The Klarna site has a good page about the breach, including
"When someone gives up their phone number - maybe changing providers or getting a new one - the old number is eventually reassigned to another person by the provider. This can cause issues for services that use phone numbers for identity verification or login, and is a challenge faced across the tech industry."

So stop doing that, eh?
Of *course* we change phone numbers (and email addresses)!

I found a thing I need, and began the process of buying it.

Some mercantile websites are still usable. You select a thing, give them payment details and a delivery address, click 'yes', and wait by the front door.
Others... use #Klarna to handle payments. It wants many details and then insists you create an account.

Klarna had a data #breach (they say it's fixed now).
Any platform might have a data breach: what I object to is the demand for data beyond what is absolutely necessary.

Looking at Welsh and English news stories.

Why does building "affordable homes" cost such huge amounts of dosh?

If I can sell my large house, I'm considering a two-bedroom TinyHouse - insulated, solar panels, heatpumps, kitchen, and everything - for about €60k. (Though not including a plot of land ready for building, admittedly very cheap here.)

Bring back pre-fabs!

#housing #Construction_industry

RE: https://mstdn.social/@primonatura/117376394420302424

Imagine Heathrow like that.
There's no coastline, but they could put the Longford River back.

Any restrictions?
Only £68000!
It has a pipe organ, kitchen, loos, and presumably good acoustics.

#Music #Concerts #Cymru
https://nation.cymru/news/historic-grade-ii-listed-welsh-chapel-up-for-sale/

Ah, typos.

"...as he paused for bream."

Er, what? Fish snack in the middle of a speech? Oh, *breath*!

Read as far as chapter seven, and there it occurs again. What kind of inhuman (sic) production software is the publisher using? I assume publisher as this author doesn't usually make such errors.

Comically disruptive.

You can tell what a journo or editor thinks of a politician by the photos they choose to illustrate an article about said politician. Starmer looked reasonable for a while (apart from one photo of him apparently drooling at a female colleague), until all the pics portrayed him as lost and confused. Such things have a big impact.

This toot brought to you by a bout of helpless laughter at a photo of Farage in Nation Cymru.

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/117256314069889636

And now, before speaking to anyone, we need to check what kind of watch they're wearing.

My large and insufficiently accessible house is for sale at a silly low price because I can't cope with it now that I can't walk at all. Acquaintances ask if I want to move back to England.

Er, no.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/07/disabled-person-school-discrimination-benefits

Every year I would put young tomato plants in a raised bed and some tubs. This year, not being able to replace outdoor wheelchair, I planted only three, in tubs. Two plants died. One survived, carefully watered, and shaded from the midday heat.

The surviving plant produced many flowers but only one fruit. It shouldn't have been small, or heart-shaped, but the poor plant did its best. I shall save some seeds to honour it.

Today I shall eat the tomato. Ceremonially.

Someone put up a link to The Wellermen's 'Wild Mountain Thyme' which is lovely.
My set-up on the phone opens it in DDG. This used to be a Good Thing because DDG stops trackers etc., but now I can't see a way of turning off Youtube's horrible subtitles. They are especially bad on this video, and being an automatic reader I couldn't ignore them.

Campaign Against Auto-generated Subtitles, anyone?

Next: Campaign for Uploading to Something Other Than Youtube.

Out of curiousity, I looked at the #Dreamwidth of @mongoose and encountered a new-to-me phrase to convey a state of confusion: "not knowing if I was on this earth or fuller's earth". Love it.

Excellent writing in all posts, too.

Our heroine goes out to sit with a book, and there follows a whole page of descriptions of wildflowers in a meadow, after rejection of the close-trimmed lawn at the house.

Currently reading yet another novel by a USian author (Amanda Scott) which is set in C19 England. This one has masses of accurate geographical, historical, and architectural detail. The muffins are toasted, and the daisies are where they belong, in the grass.

The story is unmemorable, but I don't care.

#HistoricalFiction

An opportunistic plant has sprouted in the drainage wossit between the kitchen sinks.

Should I pull it up? Would it survive re-potting?
And what is it, anyway?

#plantlife

American authors writing about England get minor details wrong: they're not important to the story but are jarring for a Brit. The food; sometimes animals.

It's often plants. Pink primroses, buttercups grown in a conservatory, and bouquets of daisies bought from a florist.

Gathering greenery to decorate for Christmas, our hero picks the wrong kind of ivy and develops a painful rash.
Rash? From ivy?
Ah. America has a thing called poison ivy which doesn't grow in UK (and isn't an ivy).

Gah, another update which scrambles the usability.

Seems that every update of whatever means I have to go searching through settings which have been moved or renamed.
It's even more noticeable when there's another update the following day, and the reset settings have to be re-reset. What a waste of time.

I wish BBC World Service, BBC Earth, and BBC Music (especially Proms) could be separated from the stain of BBC politics.

Le sigh.

Curses on all the banks that insist on smartphones.

An update has broken the Revolut app.

Has any kind and helpful person put together a localised set of data on sources for the parts for a Corsi-Rosenthal box filter? With prices?
Without scams and sites that tag for attention but don't have the information?

I'm so tired of broken websearch.

#AirFilter