🐕, 🦆, 🌱 New Spinsters: I’m not going to follow back until you post a bit. Wider Fedi: I’m not going to follow back if you post too much. Nostr: 2c60241a778e47057c7b457e8e31750216a924877c8c21637b719ba573568161
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Last Notes npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 See, told you you’d know by the follow requests! #nevent1q…ll5v npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Happens often. Change of routine, often combined with sleep-deprivation due to family illness. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Familiarity. Most of the users are not tech savvy, I want to keep it as simple and similar as possible. I would be astonished if more that one or two of the potential users knew what a public key is. And, tbh, I found Nostr very hard to find like-minded people on. It’s too diffuse, here you can find an instance and know roughly what the people on it will be like. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I’ve honestly never seen people lining a street outside a courthouse supporting a murderer, other than that Luigi guy. I was just making a point about societal attitudes. (I would make a point about the reality of post-partum psychosis, but I’m sure you know it is a real thing.) (I make similar posts when I see members of my own instance going off about men leaving babies in hot cars after forgetting to take them to day-care: it is a recognised and very sad occurrence that has been extensively documented in the medical literature, caused by a break in routine.) npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 This kind of thing. https://media.spinster.xyz/ec9c10df3fcd1951f3902743bbd8e9364f6f42e29ce72ebc1c988139f9b57f6d.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I’ve just twigged, whilst watching Reacher and getting ads for nappies, cleaning products and sanpro, that Amazon has clocked that I am female and is serving me personalised ads. Bleh. I think I’d rather see the boys’ adverts. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Well, that’s not good. https://media.spinster.xyz/43128a6f8769b224c58d143b9018b560b5a0c395a182a88504c57b8775227e46.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 He’s very hot and stressed, but he’s back where he’s meant to be. Sadly no test results yet: they’re short staffed. The vet will call me tomorrow. https://media.spinster.xyz/a66fa933a39f59ff4bae2bedd2c9beb405879913df4496c789759300812ff082.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 More on my sister: per her husband via our aunt, he called the police because he knew that they needed separating before something worse happened. He answered the door to the police, told them what was going on. They asked if there was anywhere local she could go, and he said our mum. They went upstairs, where she was in bed, and said they wanted to take her to mum. She refused (I’m going to assume swearing and yelling), so they arrested her. She denies that the police made this offer. I know who I believe. Mum is starting to sound a little sick of the company, although not yet coming out and saying it. He says she needs therapy. I told him that four years ago. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Thai gun law is wild: civil servants get discounts on buying guns, and you can inherit a gun licence rather than need to apply. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I wasn’t sure if I felt more sad for the woman or the cat until I got to the bit where she was wiping his bum. Note the obviously unfinished buildings. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i8KU-5uFqX8 npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://media.spinster.xyz/669db2857078a69680a182402a166ef2d4786f4883600273acf483b93485e417.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://spectator.com/article/healey-shouldnt-repeat-the-price-gouging-dog-whistle/ The truth is that supermarkets are a miraculous innovation whose praises are not sung enough. Far from being profit factories British supermarkets are so competitive and so efficient that cheap food in Britain is more affordable than anywhere else in the world. https://archive.ph/OlrcC https://media.spinster.xyz/5dcda108e6c9d0dc6b841d685cda14363fca7d7e432646add1d693caa3cfa4f4.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/a660a9f22e9d0938aff73eb2566dc5c05f172b33a794ce29a360f13ea34b5075.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://media.spinster.xyz/7ee82ef928f50955c92363f4c18e5bdb7168811a5e3d23fcdc1a89d569254e30.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 At least over here, Bravissimo was an absolute game-changer: they only do (iirc) D and over, and they made the other retailers up their game. Good for you making the effort for her. (I misremembered, I walked out a FF, same as your Mrs. GG now, which isn’t too bad for twenty-odd years of getting older.) npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Bravissimo will do you over a video call, if that’s any use? They’ll have a go by phone, but obviously less reliable and they’ll need to send more for you to try. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://media.spinster.xyz/93188f8ce0454c3b0ee30b1bfbb15588f1177eea45a7bb34836d8112308b9432.