EDIT: "Heck if I was unable to get an F marker,..."

Boo. JK Rowling doesn't deserve the platform which has been given thus far. Honestly, JK Rowling and HP need to stfu and get lost (more the former than the latter).

Still either way this is yet again another pointless attack on trans people & it needs to stop. Just treat us with compassion and respect, like we do for you.

P.S: I was tempted to just share the link and say "No they didn't stfu" but I felt that would be a bit lame and a rant was more appropriate!

Doing the above as a stop gap measure, until trans people are treated with the respect they ought to be, could work and also help include non-binary people. Heck if I was unable to, I'd rather an N/NB or X (not Twitter) on my ID than an M!

I think it is seriously time to think about mandating a third "Non-binary" category for changing rooms, toilets, etc where trans people and non-binary can go and feel safe compared to the "assigned at birth" rooms if they're permanently forced out of the room the ought to be in.

I've removed, essentially all AI from my Windows 11 Gaming PC (background removal and object manipulation in MS Paint/Photos, & Google Gemini web app are the only things I kept) and it is 99% the same but with slightly less bloat. I honestly, want less resource hungry stuff & more performance.

Thanks big tech for your addiction to shoehorning AI into everything. This is just absurd! I could really do with a new gaming/work PC as my 2020 unit (I'm writing on) is showing its age and is somewhat failing, but the costs of parts is now way, way, way too much. This AI stuff needs to stop now!

The moment Elon was rumoured to be buying Twitter (as it was at the time), I left without looking back. I have moved here and to Meta's Threads, although I am not as active as I used to be, sadly.

X is a terrible platform and it needs to be permanently banned by Ofcom. It risks our way of life.

I ain't verified here either as they don't use Yoti and just use a VPN if necessary to "move elsewhere" and bypass it as it is the dumbest law thing since those folk elected that cheese puff to office again.

To be clear, I have nothing against Asian advertisers/products etc cetera, but these are not legitimate advertising posts, nor am I interested in them.

For context, I switched from Firefox to Brave a little while ago as Brave offers Chromium advantages over Firefox and is configured to block most tracking and advertising garbage from the beginning. I also ran into issues with Firefox and Mozilla's anti-consumer moves lately pushed me away to Brave.

As for Pocket, I never used it when I used Firefox as my main web browser since I did not understand what it was for and only saw it as needless bloat. This will not be missed by me.