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drdr6262

@drdr6262@mastodon.scot

Humanist, Atheist, Secularist, Musician, Psychiatrist (retired), seeking an independent Scottish republic, #fairness

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drdr6262, to random
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/23/questioners-at-sunak-warehouse-speech-turn-out-to-be-tory-councillors-derbyshire-euros-wales?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

'A Conservative source: “We do not control who asks questions – anyone can try and ask one.”

...Aye, right...

drdr6262, to random
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/20/salman-rushdie-says-a-palestinian-state-formed-today-would-be-taliban-like?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

'...the author said that while he has “argued for a Palestinian state for most of my life – since the 1980s, probably – right now, if there was a Palestinian state, it would be run by Hamas, and that would make it a Taliban-like state...'

It's interesting to hear some wisely balanced opinion on this horrible, regilously driven conflict.

drdr6262, to random
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/15/bernie-sanders-election-biden?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

'But, let’s be clear. Biden is not running against God. He is running against Donald Trump, the most dangerous president in American history whose second term, if he is re-elected, will be worse than his first. And, on his worst day, Biden is a thousand times better than Trump.'

drdr6262, to random
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I was wrongly imprisoned for 17 years. Then the state released me into a legal maze https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/11/wrongly-imprisoned-17-years-legal-maze?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

drdr6262, to random
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/02/snp-avoids-another-bruising-leadership-contest-but-relief-will-be-short-lived?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

...“the only way to have stability and get a majority across the Scottish parliament … is a progressive, pro-independence government”

Hear, hear - to borrow a Westminster phrase!

drdr6262, to random
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/30/there-is-despair-fears-for-scotlands-green-policies-as-power-sharing-ends?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

'...the adjective “controversial” began to routinely replace “popular” whenever the scheme was mentioned in the media or by politicians.'

The current choice of next First Minister looks like it's between a pale blue capitalist and a pale green socialist. The greener, the better in my opinion.

drdr6262, to random
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https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/may/01/england-scraps-50-rule-on-faith-school-admissions?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

“Rather than expanding religious selection, a government that cared about cohesion would be seeking to create a single admissions system where all state schools are open to children from any background or belief.”

drdr6262, to random
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Grouse moors to be licensed in attempt to protect birds of prey https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/21/scottish-grouse-moors-licensed-msps-vote?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Well done Holyrood.

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https://www.thenational.scot/politics/24180904.scottish-independence-movement-can-learn-carl-jungs-theory/

‘Let Scotland be Scotland’

drdr6262, to random
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Private hospitals ‘cannibalising’ NHS in England by doing 10% of elective operations https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/08/private-hospitals-cannibalising-nhs-in-england-by-doing-10-of-elective-operations?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

These private hospitals do none (or very little) of the training of junior doctors and student nurses. They are utterly dependant on NHS trained staff or overseas trained staff. They can reap the profits with none of the junior staff training costs.

drdr6262, to random
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https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/europe-please-include-scotland-in-enlargement-conversation?source=direct_link&

drdr6262, to random
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I’m still reeling from Rishi Sunak’s shameless, dangerous speech https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/03/sunak-speech-protest-tories-friday-no-10-caroline-lucas?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

‘Democracy is indeed under threat from extremists. The problem is, they’re running the government itself – and we need to wake up and stand up to the seriousness of the threat that they pose.’

drdr6262, to random
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Liz Truss can't be allowed to wreck our economy AGAIN. Agree there should be no tax cuts for the mega rich in next week's budget? Sign the petition https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/no-more-tax-cuts?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blast44457

boulezian, to classicalmusic
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100 years ago today, music's first twelve-note work (as opposed to containing some twelve-note writing), Schoenberg's Suite, op.25, was premiered by Eduard Steuermann in Vienna, in the Konzerthaus's Mozart-Saal. Here is the first movement, played by Maurizio Pollini. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy6t8yXPcSQ @classicalmusic

drdr6262,
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@boulezian @classicalmusic

This sounds great to me. I did, almost, manage to play some of his piano pieces many years ago. It’s fascinating how melodic they become once there’s familiarity.

I wonder what it was like to hear this for the first time, a 100 years ago, when there was nothing else like it to gently ease you into this new experience.

drdr6262, to random
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NHS Dentistry in the UK needs a realistic recovery plan.

