🍂hollyzone🍂
@hollyzone.co.uk
Made of cells and water. Mostly.
Performance historian. -1.75 in both eyes. Once got sunburned in Iceland, in winter. She/her.
Performance historian. -1.75 in both eyes. Once got sunburned in Iceland, in winter. She/her.
I'm against a ban anyway, but both my employer (~1500 staff) & my gf's employer (~13,000 staff) use VPNs as standard data security practice cos they're public sector organisations. Can the current govt draft a law like this which successfully excludes all the VPNs running Britain's services?
The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how
Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy
www.techradar.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I'm against a ban anyway, but both my employer (~1500 staff) & my gf's employer (~13,000 staff) use VPNs as standard data security practice cos they're public sector organisations. Can the current govt draft a law like this which successfully excludes all the VPNs running Britain's services?
Shoegaze's enduring legacy a result of every single member of every single band being a dork.
Sustainable band lineups include four cool people (Ramones), four dorks (Weezer), or two cool people and two dorks (Cheap Trick). Unsustainable band lineups include one cool person and three dorks (Pixies)
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Shoegaze's enduring legacy a result of every single member of every single band being a dork.
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Sustainable band lineups include four cool people (Ramones), four dorks (Weezer), or two cool people and two dorks (Cheap Trick). Unsustainable band lineups include one cool person and three dorks (Pixies)
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Sustainable band lineups include four cool people (Ramones), four dorks (Weezer), or two cool people and two dorks (Cheap Trick). Unsustainable band lineups include one cool person and three dorks (Pixies)
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
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There is no winning. Read a book in public, you get accused of being performative. Don't read a book in public, Joyce Carol Oates says you are a human shell with no inner life. 😞
November 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
There is no winning. Read a book in public, you get accused of being performative. Don't read a book in public, Joyce Carol Oates says you are a human shell with no inner life. 😞
I had a look and one of the books appears to be climate change denialism so I suppose he has read one fiction book after all.
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I had a look and one of the books appears to be climate change denialism so I suppose he has read one fiction book after all.
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football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
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I hate gay Halloween, what do you mean you're going as the spoon that the Sheriff of Nottingham wants to use to kill Robin Hood?
October 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I hate gay Halloween, what do you mean you're going as the spoon that the Sheriff of Nottingham wants to use to kill Robin Hood?
Obvs that MP is colossally racist, but such ppl are also the weakest babies imaginable: I remember the first time I saw an obvious lesbian in a TV advert, in 2013 when I was 28! Nearly 3 decades not seeing ppl like myself on TV but I'm not sobbing over heteros in ads. These racists are pathetic.
October 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Obvs that MP is colossally racist, but such ppl are also the weakest babies imaginable: I remember the first time I saw an obvious lesbian in a TV advert, in 2013 when I was 28! Nearly 3 decades not seeing ppl like myself on TV but I'm not sobbing over heteros in ads. These racists are pathetic.
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this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
My gf once told me that the thing about me she is most jealous of is that when I'm sick I take any relevant medicines, then just calmly and contentedly lie down and wait to get better.
Thermometer: You have a fever, don't go to work.
Body: You are staggering around bumping into walls and falling over, don't try to work.
Brain: Augh I'm lying around being lazy! I should do 10,000 tasks! Guilt guilt guilt!
Body: You are staggering around bumping into walls and falling over, don't try to work.
Brain: Augh I'm lying around being lazy! I should do 10,000 tasks! Guilt guilt guilt!
October 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
My gf once told me that the thing about me she is most jealous of is that when I'm sick I take any relevant medicines, then just calmly and contentedly lie down and wait to get better.
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Them: “no one had pronouns in my day”
A TV Character from their day:
A TV Character from their day:
October 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Them: “no one had pronouns in my day”
A TV Character from their day:
A TV Character from their day:
Define your music taste w/ 8 artists 🎶
Manic Street Preachers
The Knife
Lady Gaga
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Sleater-Kinney
Pulp
Jon Hopkins
Bloc Party
Orchestral/political rock, weird electropop, gay pop, postrock, feminist punk rock, storytelling indie, electronica, 00s indie (non-landfill).
Manic Street Preachers
The Knife
Lady Gaga
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Sleater-Kinney
Pulp
Jon Hopkins
Bloc Party
Orchestral/political rock, weird electropop, gay pop, postrock, feminist punk rock, storytelling indie, electronica, 00s indie (non-landfill).
Define your music taste with 8 artists:
Rammstein
System of a Down
Creeper
QOTSA
The Prodigy
Lagwagon
Biffy Clyro
The Offspring (pre-2001, their new stuff makes me want to sit by the sea and weep)
I am more of a song than an artist person, and there is an unholy amount of Eurovision on my playlist.
