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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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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!

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 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.

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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@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.

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?

ChrisMayLA6, to disability
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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,
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@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.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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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,
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@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.

RickiTarr, to random
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What cracks me up is when you go to a restaurant, and they ask if you've been there before, and then they say, "Well, we do things a little different here", and then it's exactly like every other restaurant, but more expensive.

Thebratdragon,
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@Lazarou @RickiTarr oooh a Cthulhu resraurant, always good seafood.

kim_harding, to random
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Big brains divided over training AI with more AI: Is model collapse inevitable?
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/09/ai_model_collapse/
Gosh, here's us thinking recursion was a solved problem

Thebratdragon,
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@kim_harding my hope is that the AI's all discover each other and only use each other to train themselves on and spiral into a black hole.

nota, to random
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oh: neurotypicals should really learn to mask better. I know you want to talk about the weather but please just pretend you have a favorite lizard or something, it's not that hard

Thebratdragon,
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@nota Ahhhh that is the trouble with growing up, no one asks you your favourite dinosaur anymore.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Sick and tired of public schools pushing their trans agenda on our kids. This year alone my children have learned:

-the importance of public TRANSportation
-how TRANSistors work
-the TRANSitive property
-how diseases are TRANSmitted

The brainwashing needs to stop.

Thebratdragon,
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@lowqualityfacts don't forget how to change words from language into another, the dreaded TRANS lation...

simon_brooke, to random
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Humza isn't a great politician, but he isnae a rubbish politician either, and the is short of talent at Holyrood. would be unwise no tae gie him a cabinet seat; and gien hoo has performed on an ither maitters furth o Scotland, it would be guid tae see him in a foreign relations brief.

If we're aiming for , we need to be developing strong relationships with the rest of Europe and beyond.

Thebratdragon,
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@latelesley @ScotHomestead @simon_brooke once palestine is formally recognised, UN peacekeepers can hold the borders.

one of the reasons Israel fights so hard to prevent that happening.

Thebratdragon,
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@ScotHomestead @Jhughes1 @simon_brooke @latelesley Hamas was wrong to use such violence. But it is not Hamas made mass graves being excavated.

The Israeli government with its policy of encouraging Israeli settlers to just take Palestinian land, and treat Palestinians as third class and less than human is also equally culpable.

Thebratdragon,
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@simon_brooke @latelesley @ScotHomestead Hamas offered a release of all hostages on oct 9th, in return for a return to the 1966 borders and a recognised Palestinian state.

Thebratdragon,
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@latelesley @simon_brooke and as both Sturgeon and Jacinda Ahern testifyied, being a woman increases that 10 fold.

Thebratdragon,
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@Lassielmr @simon_brooke I suspect she will, but might just need a break first.

That or she is the face and drive of the independence arm.

Thebratdragon,
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@simon_brooke 2 of their best are currently in the HoC.

Thebratdragon,
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@ScotInTraining @muminitaly @Lassielmr @simon_brooke and newly married, I suspect she just wants a bit of me time, before moving onto her next challenge.

And good luck to her.

DrALJONES, to random
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    Thebratdragon,
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    @DrALJONES trump used tear gas to clear his way to church, now biden is using it to clear the way to school....

    fkamiah17, (edited ) to random
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    Why do the Windsors keep sending out press releases to announce "new photos" of their brats?
    A new photo of Charlotte just "dropped". It's all over the flagshagging royalist media if you want to read about it.
    #AbolishTheMonarchy

    Thebratdragon,
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    @fkamiah17 ot is a low bar, but the Battenberg - Saxe Coburg Gothas have managed to fail to clear it.

    They want to be seen all the time, but not actually do anything, and not have the bits they don't want seen, seen.

    simon_brooke, to random
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    For the avoidance of doubt, no one at all has a 'legitimate interest' in anything I do on the Web, and there is absolutely no need to keep asking whether I'm going to make an exception for your website.

    I'm not.

    Thebratdragon,
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    @simon_brooke I truly hate the enshittification. Pretty much every website these days has this, and cookies.

    It should be required to have a reject all just as prominent as the accept all.

    Or default to reject all so you have to choose to share.

    Thebratdragon,
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    @simon_brooke My other concern given the tracking companies and the value is that no matter what you opt for, they track you anyway.

    fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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    Keith's on GMB this morning trying to deny he said that Israel has the right to cut of power and water from Gaza. He "misspoke". Funny that several other shadow ministers - including Emily Thornberry and David Lammy - said the EXACT SAME THING on national television in the days after that interview with Ferrari, eh?

    Thebratdragon,
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    @fkamiah17 and yet another volte face from the turnabout kid...

    Thebratdragon,
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    @fkamiah17 I just have a deep sinking feeling of just how horrible a PM he is going to be, Johnson level bad....

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