We're paying a huge price for a policy that doesn't work. People adapt what they do online when parts of the Internet are put behind by intrusive ID checks. Why carry on like this when young Australians have found ways to bypass the social media ban? Respond by 26 May ➡️ www.gov.uk/government/c...

1 DAY TO GO ⏰️ 💭 Tell the government to rethink online safety. ❌️ Creating a privacy timebomb with surveillance-based information blockades isn't the way. ✅️ We need user choice and better platform design, NOT mandatory ID checks. Have your say on a better way by 26 May ➡️ www.gov.uk/government/c...

Time to start sharing again NOT just liking This site is censoring also. There's a reason for our posts being stagnant IT'S US! If WE don't spread information to each other then how do we reach voters. We need to beat them at their game. Share and share a lot. youtube.com/post/UgkxhKX...

Change your search habits now!!! Change your default search engines!

Access to information shouldn't be ransomed for our personal data. We’ve gone from ID checks for porn to potentially age-gating social media, livestreams, websites and more. Safety doesn't come from a surveillance-based Internet 🚫 Respond to the consultation by 26 May ➡️ www.gov.uk/government/c...

They really are not even trying to hide their rich white man privileges any more...

I'd made my points through that survey some time ago. If you're in the UK and hasn't done it yet, please do. It may just be shouting in the wind because I have the horrible feeling LabourToriesReform has already agreed to give our personal information away but... we need to make our points clear.

4 DAYS LEFT ⏰️ There's not much time left to push back on the expansion of online ID checks across yet more of the Internet. The only way to block young people is to run checks on everyone. The sheer amount of sensitive data that represents is 🤯 Have your say by 26 May ➡️ www.gov.uk/government/c...

What creepy nonsense are companies up to when they try to guess your age or take your ID for age verification? www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Privacy is online safety ✊️ That's why the government gets it so wrong with ever more online ID checks. Either sensitive data gets stockpiled for attack, or people are driven to riskier parts of the Internet. It's lose-lose. ⏰️ Consultation closes 26 May. Have your say ➡️ www.gov.uk/government/c...

Annoy the living daylights out of both payment processors and your local government. Never let them know peace while they are disturbing yours.

Surprised at the EFL's decision to kick Southampton out of the Championship play-offs. I'd say it's probably the right decision because anything else - a fine, points deduction, etc - just wouldn't be enough compared to advantage of a season in the PL.

I am soo glad I'd switched to duckduckgo years ago... Everything Google does now - and everything over the past few years - has been horrendously bad.

Wow, I'm back. For a while, any time I tried getting on this it wouldn't work and ended up being logged off. Had to find my pw...

Government leaders are making grand statements about European digital autonomy, but they happily give away our most sensitive data, with no legal protection whatsoever, to an anti-democratic administration that is hostile to Europe. My comments on the EU-US data deal in @computerweekly.bsky.social

If confirmed, this would be very good news: Germany turning away from #Palantir. After Switzerland did the same. Now all other European countries should follow, Palantir is a threat to our security and our democracy. www.dw.com/en/german-in... @deutschewelle.dw.com

It is heartening to see pieces in the media that address the simultaneous rise in antisemitism and Islamophobia at the same time. I am hopeful that several communal organisations and the government will catch up.

Your iPhone tracks everything you do — and say. Here are three quick-fixes to tighten your security settings. P.S. No technology is safe.

"If Starmer goes, his successor will be our 5th PM in 7 years. They will face the near-impossible task of leading a majority government that's never had anything close to majority public support. 1/3 of the vote on a historically low turnout is not a foundation on which to deliver for the country"

We've lost count of the number of times someone has told us that "First Past the Post is not perfect, but at least it leads to stable governments." How is that going?

Dear Labour MPs: When we say that Wes Streeting is hugely disliked and is Labour's equivalence of Liz Truss, we don't mean you should elect him for 4 weeks to destroy UK even more...

BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.

Seriously, there should never be a time for Enoch Powell to be uncancelled. Also, every single one of us can tell you racism has never gone away. It quieted down for a while until events like May's "hostile environment" started allowing racists to speak louder.

No, it is not time to uncancel Enoch Powell The racism my dad, grandparents and entire black side of my family experienced in Birmingham in the 60s and 70s was in no small part driven by his nasty, rancid brand of division and racism Enoch Powell was a racist and a demagogue, period

Please remember, the future is not set in stone. We can turn things around, but it takes effort. Contact your reps, get involved in local orgs, do what you can.