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/07/27/france-may-be-on-fire-but-the-world-is-not/ Ironically, being good at putting out fires is, ultimately, part of the problem. Wildfires are part of natural forest management and always have been. There are some species of plant that will only germinate in the aftermath of a fire, when competition from other plants is at its weakest. Prevent the small fires, however, and fuel builds up on the forest floor. Eventually, when you do get a fire that outruns the firefighters, it will become an especially big fire. […] So yes, there is a man-made element of the crisis in south-west France. But it isn’t the one activists want us to believe: climate change. It is unwise forest management. If we regularly burned forests with controlled burning, or otherwise removed the deadwood that accumulates when forests don’t burn, we wouldn’t have such large and threatening fires. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Yeah, I think a lot of the charges are actually fraud. I just to not see the point of taking up five days of court time with people sobbing over it. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Shocked, I tell you. (Actually, I am surprised it’s such a small amount.) https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/lib-dems-stance-trans-issues-donation-jzrkbpqvk The Liberal Democrats have been accused of softening their stance on women’s rights after accepting hundreds of thousands of pounds from one of Britain’s biggest financial backers of transgender causes. Sex Matters, the campaign group, said that the timing of a series of policy interventions by Sir Ed Davey and senior Liberal Democrats raised questions about whether the party’s position had shifted after donations from Simon Ruddick, a financier who has publicly described support for trans communities as a priority. Electoral Commission records show that Ruddick has donated more than £200,000 to the party this year. In an interview published by the LGBT charity GiveOut, he said that he had chosen to support transgender people because they were a “tiny and disproportionately oppressed” community whose rights were under attack. https://archive.ph/HS09J npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Any luck? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I have a similar weird one: I’m fine with dairy (as long as I don’t go nuts) and with wheat, but cook to two together and I’ll be on the loo in half an hour. I’m fine with, say, biscuits baked with cheese on top, but if you mix the cheese into the dough…. I’m particularly bad with synthetic “cheese product”, like you get in cheap ready meals. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Pie somewhat lacking in structural integrity (had to cut the foil away rather than turn it out), not bad for GF pastry (ie, not great); filling tasty. Wouldn’t buy again. Have a feeling I made a very similar post three or four years ago. https://media.spinster.xyz/6b7dddee9b1ba72044683c8d9cec6457f31f7e7899d35b5df8802bcfe8c7e6c0.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I wasn’t counting Ro, sadly missed. Alex Bloodfire and Bill San. And another that is an admin of another Fedi instance with a joke account that I won’t out but do keep an eye on to make sure he behaves. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 There are at least four that I know of. I did tell him to put it in his bio! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 See, Birch Boy, told you this would happen! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 !!!!! https://media.spinster.xyz/c9bdf1909ac4933a67236b58098f5a97f535ad14871d2b4040e51912cfeed65b.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 No zaps on Fedi, I’m afraid! You can zap my Nostr account if you’re really desperate. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://media.spinster.xyz/b7a3946888cdead8896eed3c77f4e9ccde386983d32960b0a2855b76804f0ef7.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/ef187b1425d3b00d527a8a5cb961d4a39e3401d32083ce2322808bf1bb140649.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://spectator.com/article/its-time-the-tory-party-got-properly-nasty-again/ So, yes, bin net zero. Curtail public subsidies for renewables that prop up the fiction that windmills save families money, halt the paving of productive farmland with solar panels manufactured with coal in China, and resume drilling in the North Sea – because the UK’s deindustrialisation and popular penury have no effect on the weather. And, yes, quit the ECHR, ditto the Refugee Convention and any other treaty or legislation that protects murderers, rapists, thieves and fraudsters from deportation. While you’re at it, Kemi, stop putting young men who break into your country in hotels or any other agreeable accommodation, stop giving them phones, stipends and free dental care and start stuffing them in detention facilities, which they can tell all their friends in Calais are unpleasant. Better yet, prevent those boats from landing in Kent to begin with, and tow them somewhere other than the British mainland. Not necessarily Rwanda; how about retired cruise ships, so long as there’s no all-you-can-eat seafood buffet. Consider eliminating asylum altogether. Making foreign-born non-citizens ineligible for social housing would be a start. Be mean. