i've just unblocked about ten thousand people, which apparently required a lot of ram. i don't know what google was doing in the background, but it's clearly calculating something.

i will no doubt have another ten to twenty thousand people in my blocklist by the end of the year (those fedora idiots will be reblocked on immediate contact), but i always clear all my blocklists at the beginning of the year because, hey, it's a new year. maybe the idiots of the world have grown slightly. without that kind of optimism, there's just no use...

but, have no illusions: i am not all of a sudden less likely to block. it's just my yearly pardoning.