@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

Thebratdragon

@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot

Dragon, LGBTQIA advocate, defender and member.

Wargamer, Roleplayer, board gamer, reader of books and seeker of knowledge.

Sense of Humour active, you are warned.
Loves Independence, hates Alba and its white wing

¡No Pasarán!

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

Why We're As Bad As The Tories, part 21902

#UKPolitics #ToryContinuityParty #DontVoteLiebour

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/wes-streeting-suella-braverman-child-benefit-cap-b2543738.html

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@MadeyeTheCarnaptious @fkamiah17 I am still waiting for the probe into Labour with the secretary handing his wife the job of database of all members that then got hacked and leaked and not updated.

therightarticle, to random
@therightarticle@mas.to avatar

‘Sunak is doing a great job, the plan is working’ – David Cameron

What a load of complete and utter bollocks this is.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/david-cameron-rishi-sunak-374544/

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@therightarticle the plan to dig the tories out of the economic disaster area that he David Cameron created?

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

I'm beginning to think we should just build a barracks and make them stay there while Parliament is sitting.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/four-tory-mps-who-made-32793408

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@Henrysbridge @fkamiah17 @ChrisMayLA6 80s comedy still works because we are still in thatcherite Britain.

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:

https://youtu.be/KovrJ8HXI1Q?si=HOYIG7YMuAUTsJz6

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@Nfoonf @RickiTarr @neingeist apart from jazz, which has its roots in Bach.

The problem with the whole modern music discussion is that the genre proponents think everything happened in a vacuum, where in reality everything is interconnected and in most cases just a new interpretation of the wheel.

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@TessRants @Nfoonf @RickiTarr @neingeist add in both gospel and church music, and more Sousa than you think and 100 other influences. The Bach comment is accurate though, syncopation which is at the core of jazz is also at the core of Bach, as is riffing on a theme, see the Goldberg variations.

All music has greater and lesser influences, and all of them entwined.

eclectech, to photography
@eclectech@things.uk avatar

You've been astounded by the flowerhog, bewitched by the lichenhog, now it's time for... the dandehog!

(I seem to have got caught in a hog rut)

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@eclectech he is gorgeous. Keep on hogging.

Roadwarrior29, to random
@Roadwarrior29@mastodon.scot avatar

So, in other news, this is the feast day of Agios Thoma, Saint Thomas, for all named Thomas(or derivatives thereof) out there, Happy Name Day 👍🇨🇾( You have to buy the cakes on your name day) 👍🍰🍰🍰

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@Roadwarrior29 @Wen @JackTheCat in fact, there are so many saints, many of them have to share.

fkamiah17, to Life
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

It is with great regret that I must announce that my coffee bowl is now empty 😫

mournfully retrieves spade from shed

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@fkamiah17 @Roadwarrior29 @BashStKid time for another coffee boat already?

MadeyeTheCarnaptious, to random
@MadeyeTheCarnaptious@mastodon.scot avatar

The Observer letters, this one from Yorkshire: "The way Britain treats refugees shames the nation".

There's that "Britain a nation" thing again.

England is truly in a parallel universe.

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/article/2024/may/12/the-way-britain-treats-refugees-shames-the-nation

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@MadeyeTheCarnaptious it is a plant, no one in yorkshire thinks of themselves as anything but from yorkshire, not british, not english, just yorkies.

ChrisMayLA6, to Women
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

Although this figures are from 2018, there's little reason to expect that things have got better for women in the subsequent 7 years.

Around a third of women have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence from a current or former partner, from a non-partner, or both of these forms of violence combined at least once in their lifetime (since the age of 15).

We still have a lot of work to do to stop men abusing women

h/t Pilita Clark/FT

https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/341604/WHO-SRH-21.6-eng.pdf?sequence=1

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@ChrisMayLA6 and the latest Labour MP sees nothing wrong with this, especially if the violent one is her husband at the time.

Thebratdragon, to random
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

I have found my gravestone epithet.

Wen, to UKpolitics
@Wen@mastodon.scot avatar

‘Why must I be a doctor, solicitor and detective?’: lost records block compensation for infected blood victims

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/12/infected-blood-victims-compensation-payments-nhs-treatment

Windrush, the Blood infusion tragedies, The Post Office, Murders by Special Forces in Afghanistan (not enough space to continue) - is there anything the UK Government can not solve (or at least put off until the next maladministration) by losing the records?

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@Wen The investigation into Leon Brittens and other MPs/lords Paedophilia.....

Oh no, Theresa May lost that file twice as well.

ChrisMayLA6, to disability
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

Across the political Right, the narrative is that disability benefits (primarily Personal Independence Payments; PIPs) are too easy to get & are often paid to the 'undeserving'... however, in reality nearly half of applicants are rejected, rising to over two thirds for endometriosis (a gendered dimension I'll leave you to ponder), but with high rates of rejections over-turned on appeal (often with the same evidence).

More Tory lies, callousness & inhumanity

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/12/claims-conditions-personal-independence-payments-disability-benefits-cancer-arthritis-amputees

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@purplepadma @ChrisMayLA6 @Research_FTW I had to take mine to a tribunal, 5 mins and the Dr and the Judge reinstalled it and noted it should never have been rejected in the first place.

