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UK Online Safety Act – A Lesson in “Taking Back Control”
UK readers: do you see Edmund Blackadder below? Or just a message about the image being unavailable in your region? If you are in the UK and see Blackadder, then the chances are you are either using a foreign SIM in a cellular device (causing your browsing traffic to be back-hauled to originate from your…
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“Interesting Times”
Interesting Times are indeed upon us, specifically upon The US, although the fallout is going to affect many elsewhere too. This is a difficult, and scary, time for many minorities, and the non-binary are under particular threat: right now, increasingly so as we enter 2025, and in ways difficult to predict but unlikely to be…
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Snowflakes, Snowflakes, Everywhere
Many strange conspiracies gain traction on (anti-) social media. 5G phone masts controlling the microchips we were all injected with in our Covid vaccines is my favourite for sheer brainless non-scientific idiocy. But there are plenty of others. And in these fertile, generally right- to far-right- breeding grounds, the followers mindlessly swallow and regurgitate their…
Trials & tribulations of my increasingly full-time girl-mode.
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