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You might have seen me on that other place. Walking Scunthorpe Problem
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We're getting so close to the 10,000 mark. Let's keep sharing this petition everywhere. Let's force the government to acknowledge their human rights crime. Access to Puberty Blockers is a Human Right! Pass it on! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

Summarizing Elon Musk's government takeover thus far in under 60 seconds:

glad someone is finally saying it lol

We literally have science fiction on why this is a bad idea.

Absolute must read. Edward Corristine was deeply involved witg a cyber criminal community called the Com. Members have been known to engage in the sexual extortion of children. krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen...

Lots of special animals and pets buried in the PDSA London animal cemetery. But my first visit is always to Able Seacat Simon. Only feline recipient of the animal Victoria Cross. "During the Yangtse Incident, his behavour was of the highest order." Thread below. #navalHistory

Wow. There have been fears of the UK government using a technical capability notice to demand encryption backdoors for years. Now it’s happened. UK is demanding Apple provide access to encrypted cloud backups Great @joemenn.bsky.social scoop

Bitcoin -rancid user base -mainly useful for buying drugs 12 years ago -horrible use of energy -mostly just securities fraud dressed up BitTorrent -cool user base -incredibly useful -runs on the charity of strangers -a reliable place to get DBZ with “the good audio”

Hi I'm Des and I do prop and environment art in the games industry and here is a collection of some of my personal projects.

"Colonel Von Luger, it is the sworn duty of all officers to try to escape. If they cannot escape, then it is their sworn duty to cause the enemy to use an inordinate number of troops to guard them, and their sworn duty to harass the enemy to the best of their ability."

On Letby - summary of my posts last year: 1. No idea if she is innocent or guilty. 2. Defence chose (perhaps for good tactical reasons) not to put in their own expert evidence. 3. This meant that jury was perhaps not placed in best position to assess soundness of prosecution expert evidence. >

Yes. Also, I am absolutely terrible at asking people to support us, but it would really help. We took ads off the site a few years ago. We have no paywall. Not even a registration wall. We really depend on people just wanting to help us. www.techdirt.com/support/

Simon & Schuster's flagship imprint is going to get rid of those little quotes from other authors on the back and front. I'm torn, having been a bookseller, a book reviewer and having been asked to write many blurbs. I'm also on holiday so I can't columnise on it, so here's a 🧵 instead.