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RobertJackson58585858

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Family History, AncestryDNA, rubbish DIY, rubbish DIY guitars, coffee, leftish politics.😎
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Enjoyed A level maths 50 years ago, still do!

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RobertJackson58585858, to UKpolitics
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https://youtu.be/hTggFnpOHk4?si=YNnLXrY-uSX2rahH

The D Day Dodgers song. Justifiably sweary.

Rishi Sunak was just plain rude last week. And deliberately so.

Sunak shouldn't be called a D Day Dodger ... He hasn't earned it.

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If you could watch an individual water molecule, about once in 10 hours you'd see it do this!

As it bounces around, every so often it hits another water molecule hard enough enough for one to steal a hydrogen nucleus - that is, a proton - from the other!

The water molecule with the missing proton is called a hydroxide ion, OH⁻. The one with an extra proton is called a hydronium ion, H₃O⁺.

This process is called the 'autoionization' of water. Thanks to this, roughly one in ten million molecules in a glass of water are actually OH⁻ or H₃O⁺, not the H₂O you expect.

And this explains why protons can move through water much more easily than larger ions can. Let's watch how it works.

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RobertJackson58585858,
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@johncarlosbaez

Fascinating thread ... have been delving back to memories of vague teenage chemistry lessons :)

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I'll repeat for any who missed this morning ... the term D Day Dodger doesn't mean what you might think it means.

Rishi Sunak is definitely not one fit to be called a D Day Dodger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day_Dodgers

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Five and a half years ago I posted this on Twitter.

Be under no illusion ... Rishi Sunak slipping out of the D Day memorial early will attract real anger from his own people.

(In my case Corbyn apparatchik Aaron Bastani had taken a pop at the British Legion a day or so before ... our stall was on Pershore High Street only a few yards from the British Legion stall. Just too embarrassing for words.)

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day_Dodgers?s=09

Don't start calling Rishi Sunak a D Day Dodger.

Just don't!

The term refers to the allied soldiers who'd fought their way up through Italy fighting often with reduced resources as preparations were made for the Normandy landings.

Call him what you like but Sunak is no D Day Dodger.

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I'm of an age to remember Michael Foot as Labour Leader being pilloried mercilessly in the press for what he wore at a November 11th Armistice ceremony at the Cenotaph.

At least he didn't s*d off like Prime Minister Sunak did yesterday.

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A little tale that the Tory MPs indulging in the "Chicken Run" to stand in what they think should be safe seats ... Somerset Maugham's short story.

Apols for the lousy cropping :((

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Good morning, I had a long, deep sleep which I must’ve really needed. Dreamed I went to the chip shop to get fish and chips for a group of us, but they gave me a very fat live seal to carry home in my arms instead 🤷‍♀️ What’s up with you today?

RobertJackson58585858,
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@purplepadma

Now, after your "Seal instead of a bag of chips" dream, am pondering my "trying to rewire an electric plug" dream that had the bits repeatedly changing so I couldn't do it (screws going from slotted to cross head, two core wire to three, ... & more of the same).

In this vein I sometimes have the "balancing a set of accounts" variation where things get quite (in)tense :(

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I saw a cinnabar moth on our front drive just now 😃

RobertJackson58585858,
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Let's hope it finds some Ragwort pdq!

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One of the big debates around the forthcoming election is the adoption of tactical voting & its use to 'punish' the Tories.

There's lots of media commentary about this, but as always @sjwrenlewis offers an interesting take on the issue.

In the end he concludes one of the key democratic aspirations of this election must be to deny the Tories the post-election position of remaining the 'official' opposition.... & tactical voting may/can achieve that end!

https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2024/06/should-voting-in-this-election-be-about.html

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@ChrisMayLA6 @sjwrenlewis

So, if the Tories become 2nd largest party by a whisker over the LDs any One Nation Tory MPs who survive the cataclysm who want to exert influence over events could defect to the LDs.

Am thinking especially if the Tory rump tacks even further rightwards.

