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Lucas França, PhD

@lfranca.uk

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Immigrant, adopted Geordie 🇧🇷🇬🇧. Physicist ⚛️, neuroscientist 🧠, and computer scientist 👨🏾‍💻. Assistant Professor. 🏳️‍⚧️ ally. (he/him)

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 1d

Vai ser candidato do Novo?

Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 2d

I know the feeling… my choir director brought in a piece this week - still getting my head around it 🤣

Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 2d

Not giving you an easy one, are they? 😆

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Marcus De Matos @mvdematos.bsky.social · 6d

They support fascist ideas;
They agree with historical fascism;
They join fascist demonstrations;
They believe in racist and supremacist ideas;

But no one wants to call them what they are.

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 9d

Very sweet… ☺️

Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 10d

It’s appalling that a former human rights lawyer is saying this nonsense. The level of misinformation coming from the Prime Minister is shocking - and no journalist will ever challenge it!! 🤬

Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 11d

The Home Office doesn't lose as many asylum & deportation cases as it does because of some supposed marginal differences between the application of Art 8 in UK courts and the ECtHR view, it loses so many cases because it's caseload has long been woefully mismanaged...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Starmer wants rethink on international law to tackle migration

The PM gives the clearest sign yet the government wants to reform how human rights laws are applied in immigration cases.

www.bbc.co.uk

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 10d

The real reason the Home Office keep losing cases.

Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 10d

Agreed. At @lawforchange.uk in 2 years we have funded 15 cases against the Home Office. 6 still pending. Of 9 resolved, 7.5 went in favour of applicants.

It’s not really “Human Rights” that trips them up, but rather their constant failures to follow their own procedures.

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 13d

Whoever is behind that strategy is not very bright… 🙄

Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 15d

How fast did we get here?! 😞

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 15d

Starmer is uniting the country… Against him!!

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 17d

Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.

Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 17d

Also frankly I am quite desperate! A party that’s at best ambivalent on the question of whether I’m English and wants to deport my friends is 9 points ahead in the polls and the current leader is floundering and visibly out of his depth!

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 18d

Before seeing the GIF I was going to ask: is that a ‘sorry no’ or a ‘sorry yes’? 😝

Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 18d

Is there an alt…? 👀

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 18d

I just wish we had a Labour leader like that

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✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Buy Go-Man! @hamishsteele.bsky.social · 18d

In case it needs restating, autism isn't caused by Tylenol, or vaccines, or woke parents or whatever. It's not a disease, and it doesn't need curing. Eugenicists and fascists love to think of ways to eradicate us because they are unwilling to understand us. But we will outlive them.

Edit of a meme which says I'M JOINING THE WAR ON AUTISM ON THE SIDE OF THE AUTISM and beside it is a picture of GO-MAN, a red, white and blue superhero character with a big scarf and mask.

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 19d

Nah… You’re fine!

Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 19d

Another day, another white person telling me how I should deal with racists.

a close up of a woman 's face with her eyes closed and earrings .

ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with her eyes closed and earrings .

media.tenor.com

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 19d

i feel like labour saying "they can't do it to EU citizens" and not say anything reassuring about non-eu people on visas is not a thing to be chilling out about tbh. like ok cool, it "doesn't cover all foreign born nationals". what about the rest of them?

Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 19d

Labour says chill out, probs can’t happen

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Lucas França, PhD @lfranca.uk · 19d

Lush 😍

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19d

Yes, you can and should argue that Reform’s new policy would lead to an economic crash that could resemble a full-on depression, not just recession.

But you should also be able to straightforwardly say it’s *wrong*. Not that it should matter but: It’s not even bad politics to say that!

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