Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
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In Interviews today Lammy advised Labour will not repeal the anti protest bill, and Streeting advised PR not likely to be in the Manifesto, Starmer has made that pretty clear.
Really no point in Labour.
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Graham Smith, the (arrested) Chief Executive of #Republic:
“There is no longer a right to peaceful protest in the UK,...I have been told many times the monarch is there to defend our freedoms. Now our freedoms are under attack in his name.”
While Martha Spurrier from #Liberty, sees a 'concerted attack' on #civilliberties:
[The Police are] 'laying the groundwork for trying to shut down that dissent swiftly and effectively'.
Welcome to the reign of #CharlesIII - freedom for him but not you!
Advanced warning - mastodon will go haywire for this even if this word is filtered. You'd have to filter every artist, country, song, gimmiick.
If I can find a way to keep Eurovision chat within a circle or list, I will endeavour to limit posts to there.
I haven't seen the #Eurovision2023 semi finals so don't know anything about these artists or whether they got through. But these are my picks, a combination of songs I would listen to, and others that deserve to do well, even if they're following a style or slightly formulaic.
I haven't included ones that were playing "by the numbers overwrought ballad" or "template silly comedy song."
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1v7zef1k3iDRtuenZiia87?si=FcPnuQobQiO9np0eGjOLAQ
#MovieReview "How it Ends" (2018)
Possibly the ultimate bait and switch movie I have seen in a long time: Warning you now, and you will want the spoilers to avoid watching this and eating a couple of hours of your life.
Interesting enough ominous disaster movie+ road trip, going well until the last 5 mins when...
It just ends. Inconclusively, but not in an ambiguous,. clever mystery. It's like they'd lost the final reel and said "Meh, that'll do." How they ever got this far with an incomplete story, I cannot fathom. This was supposed to be one of the most sought after unproduced scripts of 2010, but now we know why studios kicked it down the road for over a decade.
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1/ Increasing official paranoia in Russia has resulted in the arrest of a Hindu for wearing blue and yellow clothes and possessing a vegan cookbook that included Ukrainian recipes. He's now awaiting trial for "discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation". ⬇️
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It seems no one is covering themselves in glory today with regard to the Coronation arrests.
It’s a bit worrying when the former head of the CPS thinks maybe a sticky plaster of some better ‘guidance’ would gloss over the fact a very draconian and authoritarian piece of legislation has been pushed through Parliament at break neck speed and it’s already led to the Met using it for arbitrary detention.
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1/ Russia's defence industry has deep weaknesses that mean it's unlikely to be able to meet government targets for boosting production, according to independent journalists who have interviewed employees working for weapons manufacturers. ⬇️
FFS council caretaker has chopped down some lovely hollyhocks that were just starting to come up. We'd sown them in a crappy corner of the estate that was covered in weeds. We obtained some wood chips, someone else planted a little tree in the middle too. Looked much better last year as these street view pics show.
Have the caretakers got rid of the weeds round the bins? Of course they haven't.
Cc @paul_convery
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1/ Rampant corruption is reported to have rendered Russia's ballistic missile early warning system virtually useless. Scams by contractors are said to have led to unsuitable components being used on a wide scale. ⬇️
Everyone in the pub hates me because I put on the wrong version of Voodoo Chile. This is the blues style, live version. At a whopping 14m 59s.
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"and with the ceremonial Whirling of the Plates successfully completed, Charles is now King of England"
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@mraharrison @corycarson Often seems like Geography is another example if we consider the fact that it can be taken as a science, a social science or in the arts faculty at university. Sometimes these things show the artificial boundaries we place between subjects.
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As an anthropologist, for me one intriguing aspect of the #coronation was that, of course, #Charles3 studied #Anthropology himself. The first time perhaps that an anthropologist designed and was the central figure in a power ritual all about himself!
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Crazy that a law designed to let the Met Police do what they want without consequence is being used by the Met Police to do what they want without consequence.
I don't see how anyone could have predicted that.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/07/king-charles-are-we-ready-for-a-republic
Article gets to the crunch of the problem. We can't just stick a label on some elected President and says we're a republic. The whole structure of civic governance needs to be turned over, and that's after a century of creeping towards centralisation and authoritarianism.
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RT @Juliest101
This will be the photo that goes around the world today.
A peaceful protester handcuffed and arrested in Britain.
That being said, I acknowledge that there are a lot of ceremonial aspects that have been toned down, and the call for public allegiance is instead of the weird baronial pledge of previous.
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On 5th May 1945, the SS launched an assault on Itter Castle in Austria.
Defending the castle were a mix of US Army and Wehrmacht soldiers, and French politicians, celebrities who had been prisoners of war.
It remains one of the most unique battles of WW2, and the only major documented instance of the US Army and Wehrmacht fighting side-by-side.
Here's how this remarkable series of events unfolded /1 🧵 #history #histodons
- Location
- Mostly London
- Pronouns (plz)
- he/him
Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