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 They seem all-in, though. How can they be spending so much? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 “We grow 80% of our food, we only buy grains like oats and wheat.” “We only spend about £50 per week for food in the two of us.” wtf?? How do you spend that much with an admittedly fabulous garden? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KRILhkSPD9Y&ra=m npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I absolutely hate pointless, slow, unskippable cut scenes, so that pointy finger thing did my head in. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I have literally no idea what that is or whether it has one. Is it the spinny bit that sometimes makes it stop skipping out of the screw head when I move it one way or the other, in a completely arbitrary way? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I’m going to replace the others too, just in case, but not in this weather. https://media.spinster.xyz/4693aaa0d07ffa1397ab7188abfab522e27add80cea00eb117398481cf89a3e9.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I am definitely no bee expert, but I think they might have decided that they’re sick of getting stuck in the house…. Will see what the bee man says! https://media.spinster.xyz/a73bb203ee6e2c0adb4df50fc8b5b8b0aa205bd3af8c4e8d5f966fd55f32ec4d.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 1976 https://media.spinster.xyz/90128d690145a2f04c4cc67027cca8a3a7add582d416a967d04022b1f720f664.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/68cea7327d53554419dc53120542840abda3a4aa8f54a0b10c1a998ef4f891a2.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/030e497a472ed3685a5fc2a8302ea63de91205bc6e7d3c75284a93c44ccf6486.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/26f3abd49712c825827d4587c74016aa265cc43c87c42cff515b8b39a10657bf.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Apparently some of the teams ate a couple of meals and then started getting raw ingredients flown in from Europe for their chefs to prep. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://spectator.com/article/the-fuss-over-gay-conversion-therapy-is-a-charade/ So why, after the legalisation of gay marriage and the Equality Act, in a world with wide-reaching protections for gay people, have calls for a conversion therapy ban erupted over the past decade? It is actually nothing to do with gay rights at all. It is another attempt by the trans lobby to hijack support for sexual equality to prevent any questioning of their desire to use medical means to surgically alter young men and women. […] The ‘conversion therapy’ they want to ban is the sharing of basic facts with children who are considering life-altering medication and surgery. They want to make it more difficult to dissuade teens from taking the puberty–blocking drugs or undergoing the surgery that could render them infertile or traumatised. Campaigners are not seeking to prevent medical abuse – they are trying to make questions about the validity of transgenderism illegal. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://spectator.com/article/revealed-the-shady-funding-of-net-zero/ The British left has spent years warning about malign billionaires, ‘industrial complexes’ and dodgy lobbying networks. Yet on net zero it has built such a machine itself: an internationally funded ecosystem that bankrolls thinktanks, campaign groups, media organisations and litigation in pursuit of a single political objective. The consequences of that work are all around us – high energy prices, industries crippled by those costs, manufacturing in retreat, cities like Aberdeen hollowed out, rising fuel poverty and higher bills for the poor, and an ever-expanding state regulating every-thing from gas boilers to air conditioning. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 They’re a bugger to clean, terribly bumpy. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 What on earth is a “male rupture”? https://media.spinster.xyz/636e037c5397f3d6cadd6011cbb34280bdfc59c66c45c909af063780c4a99468.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Fuck knows, I get it all the time. Forever telling Paypal to remember this device and it never does, I assume it’s the ad blocker. (I’m not that tech savvy, I’m just really good at translating geek language into normal) npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Oh, that is funny. I got another YouGov “AI” chat request, and when (ten minutes in) I said something like “I already answered that three questions ago. As an aside, if this is an example of a typical ‘AI’ system then I cannot understand why anyone finds the technology useful.” and suddenly got dumped into the “Thank you for your time” screen. I’ll have to remember that for next time it gets tedious. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjxlvp58zgo Dartmoor hill ponies have been on the landscape for 4,500 years but numbers have declined - there were 6,000 on Dartmoor 25 years ago but now there are less than 1,000. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 How many ponies would a herd of 300 horses produce in two years? Zero. But if you meant foals, apparently wild herds typically increase by 20% per year. