Felix Yates

YouTube video by Femi Was Rylan Wrong about Asylum Hotels? - BBC Debate

Rylan Clark is just another racist grifter suckling on the Reform teat.

Refugee hotels like the Bell in Epping are just a symptom of our failure to process asylum claims quickly.

The UK has MUCH BIGGER PROBLEMS!

I wonder how many other human rights former human rights lawyer Keir Starmer is excited about demolishing

Absolutely disgusting to see regulators forcing universities to tolerate hate. They tip their hand with the level of the fine. This is clearly animosity towards a minority at work.

Israel has killed more journalists in Gaza than in both world wars, Vietnam, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan combined, says Costs of War project aje.io/te831k

just for the record, I have a zero-tolerance policy towards transphobia and if I see it in my mentions it's an instant block.

Of course, but my family don't want to switch from it. If I don't use it, I cannot communicate with them. I can easily give up the other apps.

Now ditched all but WhatsApp. I hate how it's so widely used.

I started dualbooting Ubuntu alongside Windows, and after I thought I wouldn't use it, I now only touch Windows for gaming (Fortnite)

In other news, the Big Bad Wolf has demanded that the Little Pigs install a backdoor that he has the keys to, to keep them safe.

YouTube video by Novara Media Police Committing Cybercrimes At Alarming Rates

This is crazy. Especially as the government have drastically expanded police powers, and are seemingly making it their top priority to weaken encryption.

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Just make sure you do so with an adblocker (even better one that blocks trackers too, like uBlock Origin) so it limits the amount of data they can collect about you and sell!

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

I only started using Bookshop.org recently but it's the only thing I'll use from now on, especially for Christmas and birthdays! Will be recommending it to everyone.

Guardian headline: Treat weapons investments as ‘ethical’ to help arm Ukraine and UK, MPs urge Below: More than 100 Labour MPs and peers sign open letter saying ESG policies are holding back defence spending

It’s unbelievable this even needs saying: Investing in weapons is NEVER ethical.

Profiting from violence only fuels destruction, not peace.

Politicians and the media should be prioritising diplomacy, not more death.

Nice, I was manually adding them to a moderation list as they followed me but I knew there had to be a better way!

Hot take: I really don't want ultra-crisp, long-form videos on Bluesky. I want mostly text and links to articles and other media, and at a push, a short video. If I wanted to watch a long video, in high quality, I'd watch it on YouTube. Nothing that an embed couldn't do.

Suddenly my interest in learning JavaScript has plummeted off a cliff

It turns out the real cautionary tale of Jurassic Park was “don’t put tech bros in charge of efficiency”

YouTube video by Lawful Masses with Leonard French Maybe Don't Take the Fork in the Road (DOGE v. OPM)

I watched an interesting video about it today - definitely worth a watch. The key takeaway is *don't do it*.

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We are truly living in the worst timeline

Can't wait to start buying my eBooks there - a true competitor to Amazon has been long overdue.

Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon "Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do!

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This just shows how manufactured the outrage, hatred, and transphobia is - if the world today is more hateful than it was in the 1950s, that's the sign of a deeply unhealthy, regressive society

I can't recommend Nextcloud highly enough! Took me a while to get set up, and I'm only using it for home use, but it truly is excellent.

front page of NYT today

A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times

@peterbakernyt.bsky.social

Nazis are bad. I think we should make that clear.

@skyview.social unroll please!

“Stonehenge!” This programme. #TheTraitors