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Music , boatlife, leftish, green, pro Europe, and probably 'woken' too. I like people and dogs. Made from apples. Well, mainly apples.

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fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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Here comes John Redwood with his latest fact-repelling rage wibble.

#UKPolitics

capnthommo,
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@fkamiah17 he's a living demonstration of why there might need to be an upper age limit for MPs

LindaCollins11, to random
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218905101

capnthommo,
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@yacc143 @LindaCollins11 particularly English speakers in Europe. Yeah guys, Europeans speak English too - and usually pretty well.

ChrisMayLA6, to Health
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One more story from the NHS crisis.

To be clear, I don't blame the nurses & doctors in A&E who are encountering budget & capacity pressures that would make it difficult for anyone to do a good job.

As length of waiting times in A&E grow, so do deaths while waiting to be seen; but this is part of the crisis engineered by the Tories, not a managerial or staff training issue (which is not to say these have no impact).

The Tories health 'strategy' is killing us

#health
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/26/woman-found-too-late-under-coat-in-nottingham-ae-after-eight-hour-wait

capnthommo,
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@ChrisMayLA6 it's almost as if they want us to start hating the NHS and clamouring for, I don't know, some kind of private medical system where you or your expensive insurance pays.

capnthommo, to random
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And still more strutting sabre rattling from Russia.
Russia-Ukraine war live: Russia warns Nato drills at Finland border ‘risk possible military incidents’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/24/russia-ukraine-war-live-us-biden-senate-zelenskiy-aid

fkamiah17, to cymru
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WTF??!?? Jacob Res Mogg is speaking at Cardiff University on Friday.
🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬
Of course there's a protest being organised. CSL, Park Place, Cardiff at 5.30pm

capnthommo,
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@fkamiah17 oh Cardiff, you're letting us down.

capnthommo,
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@fkamiah17 and I think unis have become a bit wary of the risk of the 'cancelled stick' with the threat of losing funding being pointed at them.

fkamiah17, to random
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"Moominpappa walked down the garden to have a look at his crystal ball.
Dusk was rising from the ground, as it usually did, gathering in under the trees. Round the crystal ball was a little more light. There it stood, reflecting the whole garden, looking very beautiful on its coral pedestal. It was Moominpappa's very own magic ball of shining blue glass, the centre of the garden, of the valley, and of the whole world."

from 'Moominpappa at Sea', by Tove Jansson
#MoominMonday

capnthommo,
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@fkamiah17 what I find great, apart from the otherworldliness, is the quite complex language. Nothing "here is John. See John run. Run John run" about it.

capnthommo,
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@fkamiah17 yes. And that was a much more general thing when I was younger. I was handed down annuals from back in the thirties and many of the stories were, ok they were of their time but, demanding - be they instructional, adventure or amusing. From Bob Cherry or Billy Bunter to a chaps adventures bicycling around the Balkans sleeping in a tent or a Tzigane camp. They were simply capable of holding the interest and thereby encouraging you to stick with it and find out. I begin to sound a bit "it was better in the old days" but that's not how I intend it. I think we were just lucky.

capnthommo,
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@fkamiah17 don't remember those things although I was aware of grange hill's existence. I know in the seventies there were certainly some pretty dark children's dramas on TV. I was born in the early fifties so all that is a bit late for me. But I sure remember studying Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm at 13.

capnthommo,
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@fkamiah17 and ring of bright water - I saw the movie when it first came out.

glynmoody, to random
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UK unlikely to make snap decision over #Unrwa funding - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/uk-unlikely-to-make-snap-decision-over-unrwa-funding well, it made a snap decision to cancel funding, based on zero evidence, so why the asymmetry...? #gaza

capnthommo,
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@glynmoody because money spent on doing the right thing is money wasted - according to the government. They've long been crying over development funds and foreign aid. Twenty years to my knowledge.

eclectech, to random
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The end of a long day

Thought Myfanwy & friend could visit Hopper's Nighthawks.

Wasn't sure what to call the adaptation, but realise the obvious name is Nighthen.

As well as representing Myfanwy it is what someone in Scotland might say on their way to bed, which is what I'm about to do.

'Night hen! 💤

#sillyScribbles #MyfanwyAndFriend #silly #nonsense

capnthommo,
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@eclectech I guess their favourite album is Tom Waits Nighthens at the Diner.
Classy.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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Absolute honking state of it.

