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With 63 other expert organisations, we’ve written to Government to strongly oppose the sudden reduction in the asylum accommodation move-on period for newly recognised refugees. Read our joint letter in full in the The Guardian today 👇 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, designed to protect humans from potential harms inflicted by technology, are..." 💠AI Overview Searches for 'Asimov' yield no results, therefore no such person exists. Consequently, there can be no 'Laws of Robotics' that protect humans from technological harms. LOL

Help save local Welsh placenames on new digital map. Helpu i achub enwau lleoedd lleol Cymru ar fap digidol newydd. datamap.gov.wales/survey/wpnc/...

Post you from a different era

“The system [for identifying victims of modern slavery] is not being abused. Instead, it is very heavily gamed against recognition and (very limited) protections for people who have been subject to horrific abuses.”

My new research report with @wearelapg.bsky.social shows legal aid practitioners spend a quarter of their working day, on average, on non-chargeable tasks essential to the running of their legal aid cases or contract: www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/legal-a...

Sleek, black, and compact: The Sinclair ZX81, backbone of the early UK bedroom coder and home computer enthusiast revolution. Available in 1981 in kit form for £49.99 or pre-assembled for £69.99 and sold via mail order and high street stores.

definite RPG material

Yes, there’s a reason alright.

Labour are confusing 'decisions which Labour members do not enjoy or dislike' with 'decisions anyone outside of the Labour party likes or welcomes', I think. www.ft.com/content/f776...

New approach from Hymas post the Bonavero report (he was by far the most cited)? Go on at length about the judgment, and then slip in that it was successfully appealed by the HO.

That is such a low benchmark on implementing xenophobia as policy that you need industrial drilling equipment to reach it.

The bees have discovered Brutalism

Migrants already "earn the right to settlement" through extortionate visa costs, which can run into tens of thousands of pounds. They prop up key services, including through the Immigration Health Surcharge. Pushing the hostile environment on steroids helps no-one. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wales specific justice data will be available for the public to access online for the first time following repeated calls for more transparency ✍️Emily Price

Stanford researchers found that AI-generated "workslop" is actually making people less productive, in part because workers have to correct errors or decode the useful information/intent buried in a flood of auto-generated garbage:

@cheeseford.bsky.social know any Bristol based trumpeters?

Welcome to BlueSky to the Living Refugee Archives, which gives access to archives focusing on the lived experience of migration 👋 @livingrefarchives.bsky.social

Matthew Goodwin has a new post 🙃 Here is a post I made earlier: A helping hand on whether it is "racist" to want less immigration, from me, where I explain that not all arguments against immigration are racist... but Matthew Goodwin's are. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8Tx...

"no criminal record" there are lots of mandatory refusal reasons for ILR applications already. you even have to list non-criminal fines and penalties alongside any criminal consequences, and have had to do so for years. again: maybe someone could, and should, challenge them on some of this?

The current visa system already leaves many migrants facing poverty, working multiple jobs, as they pay the often tens of thousands of pounds in costs. Proposed changes from this government continues the dehumanising treatment of us as we are treated as second class. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Absolutely completely and utterly astonishing to see Welsh Labour taking the Scottish Labour approach to their nationalist opponents. Have you seen your polling, my guys?! Even if you beat Plaid, you will *need* them to form a government. They aren't optional! You can't talk about them this way!

Didn’t know this! Do you know how many years I pined for jstor access! Yes I am a giant nerd who pines for academe leave me alone with my papers and books

Computer did nothing wrong. let us not confuse Holy Computer with the evil software men build upon its perfect silicone

Ghost cults, séance addicts, ectoplasm fetishists. Many of our populace are necromantic by nature. Their instinct to poke the dead ought to be illegal, but unfortunately we can't nick someone for disturbing the peace of a phantom. – #DICallaghan in conversation with #DSNokes

Ah - it's a year since I booked myself a 'pod hotel' in London which turned out to be a pine box.

Exactly. It explicitly criticises generations of migrants. It solves no real world problem. But it is complicated, hard to administer, open to abuse (who is going to verify the charity work?) and it is an opportunity cost. Officials will be spending time and money on this not something else.

Part two of my tackling the Home Secretary's recent nonsense, following on from last week's one on removals: freemovement.org.uk/the-reality-...

Let’s just say this isn’t the battle with Reform for the soul of the nation that I’d hoped for.

The whole concept of “earned” settlement or citizenship is deeply problematic, implying to people they’re only here on sufferance until proven otherwise, as well as suggesting there’s something uniquely & magically virtuous about UK society which means you have to be extra good to be part of it 🤷‍♂️

Just one week (well 6 days) to go! This is going to be so good.

"[the] paper conflates important concepts and leaves many detailed technical questions unanswered, raising concerns about data governance and usability: How are people without smartphones meant to use this system? How do we ensure a new digital identity system won’t become a Home Office data grab?"

Labour very much "playing both sides" with announcements today. Absolutely right to condemn Farage's racist policies, but that condemnation loses efficacy when on the very same day you announce your own, objectively, racist policy. It might not go as far as Reform, but it is still racism as policy.

There was this book of short factual stories, which I've never seen again. It had a blue cover and included a mad range of topics, including the lady taught to play piano by dead composers, a man who planted trees to turn back the Sahara, saving art from floods in Venice and swiss children's homes.

Starring down the barrel of my last week of full time studenthood...

"It was a dangerous habit: once policemen stopped being civilians the only other thing they could be was soldiers.” - Terry Pratchett (Snuff)

His House is back in Netflix.

Here’s what I said about earned citizenship when Labour disinterred it previously - Mahmood’s latest addled plan seems to expand it to make it harder even to get permanent residence. An obviously direct response to Reform, who, far from being opposed, are basically leading government policy on this.

This idea migrants have to “earn” the right to be treated with some degree of fairness and dignity has been an obsession of the Labour right for ages, but never implemented bc no-one can decide what “contributing to society” amounts to or how you assess it - link to thread about this in next post >

This got reskeeted into my timeline again, so I'm taking the opportunity to remind everyone that trains are a 200 year old form of transportation, and are incredibly safe because most of the blood that wrote the regs was spilled a LONG time ago.

'The Fabians are secretly running the country' surpasses 'chaos with Ed Miliband' in terms of threatening us with a good time...

There seems to be some *confusion* among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them “But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes” “But, but he was in UKIP” “But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy” So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵 1/14

They've lost the soul of Merthyr Tydfil, I don't know what they are planning to do anywhere else. And I know I bang on sometimes about how rubbish Labour is round here, but it really is indicative of the whole thing.

Scrapping the existing hostile environment system of third party immigration checks and replacing with a universal ID system presents a good opportunity to campaign for (a) scrapping the appalling right to rent idea and (b) better regularisation routes for existing resident migrants.

Independent publisher Graffeg has stepped in to save thousands of beautiful books from being pulped, taking on stock originally published by the now defunct Unbound after the company ceased trading

Tediously often Wales is treated as some sort of odd cousin of little import while specifically English stuff is presented as "The News" in many big media contexts, and the upshot of that attitude laid bare here, as something of grave seriousness to all of Britain is sidelined/ignored

Monty Python responses to the troops patrolling our streets are the best responses to the troops patrolling our streets

This is absolutely abhorrent. There are already people losing their minds with AI romances. We are supposed to process grief, not put it off forever with a fake version of them to replace the real, messy person.