Sasooli
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Sasooli
@sasooli.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Let be be finale of seem.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor of ice-cream.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor of ice-cream.
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The UK strategy on migration is no more sophisticated than "big number bad! make number smaller!"
This would be chronically lazy even if the thing being counted were something unequivocally bad like lung cancer deaths.
This would be chronically lazy even if the thing being counted were something unequivocally bad like lung cancer deaths.
Net migration has fallen again to 204,000, the lowest level since 2021 and is forecast to continue falling over the coming years.
Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The UK strategy on migration is no more sophisticated than "big number bad! make number smaller!"
This would be chronically lazy even if the thing being counted were something unequivocally bad like lung cancer deaths.
This would be chronically lazy even if the thing being counted were something unequivocally bad like lung cancer deaths.
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YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
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This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
Why is 'net migration' even the figure we talk about? If you're a racist, 100k foreigners moving here isn't made ok by 100k Brits leaving. If anything, it would make it even worse because the people you like are diluted even more.
And if you're not a racist you don't care about it anyway.
And if you're not a racist you don't care about it anyway.
New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
November 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Why is 'net migration' even the figure we talk about? If you're a racist, 100k foreigners moving here isn't made ok by 100k Brits leaving. If anything, it would make it even worse because the people you like are diluted even more.
And if you're not a racist you don't care about it anyway.
And if you're not a racist you don't care about it anyway.
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Not one for the anatidaephobics
The gorgeous watchful eye of a Pacific Black Duck in Sydney, Australia park
November 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Not one for the anatidaephobics
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November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
The night is dark, and full of terrors; but sometimes a small soft animal trusts you enough to sit calmly in your hand and make quiet squeaks of enjoyment while eating a snack.
November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The night is dark, and full of terrors; but sometimes a small soft animal trusts you enough to sit calmly in your hand and make quiet squeaks of enjoyment while eating a snack.
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just flew in from the Michelin Man lookalike competition, and boy are my arms tyres
December 6, 2024 at 2:42 PM
just flew in from the Michelin Man lookalike competition, and boy are my arms tyres
Why does Headline English so often use the construction "[cause] as [effect]", e.g. "Heatwave continues as four reported dead"?
I don't think anyone would ever say that in natural usage, but the reverse - "Four reported dead as heatwave continues" - seems way more natural.
I don't think anyone would ever say that in natural usage, but the reverse - "Four reported dead as heatwave continues" - seems way more natural.
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Why does Headline English so often use the construction "[cause] as [effect]", e.g. "Heatwave continues as four reported dead"?
I don't think anyone would ever say that in natural usage, but the reverse - "Four reported dead as heatwave continues" - seems way more natural.
I don't think anyone would ever say that in natural usage, but the reverse - "Four reported dead as heatwave continues" - seems way more natural.
Ughh it should be illegal to a) release TV series all spread out and b) recommend a series to me without warning me it's all spread out so I can wait and watch it all at once, the way god intended.
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Ughh it should be illegal to a) release TV series all spread out and b) recommend a series to me without warning me it's all spread out so I can wait and watch it all at once, the way god intended.
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Guy inventing capitalism - "The most efficient way to allocate resources would be if everyone was trying to trick each other all the time."
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Guy inventing capitalism - "The most efficient way to allocate resources would be if everyone was trying to trick each other all the time."
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Nature is beautiful: here you can see the adult buses circling together to protect the baby buses from busivores that would otherwise prey on them
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Nature is beautiful: here you can see the adult buses circling together to protect the baby buses from busivores that would otherwise prey on them
Got an appointment with an employment lawyer this morning to talk about the leaving work are making me sign and I'm full of anxiety.
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Got an appointment with an employment lawyer this morning to talk about the leaving work are making me sign and I'm full of anxiety.
[CN: suicide]
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 AM
[CN: suicide]
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Instead of a government led by human rights lawyers, perhaps we need a government led by human rights defendants.
November 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Instead of a government led by human rights lawyers, perhaps we need a government led by human rights defendants.
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what the fuck
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
what the fuck
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You know for a fact they're only doing this because juries are routinely finding anti-genocide and climate change protestors innocent.
Bit of a test case here for “is liberalism still a real thing, or is it just a political version of a collection of Labubus that you show off to your friends” IMO.
![NEW: The Government is set to scrap trial by
jury for most cases
Only murder, rape, manslaughter and a few public interest cases will go to a jury, while all other cases will be decided by a single judge
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November 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
You know for a fact they're only doing this because juries are routinely finding anti-genocide and climate change protestors innocent.
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No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
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Rather taken with this. It's by Shaun Tan, an Australian artist, from a book called The Rabbits. (All my favourite artists seem to be childrens' book illustrators).
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Rather taken with this. It's by Shaun Tan, an Australian artist, from a book called The Rabbits. (All my favourite artists seem to be childrens' book illustrators).
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Some good news amongst the deluge of daily horrors
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Some good news amongst the deluge of daily horrors
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Honestly, for clarity I should have just taken a screenshot of the exchange the first time I looked it up, but I usually try avoiding X The Everything App to begin with.
Responding to "I am dumb?" with "Yes, sorry for the confusion" is very good imho
Responding to "I am dumb?" with "Yes, sorry for the confusion" is very good imho
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Honestly, for clarity I should have just taken a screenshot of the exchange the first time I looked it up, but I usually try avoiding X The Everything App to begin with.
Responding to "I am dumb?" with "Yes, sorry for the confusion" is very good imho
Responding to "I am dumb?" with "Yes, sorry for the confusion" is very good imho
I was cycling to work this morning, thinking about how shit it is losing my job for being depressed and being asked to sign an NDA saying I can't tell my colleagues that's why I'm leaving, and I happened to glance up and notice this sign which I must have passed hundreds of times without seeing.
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I was cycling to work this morning, thinking about how shit it is losing my job for being depressed and being asked to sign an NDA saying I can't tell my colleagues that's why I'm leaving, and I happened to glance up and notice this sign which I must have passed hundreds of times without seeing.
Our respectable media outlets are run by outright fascists and it's going to take physical violence to recover from this situation.
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Our respectable media outlets are run by outright fascists and it's going to take physical violence to recover from this situation.
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In reflection, these leaves fallen across a puddle, have found a way back into their parents’ arms.
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
In reflection, these leaves fallen across a puddle, have found a way back into their parents’ arms.