James Lark

YouTube video by Neurotic Literature Pancake day

Enjoy pancake day in the company of a reflective 12-year-old James Lark (appropriately invoking the legendary @sirtonyrobinson.bsky.social).

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If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.

Won't be a revelation to anyone but the reason all the worst people on the right are pivoting to talking about race and culture rather than immigration is so they can keep banging the drum even as net migration figures fall (UK) and even reverse (US).

This is the next step and it always was.

Britain’s Story: The Next Chapter - BBC Royal Charter Review, Green Paper and public consultation

This is the Gov looking for your input on the BBC. It takes a while to complete (15/20 mins) but it’s pretty comprehensive and covers most aspects.

Please share. I’m surprised many people haven’t seen it yet.

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Al can be naughty or nice, but what is it actually thinking?

It’s not actually thinking. Please, stop this.

Three important narrators, the end of the war, unrequited love, murder and betrayal...the Earth Arc continues with its most impressive novel yet...
@dwcoverstory.bsky.social @grumpy2eb.bsky.social @jonarnold.bsky.social

Readings by @jameslark.bsky.social

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Well, that's my valentine's day sorted

Nadhim Zahawi posting a picture of a guy lying on the ground, who he “just walked passed” [sic].

Today we are studying the story of the Bad Samaritan

Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?

Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

I am one of the most published academics on the childhood social transition, with 5 peer reviewed articles that relate to the topic.

There is so much evidence of benefit of social transition.

There is no evidence of harm. Not one jot.

This will literally kill trans kids. No exaggeration.

Net migration is falling rapidly, we are very soon going to be having policy debates about how to cope with the consequences of an aging population combined with low levels of immigration.

Everybody Hates Keir How did Starmer go from landslide to endgame in under two years? Also this week: the most murderous mammal on earth; and every thought I have about an insane train plan.

"They’ve attacked all these people, in a desperate attempt to make clear to racists and social conservatives that they hear them. If the racists and social conservatives were actually going to vote for them this would merely seem abhorrent. When they clearly aren’t, it’s stupid too."

'Grizzled bitter rich man makes up numbers' might be a better headline?

'quite interesting', @edconway.bsky.social?

As in, interestingly full of nonsense?

Do you want to take *any* responsibility for the way this propaganda is reported?

The inevitable end of seeing "free speech" as the right to be heard, not a limit on your ability to censor.

Always believe people when they tell you what they are.

This is great. Would you be happy for me to use it on my website?

Trump administration removes Rainbow Flag from Stonewall National Monument The Trump administration removed a large Rainbow Flag from a flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument, the National Park Service confirmed to Gay City News

When a headline says it all:

300,000 children face 10-year wait for settled status under UK plans, says IPPR Thinktank analysis says proposed ‘earned settlement’ changes could trap families in prolonged insecurity

⚠️New @ippr.org research: 300,000 children will be hit by the Govt’s earned settlement plans.

Retrospective changes will deepen child poverty, block access to higher education & trap families in years of uncertainty.

This is precarity by design.

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So that's an admission that Morgan McSweeney and his wing of the Labour Party are anti-woke (kids, "anti-woke" is what we used to call "racist", "sexist", "homophobic" or "transphobic"), anti-net-zero and pro-Brexit? Hmm. *takes notes*

I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.

Here's the hi res of it if anyone wants it

BUT having said that, while searching for the elusive leg, I did think of an additional joke that I then added to the image. This is what you miss when you use AI. It's the thinking while creating thing.

I knew Matt Goodwin promoted the far right Great Replacement Theory but until @huwcdavies.bsky.social pointed it out, I didn't realise he'd actually interviewed the originator of the theory on his GB News show and plugged it like he's PT Barnum. A vote for Goodwin is a vote for white nationalism

A full emotional rollercoaster

Labour is creating a vulnerable migrant underclass Chasing Reform on immigration will only entrench an unequal system and increase resentment

"Creating a poorer, more vulnerable migrant class of workers who have no long-term stake in our society worsens wages & conditions for everyone & increases resentment towards immigrants."
This. This. This.
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social is spot-on on why Government's hostile migration plans hurt us all.

Things I dreamt last night:
- There was a Munsters musical set in a casino and it was called 'The Munsino'
- I found a decomposing pigeon in my living room

Home Office lets rogue firms regain licences to sponsor migrant visas Employers targeted in a government ‘crackdown’ on abuse of the skilled work system are routinely being granted fresh approvals, Times analysis reveals

More than 1 in 10 employers stripped of their licence had it reinstated to continue hiring - and exploiting - migrants. Shameful. Is the Home Office operating with its eyes closed?

These employers must be fined, and that money must be used to compensate victims.

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Most of our media is studiously ignoring the Epstein links to Brexit, Farage and far right populism. Farage is being touted for No.10. He wants an even more extreme Brexit. A race to the bottom to sell us out to this global network of oligarch crooks.
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?

One driver told the BBC his firm would do up to 15 drop-offs daily from a hotel in south-east London to a doctors surgery around two miles away. These journeys alone would cost the Home Office £1,000 a day, he said. Another taxi driver, who gave the name Steve, claimed firms would purposely increase the mileage on trips by dispatching drivers to another distant town to carry out short journeys. He said that on one occasion he was sent from Gatwick Airport to Reading - a round trip of about 110 miles (175km) and costing more than £100 - to take an asylum seeker from their hotel to a dentist appointment which was 1.5 miles away. Steve said that while working for a subcontractor he was sent from Gatwick to Southampton "more than once", and that he drove an average of 275 miles a day - half of which was without a passenger in his car.

The interesting thing about this article about Shabana Mahmood 'ending the wasteful use of taxis' is that, although it purports to be about how much asylum seekers cost the taxpayer, it turns out to be about how much Home Office incompetence costs the tax payer.
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