Adele

Do not expect me to try to get along with people who want me and my kind dead.

That's just not going to work out. I like being alive.

Agree, though I also think the bulldozing the Rose Garden business is sheer petty spite.

I should also point out that this is the reason for Trump's hasty-ass gerrymandering scheme: to create the illusion of a mandate.

It's really important to understand that if an elected official invites you to consider a country's finances as somehow analogous to household finances (a la Thatcher), they are *lying* to you and you should treat with scepticism *everything else* that ever comes out of their mouth.

That's wonderful - she's going to love it out there! Outskedaddles time in the catio is the favourite time of the day for my cat - there's a whole lot of pigeon watching...

Congratulations Eric!

The ONS report from December 2024 states that generally criminality has DECREASED over the past decade. But don’t let facts get in the way of whipping up fear and hatred, eh?

Congratulations! What's the comp? And what's the screenplay about?

SIGN SIGN SIGN

It's the implications for dementia that I find particularly troubling, especially given that we knew that was a real risk from really very early on in the pandemic. It's a bleak world.

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But there are others who have been delightfully surprising.

I really need to rewatch it. I remember seeing it as a kid and really liking it (though the burial in lime definitely stuck).

Playing around with setups... it's getting there.

And god forbid the U.K. ends up protecting some people who bring academic skill and talent to the country.

People with smarts are the last thing the U.K. needs.

(/s for the avoidance of doubt).

It also completely ignores that the circumstances which necessitate people seeking asylum change, so someone may come to the UK to study and then require asylum later. Gaining an education in certain circumstances can actually lead to people needing to seek asylum.

Thrilled to be in the Hot Seat in the new That's Life! Crime Scene, talking about Can You Solve the Murder? and my writing habits… 🔍
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Strange Days is one that crawled into my head and took up residence.

Labour rifling through the Conservatives failed anti-asylum policies and saying "let's have some of that, but more expensive".
We could be investing in communities to support everyone, instead we have a government wasting millions on performative cruelty. #r4today
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Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.

Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.

Do not.

When you know better, you're supposed to do better.

We know now that airborne transmission is a bigger thing that we thought: we should be cleaning our inside air like we clean our water.

UK Border Agency investigation finds cause for 'significant concern' Whistleblower claimed colleagues expressed anti-immigration views and took pride in refusing asylum applications

I keep thinking of this report from way back in 2010. The rot runs deep there. They've had a series of appalling Home Secretary's (continuously from Blunkett on at least) - but they also attract the kind of people who should never hold power over others.

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There's something in the water in those departments. I'm not saying it makes *no* difference who's in power, but it's always just different flavours of shit.

Top facts from the latest statistics on refugees and people seeking asylum - Refugee Council Here are our top facts based on the UK Government's latest immigration statistics for the year ending March 2025.

Thing is the quality of Home Office decisions is appalling - which is why so many of their decisions are overturned on appeal. I doubt Cooper wants to improve the quality of decisions - she'll just want to refoul people faster.

They should let people work - and stop trying to appease fascists.

Leash your fucking large dogs you fucking idiots. A neighbor leaves their pit bull dog without a leash. No one in the street can locate the said neighbor and the dog doesn't have a tag. 30 minutes later, we hear screams. The pit bull attacks & bites a much smaller dog and the poor thing's mom is...

EU migrants donate Settled Status refunds to charity campaigning against Hostile Environment policies EU migrants have been donating their Settled Status refunds to a charity fighting for justice in immigration, asylum and nationality law.

*sigh*

more innocent times www.thelondoneconomic.com/lifestyle/eu...

YouTube video by Council of Geeks Collective Shout vs You: the group behind Steam’s adult video games purge, and their goals

@councilofgeeks.bsky.social has got the measure of Collective Shout. Excellent video essay.

This is the same lot that have outsize influence on upcoming Australian changes to social media use.

And while I'm at it - if you use browse from a computer rather than a phone, Ublock Origin is a wondrous thing.

May be of interest to #scriptsky
Have played around a bit with DuckDuckGo and it may be time to give them another look.

Italy plan to process migrants in Albania dealt blow by EU Court The court says the way Italy defines a "safe" country breaks EU law.

UK is very much following Italy, both with how it is designating countries as "safe" and the externalisation of processing and returns to deny people asylum. Simple reality is, just saying somewhere is safe to return people to doesn't actually make it safe. #r4today
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Today's screenwriting work has involved filling out tax forms, so I think I'm going to hit things a bit now to destress.