City governments have been pushing hard because they're worried about their tax base and economies - not so much for the office space itself (though that's in danger), but the ancillary businesses like coffee shops, lunch places, and car parks. It's a shitty reason, as they could take the opportunity to rearchitect office space into livable housing and solve the problem that way - but they don't want to.

Thanks - obviously completely misunderstood the graphic!

Yeah, I don't think someone knows what xenophobic means. It's stupid, playground bully shit but it's not xenophobic.

Yeah, I was one of the ones banned from a number of AI communities despite not engaging with them really on my old Lemm.ee account. With UM involved, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised :) Sounds like just the sort of shit he'd have a hand in stirring up and just the way he'd do it.

Looking forward to: everything

Scared of: everything

I'm an optimist with a lot of anxiety :/

Such changes are called germ-line mutations because they occur in a cell used in reproduction (germ cell), giving the change a chance to become more numerous over time. If the mutation has a deleterious affect on the phenotype of the offspring, the mutation is referred to as a genetic disorder. Alternately, if the mutation has a positive affect on the fitness of the offspring, it is called an adaptation. [Nature]

I'm assuming you mean "mutation that gets passed down". Whether a mutation is a disorder or an adaptation takes generations to determine, so we may not know the identity of the individual. Furthermore, what was once a disorder may become adaptive in a different environment and vice versa. In general, I suppose if it was adaptive, they might be called "ancestor" :)

More broadly, and outside of germ-line mutations (meaning it's not passed down to offspring), everyone has cells with mutations. The person doesn't have the mutation per se, but a cell or cluster of cells do, so identifying them by that mutation doesn't make a lot of sense. If it's bad, your body either kills it or it kills you (e.g. cancer). If it's good, it likely doesn't change anything significantly.

What the hell is this horseshit… from the AP?! That's a Sunday magazine puff piece. It's made him "grateful" and "appreciative"? No, it's made him even more reckless and reactionary than he was in his first term.

Why do you think Mastodon is exempt from those rules? The law applies to all sites/services with a significant UK audience - some of the Mastodon .uk instances will definitely be subject to this, and because of how badly the law is written, it can apply to many more.

People can have their hardon for hating Bluesky, but they're literally just trying to avoid being fined by the UK govt here - this wasn't their idea.

The UK government is forcing them and all other web services to do the same. UK-hosted Mastodon servers may coast under the radar for awhile, but they'll come for them eventually.

Rather than getting mad at Bluesky for implementing government-mandated age verification, how about actually getting mad at the UK government?

Yeah, I get pushing for Mastodon over Bluesky, but Bluesky is being forced to do this by the UK government for UK citizens so this is just exaggerated rage bait.

Headlines like this really need to put the emphasis on the cause, e.g. "UK Government Forces Bluesky to Roll Out Age Verification"

I think them not understanding Fallout has been proven so often, it's already been accepted as fact.