A confused, mildly annoyed, and extremely disgusted budgie squinting at clothes measurements using inches with decimals.

@waterfordwhispers.bsky.social

Can you change your clothing measurement guide to something sensible instead of the wall scribblings of a madman that eats bugs?

3D Fire in GOLF:
f z,d
@(70)
{
f3 p=z*nor(2*C.rgb-R.xyy)
p.z+=5+cos(T)
p.xz*=mat2(cos(T+p.y/4+f4(0,8,5,0)))
d=2; @(6) d/=.8, p+=cos((p.yzx-f3(T,,)*8)*d+T)/d
z+=d=.01+abs(len(p.xz)+p.y*.3-1)/9
O+=(sin(p.y/2-f4(,1,2,))+1.1)/d
}
O=tanh(O/1e3)

I'm old enough to remember when software just opened and then you could start working.

Now it's: wait, checking for updates, installing updates (wait I didn't want to install an update), checking for updates, please login, ask for 2FA code, login to 2FA app, verify email, why did I open this again?

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech Meta funneled $2B through nonprofit shells to push age verification laws targeting Apple and Google while exempting its own platforms from surveillance requirements.

OS level age verification is a Meta lobbying project

Pass it on

Hey everyone remember this tweet from a week ago?

Tell me again how this is going exactly as planned?

I've been quite negative about Labour recently. Time for a positive:

Kier Starmer has been extremely pragmatic & resilient throughout the Iran War nightmare. Probably making the best choices in a terrible situation.

Also, don't believe the corpos if they say switching TLD will break their systems. It's easy, and they can have a redirect from their old address to the new one without it bypassing the OSA.

This is so much simpler and cheaper for the Government and everyone on the internet. Websites will have to pay one fee to switch TLD instead of endless unpredictable fees per visitor. You're pricing everyone out from having a content or review section on their business websites. How idiotic.

I could go on for hours about cool ideas for this superior system. This wasn't the solution large corporations wanted, but they'll have to find some other useful idiots to ensure their monopolies have no competition.

Currently, the OSA will kill innovation & diversity on the internet.

Integrate all online gaming services into the school VPN. Is a student misbehaving at school in full knowledge that their awful parents won't care if they find out?

Let's see how that student feels when the teacher can block access to their games at home with the click of a mouse button. 😈

The school VPN will have its own web email. Alongside moving adult content to .xxx, we move all web email services to a new TLD. So gmail.com will become g.mail and hot.mail.

Now kids signing up for Xbox or PlayStation are instantly detected.

Once that is done, legislate that mobile phone manufacturers must create unique phones for children. Brightly coloured, unmistakably for children. Those phones can only connect to the school VPN network. Now teachers and other child support services can moderate their students.

Here's how to fix it: Discuss with ICANN to create a XXX TLD. Pass law that porn sites that aren't on .xxx will be fined.

Easy. Now parents can block .xxx on their routers, because they are the parents and they should be parenting until you create a national school VPN.

Dear Normie.

So nice that you're posting pictures of flowers on the internet while your party destroys the internet with their stupid Online Safety Act. How about you fix it?

Get off the internet. Tyrants aren't welcome here

Yours truly.

The internet

Nice of Labour to fight for our right to escape their brain-dead policies in suitable fashion.

Fight the Online Safety Act, it doesn't protect children in its current form. It only protects Facebook and other large corporations monopolies. Unfortunately. Labour are too stupid to notice

The UK Online Safety Act is dangerous to society in its current form. It will kill all the niche forums that can't afford to pay per user for verification and hand a perpetual monopoly to Facebook, Discord, and the other big web corporates.

It's an endless wargame and a money pit for taxpayers.

How the hell can someone your age not look at prohibition era America and not see the inevitable outcome of your departments actions? It's so glaringly obvious that I question your abilities full stop.

I wouldn't chance eating one of your home baked goods. I can tell you that for sure.

So, carry on. We'll no longer have to pay ISPs for internet because everyone will switch to the technology I won't name because you and your cabal have made the internet unusable.

I'll enjoy watching all the UK ISPs go out of business. I'll help everyone install the new free net you can't ruin.

One day, you're going to inadvertently ban some software that is integral to the function of government websites and I'm gonna howl with laughter at your ineptitude.

What you gonna do when you've banned everything online, but people start selling DVD's and usb sticks of contraband software to bypass your departments mistakes? Ban DVD's?

I'm surprised you didn't link bad thoughts causing suicides in children and decide to ban that too, you orwellian nightmare.

How does it feel to be openly mocked for being a puritan totalitarian? How does it feel to fail so badly at such a simple task?

How does it feel when I tell you that tech nerds have had a replacement for your ISPs and internet waiting for this moment and you will ultimately create a worse internet?

Labour MP wants to ban anything and everything technology. By the time her and her ilk are finished, the entire open source scene will be blocked. And so will any UK citizens chances of using open source to innovate and compete with the big players like Facebook or Twitter.

They're useful idiots.

Oh look. Another politician wanting to ban any technology on a whim without any idea of the consequences.

You don't understand how networks and software works Emily. Why are you on the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee? You have a political science degree and no experience of software.

Could VPNs be banned in the UK? We asked the experts The government has launched a public consultation into whether VPNs should be age-restricted

"There is little evidence that young people are using VPNs to bypass digital ID checks imposed by the Online Safety Act."

Age gating them "will have little impact on children's online safety but will deter adults from using them or force people to hand over personal documents or biometric data."

Labour is also:

✅ Destroying the fabric of the internet with their myopic online safety act.

✅ Infantilising their citizens while treating them like prisoners.

✅ Enforcing Tech bro access to your biometric information. We totally trust Tech bros.

✅ Crushing small online services with fees.

Comparative Effects of Red and Blue LED Light on Melatonin Levels During Three-Hour Exposure in Healthy Adults Circadian rhythms, essential for regulating human physiology and behavior, are influenced by light exposure, particularly at night. This study examined the impact of red (631 nm) and blue (464 nm) LED light on melatonin secretion, a key circadian ...

Oh, I almost forgot to post a research paper on the topic.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I contacted MKM Stadium on Monday and was promised a call back on Tuesday from someone with decision making power. They didn't.

It appears they haven't consulted any experts in sleep psychology or botanists regarding the impacts of this egregious light pollution.

Did you see the pink glow over #MKM #Stadium in #Kingston Upon #Hull the other night? They're grow lights for the pitch. The wavelength of blue light they're beaming across the city is probably overlapping the 464nm range which stops melatonin production in your body and stops you sleeping!

Are there plans to involve professionals with experience in counselling/psychotherapy?

I'm sure that the pandemic had an emotional, social, & psychological effect on them.

Hope you have a lovely day.

This is so exciting to see. You're a star. ⭐ ♥️