Artur Ortega

Os álbuns chamam-se “BLUESITANIA”, um trocadilho entre blues e Lusitânia (o antigo nome de #Portugal), e “Skándalo”, uma brincadeira com a palavra escândalo, escrita de forma irreverente para combinar com a energia do ska.

Os meus dois álbuns em português: :um de #blues e outro de #ska, com o novo nome artístico Gaivota Gregório. https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCqzVWBs1UzNxXmnSRDDhl0g?si=YrwoIO7wY1GWfO-_

Two albums, one seagull — Gaivota Gregório Sept 10 — blues with salty tears, ska with cheap beers → https://www.facebook.com/61579382382412/

Annton Beate Schmidt mit roter Halskette und schwarzer Kleidung.

Annton Beate Schmidt 1968 - 2025

Bin unendlich traurig. Sie fehlt mir jetzt schon. Und vor allem wird ihre Stimme gegen die Ungerechtigkeit fehlen.

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mRqCRXNCLzmEaHffJ2JmICKfUhlrr01IM&si=NQSb7VRH2IAPm47b

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Nomadic Notes: My 2nd album in my AI project Chingona Madre features mostly Brazilian Portuguese songs mixed with English, flowing through bossa nova, samba, and coffee-scented mornings. As a bonus, there’s also a Persian-English fusion. With a cover by Gigi Palatnik, it’s out now—listen and share!

New change to Home Office policy permanently blocks refugees from citizenship Change is bad in principle and breaches the Refugee Convention

1. Quick 🧵 on the change to policy that, on the face of it, bans refugees from ever acquiring British citizenship. @sonial77.bsky.social has published a short article on Free Movement:

freemovement.org.uk/good-charact...

And I've done a follow up on my Substack:

open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

Wie benutzt Habeck denn bitte das Wort blind? “Eine Politik ohne Emotionen ist blind” hat er dem Spiegel gesagt. Ich habe “blind” und “Habeck” gegoogelt, um das Zitat zu checken. Seit Jahren benutzt er blind für alles schlechte. Bisschen sehr unreflektierte ableistische Sprache.

Mirandese #Portugal

I would propose the term “Adverbial-Inversivum” to describe the phenomenon where a negative adjective, such as “awful” in “awful kind” or “gross” in “gross accurate,” undergoes inversion to intensify positive qualities.

Agriculture Department to Require Testing of U.S. Milk Supply for Bird Flu Virus The new rules call for testing unpasteurized milk from dairies across the country and for farm owners to provide details that would help officials identify and track cases more easily.

Breaking News: Federal officials will begin testing the bulk samples of unpasteurized milk from dairy processing facilities across the U.S. for the bird flu virus, which has been found in cattle in 15 states.

Nach dem #eXit: Bluesky weiter am Vormarsch Bluesky top bei Interaktionen & Engagement Bluesky VS. x Bluesky 114.559 Interaktionen 137.285 Follower:innen • Engagement: 1,82% X: 105.534 Interaktionen 1,4 Mio. Follower:innen • Engagement: 0,07%

Spanndend! Bringt Bluesky mehr Interaktion als X? Buzzvalue hat das verglichen und die Accounts von @arminwolf.at @klenkflorian.bsky.social @martinthuer.at @corinnamilborn.bsky.social & mir analysiert. Im Schnitt betrug die Engagement-Rate auf Bluesky 1,82%, auf X nur 0,07% (!)

Ein 🧵

I love the deep cuts you can find in the ONS baby names dataset:

Kane 59
Sterling 23
Salah 21
Neymar 7
Ronaldo 6
Walker 6
Foden 4
Messi 4
Palmer 4

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

It is very useful if someone takes a picture of a newspaper or similar. It would be great if blue sky clients could use AI to pre-fill the alt-text so that people only need to review it or modify it accordingly.

Screenshot of headline saying: 'London underground aerial 'map' shows what tube would look like from a plane"

I'm not sure how helpful seeing what the London underground would look like from a plane would be considering it's... underground.

Screenshot of headline saying: "Immigration crackdown sees British modern slavery victims imprisoned Revealed: Former government’s anti-immigration laws have had horrifying consequences for modern slavery victims"

Section from the Home Office Sovereign Borders, international comparisons report, 2010. The last line is the crucial one here: "Armed conflict, human rights abuses, poverty, political & economic instability and violence are factors that forcibly displace migrants The majority (57%) of individuals escaping persecution are internally displaced within their own countries and most refugees displaced abroad stay within their region of displacement, living in countries neighbouring their countries of origin. Of the number of asylum seekers that reach Europe, only a small percentage claim asylum in the UK. In 2019, the UK received 6% of total EU+ asylum applications. 2 • A major driver for people to migrate irregularly is to improve their life and livelihoods with many applying for asylum from 'safe' countries. Economic migrants and asylum seeker's needs and motivations could be addressed separately such as by creating alternative legal routes for some of those unlikely to be granted asylum and streamlining asylum application processes for those who are most vulnerable, to reduce the temptation to use illegal means. Migrants have limited to no knowledge of migration and welfare policies The role of welfare policies, economic factors and labour market access as potential drivers of migration to the UK is limited as many asylum seekers have little to no understanding of current asylum policies and the economic conditions of a destination country. Many asylum seekers have no experience of a welfare state and they expect to be able to work to support themselves. Restrictive migration policies may increase the number of applicants that fall into irregularity, displacing them into more dangerous and exploitative routes"

Powerful piece by @sianushka.bsky.social. Not only, as Home Office's own analysis shows, do harsher immigration policies increase exploitation, framing modern slavery/trafficking as an "immigration issue" inevitably undermines protections for UK victims as well.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/british-m...