As an old fart myself (but not officially a boomer, too young for that), I’m dismayed at the amount of young people swallowing this reactionary crap. Do young men really think that part of being a man is trafficking humans and behaving like louts in other countries?

“Being more than twice as unpopular as Jacob Rees-Mogg takes some doing, frankly.”

Gold. Pure gold.

You can do whatever you want mate, just take the stick out of your arse first. No one’s being pressured to do anything.

Ah I see! That makes perfect sense - thank you!

Personally, I prefer flatpak but that’s mainly because I have no idea how to use Godot and it feels a bit like overkill installing a game engine to compile an executable.

That’s in no way a dig at what you’ve achieved, it’s very valuable work and I realise it’s still at an early stage.

I use Tuta’s because it syncs across multiple devices.

I’m a Satanist and affiliated with neither CoS or TST. The leadership of TST are not good people. One of them tried to make himself the god of a cargo cult and the other has a history of making racist, antisemitic and ablist statements. He also owned a website about eugenics until 2018.

That video I linked to is long but it is very well sourced and I hope might give you a bit more insight into who you’re supporting if you choose to join or donate to them. There’s a lot of comments under the video from ex-TST members, including Ministers and Chapter Heads who’ve been badly burnt by TST.

It is worth noting though, that Proton doesn’t allow you to use certain domains for recovery addresses. Admittedly this was awhile ago and maybe things have changed there but when I first joined Proton they wouldn’t allow me to set a duck.com or simplelogin.com or addy.io address as a recovery email.

Obviously using an apple ID is stupid but Proton could make more of an effort too.

It’s a very informative and well put together video. For those of us who’ve known about a lot of the things Doug and Cevin have got up to both before TST began and since, it’s interesting to see non-Satanic progressive activists beginning to look deeper into how they operate. It’s also fascinating to witness the level of denial some current members operate under.

I think this is the 3rd YT-er to look at them. illuminaughti is obviously the biggest with their 1.5million subscribers but Dead Domain is much newer so whilst I think ‘wannabe’ is a bit harsh, it’s true that 80k is not 1.5million. Even so, there’s a few very interesting comments from past members and (appalled) current members learning all this for the first time in the comment section of that video.

Pensioner is short for OAP (Old Age Pensioner), so called because they are retired and eligible for the state pension.

Can’t recall them being the butt of a lot of jokes though.

If I understand this proposal they’re not making smoking illegal for those born after 2009, just the purchase of tobacco products. As such, I can’t really see what this is going to achieve.

Why on earth are we still paying attention to this idiot and treating her opinions as if they are worthy of consideration?

That’s true, there’s always going to have to be some trust, but a provider that takes the time and expense to invest in a privacy audit or defend their clients by not logging and establishing that in court certainly indicates they’re worth having that trust in.

Do ISP’s monitor or sell or pass on your data? Yes.

Do VPN’s? Depends on the VPN. Find one that doesn’t and can back that up with 3rd party audits and legal encounters.

So can a good VPN protect your privacy? No, not by themselves. A VPN is part of an overall toolkit to be as private as you personally would like to be. It can help protect your privacy, that’s all.

It’s really that simple.

• Patrick O’Brian
• Hilary Mantel
• Shirley Jackson
• Peter Straub
• Donna Tartt
• Douglas Adams
• Jane Austen
• Mary Shelley
• Sylvia Plath (poetry, fiction not so much)
• Richard Matheson
• Ursula K Le Guin
• Connie Willis

Wolf Hall, because the books were brilliant and this, although not as good as the book is also very good and has Mark Rylance in it, who is always fantastic.

Alternative headline: “Antivaxxer Continues To Talk Shit”

Biden is a terrible President but American’s should vote for him because its a realistic probability that if Trump gets in, there’ll be no more elections to vote in.

New album by Coffins: YT | Piped | Invidious

I didn’t even know they were still around. Possible AOTY contender in March!