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Leading online #policy & #enforcement for 40 years. I left as head of Safety and Advocacy for #OkCupid after 9 years with #MatchGroup where I worked in T&S, data […]

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/16/hinge-tinder-date-rape-lawsuit

#law #tinder #hinge #dating #moderation #safety #TrustAndSafety #socialmedia #news
Screenshot of the banner of the page in the link.
December 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The orange moron had to put his own participation medal on, because that's how it works now.

#trump #fifa #participationmedal #wtf #news #crime
December 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Awww, I am now persona non grata in the USA! I guess I am the public face of content moderation these days, so maybe even more so.

NPR: The State Department is instructing its staff to reject visa applications from people who worked on fact-checking […]

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December 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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And as I type that...
December 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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#linkedin has become a #nazibar - And it's not even useful any more. So bye, Felicia!

#socialmedia #nazis #microsoft #echochamber #rightwing #bleargh #byefelicia
I’m stepping back from LinkedIn. I will leave a profile up, with this caveat pinned - but I will stop all notifications, etc. If you want to message me, I suggest using michael@lawrie.work [open up the spam-gates!] The site has gone from a fairly benign job-site to a social media enterprise that actively encourages, promotes and rewards open racism, gender & sexuality hate, billionaire worship, and outright worker abuse. I didn't like it when it was a battle of the influencers for more and more likes; I don't like it now that it's become a full-on Nazi bar. As the saying goes: "If there’s a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven Nazis." Image below is from https://untrusted.ca/nazi-bar.png
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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The orange traitor is sitting in the Liberace Room, yelling at a journalist, and pointing her out to the world's most well-known journalist-butcher.

I hope her life insurance is up to date.

#trump #mbs #usa #uspol #journalism
November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Well... This is real. How's it feel being so great, America?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace

#usa #maga #LaughingAtYou #notwithyou #trump #dementiadon #crime #gop #republicans #politics #shutdown #america #whitehouse #racism #yourtaxdollarsatwork
A screenshot of https://www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace - A fake Myspace for Hakeem Jefferies full of racist crap. Your tax dollars at work.
November 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The top 10 reasons Trump wants the USA to invade Venezuela.

1. Venezuela has the largest oil reserves on the planet.
2. Venezuela has the largest oil reserves on the planet.
3. Venezuela has the largest oil reserves on the planet.
4. Venezuela has the […]

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Oil Reserves by Country Search... # ¢ Country ¢ Oil Reserves (barrels) in 2016 ¢ World Share < 1 Venezuela 299,953,000,000 18.17% 2 Saudi Arabia 266,578,000,000 16.15% 3 Canada 170,863,000,000 10.35% 4 Iran 157,530,000,000 9.54% 5 Iraq 143,069,000,000 8.67% 6 Kuwait 101,500,000,000 6.15% 7 United Arab Emirates 97,800,000,000 5.93% 8 Russia 80,000,000,000 4.85% 9 Libya 48,363,000,000 2.93% 10 Nigeria 37,070,000,000 2.25% 1 United States 35,230,000,000 2.13% 12 Kazakhstan 30,000,000,000 1.82% 13 Qatar 25,244,000,000 1.53% 14 China 25,132,122,000 1.52% 15 Brazil 16,184,100,000 0.98%
November 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Soros or Newsom could make heaps of political or karmic capital by lending the money to fund SNAP this month.

(Although it would be funnier if it were Norway, and sent as international aid.)

#usa #uspol #snap #soros #georgesoros #newsom #gavinnewsom #norway #karma
Gavin Newsom and George Soros (not standing together, it's a stitch of 2 photos, I couldn't find one of them together).
November 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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The best thing about watching Blakes 7 again, is remembering that Brian Blessed is in Episode 2; and the whole episode may as well have been put on by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

But then again - It pretty much was.

#blakes7 #uk #tv #scifi #brianblessed #gordonsalive #shakespeare #rsc #art
A young Brian Blessed, with an Elvis haircut and a shaggy beard. He is wearing a purple robe accessorised with a transporter bracelet, and he's pointing one of the Liberator's odd glass blasters at somebody off-camera.
October 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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This graphic is floating around the right-wing Internet... Obviously it's insane, but even so, I have some questions for people who might believe it.

