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peterbrown

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Volunteer director of community wind company and new community distillery. Locally owned businesses are the drivers of development in the Hebrides. También soy guía turístico en Escocia desde hace muchos años.

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thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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The terminal townhouse of Claremont Terrace in the Kelvingrove area of Glasgow. Built in 1847, it was designed in a Classical style by John Baird.

peterbrown,
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@thisismyglasgow must be huge. These end buildings were generally built as tenements in Edinburgh’s New Town.

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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Given how hard it was raining most of the morning here in Glasgow, this isn't remotely how I thought today would end, but it's certainly a very welcome sight!

peterbrown,
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@thisismyglasgow Baltic in Kirkwall

ChrisMayLA6, to Economics
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While the minimum wage has undoubtedly been a success for most low paid workers in absolute terms, whether it has worked to lessen the more general problem of inequality seems less likely.

Once allied with in-work benefits, we have in the UK a system that subsidises employers of low-waged workers & works against the necessary move to increase productivity.

While the system looks like its working in reality mostly benefits companies not workers.


https://northwestbylines.co.uk/business/how-uk-policy-on-income-inequality-is-failing-low-paid-workers/

peterbrown,
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@cstross @ChrisMayLA6 @Lazarou the relationship between enjoyable work and pay is often inversely proportional. UBI would enable people to do jobs they enjoyed which otherwise they wouldn’t be able to afford to take.

peterbrown, to random
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“The Iranians did not use any weapons Israel didn’t know it had, it just used a lot of them
But the Iranians likely now have almost a full map of what Israel’s missile defence system looks like, as well as where in Jordan and the Gulf the US has installations. Iran will be able to “reverse engineer” the intelligence … while Israel and the U.S. “will have to re-design away from their current model,” making the the cost of the “success” in stopping the attack very high.” https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/why-irans-retaliatory-attack-against-israel-was-not-a-failure/

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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Can anyone else spot what's exceedingly unusual, and possibly unique, about this post box in the Maryhill Shopping Centre in Glasgow?

peterbrown,
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@thisismyglasgow EIIR

RIDDLES, to random
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@RIDDLES

GOODNIGHT MASTODONIANS!!

peterbrown,
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@Wen @RIDDLES apparently you can get four elephants in a Mini.

Two in the front and two in the back.

peterbrown, to random
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Thinking of coming to visit us in Barra? Check out the new visitor information website!

https://www.buthbharraigh.co.uk/post/new-visitor-information-website-island-visitor-maphttps://www.buthbharraigh.co.uk/post/new-visitor-information-website-island-visitor-map
https://www.buthbharraigh.co.uk/post/new-visitor-information-website-island-visitor-map?postId=9b2b0eea-40fd-400d-8556-c17019cd397c&utm_campaign=2d1807cd-de48-4d86-bc15-f95557c0d155&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&utm_content=80f76b12-7636-4f76-903b-6238722fe191&cid=627f4f28-8d7e-49cf-b936-34f046590ab4

MadeyeTheCarnaptious, to random
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"Suella Braverman says she 'is convinced Israel is not breaking international law or committing genocide' in Gaza." (LBC)

That's because Suella is a gaslighting fascist fuckwit.

peterbrown,
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@MadeyeTheCarnaptious https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/112255527715867966

CelloMomOnCars, to HashtagGames
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.... and if your battery is all run down you can still start the car by making your kids push it until it goes fast enough to pop it in second gear and you don't need the starter motor to get it going.


peterbrown,
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@CelloMomOnCars and if your car was old enough, you would have a hole in the front to stick a key in and turn it round and round until the engine fired

SocraticEthics, to Ukraine
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⛔️🇺🇸America set to be on wrong side of history: Trump sets MAGA foreign policy, says Ukraine must cede temporarily occupied Crimea, Donbas to Russia in attempt to appease invading aggressor (more) https://kyivindependent.com/wp-trump-privately-said-he-could-pressure-ukraine-to-concede-crimea-donbas-to-russia/#Ukraine




peterbrown,
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@xancej @SocraticEthics  will the MAGA Republicans sacrifice Alaska?

therightarticle, to random
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UK government has revealed that importers of animal products from the EU will pay £29 per type of item – such as an individual pack of cheese or sausage. The charges will be capped at £145 per shipment, and will start on 30 April, with additional checks in October.

