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An open letter to the UK Internet

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To all my friends and the rest of the Internet in the UK,  It probably hasn’t escaped your attention that in a few months time we’re going to be having one of those general election things. In theory, this gives us a chance to change who governs us, the direction the country is going in and all that sort of good stuff. Generally speaking, I don’t think we have a very good track record with this; in part, I think because we’re too afraid of the wasted vote boogeyman – however, to improve our track record it would probably be … Continue reading →

Facebook blackout day

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Recently Facebook started enforcing its real names policy, in a particularly cack handed fashion. Facebook has for an awfully long time had an “authenticate name policy. It’s a slightly confused policy as it states: “The name you use should be your authentic identity; as your friends call you in real life and as our acceptable identification forms would show.” But the types of ID they accept are basically state ID of your current legal name which often is the name “your friends call you in real life”. Add to this a very healthy dose of American cultural assumptions to what … Continue reading →

A flash of understanding

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I suspect that many of you already know what I’m about to say and probably worked it out ages ok, but sometimes I’m a bit slow on the uptake. I’d like to claim that it’s because what I’ve finally realised is so insane is so bonkers that I haven’t previously been able to believe it. However this morning I suddenly had an insight into the mind of the statist (at least of the left wing kind). I was reading an article over on vice defending the Hypocrite Mr Brand when one of the comments suddenly made something make sense. Whilst … Continue reading →