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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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purplepadma, to random
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I HAVE RHUBARB STEWING. THIS IS NOT A DRILL

RolloTreadway,
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@purplepadma IT'S A MIRACLE!

RolloTreadway, to random
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I've mentioned that I'm getting a new boss, and new boss is not going to be replacing old boss directly - they'll be going into a newly created role (because of an organisational restructure).

The proposed job description has been sent around our team for feedback before the vacancy is published. Would it be wrong for me to suggest that a key responsibility for this new role is:

"Let the quality improvement person get on with their job, leave them alone, and stop inviting them to fucking meetings all the time"

RolloTreadway, to random
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Morning. I had a lot of very exhausting and sometimes challenging dreams last night, so I feel like I've hardly slept. And the hose broke again, after my previous attempted fix, so I got soaked when watering the plants. My internet is still running at <1mbps. I'm not in a good mood.

RolloTreadway,
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@snaptophobic Annoyingly, yes, Monday. Hope your Monday isn't looking too bad.

RickiTarr, to random
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What is your dream road trip? Where would you start? Where would you end up? What stops would you make along the way? It can be short or long, whatever interests you!

RolloTreadway,
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@RickiTarr I'd love to go north-south (or south-north) through the middle of Europe. Sweden, across the Øresund bridge, down through Denmark, Germany, Austria through the Tirol and all the way down to Sicily.

And the vehicle I'd take would be a lot longer than a car, and its road would be two metal tracks.

RolloTreadway,
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@purplepadma @RickiTarr I love a good train adventure. Can't afford anything quite as spectacular as a trans-European route, but Northumberland to Languedoc is good enough for me.

RolloTreadway, to random
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Morning everyone. Felt awful when I went to bed, because of some triggering stuff (not here), but didn't say anything because I hoped I might feel better in the morning. And I do, right now anyway. So there.

RolloTreadway, to random
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Occurs to me that I've lived in my house exactly three years today. If I'd known all of you at the time, and you'd known how things were where I used to live and all the stuff going on at the time, this might seem noteworthy. However, I didn't so it doesn't.

RickiTarr, to random
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WHAT IS HIS CRIME?!

RolloTreadway,
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@RickiTarr Theft!

Kitty is A THIEF!

Kitty has STOLEN

all our hearts

purplepadma, to random
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Good morning, I actually had a great sleep! The sun is shining again and I’m off for a manicure. All is well and I hope the same for you

RolloTreadway,
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@purplepadma Hurrah! Sunny here too, thinking I might go for a walk.

RolloTreadway, to Bloomscrolling
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Anyone want some flowers from out of my garden?

Columbines in a pale pink and purple. Their slim petals hang downwards as a bell. They are purple closer to the stem and pale pink further along. One of in focus close up - and it has a tiny bug climbing on a petal - with many others behind. We can also see some orange poppies, out of focus, and a wooden fence at the back.
A verbena with small flowers standing upright atop a stem with jagged dark green leaves. The flowers are pale purple and white, with some bold magenta at the centre of the cluster. The bright pink bucket that they're growing in is just visible in the background, and it's all in front of a brown brick wall. There's an old terracotta ventilation brick as well, the bucket is hanging from it, but don't worry, it's long since been blocked off (there's more modern ventilation just out of shot).
A soft pink rose in full bloom, with a second just behind it. They are lit well by low evening sun. In the background, we see the wooden fence they're growing beside, as well as many green leaves, plus some other flowers in yellow orange and purple, all out of focus.

purplepadma, to random
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Opened my work email and now I’m having an anxiety attack 🙃

RolloTreadway,
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@purplepadma Oh no! Never touch the work email! Not even whilst you're at work!

RolloTreadway, to random
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Good news! Because I make an effort to do things properly, a significant amount of the data I lost yesterday is available elsewhere.

Bad news! Internet is working even worse today than yesterday. I have contacted the provider, they want me to call them and check some things, but I can't because of work demands.

