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Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 14h

Stop worrying, everyone. We migrants already have a superb grasp of English, and the rest will figure out how. That's what we migrants do best, overcome every obstacle. It's literally our defining quality.

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Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 22h

You missed Teen Vogue A++

I'm serious.

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Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 1d

In Britain, the monarch by way of the privy council influences a lot of law-making. If you're genuinely interested you could look into the Royal Prerogative and the King's/Queen's Consent. Their power is not symbolic, it is deep-seated.

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Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 1d

Props to the handful of republics in this list.

For the rest of y'all, topple your own monarchies first. And stop lying to yourself it's symbolic or has no powers.

darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 1d

If they did, perhaps it wouldn't have been this easy for me to steal their jobs

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Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 1d

I support this protest but may I gently point out that you have a Canadian flag in your profile and hopefully you will note the subtle but obvious irony.

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Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 1d

A profligate verification exercise to confirm what is already evident, that migrants routinely exhibit greater linguistic proficiency than most, and certainly more than the far-right agitators for whom this policy has been performatively devised.

a screenshot from the independent that reads the headline: Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

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Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 3d

3,060,000 - is the number of millionaires in the UK
. 364,000 - is the number of refugees & asylum seekers (200,000 of whom now work and pay taxes)

You telling me that between them, 20 millionaires cannot support one refugee from Afghanistan, Ethiopia, or Syria?

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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 10d

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

Including some users passports & DLs

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

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Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 10d

Political podcasts are slightly better imo, at least it is clear the words being shared are opinion. In science and history podcasts, that is not obvious unless you're already an expert in the subject, and by then you're either hooked to the conversation or don't care.

Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 10d

No, all genres of podcasts. For every one intelligent person there are 20 people who are just talkers -- and it's not immediately obvious which ones so I find investing time in figuring that out is just not productive.

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Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 10d

Actually, many of the 750K people, if commonwealth citizens, would be voters. ie if any are from countries like Nigeria, India, or Pakistan, they are voters. This would've been a strong question to ask.

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Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 10d

I hate podcasts because it's talk.

Any fool can talk.

In fact, fools have no other useful role in society, so the more devious ones learn to talk better and become more convincing. Whereas the sages, the actual sages, don't bother.

Ergo, podcasts surface the manipulative, not the intelligent.

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Grumpy Philosopher @handle.invalid · 12d

Just leaving this here, showing that educating overseas students is the only university activity that doesn‘t cost more to deliver than it brings in. Maintenance grants are very welcome, but the source of funding for them is not. They‘re making a broken funding model even more broken.

Chart showing that amongst educating overseas students, industry-funded research, government funding, charity funded research, and educating domestic students, only overseas students is profitable.

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Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 13d

I suppose given he doesn't even want spouses of British citizens to join them, it would've been astonishing for him to have any empathy for refugee families. Human rights lawyer my foot.

Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 13d

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 13d

Don't skilled migrants in general earn far more than the average British worker? So why use 'likely'? Shouldn't it be unlikely?

And strange they're referring to a specific year of arrival of skilled workers, almost as if they're cherry picking the data.

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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 13d

And why call it 'golden ticket'?

Disgraceful language. These people have lost everything. Should they also lose their spouses and children?

A reminder that last year 4,671 family reunion visas were granted.

4,671.

Does anyone think this number is a major problem for the UK economy and society?

Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 13d

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 13d

Nice photo standing in front of Boris Johnson's flag draped plane. Suits him.

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Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 13d

this is hilarious 😀

Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 13d

The attack on the synagogue in Manchester is horrifying, troubling and so distressing. And for this to happen on Yom Kippur is so disturbing and tragic, this is an attack designed to inflict maximum terror on Jewish people. I am so deeply sad about this it's hard to put it in words.

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Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 14d

Love that video of Jack Straw that has recently resurfaced, declaring emphatically that the reason Britain won WW1 and WW2 was because of the number of black and brown soldiers who fought alongside.

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Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 14d

On a side note I am tired of reading about white people's dating problems. Brown and black people famously don't date.

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fran barton @ludictechnologies.bsky.social · 15d

Done. Took 1 minute thanks to suggested text in the alt text

Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 15d

For those who want to email The Times in protest, I've copied @zoejardiniere.bsky.social's email into the alt for the image attached below (with a final paragraph added).

Just add your name at the end and send it to [email protected]

Good morning,

I am writing to request a correction to the inaccurate & misleading use of image to accompany a story that appeared in your paper today (Tuesday 30th September 2025).

The article is online here: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/labour-new-rules-migrants-uk-200x325pb
and has been shared on social media using the same image.

The image shows asylum seekers on a small boat crossing the channel, while the article is entirely concerned with proposed changes to the immigration rules that would affect all other categories of immigrants, and not asylum seekers. The immigrants who will be affected by the policies under discussion in the article will all without exception have entered the UK through regular means on a visa and be working - disproportionately in our health system & public services.

The misuse of images of small boat arrivals that make up just 5% of overall immigration has contributed to the widespread impression that they make up the majority of immigration, and contributes to hostile feeling towards immigrants and ethnic minority Britons. The use of an appropriate image - for example of migrant care workers or farm workers - would better communicate to your readers the actual impact of the proposals contained in the Home Secretary’s speech.

I therefore request that your publication issue a public apology for this misleading use of imagery, update the article with an appropriate and accurate image, and ensure that instructions are issued to your image editors along with updated editorial guidance to prevent a recurrence of such misrepresentation in future coverage.

Thank you,

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Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 15d

For those who want to email The Times in protest, I've copied @zoejardiniere.bsky.social's email into the alt for the image attached below (with a final paragraph added).

Just add your name at the end and send it to [email protected]

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Pranay⚡️ @pranman.com · 15d

To extend the qualifying period for any migrant is absolutely mindless, but to extend them for migrants who even many in the right-wing see as "good migrants" is just astonishingly stupid.

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