Interesting Links for 08-02-2021

Is the tide turning on Irish reunification?

(tags:Ireland NorthernIreland politics UK )

Brexit red tape 'makes it easier for EU nations to import lamb from New Zealand than from Wales'

(tags:UK newzealand Wales trade Europe )

The Queen secretly lobbied for change in law to hide her private wealth

(tags:wealth inequality UK monarchy Queen OhForFucksSake )

Power blackout hits more than 88,000 homes in Edinburgh, the Lothians and the Borders

(tags:Edinburgh Scotland power electricity fail )

Google's power to cancel, with no recourse, accounts with thousands of dollars of purchases on them is just ridiculous

(tags:Google OhForFucksSake )

Whatever happened with me and Twitter?

Remember I got suspended back in December?

About 5 days later I decided that I was not going to give up one of the ways I kept in touch with my friends, and with an unknown, possibly limitless, exclusion period ahead of me, had the tweet removed.

And then on the 27th of January, a month later, Twitter support emailed me to say "Sorry, automated false positive."

And it has to be said that a system where an appeal takes a month to go through is not even slightly useful, essentially forcing you to admit guilt if you want to use their systems.

instagram cross-post

"A continued delight in freshly fallen snow"
Original is here on instagram.