The Andrew/Bill Gates one is creepy as fuck.

“Bill, I can’t let my mom find out about this. She’s basically the pope.”

I really like the way you wrote this comment with the languages intermingled, with a touch of translation and the rest left to context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Amendment#Platforms_affected https://www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/industry-regulation/social-media-age-restrictions/which-platforms-are-age-restricted

eSafety does not have a formal role in declaring which services are age-restricted social media platforms. In the absence of any rules made by the Minister of Communications specifying a service is either an age-restricted social media platform or not an age-restricted social media platform, any determination that a service is or is not an age-restricted social media platform is a matter for the court.

Services which do not currently meet the definition of ‘age-restricted social media platform’ should routinely self-assess, including when introducing a new social feature or function or when observing changes in the ways existing and new account holders are using their service.

So technically they need to self-assess based on the legislation, but based on the published lists I really doubt they have anything to worry about.

For next year, the days chosen seem to fall in line with the Trump administration’s “America-first” policies.

A journalist self-censored ‘racist’ to the regime-approved synonym “America-first”.

There’s no way to connect this to other policies except ‘shitting on black people in the most petty way possible’.

I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety

Sounds like she’s not getting serious threats, but she’s getting targeted marketing / extortion from security firms.

brace

Chilling champagne and filling balloons I hope.

‘bite down’ is also a lie

Counter-proposal: you get to opt-out of advertising by signing up to automatically buy all the products they advertise.

Next mental illness: empathy

Political prisoners maybe…

Instead, we should push other states to adopt our independent, non-partisan commission model across the country.

Lol, this is literally pushing Texas to do the right thing. It’s too late to ask nicely.

It’s plain cowboy logic

Now I’m probably not the intended audience, but if you told me you were doing something with ‘cowboy logic’, I think I’d be left with a very different impression than they were intending.

Enshittification…

Another hearing is scheduled for 21 July when Palestine Action will apply for permission for a judicial review to quash the order. In the meantime, and unless the judicial review is successful, membership of, or inviting support for, the group will carry a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.

So they have a hearing, and presumably legal representation, but they can’t legally have any members at the time of the hearing? What a load of shit.

This was on my mind, but then I just watched it yesterday.

That would be genius. Let them yell about it in the media until everyone knows that guillotines are on the menu.

If Mamdani loses, there’s a possibility that he could run on the Working Families Party line in the general election — though Gripper said the New York WFP has not decided whether they’ll run a candidate on their line in the general election and will make a decision after the final primary results come in.

Please do this if it comes to it.

There’s a film that covers how they named Gleemonex:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUMnR4SnECU

I’ve just never personally voted using RCV on a ballot that requires you to rank that many candidates for a valid ballot. That seems unnecessary.

You have to rank 5 candidates? What the hell is the reasoning behind that?