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Like for real I've been wondering this for a while. I'm pretty sure not everyone has a pyjamas for every night of the week and presumably noone is putting worn pyjamas back in the drawer. Where are you guys putting them?? Under pillow?? Just strewn about bedroom???

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Uk media reporting on the OSA:

Reality:

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This is a reminder for those who handmake Christmas presents that now is not too early to start. It may in fact be a good time to start if you have a lot to make/your craft takes a long time. You should maybe start it now, whether that's brainstorming or actually doing the crafts!

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THIS RIGHT HERE

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Anyway if you see this you have to reblog and tag with a delight from ur day -- even the littlest thing counts

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Scotland doesn’t want Donald Trump to visit despite him always claiming he’s making us respected on the world stage.

10/10 headline, no notes.

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From snopes.com

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When I travel, it's usually to the country's capital but then sometimes I meet citizens of this country in different circumstances and they say they've never been there. I'm not judging because some capitals are far away and expensive but I'm wondering...

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Reading the new checks that might come in due to the Online Safety Act in the UK and this is actually bullshit

[Image Transcript:

And how will I prove my age?

There’s a number of methods a site or app might use to ask you to confirm your age. They might do this check themselves or use another company to do the check. These methods include:

Facial age estimation – you show your face via photo or video, and technology analyses it to estimate your age. 

Open banking – you give permission for the age-check service to securely access information from your bank about whether you are over 18. The age-check service then confirms this with the site or app.

Digital identity services – these include digital identity wallets, which can securely store and share information which proves your age in a digital format.

Credit card age checks – you provide your credit card details and a payment processor checks if the card is valid. As you must be over 18 to obtain a credit card this shows you are over 18.

Email-based age estimation – you provide your email address, and technology analyses other online services where it has been used – such as banking or utility providers - to estimate your age.  

Mobile network operator age checks – you give your permission for an age-check service to confirm whether or not your mobile phone number has age filters applied to it. If there are no restrictions, this confirms you are over 18. 

Photo-ID matching – this is similar to a check when you show a document. For example, you upload an image of a document that shows your face and age, and an image of yourself at the same time – these are compared to confirm if the document is yours.

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Not only is this such a fucking breach of privacy, but this is going to hurt adults in vulnerable and abusive situations. Some adults don’t have bank accounts or credit cards or even a fucking phone. I’m one of them. I could not give half of this information even if I wanted to. What the fuck is this. Fuck the UK government. This isn’t going to protect kids, this is just going to hurt adults, and I know full well when they say “sites that allow pornography” they’re going to be going after sites that have huge amounts of queer content, like tumblr and Ao3. Queer kids are gonna lose their fucking communities because of this shit. Abuse victims are going to lose online support systems because of this.

I’m genuinely fucked off about this, and worried about whether I’m going to lose every single one of my online friends. Anyone in the UK, please email your MP and sign this petition. It needs to reach 100k signatures to pass through Parliament.

I’m only hoping the backlash will be big enough for them to stop implementing these measures.

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RIP Ozzy Osbourne

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This probably isn't the case but worth mentioning. Whenever I go to Half Price Books, i keep finding Clive Barket Abarat in the horror section, even though it's a YA fantasy series. I figured the staff thought that since Clive Barker mostly does horror, it's probably horror too. So one say I mentioned it to an employee thinking maybe they just weren't familiar with the series. The employee then told me that sometimes the store does that on purpose, like if the YA section is full and they don't have a lot of horror in stock, they'll be like "eh close enough" and put it in horror even though it technically doesn't belong there.

So maybe if hulu wants to advertise how many movies they have in each genre, they put things that aren't in the genre but sort of adjacent to it (war is scary, so...horror!) in there to pad out the numbers to make it look like they have more horror movies than they actually have.

Either that or someone saw the word October and that the poster had black and red on it and thought, yeah that's probably a horror movie and moved on to the next title

So was browsing Hulu for Horror films......And among their horror films is HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER which is a movie about Sean Connery on a Soviet submarine trying to defect to the US ....I just,....What????????

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My mother LOVES that movie so yeah definitely makes sense

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The Prince of Darkness takes the stage for one final bow.

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IS MOON DAY!!! MOOOOON DAY!!!! THE DAY OF MOOOOON! HAPPY MOON DAY 🌝 (we landed on the moon today in 1969)