Posts by benchwhistler@mastodon.scot
 (DIR) Post #ATdWzmkf4uszQzSJRw by benchwhistler@mastodon.scot
       2023-03-15T05:59:04Z
       
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       Perhaps the Russian President Putin doesn't have enough to worry him at the moment.If a NATO aircraft carrier headed for the Black Sea near Odessa as a fully loaded "observation platform" to ensure the safety of US citizens in Ukraine what could he do? And another towards the Baltic, and another into the Mediterranean. Bombing civilian infrastructure across Ukraine with impunity has to be stopped. Russia aircraft owning a US observer drone is an opportunity.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATdciZYVUGObJFwhxA by benchwhistler@mastodon.scot
       2023-03-15T11:21:15Z
       
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       @zleap  It’s a mistake to temporize with a bully. The west sat on its hands for all the Russian advances into former Soviet Union states, allowing them to whittle out mini statelets. This emboldened Putin and the Invasion of Ukraine is the result.  The West needs to recognise this and adopt a not an inch further policy.  Nobody believes that President Putin is sufficiently suicidal to move to a nuclear weapons
       
 (DIR) Post #AXohkZinFaKXVVo5PU by benchwhistler@mastodon.scot
       2023-07-18T11:07:53Z
       
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       @khoji @mnutty Of course it is mainly not the wolf that the sheep need to fear, but the shepherd. For the shepherd has plans and their fate to be sold for slaughter by the Shepherd.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYaDGeb88UXmD7zSfw by benchwhistler@mastodon.scot
       2023-08-10T08:04:48Z
       
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       @fionaorkneynews Exam results can be poorer, better, or the same as last year. Each outcome is decried as an failure.Poorer - disasterBetter - exams made easier /grade inflationSame - no progress despite increased expenditure on education.The annual kicking dished out by the commentators.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aa4d6vEfrXRS09vszQ by benchwhistler@mastodon.scot
       2023-09-22T10:28:20Z
       
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       With the Conservative government now determined to decrypt and read all my emails end to end, I’m looking out my strategic stockpile of one-time pads, sealing wax, and once again considering investing in a book of stamps. Those few who have been advised to check dead letter drops should once again retune their short wave radio receivers. The Lincolnshire Poacher
       
 (DIR) Post #AbpfXqWwjfx39ethUe by benchwhistler@mastodon.scot
       2023-11-15T13:26:59Z
       
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       Invading hospitals is not a challenging task for full armed and well trained soldiers.Unarmed Doctors, Nurses, sick people, pregnant women, mothers giving birth, infirm, elderly and disabled, children, babies and patients recovering from surgery, none of these should put up much of a fight against the might of the Israeli Defense Forces Of course that doesn’t mean there won’t be massive casualties and collateral damage.
       
 (DIR) Post #AjVOsVhwhtpR69yI6K by benchwhistler@mastodon.scot
       2024-07-01T17:56:15Z
       
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       The Labour Party tells the electorate that if they want change “you have to vote for it”.The same applies to those who wish for Scottish independence. Way back in 2014, the Scottish electorate had a referendum on this.not enough Scots voted for independence, and we were all dragged out of the EU, based on the votes of English voters.The English Labour Party, and the Conservatives have repeatedly refused permission for another Scottish independence referendum. There may be trouble ahead…
       
 (DIR) Post #Atosm38Ov7LMmC2jlw by benchwhistler@mastodon.scot
       2025-05-06T14:17:29Z
       
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       @futurebird The Doge of Venice had a good hat, and a rule that they could not accept any gifts of lasting value the whole time they were the ruler. Punishment was death and dishonour of the entire family. Something the US might want to adopt for their supreme ruler.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxnBPsIKpOx6QlRgES by benchwhistler@mastodon.scot
       2025-09-02T09:56:32Z
       
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       Doing my MacWordle puzzle this morning I learned that the word “SALAD” is not found in the Dictionary of the Scottish  Language. That’s a turnip for the books.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxtuyOQXWqiWopsP5c by benchwhistler@mastodon.scot
       2025-09-05T16:03:37Z
       
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       @drgeraint  In Aberdeen, if you want fish and chips you ask for a Haddock Supper. Cod is considered to be an inferior fish, suitable only for selling to England.