The village on Lunt near Liverpool considered changing its name to “Launt”, because vandals kept adding a top stroke to the L in signs.

Coulsdon is the new Scunthorpe, it seems

Olympia at least had a good punk/indie/riot-grrrl scene in the 90s, and made its mark on music history that way

True, though BlueSky is a temporary redoubt at best, though one which, through switching costs, will trap people just as Xitter did. They accepted venture capital funds, and so when the time comes, will have to somehow recoup that from their users. At the moment, they’re in the glue-trap phase, attracting their users with promises to be open and not screw them over (see also: the early days of Facebook). Once enough are there, and have brought their friends and built personally meaningful networks dependent on BlueSky, the trap will close: third-party APIs will be restricted to the point of not providing an escape (as happened with Reddit and Xitter), the user-configurable algorithms will get unremovable additions that gradually increase the amount of ads, influencer content, AI pink-slime and whatever else they want in your feed, and then you’ll lose the ability to see all the content you selected, all the better to keep you refreshing and scrambling for anything you may have missed. And then, since all your friends and the cool people you follow are there, your choices will be to stay and suck it up, or effectively become a hermit.

and apparently Nazis are following suit.

Someone should perhaps spin up a Mastodon/Misskey/something instance named swifties.social and bring them into the fediverse.

How easy is it to strip DRM from Kobo ebooks?

Wireguard is more elegant and performant, and has a smaller attack surface. OpenVPN, meanwhile, is a legacy protocol, and retiring it should be a good thing.

But a few of Boffo Boris!’s chums made quite a bit of dosh from the public purse, so who’s to say it’s all bad?

In the long run, we will all be dead, and none of this will matter.

The landlord has offered to cover it with cheap white paint, but that’s the best he can do

Stories are, though, which is why recipes have long, rambling introductions about the author’s grandmother’s childhood in a small village in Sicily or whatever.

They’re only laughing because deep down they know they’re beta-cuck manlets who will never be an alpha-chad like you. It’s an involuntary nervous reaction to feeling viscerally outclassed and unmanned by your aura of effortless brocious dominance.

By who? Darren from Essex who drives a van, voted for Brexit, and thinks that immigrants would be OK if they came here to work rather than just stealing our jobs?

Soho is mostly pedestrianised as it is. Few people would drive there in the best of times, with the lack of parking, as the city is far too dense to accommodate that. Pedestrianising it (with common-sense exemptions for cabs, delivery vehicles and such where needed) would merely tidy up the status quo.

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Marching band music. Can’t get enough of it.

Judaeochristian settler states stick together

I wonder why

IIRC, it’s one of the papers bought by Lebedev, a Russian oligarch (and the son of a KGB officer stationed in London) and one of Boris Johnson’s backers. Presumably it has served its strategic purpose and is now a burnt asset.

You say that, but…

The judicial record of England and Wales says otherwise.