The very first pot I made and painted, one of my favourites, link to purchase it in the comments Traditional Fairy Toadstool Trinket Pot Red & White Mushroom Cottage, Ha... youtu.be/YA7FNwK4HtE?si=thNp… via @YouTube

Why are they thinking of blocking VPN's? This stems from the Online Safety Act — platforms have to do age checks, lots of people (including kids) started using VPNs to dodge them, so lawmakers are trying to close that loophole. 3/4

Can they block VPNs? Yes, in theory (IP blocks, DPI, app store removals, forcing ISPs to inspect traffic), Experts say a serious nationwide block would be: Very expensive & technically messy. Easy to bypass with basic tech skills. Likely to face massive pushback 2/4

NOBODY needs Keir Starmer's "permission" to post anything to the internet! People need to read Article 19 of the Human Rights act! Starmer is a human rights lawyer. He is more than aware of this @Keir_Starmer

'They' know they are failing! The desperation to bring in total tracking is laughable, the tech will fail as the contracts are always given to 'mates' who have no idea what they are actually doing!..... they couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery!

🚨UPDATE : Not only may Keir Starmers social media ban be in breach of Article 8 it may now also be in breach of Article 10 of the ECHR. And yes the ECHRs rights extends to children.

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.

Please share far and wide I am getting really concerned now 😉 Thank You ❤️

Six months after Australia implemented the world’s first ban on social media for children under 16 in December 2025, the legislation is widely considered to have failed in its primary goal of keeping minors off platforms. Research indicates that 70% to 75% of children in the affected age group remain active on major apps, with many reporting that the ban had no impact on their online safety or usage habits.

They all show their allegiance eventually

Perfection. 👌

I agree 💯

Ugh, went shopping, way to peopley out there! I'm exhausted from just being around them!

When they do face ID it's .... Face forward & look straight into the camera. Turn your head left, then right. You may also be asked to blink or smile. Get AI to generate a face doing this, it doesn't have to be yours! This is what the australian kids do to bypass facial ID 😂

Morning beautiful souls Lovely grey dank day again, but in my dreams I've been sitting on this beach night scene (acrylics on canvas) 😊 Have a wonderful day, don't let the buggers get you down, in the end this time .... we win 😊

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The struggle is real for sho😩😭

How about fuck off