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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 29m

But only one party

Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 29m

Oh, *nice*

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 51m

Genuinely hope someone fluent in Gaelic/Welsh/Irish but not English sues them

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 51m

This is racist bollocks in so many ways

There's no such thing as A Level-standard English

Other UK languages exist

You don't have to be fluent in a language to integrate

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

The tougher rules will come in force in January as part of wider plans to cut immigration.

www.bbc.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 1h

Which date are you using? Submission, viva, submission of final corrected version, graduation? Lots of party excuses :-)

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t review there any more.

Same for being the editor and being pressured to accept a paper after multiple reviewers wanted major revisions. I don’t edit there any more (nor review, nor send my own articles for consideration).

Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 5h

Well it depends what the original verdict was: reject vs major revisions vs minor revision vs cosmetic changes…

I’ve been in the situation of being one of two that rejected a paper, with a third requiring major revisions - and then the editor accepted it with very few changes at all.

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 12h

Oneday, Twosday… 🙄

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 12h

I did the same, because it’s what the school library had. By the time we got to ~Wyrd Sisters I was reading each new one as it came out in paperback.

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 21h

iTunes *will* rip CDs for you but hides the files in the Audiobook directory of your Library - you then have to manually add the files to Apple Music to play them

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 21h

Apple Music works fine for playing your music files but (for me at least) doesn’t see the CD drive so you can’t play directly from that. It also can’t rip anything. iTunes does still exist but supposedly only handles audiobooks and podcasts.

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Laura 🍁🍄🦇🎃 @tricksyliesmith.bsky.social · 1d

oh no. no. absolutely the fuck not. fuck off.

a bullshit statement from Keira knightley saying she was not aware of a boycott against jk Rowling before taking a job on the new audio series and that she's "sorry" and "we're all going to have to figure out how to live together and we've all got very different opinions"
She can fuck off.

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a minimum size to qualify as an island?

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 1d

It’s their party and they’ll die if they want to

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 1d

Also because of their deep incompetence at literally everything, to be fair, including naming themselves

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 1d

It'll be really funny if Your Party lose the battle of the left-wing parties purely because they thought it was too risky to explicitly support trans people

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Trans Writes @transwrites.world · 1d

transwrites.world/ciara-watkin...

Ciara Watkin has been convicted and imprisoned for being transgender in a transphobic nation

by @gemma.transwrites.world

Ciara Watkin has been convicted and imprisoned for being transgender in a transphobic nation - Trans Writes

Ciara Watkin is now a 21 year old woman who, 3 years ago, met a man of the same age through instant messaging apps and engaged in sexual activity with him. She has now been convicted and will be house...

transwrites.world

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Lower bills.

Fund our NHS.

Not their culture war nonsense.

youtu.be/1CbN6TUTRZs?...

Zack Polanski HUMILIATES Piers Morgan LIVE On Air!

YouTube video by Antony Jones

youtu.be

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

I'm laughing out loud because, *twenty years ago*, a friend in robotics told me that showing off a dancing robot is what you do when your robot sucks, and a *group* of them even more so.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.