OverlyAbstractNonsense @AbstractOverly

The fact that that they’re pouring from 1 gallon bottles instead of pulling up a tanker truck and hooking it up directly to the pumping system is a strong indicator that someone low on the totem pole got yelled at and had to improvise by sending some interns on a home-depot run.

evan loves worf @esjesjesj

2 days ago

Pouring single gallon bottles of stuff into a pool of 6 million gallons is not regular maintenance

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A 1-year-old in Mississippi was shot and killed by police after a cop opened fire on a vehicle involved in an alleged shoplifting incident at a Walmart. An adult was also critically wounded. A witness says they saw 2 women leaving the store with an infant, Kohen Kartier Wiley, and a box of diapers. Relatives deny that Wiley's mother and aunt were shoplifting, with some saying they had a digital receipt on a phone. This is a national tragedy. The officers knew about Kohen Kartier Wiley being in the car before they opened fire. Firing into a moving vehicle in a crowded parking lot over a non-violent offense is both criminally reckless and completely unjustified. RIP Kohen Kartier Wiley

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@novadolls Man, I miss the De Minimis rules. Getting things from overseas SUCKS now.

@VirusZeke I don't know if I'd call Vocaloid or other vocal synths generative AI. There's some AI involved with the newer software, but it's all trained on that specific vocal provider.

@gwentybabe @VirusZeke It looks generated to me, too. Very ironic.

@allenvonghornet I only made it a minute into the video before I was like "I'm not using 10 minutes of my life to listen to this entire thing." No matter what she does, Gooseworx cannot win.

🚨 For anyone tracking the under-16 social media bans in Canada and the UK, you might have noticed the government suddenly walking back some specific wording. They backed off forcing you to upload credit cards or facial scans because of the public backlash, and now they’re pushing a "backend token system". It sounds less intrusive on the surface, but here is the truth about what that actually means, because most people are being completely misled by that marketing: A cryptographic token isn't a magic, anonymous poker chip. To work, a token has to be anchored to something verified. That means your physical device, your phone carrier contract, or your real identity is permanently tethered to that token. Every single time your phone throws that token to let you log into an app, it logs exactly who you are, where you are, and what you're doing. It isn't a privacy shield to protect kids. It's a digital passport that tracks an adult's every move across the internet.

@somethings_awry Right now, I write in my journal with a 0.38mm Uni-ball One P. The black gel ink is somehow darker than a lot of other inks. You can also get the same ink in a different form factor with the plain Uni-Ball One model.

@theillumithotti @_parasocial I just noticed their display name now and have to agree. That is an amazing name!

"90% support it" Yeah in the same way dictators "win" elections - its a made up stat; the survey was publicly available and there was NO way to say no lol

Sam @SamCKx

4 days ago

People will attack this policy, but after extensive government consultation, 90% of the parents of under-16s support it. They have watched social media consume huge portions of their children’s lives, so have a very different perspective. Social media amplifies narcissism,

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Japan is set to roll out nationwide LGBTQIA+ education programs in schools, universities, and workplaces. The goal is for more people in Japan to understand sexual orientation and gender identity outside of cisgender, heterosexual norms.

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Literally what the fuck are you talking about?

Dan Gliebitz @RealDanGliebitz

5 days ago

It's impossible to explain to a Yank what Cheddar cheese is like. Their only reference point is liquidised knob cheese in a spray can. We should be mindful of their limitations.

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@angelflesh3 I didn't even like these as a kid. Way too sweet. 😖

@Samuraiguy35 @yenthusiastx Will this mean that the next step will be an always on user facing camera to make sure that it isn't a kid using the device? 🫩

Apple built this exact tool in 2021. Within weeks, security researchers showed it could flag innocent people's content. Apple killed it 16 months later. The UK just gave tech companies three months to build it anyway, threatening prison for executives who refuse. The proposal is for something called client-side scanning. End-to-end encryption (the technology that protects your WhatsApp or Signal messages) works by scrambling your messages on your phone before they leave it. Nobody intercepting them can read them. Client-side scanning changes that sequence: your phone checks every image and message against a database of prohibited content before encrypting it. The lock stays in place, but the inspection happens first. When the government says "scan for nude images," technically they mean "scan everything." The people who invented internet security have already ruled on this. Ronald Rivest helped create RSA encryption, the system behind every padlock icon you see in a browser. Whitfield Diffie invented public-key cryptography, the math that all web security is built on. In October 2021, both co-signed a paper with twelve other leading cryptographers, concluding that device-level scanning undermines security for everyone while giving law enforcement only unreliable gains. Once that infrastructure is on every phone, any government can point it at whatever they decide to ban next. The EU spent three years trying to pass something identical. Germany blocked a Council vote in October 2025. On March 26, 2026, the European Parliament voted 307 to 306 to reject it. One vote. German federal police data from those debates showed roughly 48% of the 300,000 chats reported annually under existing scanning rules were false positives, innocent people's messages treated as criminal evidence. There is one more consequence the announcement left out. The government wants to block nude images on children's devices but not adults'. Enforcing that line means every device in the UK needs to know whether its owner is a child. The only way to do that is mandatory age verification. Signal pointed out where this lands: every UK resident would need to prove their identity just to communicate privately. That means 67 million people submitting identification to use software they already own. The EU rejected this by one vote two and a half months ago. The UK is now attempting it alone.

Polymarket @Polymarket

5 days ago

NEW: U.K. advances proposal to force Apple, Google, Signal, & other platforms to scan private content on users’ devices — executives could face prison if they refuse.

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@SageGarnish It may have history, but it still sounds like the least appetizing food in the world and does not help with the stereotype that the UK has terrible food. 😅 Then again, the US does put butyric acid in chocolate.

@SageGarnish If you click through, the slip of paper does indeed say "Cassie's Candies" very clearly. That is a rather odd promotional item!

@SageGarnish I love all of the people saying that she's not a loli. Looking at her proportions and character: She's short with big eyes and a flat chest and does act at least somewhat childlike in the show. What is the difference?

@MarcoPolo_9494 @tropotropotropo Man, we have watered these terms down so much. How are ANY of these characters considered to be lolis?!

@cathorsechimp @HeatherMassey2 @MorbidKnowledge Fuck. $3 million wasn't enough. That poor woman.