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Bruce Lawson

@brucel.bsky.social

Web standards a11y lovegod who leverages synergies at Vivaldi browser. Musician. He/ him. Conversation on mastodon, at @brucelawson@vivaldi.net. Bluesky is broadcast-only, as I've been disappointed by non-Fediverse platforms before. Personal views. RT≠+1.

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Jmail, logged in as jeevacation@gmail.com You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.

Epstein's emails released by Congress, viewable in a gmail-like interface jmail.world

23.11.2025 14:54 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.

Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives edition.cnn.com/2025/11/19/t...

22.11.2025 11:19 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Reform FC football shirts Reform FC. Football shirts for Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Charlie Kirk and more!

I see Reform have added Nathan Gill to their "football club" merch reformfc.uk

22.11.2025 11:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bruce Lawson's personal site » Reading List 350

Well, spank me with a croissant while you sing Jacques Brel songs, it's only my post-Brussels trip Reading List 350! Wow sophisticated people at glamorous parties with your up-to-date knowledge of web standards, browsers and regulatory matters! brucelawson.co.uk/2025/reading...

21.11.2025 15:31 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes The judge tells Nathan Gill his actions were a

Well, what a surprise that a leader of Reform UK should be sent to prison for selling out his country to line his own pockets. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...

21.11.2025 13:06 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is blummin' good stuff, Luke!

21.11.2025 11:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Me looking intimidated in front of a large office building. Behind me is Ana Lu, a sinister Brussels lawyer.

Me looking intimidated in front of a large office building. Behind me is Ana Lu, a sinister Brussels lawyer.

A couple of meetings with members of the Cabinet in another vast Brussels Euro Building, then train to London, train home by 11pm and slept for 10 hours.

21.11.2025 09:56 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations

I'm not at all shocked to learn that Farage was a racist at school. www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

19.11.2025 09:24 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Today I learned that the motto of the Belgian navy is "A l'eau, C'est l'heure".

19.11.2025 08:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
Me in front of a very tall office building

Me in front of a very tall office building

A busy meeting at the European Commission about Big Tech's vexatious naughtiness.

18.11.2025 18:30 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I'm awake early in Brussels for a weird ritual that posh people call a "breakfast meeting" before I go to meet some chums from @browserchoicealliance.org . The air is thick with the smell of "frogs legs avec croissants", while Can-Can dancers do high-kicks to the sinister sounds of accordian music.

18.11.2025 07:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm off to sunny Brussels for 3 days of meetings with EU, EC and some lawyers. At this time, I can neither confirm nor deny that this is related to rumours of Tim Cook's retirement or my being asked by the shareholders to steer Apple in a new direction. www.theverge.com/news/821691/...

17.11.2025 10:04 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my j...

I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...

16.11.2025 10:09 — 👍 26    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 2
A woman wearing an emoji poo hat

A woman wearing an emoji poo hat

Dr Tom Goodman, looking regal in my sequinned peaked hat, a smoking jacket and raising a glass of champagne

Dr Tom Goodman, looking regal in my sequinned peaked hat, a smoking jacket and raising a glass of champagne

A beautiful South Asian woman wearing my sequinned peaked hat

A beautiful South Asian woman wearing my sequinned peaked hat

A man wearing a sequinned AWS t-shirt, grinning and pointing to my sequinned peaked hat

A man wearing a sequinned AWS t-shirt, grinning and pointing to my sequinned peaked hat

It was a delight to MC the grassroots community TechMids conference yesterday. Lots of glamorous people tried on my MC Hats.

15.11.2025 12:01 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"The Chauffeur" hits the nail on the head

15.11.2025 11:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If it's a Manifest v2 extension, no; they're deprecated. But you can turn on ad or tracker blocking that's built in.

14.11.2025 07:33 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next www.authoritarian-stack.info "Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore. It’s building empires."

13.11.2025 11:06 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
Vivaldi Browser (7.7) desktop app interface showing the Windows and Tabs panel open on the left side of the browser window. The 'Synced Tabs' section displays windows and tabs from synced devices with their structure intact.

Vivaldi Browser (7.7) desktop app interface showing the Windows and Tabs panel open on the left side of the browser window. The 'Synced Tabs' section displays windows and tabs from synced devices with their structure intact.

