Managers so quick to dimiss complaints about workplace software until they actually have to use it.

“Why do we have to do it that way?”

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We have a dedicated Discord server for our little hobby group. It’s been going six years now. It’s a wonderful safe space.

Today, though, this happened:

A warning from Discord advising that an image/gif "May contain sensitive content"

The Online Safety Act has struck. Some of my server buddies are a little outraged but I’m not too fussed. I’m absolutely onboard with the intention. The internet is full of horrible shit that I’d never want my children to see. Or my Dad, for that matter; not unless he REALLY wanted to.

But, as we all know, the implementation is useless. Not least because it’s completely avoidable.

Case in point: I asked the member if he’d been asked to complete the age verification process before he posted the gif. He had not.

So, we can all browse this sensitive content (on Tenor?), via Discord, without verifying our age, just as long as we’re looking at it in the “add a gif” dialogue?

OK. We’ve now established (work intrudes) that it was a gif of the chestburster scene in Alien. I’ve checked and I can, indeed, browse exactly these gifs via the dialogue without having verified my age.

I just… I’m speechless.

Family coming for lunch Sunday to celebrate Twelfth Night. Promoted me to ask my wife why the Magi get added to our felt Nativity during Advent. I was shushed. Also, if that was when Jesus received his gifts… why do we do gifts in Christmas Day?

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They say kids these days are being ruined by social media but mine have learned plenty from FailArmy on YouTube!

Including (but not limited to):

  1. motorcycles are dangerous
  2. wet rock/stone/concrete is very slippery
  3. misusing gym equipment is dangerous
  4. fire, even birthday candles, requires caution
  5. gritting your path/steps/driveway in winter is advisable
  6. using a ladder by yourself is asking for trouble

The more I think about the more embarrassed I am for Jo Rowling. At the thinnest end of the wedge: the team and squad are the same thing. Nobody else even trains unless they’re in the match day team. And, consequently, there’s no substitutes, not even for injury, in an obviously dangerous game. That’s just for starters.

Yeah, granted, it’s about magic and it’s for kids but still. Much is made of Quidditch and the House Cup in the first three books. Given the meticulous planning of other elements, it feels really phoned in.

Read Paddy Power and Betfair to pay £2m settlement after failing to protect users by Rob Davies

Sorry, how many seconds of income does this “penalty” equate to? Oh, it actually says in the article:

The £2m settlement agreed between Flutter and the Gambling Commission is equivalent to slightly less than two hours worth of takings for the company

So, that’s like me getting a £50 fine. For more context, the (maximum) fines for littering in central London range from around £200 to £500…