The British Government intends to house some 500 #migrants in that #prison while it analyzes their asylum application and thus prevent them from touching ground in the United Kingdom ... #UK
Twitter is now having trouble paying some employees on time
Twitter staff in the UK received an email just before 1 pm London time on November 25 telling them their pay date would be November 28. Alongside the email, sent from the #EMEA Payroll Team, staff received their usual monthly payslips. However, staff in the #UK and #Germany appear not to have been paid on time.
Do yourself a favour and read the whole of @VjosaMusliu’s chapter (it’s chapter 9) on “British Hospitality” in Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe.
(And read it till the end even if it makes your blood boil because you’ve had to go through similar life-draining bullshit – I know I did before I had my EU citizenship. Because the end is just… *chef’s kiss*) 🤣
#FreeSpeech is not about whether you can use the n-word on Twitter: it’s about your right to criticise your rulers without retribution. The #metpolice are arresting people because they “might spoil some people’s enjoyment” if they protest later. This is #authoritarianism to protect an unelected billionaire.
Once more for emphasis: it is legal in the #UK now to arrest people if the cops think you might spoil the mood by disliking the king.
“According to a recent poll, more than 70 percent of Britons under the age of 50 are indifferent to the coronation. Even so, a staggering 250 million pounds ($315m) of magicked-up taxpayer money will be spent on this single day even as thousands of nurses, doctors, teachers and other key public workers have been told for months there is no money in the coffers to offer them a meaningful pay rise.”
We have 100% uptime on instances.social and score A+ Mozilla Observatory and A+ on cryptcheck.fr, plus daily backups, and we also have the amazingly friendly moderator @RoofusLukas who's been hard at work wrting his guides lately. 🙂
“The committee received anonymous accounts from disabled people claiming they had been ‘tricked or tested’ by their assessors.
These included claimants who were made to park further away than necessary from the assessment centre to check how far they could walk, and lifts being placed out of order to force claimants to climb the stairs.”
“First BBC bosses said Lineker could say what he liked; the next day they suspended him. It was clear they had been nobbled by the government. Just like Putin’s Russia. Made a change from 1930s Germany, I suppose.”
I've just discovered that there's a petition on the #UK government petitions website to remove #LGBT content from the curriculum, effectively resurrecting the horrendous Section 28 from the 1980s.
There is also a counter-petition. As of this morning, the remove petition has over 178,000 signatures, the counter-petition has just over 2,500 signatures.