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peterbrown

@peterbrown@mastodon.scot

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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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/

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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.

MadeyeTheCarnaptious, to random
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"UK Government urges U-turn on VisitScotland iCentre closures." (The National)

They couldn't give a rat's erse about VisitScotland, this is all about deflecting away from the mass discontent with the NHS systems across the UK, that's arisen thanks to their brutal debilitating austerity.

peterbrown,
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@MadeyeTheCarnaptious and also because their only vision for Scotland is as a playground for England.

UndisScot, to Scotland
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Urban scenery at its best. A view of Hawick Town Hall, in the heart of Hawick in the Scottish Borders. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/hawick/hawick/index.html

peterbrown,
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@UndisScot could be absolutely world-class without the speeding traffic.

therightarticle, to random
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“Public satisfaction with the at its lowest ever level, poll shows”

70% were satisfied in 2010 when Tories came into office. It’s 24% now. Work it out folks..

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/27/public-satisfaction-with-the-nhs-at-its-lowest-ever-level-poll-shows

peterbrown,
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@therightarticle yes, when the Tories came to power, we had the best health service in the OECD

peterbrown, to random
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“Israel’s genocidal war has taken on a new dimension — it is encouraging societal collapse in Gaza. Its engineering of famine and the enablement of lawlessness is simply a continuation of its military campaign through other means. And when members of the civilian government attempt to ameliorate the famine or try to work to restore social order, Israel launches a war against them, too.”
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/the-real-reason-israel-stormed-al-shifa-hospital-yet-again/

peterbrown, to random
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“In other words, the attack on al-Shifa was an assassination operation aimed at breaking down civil order in northern Gaza.”
The humanitarian food convoy was well organised and peaceful, with starving humans forming an orderly queue.
Israel cannot allow Gaza to be peaceful, so they killed the chief of police. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/the-real-reason-israel-stormed-al-shifa-hospital-yet-again/

peterbrown, to random
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“As special rapporteur on Gaza for the UN, Francesca Albanese, and human rights lawyer Noura Erakat must frequently explain, Israel actually has no right to wage war on territory it occupies.”

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/doctors-justify-genocide-in-a-prestigious-journal/

interfluidity, to random
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Maybe instead of an acrimonious should-we or shouldn't-we debate over federating with threads, instances should discuss and come to some consensus on terms threads would have to meet as a precondition to federation. Call it a union. I'd say migratability from threads to other instances would be one crucial prerequisite.

(I have no idea whether threads currently supports this.)

peterbrown,
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@interfluidity @luis_in_brief in my opinion the less Mastodon has to do with Threads the better

peterbrown, to random
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“Hard to imagine that anyone could think this man is mentally and psychologically fit to be president of the United States,” conservative attorney George Conway tweeted, alongside a screenshot of Trump’s post. “But here we are.”

https://mstdn.social/

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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How much better would the Mitchell Library look if the M8 was covered over and the area in front of it turned into a public square or an urban park?

peterbrown,
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@thisismyglasgow yes, and if the speed limit was dropped to 30 mph, it would greatly reduce the amount of traffic noise polluting the area, as well as greatly improving road safety at the multiple junctions.,

peterbrown, to random
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Is the quaich (cuach) unique to Scotland? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Which other countries have them?

https://www.robin-wood.co.uk/wood-craft-blog/2011/01/25/quaichs-the-real-history-of-the-wooden-quaich/

CelloMomOnCars, to random
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"Dramatic changes in energy industry and EVs reducing fossil fuel use, but shipping, aviation and industry a long way from net zero"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/09/biggest-fossil-fuel-emissions-shipping-plane-manufacturing

This report makes some business-as-usual assumptions. E.g.
"Growth".
And they forget that 40% of global shipping is of fossil fuels.
And that countries like the US are re-shoring industries (see CHIPS act).

Together, we still have choices.
Let's make the right choices: on our plates, what we buy, whom we vote for.

peterbrown,
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@CelloMomOnCars would be excellent to extend it to aviation fuel

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