#UKPolitics #Lettuce #AltTextIsAnArtForm

capnthommo,
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@fkamiah17 @PaulNickson @WendyNowak she failed the test for mensa so badly they had to create a secondary organisation called Densa

capnthommo, to random
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So instead of storing electrical power they intend to burn loads and loads.
Northumberland battery factory ditched in favour of data centre https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw4rx2zxy7wo

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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This is the UK's Australian trade envoy.
Personally, I'm quite happy for England to be an island.
:baner: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇮

capnthommo,
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@macronencer @fkamiah17 if the Scots were willing to lose some of the south it'd be true. The Edinburgh Glasgow union canal would complete it. But...

capnthommo, to random
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Well I just hope America, or at least the republican part, is proud of itself. But knowing them they probably are.

Ukraine air defences overwhelmed as Russia pounds power stations https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/13/ukraine-air-defences-overwhelmed-as-russia-pounds-power-stations

capnthommo, to random
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The idea of a hereditary ruler is as absurd as the idea of a hereditary mathematician. Thomas Paine.

capnthommo, to random
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👏👍
RNLI says volunteers saved 355 lives last year, with London stations the busiest https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/08/rnli-lives-saved-lifeboats-lifeguards-london-busiest

fkamiah17, to random
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How tricky is "genocide is bad"?

"The diplomacy of it all is a tricky one for UK entrant Olly Alexander"

#BoycottEurovision #GazaGenocide

https://news.sky.com/story/eurovision-entrants-grapple-with-diplomacy-on-gaza-ahead-of-this-years-contest-13110494

capnthommo,
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@fkamiah17 ah well. All comes down to "I know it's wrong but I want a special exemption so I can still do what I want"

capnthommo,
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@fkamiah17 "you just don't understand me! I hate you all!" SLAM!!! Stamps off upstairs.

GottaLaff, to comics
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outdid itself.

: “I’m being persecuted the same way Jesus was in terms of horrible things being done to a big star.”

Entire strip here:

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/04/07

capnthommo,
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@GottaLaff and #doonesbury outdoing itself is a pretty damned high bar to clear too.

auschwitzmuseum, to random
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7 April 1921 | A Pole, Zbigniew Biel, was born in Pilzno.

Deported to Auschwitz from Tarnów on 14 June 1940 in the first transport of Poles to the camp.
No. 526.
In 1942 he was released from the camp.

capnthommo,
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@NormanDunbar @auschwitzmuseum yeah. I've been following the museum for over ten years I think and this is the first survivor I've seen.
Really harrowing reading, the remembrances, aren't they.

suswatibasu, to books
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Should books be shorter? Elon Musk thinks so

"Books should cater to the reader's appetite and the subject matter's complexity."

#ElonMusk #books

https://howtobe247.com/should-books-be-shorter-elon-musk-thinks-so/

capnthommo,
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@suswatibasu a musk governed world - what a living hell that would be. He surely seeks to reduce everything to his bizarre fantasy world.

augieray, to random
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Just had to block someone on Post who claimed to be a “medical scientist” and was urging people to get exposed to viruses to improve their immune health. When I argued, she called me silly and asked what I thought vaccines did.

Maybe she wasn't a scientist as claimed, but I have no time for this level of ignorance any longer.

capnthommo,
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@augieray I think we're in agreement. Always better not to get the sickness or to be vaccinated. Certainly a mild dose of an illness might confer future immunity but it's always at a risk, and I've definitely known people who have contracted for example, chicken pox and later in life caught it again despite the supposed 'natural' immunity. I'd always take a vaccine if one were available and if there's none then I'd avoid catching the illness if at all possible. 'Just get it naturally' is a lazy and ignorant method which ultimately is likely to develop more virulent strains.

PhilipCJames, to MIguns
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MAGA Americans harken to the as a bulwark against dictatorship.

MAGA Americans cheer on Donald Trump when he lays out his plans to become the first Emperor of the American Empire if he is elected in November.

You cannot accuse them of because that assumes Magats are thinking...




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZeybIsnav4

capnthommo,
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@nicholas_saunders @PhilipCJames a few years back Lynyrd Skynyrd released a track actually called God and Guns. Unless I completely missed something about it it was the most dreadful goddy gunny dirge ever. I imagine though that it went down a storm in the trumpy community.

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