Terence Eden

@Edent
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Longer hair than you.
Got the ⏻ symbol into #Unicode.
Open Standards / Source / Data geek.
Known as @Edent on most social platforms.

Bit obsessed with #SolarPower but not quite a #SolarPunk.
Please read the link before replying. Yes, that means you!

LocationLondon, UK
Contacthttps://edent.tel/
Bloghttps://shkspr.mobi/blog
PronounsHe/Him/♂/男
@tml such a cool bar 😃

Checked in to Liquid Garden - Cocktailbar, Mohlenhofstr. 6, Germany

Gosh! These are some fancy cocktails 😄

https://swarmapp.com/user/56367/checkin/6a11f04fb8d2ab32ba416a09?s=DibobCKZunNdGe-EPi8XeK_wy9w

🆕 blog! “Which age-gates should be skill-gates and vice-versa?”

In the UK, it is illegal to buy alcohol if you are under 18.

Similarly, in most countries, you cannot vote until you have reached a specific age.

These are age-gates. You do not need to prove your competence to drink, vote, smoke, or get married; you just need to be old enough.

Some things have…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/which-age-gates-should-be-skill-gates-and-vice-versa/

#politics #thoughts

Which age-gates should be skill-gates and vice-versa?

In the UK, it is illegal to buy alcohol if you are under 18. Similarly, in most countries, you cannot vote until you have reached a specific age. These are age-gates. You do not need to prove your competence to drink, vote, smoke, or get married; you just need to be old enough. Some things have skill-gates. If you want an amateur radio licence in the UK, you need to pass an exam. You can be…

Terence Eden’s Blog

Following the recent nonsense from the EHRC, we can confirm that all toilets and showers at EMF will be individual gender-neutral cubicles, and we have absolutely no interest in policing anyone's gender at EMF.

https://www.emfcamp.org/about/accessibility#gender-equality-act

Accessibility

Electromagnetic Field
This week's net.wars, "First, do no harm", visits the UK's latest attempt to centralize the nation's patient data into a single database: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/05/22/first-do-no-harm/ #NetWars #health #privacy
First, do no harm

In the midst of the recent Labour leadership turbulence, on Wednesday May 13 Wes Streeting, who would resign from his position as the UK's health minister a day

net.wars
Prost! Perfect on a hot day.
Drinking: Beck's Green Lemon
By: Brauerei Beck
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Terence is drinking a Beck's Green Lemon by Brauerei Beck

Prost! Perfect on a hot day.

Untappd

🆕 blog! “Which age-gates should be skill-gates and vice-versa?”

In the UK, it is illegal to buy alcohol if you are under 18.

Similarly, in most countries, you cannot vote until you have reached a specific age.

These are age-gates. You do not need to prove your competence to drink, vote, smoke, or get married; you just need to be old enough.

Some things have…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/which-age-gates-should-be-skill-gates-and-vice-versa/

#politics #thoughts

Which age-gates should be skill-gates and vice-versa?

In the UK, it is illegal to buy alcohol if you are under 18. Similarly, in most countries, you cannot vote until you have reached a specific age. These are age-gates. You do not need to prove your competence to drink, vote, smoke, or get married; you just need to be old enough. Some things have skill-gates. If you want an amateur radio licence in the UK, you need to pass an exam. You can be…

Terence Eden’s Blog
What are your amateurnouns?
@wendyg I just meant you'd misspelled my surname 😄