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Trying to decide if I should buy heating oil. I have half a tank, which will do me until about the end of the year or a bit before. Currently about 80ppl, up from 60 previously but way down from 130 immediately after Trump started bombing Iran. Heating oil, like avgas and diesel, mostly comes from the Middle East. I’m going to wait a few days and see if this mythical memorandum appears, but if not then I think I’ll risk it and fill the tank up. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Bloody hell: now Al Carns has gone. If he stands, I’ll be rooting for him. https://order-order.com/2026/06/11/armed-forces-minister-al-carns-resigns-over-defence-spending-troubles-bill/ npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 June. https://media.spinster.xyz/131dee7d917f025c3c2ba6b7bcc183e8591b24cfb731d7af68e920efca4068eb.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://www.404media.co/this-company-will-add-phone-airpod-and-smartwatch-trackers-to-license-plate-readers/ A surveillance company plans to add sensors to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) that would mean the devices, as well as capture the license plate of passing vehicles, would also sweep up unique identifiers of mobile phones, wearables, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices in those cars, potentially letting law enforcement identify specific drivers or passengers. The technology, called SignalTrace, would turn ALPR cameras from devices focused on tracking cars to ones that can more readily track the location of particular people. ALPR cameras have become a commonly deployed technology all across the U.S.; SignalTrace would make some of these cameras capable of collecting far more data. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 One of the tests of a non-arse vegan is whether or not they will eat my ducks’ eggs. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Jesus, just use an egg! https://media.spinster.xyz/f70f371d568c2796597e754774a3b160a52ced353ec1214775cb98bb8394231e.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/36debd495c230b4f6c5693e17632fc397d99e0ab8263de9e093e45d6672104be.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 In my first year, I had swimming first thing on a Monday. Absolutely grim in winter, and of course no hair driers and you’ve seen my hair: can you imagine? Dripping down the back of my neck all morning, still wet when I got home…. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I don’t think a marathon is something you can reschedule on short (less than months) notice. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I think Zil was saying she doesn’t know what the weeds are called, not the lupine. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 They certainly don’t seem to do any harm to my lavender, nor to my rosemary if they get at it when I’m not watching. They’re both about the same age, I’ve not been in this garden that long. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I’ve oddly only ever found them on my lavender! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 During WW2, the US army tried to tell UK pubs that they had to be segregated. A lot of them banned white officers as a result. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I wonder how long it will take for the usual suspects to whatabout this away as a trivial detail. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 In my head, cow parsley is a biennial, although the internet tells me it can be a short-lived perennial. This one is at least four years old. Technically a weed, but I like it! https://media.spinster.xyz/2733263a0ef4ddcae755fc67146b6062f7dcdd51c103d137965acdfa64de18ae.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 After subsidence left a country road riddled with almighty craters, workmen were sent out to clean up the mess. It all went awry, however, when their own lorry fell victim to a large hole in the road. Contractors from Stabilised Pavements were working at Butleigh Drove near Walton in Somerset when their lorry rolled into a ditch that had given way on the uneven surface. The workers were forced to abandon the vehicle after it settled at a 45-degree angle, metres from a sign reading “skid risk, max speed 20mph”. https://media.spinster.xyz/cca19a5a19fa386b12d20c7a9ea85900d5ae1a3e91bf81fdb54351f9e3726a7f.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://amp.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/3333042/what-hobby-dogging-trend-training-imaginary-dogs-goes-viral Believe it or not, a new leisure activity called “hobby dogging” is becoming popular among animal-lovers in Germany who do not want hairy carpets, drooling or expensive vet fees. There is also no need to pick up poo or deal with aggressive behaviour or barking when leaving your pet at home. Hobby dogging – essentially dog training without dogs – follows in the wake of “hobby horsing”, a previous trend that saw children and a surprising number of adults gallop through obstacle courses on stick horses. In Bad Friedrichshall, north of the German city of Stuttgart, you can even get professional guidance in walking your imaginary dog. