As of 1 October 2025 IMGR blocks all UK users because our parliament passed a law requiring people to provide a photo ID if they want to access adult content on the internet. This means that every image hosted on IMGR is replaced by a purple block for us, like this:



And yes, it means a lot of avatars on this site have gone permanently purple...

Note that IMGR does it for ALL images, adult or not.

Yikes! The world seems to worsen by the day.

This effect has shown some curious differences in caching between devices. My iPad shows both Acadian's and Decrepit's avatars, but my phone replaces Decrepit's with the purple, and my desktop replaces Acadian's. I'm sure at one point they both were purple, so somehow a fresh copy got through.

Checked my secondary, Win10 computer today. Sure enough, Windows Update says there will be no more updates. Strangely (or not), the computer seems to be in the midst of DL'ing a cumulative update for .NET Framework, which is frozen at 74%. Possibly forever.

The Win11 primary computer received its "major" update on schedule. I suppose I'll spend part of tomorrow double-checking to make sure it hasn't reversed any of my various settings changes.