A baby hedgehog enjoys a drink after being found crossing a lawn at Rock Moor House, near Alnwick, Northumberland, #UK. Normally a hedgehog would not be out in the daytime, but in the warm weather this one happily headed for the shade and was very pleased to be given a saucer of water to drink. Animal welfare organisations ask people to put water out for wildlife during heatwaves

Photograph: Anna Watson/Alamy Live News

@photography
#photography
#animals
#hedgehogs
#heatwaves

Legend of #Zelda movie casts two British actors in lead roles

source: bbc.com/news/articles/c80p2x4l…

The live-action film is set to be released in May 2027

#Movie #Game #Gamer #Nintendo #UK #entertainment #cinema #actor #news #BoBragason #BenjaminEvanAinsworth #link

Reddit rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with new rules

Reddit users in the United Kingdom are now required to verify their age as a way to prevent children from accessing inappropriate content.

The new requirement comes after the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) introduced new steps for platformsto block children from encountering harmful content, like pornography and material promoting self-harm.

#reddit #socialmedia #UK #OSA #Persona #technology #tech

techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/redd…

Reddit rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with new rules | TechCrunch

Reddit users in the UK will have to upload their ID or a selfie to access potentially harmful content.

^{Lauren Forristal (TechCrunch)}

Shop keeper Phyllis used her computer system to automate book keeping, taking the time to prepare from five hours to five minutes.

Having learned the system down to hardware level, Phyllis is now building an electronics kit. Her aim? Build a computer herself; Or as we called it an “electronic gadget”.

What Phyllis doesn’t say is she was a maths graduate from University and “#Cypher Clerk” in “Hut 5” at #BletchleyPark during the war.

The”Official Secrets Act” was in force in 1983 😂🤣☺️

#UK / WW2 / #computing / #bombe / #SigInt / #accounts / #hardware #kits / #Commodore / #PET / #RetroComputing

University of Edinburgh School of Political Science graduates stage mass walk out at graduation ceremony to protest university’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.

reddit.com/r/AlJazeera/s/G9teV…

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #UniversityOfEdinburgh #Edinburgh #Scotland #UK #complicity

"Donald #Trump could be denied #Parliament address in second state visit"

#Conservatives don't want him, he's a liability. Trump helped conservatives lose in #Australia and #Canada

#Liberals don't want him- who would purposefully expose themselves to mental vomit?

As an American, I envy #UK's parliament

Imagine being able to just deny the bloviating asshole exposure

Pictured is #Obama at #WestminsterHall in 2011 as a mental palate cleanse

msn.com/en-us/news/world/donal…

WTF?

Burning of migrant boat #effigy in #NorthernIreland triggers police investigation

Authorities in Northern Ireland are investigating a bonfire that featured effigies of migrants in a boat & a banner reading “stop the boats” to determine whether it was a hate incident.

#law #HateCrime #immigration #UK #Ireland #Éire #TuaisceartÉireann
apnews.com/article/northern-ir…

"Homes in England had a median Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) score of 68 and homes in Wales had a median EPC score of 67, according to records from the 10 years up to March 2024; both scores are in band D."

ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationand…

The UK government is so broke, or short-sighted, or both, that it's only considering a policy of bringing houses up to band C:

"This chapter discusses findings on energy efficiency ratings and heating systems and how this differs by tenure. It then goes on to discuss insulation measures in dwellings, smart meters by tenure and subjective overheating, then finishes with the average cost of improving dwellings to an energy efficiency rating band C."

gov.uk/government/statistics/c…

Bear in mind that any house with an insulation less than in the A band is going to pay a lot in heating and cooling. A lot. It's like a tax on the poor, or a punishment: to endure cold winters and hot summers.

#UK #EnergyRating #insulation #InsulateBritain

Rest in peace, freedom of speech. Not wanting a certain ethnicity to die is a crime now, just like in 1940. 😢

#fascism #uk #greatbritain #england #netherlands #germany #starmer #keirstarmer #israel #freepalestine #antifascism #antifa #activism #genocide #antigenocide freegaza

An incredible resource collated by the amazing team at #Israel Exposed. Historians and researches will be trawling through this for decades to come.

And a stark reminder of how craven and complicit #Australia, #UK, #US and other enabling governments are.

Also, imagine how dark and cynical you have to be now, 20 months in to this killing spree, to claim ignorance of these crimes against humanity?

#Gaza #IsraelExposed #Genocide #auspol

watermeloncrimes.com/

#UK MPs vote to proscribe #PalestineAction as #terrorist group

theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

Minister argues move will not impinge on people’s right to protest but critics call it ‘grave abuse of state power’

UK MPs vote to proscribe Palestine Action as terrorist group

^{Aletha Adu (The Guardian)}

Scotland Independence: Dozens of pro-Indy accounts go dark after Israeli strikes

Their sudden disappearance coincided with a major Israeli airstrike campaign against Iranian military and cyber infrastructure. Within days, Iran had suffered severe power outages, fuel shortages, and an internet blackout affecting 95 percent of national connectivity.

...

Iranian bots haven’t posted for four days.

source: ukdefencejournal.org.uk/dozens…

#bots #propaganda #manipulation #iran #uk #Scotland #independence #discussion #politics #internet #problem #cybersecurity #infrastructure #war #military #cyberspace #influence #Israel #news #cyberwar

I don't watch TV or the news so I catch onto things slow.

Which brings me to Bob Vylan. The hypocrisy is off the fucking scale.

Apparently they "glorified violence".

