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Someone's Transformers collection, sometime in 1998. Old photograph scanned. (No recollection who actually owned all this.)

Looking for some instructions booklets in a drawer, and found an old photograph of the Transformers I got for my birthday back in 1996.

Learn some basic reading comprehension skills **scrub, scrub, scrub, scrub** Just a friendly reminder to attack the argument and not each other. Wheels

Speaking of McD’s, there was a news story in the UK media about endemic sexual and racial harassment taking place in their British outlets. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66231131.amp

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/15/europe-heatwave-red-alerts-italy-cities-weather Parts of Mainland Europe are a furnace right now. This is not good.

Threads the app (presumably named in homage to the 1984 film) isn’t available in the EU as it violates the union’s online privacy laws. Which is yet another reason why Brexit has been terrible for Britain...

Are we still surprised that Space Wanker has basically fascist, ethnostate-y sort of views? Shouldn’t be. Anyway, give Mastodon a try? It’s flawed and not a like-for-like replacement for Twitter, but if you can use something as complex as an old-style web forum like this, you can use Mastodon.

I think Space Wanker’s intent on making Twitter subscription (“premium”) only, and at first making it as unusable as possible for the masses used to social media being free. Good luck with that one Elmo, as that strategy has always worked out well…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/01/france-riots-nearly-500-arrested-as-protests-surge-in-marseille-and-lyon Police shooting a 17 year-old in France has led to the major French cities getting a bit riot-y at night.

The supreme court’s pretty set on rolling back the social advances of the last century, aren’t they? What’s next to go, the right to inter-racial marriage?

That’s jive. I was using my browser to occasionally look at accounts of people who I know online haven’t moved to Mastodon/don’t post on their Mastodon account since I scrapped my Twitter account last November.* Some of those people I’ve known online since the days of Usenet. I hate Space...

I’ve said this before, but the temperament of the Democrats is not so much to take a knife to a gun fight, but to take a feather duster to a nuclear war.

First the UK media has a moral panic about kids self-identifying as cats, now it’s kids self-identifying as holograms. What next, toilet-cleaning mechanoids? Vindaloo-loving Scousers?

Noticed a cafe advertising a showing of the “Jews conspired against him” pseudo-documentary about Corbyn. Think I’ll give that place a miss. (Notice the parallels to Trump supporters believing that their hero is the blameless victim of a vast conspiracy?) Edit: also notice that the title is a...

Already released without charge. That was quick… https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-65873423

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-quits-mp-partygate-b2354887.html Funny how extremely right-wing politicians scream “witch hunt” when it’s their turn to face justice.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/09/dame-priti-and-sir-party-marty-the-aides-and-allies-in-boris-johnsons-honours-list In his (belated) resignation honours list, Boris Johnson has given knighthoods, damehoods and peerages to some of the worst ghouls and monsters in Tory party. He’s...

I’m beginning to think it a positive that Mastodon isn’t going to be a mass-market, mass appeal thing, and basically won’t ever be giving the nature of how it works. Social media was a mistake.

Going slightly off topic, I find it depressing how people I followed on twitter still use the system, as in primarily in terms of their social media / micro-blogging habits. I guess as the main alternative, Mastodon will never be mainstream. It’s just too ‘computer nerd’ oriented, and engagement...

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/barclay-plans-price-caps-food-092554634.html So the government floated the idea of food price controls due to surging inflation, but quickly rowing it back to a “voluntary” arrangement. I still think it amusing that Brexit seems to be moving an increasingly...