BREAKING: Boston City Council just unanimously passed a resolution condemning dangerous age verification and censorship laws, including the proposals put forward by @massgovernor.bsky.social and the MA House. Backlash to age gating social media is growing! www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05...

#savespeech #notodigitalID As shown, even when you complybwith age verification or ID verification, it will STILL fuck you over. Yell at reps. Whether you are US, UK, Australian, etc. NO TO DIGITAL ID www.congress.gov/state-legisl... fightchatcontrol.eu www.parliament.uk/business/com...

For some reason the song "scampi" popped into my head today. Despite my then-friend (lost touch years ago) who spent like 30 mins trying to teach me the words, the best I ever got was: "I've seen things, I've seen them with my eyes, I've seen things, they're often in disguise".

Took them long enough...

"Wes Streeting for PM" is as welcome as "Liz Truss for PM". From all indications, Streeting is in the pay of Palantir and other reviled US "health"care organisations. I have no doubt that Streeting would push ahead to destroy NHS and other privacy rights.

Fully agree. If Starmer does step down, we should have another general election. I said the same thing when Cameron stood down, May, Johnson, etc. I know May and Johnson finally did but both didn't for some time after being selected.

Struggling to sleep because of tinnitus and stress (about house things needing repair work, etc)... fun~~~ */s* Hopefully I can get a couple hours soon...

Prime Minister Péter Magyar inaugural speech: "The psyche of the whole country was poisoned by politics that was artificially inciting hatred. The Hungarian state is not allowed to do anything like this ever again... This era is, once and for all, finished."

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

If you're in Canada, do this. Otherwise, you'll lose all rights to privacy. Hackers, stalkers, corrupt politicians / law officers, etc... imagine the damage they will cause.

Wrong. The mental health crisis in adolescents is caused by constant surveillance and rampant infantilization, of the sort politicians keep demanding MORE of. Like "age checks" to keep them from reading stuff their parents dislike. www.techdirt.com/2023/12/18/y...

Americans still use gallons? Wow... My parents tells me that UK switched to litres before I was born, because the price of petrol was skyrocketing and petrol stations thought they'd fool ppl by switching so that it'd appear cheaper... I dun know how much petrol would cost in gallons now...

Posted this a few days ago... I have no illusions, they're all blinded by 'illegals on boats' while all Farage will do is steal every little bit of wealth they have and give it to the rich.. bsky.app/profile/andr...

If Starmer's in any way serious about removing "unnecessary mistakes", here's a few suggestions: 1) bring in proportional representation 2) reverse the privatisation of the NHS 3) repeal Online Surveillance Act and stop trying to steal/sell ppl's personal data 4) stop trying to bring in digital ids

Saw my local elections results, pretty much as I had the feeling it'd do: go more right-wing, even though the local area suffered under right-wing councils... *smh*

especially so when they make all the same shit the payment processors hate illegal; now you have your ID associated with it and god knows they'd try grandfathering in crimes relating to porn bans or some shit.

Unless we change the voting system, we will see this at the next general election as well. With votes split across five or more parties, power can be won on as little as 25% of the vote. This needs to be a wake-up call.

Plunge the country into chaos?? Starmer, your right-wing Labour party and the Tories party has _kept_ the UK from being a decent group of countries since well before my time.

Ugh. The early results from the local elections are depressing. I swear, ppl are dumb. Right-wing politics has failed over the years so what do ppl do? Go even further right-wing(!) *smh* I'm kind of nervous about what my local elections results are gonna be like...

At the way things are going - including google's plans to lock down android - I may need to either find a new phone or find a way to de-google my phone... *sighs*

🗳️ Don't forget to vote today 🗳️ Vote with hope or out of frustration. Vote tactically or with your heart. Vote angry with a voting system that regularly ignores millions. Vote - and then keep demanding a better democracy where every vote is equal and all voices are heard.

EFF sees through the thin veil of internet censorship bills that claim to "protect the kids." Age-gating the internet is not the answer, and we're fighting back. eff.org/spring

I've voted in my local and parish elections. Of course, I voted for Greens in both. If you're in the UK, I strongly urge everyone to make sure to vote, and vote for party that represent the values you want to see, not what media or billionaires want to happen - their values are not same as yours.

61% would _still_ vote for a right-wing party even with all the evidence of the past half-century (going by what my parents told me about Thatcher) and what's happening in USA and elsewhere?