Matthias Haan

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Discord was going to use age verification that literally pipes your information straight to the fascist US government, until hackers exposed it.

“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

www.therage.co/persona-age-...

Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.

Universal nasal vaccine works on fundamental new principles, as it activates broad innate immunity.

Reduced viral load x100-1000 in mice & works on C0vid, flu, colds, rsv & dust mite allergins.

Could be viable in 5-7yrs with funding.

Could be a game changer...

I don't know what game this is, but importing the Space Marine 2 character models into it was genius.

A photo of a bunch of NASA research documents, with titles like "STRUCTURAL MARGINS OBSERVED IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO EXCEEDANCE", "PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF UNEXPECTED WOBBLE IN A RIGIDLY NON-WOBBLING SYSTEM", "OBSERVED PERFORMANCE OF COMPONENTS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN INSTALLED BACKWARDS", "COGNITIVE LOAD IMPLICATIONS OF ACRONYMS REFERRING TO OTHER ACRONYMS", "THRMAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MATERIALS DESCRIBED AS 'PROBABLY INFLAMMABLE'", "ON THE REPEATED SURVIVAL OF SYSTEMS NEVER INTENDED TO WORK", "THE EFFECT OF CLIPBOARD ON PERCEIVED AUTHORITY IN TEST ENVIRONMENTS", "MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SUBSTANCES EXPOSED TO REPEATED MEETINGS", "ANOMALOUS RESULTS WHICH PERSIST DESPITE STRONG MANAGEMENT DISAPPROVAL", and "A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE MOON'S APPARENT DISINTEREST IN OUR ACTIVITIES"

Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip

(with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse)

This rules!

Smartphone Photographer (@AverageS@pixelfed.social) Cloud inversions are pure magic. ☁️ The view from Raven's Rock in Wicklow at the end of 2024 was absolutely surreal. The world below was hidden, leaving just this little island of trees floating in a...

Turn 1 of Civ be like:

Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

I just thought everyone should see this

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

never has the discrepancy between the number of dicks i believe i am looking at and the number of dicks i am truly looking at been more in evidence

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current news has me thinking about the Lake House Alan Wake 2 DLC where a bunch of out-of-touch scientists can't figure out why a bad writer like Alan Wake can evoke emotion from people but their gigantic room filled with automatic typewriters only creates slop that kills you

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

Message from Ms Rachel on Threads: “If killing thousands of children can be defended, but calling to stop the killing cannot, something is profoundly wrong.”

Ms. Rachel is an absolute hero. She’s gotten so much abuse for her extremely compassionate, humane - and in my opinion, common sense - views on children being hurt and killed in Gaza. But she’s not letting that silence her. Bless you Ms. R. 

@msrachelforlittles.bsky.social

I don't like that I feel punished for exploring avenues that are interesting (mythology, history, characters, etc.) that I can already tell won't advance the investigation. I'm not a multiple playthrough guy, which would completely fix that issue! Just explore as I want and optimise in the next run!

you will not in a million years guess what this thread is about

Biblisch akkurater Legolas, was sehen deine elf Augen?

and if you don't know now you can now lizengland.com/blog/the-doo...

So in Arc Raiders there is a door glitch. You don't need to know what it is, just that the gamers are brainstorming all the "easy" ways to "fix" the doors and it's simultaneously hilarious and horrifying. My two favorite solutions are "add a kill volume" and "put a second door behind the door".

FYI: turning off "Smart features" also turns off spell check and the promotions and social tabs. And more.

In effect, a lot of traditional tools in gmail are switched off if you don't let them upload your contracts, love notes, and sad messages to your friends into their plagiarism machine.

always remember: Terry Pratchett said trans rights

this book was written in 1996 by a 48 year old British man and no cis person in 2025 has a single goddamn excuse to behave differently

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay, for Trans Day of Remembrance

Microsoft warns Windows 11 agentic OS may face Xpia malware risks Microsoft is pushing ahead with its plan to add agentic capabilities to Windows 11, but issued a security warning for anyone who is interested in trying it out.

Running an un-notarized binary from itch.io: no. bad. stop

Letting an idiot slop machine drive your browser and expose it to basically any malicious actor on the internet: yes. do it. core system feature.

www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...

Black Mesa coffee company

what

A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.' The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross. The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'

#3157 A helpful tutorial

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Printers and computers treat each other like they broke up the night before and you’re they’re mutual friend

Israel parliament passes first reading of death penalty for ‘terrorism’ law Critics say the bill would apply only to Palestinians who kill Jews, not the other way around.

Bonus apartheid crime: Israel is instating the death penalty for Palestinians (outside of the daily scheduled murder and genocide) while ensuring the text can practically not apply to Israelis.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show.

Your hourly portion of Israeli war crimes.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons & Dragons to Be Racist The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”

A fantastic read about fantasy (especially Tolkien and D&D) and the far right
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...