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LittleGravitas 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 #FBPE Profile picture
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@LittleGravitas
Federalist, anti-Brexit, languages, pro-vape. littlegravitas-c-im. en fr de ca es. DigiGarden: https://t.co/LSDrfx8ujT 📧: lgrav24-privateum-net. Signal u/n by email.
Aug 9 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1) Set up *private* lists and name them.

2) Populate them with people whose views you value.

3) Set them up in columns.

4) Ignore Home and For You.

5) Disable Gr*k (web page only - settings)

6) Block freely. Not mute.

7) Use always-on no-log VPN.

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6) If you are pseudonymous here, a VPN is especially important.

7) If pseudonymous, consider setting up a Simplelogin email address and putting it in profile. Shows you are a real person and differentiates you from trolls.

8) Did you know that @ signalapp now lets you…
Aug 7 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Perhaps you'd like to ban the "aggressive chanting" of 'Stop the boats', recently used by far-right rioters, also?

Ohhhh.

That's one of yours, and of @RishiSunak, isn't it? .@RobertJenrick

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1) The provenance of 'Allahu Akbar', as used by Muslims in prayer, as a call to prayer, and as an exclamation of joy, distress or protest:

- at the latest, 632 CE (the death of Mohammed)…
Aug 3 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
.@DonnaJonesPCC

You are unfit.

RESIGN. Image .@DonnaJonesPCC

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1) You validate this rioting by seeking to 'understand' it.

2) You are in error: under international law, there is no "illegal migration" when it comes to asylum seekers.

3) Your Tory ideology is on display for all to see.

Your position is now untenable.
Aug 3 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Let's respond to a repressive violent societal event by removing from some SM users a protection - pseudonymity - which allows them to function on SM more safely and with less fear of attack or reprisal.

Yeah, let's do that. People less safe, all round. It's the Tory way. .@Tobias_Ellwood

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It would be helpful if, before you post this knee-jerk sh¹t ↑↑, you took time to think it through:

- Do you mean 'anonymity' to include 'pseudonymity'?

- What about those at risk of personal violence who would become SM-disenfranchised?…
Aug 1 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
A threat from F*r*ge:

"I tell you what. What you've seen on the streets of Hartlepool, of London, of Southport is nothing to what could happen over the course of the next few weeks".

[I'm not linking to the video clip.]

This is incitement to further violence.

@Keir_Starmer Image If you want to check the evidence ↑↑, it's at 01:00 of the clip he put out.
Jun 29 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Always worth keeping an eye on the European press…

~ 'Conspiracy of silence': Why Brexit has been largely absent from UK election campaign ~

france24.com/en/europe/2024… ↑↑ "The word "Brexit" features only 12 times in the Conservative Party's 76-page manifesto and just once in Labour's 131-page programme."

~ 'Conspiracy of silence': Why Brexit has been largely absent from UK election campaign ~

france24.com/en/europe/2024…
Jun 24 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
.@chhcalling Chris Heaton-Harris, @BBCr4today:

Husain: Do you think Brexit is working perfectly atm?

CHH: I think Brexit is working well for our country atm.

MH: Is it working as well as it could?

CHH: Everything could work better.

No wonder he's rarely let out of his cage.
Jun 21 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
@sturdyAlex 1/2

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It may depend a bit on how fast your connection is. But you do say fibre-optic…!

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May 25 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
.@mikegalsworthy @pimlicat @sturdyAlex

An idea.

Could these be produced in bulk, and offered out? (If you're not onto it already!)

And vice versa, also, for Con/Lab contests? Image (OP: )
May 22 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
.@darrenpjones

It is not "the will of the people" not to join the Single Market.

The polls show that you're wrong.

Even Justin Webb had to pick you up on this [07h47]. And you didn't answer his point.

Stop the gaslighting.

You're better than that, Mr Jones.

@RachelReevesMP 2/3
And Mr Jones, it comes to something indeed when a @UKLabour shadow minister starts using the old authoritarian populist "will of the people" claim to cover the fact that he and his party have no intention of engaging with what is blindingly obvious to all…
Mar 11 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
.@RishiSunak @michaelgove

I take it that this, by biggest @Conservatives donor Frank Hester, would be caught by your new ’extremist’ definitions and policy?

And that you will be cutting links and returning all his donations?

@CassHorowitz @JMSellers93 @Richolden @oliverdowden Image @RishiSunak @michaelgove @Conservatives @CassHorowitz @JMSellers93 @RicHolden @OliverDowden It gets worse.