This was ATOS who used a physiotherapist to assess a mental health claim with 1 weeks training...

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@purplepadma @ChrisMayLA6 @Research_FTW it is cheaper to allow the claims than pay for the beaurocracy to make claiments jump through hoops.

The cruelty is the point.

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@purplepadma @ChrisMayLA6 @Research_FTW Oh I had a doozy, failed the mental health anxiety and depression, because I made eye contact....

I was born mostly deaf and learned to lip read at a young age and I still focus on that when people are talking to me.

But ignored as it counted as eye contact.

ChrisMayLA6, to random
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

Well that didn't take too long:

'sources' are now saying that Natalie Elphicke did not so much experience a political conversion as storm out of the Tory party having twice been refused Ministerial posts.

And, more explicitly Tories seem to be happy to say that it was her conduct in trying to excuse her husband's conviction for sexual assault (for which she has belatedly apologised).

No surprise the Tories want to depict her as tainted... & perhaps no surprise Streeting is defending her!

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@ChrisMayLA6 @fkamiah17 time to bring back the guillotine, #TheirHeadInMyHands

TCMuffin, to random
@TCMuffin@toot.wales avatar

Off to watch Oppenheimer and avoid the Eurovision Song Contest...good night all ❤️

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@fkamiah17 @TCMuffin all the reviews for dark matter and fallout from people that I look to for recommendations have been good, but not looked at them you.

fkamiah17, to random
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

Any of my followers who are still intending to watch this tonight, please unfollow me now.

Guardian: "Eurovision viewing parties in England cancelled over Israel’s participation"

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/11/eurovision-viewing-parties-in-england-cancelled-over-israels-participation

Image from a protest in Malmö yesterday.

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@fkamiah17 sadly this year is not last years venue, I love/hate to think what the maverick city of Liverpool would have done.....

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

The "human rights lawyer":

"You talk about it being right to protect people from persecution. Would you increase the number of safe routes?"

"I don't think safe routes is the answer to this vile trade that's being run to put people into small boats."
from a TV interview yesterday

He doesn't. give. a. shit.

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@fkamiah17 the way to kill the trade, is run large safe boats.

But that answer seems to escape them.

Because the cruelty is the point.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

"Feel" better. Not are better. Who do they "feel better" for, I wonder?

GPLB: "Sunak on economy: 'things are starting to feel better'"

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@fkamiah17 it's an increase 0.6% increase, best in 2 years when it is barely an increase at all.

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@fkamiah17 not until after the GE then we will discover we have been in recession for a year but that it is labours fault.

ShredderLivesOn, to random
@ShredderLivesOn@mastodon.scot avatar

Natalie Elphicke has reportedly apologised for maligning the victims of sexual assault at the hands of her ex-husband.

I say reportedly, as this has only come 4 years after Charlie Elphicke's conviction, and after Labour MPs expressed concern about her being welcomed as a defector from the Conservatives.

Amongst those who had issues with Elphicke's defection, was Jess Philips, the former Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding.

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@ShredderLivesOn of course Jess Phillips likes her, she is slightly to the left of Phillips positions.

ChrisMayLA6, to random
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

When 0.6% growth of GDP (for the first Q of 2024) is reported as stronger than expected... you know that we have seriously downgraded our expectations about the UK's economic plight.

0.6% might end up looking like 2% + growth over the year, but don't get all happy, most of this 'growth' took place in services, which continue to have (as is well known) problems enhancing productivity... and productivity is the likely key to a revival of workers' real wages!

Nope, we're not out of the woods!

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@fkamiah17 @ChrisMayLA6 even worse, this 0.6% is, best growth in 2 years....

Which is a bit like saying the rain is less wet at the moment....

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@Wen @fkamiah17 @ChrisMayLA6 to business ceos as a 25% bonus, so a 24.4% increase in prices to cover it.

Wen, to random
@Wen@mastodon.scot avatar

It’s Labour’s turn to crash and burn as party can’t defend Elphicke’s defection

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/09/labour-crash-and-burn-party-cant-defend-natalie-elphicke-defection

Crace does nail much of the hypocrisy.

“That’s odd, observed Rajan. Because you forced Labour’s North of Tyne mayoral hopeful, Jamie Driscoll, out of the party for sharing a platform with Ken Loach. And Diane Abbott is still not allowed back in despite having apologised for her antisemitic remarks.”

Thebratdragon,
@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot avatar

@Wen I am hoping for a mass walkout by actual socialists and left wingers.

But they are too comfy and see £ signs after the GE.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • normalnudes
  • tsrsr
  • DreamBathrooms
  • thenastyranch
  • magazineikmin
  • khanakhh
  • hgfsjryuu7
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • vwfavf
  • rosin
  • ngwrru68w68
  • kavyap
  • PowerRangers
  • Leos
  • ethstaker
  • cubers
  • everett
  • modclub
  • InstantRegret
  • tacticalgear
  • Durango
  • mdbf
  • cisconetworking
  • tester
  • GTA5RPClips
  • osvaldo12
  • anitta
  • All magazines
    •