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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 7h

Holy crap! x.com/WhiteHouse/s...

The Whitehouse just announced it is anti-anti-fascist. You do the maths...

(Yes, I'm sharing a Xitter link, but just so you know it is direct from source.)

And if it gets pulled, here's an indirect archived copy:
xcancel.com/WhiteHouse/s...

xcancel.com

Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 1d

"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested."

So - pretty much like trying to understand Facebook's bureaucratic machinations.

Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 1d

The Trial - Franz Kafka
Josef K. is arrested without being told his crime and spends the entire novel trying to navigate an absurd legal system that makes no sense. Every attempt to gain clarity leads to contradictory or empty responses.

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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 1d

"Learn more" just takes you round in circular self-referential of unhelpful articles that actually tell you nothing significantly more than that one sentence.

So, to simply START the process of challenging a suspension I know not the reason for I have to give them something I keep closely guarded.

Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 1d

"Your selfie will be stored securely and deleted within 30 days after we've finished confirming your identity. Learn more"

That fills me with confidence. Not.

(Facial recognition training, much?)

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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 1d

Yay for age verification...

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos

Names, email addresses and other contact details of users from around the world could also have been taken

www.theguardian.com

Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 1d

And it was (literally) moments after committing a near identical post to this on Facebook that the suspension popped up.
bsky.app/profile/real...

Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 1d

Presented without comment:
theferret.scot/idf-scottish...

The Israel Defense Forces used a Scottish museum’s 3D models in propaganda videos – The Ferret

theferret.scot

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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 1d

Dealing with Facebook can be very Kafkaesque.

"Your account was suspended" but no indication of why. No way of communicating with anything but their self-referential "help" portal. To start the appeal process I first have to submit a full face photograph. Makes no damned sense.

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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant description of the current state of GenAI: plausible bullshit engine.

Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 1d

Well that's nice. I post a link to an article about Israel faking their propaganda from a Scottish museum's internal scans, on Facebook and seconds later my account is suspended and the only way to get it back is to send them a selfie.

Suspicious, much?

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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 1d

Presented without comment:
theferret.scot/idf-scottish...

The Israel Defense Forces used a Scottish museum’s 3D models in propaganda videos – The Ferret

theferret.scot

Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 1d

Darling
Just don't put down your guns yet
If there really was a God here
He'd have raised a hand by now
Now darling
You're born, get old and die here
Well that's quite enough for me
We'll find our own way home somehow

Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 4d

Eek! I get that to some extent you're paying for clever IP and the underlying distribution infrastructure, but 25 quid for a t-shirt!? You gotta be kidding me.

Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 4d

Ah, well, if your attention is on following the complete chain of responsibility, then yes, it is a point well made. The buck doesn't stop with the thugs on the street. The chain goes all the way to the top...

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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 4d

The aftermath led me to wonder something: why does pork fat re-solidify after rendering, which chicken fat stays oily (at room temperature)? Daft question, but now it is bugging me.

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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 4d

I had reason to roast a shoulder of pork and a chicken last night. (Both needed cooking, at the same temperature, for approximately the same time so it seemed daft to spend twice the energy just to do them on separate occasions. But that is an aside.)

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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 4d

"I voss only folloving orders" was repudiated, rather resoundingly, in Nuremburg 80 years ago.

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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 5d

I don't believe in Karma, but if I did...

san.com/cc/app-for-o...

Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 5d

In a land of hate and horror
We set an exclamation mark
So hail your kings and hail your queens
We're rigid; we're the children of the dark

Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 7d

Just discovered a composer new to me...

Love this track: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhv_...

Zack Hemsey - "Vengeance"

YouTube video by Zack Hemsey

www.youtube.com

Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 7d

Are we surprised?

Are we?

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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 8d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGIx...

Watching this from across the Atlantic is extraordinarily unsettling, if it is an indicator of things to come this side...

Lawrence: We are clearly seeing madness pouring from the darkness of Donald Trump's mind

YouTube video by MSNBC

www.youtube.com

Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 8d

"The British spelling of ..."

So the correct spelling then, England being part of Britain, and "English" being the language?

Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 8d

They could be entirely legitimate or they could be complete charlatans. I have no knowledge but it strikes me as really ill-considered for an official domain to fall into commercial hands all for the saving of a meagre annual domain registration.

Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 8d

* Don't shoot me. I hate the term "cyber" anything, but it's what they call it themselves.

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