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RolloTreadway

@RolloTreadway@beige.party

Autistic Welsh NHS emergency care quality improvement person.
(they/them or he/him - those are familiar enough and will do.)

Most important:
Trans rights are human rights; Black lives matter; Tories always despise you even if they pretend not to.

Enthusiastic about woodland, cricket, silent film, constitutional stuff, birds, gardens, tea, sandwiches, music.

(Profile pic: Buster Keaton sits unhappily in a steamship funnel; header is a glass teapot full of leaves.)

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RickiTarr, to random
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I watch y'all in the comments of my posts connecting with and comforting each other, and it warms my heart. Mastodon isn't a perfect place, but the humanity I see here makes me proud to be a part of it. The world needs more of this.

RolloTreadway,
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@RickiTarr It's like that Susan Sontag quote, about how 10% of the population is cruel no matter what, 10% is merciful no matter what, and the remaining 80% can be moved in either direction.

10% of social media users will be cruel online, 10% will be merciful, and the other 80% will be cruel if the algorithm tells them to be cruel.

With no algorithm we see that most people are, broadly speaking, nice.

RickiTarr, to random
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WHAT IS HIS CRIME?!

RolloTreadway,
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@RickiTarr Theft!

Kitty is A THIEF!

Kitty has STOLEN

all our hearts

RickiTarr, to random
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I get so mad at myself when a commercial makes me feel something besides just disgust and annoyance.

RolloTreadway,
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@RickiTarr This one, however, gave me a very good laugh when I first saw it. It's brilliant, and so dark. https://youtu.be/V2R4iiuCi2Y

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RickiTarr, to random
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Have you ever met someone who lies all the time, but doesn't seem to realize they are lying?

RolloTreadway,
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@RickiTarr If this includes 'sufficiently arrogant as to believe that whatever they think is automatically true', then very definitely yes.

It's so exhausting trying to deal with someone who sees themselves as the sole source of absolute truth in the world.

RolloTreadway, to random
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Exciting news!

We've had no buses at all since the 28th of October, and none in two of the four weeks before that. Go North East staff were on strike because of appallingly unfair pay and conditions.

The workers and unions bravely kept going in spite of the hardship, until the company finally gave them a deal they could accept. So the strike ends today!

Hurrah for unions!

And hurrah for the buses coming back!

And a loud jeering for the company who would rather run no buses for weeks on end than pay fairly.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/go-north-east-bus-strike-28209048

RolloTreadway, to Bloomscrolling
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I do very much appreciate that this red rose in my garden blooms so late in the year.

(apologies for it being not the crispest picture, the wind caught it)

RolloTreadway, to random
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The theme from @neurothing is , and heavens, I could really do with some of that.

Here's five sleeptastic sleepsongs.

Lead Belly - Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
https://youtu.be/VdYVANxDNkg

Little Willie John - Sleep
https://youtu.be/Y3OAHnRDucs

The Magnetic Fields - Asleep and Dreaming
https://youtu.be/GfjHLJqcDDU

Libby Rodenbough - Sleeping Hard
https://youtu.be/flO_girhoKQ

The Rheingans Sisters - Lament for Lost Sleep
https://youtu.be/ocd0VNS3Zwg

RolloTreadway, to random
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Went to the library. Aren't libraries great? FREE BOOKS.

RolloTreadway, to music
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This week's theme for is . So I'm going very old.

This song is Crazy Blues by Mamie Smith. In early 1920, Smith became the first Black singer to have a record released - in the face of huge opposition from the wider music industry - with That Thing Called Love.

But her next release, Crazy Blues, had the biggest impact. At a time when songs called this-or-that Blues were invariably recorded by white artists, this was the first such release not just by a Black singer but with a Black band (That Thing Called Love featured the white Okeh Rags Orchestra, but Smith assembled her own all-Black band, the Jazz Hounds, before recording Crazy Blues) - and crucially, it was immensely popular. The huge numbers in which the record sold brought down the industry's colour bar, ending the insistence on Black music being exclusively performed by white musicians.

