I have an S24, Gemini can be safely removed using Canta but is sometimes reinstalled when Samsung push out updates which is annoying. You can disable the play store without causing a boot loop but as far as I can tell there's no way around play services since it can't be disabled. I'm just making do with this phone for now and plan to get something I can install a custom ROM on later but it really sucks.

The frozen food specialist said that anyone who spots a suspected shoplifter in its stores should inform the nearest Iceland employee who will verify the incident before adding the reward to the individual’s loyalty card for immediate use.

Posted this because it sounds like one of the boring dystopian things ever. Plus the perverse incentive to snitch on people for a pound off your groceries is quite horrible.

They should copy the blank paper protests that happened in China. I wouldn't put it past this government to claim that holding up a blank piece of paper outside parliament is somehow terrorism at this stage and it would show how ridiculous this is.

I've been here! Clubbing isn't really my thing but it was a fun night. Haven't been since covid happened, and it's supposedly more of a tourist trap for straight people these days. I remember some Eurovision act got a lot of shit for "performing at the Kremlin" but it was actually this one in Belfast.

My favourite tidbit of queer history in Northern Ireland happened here after our former first minister's wife, Iris Robinson, was caught having an extra marital affair with someone 40 years her junior, a 19 year old that she bribed to try and hush it all up. She was disgustingly homophobic to the point that there's a whole section of her Wikipedia dedicated to her homophobic remarks. After the story broke of her affair, the DJ in the Kremlin stuck on the song Mrs Robinson by Simon and Garfunkel.