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#UKPolitics

I don't feel inclined to listen to the new leader of a political party that won only two council seats on May 2nd.

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Instant broken bones for sale.

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That MRP poll.

The one commissioned by the Daily Mail.

The one in the Daily Mail explaining to potential Reform voters what "Tactical Voting" is.

How it's a "Bad Thing".

Yes, that Daily Mail.

I suspect the poll isn't really for the eyes of those of us who actually might quite like a change of govt.

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I’m trying to chill on the patio but someone is using some sort of noisy machine on the other side of the stream and Tom has just announced his intention to mow the lawn, so I think peace and quiet is out of the question. Boo to noise on a Sunday

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@purplepadma

Broadway is currently laid seige by barking dogs and motorcycles cruisin' the tourists.

:((

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Perhaps understanding that their time in government might be limited (as it always is, eventually), the Tories, like governments before them (but perhaps a little more stridently), have been filling public sector & related positions with supporters - its a sort of echo of POTUS ability to secure the Supreme Court for years to come....

Is it any worse than previous Governments? Well it may be, but that might be because they've been at it for 15 years!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/02/tories-accused-of-colonising-state-by-granting-public-roles-to-allies

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@ChrisMayLA6

I recall pre 1997 Tory appointments to public bodies quietly being axed after the change of govt.

It's normal.

RobertJackson58585858, to animals
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Spotted in the shop window of Austin & Co in Great Malvern.


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Spotted in Great Malvern yesterday :))

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Castle
In the Marches.

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Morning. I am sleeping so very badly at the moment. I probably got about six hours in total, but so broken, with long wakeful periods. Feeling jaded, where is the emoji for that?

I wasn’t online much yesterday, so I didn’t introduce a new addition to the household, who arrived in the post yesterday, courtesy of @sheepnik! I’ll post pics later.

Hope you’re feeling perkier than me, wherever you are and whatever you’re doing…

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@purplepadma @sheepnik

Am taking a friend to Snodhill Castle in the Marcher country of Herefordshire.

Will post pics later.

We went last summer for the celebration of the chapel that had been given a proper archaeology dig.

Absolute pain to get to!

Peternimmo, to tech
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Terrific example of pointlessness here from @jon. Not everything in life needs an app!
https://gruene.social/@jon/112528598626033120
jon@gruene.social - All over Tallinn there are these app controlled bike racks. But I don’t want to have to download an app to park a bike. And I don’t think it even fits a Birdy, let alone a cargo bike. And the regular racks are poor…

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@Peternimmo @jon

Different but same sentiment ... I bought some pills in Boots on Tuesday taking in the empty container to compare.

They had a recycling bin. I asked the lady on the till if I could put the empty in the recycling. She said to do that I needed to log in.

No, says I.

OK, I'll put it in the rubbish for you, says she.

:((

RobertJackson58585858, to random
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My favourite corner of Gloucester Cathedral.

A clever jumble to get it all to join up :))

RobertJackson58585858, to random
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Has anyone had the new beta matches list?

I really don't like it and have submitted feedback to that effect.

On my android tablet it's really slow and clunky.

Only the first few words of my notes are now shown.

Having to click through to successive pages of matches is a pest.

It might work OK on a modern pc with lots of memory but for me it's a retrograde step.

Makes things deeply unpleasant :((

RobertJackson58585858,
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Also, the beta match list no longer let's you click straight through to matches trees (ie no blue link)

And having to open out the search window and not be able to see what the search is if you close it (or forget that you are looking at selected list matches!) Is a pest.

I could understand it if are trying to slow down/reduce pressure on their servers when folk are doing searches of matches.

But this is clunky.

RobertJackson58585858,
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@PostcardsFromParadise

From what I can tell this beta matches page revamp adds zero new functionality and is a pain for me to use. I doubt this will be touted as "Pro Tools"

When the pro tools availability goes worldwide there was talk of one new DNA tool replicating what My Heritage already does ... See the DNA relationship between shared matches ie currently we see only the separation between us and a single match. There's promise of us seeing the separation between others who we Match

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