Ghost Coast.
@spectralthrum.myatproto.social
Sprawled across archipelagoes, working on some things.
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*sighs and crosses off another line of the deep-fried "what Labour have done for YOU" centrist meme*
What is the ‘labour’ party?
November 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
*sighs and crosses off another line of the deep-fried "what Labour have done for YOU" centrist meme*
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Quebec's government is about to introduce a new secularism law which will ban the niqab on campus, campus prayer spaces and daycare workers and ECE students from wearing religious symbols. All to try and save their racist asses in the polls.
My latest...
noraloreto.substack.com/p/quebecs-ne...
My latest...
noraloreto.substack.com/p/quebecs-ne...
Quebec's new secularism bill expands the scope of who the government officially hates
Today, the Coalition Avenir Québec is introducing, An Act respecting the reinforcement of laicity in Québec (the name is better in French, surely).
noraloreto.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Quebec's government is about to introduce a new secularism law which will ban the niqab on campus, campus prayer spaces and daycare workers and ECE students from wearing religious symbols. All to try and save their racist asses in the polls.
My latest...
noraloreto.substack.com/p/quebecs-ne...
My latest...
noraloreto.substack.com/p/quebecs-ne...
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Treating “Britain is too difficult, expensive and shit to live in” as a win is incredible
I'm not sure how much it is appreciated that there will be significant emigration coming. Those here on graduate visas coming to an end, the toughening up of skilled worker rules re. salaries/sponsorable roles and the 'earned settlement' changes to come. Lots of people are going to leave.
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Treating “Britain is too difficult, expensive and shit to live in” as a win is incredible
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As the story explains with horrifying examples, this is literally a question of life and death. The student has done everything possible. The university has actually done its part.
The Canadian government is choosing this. If he dies the government is accessory to murder.
The Canadian government is choosing this. If he dies the government is accessory to murder.
A student admitted to grad school at UNB is stranded in Gaza because the Canadian government won't issue a study permit without biometrics that in turn cannot be produced without a travel visa to leave Gaza.
The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
![Student accepted into UNB grad program stranded in Gaza awaiting Canadian study permit [video]
Advocates say Ottawa lacks the political will to evacuate more than 130 Palestinian students admitted to universities across the country
by David Gordon Koch November 26, 2025 Reading Time: 6min read](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tgw3d4hvw3x5ijrxax7lg26u/bafkreidrainynrwaullbjg2npno3eu2zkyfldwkhuo7p4f2rwjycf4ivha@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
As the story explains with horrifying examples, this is literally a question of life and death. The student has done everything possible. The university has actually done its part.
The Canadian government is choosing this. If he dies the government is accessory to murder.
The Canadian government is choosing this. If he dies the government is accessory to murder.
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“He screams and shouts, and says: “The emails [from the UK Foreign Office] are lying to you, Mummy, they all just want us to be bombed and die here,” she recounts.”
Yes- this is precisely the experience.
Yes- this is precisely the experience.
UK visa rules leave Palestinian scholars in limbo and their children stranded in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-visa-rules-leave-palestinian-scholars-limbo-and-their-children
UK visa rules leave Palestinian scholars in limbo and their children stranded in Gaza
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>Faten Sweedan remembers celebrating her 28th birthday in October 2023, the day before the Hamas-led attack on <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel </a>and the start of Israel's ongoing <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-genocide-gaza" target="_blank">war on Gaza</a>.</p>
<p>She was born on 7 October, a date now forever associated with the start of the Gaza <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-genocide-gaza" target="_blank">genocide</a>.</p>
<p>“It was a special birthday, on the Friday," she told Middle East Eye. "I ate bowls of chocolate, I ate ice cream, iced sweet drinks, I ate lamb barbecue and also barbecued chicken. And stuffed vine leaves… it was a beautiful day.”</p>
<p>The Unrwa school teacher, now in the <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/uk" target="_blank">UK </a>on a scholarship, smiles as she remembers this special occasion, the day before the war and her family’s displacement began. </p>
<p>“The first street to be bombed [by Israel] was our street… We were displaced from the very first day,” she said.</p>
<h3>Read more: <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-teacher-studying-uk-while-kids-are-trapped-gaza-unable-join-her">UK visa rules leave Palestinian scholars in limbo and their children stranded in Gaza</a></h3>
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November 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
“He screams and shouts, and says: “The emails [from the UK Foreign Office] are lying to you, Mummy, they all just want us to be bombed and die here,” she recounts.”