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-nhs-dentistry-2?source=rawlink&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=rawlink&share=a56bec55-beeb-4e81-bc68-999240de3d0d

drdr6262, to random
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Northern Ireland will leave the union, and Scotland could too. True devolution is the only way to save it https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/02/cardiff-edinburgh-devolved-labour-leadership-union?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

‘Scotland is a different matter. As the UK in 2016 slid so casually out of the EU, so could Scotland slide out of the UK. It should, by size and economic potential, be as rich and independent as Ireland or Denmark.’ - the best sentence of this article

drdr6262, to random
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I just signed a petition demanding that Avanti West Coast bosses pay back taxpayer-funded bonuses they described as “free money” and “too good to be true”. Will you join me? https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/avanti-bonuses?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blast44040

drdr6262, to random
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Right now, Mark Spencer is considering letting a pesticide that's lethal to bees back onto fields - despite the Gov's own scientists saying it should stay banned. Want him to make the right decision and protect bees? Add your name: https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/bees-neonics-23?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blast44028&submit=true

drdr6262, to random
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‘…but, thanks to the UK’s media, the BBC included, which continue to treat these fanatical corporate lobbyists as purveyors of holy writ, they’re off the hook.’

What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/06/rishi-sunak-javier-milei-donald-trump-atlas-network?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

RickiTarr, to random
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It's that time of year again! I know this can be a time of year where we have a lot of complicated feelings, so let's have a little Mastodon Holiday Party, but you can talk, vent, cry, laugh, or really anything you want. So, I'm asking, How are you doing today, for real?

And just for fun:

drdr6262,
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@RickiTarr I entirely agree. The old idea of a festive season spread out over the best part of two weeks, is a much better idea.

drdr6262, to random
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https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-new-scotland-independent-scotland-eu/

‘Scotland is therefore in a unique situation – a country in a voluntary union of nations removed from the EU and its single market against the wishes of the majority of its people’.

bobjmsn, to politics
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Normal Island News

Man with diamonds on his crown discusses cost of living crisis
He could not have been a more perfect choice
Laura K Nov 7th
A bloke called Charles was taken to a palace in a horse-drawn carriage today, wearing an imperial state crown with 2,868 diamonds, which made him the perfect person to discuss the cost of living crisis.

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/man-with-diamonds-on-his-crown-discusses?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

drdr6262,
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@j_g_fitzgerald @bobjmsn

There’s not been an English monarchy since the English Queen Elizabeth ordered the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, leaving her son to become James the 1st of the UK on her death.

RickiTarr, to random
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Do you think voting should be mandatory?

BE NICE!

drdr6262,
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@RickiTarr

Yes - along with making it easy to vote and making g it part of a well thought out proportional representation voting system.

lostsettler, to random
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To anyone going private: don't.

The NHS always picks up the pieces when private healthcare can't recover from its mistakes.

There are no private A&Es. And you may think you've jumped the queue or saved the NHS some work.. but you'll be back, with a whole load of undocumented work you paid thousands for and now some unlucky NHS professional has to undo and fix it as best they can.

🩵

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/29/soaring-private-healthcare-use-pressure-nhs-gps

drdr6262,
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@lostsettler Also, private hospitals and clinics often exclude the management of chronic illness, which is the majority of the population’s need as our demographics change to an older average age. As soon as you have a long term condition that limits income, private medicine is not interested.

GW, to random
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Johnson Said Same-Sex Marriage Would Lead to People Marrying Their Pets, Wanted to Sentence Abortion Doctors to “Hard Labor”

He also supported criminalizing gay sex between consenting adults

If we change marriage for this tiny, modern minority, we will have to do it for every deviant group. There will be no legal basis to deny a bisexual the right to marry a partner of each sex, or a person to marry his pet”
Johnson says God made him House Speaker

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/10/mike-johnson-said-same-sex-marriage-would-lead-to-people-marrying-their-pets

drdr6262,
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@Oldfartrant @GW

Pedantry alert!!!

Best not to confuse a perception pathology (hearing voices, other hallucinations) with a thinking pathology (delusions). We don’t know which is the problem here. Probably neither. It’s much more likely to be that age old trick of inventing a direct God connection to cement in the entitlement to power.

This is just a blatant re-invention of the mediaeval ‘Divine Right of Kings’. A desperate power grab strategy.

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