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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!

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ChrisMayLA6, to random
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Britain's record on homelessness is world beating, just not in a good way.

We've the highest recorded levels of homelessness in the developed world; while other counties have seen (albeit slow) declines in homelessness, since 2010 the UK's rate has been accelerating away.

The housing crisis has many dimensions, but here there's a direct correlation between the arrival of the current Tory govt. & massive increases!

The party of landlords is working for them & doing nothing for us!

Chart: Britain has by far the highest rate of homelessness in the developed world. Rate of homelessness per 10,000 people (2023 or latest). UK - 52/10,000 Belgium & France (next ranked) 32/10,00 then all over states listed (in descending order), below 30/10,000: Czechia (27), Germany (26), USA (19), NZ (13), Australia (12), Canada (10), Portugal (10), Denmark (6), Poland (5), Sweden (5), Spain (5), Norway (3), Finland (1)

Thebratdragon,
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@ChrisMayLA6 and I say again, the cruelty is the point.

That should be Starmers election slogan.

'With the tories, cruelty is the point'

but he can't after admitting one of the cruelest into Labour.

purplepadma, to random
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Just looked up how I would get to Orkney to visit the friend I met yesterday without flying. It would take 1 day 1 hour by train to get the Thurso to catch the ferry to the islands, going Wales to London, London to Edinburgh, then to Aberdeen, then change at Inverness for Thurso. Hmm

Thebratdragon,
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@purplepadma not wales to brum, brum to sheffield, sheffield to edinburgh any better?

Thebratdragon,
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@purplepadma cardiff to crewe, to edinburgh to inverness (sometimes change at perth) is a 10 to 11 hour train, does that help?

purplepadma, to random
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Good morning, I slept better thank goodness. The weather is sunny despite some big dark clouds, we’ve got one load of washing out on the line and another lined up to do. Today is going to be a quiet day, no plans except maybe a run later. You?

Thebratdragon,
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@purplepadma Painting a model of Jason's ship, the ARgo.

RickiTarr, to random
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Y'all want to hear a fact that really changed the way I thought about homelessness?

Half of all homeless people were in the foster system at some point. Social Workers often call the foster system The Highway to Homelessness. If you ever had a point in your life where you had to live with friends or family to for a short time to get back on your feet, remember that is a privilege that not everyone had.

Thebratdragon,
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@Vincarsi @not2b @textualdeviance @Rayston @RickiTarr yet they elect those drug taking bums to parliament.

It is allowed if you are rich, tory or a famous musician.

purplepadma, to random
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Super tired now, but MUST. NOT. NAP, because I am getting a bit nocturnal of late. Suggestions for staying awake, please?

Thebratdragon,
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@purplepadma watch a film, read a book, knit?

RickiTarr, to random
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What is the thing(s) that attracts you to a person romantically or otherwise?

Thebratdragon,
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@RickiTarr cheese knowledge

18+ fkamiah17, (edited ) to art
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Looks like he's drenched in the blood of the anachronistic Empire his unearned privilege is built on to me, and posing in front of the bonfire his government has made of the country.

Thebratdragon,
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@fkamiah17 I did wonder if that was the point, and no one who approved it picked up on the artist making it.

Thebratdragon,
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@fkamiah17 would be a long way from the first time such sleight of hand has been done in the art world.

Wen, to animals
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Doing a little maintenance on the quad (for the owner). The dug is very excited, but he's going to be disappointed. A wee trial is is all he will get before the weekend.

#Collie #DogsOfMastodon #QuadBike #Sheep #ScottishBorders

Thebratdragon,
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@Wen I can almost hear him saying vroooom as he sits there.

Wen, to random
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The UK reveals it's spending millions on quantum navigation

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/14/uk_government_quantum_navigation/?td=rt-3a

The UK has just completed commercial flight trials of quantum-based navigation systems that are designed to be immune to conventional jamming and spoofing.

#Innovation #Navigation #Robust #QuantumIT

Thebratdragon,
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@Wen I thought it was just a map and a compass?

