mjr
@mjr@infosec.pub
- Comment on 1 day ago:
If the business were to be cautious, they’d fix their damned toilets to not be gendered, divisive and exclusionary.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Once idiots feel empowered to become the Pants-contents Police, this is where it leads.
Why has a company as rich as Tesco still got mostly gendered toilets anyway?
- Comment on Government 'looking seriously' at banning under-16s from Vinted and eBay 1 day ago:
Look at the checkout conveyor dividers in Morrisons some time: they literally say “Morrisons More Card: more conveyor snooping” or something similar. People just don’t realise the cost.
- Comment on Government 'looking seriously' at banning under-16s from Vinted and eBay 2 days ago:
Naughty children! How dare they shop!
- Comment on Government 'looking seriously' at banning under-16s from Vinted and eBay 2 days ago:
Can under-18s hold many loyalty discount cards? I expect co-op stores allow it from 16, as they’ve been supporting votes at 16 for years.
- Comment on English Folk Dance and Song Society Changes Name 3 days ago:
What about the musicians? They’re rather important but don’t dance or sing.
- Comment on £200m taxpayer-funded trains sit barely used for three years 5 days ago:
Well, yes, as they’ve not passed safety tests yet. What would the Reform opposition do? Put possibly-unsafe trains into service because their MSes don’t ride trains anyway so don’t care?
- Comment on Ministers to target ‘wild west’ of ebikes blocking pavements 5 days ago:
London problem.
How about dealing with cars parked on pavements in England outside London first, eh? Then worry about the little bikes. Or, radical idea, ban all obstructive pavement parking no matter what vehicle, nationally all at once!
- Comment on Railway engineering work over Christmas will cause 10 days of disruption 1 week ago:
Government policy for years at many levels, under most parties, is to move more people by mass transport and fewer by low-occupancy cars, and they’re never going to achieve that by prioritising regular users over attracting new users like this. Regular users will get most of the benefits of works so can write off some short-term disruption over months. Occasional users just see this as an unreliable service basically telling them to go away and use more expensive cars.
- Comment on Can I stop unwanted shit like this being posted through my door? 1 week ago:
I’ve read that people have been sending RNLI charity cards, after some party members called them traitors for rescuing victims of people-smugglers.
- Comment on Can I stop unwanted shit like this being posted through my door? 1 week ago:
I don’t know, but I suspect there’s a point Royal Mail refuse it accept it as a letter and I bet RefUK have said the freepost isn’t for parcels.
- Comment on Can I stop unwanted shit like this being posted through my door? 1 week ago:
No, especially as some of it’s being delivered by the Royal Mail.
However, you can post it back to “Reform UK, Freepost RTLT-ZXHY-KSDC, 83 Victoria Street, London SW1H OHW” and cause them to pay Royal Mail a second time.
- Comment on Railway engineering work over Christmas will cause 10 days of disruption 1 week ago:
Lots of stuff around London, Birmingham, Doncaster and Huddersfield.
This disruption to occasional users who would rather take the train than drive at one of the most stressful times is terrible advertising for the railways and must deter new users.
- Comment on Railway engineering work over Christmas will cause 10 days of disruption 1 week ago:
The other 355 days will be disrupted by regular, non-engineering work! 🤡
- Comment on Man admits asylum seeker hotel petrol bomb attack 1 week ago:
Incorrect - detained migrants aren’t allowed to work due to a government decision, even if they had a work visa when they entered the country legally. Working used to be allowed if the border force failed to decide whether someone was a refugee in good time.
- Comment on Man admits asylum seeker hotel petrol bomb attack 1 week ago:
How? Do you understand what refugee status is? Where someone entered the UK from isn’t relevant.
- Comment on Man admits asylum seeker hotel petrol bomb attack 1 week ago:
How is it key? Many detained migrants don’t work mainly because the government prohibits it since Blair.
- Comment on Man admits asylum seeker hotel petrol bomb attack 1 week ago:
If it’s easy to do, please cite your source.
Your assertion that holding a passport from a non-war-zone country makes a claim false is simply false and you can realise this by considering two examples: first, someone from a former war zone who aided the British Army; secondly, someone from a minority the UK recognises as persecuted by their government, such as a Bahá’i in Iran even when it wasn’t at war.
- Comment on Man admits asylum seeker hotel petrol bomb attack 1 week ago:
Not all of them. Some are indebted to the smugglers who are lurking and waiting time to demand the “successful” migrants to pay them back.
Also, remember that only a minority of would-be refugees are smuggled into the country. Most of them enter on visas or other legal entries, then apply for refuge, which is what the UK government currently say to do because there are no legal routes to apply for refuge when not already in the UK.
- Comment on Man admits asylum seeker hotel petrol bomb attack 1 week ago:
Soldiers are treated better than detained migrants and despite that, there have been court cases over mistreatment of soldiers in army bases.
- Comment on Ofcom outlines ways social media can verify ages of users 1 week ago:
Even if so, would that mean we should let the tsunami grow even bigger and harm lots of young adults?
- Comment on Ofcom outlines ways social media can verify ages of users 1 week ago:
Just give your most sensitive ID papers to a dodgy data broker…
Papers, please!
- Comment on Online safety laws have failed to protect children in UK, Ofcom admits 2 weeks ago:
It’s not a core issue to most of them, so they probably listen to advisors, and the loudest ones are probably paid by Trump or Putin interests, so heavily authoritarian.
It absolutely should be a core issue as it’s scary how many eyes are glued to tiktube reelz and similar, but it looks like the non-authoritarians may well lose before they even realise what the problem is, let alone the scale or how to tackle it better.
- Comment on UK train operator nationalised by government after 30 years of privatisation 1 month ago:
Aye, but as I wrote, she chickened out of the actual passenger services.
- Comment on UK train operator nationalised by government after 30 years of privatisation 1 month ago:
BT was Thatcher. Water was started by her, after chickening out at least once, but finished under Major.
- Comment on UK train operator nationalised by government after 30 years of privatisation 1 month ago:
To be fair, not even Thatcher dared attempt rail service privatisation. It was her disciple Major who pushed it through and enthusiastically promoted battling business units on rails in Brussels.
- Comment on Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool 1 month ago:
This link demands we sign up with the Substack Nazi bar to read it, but https://libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/palantir-police-drop-nectar-surveillance-tool-east-midlands/ is free to read.
The constabularies involved are Leics, Lincs, Northants, Notts & Derbs.
- Comment on New battery-powered trains will ‘bring faster journeys to north’ 1 month ago:
29 110mph 121m Adessia Stream trains from Alstom for Trans Pennine Express. Built in Derby. Let’s see how this goes!
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Polanski is proving to be a bit of a figure head.
Well yes, that’s part of a leader’s role.
Actually leading is another part, but can you blame him for going “I’m not touching that minefield yet.”?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Defamation requires lying to be criminal. Not all defaming is criminal.