The state of identity verification in the UK:

1. "You need a utility bill with your full name and address".
2. Of course these are all online now, and even if you try to get paper ones for this very purpose the companies keep pushing you to online instead.
3. Go download a PDF of the bill.
4. "We cannot accept online bills, it must have been posted to your address"
5. Print out the PDF
6. Take a photo of it
7. Email it to them
8. Accepted

in 1992, musician Sinead O'Connor's career virtually ended when she publicly protested the Catholic Church's sexual abuse of children.

Aside from the fact that history quickly proved her right, I'm struck by how utterly dignified and restrained her protest was. She didn't trash the Sistine Chapel. She tore up a photograph of the Pope at the end of a televised set. That's it. It cost her her career.

Thank you for speaking truth to power, and may you finally rest in peace.

#YleMondo lla #ERR:n osion päätteeksi soi tällä kertaa eestinkielinen cover #ChaChaCha sta. En tiijä, kuka esittää, eivät koskaan kerro näissä, kun tässä ennen puoli seiskaa soi aina jonkun virolaisartistin biisi.

#Käärijä #musiikki #Viro #Eesti

I learned today that 5 of my books are among the more than 1600 books banned in some schools right now.

https://pen.org/index-of-school-book-bans-2022/

For more information
https://pen.org/issue/free-the-books/

Types of people who use Mastodon:
- IT-specialists, open-source enthusiasts
- media specialists who are actually aware of Facebook's etc business model
- people who are fed up of Elon Musk's puerile delinquency
- people who are fed up of "regular social media's" algorithm-fanned toxic hostility and addictiveness and are trying to detox on Mastodon

Types of people who are largely (still) missing from Mastodon:
- those who just want to socialise, share info, basically just use social media