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Favour Borokini
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Recovering *anemoiac*. Law PhD researcher researching legal materiality in avatar/tech design and use. Legal Materiality. Legal Humanities. University of Nottingham, Horizon CDT. Nigerian. Gawking Akure girl.
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Lol so all these platforms want us to start paying to not see ads??

I don't understand
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As far as I can tell, this policy would deport my Swedish wife (who has a well-paying job and pays thousands in tax each year, not that that should decide these things) because she "took" from society by going on maternity leave when our kids were born.
Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR

This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"

NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt

No govt since Idi Amin has done this
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I was once at a dinner where Lord Bingham was the keynote speaker. I'm questions he was asked if he was a liberal judge.

"Well, I wouldn't want to be an illiberal one."
"Intolerant, prejudiced, bigoted, narrow-minded."

One dictionary definition of 'illiberal'. Imagine looking at that and thinking 'yes, that's what I aspire to!'
Oh this is like Nigerians nicknaming ourselves Machiavelli, or well some variant of it, 'Makaveli', 'Makiaveli' because we don't know who he was but know enough to know that he was... badass.

Or less negative, but still cringe, "The Mayor of <insert nigerian town>". We don't have mayors in Nigeria.
my friend Ian was once doing the 'tell me your English name' thing with a class in China and one guy goes 'Adolf. Adolf Hitler.' Somewhat stunned, Ian asked 'Why did you chose that name?' and the kid goes "So that you will REMEMBER me."
They often really think they're better than everybody else (esp the Americans, which really isn't any kind of high bar) in terms of ethics, politics, values.

usually amusing to read on here as a third party, but no so much this time.

anyway, i think it's a colonial legacy
I love the UK but, in small doses/scale compared to the US but still, the Brits have an exceptionality complex that in the common world trickles down in an incapacity to benchmark to other similar sized countries.

It‘s possibly due to UK history. Maybe also bc it‘s an island, idk. It’s frustrating.
Under the guise of "It's working for them." Well, it's not. They're reforming.

Not even sure there's much difference between the kefala system and the UK SWV that ties your ability to remain to your employer, except that it's not the norm here for employers to seize your passports and no exit visas
What a world we live in where Gulf countries, places before this year I privately determined to never visit due to the abuse of African domestic workers, are reforming, whereas the so-called bastions of democracy are tripping over their feet to cook up the most deranged immigration policies. 🌚
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And then they'll come and be complaining about lack of integration.

Integration into what? What's the point of building any sort of community and not just sending all my money back home where I'd be able to lead a very comfortable life, exchange rates are no joke?
Xenophobia as campaign fuel 😩
Me I'm just tired of this cruelty theatre that these people keep putting on
Peston tells Lam that she said something that he "genuinely didn't understand". "But who are these people who came legally who should leave?"

This does not look like faux naivety.
He should know the answer!

She misleads in her answer to him.
So he gives a misleading summary of her policy on air.
they not only explicitly designed into the system but used as part of their recruitment strategy 🤷🏿‍♀️
there a graduate visa scheme that can put you on to the 10 year route, if the goal isn't to encourage, lure really, international students with the hopes that they might be able to settle eventually?

And then they turn around to make it look like we're the ones trying to exploit the affordances
promises and implications.

For the government it's of course so they can renege on them and for immigrants, there's the element of shame and embarrassment about falling for a false promise and living a precarious life.

I mean, if you're talking about international students for instance, why's
fun of it.

There's an implied promise that immigrants definitely latch onto here in how the entire process and system is constructed, in how you're taxed. Even in the way people, especially healthcare professionals are recruited.

Not a lot of people are willing to be explicit about these unsaid
These people are so duplicitous.

You know, they know, we all know that a visa is more than just, if it can even be considered, a contractual agreement to stay somewhere for a couple of years.

Nobody is uprooting themselves and their kids merely to work in a hostile, unfriendly environment for the
“… need to go home…” says Katie Lam on #Peston @itvpeston.bsky.social coherently racist enough for Reform to take notes? Or recoil?

Which region of China will the Lam family go home to?
Don't think he's actually been able to replicate the success of Left Right
Keys the Prince's Left Right > Gele mehn
Ah well perhaps you should not have left if you did not wish me to grieve
I don't even think ChatGPT is capable of making up new words. Might be wrong on this actually. Haven't checked to see.
word" and scurry off to the dictionary to check the meaning or are they going to be like, "Hm. ChatGPT?"

Cruel, cruel world
bombastic Nigerianness and create neologisms, and play with words, but alas.

It's like that thing about being able to trust that someone is intelligent to find them funny and not y'know dumb.

If I make up a word, or use a lesser known variant of it, is someone going to think "Oh I've learnt a new
You know, sometimes I just want to let out my inner Lewis Carroll, (and those annoyingly hard to read French theorists who I suspect benefit from their European proximity to the UK with how celebrated their needlessly impenetrable, English as a second language diction is) my (not so inner) verbose
But how do you get better at stuff without being cringy in the beginning hm? 🤷🏿‍♀️
Lol God I've sent so many cringe emails and texts in my life 😩

Sigh sigh