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Katie Lam, the shadow home secretary saying legal migrants need to be deported (The Times) will be seen by many as the most racist comment we’ve heard in recent years. Why this isn’t headline news is scandalous. Which will translate to many as acceptance and agreement. Britain needs to get a grip.

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Graham S. Woods @grahamswoods.bsky.social · 1d

Careful with that axe, Eugene.

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The Dreaded Lurgy @thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social · 1d

Good luck using the NHS or being a resident in a care home.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

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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Dumbartonfc @dumbartonfc.bsky.social · 2d

🥳Twenty-five years of Dumbarton FC playing beside Dumbarton Rock were celebrated on a sold-out evening at the Marbill Coaches Stadium on Saturday

Thanks to everyone who came along for a terrific night! 👇

vist.ly/4b8zb

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Graham S. Woods @grahamswoods.bsky.social · 2d

🎵We'd perch on the only buoy ...

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ahertfordlibdem.bsky.social @ahertfordlibdem.bsky.social · 2d

I prefer the Lib Dem response:

"People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to ‘go home’. This is their home" - Ed Davey

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The House on Haunted Cliff @badgermanbadger.bsky.social · 2d

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Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 3d

president macron giving a press conference "The robbery at the Louvre is an attack on the french people, an attack on history, but most of all an NOT NOW CATO"

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Graham S. Woods @grahamswoods.bsky.social · 3d

I think it means K-SMOG and Batboy have been caught flipping a grunt … again!

[But what do I know?]

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ChrisP @wordsmithgetxo.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve bought some metal action figures of Welsh actors. They’re Dai cast models.
#LunchPun

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John Styx (Ix) @frogalapeche.bsky.social · 4d

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Graham S. Woods @grahamswoods.bsky.social · 5d

I couldn't find him, but I feel sure Wally must be in there somewhere …

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 5d

Expecting an influx of accounts bleating about free speech because the U.S. Government accounts are being blocked en masse.

Social media blocking isn't a restriction on free speech.

You can still speak freely, we just don't have to listen to you.

xkcd 1357 six panel stick figure comic featuring Cueball (basic stick figure with big head yet oddly expressive)
1. Public Service Announcement: The Right to Free Speech means the government can't arrest you for what you say.
2. It doesn't mean that anyone else has to listen to your bullshit, or host you while you share it.
3, The 1st Amendment doesn't shield you from criticism or consequences.
4. If you're yelled at, boycotted, have your show canceled, or get banned from an Internet community, your free speech rights aren't being violated.
5. It's just that the people listening think you're an asshole,
6. [A picture of a partially open door is displayed]
And they're showing you the door.

Title text: I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1357:_Free_Speech

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 6d

Charles Rennie Mackintosh's reputation in his lifetime, and to the present day, was based not just upon his work as an architect, but also as a designer and painter. In 1923, with his wife Margaret, he settled in Port Vendres in the Mediterranean. 'The Little Bay,' is from 1927.

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Burning Shed @burningshed.com · 28d

Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate

Not only have we got more copies of the most recent albums but we are now stocking signed copies of Invisible, Kill Code, Broken But Still Standing, Nostalgia for Infinity and The Confidence Trick CDs

burningshed.com/artists/hats...

#musicfeed #musicsky

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 6d

Stephen Miller is like Grima Wormtongue.

A screenshot of an X.com post by @MarcoFo
..., Marco Foster, posted 14 hours ago, quoting JB Pritzker: "Stephen Miller clearly is the one pushing the tactics at DHS, at CBP, at ICE. He's the person aiming to have Donald Trump become an authoritarian leader. Stephen Miller is bad for the country and he is abusing the fact that Donald Trump has diminished capacity." The post includes a video still from The Bulwark showing a man in a gray suit speaking into a Shure microphone, with an American flag and the Illinois state flag in the background.

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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 6d

Just received proof copy of The Ghost Camera. It's science fiction set now, (contains no ghosts.)
Meant to be published by Unbound but they went backrupt, folks who supported the book were left with nothing. (me too)
I'm printing these so everyone who supported the book will get a signed copy, soon.

Close up of me, Robert, holding a copy of my new book, The Ghost Camera. And yes, there will be an audio version eventually.

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Graham S. Woods @grahamswoods.bsky.social · 7d

Same with the "Not My King" brigade: whether they like it or not, whether HE likes it or not, Charles III IS their king.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 7d

www.worldofmoose.com/products/ven...

Cartoon of a Venn diagram. Two circles intersect, the intersecting area is a wedge shape so that the left hand circle looks like a pie chart. Caption under the left circle: Pie charts that wish they were Venn diagrams. Caption under the right circle: Venn diagrams that wish they were pie charts

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Graham S. Woods @grahamswoods.bsky.social · 7d

Ecky thump!