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 This week parliament will attempt to conclude legislation allowing the government to ban young people from social media. It’s taken weeks of ‘ping-pong’ to land on the specific form that these restrictions will take, and there has been no shortage of ideas. Tory peer Lord Nash’s proposals would introduce a blanket ban on all social media for under-16s, while the government is angling to implement restrictions on features and even introduce online curfews. We’ll soon find out what the final compromise will be. But from an online safety, privacy and civil liberties standpoint, the details hardly matter. The wave of a legislative wand will not magically banish children from social media. The only way to do this is to force every single user to submit to invasive biometric face scans or digital ID uploads. It is not hard to see that for all the good intentions, age-based restrictions to social media amount to a Trojan horse for a de facto mandatory digital ID system. Biometric face scans, often falsely presented as a privacy-safe method of age verification, will fail for millions of people: no algorithm can tell the difference between a 16-year-old on the day of their birthday and the day before. Many more users – adults with facial disabilities, young-looking women, or anyone who isn’t white – will face a significantly higher risk of being prompted to upload an ID document because the algorithm cannot accurately verify their age. And so, a biased and inaccurate algorithm will be the arbiter of who does – and who does not – need to upload their ID to unlock huge swathes of the internet. Many people across the UK, particularly teens, don’t need or have IDs. But conveniently, the government’s national digital ID scheme is waiting in the wings. This multi-billion-pound solution in search of a problem may have just found one to solve. Monitoring and managing children’s internet use is vital to keeping them safe. But children’s online safety includes more than protection from harmful content or addictive algorithms – it includes their cybersecurity, data protection and freedom of expression as well. Since the introduction of the Online Safety Act, there have been many examples of just how vulnerable age-verification platforms are to data breaches and cyberattacks. Only this week, the government confirmed that the medical details of 500,000 participants of Biobank, one of the UK’s landmark scientific programmes, were offered for sale in China after a massive data leak. This data included full body scans, medical records and even DNA sequences. The mass gathering of biometric and ID information by age-verification platforms would mean that similar breaches, now on a national scale, would become more common. One can only imagine the devastating impact of such a breach on national security and democracy itself. Rather than taking these risks seriously, it is all too likely that the government will present a national digital ID system as a ‘safer’ alternative. But any giant database full of sensitive ID information is simply a honeypot for hackers and hostile states. It really is remarkable, watching hundreds of parliamentarians talk about how dangerous it is when children put personal information about themselves online and then, in the same breath, create a system that asks everyone in Britain to do just that. Even if banning social media would benefit children – which an alliance of 42 children’s charities and bereaved parents strongly dispute – the truth is there is simply no privacy-friendly way in which it can be done. Comparisons are often made with the requirement to present an ID when buying items like kitchen knives. But in those cases, you flash your ID to the cashier, who checks your age and that’s the end of that. But social media is connected to a personal account, which means that ID information you submit risks being linked to your online activity. A more accurate analogy then, would be that the cashier checks your ID, follows you home, stands in your kitchen, and carefully logs every time you chop a carrot. By relying on age-verification technology, all proposals to restrict social media for children pose an acute threat to the freedom of expression upon which our democracy rests. A future government could easily age-gate online spaces based on what political content they host, requiring users to pay for their right to free speech along with their right to privacy. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/04/13/farmers-threaten-protests-unless-reeves-cuts-fuel-prices/ Farmers for Action, a campaign group, has warned ministers of protests unless the Chancellor cuts tax on red diesel. The threat comes after similar protests in Ireland crippled the country, forcing Dublin to send in the army. Farmers for Action were instrumental in organising protests against Ms Reeves’ family farm tax. The group wants the Chancellor to cut the price of red diesel, which farmers use to fuel their tractors. It has soared since war broke out in Iran and is currently as high as 135 pence per litre, up from 60 pence per litre before the war. Howard Cox, the founder of the campaign group FairFuelUK, told The Telegraph: “I am in discussions with farmers and others to hold fuel protests in London and other places as drivers and businesses are sick to death of being used as Labour’s cash cows. https://archive.ph/gsaRO npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Who the fuck, upon being entrusted with a Fabergé egg to take home from an exhibition, thinks “I’ll just stick it in my handbag while I have a cheeky pinot down the pub”? