury ourselves!"

Apple Intelligence is so clever, it found my mum’s flight details buried in an email and sent me a notification at 4am to go to the airport. To catch my mum’s flight. Who isn’t me. And is in another country.

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If RFK Jnr was running a palaeontology department.

"Teacher, how can I know happiness?" "You foul wretch! Seeking happiness is hedonism! If you lead a life of absolute purity, purge yourself of desire for pleasure, then one day you may know this good thing." "What good thing teacher?" "The feeling that you are morally superior to others."

Seriously, we're running around down here, freaked out that there apparently WAS a Rapture, and they're up in the ships getting probed when they thought they'd be enjoying the eternal embrace of a loving God. This is a rare two-fer for the aliens.

The alien abductors have the opportunity to do the FUNNIEST SHIT on Wednesday.

Haaaaah Just saw the headline of a review for The Shape of Monsters that was simply WOKE CANNIBAL EROTICA and honestly that could be panning my book, but I love it.

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

I like this -- they fed AITA posts where the humans voted "asshole" to LLMs and found that the bots would almost always tell you that you're not an asshole. ^^; No wonder they're so popular! www.businessinsider.com/reddit-aita-...

I am proud to announce I have negotiated a lasting peace treaty between the Arctic ants and the aunts of Antarctica. No further ant-aunt antics are anticipated.

Done with the first (rough) draft. "Go visit the Permanence, he said, it's a hermit kingdom that's been isolated for so long they'll be completely oblivious to our kind, he said, it'll be like taking diamonds from a baby he said—" "A pirate kingdom is not the same thing as a hermit kingdom!"

Lib Dems: We have 12x Reform's MPs, can we have the same coverage? BBC: But Reform has 2x your poll rating. If there were an election tomorrow, they'd be running the country. Lib Dems: So you're putting their people and policies under scrutiny, right? BBC: Lib Dems: Right?

1) For all we know there are other species like this; 2) The cloned species could go extinct in the wild and yet its cloned workers would live on, formic gigolos preserved as titillating boy-toys for alien ant queens.

This is wild. It's as if human females could mate with chimpanzees and give birth to either humans OR selectively to cloned male chimps. (The ant species are that far apart.)

I wish I was joking but: the TikTok Evangelicals are convinced the Rapture is happening in three days because of some cows being sacrificed on a mountain in Israel, and now they're all posting advice and excitement about getting taken up to heaven. Christ on a fucking bicycle.

This isn't even close to being the most unhinged thing in the Daily Mail today

what in the absolute incomprehensible fuck is this

A thread of one-liners, silly images and inexplicably popular posts that wouldn't otherwise be findable again

Why getting stabbed in the eyeballs (by a surgeon) sucks: I'm between eye ops, trying to finish a book, and I'm EXHAUSTED after a 1750 word day written with only one mostly-working eyeball. (And I'm in the pivotal plot scene with the triple plot-twist whackiness and backstabbing.) /1

found out Dyson Spheres were a joke taken out of context. The 1-page paper contains the word “Lebensraum”, Dyson was beefing with SETI and arguing the search for life was navel gazing and to let him use the telescopes for real science youtu.be/fLzEX1TPBFM

Hold on. I want to see billionaires do this on a live tech demo based on the AI technology they say will change the world. Make this the Opening Ceremony at Davos. (Bonus points if we can get some Dalek-themed backdrops.)