Bonkers

peterbrown,
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@therightarticle so forget your artisan German sausage, your French farm cheeses, your specialist Spanish jamón and your genuine Italian mozzarella.
Only very large companies dealing in mass production will be able to deal with these costs. So fine foods are out the window.

peterbrown, to random
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Following a crash on Saturday all 8 injured passengers treated professionally and promptly at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

Let nobody tell you the Scottish NHS is collapsing- it’s not.

LordWoolamaloo, to Scotland
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Taken this day, 2022, water pouring over lock gates on the Forth & Clyde Canal https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/52018114681/

peterbrown,
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@LordWoolamaloo was that when it burst at Polmont? 

peterbrown,
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@LordWoolamaloo seems it was 2020 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-53768273

HeavenlyPossum, to random
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So the World Central Kitchen convoy a) cleared its route with the IDF beforehand, b) traveled on an approved route, and c) departed at an approved time, so d) the IDF knew exactly who it was killing when it struck the convoy three (3) times.

It was so obviously deliberate, and so deliberately cruel—not just to murder these people, but to terrorize other aid workers into abandoning the Palestinians to be starved to death. To prove the IDF’s impunity and reach, and to compel the IDF’s defenders into apologizing for yet another unforgivable atrocity.

peterbrown,
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@HeavenlyPossum the vehicles were all hit with surgical precision

peterbrown,
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@simon_brooke @HeavenlyPossum I think so. To both

peterbrown,
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@falken @adachika192 @simon_brooke @HeavenlyPossum so Netanyahu has achieved exactly what he wanted. 

peterbrown, to random
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The oldest charitable society in the western hemisphere!

Who knew?

https://scots-charitable.org/2022/09/11/how-the-scots-invented-the-modern-world/

w7voa, to random
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IDF says its spokesperson, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, has spoken with World Central Kitchen’s founder, chef Jose Andres, to express “the IDF's deepest condolences to the entire World Central Kitchen family” after seven members of the food aid group were killed in an airstrike in Gaza. https://wck.org/news/gaza-team-update

peterbrown,
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@w7voa future aid convoys should have unarmed IDF soldiers accompanying them to ensure they are not blown to eternity.  One unarmed Israeli soldier for each aid worker.

Failing that they should be accompanied by Israeli politicians.

peterbrown, to Barcelona
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After almost a century and a half, construction work on the Sagrada Familia in is finally coming to an end.

O sea que la obra ha durado bastante más que el Escorial 
https://www.tourism-review.com/construction-of-the-sagrada-familia-to-end-in-2026-news14289

therightarticle, to random
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“The monumental shame of Britain’s role in the slave trade before, during and after abolition” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/01/the-monumental-shame-of-britains-role-in-the-slave-trade-before-during-and-after-abolition

peterbrown,
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@therightarticle “British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade began in 1562, and by the 1730s Britain was the world’s biggest slave-trading nation. The triangular route … was highly lucrative. London was the financial heart of the system.”
The West Africa company was of course the largest slave trading organisation in the world, but it was English not British. It was founded exclusively for membership by English merchants, and Scots were not permitted to participate.

Miro_Collas, to Palestine
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A Genocide Foretold - The Chris Hedges Report
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/a-genocide-foretold

"The genocide, which the U.S. is funding and sustaining with weapons shipments, says something not only about Israel, but about us, about Western civilization, about who we are as a people, where we came from and what defines us. It says that all our vaunted morality and respect for human rights is a lie."


@palestine

peterbrown,
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@Miro_Collas @palestine This ought to be compulsory reading for all politicians.

peterbrown, to random
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“All the data shows that EVs are just much, much less likely to set on fire than their petrol equivalent,” said Colin Walker, the head of transport at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit thinktank. “The many, many fires that you have for petrol or diesel cars just aren’t reported.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/20/do-electric-cars-pose-a-greater-fire-risk-than-petrol-or-diesel-vehicles

NormanDunbar, to random
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Ok. How come Cambridge and Oxford always get to the final of the boat race?

peterbrown, (edited )
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@NormanDunbar because until the early part of the 20th century, they were the only two universities in the whole of England.

correction, that should read the first half of the 19th century .

peterbrown, (edited )
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@NormanDunbar okay I’m a century out. But these are England’s universities number three and four.

For over 300 years Scotland had five universities and England only had two.

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