Rammstein
System of a Down
Creeper
QOTSA
The Prodigy
Lagwagon
Biffy Clyro
The Offspring (pre-2001, their new stuff makes me want to sit by the sea and weep)
I am more of a song than an artist person, and there is an unholy amount of Eurovision on my playlist.
Define your music taste with 8 artists:
Jack Off Jill
The Sonics
Audience
Townes Van Zandt
Ke/Hil
Voivod
Gene
Deathpile
Jack Off Jill
The Sonics
Audience
Townes Van Zandt
Ke/Hil
Voivod
Gene
Deathpile
October 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Define your music taste w/ 8 artists 🎶
Manic Street Preachers
The Knife
Lady Gaga
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Sleater-Kinney
Pulp
Jon Hopkins
Bloc Party
Orchestral/political rock, weird electropop, gay pop, postrock, feminist punk rock, storytelling indie, electronica, 00s indie (non-landfill).
Manic Street Preachers
The Knife
Lady Gaga
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Sleater-Kinney
Pulp
Jon Hopkins
Bloc Party
Orchestral/political rock, weird electropop, gay pop, postrock, feminist punk rock, storytelling indie, electronica, 00s indie (non-landfill).
Glad to hear Forest are going for someone with experience in unstable environments, I wish Mutya from the Sugababes well in her new post.
[Official] Nottingham Forest Football Club can confirm that after a series of disappointing results and performances, Ange Postecoglou has been relieved of his duties as head coach with immediate effect after just 39 days in charge
Club statement
The Official Website of Nottingham Forest Football Club: get the latest news, highlights, fixtures and results, tickets and more.
www.nottinghamforest.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Glad to hear Forest are going for someone with experience in unstable environments, I wish Mutya from the Sugababes well in her new post.
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The bad replies to this include two truly terrible music opinions:
1) You shouldn't comment on music if you a x years older than the musician (x is undefined).
2) If you don't like/are uncertain about a musician, you shouldn't listen to their album all the way through before commenting.
1) You shouldn't comment on music if you a x years older than the musician (x is undefined).
2) If you don't like/are uncertain about a musician, you shouldn't listen to their album all the way through before commenting.
I cannot believe these lyrics from the new Taylor Swift album are real
October 8, 2025 at 7:50 AM
The bad replies to this include two truly terrible music opinions:
1) You shouldn't comment on music if you a x years older than the musician (x is undefined).
2) If you don't like/are uncertain about a musician, you shouldn't listen to their album all the way through before commenting.
1) You shouldn't comment on music if you a x years older than the musician (x is undefined).
2) If you don't like/are uncertain about a musician, you shouldn't listen to their album all the way through before commenting.
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A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou
(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)
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(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)
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October 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou
(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)
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(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)
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Goddamn, we have not one, but TWO guests lined up for the pod!
Through the power of... people being nice and offering to come on. Which seems like an extremely fitting vibe!
So look forward to our pod being elevated in the coming month 😁
Through the power of... people being nice and offering to come on. Which seems like an extremely fitting vibe!
So look forward to our pod being elevated in the coming month 😁
September 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Goddamn, we have not one, but TWO guests lined up for the pod!
Through the power of... people being nice and offering to come on. Which seems like an extremely fitting vibe!
So look forward to our pod being elevated in the coming month 😁
Through the power of... people being nice and offering to come on. Which seems like an extremely fitting vibe!
So look forward to our pod being elevated in the coming month 😁
Here's a thing with the ID card idea: we don't have a modern, integrated NHS patient records system. Creating a unified patient record system would be universally popular and a net good, but since the botched attempt in the 2000s no one has tried. But we're gonna try a bigger and less popular one?
September 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Here's a thing with the ID card idea: we don't have a modern, integrated NHS patient records system. Creating a unified patient record system would be universally popular and a net good, but since the botched attempt in the 2000s no one has tried. But we're gonna try a bigger and less popular one?
Reading about the monarchs of England/the UK, *especially* the Stuarts, **ESPECIALLY** James VI/I and Charles II.
What’s the most Tory-coded thing you actively love?
Me: Essex. Elgar. Country pubs.
Me: Essex. Elgar. Country pubs.
September 23, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Reading about the monarchs of England/the UK, *especially* the Stuarts, **ESPECIALLY** James VI/I and Charles II.
The non-religious timeline right now is atheists from Protestant backgrounds consuming tonnes of Rapture content vicariously and agnostics from Catholic backgrounds sighing and waiting for Bake Off.
September 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The non-religious timeline right now is atheists from Protestant backgrounds consuming tonnes of Rapture content vicariously and agnostics from Catholic backgrounds sighing and waiting for Bake Off.
I love this picture my mate took of me during my history talk on Saturday.
September 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I love this picture my mate took of me during my history talk on Saturday.
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