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Guess we’re done with PCR tests?

Surely the fired Fox News anchor can get a job with that other one, ONAN or whatever.

Government secures a five year contract to access A THING THAT SHOULD BE PUBLICLY OWNED. gov.uk/government/new…

@tomcoates Before the image popped in, I imagined this as one of those vending machines where the items get pushed and drop down to the bottom.

This would be awesome. They should have these outside Heath Ceramics.

Is it acceptable to think of art, in cultural terms, indistinguishably from those that invest the most money in it?

While the debate is focused on “encryption”, I think it’s worth remembering that one stated use for chat monitoring is “grooming”. Since that’s highly-contextual, this implies that providers will need to store the plaintext of all messages beyond the ability of users to delete.

@AlecMuffett @VICE @stacyliberatore It’s obvious who it is, but the “person in mask” was a deliberate presentational style for Vice’s “Informer” series of videos.

This is beyond parody: not only am I confident that I know this beard personally, but the @DailyMail has literally written up a 2021 @VICE YouTube video as if it were breaking news. Shame on @stacyliberatore dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…

@AlecMuffett But originally from a German family, so probably appropriate.

. @Tesco: "Celebrate the coronation with American beer." Should I tell them, maybe?

There’s no point reading the article, just leave it at the headline. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

@DrLloydWood thanks… for that?

Netflix, or whoever, should have videos of sleeping cats. Sometimes a sleeping cat is all I want to watch.

why did I make this

Weird how Session, Signal, Element, Threema, Viber and Wire are magically transformed into "technology giants" in BBC news piece when they are signatories of letter also signed by WhatsApp, and three block quotes from government before getting to the issue bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…

Excited to find out if this logic extends to suspected wage theft.

I see that the same government that wants you to log into every site for age/identity verification, also thinks cookie pop-ups are a problem. gov.uk/government/new…

@simonth snopes.com/fact-check/sco…

@simonth Citation needed, but not given. en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti…

WHAT?!?? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Do…

In Ted Lasso, Rebecca’s phone has an Apple Pay icon in the iMessage app - but I don’t think this feature is available in the UK.