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#WhenTaken #524 (04.08.2025)

I scored 733/1000🎗️

1️⃣📍451 km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥇184/200
2️⃣📍5.9K km - 🗓️20 yrs - 🎗️71/200
3️⃣📍374 km - 🗓️6 yrs - 🥇181/200
4️⃣📍1.6 km - 🗓️3 yrs - 🥇197/200
5️⃣📍2.1K km - 🗓️21 yrs - 🥉100/200

https://whentaken.com/

Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Aug. 4, 2025 

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My Score: 2200

https://www.britannica.com/quiz/tightrope

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Aug 4th 2025) in less than 7 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com/

The OA and Sense8 for me. I don't even start any Netflix shows any more unless they've completed their run without being cancelled on a cliffhanger.

#WhenTaken #523 (03.08.2025)

I scored 760/1000🏅

1️⃣📍69.6 m - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇200/200
2️⃣📍431 km - 🗓️4 yrs - 🥇183/200
3️⃣📍97.9 m - 🗓️5 yrs - 🥇195/200
4️⃣📍63.3 km - 🗓️36 yrs - 🥉97/200
5️⃣📍9.9K km - 🗓️10 yrs - 🥉85/200

https://whentaken.com/

#travle #963 +4
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https://travle.earth/

Connections
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Also in the guardian today is an article on how the combo of proscribing Palestine Action and introducing the online safety act is causing platforms to censor information about Gaza. His counter-argument in this article is that Meta were censoring information on Palestine already, but Meta had always been overzealous in their content moderation, now it's every platform.

He says in this that he's worried being too specific would be more authoritarian but I would say the opposite is true - if what needs censoring is too vague, platforms are gonna be extreme in what they block and put behind age verification because the fines are so high. And vague guidance can be used to justify blocking anything. It only entrenches big tech further because small sites can't afford the age verification or the risk of a £10 million fines.

Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Aug. 2, 2025 

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My Score: 1940

#WhenTaken #522 (02.08.2025)

I scored 754/1000🏅

1️⃣📍1.9 km - 🗓️3 yrs - 🥇197/200
2️⃣📍391 km - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇188/200
3️⃣📍10.0K km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥉99/200
4️⃣📍2.0 km - 🗓️15 yrs - 🥈170/200
5️⃣📍10.0K km - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥉100/200

https://whentaken.com/

Not great in terms of location today but the years were very close!

To your last paragraph, I think it's a mixture of two things. The first being that the UK has become increasingly horrifically transphobic over the past decade, and this current bunch in Labour are opportunists who will just go where they think the votes are. He once said "trans women are women, trans men are men" but several years later changed his view to "men have penises, women have vaginas." The party has no courage or backbone now to stick up for anyone, because they think conceding to the right wing will win them votes.

The second being that Wes Streeting is known to be one of the more conservative members of the Labour party, both economically and socially. There's some genuinely upsetting stuff on his Wikipedia page under political beliefs, such as his support for conversion therapy organisations.

#WhenTaken #521 (01.08.2025)

I scored 823/1000🏅

1️⃣📍2.0K km - 🗓️7 yrs - 🥈142/200
2️⃣📍1.6K km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥈157/200
3️⃣📍56.5 km - 🗓️5 yrs - 🥇192/200
4️⃣📍228 km - 🗓️16 yrs - 🥈159/200
5️⃣📍1.2 km - 🗓️14 yrs - 🥈173/200

https://whentaken.com/

That last one was a really lucky guess for the location