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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 19h

Reading a book on Auschwitz and Nazis and just came across a bit discussing how the Nazis first planned to ship millions of Jews to Africa and how that idea, in 2004 when the book was written, seems 'far fetched today'.

20 years later, how many people did the Tories want to send to Rwanda?

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 2d

If you're interested in understanding segregation and integration better, here is a good paper by the UK's leading academics on the topic

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library

This paper analyses the changing geographies of ethnic diversity and segregation in England and Wales using Census data covering the last 30 years (1991–2021). Residential segregation of all ethnic g...

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 1d

You know who doesn't integrate? People like Robert Jenrick. You think he works out at the local leisure centre? Goes to the Tuesday night pub quiz? You think his golf club lets anyone play? Or his private members' clubs let anyone in? He puts the ick in prick

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.

You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time

All shares much-appreciated.

Joe McLaren's fabulous cover for Everything Will Swallow You

A close up of the small tear on this first edition of Everything Will Swallow You

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hypotheticalgrog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 1d

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

"You go to some places like Handsworth.. parts of Dewsbury, Bradford, Leicester, where you see.. a single ethnicity.. we don't think that's healthy thing"

Kevin Hollinrake is MP for Thirsk and Malton, which according to the 2021 census is 98% white.

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hypotheticalgrog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 1d

I like how it looks like that bear is about to maul him.

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

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 2d

Robert Jenrick is a wanker. Always has been. Always will be. A deeply shallow, hateful little twerp who should be laughed at. There are plenty of white faces in Handsworth. A huge number of them are Polish, Lithuanian and Romanian. Some are British. White does not equal British. Twat.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the fun bit for right wingers though. If you make it safer and simpler for people to seek asylum, you are more able to run all the relevant checks on people seeking asylum. You are more able to actually tackle gangs. You can focus border force on tackling drugs smuggling etc. 8/

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d

An additional argument Deacon, and others, including the current government, use is this one of people seeking asylum in the UK because of its "largesse" or "generosity". If that was why people chose where they seek asylum then they would remain in France which provides higher levels of support. 6/

"rather than brazen opportunists who have already passed through numerous safe countries on their way to exploit the British state's largesse;"

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d

Except, and I do fully understand that this is the Telegraph so facts might not matter too much, pretty much every reliable expert agrees that the only practical way to genuinely reduce small boat crossings is to provide safer and simpler alternatives. 1/

Michael Deacon

The Greens say they've got a plan to stop the boats.

Unfortunately, it's barking mad

Their proposal won't solve the problem. In fact, it shows they don't even understand what the problem actually is

Simple. It would allow the small boats' prospective passengers to enter Britain by "safe and legal routes” instead.

Mr Polanski seems to think that this is a brilliant scheme. I fear, however, that not all voters will share his enthusiasm. Because, in effect, he's pledging to stop people entering Britain illegally - by allowing them to enter Britain legally. He might as well say: "We're going to end shoplifting - by requiring shops to give away all their products free of charge."

Mr Polanski's plan, therefore, will not solve the problem. In fact, it suggests that he doesn't understand what the problem actually is.

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hypotheticalgrog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 2d

Being so creepy that even Quentin Letts thinks its a bit much is some kind of achievement, I guess.

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hypotheticalgrog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 2d

Presumably the rather generous gap between Melton Mowbray and Christchurch is because it's actually Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 2d

This is the maddest tour I've ever seen in my life. It seems like he's doing more gigs than there are days in the year.

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hypotheticalgrog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 2d

The 's' in the title is giving Literal Democrat vibes.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 2d

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop.
Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform.

Panel 2:
Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public
Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself

Panel 3:
Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but…

Panel 4:
Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

suspending Jews for criticizing some of the most virulent anti-semites on the planet is ANTI-SEMITIC @support.bsky.team

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 2d

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 2d

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

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hypotheticalgrog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 2d

Which bit of 'British Citizens' didnt he understand?

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 3d

In March 2023 when I was announced as the lead in a Doctor Who spin-off I gained about 8k new followers in a day and a half and I posted a hello and welcome etc and ended the post with "also I am pro-trans rights so if you don't like that I won't be for you" and OOOOOOF the VITRIOL to that!

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 3d

OK, let's take this seriously. I had an odd half an hour and via Apple Books had a quick look at the three claims I knew most about - two re the post-Brexit bilateral preferential trade agreements replicated from the EU versions and one about cheaper bananas. All are wrong or wildly implausible. 1/n

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hypotheticalgrog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 3d

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Madonna Loves Bill Oddie

YouTube video by Classic Rathergood

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