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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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golgaloth, to writing
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I've been writing for so many years and I still get caught up on Discrete vs Discreet. Do any of you have words you struggle with?

https://www.dictionary.com/e/discreet-vs-discrete/

Thebratdragon,
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@golgaloth when I autopilot write, there and their get mixed up, I know the difference but my brain doesn't care until I edit.

RickiTarr, to random
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What is your dream road trip? Where would you start? Where would you end up? What stops would you make along the way? It can be short or long, whatever interests you!

Thebratdragon,
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@Tattooed_Mummy @Shanmonster @RickiTarr

Or, and hear me out, by a life sized animatronic dinosaur and let it fight the council for you...

Thebratdragon,
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@RickiTarr passport, money in the wallet, no ties and just wander, the world is my mollusc.

therightarticle, to random
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Doctors FURIOUS as Labour’s shadow NHS secretary shows he still doesn’t know how the NHS works

https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2024/05/19/streeting-labour-nhs/

Thebratdragon,
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@Wen @therightarticle private that is donated to him.

Thebratdragon, to Rugby
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A loss to the world.

I had dinner (along with 30 odd other people) with this great man to raise money and celebrate the Barbarians Rugby Club.

And Tony, Guiness boilermakers do give you hangovers, no matter what you claim.

#RFU #Rugby #Barbarians

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7225dy596eo

RickiTarr, to random
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WHAT IS HIS CRIME?!

Thebratdragon,
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@RickiTarr 16 counts of Grand Theft: Fishies, 59 counts of wanton vandalism, and 3 counts of barratry.

Thebratdragon,
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@RickiTarr or perhaps, don't kinkshame the kitty.

dyani, to actuallyautistic
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I can tell when I need to lower the volume of something I'm listening to when I feel a kind of tightening in my ear muscles, and/or ringing in my ears, or a slight feeling of stress coming in from my environment.

I also just try to remember to always proactively lower the volume a couple ticks from what i first set it at, to prevent all those sensations.

What are the signs for you that things are a little too loud?

@actuallyautistic
#actuallyAutistic

Thebratdragon,
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@dave @dyani @actuallyautistic I have a friend who used to do long distance driving for a living (amongst other things were transplant organs and other time criticals) and he had 3 playlists set up on his music device (ipod I think) one was catchy tunes for motorways and to stay awake, one was softer to stay alert and one was very soft to blanket out other distractions for when he really needed to concentrate.

Thebratdragon,
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@dyani @dave @actuallyautistic a good example of working smart to me.

ChrisMayLA6, to books
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I sometimes thought my father thought he could't die while he still had books on his pending pile (a stab at immortality I seem to be replicating)... so, it was strangely touching to see Tom Gauld has had similar thoughts.

@bookstodon

Thebratdragon,
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@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon

whistles innocently while standing in front of book piles....

garbados, to random
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you should read more

Thebratdragon,
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@garbados rookie mistake.

mondoweiss, to Palestine
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When President Joe Biden gives the commencement speech at Morehouse College this weekend, it might be a short one. Administrators at the historically black college have warned the event will be stopped if there are protests over Gaza.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/morehouse-says-it-will-shut-down-commencement-if-students-protest-biden-speech/


@palestine @israel

Thebratdragon,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel how to tell students how to make their point, without telling them.

ChrisMayLA6, to scifi
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This week I've been mainly reading, no. 153.

Each of Emma Newman's Planetfall quartet explores a different aspect of the same overarching story of religious driven intergalactic migration. In Atlas Alone (2019), the fourth story centres on an elite gamer & their attempt to uncover & then take revenge for a crime against humanity. To say much more would ruin the plot for you, but as with the others, this is great, fascinating sci-fi, which has a great payoff at the end.


@bookstodon

Thebratdragon,
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@TimWardCam @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon have you read the Hyperion books by Dan Simmonds, there are several very interesting takes on religions and how they could come about in space.

Thebratdragon,
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@TimWardCam @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon I liked them, hard sci fi, with a sense of humour.

CelloMomOnCars, to Batteries
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Everyone is talking about building very large for energy storage, for when the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow. Turns out, that is the most expensive solution. There are faster solutions that yield money.

"Lovins and many other experts have spent decades pointing out that an integrated system approach that focuses as much or more on consumption than supply will be so much cheaper than the current approach focused on supply."

https://reneweconomy.com.au/worlds-biggest-grids-could-be-powered-by-renewables-with-little-or-no-storage-if-we-are-smart-enough/

Thebratdragon,
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@CelloMomOnCars the main reason for energy storage is to allow for sudden demand surges, aat the moment this is done by ramping up the turbines in oil/coal/gas/etc power stations. Without storage of some kind it is much harder to ramp up wind/solar, even Nuclear is slow to ramp up (due to reaction times etc.)

Thebratdragon,
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@CelloMomOnCars one of the cheapest is being done in Finland storing energy as heat in sand, which is cheap, easy to obtain and has few environmental downsides.

DrALJONES, to Israel
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Just a bunch of plutocrats utilising their free-speech rights..

Report

Pro-Israel billionaires pushed NYC Mayor to use police on pro-Palestinian student protesters at Columbia University.

They donated to him & offered to pay for private investigators to help break up the demonstrations.

The group included Howard Schultz, Michael Dell, Bill Ackman & Joshua Kushner, with Daniel Lubetzky, Daniel Loeb, Len Blavatnik & Joseph Sitt also associated.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/16/pro-israel-billionaires-urged-new-york-crackdown-on-gaza-protests-report

..

Thebratdragon,
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@DrALJONES rephrase that headline.

Pro zionist oligarch blackmails NY mayor into paramilitary action against peaceful protesters for personal outlook.

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.

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!

#housing

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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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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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.

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

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.

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

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