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they are barring wikipedia. they are barring spotify. they are barring important news - both national news and world news. they are barring mental health forums and LGBTQ related things and so much more. this is not about protecting children, it has never been about protecting children.
the online safety act is an insane privacy breach, and if that does not scare you then you need to think harder about it. it is going to end up in a massive data leak - all the information is getting collected by random third party systems. can we trust them? no. can we even hold them accountable? no. because the government couldn’t even make their own system to do these age checks.
and i hear you - it is important that kids don’t see porn. but even if all this was about protecting kids, it’s sloppy and useless. it’s easy (for now) to get around with a vpn and the only thing the act doing is censoring things that it shouldnt. if the government wanted to protect kids, they would do something concrete about it - they would be putting more funding into education, for example.
of course the policy isnt called “national surveillance”. they’re not going to call it that. everything will be hidden behind things that people want.
so email your MP, and tell other people that this is WAY more than blocking porn from children - this is the first step towards national surveillance.
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10000 YEAR OLD ROCK ART OF GIRAFFES FOUND IN LIBYA LET'S GO
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Got excited about Elwood’s bounty of whiskers until I look at my other rabbits and realized that perhaps they are not so bountiful after all. But I thought maybe someone with an equally unwhiskered beast might be able to appreciate them
they worked so hard to grow these shit ass whiskers

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Just wanna know something, cos I've heard that US Americans don't travel as much as most other people...
#canadian and i've just been to the states. once.#was gonna be twice but then y'know *gestures to the united states currently*
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"Le repos du fakir" (2003), Stéphane Argillet and Gilles Paté
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the national archives stores a whole bunch of their stuff offsite in a giant cave in the uk’s largest salt mine???????????? let me IN
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knowledge long forgotten
got really into reading item descriptions on this playthrough. anyway did you know the silent princess is one of the only raw materials with a cooking effect to not explicitly list that effect in its description
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"ccute baby bunny compilation" "cutest rabbit videos!" "cute bunny so sweet every video" NO. i want FUNNY rabbit. i want rabbit STUPID compilatiom. I want every video of a rabbit thumping over some inane thing . i want a compilation of ever rabbit thats ever jumped in a trash bin. show me the goddamn animal
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One of the silliest rules of dnd 5e has to be that to get any benefits from having a horse for long travels, you need to get a new horse every 10 miles
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Me: I wonder where my brother is
The Greek chorus hogging the entire couch: How quickly this one forgets where his brother has gone to go cycling. How quickly he forgets all things. We wonder what the gods will think of this indiscression. If they think anything at all.
Me: Do you guys ever take those masks off?
The Greek chorus hogging the entire couch: No. It’s a sex thing.
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I LOVE COMPLEX DATED ADVERBS. Wherein. Heretofore. Thereon. Hereunto. Whereof. Hitherward. Hereinafter. How can you look at these words and not lose your mind. They're insane. I think I'm in love.
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