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One of @jasperjackson.bsky.social's editing notes on today's newsletter was, simply, "Yay!" TO FIND OUT WHY:

A BBC investigation finds asylum seekers trapped in dilapidated hotels, spending years in administrative limbo, indebted to criminal gangs and yes, moved arbitrarily so that they have to take taxis across the country for routine GP appointments. Government response? Stop the taxis.

The extent of my knowledge on Make Tax Digital is I don’t need to do it for a couple of years and it makes Marie furious. I am hoping they’ll have scrapped it by the time it’s my turn because the current system makes me weep slightly so who knows how insane the new one will make me.

"Oh so you think you know more about autism than the President of the United States and the US Secretary of Health?" "I think there are as yet undiscovered single cell organisms at the bottom of the Mariana Trench which know more, about everything, than those two lying conspiracy pushing creeps".

Autism does not need to be 'cured'

The Performative Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk When Charlie Kirk's killer wasn't who the right needed him to be, they responded with a public ritual of mourning designed to turn a meaningless death into martyrdom.

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

I have been a defender of the BBC for a while and I think there are some really great bits that would be missed if we lose them but the news arm is absolutely fucking ridiculous and the idea that continues to try to perpetuate, that it is unbiased is a joke.

Part of me thinks that at least my husband has citizenship now but part of me is sure that’s just next on their list, the fascist cunts

BBC news app, main story is Palestinian statehood followed by 2 Kirk stories then a piece on potential welfare reform & the Heathrow disruption. One story further down from Lib Dem conference. During Ref conference, there was much more coverage, why are Lib Dems not afforded at least the same?

I do not understand this country. Why is Ghosts so far down? And Blackadder?

Soggy #parkrun this morning at Rising Sun but got tired of dodging the puddles so just ploughed straight through, always joyous.

I refuse to believe this is 30 yrs ago, because that would mean I started uni 30 years ago and that can’t possibly be true! Absolute classic

Because I went to a shit, tiny uni in the mid 90s, with no freshers week I remember, I did not realise how neurodiverse unfriendly it all can be. Every time my daughter tries to join in something, they are overwhelmed by noise & crowds. They come away more stressed & feeling like they have failed 😞

Thank God we don’t have the cancellation of satirical comedy in this country. I can’t wait to see how they deal with the Trump visit on The Mash Report, Mock The Week and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order!

I am going to choose to believe this is a coded message for a spy because otherwise, someone needs to help these children.

This? He’s been dropped for this? I know it’s part of a broader thing of Trump bring after Kimmel for a while now but, come on!

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

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I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home. bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...

My very local conspiracy theory is someone has messed with the traffic light timings at Cornerhouse, causing the coast road traffic to back up considerably more

What a difference a day makes. Eldest made some new friends in her course lecture today and is finally a bit brighter about uni. Hopefully when classes start next week, things will settle some more.

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Summer just absolutely fucked off didn't it. Gave us a really good few months, hit September, pulled down the shutters and said: That's your lot mate. Clockwatching bastard.

Home from a long trip to Liverpool and back to this delight by @jonnelledge.bsky.social

No #parkrun for me today. Dropping eldest at uni. There will be tears

Podyssey Season 2 @alexpodyssey.bsky.social is now very close to reality - threshold is being able to pay production costs and expert contributors for 10 episodes (season will be 20 episodes, but will pick up numbers/support as it goes). Please, become a monthly supporter. www.ko-fi.com/podyssey

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Drove through an area last night that looked as if Temu’s flag dept had thrown up. My white South African husband (so not someone these cunts would clock as an immigrant in the street) said he felt unwelcome for the first time in his 26 yrs here. I can only imagine how others way more targeted feel

If a nation is an imagined community, a national crisis can be a scattering of real phenomena bound together by shared illusions. They think there’s a crisis because other people keep telling them there is.

🚨NEW SHOW🚨 Regulars @rafaelbehr.bsky.social & @nndroid.bsky.social plus guest @steverichards.bsky.social rage at the uncontrolled power of the far-right press after Rayner's departure. Plus: As Steve publishes a new analysis of Tony Blair, we look back at his reign ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod

This is good; "Minister of Hypocrisy Wes Streeting" "So there we have it. One Irish person is charged with ‘terrorism’ in a UK court for speaking out against violence, while another Irish person is being held up as a victim of unfree speech for speaking out in favour of violence."

Really felt the anger from @nndroid.bsky.social on @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social over Raynor. This requirement for full purity of Labour and the left generally when the Tories are out there just torying around with their corruption is infuriating

As if my eldest is 19 today and off to uni at the weekend. This cannot be when I have barely left uni myself 😉 #FeelingOld

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Fascinating episode that is well worth your time. (As are all their episodes, to be fair).

PHONE ALERT TEST at 3pm. A final reminder for all those hiding a phone for whatever reason.

Excellent article and much needed in the press, the voices of asylum seekers

Great North Run weekend so GNR top for #parkrun this morning. Took a minute off last week💪🏻

This is real as hell. Hollywood thought narrative pods would be easy IP to make into movies, and overvalued the market. Now they are undervaluing it. You can support independent journalism by becoming a @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social member. au.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

🔥EMERGENCY PODCAST🔥 We couldn't leave you waiting, could we? @rostaylor.bsky.social talks @jacobjarvis.bsky.social through Rayner's departure and what it might mean for Labour ➡ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

I suppose Rayner can now sell her posh flats in Glasgow, her Chelsea mews house and £19m London townhouse, plus her yacht, while she works out how to get the National Crime Agency to unfreeze £75m of her assets. My bad, that's Michelle Mone.

Listening to this made me feel genuinely nauseous.

🚨NEW🚨 The EHRC's new guidance on trans people’s rights is coming up. What will this mean for trans people in the UK and how did we get here? Plus: Reshuffle fun! Will Zack Polanski’s vow to never do a deal with Starmer be a gift to Reform? Labour joins the flags madness! ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod

Great episode from @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social but sad to have @dorianlynskey.bsky.social leaving.

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BREAKING 🚨 The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared. It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating. But politicians still have time to stop this.

Done, even though my MP is definitely GC and has voted in the past against gay marriage, so I know she’ll do the sum total of fuck all about this. But I want her to know that some people in her constituency give a damn. Super easy to do with the template provided

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