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj6098jngryo I would love to know how little money he got when he fenced it. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 It’s not there during the day! At a guess, it’s a big tractor, but why it’s there and stationary for several hours each evening is a mystery. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 This whatever it is has been parked in that field puffing smoke at about this time every evening this week, but not during the daytime. Starting to wonder if Howl is visiting on his holidays…. https://media.spinster.xyz/c115b94781626a2845991df99709b83438c84f8537e09ed8c18b0ad9ae2aafaf.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 No, my landline ones. At least they all change when I do one of them. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I was looking for, and failed to find, something else entirely, but may I present: me, aged around three, after a long day in the garden. https://media.spinster.xyz/01d63bca66a7459bff5a9a282e7e14335dda0e648327b81e974341a060e64909.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 The phones always catch me out, for some reason I expect something so techy to DIY it. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/jeremy-clarkson-iran-probably-should-have-made-me-supreme-leader-3xjz93bnh Part of the problem, I think, is that in the West, where religion is no longer a big deal, we cannot get our head round the idea you’d kill a neighbour because his God’s a bit different to yours. We used to do that sort of thing in the olden times but nowadays, it’s un-understandable. So trying to get your head round all the problems and divisions over there is like trying to get your head round what a lettuce thinks about Angela Rayner. It’s impossible. Do you know why so few Arab states support Palestine? Or why there’s such an issue with the Jews? Or why the Sunni and the Shia don’t get on? It’s got something to do with cleaning your shoes but after that, I’m hazy. All we do know is that people in the Middle East have been at each other’s throats since the 7th century. They’re like potassium and chlorine. And you’re not going to make those two bond by firing a Hellfire missile at them. https://archive.ph/e3UlY npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Roasted cherry tomatoes, not bell peppers, but otherwise spot on (definitely unoaked!), come on over! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://spectator.com/article/its-easy-to-blame-big-tech-for-the-results-of-parental-neglect/ If a child found Mr. Kipling cakes particularly addictive and began overindulging to the point of becoming overweight or unwell, would we be right to sue the baker? Or would it make more sense to ask whether the parent had enabled the behaviour by leaving the packets within easy reach, refusing to set limits or using them as a convenient babysitter? A Los Angeles jury has just delivered a landmark verdict against Meta and Google, finding both companies negligent for designing addictive platforms that harmed the mental health of a young user, known as Kaley. The £4.5 million awarded in damages, with Meta shouldering the lion’s share, has been hailed as social media’s ‘Big Tobacco moment’. Tech firms, it’s argued, acted recklessly in knowingly hooking children with infinite scrolls, auto-play and algorithmic dopamine hits, and so they are therefore fully responsible for the depression and anxiety that ensued. It is a seductive narrative. It’s also a comforting one, because it shifts responsibility away from the place it is most uncomfortable and most necessary to look at: the home. (Archive still down, sorry.) npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 The issue isn’t proving that you aren’t a bot, it’s uploading your ID to either Reddit or some random third party, security levels unknowable, and then having your posts linked to your ID if the police decide to take offence at something you post. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://spectator.com/article/the-case-for-cloning-the-queens-corgis/ Think of cloning the corgis as a trial balloon for something infinitely thrilling. After all, we have come to accept as a matter of course that the descent of the crown through the generations is accompanied by a slight but perceptible deterioration of the genetic stock. Her Majesty, to pick just a single example, had a splendid head of hair right to the end of her long life. The King is pretty bald. The Prince of Wales is even balder. Wouldn’t we all, in our secret hearts, and respect his Majesty though we do, prefer it had we been able to install an exact clone of the late Queen on the throne in his place? The technology wasn’t there at the time, and it isn’t there yet. But one day, it seems likely, it will be. Think how grateful Prince George and his descendants will be to be let off the prospect of doing that thankless job, while Queen Elizabeth III is followed by Queen Elizabeth IV and Queen Elizabeth V and so on. Extra money could be made, to relieve pressure on the public finances, by selling spare clones of Her Majesty to other countries in need of a monarch of proven quality. https://archive.ph/K5oKm npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://media.spinster.xyz/037bdce857d59f2655b85efb2c38a827bad5b084f12ce9dcbbacb05e07a0aa85.