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I have an app to control my heating and it tells me each day why the heating came on as much as it did, using cute emoticons. Except there's only two options:
☁️ means the weather effected the need for heat
🧑‍🦲 means "YOU'RE THE PROBLEM you weak southern softy, you can't take a bit of cold".

Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy

The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.

The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.

Victorian artist Georgiana Houghton

Victorian artist Georgiana Houghton

Victorian artist Georgiana Houghton

Victorian artist Georgiana Houghton

Victorian artist Georgiana Houghton pioneered spirit-guided abstract art, producing visionary, colorful drawings claimed to be influenced by spirits.

I use the OnlyPosts feed pretty much exclusively - it doesn't show any non-quote retweets, so I only see things people genuinely care enough about to write. Due to the vagaries of humans, this basically cuts 90% of ragebait/emotive posting.

Tap the three little dots on the bottom right of any post and then tape 'mute words and tags' and you cna add muted words or tags right away, and it shows you a list of your muted words and tags. I use it a lot!

Oh boo, we have them in the EU for $50!

How about a cooler, one of the ones that runs both on your car socket and can run on mains, I think they can be reasonably priced.

Aren't micro fridges just junk?

I wonder if, before we put a per mile charge on electric vehicles, we could tax jet fuel? Like, at all? Maybe do a tax on private jets?

I love seeing your working marks.

I do mine in the slow cooker for 6 hours and they are absolutely lush. The inside becomes all sort of creamy and almost sweet. Maybe in the old days the 80s mother trying to do everything was just glad to not have to think about dinner much.

Trying to pace myself with the new Thursday Murder Club book. The writing and tone of voice for the characters is just so joyful and warm and full of hope even when life is hard, and I think the author has such a succinct way of expressing things, I don't want it to end too fast.

I am trying to be hopeful but I suspect the upcoming budget will be tax rises on working people via income and VAT and nothing particularly useful directed at millionaires/billionaires.

What a beautiful boy x

Condensation can trigger them. So you don't need huge temperature changes, just enough to drop water out of the air onto cooler surfaces, like plastic.

Lots of 'ketamine for depression' trials atm. Ketamine is a dissociative drug. A break from the intensity of life can help people, but only if you return renewed to deal with it, are supported, and your environment improved. Otherwise we really are just anaesthetising the pain.

Just Stop Oil activists cleared over Stonehenge protest The trio are cleared of all charges after citing human rights law in their defence.

"There are times when protecting the right to freedom of speech and freedom to protest can mean that activity that would otherwise be unlawful would be regarded as lawful by the court to protect those rights," - Judge Paul Dugdale

Aw thanks! Depends on location and health and bits of my life not being very stressful!

Next year I hope life is quiet enough, and I have enough energy, to run a pumpkin carving party the weekend before Halloween. I think it would be super cozy to hang out and carve pumpkins and eat thematic nibbles and maybe drink lunch out of a cauldron or something.

Yes! Mine has space to dance in. Felt very important.

One of my absolute favourite Tom Cardy songs. Perfect for apooky season! What a banger!

I stayed in the most amazing 16th century mansion/hall this weekend gone. Original wooden spiral staircases, original ceiling plasters, horse-hair plaster infill in the wooden walls. Almost no modern rooms or features. And you can just hire it!

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First experience of AI at a larp this weekend, used as a kind of interactive history library for the world. Less cute when it made up a load of stuff that the event organizer hadn't written and wasted two or more hours of our event by leading us down a dead end. Would not recommend.

Interesting, I shall put it on reserve with the library then, thank you!

Looks like Plaid is your party in Wales, folks.

Thank you Caerphilly for coming our against Reform.

I love these kitties!

Probably different in the UK, but I like to structure holidays/trip around seeing fabric shops. I always buy something, even a little thing, at each one, as well as talking to the owner and learning about them, their services, advice etc, because otherwise how will they survive?

I wish some of my elder not-relatives with Indefinite Leave to Rain realised they could be voting for their own deportation if they continue to vote Conservative.

Nope, dont like it. But I think I know what I want to do instead.
#quilting