wordloc 🏳️⚧️
@wordloc.net
Forever chatting shit and despairing at others' phantasms. Unapologetic lesbian 🏳️⚧️
Self-employed InfoSec and IT risk nerd with more opinions than is probably safe for me to have
[Ela Bambust's unofficial skeet ghost writer]
Self-employed InfoSec and IT risk nerd with more opinions than is probably safe for me to have
[Ela Bambust's unofficial skeet ghost writer]
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wordloc 🏳️⚧️
@wordloc.net
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We've also been on a podcast! Our Project Manager did an interview and you can go listen to them RIGHT MEOW!
QN18: dotMeow
And another English one - this time we’re talking to Lauren/wordloc from the dotMeow Foundation about precisely that, how to use the infrastructure of the internet to secure funding for queer projects...
www.podbean.com
I will be obnoxious about doing my first podcast interview! It went really well and Jyn is a wonderful human bean so I think y'all should show their show some love 💜
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please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro
February 9, 2026 at 6:44 PM
please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro
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It's so cool how a bunch of kids realized there was a genocide in the middle east in 2023 and now suddenly every major company and government is tripping over their own dicks to turn the world into an Orwllian surveillance state so that never happens again.
Discord leadership only people on planet who think adding age verification to Discord a good idea:
aftermath.site/discord-age-ve...
aftermath.site/discord-age-ve...
February 9, 2026 at 10:13 PM
It's so cool how a bunch of kids realized there was a genocide in the middle east in 2023 and now suddenly every major company and government is tripping over their own dicks to turn the world into an Orwllian surveillance state so that never happens again.
precisely what I was thinking of when I said it, I do generally hold space for folks to prove me wrong and learn from their mistakes but I shan't hold my breath
February 9, 2026 at 5:16 PM
precisely what I was thinking of when I said it, I do generally hold space for folks to prove me wrong and learn from their mistakes but I shan't hold my breath
I'm not even wholly opposed to this on principle, if they only collected DOB through a known & trusted system (say the govt provided portal or itsme) and then immediately deleted the data after recording a Y/N value I'd actually be fine with it. I'd grumble a little but I'd get over it.
February 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
I'm not even wholly opposed to this on principle, if they only collected DOB through a known & trusted system (say the govt provided portal or itsme) and then immediately deleted the data after recording a Y/N value I'd actually be fine with it. I'd grumble a little but I'd get over it.
I will eat my ID card if they actually have though
February 9, 2026 at 4:58 PM
I will eat my ID card if they actually have though
What are we willing to bet they've half arsed it and won't even have an option for European users to do it with their e-ID certificates. If they've implemented that properly and they are only accessing DOB, yeah sure, whatever, fine, at least they're doing it properly.
Discord will soon require face scans or ID for all users, or restrict access
Discord will soon require face scans or ID for all users, or restrict access
Discord has announced a major change coming to the service as part of its aim to improve teen safety features. Starting in March, all users globally will be required to submit age verification via a face scan or submitted ID, or be given teen-level access restrictions.
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February 9, 2026 at 4:58 PM
What are we willing to bet they've half arsed it and won't even have an option for European users to do it with their e-ID certificates. If they've implemented that properly and they are only accessing DOB, yeah sure, whatever, fine, at least they're doing it properly.
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Every business right now thinks its such an essential part of your life that you'd give them anything to keep using it and brother I am here to tell you I don't need a chat app that bad
Discord will soon require face scans or ID for all users, or restrict access
Discord will soon require face scans or ID for all users, or restrict access
Discord has announced a major change coming to the service as part of its aim to improve teen safety features. Starting in March, all users globally will be required to submit age verification via a face scan or submitted ID, or be given teen-level access restrictions.
more…
9to5mac.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Every business right now thinks its such an essential part of your life that you'd give them anything to keep using it and brother I am here to tell you I don't need a chat app that bad
I read the guy's methodology and apparently it's random sampling of profile bios within the identified clusters of users
February 9, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I read the guy's methodology and apparently it's random sampling of profile bios within the identified clusters of users
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Here’s the full map of our guests for the dotMeow livestream Friday!
February 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Here’s the full map of our guests for the dotMeow livestream Friday!
I would think you'd do it via a social graph so you don't have to process text but maybe they're a bit mad and were willing to throw a bunch of compute and a language model at it
February 9, 2026 at 4:16 PM
I would think you'd do it via a social graph so you don't have to process text but maybe they're a bit mad and were willing to throw a bunch of compute and a language model at it
clearly
they're probably just scraping with an unauthenticated user, you can't see my posts without logging in and I don't know how they are doing the clustering but maybe that's how
they're probably just scraping with an unauthenticated user, you can't see my posts without logging in and I don't know how they are doing the clustering but maybe that's how
February 9, 2026 at 4:14 PM
clearly
they're probably just scraping with an unauthenticated user, you can't see my posts without logging in and I don't know how they are doing the clustering but maybe that's how
they're probably just scraping with an unauthenticated user, you can't see my posts without logging in and I don't know how they are doing the clustering but maybe that's how
I'm clearly irrelevant 😭
February 9, 2026 at 3:53 PM
I'm clearly irrelevant 😭
Now I'm curious where I am in the web 🤔
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Now I'm curious where I am in the web 🤔
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This is what I mean when I say the *entire* British media and political establishment needs to be dismantled. Decades upon decades of this, of all the important people knowing each other and caring far more about the political ambitions of those in their social circles than the lives of the public.
