taizou @lion@computerfairi.es

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

the part that still needs work tbh is the admin backend, where i actually write & manage the posts, it hasn't changed much since i started hhug & i never much liked actually using it. need to figure out the most optimal interface to trick my brain into wanting to write things

i've been working on my blogging software (the one that powers handheld underground & 12bit blog) adding support for replies to comments among other things. wanted to improve it a bit if i'm going to start a personal blog

was looking on wikimedia commons for public domain lion pictures i could use for a thing & i found this good one https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Druidofthejungle%27s_lion_drawing.jpg

i'm not gonna talk about it until i have it because i genuinely think it's gonna get pulled from the market before long. the deceptive aspect is pretty obvious and a lot of people are figuring it out quickly

have just ordered a fraudulent product on purpose, this should be interesting

if you needed more convincing apparently the latest 20260425 nightly build of rocknix now supports this thing perfectly 👀