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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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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.

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

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.

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.

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

🏳️‍⚧️

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.

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.

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 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.

#USPolitics #GenocideIsGenocide

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

#Life

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

MadeyeTheCarnaptious, to random
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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,
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@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
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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,
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@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
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I have found my gravestone epithet.

Wen, to UKpolitics
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‘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,
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@Wen The investigation into Leon Brittens and other MPs/lords Paedophilia.....

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

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

#disability

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 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,
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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.

Thebratdragon,
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@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.

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