Siân Pearce
@sianp.bsky.social
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Immigration flavoured children's rights researcher, lawyer in a past life. Also geekery various. "Gary Sherman's Nemesis" (Abertoir, 2023) Almost certainly not in the mood for this. https://linktr.ee/SianP
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debbiemoon.bsky.social
My lord, the West is deluged with a plague of frogs... 😂
donnermaps.bsky.social
Last night it said 100+ bought in the past month. Tonight, 200+. The legion grows.
screenshot of amazon page that says Inflatable Frog Costume for Adults - Blow up Halloween Costume. 200 plus bought in past month
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ironspike.bsky.social
lmao this is how you do it
nomorerobots.io
Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:
sianp.bsky.social
They all stand together...
oregonian.com
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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scratchcarddust.bsky.social
If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.
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alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social
This isn’t as bad as its headline, but it’d have benefited from reminding readers what the ECHR mainly prevents governments from doing in the immigration field, ie expelling people to face torture or similarly inhuman treatment, and tearing apart families with non-British members for no good reason
Would leaving the ECHR really 'stop the boats'?
The extent to which leaving the Convention would make a difference to immigration has been greatly exaggerated, argues Lord Sumption
www.bbc.co.uk
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Thanks to everyone who has entered - I have now replied to every entry I have received, so if you haven't had an email, please get in touch!

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theblogginggoth.bsky.social
Meanwhile, actual Seventh Doctor actor Sylvester McCoy is on the protest line against DJT and for migration ♥️
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alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social
There’s a step change from a party which achieves its malign ends within the traditional conception of our constitution & one which is prepared to lay waste to it, and the Tories have rapidly moved from one to the other. But you’d understand none of that from reading the BBC’s political editor.
alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social
As you’d expect, Chris is absolutely “fascinated” by the goings-on at the Tory Party conference and what they say about its polling. So much so that he forgot the bits he was going to put in about all the Blackshirt posturing or the party’s trashing of the rule of law
Kemi Badenoch hopes to grab attention with policy blitz
The Tory leader's conference speech included a new pledge to scrap stamp duty on the purchase of main homes.
www.bbc.co.uk
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keithwdickinson.bsky.social
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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acornunion.bsky.social
This isn’t an unavoidable fact of life. It’s the direct result of policy choices made my those in power.

It doesn’t have to be this way.
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alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social
Shameless bullying by odious little tin soldier Jenrick of people who just want to serve the public.

This shouldn’t be worth taking seriously ofc, bar the manifest risk that our politics will now dissolve into an auction over how many judges each party promises to sack.

A few points & a warning 1/
paullewismoney.bsky.social
Top Tory names judges he would sack for bias bit.ly/3KE7cBY some have allowed immigrants to stay in the UK for reasons Robert Jenrick disapproves of. He wants Ministers to appoint (and sack) judges. But top judge Sumption warns this could lead to an authoritarian state
Robert Jenrick names judges he would sack for ‘pro-migrant bias’
The shadow justice secretary has accused ‘activists’ within the judiciary of having links to political causes that compromise their independence
bit.ly
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danielsohege.bsky.social
There is something deeply broken in the UK and it has absolutely nothing to do with migrants, especially with 1 in 25 properties being vacant.
This should be the number one priority for the government. Instead more and more homeless individuals are dying.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high
Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.
www.bbc.com
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allisonmick.bsky.social
I attended @momoshaty.bsky.social's Meeting of the Morbid Minds: The Horror of Becoming virtual symposium last week and all I got was a skyhigh TBR and my mind blown!

allisonmickcomedy.substack.com
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bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight
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friede.bsky.social
A thousand book historians are nodding vigorously.

(we are legion, and more canny about the history of markets than you’d think for folks who also make literal formulae to represent how an individual book was constructed)
scalzi.com
Honestly if you want at least some insight as to why "classics of literature" are constructed as they are, it's worth knowing the market imperatives of the time. American science fiction and fantasy started in magazines and drugstore racks; short stories and 40K novels were how people go paid...
crewmansix.bsky.social
I feel like this probably explains a lot more of the so-called classics of literature than is immediately obvious on the surface. 🤔
sianp.bsky.social
I'm not sure why the 'spectrum' idea causes such problems with regards to autism. Lots of conditions (not a perfect word, but the best I could come up with) have a range of presentations, and that's understood pretty easily, but for some reason when it comes to autism it seems a real struggle.