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/0c6ec3e9b4f4839226a9c3e518e829db663788b02ebfab7fd5d9da5b2fab8901.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Sewing help, please! I’ve got the sides of my mum’s bag done and assembled into a tube. I’ve got a length of piping cord, and a piece of fabric to form the base. I tried just eyeballing it and ended up with too much side to go around the last side of the base, so I’m going to have to be more systematic. Any ideas how I go about it? Am I just going to have to pin and adjust and pin and adjust? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I think this may have gone too far, America. https://www.tacticalpajamas.com/ npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/ Privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media. The records provide insight into the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on its end-to-end encryption and that it is only governed by Swiss privacy law, can and does provide to third parties. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://media.spinster.xyz/1f55f4b47a9e64acb5bca47d0807f4ef217fde0622326001e88fe9a81ab687f7.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://media.spinster.xyz/508ba05886a374606332b367205ca0ec07f3436bf11281ae71defaf426074935.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 It’s a newish variety, cross of two other greens. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Much less painful these days, thankfully. Took an hour and a half all in, maybe half an hour of actually doing stuff, and it’s now identical to my old one except (mutter) bigger. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Ok, that seems to be the new phone set up…. Dare say I’ll run across a few passwords needing putting in, but the big stuff’s done. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Mispoona: it’s an Asian green, bit like oak choi. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 No, never come across those. Interesting! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Nice! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://media.spinster.xyz/3342d73a31924ed3d2eca472ee1b335af8fac58bf5c497b24d7a3fc90aacb038.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 UK student loans were nothing to do with Thatcher. They came in with New Labour. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 No, it wasn’t. Don’t try to project US politics on the UK. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 University debt in the UK != in the US. Here, it’s more like a tax, with an interest rate that currently means that if you’re on c£40-70k then you pay a 9% effective rate that is less than the interest increase. https://archive.ph/6T8RX npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I never stopped using RSS, I’m slightly surprised that you did. I’m also surprised that you still use Thunderbird: it fell over under the weight of my email archive maybe six or seven years agi, but maybe the Linux versions are more robust than the Mac ones. One odd RSS thing: I noticed a big uptick in spam a few years ago, when podcasts got popular. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Lasted maybe a week, now we’re back to fog. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Yup. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/03/09/labour-islamophobia-muslim-definition-labour-jonathan-hall/ A new official definition of Islamophobia will fail to stop anti-Muslim attacks, the Government’s counter-terrorism adviser has claimed. Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said a similar definition for anti-Semitism had failed to prevent a rise in attacks on Jews and he was sceptical a similar new definition for anti-Muslim hatred would be any different. He also warned that Sir Keir Starmer’s proposed definition, to be unveiled on Monday, could “inhibit” people from speaking freely about and criticising Islam or issues affecting Muslims. “The worry will be with loose language, people will feel inhibited about talking about things that they do think which are genuinely important today,” Mr Hall told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. https://archive.ph/FdU3N npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 More likely a shortage of suppliers, I would think. BJ basically works by finding whatever’s cheapest in your area and setting up bulk purchases from them. If you only have one supplier, I guess they have no leverage to make a margin. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://media.spinster.xyz/5d0561634db0b206640607d7c0721abf297b69eb6f37405146e57ce7ba19d22d.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Oh, my grammar is shit, sorry! I did Cambridge, it doesn’t really emphasise grammar in the early years. I feel like the latter formulation is more motto-ish. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Does BoilerJuice cover you? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I did it at school… not used it since I did the Latin module in my General Studies A-level. Well, when I went to Italy I got by ok by smooshing together French and Latin….