Telegram faces major Ofcom probe over child sexual abuse concerns The UK’s online safety regulator says messaging apps will ‘face serious consequences’ if they fail to protect children

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That's my life over.

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A news article that says "seals remember what they just did - but only for about 18 seconds" and the image has been edited to be the pokemon spheal (round seal) from the pokearth youtube video lying vacantly in the snow

Who has done this?

A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons

"Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears"

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Good morning all you amazing critters and welcome to a terrific Tuesday, fight for your right to party!

Phin <3

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy! Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user ha...

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Top two!

Seagull standing on top of a sign that says "BIRD"

BIRD

#Jonkation2026

This is not an unknown formula. History has played this tune before. It should NOT have come as a surprise.

The threat WAS over. Atlee's government had the formula to keep at it bay. Post-war consensus. And for decades it WAS

As that was eroded; as individualism was pushed. As economic opportunity was increasingly constrained to one geographical area...so the seeds were sown for fascism to thrive again.

@sianberry.bsky.social and @zoegarbett.bsky.social joined the National Housing Demo to demand rent controls and outline why voting Green on 7th May is a vote for affordable housing.

"That's how long it took, less than a century to follow in Hitler's footsteps."

The truth that centrists do not want to face up to is that this path to fascism is DECADES long. More convenient to believe that all our problems started with Brexit than look in a mirror.

It's true!
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Apparently there going to sell merch with this log as well according to the article just to rub it in.

cartoon of fish in a cross section of ocean. on the surface is a tuna labeled "regular fish". below are loosejaw, pelican eel, and anglerfish labeled "nightmare zone". on the bottom is a pink snailfish labeled "bibby"

is there a name for this

I still remember Gregg Knight's (East Yorkshire) promo campaign jingle for the 2017 election*

"you'll get accountability with Conservative delivery"

Frankly if there is one thing our entire SYSTEM prevents from happening; it is accountability.

*That whole promo is burned into my frontal lobe

Space: 1999 Year 2 Opening Titles YouTube video by Gerry Anderson

It is not the first time I have seen sci fi be so utterly ridiculous in that manner :D

Which is a pity because premise aside the world-building in this show was quite good. The design of the exploration-craft things they had in particular was really well thought out.

youtu.be/tsmefY94E_0

Speak to a small business advisor in your bank. But remember their job is to get you to open a business account with them so listen to them, but be wary that they are serving their own ends as well as yours.

Free plug-in solar panels to be rolled out to some households The technology is designed to be a simpler and more affordable way of benefiting from renewable energy

"Low-income households will get [free] plug-in solar panels to cut their energy bills, the Government has announced."

This is how you do a just transition.
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Not heard that one in a few decades.

i love it

We've found him! The most Turkish person in existence!

It Wasn't Me YouTube video by Shaggy - Topic

In honour of Kier Starmer's performance this week..

youtu.be/sTMgX1PDGAE

When the UK crashed out of the EU due to Brexit we lost an entire layer of governance and legal protections.

The UK is now the most right wing govt in Western Europe. It may not be as openly bad as Orban but has that whiff about it and some policies certainly place it on the far right spectrum.

"Sergeant, what inspires you?"

Walking Tank from @westfaliaminis.bsky.social for @trenchcrusade.bsky.social

Never start a project hungry.

#miniaturepainting #trenchcrusade #beans #nerdlings #minipainting