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Pumpkintronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 1d

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Pumpkintronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 1d

see u soon buddy!

Pumpkintronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 1d

Our immigration policy is already predicated on cruelty. We ALREADY live under a policy that was literally introduced under the name "The Hostile Environment for Immigrants".

Let's not make it even worse.

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Pumpkintronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 1d

That's enough time to fall in love, have kids, get divorced, fall in love again, find a career, get burnt out, change careers, grow, succeed, thrive.

Imagine doing all of that with uncertainty hanging over you about whether you'll be forced to move to another country at some arbitrary point!

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Pumpkintronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 1d

It already takes five years. That's a lot of a life to spend gaining the right to remain in the place you've chosen to build that life.

Ten years of precarity is too long. Imagine moving to the UK as a starry eyed 25 year old, and FINALLY being told "OK you can stay now" when you're 35.

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Pumpkintronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 1d

If you're in the UK, this is important.

Indefinite Leave to Remain is ALREADY an expensive and laborious process for people looking to build a life here.

Migrants have no access to benefits during this time, and pay a surcharge for access to the NHS.

petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

Petition: Protect Legal Migrants: do not implement the 10-Year ILR proposal

We urge the UK Government to scrap plans to extend ILR from 5 to 10 years. We feel that legal migrants, especially care workers, followed the rules and built lives here under the 5-year promise. We th...

petition.parliament.uk

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Pumpkintronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 2d

oh yeah. that's an snipe

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 2d

Stravinsky saw Charlie Parker play at Birdland

club of all time by performing for Igor Stravinsky at Birdland. Alfred Appel tells it definitively in his book Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce:
The house was almost full, even before the opening set - Billy Taylor's piano trio - except for the conspicuous empty table to my right, which bore a RESERVED sign, unusual for Birdland.
After the pianist finished his forty-five-minute set, a party of four men and a woman settled in at the table, rather clamorously, three waiters swooping in quickly to take their orders as a ripple of whispers and exclamations ran through Birdland at the sight of one of the men, Igor Stravinsky. He was a celebrity, and an icon to jazz fans because he sanctified modern jazz by composing Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his Orchestra (1946) - a Covarrubias
"Impossible Interview" come true.
As Parker's quintet walked onto the bandstand, trumpeter Red Rodney recognized Stravinsky, front and almost center. Rodney leaned over and told Parker, who did not look at Stravinsky.
Parker immediately called the first number for his band, and, forgoing the customary greeting to the crowd, was off like a shot. At the sound of the opening notes, played in unison by trumpet and alto, a chill went up and down the back of my neck.
They were playing "Koko, which, because of its epochal breakneck tempo
- over three hundred beats per minute on the metronome - Parker never assayed before his second set, when he was sufficiently warmed up. Parker's phrases were flying as fluently as ever on this particular daunting "Koko." At the beginning of his second chorus he interpolated the opening of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite as though it had always been there, a perfect fit, and then sailed on with the rest of the number. Stravinsky roared with delight, pounding his glass on the table, the upward arc of the glass sending its liquor and ice cubes onto the people behind him, who threw up their hands or ducked.
Parker didn't just happen to…

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Pumpkintronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 2d

it is just an incredibly dangerous situation, for the wallet, darth

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Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · 6d

The speed with which the political discourse moved from "we have to take migration concerns seriously" to "we have found a universally agreed upon scapegoat that we can blame all our governance shortcomings on" was incredibly fast and really deserves pushback.

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Beidak @beidak.bsky.social · 17d

bothered. soggy. unforunate. not really in my lane. apathetic. rotting.

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Pumpkintronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 13d

"we plan to end small boat crossings by completely eradicating the informal sectors of our economy, through software procurement, somehow" is a genuinely insane policy announcement