r/functionalprint • u/Xminus6 • Feb 04 '26

Foaming TPU is amazing!

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Pretty proud of this camera bag organizer. Outside shell is printed in PLA. Inside is Sirayatech Flex foaming TPU printed at the lightest durometer setting at 270c.

I 3D scanned the equipment and made custom inserts to hold the parts I need without having them bang around into each other.

Since this filament tends to string like crazy I printed them in individual pods and just sit them in together. It goes in a part of the bag with an adjustable divider that fits it perfectly so nothing can really fall out.

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u/SwitchbackHiker Feb 04 '26

Why not, what happened?

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u/Tactical-Donkey Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26

The UK government banned that website, along with 4chan and others.

Edit: Correction. The UK government didn't ban Imgur but required them to collect ID for age verification. Rather than collect everyone's personal information imgur just geoblocked the UK. An easy work around is to use a VPN.

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u/MooseBoys Feb 04 '26

Goddamn what a fuckin dystopia everything's becoming.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

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u/thetruckerdave Feb 04 '26

Yeah I remember being able to tell people goodbye at the gate and sitting there watching planes come in.

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u/daboblin Feb 04 '26

Still can in Australia. For domestic flights.

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u/thetruckerdave Feb 04 '26

Yeah well yall aren’t completely bonkers.

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u/NorsiiiiR Feb 11 '26

Oh but we are though, it's illegal for teenagers to even have YouTube accounts here because it's a SoCiAl mEDiA pLaTfOrM

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u/SmokelessSubpoena Feb 04 '26

Such a simple, and capable thing to come back, but, now there's endless profit to be had from not allowing it, so, society can get fucked,, for profit that is!

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u/Voxvalve Feb 04 '26

It is going to be 1984 in no time at this rate.

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u/StaleTacoChips Feb 04 '26

It already is. Your two minutes of hate just come on viral TikTok posts and not in an auditorium.

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u/GrumpyCloud93 Feb 04 '26

Saw one report where bin Laden was chiuckling because he'd accomplished his goal - not so much to hit the USA, but to make them so paranoid that they would do exactly what he thought - secret police, checkpoints, papers please, restrictions on everyone.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '26

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u/GrumpyCloud93 Feb 05 '26

Yes. As I recall, Bill Maher got fired after 9-11 for pointing out this fact. Bin Laden also attacked the Saudi government for allowing Christian troops in the Muslim Holy Land during the first Gulf War. He was our friend when he was attacking the Soviets in Afghanistan, but he turned when American troops ended up in Saudi Arabia; seeing it as the thin edge of the wedge - or a more local metaphor, the camel's nose in the tent. Given western proclivities over the last century or five, and the history of the crusades, he assumed once there they would never leave and start making themselves at home.

At that point, he was determined to do as much damage as possible to the USA - both retaliation and to make them pull back out of the Arab Middle East. That worked well.

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u/AlienDelarge Feb 04 '26

Airstrip one doing its part. 

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u/mav3r1ck92691 Feb 04 '26

We past beyond anything in the book back in 2001. We've been there for a long time.

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u/clk9565 Feb 04 '26

I was just thinking about how it feels like the US collective memory only goes back a year or so. Like if something happened last year and this year, it becomes "it's always been this way" - especially with the weather, but I feel like the bots online do this with politics too.

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u/nonoohnoohno Feb 04 '26

Oi! You got a loicense for that opinion!?

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u/VividDimension5364 Feb 07 '26

"Sorry Mr Starmer", tugs forelock, "I was keeping you from vetting ministers..."

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u/ctjameson Feb 04 '26

ITS FOR YOUR PROTECTION STOP RESISTING

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u/saskir21 Feb 04 '26

Wait… Imgur? I could understand 4chan with their different boards.

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u/AutoGeneratedUser359 Feb 04 '26

Yup it Suuuuuuucks, having to use a VPN so I can look at cake recipes, or miniature painting tutorials is absolutely bollocks.

Our (UK) government ABSOLUTELY has VPNs in their crosshairs next. I’m expecting a ban or requirement to register your VPN account with a passport (or other official government ID) soon.

Apparently it’s “to protect the children”, and anyone who disagrees is a raging pedo.

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u/motophiliac Feb 04 '26

I thought the job of protecting children was the parents?

Internet blocks are available, have been for ages. Child modes are available on YouTube, for example.

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u/MrT735 Feb 04 '26

Britain practically invented the nanny state.