Disown him, NOW.

Mar 2 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Some days, as an immigrant to Spain who loves the food and its approach to it, I just despair.

’Pork Pie Exceptionalism’, post-Brexit.

(And Spanish sausages have much less non-meat filler. And are better value.)

Comed productes locales, joder. Image Link ↑↑:

murciatoday.com/brexit_causing…
Feb 5 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
.@RishiSunak

Yes, let's lay a bet, shall we, on whether you can deport at least one forrin to a despotic regime in Africa before the next GE.

Gonna use a word I use sparingly here:

You're a total 𝑐 𝑢 𝑛 𝑡.

@CassHorowitz @JMSellers93 @RishiSunak @CassHorowitz @JMSellers93 And, when you lose the bet, Sunak, £½-billionaire, I guess you'll put the £1K on expenses?
Jan 21 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
@antartica81 @fascinatorfun Free to view, at ft.com/video/bd19b92f… @antartica81 @fascinatorfun And here (1/n) is the transcript:

Is democracy fragile and easily destroyed, or flexible and resilient? We may be about to find out. The planet heats, the clock ticks, and with each increase in temperature, world harvests shrink, famines loom, and fire and flood impact millions.
Dec 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
.@chrisgreybrexit is compelling today on Labour and Brexit.

He even does an extended footnote on a referendum for (re)joining the Single Market.

And there's the wonderful phrase, too [commenter, last week's post]: "shrinkflated cupcakeism", to enjoy!

chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2023/12/should… @chrisgreybrexit 2/2

Excerpts. But *please* do read the whole piece!!

chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2023/12/should…


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Nov 26, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
@NicholasTyrone 1/2

Tell me you've not lived in Spain, without saying you've not lived in Spain.

I like the shops here being closed Sundays, festivals, and (mostly) between c 2-5 pm.

It imparts a pattern to the day/week.

It reminds you that pausing matters (customers and shop workers)... @NicholasTyrone 2/2

That said, it's a cultural thing, and it would not export well. In fact it's under pressure to change here too.

A +ve: it gives rise to periods where consuming is not all. It is part and parcel of quite a localist and home-cooking, anti-UPF, Spanish agenda.

I value it.
Nov 14, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
@lizziedearden ~ LEGALESE: Part 3 - "NOTWITHSTANDING" ~

fieldingsporter.co.uk/site/blog/comm… @lizziedearden And, in relation to UK legislation, there's this, from November 2020, wrt clauses 42, 43 and 45 of the Internal Markets Bill.

See also 'ouster clause'.

blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/ouulj/blog/202…
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Nov 7, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
.@RishiSunak trying to lean as far away from @SuellaBraverman as he can, as Starmer criticises her [15:14:58] - to jeers from MPs - for calling homelessness a "lifestyle choice". Image @RishiSunak @SuellaBraverman 2/2

And the evil grin on Braverman's face - as Starmer criticises her for calling homelessness a "lifestyle choice" - is something quite horrible to behold. Image
Aug 28, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
.@theresa_may

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You are punting out a claim that you sought conciliation and compromise in your approach to Brexit.

In fact, you went for a no-SM, no-CU, no-FoM Brexit w/o consulting Cabinet. For 2 reasons:

1) to try to keep the Ultras on side [fail!];

2) because you... 2/2
... want the UK to be as foreigner-free as possible.

In this you share the warped view of your éminence grise, @NJ_Timothy.

So let's call this attempt at 'self-rehabilitation by book', 82 months after the 2016 Conference speech, what it is:

A LIE.
Aug 8, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Even one of the least vile of Tory MPs, @AlexChalkChelt, has gone to the Dark Side.

He calls the Bibby Stockholm "safe and decent accommodation".

If there is no fire certification, and a fire death, it would be interesting to see the Lord Chancellor charged with manslaughter. @AlexChalkChelt 2/2

Yes, Mr Chalk, the "arguments" may well be "played out in court" - but just not quite in the way you had intended or expected.

Aug 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
NO.

Tax on beer, UK: €0.37 per 330 ml bottle.

Tax on beer, Spain: €0.03 per 330 ml.

UK beer tax is x 12.33 than Spain.

Why?

The EU sets minima. EU countries set their own alcohol excise rates.

This is a bit complex for you, so there's a pretty picture in the next tweet. .@LeeAndersonMP_

Here's that helpful graphic for you.

@realtoryparty Image