RolloTreadway,
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@purplepadma Unfortunately, I have to go to the doctor between now and then.

purplepadma, to random
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Just looked up how I would get to Orkney to visit the friend I met yesterday without flying. It would take 1 day 1 hour by train to get the Thurso to catch the ferry to the islands, going Wales to London, London to Edinburgh, then to Aberdeen, then change at Inverness for Thurso. Hmm

RolloTreadway,
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@purplepadma Ah, the fun world of west Wales train links (or absence thereof). I think, unfortunately, flying might have to be the answer.

RolloTreadway, to music
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Nice new folky album that I'm listening to, whilst trying to wrangle this work fuckup.

Afterlands - We Are The Animals In The Night

https://afterlands.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-the-animals-in-the-night-2

purplepadma, to random
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Good morning, I slept better thank goodness. The weather is sunny despite some big dark clouds, we’ve got one load of washing out on the line and another lined up to do. Today is going to be a quiet day, no plans except maybe a run later. You?

RolloTreadway,
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@purplepadma Also slept well, but another awfully stressful day ahead for me. Weather is very grey here but fingers crossed it'll be better after lunch.

RickiTarr, to random
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Y'all I just made myself feel so old, hubs looked up top 100 music from 2001, 2011, 2021, and today and the amount of music I could recognize decreased by significantly. I recognized probably 70% of 2001 and decreasing as I went on. BUT I blame the internet, I can listen to exactly the kind of music I want with no dependence on the radio, but also I'm old!

RolloTreadway,
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@RickiTarr No, I'm not having this.

Music charts are irrelevant now and have been for ages. Hell, the high point of 'everyone listening to the same things' wasn't even 2001ish, it was in the first decade or so of the rock'n'roll boom, mid-50s to late-60s.

Everything has become more disparate since then. Always more branches on the tree, year on year. What the internet did was to break down the walls that separated different areas of music.

So young people today who are listening to Taylor Swift or BTS will also be listening to myriad other things, from any point in time or any place in the world, in any kind of genre. Hell, even the success of BTS is striking because, when we were younger, who would've imagined a Korean group becoming global megastars?

The charts, the 'top 100 songs' are just industry statistics. You might as well base your shopping on buying only the 100 most popular foodstuffs, ignoring the fact that you can get whatever you want and a million other things you've not tried yet.

One of the most remarkable things about music in this globally-connected era is that artists no longer need the big labels to be heard. Don't get me wrong, the labels are still there and still as utterly rotten as ever. But now they follow trends rather than directing them. What was popular on the charts back in the day was very much decided by the major labels (which, of course, is why genres like punk and techno etc branched away from the industry entirely to do their own thing).

Consequently, whether you know or don't know what's on the charts in 2024 means nothing. You listen to what you want! The kids are also listening to whatever they want. The only people who are in any way limited are those who stick to some big radio station and then say 'there's no good music out there blah blah blah'.

I'm getting old too. I obsess over finding new things to listen to. 2023 was, for my tastes, an amazing year. One of the best ever. The diversity of creativity was astonishing! There's so much out there!

And the albums that I adored included all sorts of things from all over the world, and it also included a big pop star (Lana Del Rey). I love that I can do that now, just listen to anything.

'Anything', which includes, as well as the new stuff, Lead Belly and Bessie Smith (oh, I do love Bessie) and everything else you might find within the last hundred years.

It doesn't matter what age you are, it doesn't matter if you know which artist happens to have made the most revenue for some label, it doesn't matter if you're adhering to some notion of 'popular' or 'cool' that I can guarantee has been made by marketing executives somewhere, that I can guarantee is at least two or three years behind what is actually cool right now. It doesn't matter whether your current favourite was made in 2024 or 1924.

All that matters is that you keep enjoying and enthusing about and caring about whatever music it is that works for you. So long as you do that, you're not old or tired or out of touch. You're only an old listener if you reach that point where you listen to the same radio station and complain that there's nothing good any more.

