Dave T-W @davoloid@social.cleverlibre.org
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, moving towards 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
@Tendar I am struggling to see anything resembling a ship in that photo.
@fulelo It has been under threat since the 1970s. Successive governments (usually Tory) have introduced legislation that limited ability to strike, or to gather, protest and resist. They've used the Police on a number of occasions as a military force against protesters, sometimes with deadly consequences.
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APOD from 2023-12-25
Cathedral, Mountain, #Moon
Capturing a triple alignment of the Basilica of Superga, Monviso mountain, and the crescent Moon took six years and five failed attempts due to bad weather. Success came recently in Piemonte, Italy, with clear skies allowing for a shot that also revealed the da Vinci glow on the Moon's surface.
HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231225.html#space #astronomy
How I hate this time of year
It's dark and it's cold
And I feel I'm getting older
And I wonder
Are you watching Home Alone, too?
- The Staves
@darkufo Hmm. It felt like a joke song at the time and remains on my list of "Songs I never play, even at Christmas."
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Border Guards sing a Ukrainian carol Shchedryk (known as Carol of the Bells in the English-speaking world) at Sophia square in Kyiv.
The singer, Oleksii, used to be a music teacher, now he defends Ukraine. His wife Mariia played the guitar.
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@hosford42 Good therapy podcast here on trauma and anniversaries.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Uamq2gpaIjEpfBQb0FbAH?si=52yKQ3VdTWKDUgFnIvTwew
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@JoshuaHolland
Seriously. Makes me want to scream.
Professor Thomas Zimmer sums it up well:
@oldrawgabbit Sympathies. If you recognise you're in a rut, get up and just do something different. Get the shoes on and walk round the block.
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Happy #Solstice! The Nebra Sky Disc is considered to be the oldest known material representation of cosmic phenomena in the world, dating around 1600 BC.
On display at Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte in Halle.
Further information: https://www.landesmuseum-vorgeschichte.de/en/nebra-sky-disc.html
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Latest comic: Tech billionaires just want to save humanity!
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Vampires celebrating their longest day of the year https://newsthump.com/2023/12/21/vampires-celebrating-their-longest-day-of-the-year-2/
@eva_chaos @Teri_Kanefield I know the series Yellowstone is fiction, but I get the sense that it's not far off reality for many parts of the country. Democracy, Justice and Government are inconveniences that aren't relevant for these vast empty places where you can isolate yourself if you have power and money.
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The reality is that Trump has been found to have engaged in an insurrection and he still has the full support of the Republican Party.
He now has findings of fraud, rape, and inciting an insurrection, and the Republican Party still loves him.
It isn't that they are closing their eyes to lawbreaking. It's more than that.
They are glorifying lawbreaking, which is what people do when they believe the government is not legimitate.
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For those arguing that the Colorado decision is bad and shouldn't have happened because it'll cause more harm than good:
Denying accountability because of fear of retribution is called "appeasement". It didn't work in 1940, it won't work today.
Yes, it's possible that holding powerful people accountable might cause negative consequences. But not holding them accountable is *guaranteed* to cause negative consequences.
So the choice is clear, from both a moral and practical standpoint: Accountability matters.
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I think anyone supporting Trump now, even claiming to be a moderate Republican, knows EXACTLY who and what Trump is - and they support him anyway.
There is no great "realisation" where America wakes up and realises Trump is a madman. Everyone already knows it.
70% of the US population need to realise that the other 30% are quite happy to support fascism and they are open to all aspects of what that means. All of them
It needs to be crushed, not pleaded with to change
- Location
- Mostly London
- Pronouns (plz)
- he/him
Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, moving towards 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