Vivaldi 7.7 has arrived! 🤝

✅ All your tabs, structured, anywhere you need them
✅ Unified Start Page layout
✅ Brand new performance controls
✅ Privacy Dashboard redesigned
✅ Refined Mail panel

13.11.2025 08:08 — 👍 68    🔁 17    💬 6    📌 5
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Tim Berners-Lee On Apple’s Browser Engine Ban and Web Apps - Open Web Advocacy

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and HTML, has expressed support for compelling Apple to allow other browser engines on iOS. He also states that having a powerful browser on iOS would "change the dynamic" with respect to web app's viability on mobile.
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13.11.2025 07:37 — 👍 48    🔁 19    💬 3    📌 2
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Vivaldi 7.7: less friction, more control | Vivaldi Browser This release brings together features that have been carefully refined based on what you’ve told us matters most: seamless access to your tabs across desktops, a unified Start Page that finally…

Vivaldi Desktop 7.7 is out today, for anyone who prefers a browser without planet-burning plagiarism-fulled Generative "A.I." inserting itself between them and the Web. vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi...

13.11.2025 08:54 — 👍 57    🔁 13    💬 3    📌 1

.. because of the Apple WebKit monopoly.

12.11.2025 18:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Bruce Lawson's personal site » Tim Berners-Lee on Apple’s WebKit monopoly

Tim Berners-Lee on Apple’s WebKit monopoly

brucelawson.co.uk/2025/tim-ber...

12.11.2025 14:59 — 👍 14    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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Bruce Lawson's personal site » Tim Berners-Lee on Apple’s WebKit monopoly

Tim Berners-Lee on Apple’s WebKit monopoly

brucelawson.co.uk/2025/tim-ber...

12.11.2025 14:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Vivaldi 7.7 RC 3 – Vivaldi Desktop Browser snapshot 3851.44/46 Today’s snapshot is the third release candidate for 7.7 for desktop and notebooks. (P.S. The cool kids enable crash reporting! ⚰️)…

Another of my photos has been used for a Vivaldi snapshot blogpost - this one of Mr Jeb rearranging his stone stacks on a beach on Samed Island, Thailand, after a particularly high tide vivaldi.com/blog/desktop...

12.11.2025 12:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles The GDPR is Europe’s defence against digital oligarchy and child harm. Deregulation plans are misguided, say Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles

The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "Enforcing Europe’s data rules would not only protect our democracies and children from nasty algorithms, it would also disrupt big tech’s cascading monopolies"

12.11.2025 11:01 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs A lively discussion about open source, security, and who pays the bills has erupted on Twitter.

FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-go...
A lively discussion about open source, security, and who pays the bills has erupted on Twitter.

12.11.2025 09:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Declares: ‘Nobody Knows What Magnets Are’ President Donald Trump went on yet another rant about magnets, this time telling reporters that "nobody knows" what they are.

"Fucking magnets, how do they work?" asks Insane Clown grab-'em-by-the-Posse
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

11.11.2025 13:42 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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“A.I.” browsers: the price of admission is too high | Vivaldi Browser It’s a cliché that “data is the new oil” that will power the next industrial revolution. Where does the data that powers Artificial Intelligence come from? And if data is the fuel for AI…

“A.I.” browsers: the price of admission is too high vivaldi.com/blog/a-i-bro...
It’s a cliché that “data is the new oil” that will power the next industrial revolution. Where does the data that powers Artificial Intelligence come from? And if data is the fuel for AI, what is the product?

10.11.2025 14:46 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Special Musk 'blue plaque' put up at Tesla's flagship London dealership after $1tn pay deal Activists decided to put up a special 'blue plaque' for Elon Musk at Tesla flagship London dealership to honour his $1 trillion pay packet.

Someone put this "blue plaque" on a London Tesla showroom to mark his becoming the world's first trillionaire. “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk. Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.” www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/everyon...

08.11.2025 14:10 — 👍 14    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

If you were wondering how you can get your hands on the "Big Tech? Big NO!" t-shirt I was wearing the other day, here's how. Buy one, or be a real uncool yawntastic drab corporate square who looks like IBM made out of meat.

07.11.2025 15:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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