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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 3d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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owlgoddess24.bsky.social @owlgoddess24.bsky.social · 3d

I cannot believe that this is the first time I’m learning about this man.

Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 3d

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,981

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,981 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

This is the grave of Silas Soule. Born in 1838 in Bath, Maine, Soule grew up in the abolitionist world of New England reformers. His parents hated slavery. By the time Soule was a teenager, Kansas was becoming a political issue. Thanks to Stephen Douglas deciding to blow up the Missouri Compromise in order to […]

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 2d

David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here.

Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.

David Herdson @davidherdson.bsky.social · 2d

This below is from the 2005 BNP manifesto.

Spot the difference with current Tory and Reform policy.

(p14 news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp... )

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Chai Patel @chaipatel.net · 3d

I turned it off s few months back snd it is pleasingly rustic.

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Martha Dark @marthadark.bsky.social · 3d

Read the report in full here

www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/10/05/r...

Report: 10 new data centres would wipe out annual carbon savings from electric cars - Foxglove

Just ten of the new, large-scale data centres being built in the UK would lead to annual carbon emissions equivalent …

www.foxglove.org.uk

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Donald Campbell @dncampbell.bsky.social · 3d

Big Tech's data centre frenzy risks wiping out climate savings made by the public - why is the UK Govt happy for us to pick up the tab for Bezos, Pichai, Zuckerberg et al? observer.co.uk/news/busines...

Ten UK data centres could cancel EV emissions gain

Research has underlined the lack of transparent and reliable figures for expected emissions driven by data centre growth

observer.co.uk

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 5d

Don Flynn in 2002, in Tough As Old Boots:

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Chai Patel @chaipatel.net · 6d

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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 6d

In all honesty, it’s not rhetoric any more. It’s not narrative. I’ve experienced more racism in the last 4 months than I can ever remember. The wheels are off in the UK and it’s being led by 3 political parties.

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Chai Patel @chaipatel.net · 6d

Ah shit. Well fingers crossed for you.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 7d

Think I preferred it before they started pretending to be anti racist

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Chai Patel @chaipatel.net · 7d

Wow that is a punishing route. Good luck!

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 11d

I've long had an interest in asylum and immigration issues, on which I'm sadly no longer reporting.
I also like riding my bike.
So, next Saturday, I'm undertaking the #BoxHill100 in aid of the emergency appeal by Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/box-hill-1...

Box Hill 100 for Southwark's asylum seeker centre

I'm raising money to help keep Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers open at a time when funding is desperately short

www.crowdfunder.co.uk

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 8d

“Rather than building cohesion, such insecurity risks producing… disenfranchisement among those left in limbo, and heightened suspicion among the wider public, who are encouraged to believe that migrants must continually prove themselves. Far from calming anxieties, this… risks fuelling them.”

Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 8d

Labour’s plan to make migrants earn permanent residency by doubling the wait to 10 years & adding new tests turns belonging into an endless exam.
🔗 theconversation.com/labours-plan...
#ShabanaMahmood
#LabourConference

Labour’s plan for migrants to ‘earn’ permanent residency turns belonging into an endless exam

In this hierarchical system, migrants are kept on extended probation and judged by standards never applied to British nationals.

theconversation.com

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 8d

One of my favourite conversations I've had in a while.
Really getting into what's wrong in the current moment, what the facts are that are being obscured by racism & lies, and what we should be doing about it

Do check it out!

Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 8d

It’s out! I spoke to @zoejardiniere.bsky.social about migration, the realities, the challenges and how to confront the real threat of far right takeover of our country on a platform of fear and disinformation.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 8d

Going to stick my neck out and say this policy will never be implemented, or will be successfully challenged if it is, leaving the government blundering around (not for the first time) infuriating its former/ potential supporters and getting no credit from its opponents 1/

Mahmood demands migrants earn right to settlement in UK

New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 8d

It’s out! I spoke to @zoejardiniere.bsky.social about migration, the realities, the challenges and how to confront the real threat of far right takeover of our country on a platform of fear and disinformation.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

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Chai Patel @chaipatel.net · 8d

Yes exactly, though this tendency has been on the rise for as long as I can remember.

Members of the fucking Bullingdon club lecturing care workers on integrating into their local community.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 9d

It's genuinely fascinating how much the political turn around this stuff is just from people who visibly are not engaged with the country they actually live in. Questions about who is English settled by the Mail's backpage in the 1984 Euros. Cliches about some of the best UK holiday destinations.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 8d

Delaying ILR/settlement/citizenship for this group would very likely leave them to the mercy of a future Reform/Tory govt -and to policies which Starmer and Mahmood have (rightly) explicitly described as racist.

A real litmus test for Labour.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 9d

I want to talk about generative AI because of the defeatist impulses chronicled in this article. While simply expresssing a defiant attitude cannot always change lived-in reality, in certain cases it definitely can. This is in part because, early on, a conflict can exist at a perceptions level. 1/?

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 9d

All the reasons not to give in to generative AI.

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Chai Patel @chaipatel.net · 9d

It also places yet another barrier between migrant victims of abuse and exploitation and any kind of help.

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Chai Patel @chaipatel.net · 9d

The kinds of circs where you can get benefits (with difficulty) when on a visa with no recourse to public funds are eg. fleeing your home because of domestic abuse or your spouse dying.

So this means brutalising and trying to deport people who have already had the worst things happen to them.

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 9d

i've seen so many articles on this today, and not a single one so far has pointed out that where "not taking any benefits payments" is concerned, you have no access to public funds on a visa. this has been the case for years. but nobody, from the BBC down, will challenge this or anything else

Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 9d

To say that you will ‘have to volunteer’ to be eligible for settled status even if working full time as a doctor or nurse for example is not really volunteering because it would not be voluntary. The govt should call it something else if they want to enforce it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Stop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social · 9d

And finally, @minnierahman.bsky.social says on Trump, migration sector is clear: Farage/Reform are learning from Trump/MAGA. Infrastructure for detention and raids being set up now will be used under a Reform Govt. They would not learn from Trump’s first term, they would just install “Trump term 2”.

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Chai Patel @chaipatel.net · 9d

I am so tired of all the different technocratic ways you can dress up racism and bigotry. I think contribution hasn't quite outstripped integration yet but give it a minute.

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