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The i Paper is reporting that once the changes are brought in, the 20 year route will be applied to refugees who are already here.
I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
This is a declaration of war on Scotland. Immigrants to Scotland become Scottish before they become legally British. The Westminster government would be deporting Scots.
Could bait rightwingers into demanding voting rights by IQ. They would go for it like they went for the Epstein files.
IQ is completely fake, means nothing, and not based on science at all so of course the far right has adopted it as justification for insane beliefs, most recently anti-somalian rhetoric
December 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Could bait rightwingers into demanding voting rights by IQ. They would go for it like they went for the Epstein files.
Vote against it. Still possible until they privatise the military.
My favourite genre of leftism is just replying to any problem with "it's capitalism" and subsequently doing nothing
December 6, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Vote against it. Still possible until they privatise the military.
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You can't win in society via smoking. Gambling is how Musk gets ahead; it's how I support myself since losing disability benefits. People going to university and applying for jobs sound like they're having a hard time these days.
It is now visible that gambling is the pure essence of capitalism.
It is now visible that gambling is the pure essence of capitalism.
December 6, 2025 at 10:34 AM
You can't win in society via smoking. Gambling is how Musk gets ahead; it's how I support myself since losing disability benefits. People going to university and applying for jobs sound like they're having a hard time these days.
It is now visible that gambling is the pure essence of capitalism.
It is now visible that gambling is the pure essence of capitalism.
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So is globalised consciousness via smartphones, and so is exponentiating inequality. Phenomena often look different when they become sufficiently networked.
You're welcome to try to find a way to retain the status quo in all aspects but gambling. I find that idea implausible.
You're welcome to try to find a way to retain the status quo in all aspects but gambling. I find that idea implausible.
December 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
So is globalised consciousness via smartphones, and so is exponentiating inequality. Phenomena often look different when they become sufficiently networked.
You're welcome to try to find a way to retain the status quo in all aspects but gambling. I find that idea implausible.
You're welcome to try to find a way to retain the status quo in all aspects but gambling. I find that idea implausible.
Since Chatgpt remembers everything now, using Gemini for a second opinion works really well.
December 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Since Chatgpt remembers everything now, using Gemini for a second opinion works really well.
Since UK govt backtracked on raising income tax, their only hope is Argentina getting frisky or Farage crashing his plane.
Why are we doing Falklands discourse today
December 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Since UK govt backtracked on raising income tax, their only hope is Argentina getting frisky or Farage crashing his plane.
Wilder is washed. This generation's greatest heavyweight is planning his cashout tour, a la Canelo.
December 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Wilder is washed. This generation's greatest heavyweight is planning his cashout tour, a la Canelo.
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Autonomous driving and AGI are essentially the same problem. Musk was massively underselling this.
LLMs will be a key part of AGI because we want to communicate with it. "Spicy autocomplete" implies a magic to human verbal reasoning that is very unlikely to actually exist.
LLMs will be a key part of AGI because we want to communicate with it. "Spicy autocomplete" implies a magic to human verbal reasoning that is very unlikely to actually exist.
December 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Autonomous driving and AGI are essentially the same problem. Musk was massively underselling this.
LLMs will be a key part of AGI because we want to communicate with it. "Spicy autocomplete" implies a magic to human verbal reasoning that is very unlikely to actually exist.
LLMs will be a key part of AGI because we want to communicate with it. "Spicy autocomplete" implies a magic to human verbal reasoning that is very unlikely to actually exist.
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The reason why Your Party is a shit name is that we don't want a political party. We want a NHS dentist
November 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The reason why Your Party is a shit name is that we don't want a political party. We want a NHS dentist
What's funny and RFKish is I can actually diagnose autistic children within about ten seconds. Done it twice. Could probably do it professionally.
(It's the way they look out at the world. Nonautistics look through a filter, which adult autistics often mimic but in kids is unmistakeable.)
(It's the way they look out at the world. Nonautistics look through a filter, which adult autistics often mimic but in kids is unmistakeable.)
November 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
What's funny and RFKish is I can actually diagnose autistic children within about ten seconds. Done it twice. Could probably do it professionally.
(It's the way they look out at the world. Nonautistics look through a filter, which adult autistics often mimic but in kids is unmistakeable.)
(It's the way they look out at the world. Nonautistics look through a filter, which adult autistics often mimic but in kids is unmistakeable.)
Unionists believe a technocratic centrism will arise in post-Brexit, post-Farage UK. Maybe led by Nick Clegg.
