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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 8h

Jonathan Ross's hair dye is a traitor. The bottle says brown, but it comes out blue under the lights. #Traitors

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 1d

That really is a stretch. Not many Linux videos in my YouTube history!

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it's your age...

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 1d

There's been an A-level for English Language since the 90s. I've got one. My daughter's about to do one.

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 1d

Gave up on X long ago. For precisely that reason (and many more).

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 1d

Hmmm... The Google Ads documentation suggests various methods of targeting, including based on your interests/viewing habits.

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 1d

It's in my Recommended feed. It's the advertiser they think I'll be interested in.

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 1d

YouTube "recommends" Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson to me. My viewing history would give them absolutely no reason to recommend this. We are monumentally fucked.

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 4d

Fox News UK

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 5d

I don't mind paying for a flu jab or (as is now the option) a Covid jab. But over £100 for the pair is steep.

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 5d

Or you can not

The Verge @theverge.com · 5d

You can now buy Microsoft’s Windows XP Crocs for $79.95

The limited edition Crocs include Internet Explorer and Clippy shoe charms.

buff.ly

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 5d

Indeed. No surprise to find Ryanair flicking the Vs at the unsubscribe command, either.

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 5d

Who could possibly have foreseen that implementing age verification with absolutely no standards governing the age verifiers would end like this?

404 Media @404media.co · 6d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 5d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 5d

Someone's going to be grumpy when he wakes up...

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 5d

Gmail introduced a new feature this summer that lets you unsubscribe from email lists with a single click. It seems some companies are ignoring it. My report for Forbes:

www.forbes.com/sites/barryc...

Companies Ignore Gmail’s Unsubscribe Feature

Some senders are ignoring a new Gmail feature that supposedly lets you unsubscribe from their email lists with a single click.

www.forbes.com

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 6d

It’s been weeks since iPadOS and macOS 26 were launched and there’s still loads of stuff like this occurring. What has happened to Apple’s quality control?

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 7d

The word "snazzy" has probably cost them three points in the overnight polls.

Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 7d

Kemi Badenoch ignored the former Conservative voters who believe in the rule of law, protecting our home for future generations and human rights for all our people.

With the help of a snazzy van we made sure people could hear a different message in Manchester today.

Join us

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 7d

It's not the BBC's job to infer what Reform would say. But Heseltine bats it away neatly.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 8d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 8d

He's going to need one hell of a spymaster to get out of this one

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 8d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 8d

See you've gone for the AMD-powered sherry trifle. Things really are grim for Intel.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 8d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 8d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 8d

ChatGPT Apps "will be available today to all logged-in ChatGPT users outside of the EU". Except they're not working in the UK. Not even the slimmest of Brexit benefits...

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Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social · 8d

If you're faintly interested in NFL, catch the highlights of the Chiefs Vs the Jaguars from last night.

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