Paul Yates

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

Perfect headline

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YouTube video by Star Wars Malaysia Star Wars: Episode V - I am your Father

@johnmichaelw.bsky.social try this, cool huh?
youtu.be/_lOT2p_FCvA?...

When someone corrected me I was completely convinced they were wrong. I still think this qualifies as pedantry though 😂

See the section on the Mandela effect. It's fascinating. This is bullet 3 of "other examples":
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_m...

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I know you love a pedant so have to ask - you know he doesn’t actually say “Luke” in that line right? It’s a classic example of the Mandela effect.

Nice. It’s plum harvest day in WC1 (15kg). Crumbles incoming!

Anyone else thinking Spain have left caldentey on for too long?

I was kind of joking - I do take your point!

“You can’t cause harm by voting” 👀

Asylum Aid wins High Court challenge to the statelessness family reunion rules - Free Movement Asylum Aid’s legal challenge to the lawfulness of the statelessness family reunion rules has been comprehensively upheld. The judgement was handed down by the

The previous government had changed Immigration Rules making family reunion for stateless people much harder.

We challenged that in the High Court and won — the court found the changes to be unlawful.

Here's what it means for stateless people & their families 👇
freemovement.org.uk/asylum-aid-w...

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(2/2) ...but feeling weirdly guilty - it seemed positively illicit to be benefitting so richly from the depths of Alex's remarkable erudition, passion & industry, scot-free.

So delighted now to be a regular contributor on ko-fi.com/podyssey

This is 100% my favourite podcast, and I listen to a loooot of podcasts: @alexpodyssey.bsky.social.

Greek myths, storytelling, history, culture, music, humanity - & all direct from @sturdyalex.bsky.social's velvety voice!

I've been a devotee from the outset, but ...... (1/2)

Guys I found the opening times. Sense this could be important. @sturdyalex.bsky.social

Was that a case or a burn 🤔

Very important and interesting #trafficking & #ECF / #legalaid judgment from the EW High Court last week: HJK & ors v LAA www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH... 1/7

7/ Congratulations to ATLEU, @shushinluh.bsky.social & Maria Moodie for their work on these very important cases.

6/ The court also undertakes a meticulous demolition of the LAA’s contention that the CICA application process is “straightforward” [98-109].

5/ “Fairness demands that these Claimants should be able to present their cases for compensation effectively at the first time of applying” [96].

4/ This argument is brutally described in lawyerspeak as a “surprising conclusion” [92] (BrE: obviously wrong).

3/ Particularly short shrift is reserved for the LAA’s submission that ECF was applied for at “a very early stage in the process” [82] -- ie, that it would have been more appropriate to apply for ECF *after* a CICA application had been refused.

2/ tl;dr: the LAA was wrong to refuse ECF to these four trafficking survivors for their CICA application – to do so was a breach of their article 6 ECHR rights.

Very important and interesting #trafficking & #ECF / #legalaid judgment from the EW High Court last week: HJK & ors v LAA www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH... 1/7

Somehow this cut deep

National Grid: Live Shows the live status of Great Britain’s electric power transmission network

grid.iamkate.com

Dark energy: mysterious cosmic force appears to be weakening, say scientists Findings could open up possibility the universe will end in a reverse big bang or ‘big crunch’, say cosmologists

Oh great - now the universe is screwed too
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Suddenly strikes me that In style (of course not in substance) “Oopsie” was quite a DAG comment.

Season 1 is great and worth rewatching. Just such a great premise, with a group of characters who know nothing about each other and an audience gradually knowing more about them than they know about each other thanks to flashbacks. But go no further!