(For now, anyone with half a brain and a basic knowledge of science, graphs and politics, you will have to […]

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The text describes it pretty well - But it's a colour wheel, with an arbitrary line across it and the bottom part is "what antifa calls fascists" - The labels on the colour wheel are supposedly a political compass, but it's not, it's just arse gravy.
October 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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I need a prepper/EDC-enthusiast to tell me what the tool part of this is meant to be? Half of a sweetcorn holder, maybe?

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008765886380.html

#edc #aliexpress #outdoors #prepping #sweetcorn #fork #survival #shopping #titanium
I would describe it, but I have no idea! It looks like the prongs of a teeny fork built into a belt buckle.
October 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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This is what Melon said on the Tesla earnings call yesterday:

"It's just, if we build this robot army, erm, do I at least have a strong influence over that army. Not control, but a strong influence"

#elonmusk #robots #nutjobs #tesla #usa #politics #army
Robot Army shot from "I Robot". A silver robot standing in front of other silver robots.
October 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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@alisynthesis There's a British comic strip from the 80s called "The Pathetic Sharks" - I keep thinking a lot of the US administration headlines I see these days may as well just be a plot from that.
A black and white single frame comic strip with a small fishing boat and the three pathetic sharks swimming next to it - One of them in a life-belt. The fisherman looks scared and is screaming: "Aggh!! Sharks!!!". Lifebelt shark says: "Ooh ooh! Did someone say sausage? I like sausages" Shark2: "Oh cocktail sticks with pineapple and cheese!" Shark3: "Is somebody selling ice cream? May I have one with chocolate?"
October 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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A tweet or something from: claytoncubitt

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel," the opening line of Gibson's Neuromancer, describes such different things when it was published in 1984 vs 2024

On the left, there is a […]

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A tweet or something from: claytoncubitt 3h "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel," the opening line of Gibson's Neuromancer, describes such different things when it was published in 1984 vs 2024 On the left there is a box, full of white and black spots, the "no signal" visual, ever moving noise of old TV (you can pretty much hear the hiss if you are of that age!) - But on the right, there is a plain blue filled box, no noise, just endless calm blue.
October 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Registrations on Grindr don't count.

#usa #uspol #grindr #lgbtq #socialmedia #republicans #maga #datingapps #closet
A presumably Russian Botfarm meme, written on a US flag from "Cara Shriver for Council at Large" (because that's a very American name). The text says: "2.5 million new registered Republicans in 24 hours as Democrats collapse" (all UPPER CASE).
September 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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I think all the Atheists should start fangirling cool black Jesus in a non-religious way, it would really mess with the American religious nutjob's heads.

#atheism #jesus #christian #religion #usa #maga #nutjobs
Cool Black Jesus - A mosaic of Jesus from the Basilica Santi Cosma e Damiano in Rome.
September 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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These two were in sequence on my FB feed just now.

It's almost like there is a link.

#maga #charliekirk #fbi #ice #usa #trump #fascism
First post from Last Podcast On The Left Ben Saunders • 46m I've already given evidence for 20 profiles God is good Karma is a bitch and she's got a sick sense of humor Attached post to that one: "BREAKING: Christopher Landau @DeputySecState says you can report the people celebrating Charlie Kirk's death to @StateDept and legal action will be taken against them. Let's get these evil people handled appropriately." ---- Next post: The Other 98% "FBI agents reassigned to round up immigrants have had to walk away from investigations into violent predators who target and exploit children online, MSNBC has learned." @ReichlinMelnick NEW: Reports uncover that almost EVERY agent in the FBI's Baltimore domestic terrorism squad was ordered to drop their normal work and go out and arrest random migrants. Investigations into pedophiles preying on children were tossed aside and now only proceed at a snail's pace.
September 17, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Does this also apply if we mock Clay Higgins?

#clayhiggins #religion #Nutjob #socialmedia #ban #internet #maga #idiot #overreactions
Excretion from Rep. Clay Higgins @RepClayHiggins I’m going to use Congressional authority and every influence with big tech platforms to mandate immediate ban for life of every post or commenter that belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk. If they ran their mouth with their smartass hatred celebrating the heinous murder of that beautiful young man who dedicated his whole life to delivering respectful conservative truth into the hearts of liberal enclave universities, armed only with a Bible and a microphone and a Constitution... those profiles must come down. So, I'm going to lean forward in this fight, demanding that big tech have zero tolerance for violent political hate content, the user to be banned from ALL PLATFORMS FOREVER. I'm also going after their business licenses and permitting, their businesses will be blacklisted aggressively, they should be kicked from every school, and their drivers licenses should be revoked. I'm basically going to cancel with extreme prejudice these evil, sick animals who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination. I'm starting that today. That is all. 7:19 AM - Sep 11, 2025 - 7.6M Views
September 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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I dunno who Matt Forney is, but either he's an idiot, or knows full well that the "Reichstag Fire playbook" is when a crisis is used as a pretext to ban parties, mass-arrest opponents, censor the press, and centralise power.

