This is a fairly spectacular illustration. isaiprofitable.com

Microsoft has banned Nightmare Eclipse from GitHub: github.com/Nightmare-Ec... This is the researcher who disclosed several zero-days after Microsoft also deleted his MSRC account They now moved on GitLab: deadeclipse666.blogspot.com

Sometimes, having the initials DWM results in me doing a funny spittake.

Gov straight up admitting that any attempts at gender policing are unworkable because "There is no type of official record or document in the UK which provides reliable evidence of sex." So bin it??

So the EHRC guidance has been updated from "Fuck trans people's rights" to "I'm terribly sorry but fuck trans people's rights", and it remains glaringly obvious that the government's response to the Supreme Court judgement should have been to fix the law rather than cower in fear of bigots.

I don't understand why this government is so keen to strip rights from people who have quietly enjoyed them for decades without issue. Aren't we supposed to be being led by an accomplished human rights lawyer? Bathrooms, jury trials, protest... which rights are going to be next?

Via the very excellent @edent.tel, GDS have published guidance about the bizarre knee-jerk reaction by the NHS to stop open development and collaboration as standard. shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05... I have signed this petition. keepthingsopen.com

i remember walking out of Force Awakens, annoyed with it. And there was a girl, maybe eight, with her mum. The girl was BOUNCING. "Mummy!! I can be an X-wing pilot!!" And THAT was the point i knew my opinion didn't matter for shit. i would die for the right of that girl to be an X-Wing pilot.

November is an absolute joy to listen to, and one day I hope to very gently thank her in person without making a complete fool of myself.

'Please confirm that the threat of financial loss should you not move to a scheme you're not interested in constitutes "encouragement", and not "pressure".'

The local elections in one chart. Labour has been squeezed between the Greens in young wards and Reform in older working-class wards www.economist.com/britain/2026...

More of those AI-found vulnerabilities: -Tomcat unauth RCE: www.striga.ai/research/tom... -18yo RCE in NGINX: depthfirst.com/research/ngi... They're everywhere now.

You also need to read this fanfiction of The Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defense if you are or preferably were someone who exchanges academic emails

This push for age-verification and VPN bans is driven by social media company lobby groups. The goal is to prevent people from hiding their online activity and then selling that behavioral data. Buying something online without being algorithmically overpriced is the end goal, not tracking your pr0n

Well well well looks like those art degrees aren't so useless after all

Hugops to the .de DNS operators and everyone dealing with the fallout.

You can't even do Star Wars anagrams these days because of ewok.

General: That barrage damaged it! It's hurt! *cheers from soldiers* *smoke clears* General: PULL OUT!!! PULL OUT!!!

This is not okay. Tech-savvy UK folk, write to your MP about this and complain that this is foolish and not okay. writetothem.com

This would make sense if the goal of Copilot is not too help you write your document, but for you to help Microsoft distil their models on your data and feedback.

Multiple UK universities took down their policies relating to trans inclusion after the OfS's unprecedented fine of Sussex over its wholly anodyne approach to discouraging transphobia. Today is a very good day to demand to know when those policies will be going back up.

The High Court found "the OfS approached the decision with a closed mind and had therefore unlawfully predetermined the decision" [para 455] and "The decision-maker here was biased in the sense of having a closed mind to the legal and factual merits of the University’s position" [para 443].

Quick question? What the fuck

Multitasking, v: The act of avoiding multiple sources of work at once.

"Guidance for system administrators" dwm.me.uk/articles/202...

"Guidance for system administrators" dwm.me.uk/articles/202...

Handy Guide: ✅ Free Speech: When GCs who had no relation to my University complained to try and get me kicked off my course ❌ Not Free Speech: Exercising one's right to peaceful protest against those advocating your exclusion from society – on the campus you have to live and work in

Countdown Standard xkcd.com/3232/

Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar calls for the UK to rejoin the European Union: "I remember when I was a diplomat in Brussels... We were able to influence decisions. At the time, the Brits were also part of the EU. Let's hope they will rejoin."

To 'Vance'; verb, to fuck up.

Errors were made by the Student Loan Company (SLC) or universities, not by students It's the universities' responsibility to give accurate information to SLC It’s SLC's responsibility to check the information Whoever's at fault, it's not the 22,000 students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The notion that the UK can feed itself is a fantasy, and hasn't been true since before WWII. Trade is obviously essential to the well-being of the people of the UK, while James foolishly advocated for enacting trade sanctions against ourselves in the form of Brexit. These are not serious people.

Worth noting that Donald Trump just announced the end of NATO and the Special Relationship in one tweet.

I'm not sure if @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social has already seen this, and at this point I'm afraid to ask.

Now *this* is the correct response to a surge in the price of petrol and diesel – well done Victoria! Don't cut fuel duty. Cut demand!

A favourite things is watching a kid get on the DLR in London and run to the front seat, so they can pretend to drive it. It never matters who is sitting there. EVERY adult gets up and concedes that seat. As humans, we recognise and are bound by a sense of joy and wonder. Above everything else.

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Imagine a computer like a PDP-11 but with more than 3 billion SP4T switches. The switches are various combinations of 'magic' and 'more magic' the authors of the code are dead, there are no comments except for old code, and sometimes the comments run anyway and it's wet this is biology.

If only we could systemize the process of the fortunate wealthy contributing towards the infrastructure and institutions that helped them succeed... [raises finger to earpiece] ... I am now recieving word that this is called, "taxes". But the mechanism doesn't seem to be working properly ...

This is absolute perfection: UBUNTU SECURE BOOT AGE VERIFICATION | Hacker.House https://alecmuffett.com/article/150554 #AgeVerification #OnlineSafetyAct #OpenSource #censorship #kosa #systemd #ubuntu

In which the US president tells you implicitly and then explicitly that they are not on control of events and indeed that they do not know what is happening. The intention, of course, is to bully and give an impression of exercising power, but the impression conveyed is the opposite.

Rejoining the EU seems to be the topic of the day today. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The evidence is overwhelming: Brexit has been a disaster for London and the UK. Rejoining the EU is now clearly in our national interest. The option to rejoin should be on the ballot at the next General Election. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Brilliant news! The UK's Labour Government are going to make "plug in solar" legal. Grab some panels from Lidl, hang them off your balcony or out your window, plug them in to your mains. Done! https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-go-further-and-faster-in-becoming-energy-secure #solar

U.S. Senator from Connecticut.

Did you know that photos can make sounds? This one goes, "Bonk."

It is, of course, not just children but everyone who will have to pass these checkpoints. Papers, please.

Look the White House/War Department cannot reasonably have been expected to anticipate the Iranians would deploy sea mines. They don't exist in Call of Duty.

Well.