@brucelawson In Scotland you have to be "offending public decency" but simply being naked is not illegal.

@brucelawson As far as I know public nudity of any kind is not illegal, providing you are not "causing distress or alarm". So the police can't arrest women for simply being topless.

"One of the most horrific ironies of American Evangelicalism is that the people most obsessed with hell in the afterlife are silent about the hells we create right here on earth."

~ posted by Rev. Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt

#evangelicals #churches #hell
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https://www.instagram.com/p/DJ2wE3ZuOpD/

WOW. The Guardian is reporting that Israeli troops fired ‘warning shots’ at 25 diplomats visiting occupied West Bank. The delegation comprised ambassadors and diplomats representing 31 countries, including Italy, Canada, Egypt, Jordan, and the United Kingdom.

Israel claims it was an "inconvenience" and they're investigating.

Make no mistake, this is deliberate intimidation by a regime committing daily genocide. If this is how they treat diplomats, just imagine how they treat Palestinians.

In Denmark, the second largest city, Aarhus, stops using Microsoft software to avoid dependency on American tech giants.

As Trump promised: “We will finally be respected again” and “There will be so much winning.”

Source:
https://www.version2.dk/artikel/aarhus-vil-droppe-word-og-outlook-vi-har-vaeret-afhaengige-af-de-store

Help Free my Brother, Alaa https://chng.it/t5T9XBscjF

"Any movement towards closer integration with our European neighbours is a good thing in that it should raise GDP and, so, help the public finances"

Of course rejoining the EU would help a feck of a lot more, but that would annoy the hard right and the racists so we're not going to do that.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/19/how-has-britain-economy-fared-since-brexit-the-five-charts-underpinning-the-uk-eu-summit?CMP=share_btn_url

Data including criminal records downloaded in ‘significant’ cyber-attack at Legal Aid Agency in April, ministry confirms

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may/19/significant-amount-of-personal-data-accessed-in-legal-aid-agency-data-breach-says-moj?CMP=share_btn_url

💡 Want to install and uninstall any software, including operating systems, browsers and app stores?
Device manufacturers, vendors, and platforms should not dictate how we use our devices.

We need #DeviceNeutrality

https://deviceneutrality.org/

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom

The #FSF is hosting a #hackathon in honor of its fortieth anniversary: https://u.fsf.org/46q #FSF40

@oldrawgabbit Let's keep up the criticism which he so obviously can't take so that he explodes in some sort of apopletic fit

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/08/wikipedia-challenging-uk-law-it-says-exposes-it-to-manipulation-and-vandalism

The UK's new age verification law threatens to ban Wikipedia in Britain by imposing the same rules that it imposes on Facebook.

ICC (International Criminal Court) prosecutor Khan locked out of his Microsoft email account and UK based bank accounts based on US sanctions.

"Microsoft, for example, cancelled Khan’s email address, forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider, ICC staffers said. His bank accounts in his home country of the U.K. have been blocked."

https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

You know what, companies? I am not going to buy your appliance if you make it connect to the internet. I don't need my toaster or coffee maker to be WIFI enabled. I'll just do without. I can't be the only one. Who is asking for this?

@kimlockhartga

We got a new home heating system installed this spring - a massive investment. During the initial pre-sales conversations I made it 100% clear that any system that required an internet connection was not acceptable in any way.

When the work was done the installation tech informed us that for the system to function it needed to be connected to the internet. I let him know this wasn't what we were told up front, and that we were unwilling to compromise.

"I'm sorry sir, I know this system inside and out, and it doesn't work without a connection. I don't know what you were told, but this is what we need to do next."

"In that case I would like you to leave my house while I call your company and my lawyer."

A few hours and three escalations later, the system is working just fine without any internet connection.

FFS, it shouldn't be this hard. The stove, the fridge, the fucking thermostats. No. Absolutely fucking not.

"Typical Chat-GPT query uses about 10 times more energy than Google search That’s just for a basic generative AI function. More advanced queries require substantially more power that have to go through an AI Cluster Farm to process large-scale computing between multiple machines."

"AI is typically deployed in 20-30 cabinet clusters at or above 40 KW per cabinet. This represents a fourfold increase in KW/ cabinet with the deployment of AI. The difference is staggering."

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/i-sat-down-with-two-cooling-experts-to-find-out-what-ais-biggest-problem-is-in-the-data-center

“I woke up with a sense of dread…”

A moving, deeply personal account from an EU citizen in Cambridge on how Labour’s new rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging.

Don’t miss this powerful open letter. 👇

https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/lifestyle/community/letter-we-are-not-strangers/

Belgian Court of Appeal: The “Transparency & Consent Framework” (TCF) is illegal. TCF is live on 80% of the Internet https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling-tracking-based-advertising-by-google-microsoft-amazon-x-across-europe-has-no-legal-basis/

I will entirely skipping @eurovision.tv again for its unacceptable shameless political choice to platform a violent, terrorist, genocidal Israel. You should too, even if Eurovision is "fun" or "massive for engagement" - the EBU is choosing to ignore genocide. Don't be like or support the EBU.

@Lana Who is this "we"?