labhair gaeilic liom, má tá suim agat!
siad/iad i ngaelic ; they/them i mbéarla
soirbhíoch dúshlánach ; defiant optimist
until they have a problem with bringing in digital IDs, and the amount of data being stored by google/meta/amazon/apple/etc, this just feels like sinophobia & xenophobia. stealing & storing our data’s bad in general, not just when china or russia want to do it 🤷
quetzalcoatlus northropi!
or sky giraffes, either/or.
alas, i’ve already been cleared out by my ad-free driving & steering wheel subscriptions 🥀
it’s the onion, so it’s parody/satire.
(but it’s also way too close to our dystopian reality to be sure what’s satire these days 😮💨)
the article feels like whataboutery in itself, imo. gchq’s main thing is mass surveillance of uk citizens. if they didn’t steal & store people’s data, then that stolen data wouldn’t be stored in one convenient central location from which to steal it 🤷
edit: i do get that it’s not great that this has happened, of course. i just don’t think surveillance should be seen as inevitable in the first place.