what's everyone dressing up as this year? the tail was a little uncomfortable at first but I made it work

Imgur, a popular online image sharing service founded in 2009 and widely used to host viral images and memes linked from other sites, is now geoblocking UK users in response to the Online Safety Act imgur.com #ageverification #censorship #openweb #techpolicy

#BlueskyArtShow #TheRoad

If you are concerned about how your data might be hacked, abused or sold, and more generally about unecessary digital surveillance, sign the petition. [Let's not even both talking about the fact you will need a smartphone in order to have one of these]. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I am done, Duolingo got too agressive

Thanks Olympia, Tholympia.

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration on.ft.com/46p3BPl

What a week, huh?

Hélène Vogelsinger - Reminiscence Reminiscence (2021) www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYxh...

Petition to require a standard, rhyming pronunciation for the names Raul and Paul. I don't mind which way round, but let's just pick one. Personally I think they should be pronounced Raul and Paul.

I am interested to know which of our fundamental human rights everyone is so excited to do without. Here is a handy simplified list to pick from: www.coe.int/en/web/compa... #echr

IT IS AUGUST, MORRISONS!!!!!

Connections Puzzle #798 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Wordle 1,520 4/6 🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟨🟨 ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It's been a while Connections Puzzle #794 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Wordle 1,516 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛ 🟨🟩⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟩🟨🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Oooh, I encountered the president of the Lib Dems in the wild! Hello @markpackuk.bsky.social and thank you for the review of Morozov's book!

That was a great episode of Tlentifini Maarhaysu. Thanks @robertpopper.bsky.social, Thopper.

What a place for a run #runsky #running

Yeah, no, i don't think I will be doing that. I will just have to share kitten pictures with my wife by brandishing my phone in her face like we did in the good old days.

Rarely do you encounter such a perfect example of Poe's law in the wild. 🧑🏻‍🍳💋

Tours is all good. Thanks Tours, Thours.

That'd be a decade then. #duolingo @duolingoverde.bsky.social

Leo: Things are finally looking up for you! Their thousands of obsidian eyes have opened at last and these things, unknown and unknowable, seek only you! They gaze as one, searching ceaselessly from beneath the earth! Horrid things, hidden below, peering upward! Your lucky number is 3!

Life goals: John the Fearless (excepting his assassination)

No, it is more like incanting mystical and arcane words to perform the magic of the ancients. One incorrect rune and you accidentally turned your familiar (or perfectly working code) into a fire-breathing hippogriff (or fire-breathing hippogriff).

The Loire Valley is doing fine too, everyone stand down.

Rouen is doing fine this evening.

My alt text rating score is 100.00% ☺️ 143 posts analyzed, 11 contain images, 11 have alt text... Get your Bluesky alt text rating here: cred.blue/alt-text

Modems knew the horrors of the internet and warned us with their screams. We silenced them at our own peril.

Connections Puzzle #763 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Wordle 1,485 5/6 🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Connections Puzzle #762 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Wordle 1,484 2/6 🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Boom!

Connections Puzzle #756 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 NYT sinking to new levels of "if you aren't American you won't be able to get this group".

Wordle 1,473 3/6 ⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #751 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Bish bash bosh

The current weather in the UK 🌞 #thefastshow #heatwave #scorchio

These guys are absolute lads!

In light of Gary Numan's excellent Glastonbury set, and I have said it before but it bears repeating: Gary Numan is 13 days older than Gary Oldman.

I watched about 58 seconds of whatever the hell The 1975 at Glastonbury was. Reader, I hated it.

Oh GDS, what have they done to you? Come back to the Cabinet Office and stop with this bridge, this guiding hand nonsense.

Google removing support for ClaimReview (the fact check structured data format) from search results, doesn't make me feel like the web is getting better

Connections Puzzle #744 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩

Connections Puzzle #742 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦

JD Vance rocks up on Bluesky, posts some anti-trans rant under the guise of "grown up debate", and becomes the most blocked account overnight. The problem is he framed it this way so he can say "you aren't interested in debate, you just want an echo chamber".

Wordle 1,460 4/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #738 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦

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Paul Verhoeven has grounds to sue for copyright infringement on his dystopian future schtick...

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