The Battlehamster

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

Including some users passports & DLs

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

Come on, Wes.

This entire thread is an excellent set of safety practices

Nobel Prize Laureate Roger Penrose, Yvette Fuentes, and myself, request your help in order to save an archive of incredible scientific and historical value. Please raise awareness by *sharing*, or *contribute*:

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-penr...

Guess thoughts and prayers does work.

Bagpuss film 'will be faithful to original', Birmingham producer says The Birmingham-based company Threewise Entertainment is bringing Bagpuss to cinemas in 2027.

Bagpuss film 'will be faithful to original', Birmingham producer says

🚨 REMINDER: The Government will test the Emergency Alert System next Sunday at 3PM

Who won?

We have cats! #Caturday

THEFT OF FOOD The main domestic animal likely to steal food from a neighbour's house is the cat. In relation to such offences, the law-text Bretha Étgid lays down the general principle that 'the kitchen is an immunity for cats' (blaí catt cuile). The accompanying commentary explains that the owner of the cat is not liable if food has been carelessly left in the kitchen without proper supervision. From Early Irish Farming by Fergus Kelly.

According to the Old Irish law codes, a cat was legally allowed to steal any food left unsupervised in the kitchen.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Mike explains the rights grant clause and why it is always Like That (full of big scary words)

It’s outrageous that the majority of our lawmakers are unelected. Sign now to demand power be placed rightfully in the hands of the people It takes 30 seconds

Enough is enough. The House of Lords is a rolling scandal - sign @electoralreform.bsky.social‬'s call to demand change. It takes 30 seconds. action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3342/pe...

In command prompt type:

hostname|clip

to put machine name in clipboard

This is the core of it. In the 20th century, verification happened inside institutions.
Now, it has to happen in us.
A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵

I see that I'm in for another week of explaining that end-to-end encryption will not fix stupid.

Having mastered toilet paper supply chain logistics, bridge design, balloon dynamics, submarine engineering, Russian history, and forensic ballistics, I would like to explain my theory about the source of the dimethyl sulfide emanating from K2-18b...(1/23)

Trans men are men
Trans women are women
Trans rights are human rights

Since our Equality Act apparently isn't clear enough about that it's time to demand a better one.

NHS gives shingles vaccine to everyone at 65.

Two photos. The left shows me, in a red shirt with a white blouse under it, a daisy flower crown in my hair, a navy blue knee length skirt, and brown flat, holding a tray and drinking from a champagne flute. The right painting is a woman in a red shirt with white cuffs, a dark green ankle length skirt, a maid cap, brown shoes, holding a tray and drinking from a champagne flute.

Today is the 5 year anniversary to when I slowly started losing my mind during the pandemic and began dressing up as works of art.

As my Twitter account has long been abandoned, why not make a thread of my madness on BlueSky?

This was “The Maid” by Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg, from 1862

YouTube video by Swimace Pancake Day - Maid Marian

🎵It’s pancake day
Yes it’s pancake day
Yes it’s p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-pancake day🎵

Happy Tony Robinson Day, to all who celebrate!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj_a...

EXCLUSIVE: Hackers leak cop manuals for departments nationwide after breaching major provider Critics accuse the company of wielding outsized private influence on public policing.

NEW: A group known as the 'puppygirl hacker polycule' has leaked thousands of police training & policy manuals from departments across the country www.dailydot.com/debug/lexipo...

Brainwide silencing of prion protein by AAV-mediated delivery of an engineered compact epigenetic editor Prion disease is caused by misfolding of the prion protein (PrP) into pathogenic self-propagating conformations, leading to rapid-onset dementia and death. However, elimination of endogenous PrP halts...

Scientists have created an actual treatment for prions, the cause of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans, chronic wasting disease in deer, & mad cow disease.

"Brainwide silencing of prion protein by AAV-mediated delivery of an engineered compact epigenetic editor". #ShareGoodNewsToo

Petition: Tighten the rules on political donations We want the government to: Remove loopholes that allow wealthy foreign individuals to make donations into UK political parties (e.g. by funnelling through UK registered companies). Cap all donations ...

Petition: Tighten the rules on UK political donations

Let's tell Dilbert Stark to jog on. Or goosestep on, as the case may be.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Good luck!

The water-gulpinge glorifiede autocorrect beinge solde as the next big thinge ys no more "Artificial Intelligence" than a mailer daemon ys an imp wyth a forked tale or a websyte cookie a delicious baked goode.

I like the directness of the layout. Nothing to distract you from the awful pun.

Glad you're feeling mostly better. Antibiotics are truly magic!