Vampire Enthusiast

Local Introverted Vampire Nerd

[Lazgar Lockman; artificer, blacksmith, goofball @Lazgar_lockman]

It's official: buying isnt owning
Which means piracy isn't theft

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

If you are banned from Social Media in the UK your sources of information are the BBC, Sky News, GB News, Daily Mail, The Sun, Telegraph...

All of who will conveniently never ever say a bad thing about Israel, ever.

[Vampire Enthusiast @occultarus]

@Mykethogan Those two were definitely monsters and I get that Percy doesn’t want to think about it, but Keyleth isn’t technically wrong- it’s a story of how powerful love is, and the lengths you might go to make it last a little while longer.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

Not "age checks" ID checks! There is no way to check a person's age without confirming their ID. Humans don't go through some magical biological transformation when they turn 16

[James Kelly @JamesKelly]

This tweet should result in the end of Tapp's career. No politician with a shred of decency or integrity asks a question that his own government has made it illegal to answer.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

When ID verification inevitably “fails” the government will seek to ban VPNs. This is why we need to reject these authoritarian censorship and mass surveillance policies and the false moral panic they’re predicated on

[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.

😡

[Edmund Griffiths @EdmundGriffiths]

A government minister here, gloatingly asking the leader of an opposition party a question to which answering "yes" counts as terrorism

[Ben Jamal @BenJamal48]

It is now verified that the event was marketing properties in illegal settlements. I presume you will now be retracting this statement, apologising, and condemning the synague for hosting the event.

[Mrs Millicent: Witchy Lesbianism ✝️♿ 🏳️‍🌈 @MillieCheesey]

"90% support it"

Yeah in the same way dictators "win" elections - its a made up stat; the survey was publicly available and there was NO way to say no lol

[El 🍉🚂 @ellasrhapsody]

When I was too ill to go to school my council left me without education for 18 months. If it hadn’t been able to access educational content on YouTube like Mr Bruff and Free Science Lessons, I would never have passed my GCSEs.

This is going to harm disabled children.

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

The Royal Society for Blind Children and the National Deaf Children's Society have both come out against the Starmer social media ban.

"Internet bad" is a trendy, upper-middle-class opinion for people with extracurricular budgets that ignores legions of people who rely on it.

[troovus @troovus]

“Giving children their childhood back?”

So reopening the 2,000 youth clubs closed under neoliberalism? The 1,000 children’s centres?
Recreating the 10,000 + playing fields lost?
Or the 800 playgrounds lost in the last 10 years?
The 1,000 libraries?
The after-school clubs closed?

[respawnedtargaryen @respawnedtarga1]

It went from “porn” to everything like we all predicted

[Luke Miani @LukeMiani]

> save $15M a year by cutting a screwworm monitoring program

> screwworm outbreak almost immediately

> $1B to combat it

Government efficiency

[Dr Glover| SAC: DRGLOVER @Dr_Gl0ver]

At 17 you can

Have consensual sex
Have a kid
Drive a car
Work a job
Vote
Donate blood
Join the army

BUT you CANNOT watch YouTube after your allocated government bedtime lmao

[ib @Indian_Bronson]

Btw even China and Iran don’t do this.

Only North Korea does this.

[The Fraud @StarmertheFraud]

Your reminder today, as no one will report it, that the leading children's protection charity in the UK, NSPCC, opposes a blanket ban on social media, along with many other children's safety groups.

This is what they've said:

"But for countless children, especially those who feel shut out or unheard offline, social media isn’t a luxury. It’s a lifeline – a source of community, identity, and vital support.

“A blanket ban would take those spaces away overnight and risks driving teenagers into darker, unregulated corners of the internet. Everyone involved in this debate will have the best interests of children at heart, but children’s fundamental right to participate safely in the digital world, to access information, to connect with peers, and to have their voices heard must be protected. They should not be stripped of those rights because tech companies have repeatedly failed to build platforms that protect them."

[Vampire Enthusiast @occultarus]

@gamer_polymath1 @FarmIykay As it happens, 50 would technically do as an absolute minimum on paper- that said, if only 3 of those 50 were female (as was the case for the Viltrumites) I imagine that would complicate things. The rule is 50/500, with the latter number enabling the species to adapt.