Did they COMMIT violence so that life was viciously scrubbed out like the IDF do EVERY DAY?

Starmer and his fascist lackeys, as well as the BBC, are accomplices to genocide.

PICK A SIDE.

#uk #ukpol #ukpolitics #Gaza #palestine #genocide #fascism #politics

Anyone who defends israel is a monster.

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #europe #eu #uk #fuckKeirStarmer #deathToTheIDF #freePalestine #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/1…

The IDF routinely murders defenceless and starving people seeking help at aid centers, but it's apparently APPALLING to chant "death, death to the IDF".

bbc.com/news/articles/c33514nr…

#Israel #IsraelWarCrimes #Gaza #GazaGenocide #BBC #UK #Glastonbury

Starmer criticises 'appalling' Bob Vylan IDF chants

The prime minister describes the punk duo's Glastonbury chants calling for death to Israel's military as "hate speech".

^{Adam Hale & Zahra Fatima (BBC News)}

And here we go: wishing death upon a genocidal army is apparently a hate crime now.

"...now the establishment is in meltdown because they have lost control of the narrative. Anti-Zionism is cool, the youth know how badly we have been lied to about Israel, and no matter how much censorship comes next, no matter how many prosecutions we see, you aren't putting that toothpaste back in the tube."

councilestatemedia.uk/p/it-loo…

#IsraelWarCrimes #Glastonbury #Israel #Gaza #GazaGenocide #UK

It looks like wishing death upon a genocidal army is a hate crime now

Are we allowed to say "death to the IDF" in the UK?

^{Ricky Hale (Council Estate Media)}

I saw this wonderful Dragonfly today. I think it's a Black-tailed Skimmer

#nature #DRAGONFLIES #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #DragonPhotography #DragonfliesOfMastodon #UK

#FBI used #bitcoin #wallet records to peg notorious #IntelBroker as #UK national

Source: theregister.com/2025/06/26/fbi…

The FBI connected this wallet to an earlier Ramp account registered using a UK driver's license in the name "Kai Logan West." That driver's license was also associated with a #Coinbase account, registered by West but under his "Kyle Northern" alias.

Both the Ramp and Coinbase accounts used West's personal #email address, the FBI says.

#news #police #crypto #cybercrime #identification #anonymity #money #crime

FBI used bitcoin wallet records to peg notorious IntelBroker as UK national

: Pro tip: Don't use your personal email account on BreachForums

^{Jessica Lyons (The Register)}

#Ransomware #attack contributed to #patient’s #death, says #Britain’s #NHS

source: therecord.media/ransomware-att…

#cybersecurity #security #technology #fail #problem #health #hospital #UK #fail #news

Ransomware attack contributed to patient’s death, says Britain’s NHS

A cybercrime group's attack against a London-based pathology service last year was one of the "contributing factors" in the death of a patient, U.K. officials said.

^{Alexander Martin (The Record)}

#VictoriaAmelina was murdered in 2023 in Kramatorsk by a Russian missile strike

At the time her #book "Looking at #Women, Looking at #War" was unfinished

Friends and colleagues finalized it with minimal edits to preserve her voice

Yesterday she was posthumously awarded the prestigious #UK #OrwellPrize in #political #writing

Victoria was 37 and is survived by her son

She's among 208 #Ukraine artists who have been killed by #Russia since 2022

kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-…

#UkraineWar #books #RIP

#Privatsphäre #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou
#UK

"Die Supermarktkette #Iceland hat mit der Erprobung von Live-Gesichtserkennung in zwei [britischen]Filialen begonnen und plant eine weitere Ausweitung.

Tausende von Menschen werden in ihren Persönlichkeitsrechten verletzt, nur um grundlegende Dinge zu kaufen. 👉Iceland macht seine Kunden zu Verdächtigen, indem es sie zwingt, sich einer biometrischen Identitätsprüfung zu unterziehen🙈, die Teil ihres täglichen Lebens ist..."

mailchi.mp/bigbrotherwatch/649…

Had to stop the car on the way home from work for this beauty that was perched on an old house roof in the village of Lower Crawley this afternoon

Female Kestrel

#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK #BirdScrolling

Puffin Rock looks over the glistening North Sea

#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK #BirdScrolling

“The band said: ‘You know what’s “not appropriate” Keir?!’ They then used an expletive to accuse the prime minister of arming a genocide.

Israel has strongly denied allegations of genocide relating to the ongoing war in Gaza.”

– BBC

israel has strongly denied that it’s raining, have they, BBC? So tell me, what do you see when you look out the fucking window?

#bbc #uk #starmer #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #Kneecap mastodon.ie/@bullivant/1147277…

The convicted fraud withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal because of spite, ignorance, or both.

Trump created the problem. The single reason Iran was so close to obtaining a nuclear weapon is that Trump destroyed the diplomatic agreement that put major, verifiable constraints on their nuclear program.

"MSM doing a bang-up job right now of ignoring the fact that a criminal POTUS unilaterally declared war and instead focusing on Iran’s nuclear capabilities which had a deal w/USA until same criminal pulled out of it because it was achieved under Obama. Trump is a threat to peace everywhere."

#iran #usa #press #media #europe #europeanunion #Uk

* Government complicit in committing genocide brands sabotaging genocide as terrorism

#uk #littleEngland #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #complicity #Palestine #Gaza flipboard.com/@bbcnews/top-sto…

Palestine Action to be banned after RAF base break in

The home secretary will move to proscribe Palestine Action group in the coming weeks, effectively branding them as a terrorist organisation, the BBC understands.

^{BBC News - Chris Mason}