Stop what you’re doing and read this whistleblower report. ICE has been training its agents that they don’t need a judicial warrant to break down your door - a blatant violation of the 4th Amendment. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Quote from James Baker, ORG Programme Manager: "The British public is being forced to hand over sensitive personal data to unregulated age assurance providers if they want to have full access to platforms such as Reddit and Bluesky or Grindr."
The Online Safety Act requires age assurance to restrict not only access to porn but any content that could be ‘harmful’ for under 18s – a term that can be intrepreted broadly.
Without it, users are either blocked from accessing the platform, or features like DMs and certain content are restricted.
I really don't want to upload my stupid face to this age assurance thing but I literally can't view half of the posts on my fucking feed because of it.
Had to do a new Age Assurance thing this morning for BlueSky to unlock certain features, because of the UK's draconian online safety law.
Occurred to me that, since all it did was scan my face, any passing adult would have worked just as well if they had been willing to cooperate. Hardly foolproof.
New additions to the Weird Library:
Fake California Coelacanth
A recent story on the website "Animals Around the Globe" revealing the finding of a coelacanth off the California coast is fake.
Four alpacas shot dead in field in Cambridgeshire
Police investigating after ewe also fatally injured by dog and fifth alpaca received non-fatal gunshot wound to the face
Reading now: After the Flying Saucers Came. Such a flowing history of UFOs in culture. Easy to read, engaging, thoughtful.
Thousands of children in England accused of witchcraft in past decade
Figures emerge as Kindoki Witch Boy film tells true story of Mardoche Yembi who underwent an exorcism as a child
Pop Goes the Cryptid: Explained
Introduction to the world of Pop Cryptids, showing the evolution of cryptozoology from a scientific field to a popular culture scene where "cryptid" is any weird, sentient thing.
beast mode
It’s my pleasure, Anne.
Somerset pit reveals bronze age cannibalism. Oxford analysis shows evidence of bloody massacre, with hand and feet bones chewed by human molars.
"Almost half of the bones were those of children, suggesting an entire community had been wiped out in a single, immensely brutal event."
If someone tells you they don't believe in witchcraft ask them for a piece of their hair. Meme source: unknown
Happy Friday the 13th from the Beckett Coven!
#Booksky #Authorsky #Witchsky 🌒🌕🌘
Mysterious New Jersey drones appear to avoid detection by traditional methods. State lawmaker briefed by homeland security officials says devices appear not to be being flown by hobbyists.
#ufosky #ufo #Ufohistory
Today in UFO History - CIA Reviews Keyhoe Book
December 8, 1953 -
1/CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence Chief of Operations Staff Philip Grandin Strong writes a memo to the Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence saying that Keyhoe’s book
There is a 'deep state' and the Pentagon could be hiding information about alien life and UFOs says one Government official, who spoke out about alien disclosure, reports Claudia Trotman for the Daily Star.
Source:
Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, p. 156;
#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory
Today in UFO History - Radio Moscow
December 7, 1953 —
proclaims that saucers are “figments of the imagination of western war mongers designed to make taxpayers swallow heavier military budgets.” [Eberhart]
The Seattle Times Qqq T. Rex may have been a lot smarter than you thought By DINO GRANDONI
If you're still on Facebook, and like #cryptid insights from a social and cultural POV, check out my Pop Goes the Cryptid page: www.facebook.com/Popcryptids
Everything you ever wanted to know about astrology – for free | Chris French
The predictions of astrology have now been put to the empirical test (at least) a thousand times – the results fail to support astrology's validity
www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/11/ever...