In the middle of a moral panic about sex trafficking so intense that I can't advertise a book about medieval history online and no one can access prom anymore, Labour's best and brightest are desperate to get on TV and let you know actually it is fine if rich people do it to poor girls.
"People like me, people like Pat that come onto programs like this are going to be supportive of people that we have worked closely with"
Asked about Pat McFadden defending Morgan McSweeney keeping his job yesterday, Baroness Jacqui Smith accidentally says the quiet bit out loud
Asked about Pat McFadden defending Morgan McSweeney keeping his job yesterday, Baroness Jacqui Smith accidentally says the quiet bit out loud
February 9, 2026 at 9:17 AM
This is what I mean when I say the *entire* British media and political establishment needs to be dismantled. Decades upon decades of this, of all the important people knowing each other and caring far more about the political ambitions of those in their social circles than the lives of the public.
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In the middle of a moral panic about sex trafficking so intense that I can't advertise a book about medieval history online and no one can access prom anymore, Labour's best and brightest are desperate to get on TV and let you know actually it is fine if rich people do it to poor girls.
"People like me, people like Pat that come onto programs like this are going to be supportive of people that we have worked closely with"
Asked about Pat McFadden defending Morgan McSweeney keeping his job yesterday, Baroness Jacqui Smith accidentally says the quiet bit out loud
Asked about Pat McFadden defending Morgan McSweeney keeping his job yesterday, Baroness Jacqui Smith accidentally says the quiet bit out loud
February 9, 2026 at 8:49 AM
In the middle of a moral panic about sex trafficking so intense that I can't advertise a book about medieval history online and no one can access prom anymore, Labour's best and brightest are desperate to get on TV and let you know actually it is fine if rich people do it to poor girls.
ah yes, one of the funnest times of the year, watching social media watching the super bowl
February 9, 2026 at 1:29 AM
ah yes, one of the funnest times of the year, watching social media watching the super bowl
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Show me a receipt of you purchasing my book Repression Queen: A Memoir About Gender Transformation Erotica from Bookshop(.org) during the Game, and I’ll hand-mail you a copy of my “Zine That Turns You Into A Girl.”
This is a wacky short-term offer but could fuel some other projects I’m working on.
This is a wacky short-term offer but could fuel some other projects I’m working on.
Repression Queen: A Memoir About Gender Transformation Erotica
A Memoir About Gender Transformation Erotica
bookshop.org
February 9, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Show me a receipt of you purchasing my book Repression Queen: A Memoir About Gender Transformation Erotica from Bookshop(.org) during the Game, and I’ll hand-mail you a copy of my “Zine That Turns You Into A Girl.”
This is a wacky short-term offer but could fuel some other projects I’m working on.
This is a wacky short-term offer but could fuel some other projects I’m working on.
In the spirit of bookshop.org I'll pop my head into my local queer bookstore and ask if they can order it for me then :)
February 9, 2026 at 1:17 AM
In the spirit of bookshop.org I'll pop my head into my local queer bookstore and ask if they can order it for me then :)
Y'know I figured I wasn't getting the job but thanks for letting me know
February 9, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Y'know I figured I wasn't getting the job but thanks for letting me know
I just got a rejection email for a job that I must have applied for 7 years ago??
February 9, 2026 at 1:13 AM
I just got a rejection email for a job that I must have applied for 7 years ago??
Is there anywhere that stocks it in Europe?
February 9, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Is there anywhere that stocks it in Europe?
Am streaming, come say hi — I have a single handed mission to bring back communism apparently
We are about to go live! This time, wordloc, our project manager, will be playing Disco Elysium for the first time :) Come say hi!
dotMeowFoundation - Twitch
a queer-run community project to register the gTLD .meow. The profits will go to community causes, turning every domain into queer community support, especially focusing on trans projects!
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February 8, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Am streaming, come say hi — I have a single handed mission to bring back communism apparently
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One of the most sickening realizations I've ever had came when it hit me that six hundred years from now historians will be writing things like "while technically illegal, intercourse with minors was broadly accepted as normal among the American ruling class, and even a marker of status"
February 8, 2026 at 7:30 AM
One of the most sickening realizations I've ever had came when it hit me that six hundred years from now historians will be writing things like "while technically illegal, intercourse with minors was broadly accepted as normal among the American ruling class, and even a marker of status"
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The moment I realized that some of the people whose work meant a lot to me follow me because of - not despite - my lesbian smut novel about the Mecha That Jerks You Off was the moment I could breathe a lot more freely
sometimes you notice an academic you've read followed you and you feel like you have to clean up your act before that inevitably falls apart after a few days and sometimes you notice an academic you've read followed you and it was probably because of your gay olympics joke in the first place
February 8, 2026 at 1:02 PM
The moment I realized that some of the people whose work meant a lot to me follow me because of - not despite - my lesbian smut novel about the Mecha That Jerks You Off was the moment I could breathe a lot more freely
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set up my centrist political project terrarium a few years ago. confident it's still alive and sustaining itself but might just pop my head round the corner and make sure. OH NO. OH GOD.
February 8, 2026 at 4:06 PM
set up my centrist political project terrarium a few years ago. confident it's still alive and sustaining itself but might just pop my head round the corner and make sure. OH NO. OH GOD.