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LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit
@catanonim.me
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UK-cit ES-res European, "dangerously continental". Federalist. en fr de ca es. #FBPE. M: @[email protected]. lgrav24[a]privateum.net. ✔️ e2e 🚫 'crypto'! Signal via email. Kagi search. NO pointless arguments! NO DMs unless I know you. I mostly follow back.
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Sitting by the river after lunch we saw a hoopoe flitting around the bank. Ducking flight, black-white bars on wings. Lovely. Apparently hoopoes can or do over-winter in Catalunya.

https://www.birdforum.net/threads/info-needed-for-science-on-overwintering-hoopoes-in-portugal-and-spain.213635/
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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2/2

…, so that I can accompany OH on longer walks. Scooter folds into the car, so them world (or at least Spain!) opens to us!
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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» Smiles ironically «
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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~ Ed Miliband has the support to become Prime Minister – Political Betting ~

https://www1.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2025/11/25/ed-miliband-has-the-support-to-become-prime-minister/
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
catanonim.me
And, dear KJagi, to get away from G👀gle too?
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
catanonim.me
Interesting thought, Kathy. Kagi is superb, imv, but it's a good question.

Here is the info for the data centre currently used in my browser. And here is a list of Kagi data centres.

Perhaps @kagi.com can answer: is it possible to enforce personal use of a non-US server at all times?
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Reminder.
November 23, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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I have decided that, 100 days after my 2nd life-changing and -saving surgery, some enhanced local mobility is required. No, not a sit-down thingy. Swiss. VMAX Vx4 ST. DGT-homologated. With PL insurance, as will be the law from 02/01/26. You only live once.
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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So, was, until 1951.

https://kagi.com/search?q=what%20is%20%27indignit%C3%A9%20(nationale)%27%20in%20france%3F
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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But (£🧱) I guess we shall never know.
November 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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"Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”

It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations."
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Multiple holiday homes. My question, as ever: how did he vote in 2016? Also: transactionalist twat.

~ I want to ditch Britain for Europe – new EU border rules are the last straw after Brexit ~

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/britain-europe-eu-border-rules-brexit-4056141
November 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Trenchantly expressed.

(Of course, "illegal immigration" is an inaccurate phrase used deliberately by those pushing for less immigration. More accurately, 'irregular immigration'.)
Illegal immigration is “tearing our country apart!” declares Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, but only if you believe Reform and the tabloid headlines, which Ms Mahmood has chosen to do. (All other evidence suggests it is not a big deal for people where they live, just something the media shouts about.) So of course, it isn’t illegal immigration that may be tearing our country apart, but the lies told about it – lies which Ms Mahmood has chosen at least to pretend to believe. Those lies had been told by her political opponents for the basest of reasons and have now been taken up enthusiastically by Ms Mahmood – ostensibly with the same motivation. She is prepared to gaslight the nation, either at best to save her boss, or at worst to replace him. But for Labour’s long-suffering supporters, Ms Mahmood’s proposals represent the breach of an important canon of decency. They fear their party is entering latitudes by a door through which there may be no return.
November 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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@darrenpjones.bsky.social @torstenbell.bsky.social @imogenwalker.bsky.social

1/2

Labour's attempts to flirt with the xeno vote on immigration are not only morally vile - they are not working.

Try something else - something humane, progressive, and actually in conformity with Labour values??…
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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@darrenpjones.bsky.social @torstenbell.bsky.social @imogenwalker.bsky.social
That asylum seekers today, even those with skills that can benefit our society, will have to live with uncertainty and the constant fear of deportation for 20 years appals me. That a Labour government also proposes weakening our commitment to the European convention on human rights beggars belief. No wonder Tommy Robinson was so triumphant on X. Has any thought been given to the impact on foreign residents in the UK who will feel their existing status will inevitably come under threat, as Reform UK has already suggested, and take their much-needed skills elsewhere? I doubt Reform UK’s potential or present supporters will be persuaded to vote Labour by this craven capitulation to racist rhetoric, but I’m 100% certain that it will drive lifelong Labour supporters like me to find another home for our votes. Tessa Byars Cambridge I was heartened to read Stella Creasy’s piece (ICE-style raids on Britain’s streets: that’s all Labour’s brutal asylum reforms will achieve, 17 November). The obfuscating and intentional doublespeak swirling around the emotive cauldron ingredients of “immigration”, “illegal immigration” and “small boats” has been intentionally leveraged into mainstream political and media jargon by Reform UK, big tech algorithms, and thence into the baying mob. That the government is cowing to this, at best, semi-manufactured “public opinion” is deeply worrying. Added to this, the state’s stripping of immigrants’ jewellery to pay for processing their applications has the whiff of something deeply unsettling. What next: spectacles, boots, hair? In 2024, around 30% of the nursing staff and more than a third of doctors working in the NHS were non-UK nationals. To see this in action, I would point any reader to the Netflix documentary series Critical: Between Life and Death, which follows life in London’s main trauma hospitals. We are daily enriched by, and should feel deeply indebted to, the many people of colour in this and other sectors of our society. Quentin Cowen Laxfield, Suffolk
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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It creates PDFs too, with header, or footer, or both.

My headers are set up thus:
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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↑↑ Gosh.
November 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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~ All That Is Solid ...: From Reform-Lite to Reform-Plus ~

https://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2025/11/from-reform-lite-to-reform-plus.html
Do you remember the lies Keir Starmer told to secure Labour's leadership? Under pledge six, 'Defend immigrants' rights', among other things he committed himself to "An immigration system based on compassion and dignity". A little over five years later, the government he leads has promised to confiscate the jewellery of refugees that arrive on these shores. And so, when Shabana Mahmood got up at the dispatch box on Monday, we knew the home secretary was going to perform a theatre of cruelty.
November 18, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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~ “No amount of concessions will be enough for the forces of reaction” – Labour Hub ~

https://labourhub.org.uk/2025/11/17/no-amount-of-concessions-will-be-enough-for-the-forces-of-reaction/
November 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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~ Starmer facing growing backlash from Labour MPs as Mahmood sets out asylum plans – UK politics live | Politics | The Guardian ~

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/nov/17/immigration-asylum-keir-starmer-labour-shabana-mahmood-uk-politics-live-news-updates
12.27 GMT Labour MP Sarah Owen describes jewellery removal threat in asylum plan as 'repugnant' The Labour MP Sarah Owen, who represents Luton North and who chairs the women and equalities committee in the Commons, has also spoken out against the asylum plans. In posts on Bluesky she said: A strong immigration system doesn’t need to be a cruel one. It shouldn’t need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution. This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need. There is no evidence that stripping refugees’ rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel. Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children. These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won’t work for us. The majority of us want to stop the crossings & any gaming of the system - not least for those whose lives are endangered, exploited by criminals and cheated out of £thousands. We can have both a tough stance on illegal migration & build a compassionate, fair & legal path for those seeking refuge.
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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@sturdyalex.bsky.social @mgreenaw.bsky.social

On what has become a source of tension today, I hope that reproducing these posts in this form offers some perspective on the issues at hand.
November 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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This (I have blocked the poster) distills (whether he is lying or not) the 'Drawbridge Mentality' of some UK people.
November 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM