Photo: Butterfly

Sep. 5th, 2025 02:43 pm
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I took a cup of tea outside in the afternoon sunshine and saw a bee, a butterfly and then this butterfly:



A comma! I've never (knowingly) seen one in real life before so this was special :)

Digital ID - NO

Sep. 4th, 2025 02:58 pm
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On the back of more censorship like the disastrous Online Safety Act, the mass data breeches (from the Afghan data leak to the Tea app scandal) and people being arrested and even jailed for tweets, and after 5 years of creping surveillance and control, next is the push is for Digital ID in the UK.
No, this is not like your passport number. Yes, there are horrific implications for data breeches and ID theft. Yes, there are horrific implications for privacy, anonymity and freedoms. Call it conspiracy theory but ask yourself this: do you trust this and every subsequent government to access and control every detail of your life and data?

I'm not going to go into detail about the threats but I am going to share this from the Together Declaration (
"By the people, for the people – Together is a grass roots movement fighting to take back democracy, advocating for a better future, shaped by our guiding principles"values statement)

Why A Compulsory Digital ID Card Is Nothing Like Your Passport - And Far More Dangerous

You can click through to Twitter (X) or there's an archived copy: https://archive.ph/gqPGq

The article ends with this summary:
In short:

👉 Your UK passport or driving licence is a bit like a library card - you use it for one specific job, then put it away.

👉 Compulsory digital ID cards could be like a GPS tracker on your life, recording and linking everything you do.

👉 With powerful modern technology, the risks aren’t just bigger than a passport - they’re on a completely different scale…

...and far greater even than the last time Tony Blair tried to impose compulsory ID cards, scrapped in 2010 at a cost of up to £20bn to the taxpayer.


At the Together Declaration website they have a page outlining the need for a Digital Bill of Rights instead of Digital ID with information and tools to help you contact your MP.

Lands of Magic miscellany

Aug. 28th, 2025 03:54 pm
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Aside from the fic I've been posting to AO3 this should be the last of the Lands of Magic stuff to be crossposted!

Star Wars: The Force Awakens as a western - fic and graphic.
Some silly Star Wars (sequels) election campaign posters.
A Musketeers (BBC) themed tarot card
Some The Borgias tumblr graphics
Nolan Ross (Revenge) NYE outfit
Meta: Mary Poppins is related to Merlin
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