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RolloTreadway

@RolloTreadway@beige.party

Autistic Welsh NHS emergency care quality improvement person.
(they/them or he/him - those are familiar enough and will do.)

Most important:
Trans rights are human rights; Black lives matter; Tories always despise you even if they pretend not to.

Enthusiastic about woodland, cricket, silent film, constitutional stuff, birds, gardens, tea, sandwiches, music.

(Profile pic: Buster Keaton sits unhappily in a steamship funnel; header is a glass teapot full of leaves.)

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RolloTreadway, to random
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Right, going to try calling the insurance company. Wish me luck.

Jaden2, (edited ) to internet

When yall wake up in the morning what app do you check first?
Reply and say why if you want.
Preciate if you could boost so we get a good response.
Thank you
Jaden xxx

RolloTreadway,
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@Jaden2 Read the morning news first, then Mastodon.

fkamiah17, to random
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🥳🥳
#GeneralElectionNow #FuckTheTories #UKPolitics

RolloTreadway,
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@fkamiah17 It won't be debated, by the way. Will be treated as 'not Parliamentary business' and ignored.

RolloTreadway,
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@fkamiah17 Yep. And I blocked. I don't need people in my life who think the world has to revolve around them, even when they're politely told that they're wrong.

RolloTreadway, to music
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Been listening to Mary Lattimore's new album (this is not a jukebox Friday thing). It's really quite delightful. My favourite thing she's done in a fair while.
https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/album/goodbye-hotel-arkada

rephlex00, to random
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Be the reason your therapist has ice cream for dinner.

RolloTreadway,
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@rephlex00 I should become a very persuasive and enthusiastic ice cream salesman? Yep, I'm up for that.

RolloTreadway, to music
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Another for , and of course I can find a calypso song to fit the theme. There's a calypso for everything!

There's usually a calypso for everything from Lord Kitchener, and he does have one where he moans about his mother-in-law (it was the 1950s, okay), but I've gone instead for Mighty Sparrow with My Brother Tommy

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QvK8Veqcmpk

RolloTreadway,
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@fkamiah17 Okay - here is the Kitch calypso about his mother-in-law. Wasn't going to post it because its attitudes are somewhat, um, old-fashioned. But I'm sure everyone can understand it's of its time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrVDJdatMWU

RolloTreadway, to music
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It would clearly be unacceptable for me to use the theme as an excuse to spam yet more Unthanks at everyone.

Clearly.

...

So, here's Magpie by the Unthanks. A very pared-down Unthanks: just sisters Becky and Rachel, Rachel's husband Adrian and longtime friend Niopha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6EIFD80f90

(The lineup of the Unthanks changes all the time, depending on what kind of music they want to do, but the Becky-Rachel-Niopha core is always there, and Adrian is invariably involved somehow.)

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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So this is interesting. By my calculation, 29th September must have been the day he filmed that video.

https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/hs2-awards-300m-ground-investigation-contracts-for-phase-2-to-aecom-bam-and-more-29-09-2023/

RolloTreadway,
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@fkamiah17 Would be nice if someone investigated links between those companies and government ministers (or Infosys). This is extremely suspicious.

ChrisMayLA6, to Scotland
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Meanwhile in :

On a low turnout (37.2%), Labour secured a 20% swing in tis favour to win the beating the SNP by 58% to 27% of the vote... while the crashed to 3.9%.

And, now the reading of the runes can get under way....

Can 'win back' Scotland?

Is this indicative of how the vote might go in a general election?

Does it suggest concerns about 's electoral appeal are miss-placed?

I'm looking forward to the weekend papers

RolloTreadway,
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@ChrisMayLA6 Probably doesn't suggest a big enough swing to make Labour the largest party in Scotland. But I think twenty seats might be achievable at a push. 10-15 probably more likely.

The Ruth Davidson-era Scottish Tory revival is very likely dead now, though. I was reading something earlier that referred to SNP-Con marginals, and honestly, I'm not sure any of those seats should be considered marginal any more. Can see a 1997-esque wipeout of the Tories outside England.

RolloTreadway, to sandwiches
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You know those cheap barely-flavoured tortilla chips in the supermarket? Put them in any hot sandwich. Crunch makes every sandwich better. Trust me on this.

fkamiah17, to random
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Ach, well - at least they didn't spoil Charlie's shiny hat parade, eh? 🤬

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67022199?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_format=link&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_campaign_type=owned&at_medium=social&at_link_type=web_link&at_link_id=167FDA12-6393-11EE-8B1D-38FE671DE14E&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_link_origin=BBCNews

RolloTreadway,
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@fkamiah17 I'm always annoyed at how stories like this are presented. When police arrest peaceful protesters and then release them without charge later on, it's not a mistake or a misjudgement, nor is the release a sign that the system works or anything like that.

Arresting protesters in full knowledge that no crime has been committed has been an established police tactic for decades. It is intended to intimidate and terrorise innocent people. The arrest - usually as aggressive as they can get away with - is the whole point.

Shouldn't be allowed but nothing will ever be done about it. I'm sick of it. And sick of the refusal to treat such actions as what they are: a coordinated attack on innocent members of the public.

RolloTreadway,
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@fkamiah17 @SteveBologna Very much this. It gets really tiresome. America is not the whole world.