Perhaps the single most influential record ever released, maybe this isn't so much as .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaz4Ziw_CfQ

RolloTreadway, to politics
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Importance of tactical voting, in a simple chart.

Both seats were won by Labour with fairly slender and almost identical majorities, both around 1,300.

In Tamworth, tactical voting was very much for Labour. LibDem vote dropped a little, in a seat they had no chance of winning, and without tactical voting the Tories might've just held the seat.

In Mid Beds, both Labour and LibDems fought for the seat equally, both believing they had the best chance of winning. As a result, the Tories almost clung on. Tactical voting would've made that a much more secure result, and might well be the difference in a general election.

RolloTreadway, to Bloomscrolling
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I've just remembered, I took a tonne of photos of flowers when I was at Kew in September, and forgot all about them. And this morning, it's very grey and grim and miserable and November.

So here's some flowers. Not sure what they are, no doubt all from distant corners of the world. They're pretty, though, and who doesn't like a bit of ?

A circular flower with many small rectangular petals emanating out in layers from the centre. The outermost petals are a deep dark pink, and they move steadily towards a soft champagne pink as they approach the centre. The centre is a mass of tight yellow curls fading to pale green at the very heart of the flower.
Possibly song kind of orchid? It has five large, pointy petals, purple at the outside and white with many pinky-purple dots towards the centre. At the centre, some pink protrusions (sepals?) hang out and down in the orchid style. There are multiple flowers packed together, two in the centre foreground and multiple others behind.
A tight cluster of pale purple flowers in front of green foliage. The flowers have large, soft, floppy petals, with an old gold colouring at the centre.

RolloTreadway, to random
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Taking a quick break from an excess of work. The theme from @neurothing this week is .

Really don't have any time to devote to it, so here's five songs that sprang immediately into my head. Also, I'm so stretched for time that I've only used one number.

Herbie Goins & the Night-Timers - Number One In Your Heart
https://youtu.be/JpZAVqPm_JU

Niecy Blues - 1111
https://youtu.be/Djg_z1LS0vI

The Magnetic Fields - No One Will Ever Love You
https://youtu.be/VNwn-VIkWtE

Sparks - The Number One Song In Heaven
https://youtu.be/P6I6yr7WDeg

Madness - One Step Beyond
https://youtu.be/SOJSM46nWwo

RolloTreadway, to random
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RolloTreadway, to random
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A bit of peace and quiet from @neurothing for this week's : the theme is .

New Order - Your Silent Face
https://youtu.be/MEl0Chq36lc

MJ Guider - Quiet Time
https://youtu.be/YP7njTT9U0Q

Black Ox Orkestar - Perpetual Peace
https://youtu.be/Z3eZju8o0iY

The Paragons - Quiet Place
https://youtu.be/5SwvBisc95g

Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld - A Quiet Life
https://youtu.be/OiPVgAhRE6E

RolloTreadway, to random
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In line with the rest of British fedi, I'm hereby making my 'it's windy' post.

IT'S WINDY.

RolloTreadway, to random
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The theme from @VestigialLung via @Kitty is .

I can't help but go for ØXN's Love Henry again. And yes, I know, I spam this all the time. But it's so bloody good.

Plus, it fits the theme perfectly, as it addresses the ideal, traditional way to mend a broken heart: by throwing the deceitful lover into a well.

https://youtu.be/ZJYJSFy9B4A

RolloTreadway, to random
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This week's is , from @Esoteria via @Kitty.

The first track that came to mind is a very obvious one. But it's a classic, so why not?

Erik B. & Rakim - Paid in Full (Coldcut 'Seven Minutes of Madness' Remix)
https://youtu.be/CFcaWSIAyhc

RolloTreadway, to random
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You remember that I had a sheet, which I struggled to get dry because of the weather, and then when I finally managed to get it dry on the line a bird shat on it?