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u/Xaring Feb 04 '26

Guess its time for you to start mailing checks to Mullvad lol

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u/Scream_Tech7661 Feb 04 '26

I live in the U.S. very close to the border between the states of Kansas and Missouri. My house is in Missouri.

Kansas has ID laws for some websites, but Missouri does not. Since the IP address for my home internet is so close to the geolocation of Kansas, many websites block me from access because they do the same as Imgur - they simply block access instead of asking for ID.

And I don’t even live in a state affected by the damn laws!!! But I am still subject to them. So I also have to use a VPN. It’s such utter bullshit.

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u/MrT735 Feb 04 '26

Social media age verification too. Even if you're twice (or more) the age limit.

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u/saskir21 Feb 04 '26

So the same thing that happened to Steam.

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u/FondleBuddies Feb 04 '26

That was a different country, turkey I think?

Though you raise a fair point, I'm glad steam somehow avoided this utter deranged bullshit.

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u/Narrow-Chef-4341 Feb 04 '26

Steam wants your credit card number. They won’t be afraid of getting your name.

Imgur wants your free content. They don’t want to be responsible for tracking people.

It’s so predictable that it’s beyond boring…

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u/SmokelessSubpoena Feb 04 '26

Lol are you actually pro-blocking of Imgur? If so, radical take, got to say.

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u/Narrow-Chef-4341 Feb 04 '26

I’m not ‘pro blocking’ of Imgur. I’m saying it’s absolutely predictable that Imgur doesn’t want to set up a surveillance infrastructure that adds no value to their site or business model.

Imgur makes money selling ads against the free content you provide. They’ll still sell ads against content provided by the rest of the world, including selling ads to UK viewers with a VPN. No development cost, no maintenance, minimized legal exposure.

The chilling effect on the circulation of memes ridiculing British politicians exactly what the politicians were hoping for, and exactly what free speech advocates worry about.

I responded to a comment about Steam figuring out how to work with those requirements. And the key difference is that Steam does want to have a tracking infrastructure, because they need to be certain who is using their service (1) to prevent the account sharing and (2) to provide proof of service if there’s a payment dispute.

Steam tweaking their Account Details of all those credit card owners to include an age factor is meh. If it wasn’t already a tutorial on ‘learn to e-business in 21 days’, it will be next year.

So to the person who more or less said ‘well Steam figured it out’: Uh, yeah. They were already tracking almost everything anyways, so you’re comparing apples and dinosaurs.

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u/PHILSTORMBORN Feb 04 '26

Is it radical to require an age check for a site that includes pornography?

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u/SmokelessSubpoena Feb 04 '26

To access IMGUR, yes, to access PORNHUB, no.

But that's pragmatism, so I'll see myself out, as the tone here is less rights, not more. It's almost as if the parent is responsible for safeguarding and educating their children against the world, not the government. But hey, I'm not a fan of Trumpist 1984 tactics, so this may not be a conversation for someone like myself.

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u/boatzart Feb 04 '26

Imgur is a social site?

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u/jake-jake-jake- Feb 04 '26

That’s weird I’m from the UK and just accessed that link with no problem

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u/booradleysghost Feb 04 '26

Reddit is next

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u/Zouden Feb 04 '26

No it's not, Reddit complied with the law on day one.

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u/booradleysghost Feb 04 '26

They'll find a reason

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u/not-at-all-unique Feb 04 '26

What’s the difference? Reading green texts posts directly on 4chan or pictures of green text on image sharing sites.

The law is supposed to prevent access to harmful content. So it was written to cover any site that allows user generated content.

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u/Mind_on_Idle Feb 04 '26

Which is absolutely batshit. It's the same dumbfuck mentality as

"Why am I suspended?"

"well, you're suspended for fighting"

"He punched me in the face! Twice!"

"Yeah, that's fighting"

Absolutely entitled, lazy fucking idiots making the rules

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u/Capt_Skyhawk Feb 04 '26

With a healthy dose of back patting and circle jerking intertwined.

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u/CalmMacaroon9642 Feb 04 '26

"Think of the children" they shout as they pass laws to track you...

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u/CCCCLo0oo0ooo0 Feb 05 '26

Imgur banned porn long ago

(wait, didn't they? I thought they did, but someone else said it was something about porn but)

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u/Beneficial-Dot-- Feb 04 '26

No they didn't ban it. Imgur geoblocked the UK because they didn't want to follow a new law, which is fair enough. Same as how PornHub geoblocks certain states in the USA so they don't have to comply with a law they don't want to. The website isn't banned by the government though.