Maybe the most 'I am someone the 20th century didn't happen to' post imaginable, in which you think that 'the far right take power' and the consequence is just that after five years, boom that's over but your preferred political outgroup is out of action.
We have to start thinking about what we want Britain to look like in 2034 after the far right have been in power. There will be no status quo to return to. Centrism will be stone cold dead.
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Unionists believe a technocratic centrism will arise in post-Brexit, post-Farage UK. Maybe led by Nick Clegg.
I've followed Limmy since about 2008 and he's consistently opposed the misrepresentation of present-day hologram technology. This is what he'll want to be remembered for. A principled and heroic stance, if ultimately futile.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRm5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRm5...
Now You See Me: Now You Don't | Limmy’s Review
YouTube video by LimmyTwitchClipsPlus
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I've followed Limmy since about 2008 and he's consistently opposed the misrepresentation of present-day hologram technology. This is what he'll want to be remembered for. A principled and heroic stance, if ultimately futile.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRm5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRm5...
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I see bluesky people talk about Dune as if having only human intelligence didn't lead to planetary scale genocide. As indeed appears likely with actual human nature. Herbert was no anti-AI guy.
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I see bluesky people talk about Dune as if having only human intelligence didn't lead to planetary scale genocide. As indeed appears likely with actual human nature. Herbert was no anti-AI guy.
He probably didn't copy me there. I'm just tuned into britpol to the level of the top pros. Hence the ulcer.
November 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
He probably didn't copy me there. I'm just tuned into britpol to the level of the top pros. Hence the ulcer.
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I see AI+robotics as the progeny of DNA life.
We don't have to be chauvinistic about DNA. The cool part is how it creates eddies in entropy. So long as our robots keep doing that, they're still us.
And they're better equipped to expand outwards.
We don't have to be chauvinistic about DNA. The cool part is how it creates eddies in entropy. So long as our robots keep doing that, they're still us.
And they're better equipped to expand outwards.
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I see AI+robotics as the progeny of DNA life.
We don't have to be chauvinistic about DNA. The cool part is how it creates eddies in entropy. So long as our robots keep doing that, they're still us.
And they're better equipped to expand outwards.
We don't have to be chauvinistic about DNA. The cool part is how it creates eddies in entropy. So long as our robots keep doing that, they're still us.
And they're better equipped to expand outwards.
Being anti-AI rather than anti-oligarch is one of the most shortsighted things leftists could do, ensuring they remain whiners and cumguzzlers while braver people define reality.
Ceding our science fiction future to capitalists is fucking moronic. It's the only future we have.
Ceding our science fiction future to capitalists is fucking moronic. It's the only future we have.
i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Being anti-AI rather than anti-oligarch is one of the most shortsighted things leftists could do, ensuring they remain whiners and cumguzzlers while braver people define reality.
Ceding our science fiction future to capitalists is fucking moronic. It's the only future we have.
Ceding our science fiction future to capitalists is fucking moronic. It's the only future we have.
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Gambling is the best way to effect social mobility within capitalism.
November 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Gambling is the best way to effect social mobility within capitalism.
Bit on the nose.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Bit on the nose.
Probably the equivalent of losing 7-0 to a top team in terms of Amorim's job prospects.
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Probably the equivalent of losing 7-0 to a top team in terms of Amorim's job prospects.
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The left needs to talk about England
England for the English?
After the “summer of flags”, Labour needs a long-overdue conversation about England.
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The left needs to talk about England
Psychedelics are great but Sinema is bad, so you can bet bluesky's anti-AI tribe will be unanimously against this. Losers gonna lose.
“‘We are in this magical, unique time,’ Sinema said of Trump’s health department, led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”
Kyrsten Sinema Is Ready for Her MAHA Turn
In a new interview, the one-time Democrat says the movement for psychedelic medicine should capitalize on the Trump administration.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Psychedelics are great but Sinema is bad, so you can bet bluesky's anti-AI tribe will be unanimously against this. Losers gonna lose.
Imagine the productivity gains, and improvement to quality of life, from totally free public transport for everyone.
If this is the One Big Idea then we’re even more fucked than I thought we were. Rail fares are extortionate - travel costs need to be massively reduced, not simply frozen at already too-high amounts
UK government freezes rail fares for a year www.gov.uk/government/n...
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Imagine the productivity gains, and improvement to quality of life, from totally free public transport for everyone.
Smart liberals are pragmatically adopting socialism until a new equilibrium is found.
Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Smart liberals are pragmatically adopting socialism until a new equilibrium is found.