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With immediate effect, I am no longer using or monitoring Twitter. You can find me on Mastodon at @simon" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.star-one.org.uk/@simon or on Facebook (if you know me in Real Life) at facebook.com/simonjgray

@TheGoldenRatio4 @shreyas @Pentosh1 @garyblack00 @pulte @UpdateHLD @MakeupForWOC Ah, so indeed it’s still poor user data security on the part of Twitter looking after your data

@simonjgray @shreyas @Pentosh1 @garyblack00 @pulte @UpdateHLD @MakeupForWOC we'd really rather not be on that list. it's weird and no one other than our dedicated followers is interested in super following us. However, we weren't given a say in it and seem to have no power over it being there

@TheGoldenRatio4 @shreyas @Pentosh1 @garyblack00 @pulte @UpdateHLD @MakeupForWOC I mean if you’re good with that; just looks like leaky user data to me rather than an actual deliberate choice on the part of the App Store deployment

@simonjgray @shreyas @Pentosh1 @garyblack00 @pulte @UpdateHLD @MakeupForWOC I believe it's because we're one of the top accounts for super followers

[Reposted for anybody who missed it on Friday] With immediate effect, I am no longer using or monitoring Twitter. You can find me on Mastodon at @simon" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.star-one.org.uk/@simon or on Facebook (if you know me in Real Life) at facebook.com/simonjgray

CCHQ: Question Time's Silence On Scotch Eggs Is Now Deafening #QuestionTime

I’ve wanted to go to Highclere Castle since I was a child; I think it’s now possible to visit without feeling the need to stage whisper ‘I’m here for the Egyptology, not the Downton Abbey’ all the time bbc.co.uk/newsround/6349…

@misterunderwood @priddy I suspect Richard may be the friend of mine and @VermisstPfarrer ‘s friend Alison, who taught both of us quite a lot of what we know about mediæval and renaissance music.

Death metal is very much not my genre. (Pseudo-) Irish folk is very much not my genre. I won’t say Dutch death-metal-pseudo-Irish-folk fusion *is* my genre, but add a hurdy-gurdy to it and it at least becomes an effective and intriguing ear cleaner. music.amazon.co.uk/artists/B001E3…

@misterunderwood @priddy Nope, just found it now!

@misterunderwood @priddy I suspect even a symphony would weigh in quite expensive these days, but they of course, having no chien, are Not The Same

@priddy I’ve always wanted to go to one of the Breton folk festivals in Brittany with my bombarde, but what with one thing and another never got around to it. The nearest I’ve got is a weekend event at Burnley Mechanics about 25 years ago I went to with my parents.

@priddy It’d be rude for there not to be. (The ensemble in question I’ve discovered because a German hurdy-gurdy player I follow on Facebook has just joined them)

@priddy 😀

@DC_Breslin @RachelTobac @OSINTtechniques You’ve kind of missed the point of what she’s saying there. She’s not saying paying for things online is dangerous, she’s saying making it so all a Bad Guy needs to gain access to accounts is pay $8 to look like a legit customer support channel is dangerous.

No identity verification, & 8 bucks for a verified account? Get ready for the new cyber criminal playbook: use stolen credit card to buy verified Twitter account, impersonate real customer support channels, trick users into handing over account details in DM, account takeover.

@iskandarv Our usual annual average for import is about 3% — but what I don’t know is whether it always goes up much higher overnight in autumn

24% imported electricity feels rather high (though not in the cheese sense), even at 3am when the sun isn’t shining.

@iskandarv And “The airline owner says he is still physically capable of ‘picking up ladies’ but ‘times have moved on’”

So, the next time someone thinks they're being smart by telling you they "should have stayed in France"... here's the @JCWI_UK 5-step guide to responding, which doesn't involve pointing out how deeply they are lacking in either humanity or imagination...

@apmbsd They were never my genre but I do remember once at 2am a concert film coming on telly and the group of us suddenly stopping chatting to pay attention because of the kicking backing band and it gradually dawning on us it was Bros

Finally getting round to seeing that Bros movie from Billy Eichner that y’all were hating on recently. I was a big fan of the band back in the day so it’ll be interesting to see how that translates to the big screen…

Eastwood (Nottinghamshire) Council By-Election Result: IND: 43.1% (New) LAB: 41.7% (-0.1) CON: 15.2% (-31.2) No LDM (-7.9) or GRN (-5.0) as previous. Independent GAIN from Conservative. Changes w/ 2021.