What exactly are Blavatnik’s politics here? He allegedly had some involvement with the Brexit campaign, and is said to be connected to the international oligarchical right’s antidemocratic push, though apparently supports liberals in Israel?

It’s like rain on your wedding day

Some VPNs like Mullvad have the option of padding out the flow of data to thwart traffic analysis, at the expense of speed.

Police have UPS-like devices which splice into existing mains cables to keep machines alive on the way into the forensics lab. Presumably it’s standard practice to use those.

Of course, the server could be configured to wipe itself if it loses connectivity for more than a few seconds, or its routing changes. The police would need devices that route Ethernet traffic over 5G, though those would presumably be detectable as bandwidth goes down and latency goes up.

If you phrase it as a punitive tax on the childless, it sounds outrageous. However, if you increase general taxes and give tax breaks to parents with children, people are more accepting.

Was reversecentaur.io taken or something?

Apparently Grimes is producing her comeback album

“There’s a guy in the waiting room with a WW1 shell inside him”

“Rectum?”

“Not yet, but it’s touch and go”

Farage, presumably. Though Musk wants Tommy Robinson.

Race conditions

If it’s The Canary, I’d double-check it first. They have a tendency to publish incendiary claims with little regard for accuracy (i.e., their claim that the RAF was refuelling IDF bombers over Gaza).

The purpose of a system is what it does.

It looks like the hollow husk of UKIP left behind by Farage and his backers has turned into some equivalent of the BNP/EDL/that one Morrissey endorsed.

You love to see it.

They’re not getting the concessions Thatcher handbagged out of Delors. They join the EU on equal terms with other members. If they would prefer to stand proudly alone with their delusions of imperial grandeur and get pushed around by everyone else and eventually turned into a hollowed-out kleptostate run from Beijing, Riyadh, Mar-a-Lago and a dozen tax havens, then they can’t be helped. (Though if Scotland and Wales make a break for it, they should be welcomed into the EU on the standard terms.)

The UK can keep its emotional-support Sterling (well, as long as the złoty and the Danish and Swedish krona exist, but not a day longer), though Schengen should be non-negotiable. Then we can get cross-channel rail service that’s not just a link between a handful of security-hardened railports with queues that compare unfavourably with Stansted in peak holiday season.

In what way is she “goth”? She’s basically Daphne from Scooby-Doo.

Being able to set up personally hosted RSS feeds would be useful. If the feeds are fetched periodically, that could also allow archiving of accounts.

Or even if it could provide RSS feeds of accounts, for following in a RSS reader.

Though excellent work!

I can vouch for Mythic Beasts