Hey BlueSky, the oldest political party in the world, seen as the centre right party, is wanting to deport your friend, maybe do something about it?

Proof nostalgia is nonsense. Just put some old tapes in a Rotel tapedeck. Spending most of most of my rewinding and forwarding the damn tape.

The billionaire class are waging a war against the working and middle class. They will pit everyone against each other. All to distract, whilst they plunge more into poverty and get richer, it’s getting traction and if you think you are immune from this, you will have a reality check soon enough.

My mum is going to an appointment and I'm having to warn her to be careful of people approaching her. I haven't had to do that since I was a child.

Robert Jenrick is not a racist. Categorically. He is something worse in - my opinion - a man with no moral limits using racism to propel himself to power. In effect, a sociopath with seemingly no constraints.

You must integrate! ....BAME enter HE Not like that! ...set up businesses, pay tax , run for election... No not like that ...make run down areas thrive Not like that... .....move into middle-class areas NOT LIKE THAT

So , I have an AI question. I want to use Veo 3 & Sora 2 as a teaching tool critically & also it helps me make videos (becuase I am not a Videographer). How does one do so ethically ( aside from not using it)?

Dear British Colleagues, it's coming to the time where you're going to to have start showing up for your minority friends. If you haven't been pushing back. Now is the time.

Sorry I keep talking about this but I’m genuinely alarmed by the growing narrative that poverty is a cause of racism. First it’s super insulting of people on low incomes. Second it normalises & excuses racist takes. And third it deters real action on racism by shifting the whole focus to economics.

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day. As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time. At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

People need to remember. The Home Secratary can ALREADY strip citizenship for "reasons". Without parliament or judiciary stopping them. Now we're proposing a ID Card. Just in time to hand a fully functioning system to the fascist adjacent party. @robfordmancs.bsky.social @jdportes.bsky.social

The problem is that it just becomes an excuse for harassment. When I was a kid I would always have some sort of photoID with me, especially when I started driving. Because I would get stopped and asked where I was from by the police. Without fail.

@andraswf.bsky.social 9ne of your mates needs to do a viral video like this one youtu.be/cBIDkW2_FnQ?...

Jimmy Kimmel has taken on Facsim more than the majority of the Britosh political establishment.

Once again for everyone in the back: The appropriate response to fascist or fascist-adjacent policy is not “that’s unworkable and here’s why it won’t work”. It’s “that’s monstrous and here’s a strong statement of our values and vision”

Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1

To date Kier Starmer as PM has said more about a political violence in the US than the political violence being enacted on minorities in this country, including threats to his own Parliamentary colleagues. @sundersays.bsky.social

Today sees the launch of My Family Legacy (www.myfamilylegacy.org.uk) a new campaign to raise awareness of South Asian service in the world wars and preserve the stories of those who fought for Britain. [Thread]

My family legacy is a new canpaign to ask South Asian families in Britain to share their stories of service in the world wars & raise public understanding of the enormous contribution For Royal British Legion from @britishfuture.bsky.social and @easterneye.bsky.social www.myfamilylegacy.org.uk

I think people in the pundit class seel to misunderstand that the singing badly, the clowning about is part of the appeal of Reform. They look free and authentic. Absurd, yes, but their fans k wo they are absurd. That's the fun of it. To mock them & discount it is a huge mistake.

People on the left. Learn. This is how you campaign

Zohran Mamdani is absolutely rewriting campaigning methodology right now

Another one for the "legitimate concerns" folks....

HOLow does Kwarteng keep getting gigs on TV @matthew-wright.bsky.social ? The man literally smashed up the economy & he's a sage on TV?

@carlosazevedo.bsky.social interesting but I cannot pin it

Can't pin so quoting

@stephenkb.bsky.social @cjayanetti.bsky.social @jdportes.bsky.social you guys need look at latest surdent overseas recruitment in HE. We're looking at more than 50% drops in some places

I keep language switching with my mum, which is usually how we talk. So my sentences start in urdu, go to English by way of a random punjabi phrase. I was really self conscious about it today when I did it. Usually I don't care. But. Felt a bit like I was being watched.

@sundersays.bsky.social do you think reviving the Khadi Poppy would be a really important thing right now? I would love to be able to buy one.

And we’ve decided to do nothing about this because ceding unregulated power over the digital commons to a narcissistic, ketamine-addled fascist with unprecedented wealth seems like something with no downsides.

Joseph Fasano is such a coward. Honestly, writes poetry that never actually challenges Genocide, but wanders around bromide about how sad death is.

So,yesterday, driving round Bolton, pootling along. A black Mercedes pulls up and passenger starts waving a British Flag at me & laughing. Then when not convinced I was paying enough attention , leant out of the window & waved harder. It was quite funny watching him getting drenched.

So freaking exhausted. So much just wears you down. Now I have to worry about random folk asking me where I am from. Again.

So I am going to ask.. where all the Muslim and BAME commentators on BlueSky?

At the time I was saying to people that this will lead to all sorts of issues the elite were blind to. Good article

Evan Davies on PM was just bad, swallowed the entire UKIP agenda wholesale

You do all realise that the infrastructure to strip people of citizenship without recourse exists? You do realise that "mass deportation" means tripping citizenship of their status and deporting without recourse? @sundersays.bsky.social @stephenkb.bsky.social @cjayanetti.bsky.social

"That hyper alertness if a group of us was walking round the town" - @anandmenon.bsky.social .. yeah.. that feeling is back.. totally.. great article.

With no hope or expectation, until this government tells a positive story about this country including immigrants then Reform will keep on winning. Sure, delivery. But that has to be in the service of a better vision.

Utter lack of leadership

Yes, but you, Matlisand Sopel had the chance to stop all this nonsense at the BBC, but you did the whole both sides thing.

Slightly diminished a band: 8.3 Inch Nails

This is where we are.. kids being abused because someone thought they were asylum seekers.

@paperghost.bsky.social Sensible Soccer Team USA

Literally Superman to Homelander Arc

@andraswf.bsky.social - you know who I think most cutting character in the Life of Brian is? That Roman officer played by Michael Palin, who keeps asking the condemned if they are comfortable & commiserating with them while he leads them to their executions. The UK media class writ large.

So, every time I see this sort of comment, my response - where the frack was everyone lot during the last 20 years. Seriously, when Nicky Campbell was on the BBC platforming Tommy 10 names, folk were all yelling at BAME about extremism. And we told you it was based on racism, and folk ignored us.

People are not going to like this. I never liked Sabbath, RIP Ozzy but the music did nothing and tbh the whole rebel imagery was a bit close to Confederate stuff. Music was ground breaking I suppose, but as someone partial to metal still didn't like them.

So question for @stephenkb.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @samfr.bsky.social @sundersays.bsky.social ... why isn't Reform being a company a big deal? Surely, making them have internal democracy is important?