Today I asked ministers to deny* that the number of jury acquittals in protest cases was a factor in the Government’s dangerous attack on jury trials.
*They did not do this
Graph from NetBlocks showing network connectivity in Iran from 24 February 2026 to 10 March 2026. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity, ranging from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents the dates. The green line representing Iran's connectivity is high through the initial time period, with a sharp drop on the morning of 28 February. The continued drop in connectivity aligns with a nation-scale internet blackout imposed by authorities after joint military strikes by the US and Israel. The minimum and current connectivity levels are indicated as 1% and 1%, respectively. The chart has a dark background with a red horizontal arrow labeled 'SHUTDOWN' indicating the disruption period, and the NetBlocks logo in the lower left corner with the Mapping Internet Freedom slogan.
⚠️ Update: At 240 hours, #Iran's internet blackout is now among the most severe government-imposed nationwide internet shutdowns on record globally, and the second longest registered in Iran after the January protests, with the country having spent a third of 2026 offline.
It was suuuuch a good show!
Telling that this article is written by a BBC social affairs editor and not their health editor.
The BBC thinks being trans is a social contagion problem QED
People should be REALLY scared by this, it's normalising refusing healthcare to a section of the community for entirely ideological reasons with absolutely no medical reason
The reason I fight so hard for trans kids is because I was a trans kid myself. I knew who I was in the year 2000, 12 years old, behind my computer, using the name Erin. I wanted puberty blockers so badly. My body shifted and changed in horrifying ways that I suffered for 15 years over.
Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones.
Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.
why atproto?
this is why
You can get whites that are temperature adjustable too I think?
Confused me too, but it's a smart bulb so it's showing the temperature range it can do.
Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.
“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”
Yeah first thing I did when I found out about Solid was look up whether anyone had compared it to atproto and found that, it was a cool discussion
Sir Tim Berners-Lee was trying to do this with Solid, doesn't seem like it's been going very far though?
windows pcs are generally for casual users who mostly use it for web browsing and maybe a little gaming. linux is nearly identical except there's no keyboard. macs are for hardcore experts and professionals who take on the toughest tasks, such as drawing three-dimensional rectangles and squares
String of pearls so good but it grows so slowly 😔
Discord did not have to “comply in advance” by requiring age verification for all users, whether or not they live in a jurisdiction that mandates it. Discord should reconsider whether expanding identity checks is worth the harm to its communities. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
This definitely, seems like it would solve the majority of Matrix's weird interop problems?
Man fuuuuuuck Discord
The death of a legal observer in Minnesota by ICE is a warning to the UK in so many ways. We’re tying ourselves to a violent, corrupt, racist nation which does not care about its citizens. Reform believes in its model, Labour is appeasing it. It is the public who will suffer.
I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance".
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist.
Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it
There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.
Just had an amazing atproto experience of going to find an atproto Letterboxd alternative, finding @popfeed.social and seeing a review I left on @bookhive.buzz for War of the Worlds on the main feed! Super cool to stumble across interoperability like that.
This gotta feel real good if you're my server
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feel a sense of foreboding as i notice that notifications like this show up for me in an increasing amount of english-speaking locations i set my VPN to. at this rate i'm gonna have to learn portuguese so i can tunnel thru brazil to avoid this bullshit
Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
As predicted the online safety act has succeeded only in making us less safe.
Admit your mistake. Repeal it now.
Good book if you're a sci-fi enjoyer!