Washed it again today.

A bird shat on it.

Again.

RolloTreadway, to Eurovision
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Actually, one more thing.

I've been scrolling through the hashtag, and there is so so much love and joy from non-binary, trans and other people about Nemo's success (and also the general wonderfulness of Bambie Thug).

And it's beautiful. Honestly, just so beautiful.

Love to all of you, you fantastic bunch of humans.

:blobcatenby: :blobcat_heart_trans:

RolloTreadway, to random
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Our NZ friends have decided on the theme for - and I'm a little surprised that I've not seen Fight the Power cross my feed. So, yes, here is Fight the Power, and a good wake-up jolt for those of us still in Friday morning.

https://youtu.be/e-4AtiOjBmg

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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Why have young people turned away from the ?

John Burn-Murdoch (FT) suggests (not implausibly) that two factors loom large:

  1. the & the increased difficulty the young have owning their own home;

which also goes some way to explaining while the abandonment of the right by the young is more extreme in the Uk than elsewhere (even it is a broad global trend).

the right-wing gerontocracy may have gone too far & taken too much?

Chart: Brexit appears to have acted as a trigger fro young Britons souring on the Tories. % of Britons aged 18-34 saying they 'strongly dislike' the Conservative Party. Shows before the EU Referendu, proportion was relatively stable at 20%, but since it has risen from that level to around 40% (i.e. doubled)

RolloTreadway,
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@ChrisMayLA6 Why have young people turned against politicians who are committed to destroying the lives of young people? It sure is a mystery.

RolloTreadway, to random
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This week's from @neurothing is . So, no faffing about, let's cut to the chase:

Louis Armstrong - Mack The Knife
https://youtu.be/S-lHrDPjGfQ

Leftfield - Swords
https://youtu.be/S37BvISrFuE

The Magnetic Fields - A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off
https://youtu.be/P7Cof3vyx1Q

Arlo Parks - Blades
https://youtu.be/OwkkBVQB_3U

Forest Swords - Knife Edge
https://youtu.be/bJzB3_p0WTw

RolloTreadway, to random
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The (from @yourfutureex via @neurothing) is .

This theme is for songs that are famed much-loved classics that you've absolutely had enough of. I'm tempted to say 'the entire Beatles canon', but I'll pick five songs like I'm supposed to.

And yes, I know it's very easy and predictable to hate on the Beatles, but that's not what I'm doing here. There are lots of very popular bands that I've never liked at all, like Pink Floyd, Oasis, Steely Dan, and so on. But I liked the Beatles, I really did, until I got absolutely sick of not just the Beatles but the endless shit that goes around them. I hear there's going to be four Beatles biopics coming. A Ringo Starr biopic?!? Nobody has ever wanted or needed that. Yeesh. Sick of this shit.

So, here, four Beatles songs that particularly get on my wick, plus one very obvious and inexplicably popular Beatles-adjacent monstrosity. You're not getting any links because you already know these songs off by heart.

The Beatles - Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da (If this was by literally anybody else it would shunned in polite society)

The Beatles - The Long and Winding Road (there's an appalling scene in the film Yesterday which really turned me against this one)

The Beatles - Taxman (seriously, you actually wrote those words? ffs George get a grip)

The Beatles - Yellow Submarine (not blaming the Beatles specifically for this, it's just the most grotesquely ill-used song in history)

John Lennon - Imagine (fuck off and keep fucking off until you've reached the very outer limits of fuck off and then fuck off a bit more)

RolloTreadway, to random
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Oh, and a happy (where possible) and well-loved (for all) Trans Day of Visibility to all trans, non-binary, and otherwise not-cis people. Love, power, cakes and general good vibes to everyone who is visible, invisible, hoping to be visible, or has any other relationship with visibility in this unreasonable and hard world.

Admittedly, I don't have cake available right now, but you're all welcome to come around to mine for a hot cross bun or a biscuit or whatever chocolate I have in the cupboard.

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