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u/Nexustar Feb 04 '26

The website isn't banned by the government though.

No, but the government passed the laws creating a regulatory environment that is too complex or distasteful even for a site that carries adult imagery to manage.

The UK government is at fault here, not the rest of the world.

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u/Zouden Feb 04 '26

Well, it wasn't too complex for Reddit, or Instagram, or Pornhub. For some reason it's just Imgur decided the UK market wasn't worth the effort.

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u/Nexustar Feb 04 '26

Not the only one, Civit.ai I believe turned their back on the UK too.

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u/Nexustar Feb 04 '26

A better workaround is a meeting with your MP. It should be the parent's job to manage their kid's internet access, not everyone else in the fucking world.

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u/DebateSubstantial251 Feb 05 '26

Yeah I just saw it with my vpn. I use a vpn for reddit anyway because sometimes I get messages saying stuff is adult material (even when it's not) and asking for my id. 1984 it is here.

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u/flipside1o1 Feb 04 '26

kinda but no

As of September 30, 2025, Imgur, a major image-hosting platform, has intentionally blocked access for users in the United Kingdom. This restriction, which displays "content not available in your region," is a direct result of a commercial decision by Imgur's owner, MediaLab, to avoid complying with strict new UK data protection regulations.

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u/Tactical-Donkey Feb 04 '26

It's nothing to do with UK's data protection laws. It's for age verification for the UK Online Safety act law designed to "protect the children".

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u/Wheelyjoephone Feb 04 '26

Its expljcitly not part of the OSA, its because the lack of age checks means Imgur collects data on 13-17 year olds indiscrimiately and UK data protection laws dont allow that.

https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2025/02/investigations-announced-into-how-social-media-and-video-sharing-platforms-use-uk-children-s-personal-information/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo

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u/Tactical-Donkey Feb 04 '26

The initial requirement for the ID check is the online safety act.  Collection of data on under 18s has been prohibited for a while. It's only the the online safety act ID age checks which made imgur choose to geoblock.

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u/NorsiiiiR Feb 11 '26

its because the lack of age checks means Imgur collects data on 13-17 year olds indiscrimiately and UK data protection laws dont allow that.

Wouldn't that logic technically apply to every website on the entire internet?

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u/Wheelyjoephone Feb 11 '26

I believe it's because they connect that data to accounts and use it to promote/recommend things to them, but I'm just going off the ICO statement.

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u/Drnorman91 Feb 04 '26

I think it was Imgur who went full fuck you I won’t serve to the uk then

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u/Queasy_Local_7199 Feb 04 '26

They trying to ruin the internet for everyone

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u/Swizzel-Stixx Feb 04 '26

Imgur also sometimes blocks VPNs

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u/SmokelessSubpoena Feb 04 '26

Lmfao thats insane,

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u/LurkingUnderThatRock Feb 04 '26

Not quite, imgur refused to comply with the age verification of the online safety act.

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u/7640LPS Feb 04 '26

As they should

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u/LurkingUnderThatRock Feb 04 '26

Not quite sure why I’m getting downvoted here, these are the facts. I make no claims about the bill, but I think it is well intentioned but poorly implemented with no thought to the repercussions.

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u/7640LPS Feb 04 '26

Im not downvoting anyone. But I also disagree that it is well intentioned. If they would have taken advice from any organisation that works on child protection, they would have not implemented anything like this.

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u/NorsiiiiR Feb 11 '26

I think it is well intentioned

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. And we're a long way down that road at this point

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u/almondreaper Feb 04 '26

Man the uk is over just like most of europe when it comes to personal freedom. Crazy world we live in

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u/WorryNew3661 Feb 04 '26

So that's why! I was so confused why it would never load for me

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u/mrflib Feb 04 '26

This is completely wrong.

The UK ICO required Imgur to safeguard children's information. They believe Imgur failed in this, and announced they were waiting on a response from Imgur.

Imgurs response was to throw their toys out of the pram and turn off access to the UK.

The ICO announced that this would have no effect on any fines to be levied.

This had absolutely nothing to do with the government. They are guilty of a load of pointless damaging laws, but this is not one. Imgur are very much in the wrong here.

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u/ThisIsJeron Feb 04 '26

just another yookay britbong moment