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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So the Migrant Advisory Committee, after a 14 week investigation has found 'no evidence' of any deliberate abuse of the international student visa scheme;

they're coming here to study.

As the FT delicately puts it:

this has 'placed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in a bind, forcing him to either confront those on the Conservative right who want it scrapped, or ignore the advisory group'!

Watch this space.... which way he jumps will tell us a lot about the future of the (rump of) the Tory party

Thebratdragon,
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@MadeyeTheCarnaptious @JetlagJen @ChrisMayLA6

Black is White, Right is wrong, welcome to utopia.

Proud to be an extremist and dissident in this world.

No Pasaran!

fkamiah17, to USpolitics
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They're not going to try and stop the genocide.
They're not putting any boots on the ground.
But they still want to be in charge of everything. As usual.

“Arab states have said it should be US-led so the US is trying to work out how it can lead it without having boots on the ground ... "

FT: "US encouraging Arab states to join multinational postwar force in Gaza"

#USPolitics #GazaGenocide #AmericanImperialism

https://archive.is/CDRRg

Thebratdragon,
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@fkamiah17 the only boots on the ground the US wants is gas workers for these new fields to exploit.

They also know in Gaza, being a US soldier will paint a target on them soooo big.

withaveeay, to random
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Herself had to go to the village this morning. On the way back, she had reason to test the brakes on Goth Leo, thanks to someone overtaking on a blind bend on a very steep hill.
Yes, the overtaker was stupidly playing the percentages, but it's possible too that the overtakee had held the car up for miles, a not uncommon, and incredibly frustrating occurrence in summer.
I dislike a dashcam - we should not be part of the surveillance state - but this is why it's becoming a necessary evil. No audio

Dashcam footage of the car going up a steep hill. A hillock on the left makes it a blind bend to the right. As the car turns, two cars are ahead, one overtaking another. Helen has to brake hard and come to a full stop to avoid a collision.

Thebratdragon,
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@withaveeay without other motorists, what a lovely drive that is.

Greenseer, to LGBTQ
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Calmness, basic commonsense, sensitivity, a nice ol' doggie, George Galloway is a total shit and Sheila Fogharty is a disappointment

#TransRightsAreHumanRights #Transfem #LGBTQ #Trans 🏳️‍⚧️

https://youtu.be/7e9C-LnI684

Thebratdragon,
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@Greenseer @fkamiah17 or she wants to employed in the future, and up a fuss jeopodises that sadly.

fkamiah17, to random
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WEEK 33: Full on dystopia at the University of North Carolina's commencement ceremony yesterday.

Thebratdragon,
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@fkamiah17 @MadeyeTheCarnaptious next up is Genosha added to that list.

msquebanh, (edited ) to random
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Choosing to be 'neutral' - while active genocides are happening, in more than one area of the world - is choosing to be a coward.

Inaction, is in itself a conscious action.
Silence only helps oppressors & not the oppressed.

Grow some fu*king courage.
Start making some more noise, against multiple crimes against humanity!
Stand up, speak up for more than yourself & a paycheque. Many of us have already taken risks & we're marginalized folks. Don't tell me that you don't have any personal power!

Thebratdragon,
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@msquebanh if 9 people are sat at a table and a genocide advocate joins them. And none leave, there are 10 genocide advocates at the table.

fkamiah17, to USpolitics
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Reporter: "You said at the start of this that you don't believe what's happening in Gaza is genocide. What criterion are you using?"

Jake Sullivan: "We're using the internationally accepted term for genocide."
Accepted by who?
I remember them using this semantic bullshit in 1994 as a reason not to intervene in Rwanda.

Thebratdragon,
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@fkamiah17 and bosnia, darfur....

RickiTarr, to random
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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,
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@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,
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@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.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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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,
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@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
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‘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,
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@therightarticle the plan to dig the tories out of the economic disaster area that he David Cameron created?

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

eclectech, to photography
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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,
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@eclectech he is gorgeous. Keep on hogging.

fkamiah17, to Life
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It is with great regret that I must announce that my coffee bowl is now empty 😫

mournfully retrieves spade from shed

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

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