Matthew Exon

Due to losing my immunisation book twice, I just received my third lifetime vaccination against yellow fever. Mosquitoes now refer to me only as "the unnamed one" and stockpile toilet paper when they hear I'm approaching an airport.

Satellite image of Oeno Island, a thin ring of coral atoll surrounding a pale blue lagoon, with a small scrubby island in the middle.

#chagos #imperialism #geography (5/5)

Therefore, it will not be until the equinox, March 20 2025, at 18:53 local time, or March 21 02:53 UTC, on Oeno Island, that the sun will finally indisputably set on the British Empire, for the first time in centuries.
Now is the time to start planning your party. (4/5)

View from the harbour of Stralsund back towards the harbour front. Several of Stralsund's famous brick gothic buildings are visible, and in the middle the huge white modern Ozeaneum. On the right is the Gorch Fock I, a three-mast barque from the 1930s.

Stralsund

ICE recruitment poster, screenshotted from DHS's Twitter account October 21 this year. Top down view of armour-clad knights sorta milling around in the mist for some reason. Most of them have swords, including two wielding a huge two-handed sword in each hand. Text in the poster reads, "the enemies are at the gates", and DHS have added "defend your hearth and home".

Are you tactical? Is everything you own tactical? Join ICE! We tactical all over everything! Like, check this shit out. Bootcamp day 3: How to dual-wield claymores when arresting single working mothers. It just don't get more tactical bro!

Screenshot of Signal conversation. Text reads: remote, "By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know". Local: "I'm sorry, but that's not how this works. You don't get to say that in retrospect." Remote: "Yes I do. Off record." Local: "I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?" Below the screenshot, the character Bernard Wooley standing outside the door of number 10 Downing Street dumbstruck, from Yes Prime Minister Season 2 Episode 2 "Official Secrets".

Wow, this really happens.

I just learned that there is such a thing as a "squircle", and it may well be the most offensive piece of geometry I have ever encountered. This should not be.
social.beeps.gay/@beeps/115408…

The other government accounts are labeled as NSFW, but we decided to ban @whitehouse-47.bsky.social and @homelandgov.bsky.social because keeping them around is not worth the mental health of our users. Also take this post as an opportunity to drink water and stay healthy!
- @noahebalo[...]

The cameras are extraordinarily effective. They made over 500 arrests in just one year! Can you imagine how long it would take to make 500 arrests without such technology? bbc.com/news/articles/ceq2e9x1…

This will be a guerilla sign by a protester, London has quite a culture of putting up professional-looking signs like this. The graffiti is either someone who thought it was too subtle, or missed the joke entirely. The facial recognition cameras are very real: theregister.com/2025/09/30/bri…

The things we do for love ♥️

Don't just leave. Flounce. Out. Let them know you mean it. And just when you're out the door, turn back, and say "Humph!"

When people realise that's their pension funds, they're gonna be angry.
weird.autos/@rootwyrm/11536153… (2/2)

View of the Natural History Museum, under a bright blue sky

London

Today I got a genuine message from a friend of the family. The sender had checked the box.
Sigh. Back to the drawing board. (2/2)

I was wondering how exactly you pronounce "Stafford Beer", and found this first rate video. He does his anecdote at the start too. This is who the good timeline has instead of RMS.
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This morning I collected my first ever Ausweis and I'm overjoyed ♥️ Then in the afternoon I signed the petition against them in the UK 💩

Photo of a German and UK passport. The top of both has the name of the European Union. The German one is brand-new, the UK one is showing signs of wear.

Yeah? Yeah? Well I'm TWICE as European as you! That's right asshole, they're both valid.

Formed in 2020 during lockdown, apparently. That video was enough for me to buy their album, and I'm really enjoying it.

View over the Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park, Berlin. In the foreground a bronze plaque reads "the homeland will not forget its heroes" in Russian and German. In the background is the monumental statue of "The Liberator".

Local Antifa

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube. (2/2)

Screenshot of Thunderbird showing a mail folder called "Friendica". The message list shows a mixture of news articles, blog entries, and Fediverse social media posts. One social media thread is collapsed. Selected is an article from Jamie Zawinsky reflecting on the 30 year anniversay of Netscape 2.0. He comments that some people felt that usenet integration was an abomination. Other tabs show Thunderbird's chat feature, in a group called Furi Labs, a calendar, and tasks.

Keeping the abomination alive 2025 #thunderbird #netscape

Some days it feels like I'll never find a murderer who accurately reflects my political preferences.

Tomorrow I'm meeting some Germans so I can be "emburgered". Not sure exactly what that involves, but they sound really excited about it!

Membership card of the union Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft, name Matthew Exon, member since August 2025, membership number is blacked out.

I joined a union. That's how well it's going.

I spoke with a well-known promoter recently who said the government were cracking down on LGBT communities in an effort to combat the declining birth rate… Queerness is now a matter of national security.« (2/2)

Black error screen. One anime girl lies facing away while an anime ghost with a golden halo over its head rises above her. A second anime girl kneels in despair, her mouth open in shock and her eyes giant blank white emptiness. The error status is 92002, and a message promises that someone is working on it.

The bilibili error page is surprisingly hardcore.

EU only just pretended to promise to give America 600 million imaginary dollars to avoid tariffs, now we're told the tariffs can't happen anyway? We should demand Trump pretend to promise to give us our imaginary dollars back!

Screenshot of a small Firefox window showing the Wikipedia page for Anarchy. It has been loaded from a local network address and port 8080.

What? This is madness. Madness, I tell you! It's bad enough that people can carry forbidden knowledge with them out in the streets. Now they can share it with an entire plane-load of helpless victims at once without any Internet connection at all! #kiwix
mastodon.social/@kiwix/1151049…

Flyer for event: ".TAG the last event of my crowd". At the top are the dates of the club: 2014.3.20 to 2025.8.31. At the bottom are the dates of the event, Saturday August 30 and Sunday August 31, along with a list of DJs and other artists. There are two images of astronomical events, one showing clouds of dust from a planet being drawn into a star, the other showing a trail of debris from a star disappearing into a black hole.

I can't imagine how mortifying it would be to make the staff look up my name. (2/2)