Long rant ends.

(I care about this matter a lot.)

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Don't know what to do with myself this evening. Probably go to bed soon. Decided to have a belated think about this week's , for which @neurothing wants - five favourite opening songs of albums.

I'm not sure I can think of five that I'd say are my favourites. I'm far too tired and there's far too much music.

So here's five that came immediately to mind as being particularly good.

Anna Meredith - Nautilus
(from the album Varmints)
https://youtu.be/Vajhs2wBeCU

The Selecter - Three Minute Hero
(from the album Too Much Pressure)
https://youtu.be/MxE-Y142x1s

Tubeway Army - Me, I Disconnect From You
(from the album Replicas)
https://youtu.be/6SCrfZPMeWg

My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
(from the album Loveless)
https://youtu.be/FyYMzEplnfU

ØXN - Cruel Mother
(from the album CYRM)
https://youtu.be/fuaLiowElxE

RolloTreadway, to random
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What an awful day. And now I'm at the dentist. Wish me luck, please, I'm very much going to need it.

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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What advice would you give to someone just starting out in a relationship?

Mine might sound kind of dark in relation to the question, but here goes:

People change, and they should, it's part of being a person. Some people are lucky, and they change in the same direction, but some don't, and that's okay too. There's no shame in leaving a relationship or changing the nature of a relationship that no longer serves you. We are all taught that every relationship, whether romantic or friendship, is supposed to last forever, but nothing is forever, and forcing something that no longer works, just ends in anger and bitterness. Knowing when to let go is as important as knowing when to hold on through a rough patch, and how to know either of those things is the most cliché advice of all, COMMUNICATE.

RolloTreadway,
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@RickiTarr Know what red flags are for you, and stick to them resolutely. And expect your partner(s) to do the same.

RolloTreadway, to random
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Today has been a disaster and I've not even gone to the dentist yet.

Lots of things went wrong with the computer when I was in the office, and through a series of tedious but unpleasant events that I won't try to describe, I've lost some really important data. Specifically: the cardiac arrest data that I've been working on and now need to redo in only two days.

And what's more, I've lost most of the formulae and mechanisms that I've developed to make that arrest work a whole lot easier.

And my internet is on the blink.

RickiTarr, to random
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What is the thing(s) that attracts you to a person romantically or otherwise?

RolloTreadway,
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@RickiTarr Being caring and thoughtful.

Always seems odd to me that people use "they've got a nice personality" as a euphemism for being unattractive. Nice personalities - well, genuinely nice personalities, not the pretence that some affect when they want something - are the most attractive thing!

purplepadma, to random
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Morning! I’m having so much trouble getting to sleep since I changed my med timings. I was up until 1am again last night, even a sleep meditation didn’t do the trick. Still I had nothing particular to get up for, so I slept until 9am. Social worker coming round this afternoon, I can tell her that I’m much improved and probably don’t need her anymore - but! I want to ensure I can get timely support if things go bad again! What’s on your agenda?

RolloTreadway,
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@purplepadma Yes, make sure you don't cut off the social support too soon. Glad you're still improved though!

My agenda today isn't a lot. I'll go for a walk in a bit, maybe some gardening, but I'm not feeling great today so there'll probably be a lot of sofa time.

RolloTreadway, to random
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Morning everyone. Four day weeks are such a good thing, and I wish more people had the ability to do them (where appropriate and desirable).

Unfortunately, some things have given me the 'despair at my life having been taken away' feelings, so I'm not doing well right now. I shan't wang on about them here again because it's the same story as many times before.

Also, I had a dream about my Dad being an alcoholic, which is weird, because Dad drank very sparingly and I never saw him even slightly tipsy. Dreams, eh? Odd things.

RolloTreadway,
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@RickiTarr There's a lot of evidence that people are indeed more efficient and productive. The obsession with 5 days, 9-5, is arbitrary and pointless.

I've been doing four days for about seven years now, it's made a big difference.

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