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i think it's easier to just say "immigration is fine" than come up with increasingly strained descriptions of why moving from france to germany for 6 years or whatever isn't immigration somehow

Freedom of Movement is not Immigration, it's the equivalent of living in Worcestershire and travelling to London to work during the week and renting a flat. Which I did for nearly ten years.

And before that I did the same to Leiden in NL, though it was company accommodation.

No visas,taxed in UK

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 6h

"maybe today he'll ease off on the wife guy posting" the wife guy posting:

a still of the guitarist from milk talk, who is extremely into playing his yellow/orange guitar with his head tilted back and eyes closed, guitar raised. the singer is on the left and right with a mirrored shot, singing into a microphone above her head in front of an orange and yellow background

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

i don't think this is helpful. what we're likely getting: * leave the EU, with some pro brexit voices claiming it'd make it "fairer" for non EU people * everything is a disaster, visa rules become punitive to the point of impossible * we rejoin(?): non EU people left with worse rules than ever

I hope we can start calling it "reciprocal EU Freedom of Movement" to help people understand it also grants Brits the right to live, study and work in the EU and DOESN'T allow people from anywhere in the world to flood into the UK (as Farage likes to claim).

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

god i am so sick of NOBODY calling out that automatic settlement ISN'T A THING every time the liars at the home office, and ukgov generally, make this claim. call them out!! it's the easiest thing in the world to pull them up on! jesus christ inews.co.uk/news/uk-inde...

A Home Office spokesperson said: “Last November, we set out reforms that mean settlement must be earned and not automatic. A consultation on elements of those reforms has now closed, and we will set out our response in due course.”

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

this is why they kicked me out of space ship design college

a badly drawn pencil image of the space ship Rocinante, except now it's called the Jovinate and has a picture of my wife on the top of it

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the key clue here is that you reply to me with "ukraine?", and i did not mention ukraine because another person in the thread did. i promise you that there are several people in this thread, and none of those other people are me!

me circling the word "ukraine" in big red colours

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lmao i just discovered where all my missing disk space went. thank you resolve for your universe swallowing cache system

deleting 640GB+ of cached video clips from resolve

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the wifeguy vibes are undefeated

"you are pre-approved for the 2nd pocket spouse playtest"

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

tfw you snort a year's worth of spice and wake up with 29 space visas

my wife sniffing a load of spice. the camera is side on, she is on the right, a light source is behind her and the table the spice sits on

a close up of my wife's head from the front, her eyes are closed and she's leaning forward

a close up of the left upper side of my wife's face, with a focus on her eye

my wife waking up on the floor after sniffing too much spice

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

did my favourite thing (put my wife in another game). first you get the spice! then you get the power!! then you get the visa!!!

my wife in front of a blue/grey background in dune awakening. she is wearing a blue and white dress and has short black hair.

my wife in front of a reddish rock formation in dune awakening. she is wearing a blue and white dress and has short black hair.

my wife piloting some sort of flying ship in dune awakening. she is wearing a blue and white dress and has short black hair and is sitting down.

my wife in front of a cave background in dune awakening's title screen. she is wearing full body and face covering protective clothing, with her face masked and only eyes visible.

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a quick preview of one of our upcoming brucon episode intros, complete with reworked theme tune. you can't go wrong with saxophones

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

oh, i think my kid already covered this one. i'm going with vague confusion

miniboyd: daddy what's your job
me: i'm in the vulnerability intelligence team
miniboyd: what do you do
me: i make videos
miniboyd:

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

oh mate. you missed a comedy open goal there

"linkedin: lead threat intelligence analyst at mastercard"

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

POV: you opened up your favourite news site to see what's happening in the world. and guess what,

In another case, Jovi Umawing, a Filipino national in her forties, had to take a 65-mile round trip in a taxi – at a cost of £100 – in order to submit her biometrics for an indefinite leave to remain application, despite having previously enrolled her fingerprints in both 2015 and 2018.

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

POV: you sat down for a talk at a conference and now this guy is telling you about his wife for some reason

a video of a talk i gave on visa scams. i am in a window on the right, and the main screen view is an email the home office sent my wife

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

POV: you sat down for a talk on dark web trading and now this guy is telling you about his wife for some reason

a shot of me sitting in front of multiple pieces of audio and visual equipment, 2 computer screens, several keyboards and shelves with mixers and audio gear on them, with a framed picture of a chainsaw in the background. i am wearing a black and orange hoodie. the walls are various colours including blue, orange, purple, pink, and white.

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it's not quite there yet, but

a hand pulling a record from a rack. the image on the record is me as jamiroquai sliding toward the camera, throwing a roll of money toward the viewer in the style of the eminem meme. the album says "umawing" at the top. i am wearing a banana colander hat and xmas beard

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

1) every sound is a basic riser/whoosh/bwaam that you can get from any decent music tool & have total control. 2) "You choose the moment, you choose the sound, you own the creative decision. The model handles the timing" why...do you think timing isn't part of the creative decision?

"You asked. We listened. Generate sound effects directly in Premiere, never leave your edit. Every sound you hear was generated directly on the timeline, no tricks. Volume on!

When we launched Generate Sound Effects on Adobe Firefly a little over a year ago, the reception was great, but we repeatedly heard one ask - I want this in Premiere. We've worked hard over the past months to make this happen, coming up with a new timeline-based generative workflow we think you'll love - just drag a range selection on an audio track, type in your prompt and boom, your idea comes to life with cinematic audio right on the timeline.

One more thing... we've thrown in a bonus feature, and I think it's a game changer. A new "Sync to video" button instructs our model to generate a sound effect that's perfectly in sync with your footage. Manually aligning every footstep, every punch... is over. You choose the moment, you choose the sound, you own the creative decision. The model handles the timing."

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i often embed images into my audio (as a little easter egg for anyone looking at the music with a spectrum analyser). i've recently taken to embedding "no AI used" in my tracks. as an example, here's some music i used chainsaw sounds on with the image of the chainsaw i used embedded into the audio:

a hidden image of a chainsaw revealed with a spectrum analyser in fl studio

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

(with apologies for the slightly blurry photo): commodore plus/4. those built in function keys, which opened up built-in tools like spreadsheets, word processor etc were ahead of their time. what a glorious little machine

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

i need to update this picture with burnham at some point

keir starmer in front of a lectern pointing and smiling, with rich evans sitting on a couch looking sadly into the distance behind starmer, holding a bottle of alcohol. a union flag is superimposed over the background

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

finally, *finally* finished. i am never saying "SSN" again for the rest of my life. this is the image of a man who was definitely not swearing like a sailor only seconds earlier

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

opening up youtube and seeing yourself is like being flashbanged

6 videos at the top of my youtube homepage, which includes look at me bop bop bop by noiselund, a hikaru utada mix, best of the worst, witcher 3, limmy, and me in the corner talking about crypto fraud malware

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

did the rark grames guy do this

a painting of rick grimes, known as rark grames. the detail is basic and all aspects of the painting are somewhat amateur and unfinished with a flat, sheened over look. he is wearing his leather jacket with the fleece collar

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

1) a TV which you cannot fully turn off, and regales you with anecdotes about my wife 2) on a random day of my choosing, i print out a selection of posts about my wife and push them through your letterbox 3) bluesky has a wifepost tab 4) big statue of my wife in your garden 5) the statue sings

"if i ruled the world" album cover. it is a man holding a glass of wine with large purple lapels in front of an abstract red background. i have shopped my head onto the body. i am wearing a banana colander hat and xmas beard

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