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Marky Wildtype

@markywildtype.bsky.social

The only training required is: Don't use it.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 3d

Free AI training to be offered to every adult in the UK

www.independent.co.uk

January 28, 2026 at 3:16 PM

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elia ayoub

@ayoub.bsky.social

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

The Legislation
Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will:
1) Leave the ECHR
2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.
3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill:
This Bill will:
Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary
The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act."
The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years:
Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT)
Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order.
These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR.
Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints
This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds.
If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story
All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight.
Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence
Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan
We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion
A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property.
Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000
Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes.
This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month.
Initial Voluntary Return Window
A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this.
The Deportation Flights
The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM

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Neon Genesis Ewangelion

@ewacat.bsky.social

i just want to make sure everyone remembers Axomamma, the Incan goddess of potatoes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axomamma

Axomamma - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

January 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM

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Katie Mack

@astrokatie.com

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM

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Robin

@trumpsatwit.bsky.social

Here ya go. Enjoy Cats vs Bears😂😂😂

January 22, 2026 at 4:13 AM

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James O’Brien

@mrjamesob.bsky.social

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials

Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

www.theguardian.com

January 22, 2026 at 7:43 AM

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Smooth Dunk

@smoothdunk2.bsky.social

[AI bubble bursts] billionaire tech bro: the stupid consumer did not understand it

3 panel comic

Panel 1:
Orange Guy standing at a stall with a sign that says “Shit Sandwich, £500”
Pink Guy walks up to the stall, Orange Guy gestures excitedly at the sign.

Panel 2:
Pink Guy continues walking past the Shit Sandwich stall. The Orange Guy looks dejected

Panel 3:
Orange Guy says “Wow. That guy can’t read”

January 22, 2026 at 2:42 AM

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Neon Genesis Ewangelion

@ewacat.bsky.social

how far is Davos from Dignitas

January 21, 2026 at 2:29 PM

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Edward James Almost

@prof-hinkley.bsky.social

It's called attention deficit disorder, maybe you've

January 17, 2026 at 5:26 PM

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alexis simpson

@amutepiggy.bsky.social

the other day my 8yo said Spanish was his third language. then he counted "uno, dos, tres..." all the way up to "nueve" and then said "uh, i forget." i said "diez?" and this kid straight up replied "diez nuts"

January 17, 2026 at 5:49 AM

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Iron Spike

@ironspike.bsky.social

Cancel your Spotify subscription.

UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 15d

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.

The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.

Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

January 16, 2026 at 5:33 AM

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Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ Time Zone Era

@angeloslh.bsky.social

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 17d

What? www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

You’ve got super fans pausing and zooming in on individuals frames of your documentary. One allegedly shows one of the Duffers with a ChatGPT tab open on their computer. In your presence, what did they use ChatGPT for?

I mean, are we even sure they had ChatGPT open?

I’m personally not, but the internet seems sure.

Well, there’s a lot of chatter where [social media users] are like, “We don’t really know, but we’re assuming.” But to me it’s like, doesn’t everybody have it open, to just do quick research?

I do.

How can you possibly write a storyline with 19 characters and use ChatGPT, I don’t even understand.

January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM

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Katelyn Burns

@katelynburns.com

Does anyone ever get sad about not being able to know what happens in future history after you're dead? No? Just me?

January 11, 2026 at 12:17 AM

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Rob

@robosullivan.bsky.social

If we have to choose between a future where we slowly cede our quality of life to US capitalists while debasing ourselves, or one where we rip off the bandaid and tell them to go fuck themselves, I'm not having a hard time choosing the latter.

January 11, 2026 at 11:01 AM

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Dikkii 🔱

@dikkii.bsky.social

Tweet by Jatin @jatinkmalik

The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible

January 10, 2026 at 12:05 PM

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Leather Panel Popehat

@kenwhite.bsky.social

If I leave this sewer the turds win

The Independent @the-independent.com · 20d

If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying

www.independent.co.uk

January 10, 2026 at 4:52 PM

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bort

@crushbort.bsky.social

mrs. gennaro I am sorry to have to tell you this but your husband was killed in a work accident. they made dinosaurs real for fun and he got eaten by one while sitting on the toilet. he wasn’t using it he died abandoning children

March 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM

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gamera obscura

@ohrobin.bsky.social

Years ago my friend Dave’s then-four-year-old son walked into a room, looked at Dave, and said, “Well, well, well. If it isn’t Mr. Daddy.”

January 8, 2026 at 2:46 AM

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donni saphire

@donni.bsky.social

You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check

December 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM

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Jill Weinberger

@jillybobww.bsky.social

I don't give a single solitary fuck about what happens to Bill Clinton, specifically, but I also want to go on record as saying there is no one, famous or a personal friend, who I hold so dear that if they were a rapist, I would not want that news coming out. Name, shame, prosecute. ALL. OF. THEM.

December 20, 2025 at 5:23 AM