taizou @lion@computerfairi.es

idk if the reference is even that well known but it's this https://legendsoflocalization.com/articles/hana-no-star-kaido/

bit of now-redundant JS that i'm slightly sad to get rid of because of the comment

splatoon raiders has somewhat nudged up my "do i give a fuck enough to get a switch 2" meter but still not over the line yet i think

this thing i saw on aliexpress is really hitting my weak point for really stupid video game consoles. check out the fucking gamer king. kingof jighter37 https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005012109252041.html

Top five fursonas? — I don't think there's any way I can answer this without coming off like I'm ranking my friends so I think I will have to respectfully decline to do so lol https://alterspring.org/@taizou/a/116506865276144514

How's your Friday night going? — It was pretty chill I guess. I wasn't feeling too great after work so I just kinda lounged around watching streams and drinking wine. And then later on I did some more work on the new blog I want to set up... https://alterspring.org/@taizou/a/116506833190023150

beer lion

who's your favorite boy? — the one reading this!!!! (if you are one)
also ralsei https://alterspring.org/@taizou/a/116501581968350319

hm.... gay things

one of the lords proposals was that the reasoning for whatever restrictions they land on should be taught in the national curriculum - quite revealing tbh that they don't want to teach them how to keep safe but do want to tell them that daddy government is keeping them locked away for their own good

like i often call this shit abusive but they really make the parallels clear sometimes

and i do need to emphasise by the way that when they talk about preventing under 16s from "stranger pairing" or whatever they really mean preventing anyone who has not ID verified. so even if you don't give a shit about the kids (and you should) this will affect everyone

we should be educating kids about what dangerous interactions look like and the tools they have to block and report people or disable stranger contact on their own terms. but nah fuck informing and empowering them to keep themselves safe eh. that's too hard. just take away their rights

never mind that 99% of such interactions are teens befriending other teens or having totally benign or positive interactions with adults. we're doing stranger danger again baby. oi mate you got a loicense for that human connection you're forming

one thing i've noticed reading the hansard transcripts of the debates over online restrictions for under 16s is this great emphasis and panic over "stranger pairing" which i believe is what we used to call "making friends"
https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-04-28/debates/10561CF6-2D3B-4460-BE8A-0194D12E146C/Children%E2%80%99SWellbeingAndSchoolsBill

hmm

i've now made it display thumbnails & it shows the filenames & markup for the image when you click on it. made it like 100x more useful. progress is being made

the bulk of this was done in 2012 when i launched hhug with a few improvements over the years. the bit that handles image uploads somehow dates back to the website i had before that & it looks like this. i just embedded it in an iframe in the current interface & was like fuck it that'll do for now