#usa #politics #charliekirk […]

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A bunch of tweets from right-wing propaganda bots about Charlie Kirk today. One from Matt Fourney (@Realmattforney) says: Charlie Kirk being assassinated is the American Reichstag fire. It is time for a complete crackdown on the left. Every Democratic politician must be arrested and the party banned under RICO. Every libtard commentator must be shut down. Stochastic terrorism. They caused this.
September 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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I think John Mastodon has been writing under a pen-name.

#johnmastodon #mystery #mastodon #books #fiction #canada #novascotia
The front page of a book called "The Mastodon Mystery" by Dorothy Perkyns, which has a photo of 2 kids standing in front of a shedlike building with two large heffalumps in the background. The back of the Mastodon Mystery book - since Mastodon's picture to text is crap, I will use Microsoft's. A visit to Norton Museum sparks James's interest in an important local discovery of mastodon bones, but he is even more intrigued by the strange behaviour of two men and a boy seen in the neighbourhood. When he and his new friend Emily help at the mastodon dig site, events take an unexpected and nwelcome turn, and they realize that the precious bones are in great danger. In heir efforts to avert disaster the two become involved in a series of adventures which take them to unusual, sometimes dangerous, Nova Scotian locations. ASOUT AUTHOR Dorothy Perkyns was a teacher in England before coming to Canada in 1969. She began writing in the early seventies, contributing many articles to Canadian magazines and broadcasting regularly on CBC Radio. Her work was also published in the United States and in England. Her first book, The Mystery of the Hemlock Ravine, appeared in 1986, followed by Bilson Award winner Rachel's Revolution (1988), Peril at Plover Point (1991) and Signal Across the Sea (1994). All are available from Lancelot Press. The author's idea for this novel came from learning of a significant mastodon discovery made in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1991. Lancelot Press. Hantsport, Nova Scotia.
September 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Given that Trump is going to get away with breaking international law, and the military is following obviously illegal orders to blow up a ship that they would normally stop, I wonder if that's them testing the waters for using remote lethal force against […]

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A BBC online article top-cut from 2025-09-04 - There is a still of a video of a boat in the water. Trump says 11 killed in US strike on 'drug-carrying vessel from Venezuela' 1 day ago Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, White House President Donald Trump says the US has carried out a strike against a drug-carrying vessel in the southern Caribbean, killing 11 "narcoterrorists". He posted on social media that Tuesday's US military operation had targeted members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. Trump said the vessel was in international waters and was transporting illegal narcotics bound for the US. The Trump administration has ratcheted up military and political pressure against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in recent weeks, including through a $50m (£37m) reward for information leading to his arrest on drug-trafficking charges. Maduro has vowed Venezuela would fight any attempted US military intervention. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump said that US forces had "shot out" a "drug-carrying boat" in the vicinity of Venezuela.
September 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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I just watched the first episode of Mythic Quest.

Now I remember why I mostly only ever designed games by myself. We did have a killer spade 37 years before theirs though.

#mythicquest #mist #mud #games #engineering #mmo #mmorpg #history #retrocomputing #poleaxe #chainsaw #shotgun #wizard
This is an old picture from the days of the Essex MUD games. An Archwizard (fine, it's me) stands on a misty path carrying a chainsaw and a shotgun, looking at a small robed, staff weilding wizard, perched upon a toadstool which is ominously surrounded by small wizardly looking skulls.
August 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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I put a really annoying pointer effect on my weblog where the pointer (a red ball) moves really slowly and its shadow chases it. I only did it so that people would get angry and leave.

Now it's making me angry, and I was only checking the site for two […]

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An old Neko screen, where an animated cat chases the pointer, which is a mouse.
August 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Apparently, in the last week, Dead-Man-Ranting has said that he's the President of Europe, and Trump gave Temu Tsar Putin a history lesson on how Russia and the US were allies in the Cold War.

Mind you, Mascara Munchkin thinks that WW1 and WW2 ended with […]

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A GPT-generated illustrative cartoon of the post - Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin negotiation with dice and a jigsaw globe at the end of WW2.
August 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM