Posts by tompearce49@mastodon.scot
(DIR) Post #Au8C3hT7nkspvU6a4e by tompearce49@mastodon.scot
2025-05-15T21:22:05Z
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I leave you with two of my passions - J.S.Bach and the Japanese Koto. Not what I expected to find this evening. Sleep well... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-tsbumcyVc
(DIR) Post #AujcFoOOHAqVGYUUyG by tompearce49@mastodon.scot
2025-06-02T20:07:48Z
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I really wouldn't argue with any of this. Not that anyone in government is going to do any of it. I wish we lived in better times... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/02/britain-defence-billions-arms-spending-climate-crisis
(DIR) Post #Auvw7mu6FwyzJSIEVs by tompearce49@mastodon.scot
2025-06-08T21:27:29Z
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As a counterpoint to the dreadful performative "masculinity" of people like the Tate brothers, I give you this man...
(DIR) Post #Av7LjwXitfVLclOtWq by tompearce49@mastodon.scot
2025-06-14T09:53:06Z
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I'm amused to discover that a book that I look forward to reading and that I bought online was a library book in a former life, and that it was taken out only four times before being withdrawn. I'm reader no.5 !
(DIR) Post #AvTgU2Vjwz4LO9fiFc by tompearce49@mastodon.scot
2025-06-24T21:35:04Z
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@heidilifeldman - Interesting, isn't it, that so many of us see it as nauseatingly obsequious and sycophantic, yet to the narcissist (malignant narcissist?) Trump it seems that it is mere acknowledgement of his achievements in life.
(DIR) Post #AvTz54T1RFoVLSCy2K by tompearce49@mastodon.scot
2025-06-25T07:26:44Z
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"Bread not bombs", and yet here we go, the government taking bread from the mouths of those who most need its support whilst announcing the spending of £700 million on F35A aircraft capable of carrying US owned and controlled nuclear weapons. Airstrip One for the UK whilst further impoverishing those who are already struggling just to get by. It's obscene. As are nuclear weapons.
(DIR) Post #AvYCIToMb3RjkXkou8 by tompearce49@mastodon.scot
2025-06-27T06:37:47Z
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Behind the "getting people back to work" lie Victorian concepts of the lazy and workshy, and some nebulous belief in the virtue of working. The disabled just have to "try harder", as though most aren't trying far harder than the able already. "Notions of willpower are easily stigmatizing: It becomes OK to dismantle social safety nets if poverty is a problem of financial discipline, or if health is one of personal discipline." https://us7.campaign-archive.com/?e=d871214179&u=9e5957c81cac843c342446e34&id=49b6b50688
(DIR) Post #AvzwxNJSzV4UOP0x4C by tompearce49@mastodon.scot
2025-07-10T13:34:41Z
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It's not a war when one side have planes and bombs and tanks and the other has few weapons. It's not a war when those killed are women and children."Almost 84,000 people died in Gaza between October 2023 and early January 2025 as a result of the Hamas–Israel war, estimates the first independent survey of deaths. More than half of the people killed were women aged 18–64, children or people over 65, reports the study, which was posted on the server medRxiv last week."https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02009-8
(DIR) Post #Aw6VdmWsBs8i9TRAvo by tompearce49@mastodon.scot
2025-07-13T17:58:02Z
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Leakey's second hand bookshop in Inverness. The largest second hand bookshop in Scotland.
(DIR) Post #AwP4ySula52cZqb1Rw by tompearce49@mastodon.scot
2025-07-22T20:41:45Z
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@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ "In the last 20 years, textile production has doubled. In Spain, it is estimated that each citizen discards around 21 kilograms of clothing per year, according to the European Environment Agency."I don't do that in ten years. There must be some who are really profligate!
(DIR) Post #AwrpDrojVLjaTOkjI0 by tompearce49@mastodon.scot
2025-08-05T16:44:04Z
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This strikes home. I struggle with the callous inaction of governments every day, (and still more so with the actions of governments that supply the arms that prolong the suffering of the Palestinian people). https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/08/05/gaza-is-also-a-war-on-the-human-instinct-for-compassion/
(DIR) Post #AwwQSlb3OAVuSbA6KG by tompearce49@mastodon.scot
2025-08-07T12:04:47Z
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(DIR) Post #Ay4gOlUh1lYvJcUmGG by tompearce49@mastodon.scot
2025-09-10T20:20:36Z
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No-one should die in gun violence but the phrase "Live by the sword..." does seem to be appropriate here. It's just crazy that the USA, with a population of 340 million should have around 400 million guns in private hands. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/10/charlie-kirk-shot-utah
(DIR) Post #AzI632IM07ccMSUyMi by tompearce49@mastodon.scot
2025-10-16T12:22:46Z
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As one who loves the high latitudes, this resonated: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03310-2
(DIR) Post #AzXKeMwiUsHHqxTNNA by tompearce49@mastodon.scot
2025-10-24T14:17:42Z
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@rms It is a central tenet of the work by Richard Wilkinson and, later, by his collaborator Kate Pickett, that large wealth disparities hurt not just the poor in a society but also, possibly counter-intuitively, the wealthy as well. More egalitarian societies benefit everyone.
(DIR) Post #AzndnxQfKK1aOkHOqm by tompearce49@mastodon.scot
2025-11-01T10:14:49Z
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Interesting poll results. Interesting, but frightening and an indication of just how far past its sell-by date FPTP is now. https://electoral-reform.org.uk/latest-yougov-poll-shows-multi-party-britain-breaking-the-voting-system/
(DIR) Post #AzoYY4cYVzPBSOPKwi by tompearce49@mastodon.scot
2025-11-01T21:43:29Z
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@Nonilex - so now it's Denmark, Panama, Canada, Venezuela, Nigeria... Have I missed any other nations that Trump wants to fight?
(DIR) Post #B0VQdbOgQ7glO03YeW by tompearce49@mastodon.scot
2025-11-22T14:07:30Z
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@Nonilex and next? In the UK, Johnston, Gove and their ilk, whilst in the US, Trump, RFK jnr., Miller, Bannon - the list is far too long...
(DIR) Post #B1tGMfQBTIhrYXENEW by tompearce49@mastodon.scot
2026-01-02T22:34:24Z
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If the autonomous Danish territory of Faeroe can do it, then Scotland could do it (if public money wasn't inexplicably funnelled towards and selectively spent on London and the South-East). https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55195390
(DIR) Post #B2NoS4iekJC7hVjdtg by tompearce49@mastodon.scot
2026-01-17T17:40:46Z
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@Nonilex I am afraid that every time I see or hear mention of the demented old fool I say out loud for any that might hear "Fuck Trump". Now he's ramping up his trade war. Just as well I live on my own. I wish that there was a real opposition in the US and not one that is "Republicans but perhaps imperceptibly less so".