RolloTreadway,
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@fkamiah17 @ExtraPenguin @SteveBologna (and your original post was very very clearly not an American story!)

RolloTreadway, to random
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Congratulations to me:
I successfully decided to put off my important call to the insurance company until tomorrow, because that's the sensible and grownup thing to do.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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Keeping up with these u-turns is giving me whiplash.
From Sam Freedman on the other place:
"After just 24 hours, the government has dropped its commitment to reopen the Leamside Line. It was included yesterday in the initial Network North announcements, now it’s gone.
Roads minister Richard Holden tells me Govt is now just ‘committed to looking into it’.

RolloTreadway,
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@fkamiah17 Oh ffs. The Leamside Line is a really straightforward one to reopen, an easy win (and in a part of the northeast where the Tories have done okay in the past decade or so).

This is all just bullshit.

RolloTreadway, to music
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This week's is about . I've decided to approach this from a folklore angle, and have (mostly) chosen folk songs, because folklore and folk music are inseparably entwined.

The Unthanks with Julie Fowlis - The Great Silkie Of Sule Skerry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabjOVVv9oI
(I've posted this before, but I don't think that's a problem, because it is as beautiful a thing as you'll hear.)

Words of a Fiddler's Daughter - Terrible in his Sorrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPEDZ63R5X0
(Taken from The Tears of Jenny Greenteeth, which develops the traditional tale of a malevolent river spirit into a story of a couple destroyed by the drowning of their daughter.)

The Gentle Good - Afon Arian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTEsiEmvLXI
(Telling a legendary tale of the 8th century Chinese poet Li Bai, in Welsh - Li had previously drank in the company of the moon, and swore to meet the moon again in time; and one evening, he was on a river and saw the reflection of the moon in the silver waters, and the moon showed him an image of his long-distant wife and child, which led Li to reach out and embrace the moon, and to drown.)

Sharon Shannon and Sinéad O'Connor - Annachie Gordon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZPrLu0To8M
(I was unsure about whether to include this, as there is nothing fantastical about a young woman being forced to marry a wealthy older man - but the tale does tell of an oath to die rather than bear the man a child, and the idea of a supernatural death not as tragedy but a way to rescue doomed lovers is a common theme in folklore the world over.)

Erland Cooper ft. Astra Forward and Hiroshi Ebina - Sule Skerry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uTcwJYjbHY
(Circling back around to the legend of Sule Skerry, because of its importance in Scottish folk ballads. But this is a different song entirely, an original work composed by Erland Cooper. Please listen to the very end, the track doesn't stop when you might expect it to.)

RolloTreadway, to cake
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Today is cinnamon roll day in Sweden! I am not in Sweden, so I can't get proper Swedish cinnamon rolls (kanelbulle, I think).

But I got the cinnamon roll that was available to me, in the local branch of the co-op. And it was nice enough. That will have to do.

fkamiah17, to Life
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Sometimes I wish I still ate meat. Like today, for instance. I'm right in the mood to "tenderise" something 😂

RolloTreadway,
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@fkamiah17 Mash some potatoes?

RolloTreadway,
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@fkamiah17 Or knead some dough?

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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With his usual impeccable timing, he's decided to have a pop at Scotland. Did no one tell him there's a byelection next week?
"Sunak: “Nicola Sturgeon wanted to be the woman who goes down in history as the woman who broke up our country. Now it looks like she’s going to go down for very different reasons.”
Lewis Goodall on the other place.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 :baner: 🇮🇪 🇪🇺

RolloTreadway,
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@fkamiah17 Can't imagine many voters in Rutherglen are watching a speech by the Tory leader.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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From an interview with a Tory party member outside the conference (h/t PoliticsJOE)
"Rishi Sunak is the perfect man for the job becaue he's an entrepeneur billionaire (he isn't) who has no need to do the job. They (the Sunaks) are so wealthy and they live such a normal life, which makes him a credit to humanity."

RolloTreadway,
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@fkamiah17 I too live a very normal life, which is why I'm about to take a helicopter down to the shops.

RolloTreadway, to sandwiches
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Hello Beige! And hello to everyone else. I've moved around the corner from neurodifferent.me, and it's time for an

Sandwiches. . Sandwiches! I'm bringing some sandwiches to Beige Party. Let me know what you want. Not tuna, though, if you want a tuna sandwich you can make your own.

Will happily provide and to go with.

Other than that, hmm, I'm an person who lives in beautiful , and I spend my working time fiddling about with emergency to improve care quality in the . I have issues with and , and I'm an abuse survivor. And I'm also lazy, so I copypasted that from previous introductions.

Some other things:
politics: left, handwringing lefty liberal social democrat wokeista etc;
great love: and , I do volunteer work in my local ;
I'm obviously very fond of ;
fascinated by: (but I'm hopeless at identifying them), (especially and ), ; , at which I am a total novice and trying to learn; oh, and football, which is . There are no other Gateshead fans on fedi. Prove me wrong. You can't.

Also, very glad to not be part of a . No cults here. Absolutely not.

And I promise that this is the last time I will put hashtags in the middle of the post rather than all at the beginning or end. I think hashtags in the middle is permitted for an introduction, or I hope so anyhow.

Now, then, who would like a sandwich?

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