seen this quite a few times since yesterday, it comes around every so often, and i promise you: there is no ILR at 3 years for people on spouse visas. thinking this will only lead to (even more) disappointment

"chris, did you know people are more likely to check their daily steps than their pension plan?" i get around that problem by checking neither

"farage suggested anyone, including those with family members who are UK citizens, Ukrainians and Hong Kongers, would be subject to the same rules." ukrainian refugees *aren't even allowed to apply for indefinite leave to remain*. it should be the easiest thing in the world to shut him up, and yet

thatcher's grave

if i buy some music samples, the rights are typically for me to use (and profit from) the samples and me alone. if someone wants to do a remix of my track, i can't even say "yeah go on" because i can't do that with the samples i licensed. this is just one cool way to tell the landlord "lmao shut up"

if microsoft had stopped at windows 7 we'd have a post-scarcity society by now because they wouldn't have spent all their time jamming copilot into notepad

so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!

on top of everything else from yesterday, i just realised that reform's "plans" for citizenship (such as they are) would still be several years quicker to achieve for an individual than under labour

"migration to the UK is unsustainable, and that’s before we see family of family of family of family move here as the 5-year spike start to get ILR and citizenship" there is no visa route which allows you to bring "family of family of family of family". you are stupid and should set fire to your pc

i feel like labour saying "they can't do it to EU citizens" and not say anything reassuring about non-eu people on visas is not a thing to be chilling out about tbh. like ok cool, it "doesn't cover all foreign born nationals". what about the rest of them?

Very poor/implicitly hyperpartisan reporting from @lbc.co.uk - a) uses pejorative term ('handouts') b) leaves the false impression that migrants in general receive 'handouts' (rather than those legally resident/contributing for five years) c) omits the deportation element of the policy

this is me in every zoom call

this feels very much like someone looked at a whole lot of famous funnies buck rogers / amazing stories / mystery in space covers without understanding a single thing about them visually

"if they, or anyone associated with their visa, is using the welfare state they should have their ILR revoked." people simply don't understand a thing they talk about. what this means is a british person making a household UC claim results in their visa holding spouse losing ILR. this is very stupid

eyeballing some of my reform-voting relatives, including two who've openly criticised how hard our spouse visa was, and a third whose wife is Chinese with ILR and wondering how fast and hard the penny may drop, or if it will never drop at all and then you'll hear "oh. whoops. oh no" a lot

I paid a great deal to immigrate to the UK. Most native born British people couldn't afford the fees. Also most Native born British people aren't financially capable of bringing a foreign born spouse to Britain and sponsoring them.

maybe there's additional context i'm missing here but ed davey complaining about the "problem" of small boats over an unrelated ticker saying "would scrap indefinite leave to remain" is not helpful at all (and look how many people in the replies are like "Yeah! yeah! small boats!")

you shouldn't have to attempt to "argue" that telling spouses of british citizens (for example) that the last 5 or more years of them being here doesn't count and they have to leave is beyond evil, should you. why is this even something that needs to be up for a debate

everyone relentlessly mocked general and media studies A-Levels when I did them. but I'm pretty much convinced at this point that mandatory general studies would have helped make the UK at least 10% less terrible, and possibly in ways that actually matter

"there would be tighter restrictions on bringing spouses and children to the UK." I have to wonder if the independent journalist parroting the reform commentary without challenging it has any idea how tough the rules currently are (this is rhetorical, I know what the answer is)

I keep seeing articles about how more Americans are applying for citizenship, with the frame as “America is bad, but aren’t we great?” My desire for citizenship has nothing to do with my home country and everything to do with being as safe as possible in the country I actually live in. Stop it.

don't worry, you've got my blogspot blog which looks like it's still *in* the 90s

Yep, and this is why politicians who think they can safely placate racists by stressing their own opposition to only “illegal” immigration are really just helping the far right move the Overton window

That Farage is treated seriously shows how degraded the politics in the UK habe become. Barring absolute far right racists, anyone with half a brain cell can see this latest raft of proposals would utterly destroy the UK, as well as the lives of migrants. 1/ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

i know where he comes from. when no one was looking, lex luthor took forty cakes. he took 40 cakes. that’s as many as four tens. and that’s terrible

there is no bigger liar on god's green earth than the "keep me signed in" checkbox

I'll always love the bit at the end where nolan must've realised the gas/spray/diffusion train thing was incomprehensible so just dumped a bunch of "here's what's happening" narration on that old guy, and he also sounded completely confused

the corvette update for NMS is a game changer. absolutely love it

strongly suspect disney is tanking because i called mickey a talking rat

in a supermarket with a lifeboat collection thing in the entrance and there's what looks like a guy yelling at them about "small boats". haven't you got flags to put up or a batman costume to put on

1) I want to hope this isn't as big a deal as this makes out 2) maybe slapping "maxxing" on the end of everything for infinite main character gains is a bad idea 3) if you keep telling kids not to use lynx because it smells bad, then you end up with these smells instead

People who are pro-EU but essentially anti-immigration make me murderously angry because if you won't defend the literally best thing about the EU what is it you actually like about it. The vibes?

An excellent argument not just against ChatGPT, but in favor of human translators

Okay, I figured out what I want to say Stan Lee, whatever his faults, was the victim of horrific abuse and exploitation in his final years His name and likeness, as brands, have long ago been hijacked by unsavory people (and I don't mean Marvel/Disney) This is posthumous elder abuse, basically

look i really need a niche version of this for the xennials at some point, there are dozens of us

i once managed to annoy someone so much after taking down a troll group that they dedicated an entire forum and backstory to me and then set about trying to hassle me offline for the best part of a year. of course i did a bunch of talks about them afterwards

computers were a mistake [remembers that I met my husband online] all computers not directly serving the purpose of socially interconnecting the world's weirdest 1% of people were a mistake

bought mouthwash that's 4 different neon colours like something out of star trek which i want to drink, and this is why i shouldn't be allowed to purchase the forbidden mouthwash

my controller ran out on the title screen of silksong which feels like an all new level of crushing defeat tbh

If I ever manage to write "bureaucracy" correctly on the first attempt it will be a miracle for the ages, which is kind of awkward considering the amount of times as a policy and comms professional I have to write it.

i don't have a disney+ sub so my contribution will be to continue calling mickey a talking rat

i write about security and have dedicated my life to copy-pasting "privilege" forever because my god aaaaaaaaargh

when you turn on the tv and trump is patting starmer like a dog for some reason

every time i see things like this i'm reminded of people finding internet connected toasters and ovens with shodan. anyway have fun i guess

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

muted the guy who has an incredibly loud anti-AI stance across the board (good!) but then for some reason feels the need to occasionally make an unfunny AI image for internet like points (bad. are you stupid?)

every single demo at meta connect

my biggest achievement? 10 years (not today opsec fans, but close enough)

Jesus Christ.