In WW2, the movement of millions of American troops to Britain, known as the “friendly invasion,” brought to light stark differences concerning racial segregation. Many Britons struggled to understand or accept the institutionalized discrimination that Black soldiers faced in White America, leading to tensions between the two allied nations on the matter of civil rights.
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On July 15, 1944, in Bristol England, the "Park Street Riot" occurred as 400 Black soldiers confronted 120 MPs over pub access. Observers later recounted that locals rooted for the Black troops. Like the Battle of Bamber Bridge a year earlier, this event underscored the racism Black troops faced as well as the disconnect between how they were treated overseas vs in their own country.
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BREAKING: Fury in Mississippi at the suggestion it's as impoverished and poorly governed as #Brexit Britain
Wow... A German court refuses extradition to the UK, after asking about "chronic overcrowding, staff shortages, violence among inmates", only receiving a vague, last-minute email frok a police station in Manchester about "creating an extra 20,000 prison places", and then being ignored.
‘It all disappeared with #Brexit’: Craft beer boom ends as more than 100 UK firms go bust - https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/aug/19/craft-beer-boom-uk-firms-bust-brexit brexiters won't mind losing all these beers - after all, they knew what they were voting for... #BrexitBrokeBritain
What's the best time you can put on your model railway? That's right, a model model railway!
#QuestionableModelRailroadAccessories
Massive #nerds everywhere: what are your favorite #hostname conventions for computers and #IOT devices around the home and office?
Of late I've been going with Hebridean islands for system names, Star Wars critters for IP cameras (because one of the first ones I installed reminded me vaguely of a Jawa), and characters from #MontyPython and the Holy Grail for other minor network-enabled microcontroller-based gizmos.
To the shock of absolutely zero people, I have lots of thoughts about King Arthur movies. Thanks to @UncannyMagazine for giving me a space to discuss!
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-matter-of-king-arthur-on-the-screen/
Voting made easy:
Researching the issues and candidates can be time-consuming and baffling. instead, try this. Pick the most reliably wrong-headed person you know who likes to buttonhole you and tell you their theories about the world. Ask them how they intend to vote. Then do the opposite.
(Half-stolen or at best heavily paraphrased from Robert A. Heinlein)
Been trying here and there to watch the third series of #JackRyan on #AmazonPrime. It feels terribly padded: long conversations that don't reveal anything new, entire scenes and set pieces that backtrack rather than advance the plot. The first two series didn't have this problem. I might stop here in the middle of the third episode and see if the fourth series is any better.
Software Engineer, mostly in the Pacific Northwest of late
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
Will code for pie. 🥧