Owl, the tired and unhappy.

This place sucks now,gave up being remotely serious now here due to things out of my control so screw it all.

[Owl, the tired and unhappy. @Owlhatch]

I'm not accepting anyone taking thier issues out on me anymore.

[Owl, the tired and unhappy. @Owlhatch]

@TonyB_1997 @zatzi It'll also drive innovation onto those who want to scam a d abuse and steal data... Just saying.

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

We are ruled by idiots.

Do they not know every 15 year old revises GCSE’s on YouTube?

Do they not know that teenagers track their friends are home safely on SnapChat?

Do they not realise that - especially in rural areas with no transport - teenagers social lives are on… social media.

Do they not know that teenagers will find ways round - as has been shown in Australia.

This ban is illogical and damaging.

If I hear another parent say “it’s so hard to police them” I’ll scream. It’s a parent’s job. Take responsibility the children you are meant to be bringing up.

It is not the government’s job to look after your children.

But the government will now insist all adults provide ID to prove we are over 18.

😡

[Owl, the tired and unhappy. @Owlhatch]

@3pFox Also, if sugar was required to add onto ii, apples go well with it during thew caramelising process.

[Owl, the tired and unhappy. @Owlhatch]

@blixberrie Let's not forget the petition that was vehemently ignored by kier and the house.

[Chris Heatherly @chrisheatherly]

I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this.

The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home.

There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered.

What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business.

Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not.

This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy.

That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids.

What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes.

Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming?

No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.

[George @verybasedgeorge]

@PolitlcsUK this has nothing to do with protecting children. it's literally just an excuse to bring in digital ID and end online anonymity

[Owl, the tired and unhappy. @Owlhatch]

@AsherRose04 @OddishHime @BobbyDukeArts Just checked a recipie online and yes a rue is used meaning American gravy is a soup.

[Owl, the tired and unhappy. @Owlhatch]

@AsherRose04 @OddishHime @BobbyDukeArts Does it require a rue to make?

[Owl, the tired and unhappy. @Owlhatch]

@AsherRose04 @OddishHime @BobbyDukeArts Yorkshire pudding is batter mix and that gravy? Yeah looks more like mushroom soup ngl.

[Owl, the tired and unhappy. @Owlhatch]

@dabisbonyhands @nylifestylebg @BobbyDukeArts Depending on the accent though, some will sound like theyre accusing someone of urinating.

[Strawbærry Narwhal ‽↙↙↙ @unvarnishedvoid]

I just hate gen AI actually

[Owl, the tired and unhappy. @Owlhatch]

@CoulahanDerek @ayekeeno It's showing concern about how much someone else makes IIRC.

[Ian Titular @UkiyaSeed]

Someone uploaded in an obscure and lost media Philippine page on Facebook fragments of Gorenger's Philippine English dub, The Star Rangers. It revealed that the dub used a localized CM bumper and it's the art from one of the print ads for the show.

[Global Watch @abuzarali749]

@ayekeeno Speed has done more to promote this world cup than FIFA ever has

[Owl, the tired and unhappy. @Owlhatch]

@FourYearStr0ng Least they could have done is watch the animation.

[Owl, the tired and unhappy. @Owlhatch]

@brunosindicic @squid_bees What about rabbits?

[Owl, the tired and unhappy. @Owlhatch]

@Apogee_Ent Nyx.

[Owl, the tired and unhappy. @Owlhatch]

@TrustNo1andCode @George_D_water @Polymarket All the places humans have pooped, it's just a red sphere.

[Owl, the tired and unhappy. @Owlhatch]

@gracesheriidan Ngl at least when I said I was from the uk years ago when playing left for dead they assumed I was from the whole thing. So them saying london is a tiny bit of an improvement, they learned a single city. Now if only they can learn dublin and Edinburgh we're on the right track.

[Owl, the tired and unhappy. @Owlhatch]

@AmethystShining @LukeyRead Does this do anything for you? https://t.co/3I3I6HFXij