evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

ID cards are bad. Very bad.

1. Once they exist it will become necessary to always carry it. If you don't you must have something to hide, etc.
2. They can't stop people working in the 'black economy' because people currently employing those working for cash don't care.
3. It is another attack on trans and NB people (very unlikely someone would be allowed to have multiple IDs)
4. Massive data loss of personal information is highly likely.
5. Who pays? Why should they?
6. Police state becomes more likely with having your ID inspected whenever a copper wants to harass someone, especially POC.
7. OTHER OPTIONS ALREADY EXIST!

ID cards are a very bad, very dangerous, very expensive, and very risky idea.

ps I'm not a 'Brit'. I'm British, or more specifically English!
#IDcards #PoliceStateUK #BritCard

I use Tailscale for home purposes, mostly so I can access movies from other locations without having to deal with reverse proxies and security. It's great software. I'm just saying this as preface: I would recommend it to anyone looking for a remote networking solution.

Yesterday they sent out an email about various events they would have a presence at, general marketing stuff, mostly in tech hubs and cons. Nothing remarkable. One of the events was that they were sponsoring a family movie night with another company. The movie picked was Harry Potter, but most people don't care, and it's a fine family movie. I shrugged and moved on with my day. Life's too short to get pissed off about stuff like that.

Well, today they sent out an email apologizing for the choice of movie and promising to do better in future.

I'm not stanning a corp. I wish there were a decent open-source option (well, they're built atop the open-source option, but goddamn do they make it easier). But it was nice to see. In a world which has gone full-on transphobia and doesn't seem to think that Jowling Kowling Rowling is worthy of comment, I guess enough technical people who use Tailscale aren't assholes and complained, or who knows, maybe someone at the company pointed it out, but whatever the reason, they rethought the movie choice. And they didn't just do it, they apologized for it to everyone on their mailing list.

It's a small thing, but I thought I'd share it both to say that I will continue to use Tailscale because it really is good software, but also if you need a nice thing, I guess this is a nice thing.

Dear Christians that didn't get Raptured,
Just proves that you're no better than this atheist.
As an atheist, I dream of the rapture where the rest of us can get on and along without the drag of the religious cancer on our society.
Sadly, that wasn't today.

I posted the above and this meme today, EIGHT YEARS ago...

So they keep forgetting to carry that zero still. 🤣

#Rapture2025 #Atheism #Atheist #ReligionIsPoison

Can someone please make an Oregon Trail mod where you play as RFK Jr. and your travelers constantly fall ill with the most preventable diseases known to man?

If drones have been sighted above Scandinavian airports, it is VITAL that convincing evidence be shared.

When Gatwick & Heathrow were closed for the same reason, no evidence was provided. After years of FOI requests the authorities finally admitted there was never any direct evidence; they were chasing phantom drones.

I covered this for Hackaday, one of very few journalists questioning the official line because it sounded fishy.

There needs to be clear evidence published to avoid a repeat.

"Tylenol tempteth demons into thy soul to curseth thee with the Goblin Autism Pox. Verily, a forest spirit hath told me so in dreams"
#ASD #Autism #paracetamol

"Lesbians are responsible for 100% of all space crime" is by far my favorite statistic to date. Just barely edging out "Mars is populated entirely by robots".

Detour

#CowsOfMastodon #Nature #Photography

The maths proved it was a time machine. The issue was that the speed of travel was one second per second.

"Can you make it go faster?"

"Impossible. We can make it go slower though."

"So you age faster inside the machine? What use is that?"

"We thought we'd try it with some wine and cheese?"

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

@GossiTheDog what a massive cunt. someone kick him in the head a couple times.

Just gonna leave this here

Representation’s important, esp during times like now where people are marginalised and turned into scapegoats regularly.

So here’s some stuff that, while none of your business, I’ll share in case it helps anyone feeling alone:

I’m non-binary & have gender dysphoria.
I’m prob demisexual & polyamorous.

I’ve got ADHD, ASD, & a history of depression, & panic/anxiety disorder.
I take anti depressants monitored by a psychiatrist, & see a therapist regularly.

Long COVID gave me Chronic Fatigue

RIP #DJTwitch https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yjjdv68y7o

Blah blah cyber attack.

Maybe we should just stop centralising and interconnecting absolutely everything to absolutely everything else.

These days you can’t even visit a website without it pulling the fonts, styles, images from a bazillion different sources rather than the site itself. Never mind ads and all the other cruft.

Now think about how we do that with entire IT systems and consider how trivial it is to break one thing that impacts a bazillion other things in an instant.

Made this sea glass puppy recently

From the country that brought you Boaty McBoatface comes Network Rail's leaf-removal train:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/19/train-named-ctrl-alt-deleaf-leaves-uk-tracks-network-rail