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Iain @8letters.co.uk · 2h

Baby steps. Even just mentioning Brexit as a possible problem is a good start. Up until now it's been verboten to even mention it in the same sentence as a problem.

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Iain @8letters.co.uk · 2h

I was about to say I feel this started with the upside down flags and the farmers.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 9h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Iain @8letters.co.uk · 3h

I'd give them more kudos if they also left the white house briefings when the regime refuses to take questions from some reporters and bars others. Still it's a step in the right direction.

Iain @8letters.co.uk · 14h

So they mean presumably B2 level which is upper-Intermediate. I still don't understand why they describe it in a way that is meaningless instead of using the CEFR level. The UK after all helped shape it with John Trim, a linguist from the UK being instrumental in the 1970s development of it.

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Iain @8letters.co.uk · 16h

Excited to live in Amsterdam...

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Iain @8letters.co.uk · 18h

I doubt that many British people would qualify to work under this new standard. I certainly wouldn't as I do not have an A-level standard of English. There is already a Common European Framework of Reference for Languages but it has European in the name so obviously too non-British. Idiots.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 22h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Iain @8letters.co.uk · 1d

Narrator: it was not.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.

The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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Iain @8letters.co.uk · 1d

I for one am shocked that the man that lied about Brexit (and Russia) lied. Also shocked that the stenographer didn't push back.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Nigel Farage wasn't telling the truth on Laura Kuenssberg

Reform want to be obstructed by council workers, but they have to try first

www.newstatesman.com

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Iain @8letters.co.uk · 1d

Does anyone know how to get the bluesky app to stop this flashing when you accidentally keep your finger down while scrolling. Dark mode is pointless when scrolling is like a disco.

Iain @8letters.co.uk · 1d

Lol most of those sales were probably to his other companies.

electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks

Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...

electrek.co

Iain @8letters.co.uk · 1d

It's always projection. They ask whose funding it because they are funding all sorts of dark stuff.

Iain @8letters.co.uk · 1d

Weird you failed to mention that he is a well known self admitted drug user.

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Montana Skeptic @montanaskeptic.bsky.social · 1d

It's all one enterprise. Musk, Inc. As Tesla shareholders will discover as soon as Elon can get his hands on Tesla's cash to shovel into the xAI cash incinerator.

electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks

Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...

electrek.co

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Jane Bradley @bradleyjane.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: How a U.S. anti-abortion group has quietly positioned itself as a powerbroker between the Trump administration and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Latest investigation w Elizabeth Dias.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 2d

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

ok.co.uk @ok.co.uk · 8d

Rylan Clark is set to delve into the eerie world of witchcraft in his new show, The Witches Of Essex.

Rylan Clark slams 'misogyny' in British witch hunt as he fronts new Sky show

Rylan Clark shares the spotlight with professor Alice Roberts in The Witches Of Essex, where the pair delve into the dark history of witch hunts - and one discovery rattled Rylan.

www.ok.co.uk

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EU Council @consilium.europa.eu · 2d

Today, the entry/exit system gets underway.

This new digital border system will streamline travel, enhance security, and improve the efficiency of border controls for non-EU nationals entering or exiting the EU.

Full implementation is planned for 10 April 2026.

More info → link.europa.eu/mnYbcy

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 2d

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 3d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Iain @8letters.co.uk · 3d

A lot of UK folks are discovering about the new EU Entry and Exit System and proclaiming how unfair it is that they have to register to enter the EU.
Two things. First the US has had a similar system for decades and no one complained.
Second the UK did the same in April.
www.gov.uk/eta/apply

Get an electronic travel authorisation (ETA) to visit the UK

Apply for an ETA to come to the UK if you’re a tourist, visiting family or for certain other reasons for up to 6 months. It costs £16. Find out if you need an ETA or a visa instead.

www.gov.uk

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Iain @8letters.co.uk · 3d

I see Jared Leto getting a lot of hate for the new Tron Ares fail but i think it's more to do with Musk and his companies being involved from Tesla ads in cars to the grok and xai tie-ins.
Are Disney hoping for another boycott?

Tron and grok tie in with a Tesla Optimus

An article about Tesla putting ads into the cars for the Tron movie.

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Iain @8letters.co.uk · 5d

Which is fine but then this is not about 90 in 180 it is about regaining FoM at least be honest about it. The only way to get this gabled being able to live and work in multiple EU countries is to be an EU citizen and the only way to get that is by being a citizen of an EU member.

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Iain @8letters.co.uk · 5d

Joanna Lumley killing it as usual.
"I'm an immigrant"
I say this frequently when bigots are complaining about immigration and they immediately stop because they can't say what they are thinking. Except that one Brit in Spain who literally said "but you're white" before realising what he had said.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 5d

After pointing out that she's an immigrant Joanna Lumley asks why we don't fix the problems that create asylum seekers and address climate change

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5d

I was this number of years old when I discovered that Dubai had a Metro

"Quite often I am the only white person
in the tube carriage!"

Isabel Oakeshott says 'it's not racist
to observe the lack of white people' in
some areas of Britain,

"It certainly tells us something about
how Britain has changed."

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