Yes- this is precisely the experience.
Yes- this is precisely the experience.
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A student admitted to grad school at UNB is stranded in Gaza because the Canadian government won't issue a study permit without biometrics that in turn cannot be produced without a travel visa to leave Gaza.
The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A student admitted to grad school at UNB is stranded in Gaza because the Canadian government won't issue a study permit without biometrics that in turn cannot be produced without a travel visa to leave Gaza.
The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
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As the person who does most of the VM socials, let me tell you this: bluesky is absolutely the worst platform of the bunch for slapping random adult content warnings on innocent posts to bury them. Would super appreciate if you share the post below like hell, and donate a fiver!
Let's try this again... Glad tidings we bring to you and your quim! We are fundraising this festive period. Earlier this year, the future looked bleak for the Vagina Museum. But we're still here, and there's many reasons for you to become a vital part of our future... www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
November 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
As the person who does most of the VM socials, let me tell you this: bluesky is absolutely the worst platform of the bunch for slapping random adult content warnings on innocent posts to bury them. Would super appreciate if you share the post below like hell, and donate a fiver!
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I'm teaching a course at the Irish Writers' Centre this spring where we will start out working on basic ideas and try to move them forward to script stage, it was a lot of fun when we did it last year, very happy they have asked me back:
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
Growing Your Idea: From Thought to Script with Paul Duane - Irish Writers Centre
In-person scriptwriting course at the Irish Writers Centre (Dublin). Turn an idea for a film into a detailed outline or script. Starts Tues 11 March 2025.
irishwriterscentre.ie
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I'm teaching a course at the Irish Writers' Centre this spring where we will start out working on basic ideas and try to move them forward to script stage, it was a lot of fun when we did it last year, very happy they have asked me back:
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
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This was part of the point of requiring unpaid internships at the BBC btw- replacing a generation of workers whose qualification to get started was a love of the work with a generation of workers whose qualification was the ability to afford to live in London without an income
Journalists who came up through the ranks, knew their readers names, recognised their faces and understood their concerns 1st hand have historically been the backbone of the press. The right-wing corporatization of media has replaced it w an elite “ruling class” corps utterly out of touch w readers
I can’t claim to be neutral. But I am grateful I wasn’t hired at 19 before graduating college and then plummeted into journalism stardom. I was forced to learn my lessons in a small town newspaper where the audience was small but cared deeply when I made my mistakes — and forced me to confront them
November 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This was part of the point of requiring unpaid internships at the BBC btw- replacing a generation of workers whose qualification to get started was a love of the work with a generation of workers whose qualification was the ability to afford to live in London without an income
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And it’ll never be enough for the racists that our current government is so desperate to cater to, and our immigration policies will only get crueler and more hostile, but it won’t matter to these fucking freaks until the number of immigrants AND racialised people in this country is 0.
Net migration to UK plummets by two-thirds to 204,000 on.ft.com/4a0WmRl
Net migration to UK plummets by two-thirds to 204,000
Immigration falls sharply alongside a slight rise in people leaving
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
And it’ll never be enough for the racists that our current government is so desperate to cater to, and our immigration policies will only get crueler and more hostile, but it won’t matter to these fucking freaks until the number of immigrants AND racialised people in this country is 0.
The people that brought back The Onion should probably buy The Telegraph. No joke.
November 27, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The people that brought back The Onion should probably buy The Telegraph. No joke.
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1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
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Anyway I already talked about how stupid this is. www.podbean.com/ep/pb-uwifh-...
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Anyway I already talked about how stupid this is. www.podbean.com/ep/pb-uwifh-...
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You are not misreading.
Am I misreading? Is this post suggesting that because the shooter is Afghan that it is terrorism? maybe I am misreading
With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 AM
You are not misreading.
on his "I didn't leave the left, the left left me" speaking tour 🙄
(speaking as a decade long Canadaland patreon supporter who finally had enough last year, stopped paying, stopped listening, the quality cratered)
(speaking as a decade long Canadaland patreon supporter who finally had enough last year, stopped paying, stopped listening, the quality cratered)
November 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Wonder why Labour want to scrap the right to appeal 🤔
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Wonder why Labour want to scrap the right to appeal 🤔
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“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
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LOL.
