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#travle #977 +0 (Perfect)
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https://travle.earth/

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Aug 17th 2025) in less than 15 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com/

[Bracket City]
August 17, 2025

https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/

Rank: 🎖 (Mayor)
❌ Wrong guesses: 3
👀 Peeks: 1

Total Score: 89.0
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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 age verification companies go into more detail on their website but the tl;dr is they want any website with age checks to compare the user's IP address to publicly known lists of VPN IPs, look for hints such as time of day for if the user is UK based, and then force the user to either prove their age or prove that they live outside the UK.

Which is insane of course. It's already a bad law as it stands, but if they get their way then even people living outside of the UK would be forced to provide their location to every social media platform they use if a websites automated system believes them to be connecting via a VPN.

I can't imagine it being very enforcable since Netflix have tried for years to block VPN users with very mixed results & as for geolocation it should be fairly straightforward to spoof that. But these companies get paid by each verification so even if it only shifts another 20% off of VPNs and onto handing over their ID it's still more profit for them.

At Belfast Pride a few years ago I saw someone holding a sign saying "be gay, eat soup."

Having a rescue dog of my own with behavioral issues made me appreciate Krypto a lot in this. James Gunn really nailed what it's like to have one, he is an asshole but I love him still. Every time Krypto was on screen I was just thinking of similar things my own little monster has done in the past. Especially Krypto being hypnotised by squirrels, we can't walk past a single squirrel in the park without him locking onto it. Not usually a huge superhero movie fan but I really liked this, feels like they had a good balance between action, humour, and nods towards real world events & David Corenswet was the perfect casting for Superman.

[Bracket City]
August 16, 2025

https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/

Rank: 👮 (Chief of Police)
❌ Wrong guesses: 1
👀 Peeks: 1
🛟 Answers Revealed: 1

Total Score: 78.0
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#WhenTaken #536 (16.08.2025)

I scored 803/1000🏅

1️⃣📍89.1 m - 🗓️3 yrs - 🥇197/200
2️⃣📍6.8K km - 🗓️17 yrs - 🥉77/200
3️⃣📍1.3K km - 🗓️9 yrs - 🥈151/200
4️⃣📍42.6 km - 🗓️7 yrs - 🥇189/200
5️⃣📍724 m - 🗓️8 yrs - 🥇189/200

https://whentaken.com/

#travle #976 +0 (🎌)
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https://travle.earth/

Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Aug. 16, 2025 

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My Score: 1880