Reeves has staked her political identity on being the antidote to the chaos that has roiled British politics in recent years. Weeks of mixed messages from her and Starmer on tax have strained the trust of investors and voters. Only 9% of Britons think Reeves is doing a good job, while 61% do not
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
LOL.
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This is the thing to hang onto - I’m glad people are appalled by Farage’s Nazi sympathies now, but the fact is, he was able to present TV programmes and constantly appear as a sofa guest for decades, booked by people who knew it all. We must reckon with that.
Evidence of Farage’s unabashed youthful racism has been in the public domain since at least 2013, yet somehow he has been allowed to remain part of the British political conversation. The fact he wasn’t driven back under a rock years ago has emboldened racists across the country to spread hatred.
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This is the thing to hang onto - I’m glad people are appalled by Farage’s Nazi sympathies now, but the fact is, he was able to present TV programmes and constantly appear as a sofa guest for decades, booked by people who knew it all. We must reckon with that.
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And there is a very good chance that he will continue to be booked on TV for many decades to come because the establishment soft-left hates themselves.
This is the thing to hang onto - I’m glad people are appalled by Farage’s Nazi sympathies now, but the fact is, he was able to present TV programmes and constantly appear as a sofa guest for decades, booked by people who knew it all. We must reckon with that.
Evidence of Farage’s unabashed youthful racism has been in the public domain since at least 2013, yet somehow he has been allowed to remain part of the British political conversation. The fact he wasn’t driven back under a rock years ago has emboldened racists across the country to spread hatred.
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
And there is a very good chance that he will continue to be booked on TV for many decades to come because the establishment soft-left hates themselves.
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sorry but most rich people do not actually move when you tax them, citation needed for that claim lol
@zackpolanski.bsky.social wants to introduce a wealth tax of 1% on assets of over £10m & 2% on assets over £1bn & if the super rich want to leave the UK because they are being taxed a tiny amount more then we should wave them goodbye
Thatcherite John Redwood says 1% isn't a tiny amount.
Thatcherite John Redwood says 1% isn't a tiny amount.
November 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
sorry but most rich people do not actually move when you tax them, citation needed for that claim lol
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"Our home is gone.
We are left with no shelter, no food, and no clean water.
Winter rains are flooding around us, and we have nowhere safe to stay.
Your help can save our family in this moment of crisis."
Link support 🙏🙏
chuffed.org/project/mosh...
We are left with no shelter, no food, and no clean water.
Winter rains are flooding around us, and we have nowhere safe to stay.
Your help can save our family in this moment of crisis."
Link support 🙏🙏
chuffed.org/project/mosh...
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 AM
"Our home is gone.
We are left with no shelter, no food, and no clean water.
Winter rains are flooding around us, and we have nowhere safe to stay.
Your help can save our family in this moment of crisis."
Link support 🙏🙏
chuffed.org/project/mosh...
We are left with no shelter, no food, and no clean water.
Winter rains are flooding around us, and we have nowhere safe to stay.
Your help can save our family in this moment of crisis."
Link support 🙏🙏
chuffed.org/project/mosh...
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Nothing is fun about this fact, but the thread it starts will shock even the most battle hardened trans people/allies.
What the UK press and political class - especially Labour - have allowed to metastacize over the past 10 years is nothing short of a moral panic.
What the UK press and political class - especially Labour - have allowed to metastacize over the past 10 years is nothing short of a moral panic.
Fun fact I couldn't mention until now: At the time Graham Linehan was harassing Sophia Brooks online, I was contacted by her former teachers and School Safeguarding Team to get her latest contact details, as they were worried sick about her being publicly stalked by an abusive alcoholic celebrity.
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Nothing is fun about this fact, but the thread it starts will shock even the most battle hardened trans people/allies.
What the UK press and political class - especially Labour - have allowed to metastacize over the past 10 years is nothing short of a moral panic.
What the UK press and political class - especially Labour - have allowed to metastacize over the past 10 years is nothing short of a moral panic.