Elaine
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"If your 'legitimate concern' is a view you hold regardless of the evidence, and which you use to justify any hateful thing you do or say, it is neither a 'concern' nor 'legitimate'.
"It is an excuse, cloaking something very different."
- David Allan Green
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Wrt. Trump/Greenland, it puts me in mind of Henry VIII and the War of the Rough Wooing (a 16th century euphemism for rape): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_Wooing Reminder: the aggressor lost. (Al
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She/her: Writer, activist, Green, trans. "If your 'legitimate concern' is a view you hold regardless of the evidence, and which you use to justify any hateful thing you do or say, it is neither a 'concern' nor 'legitimate'. "It is an excuse, cloaking something very different." - David Allan Green
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She/her: Writer, activist, Green, trans. "If your 'legitimate concern' is a view you hold regardless of the evidence, and which you use to justify any hateful thing you do or say, it is neither a 'concern' nor 'legitimate'. "It is an excuse, cloaking something very different." - David Allan Green
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Jan 17, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop for those people who don't have a great appreciation for history, this was the time that Edward III to Henry VIII attempted to invade and annex Scotland. And lost. And continue to lose, to this day.
The subsequent conflicts and "rebellions" are better viewed as disagreements between Scottish houses, who have always been each others' worst enemies. The English? A sideshow.
Qv The Steel Bonnets by George MacDonald Fraser
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@mwl@io.mwl.io TBF, this has clearly been the case since Putin tried to have Zelenskyy murdered repeatedly in February 2022, and before then, think Manuel Noriega, or Israel vs. Yasser Arafat. The tra
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@cstross@wandering.shop @mwl@io.mwl.io I wonder if an all-out assassination war would be better than actual wars. It'd be mostly oligarchs killing other oligarchs. When 90% of them are gone maybe we c
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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social @mwl@io.mwl.io They won't give two hoots about collateral damage (meaning, the rest of us). Once enough is on the line you could expect assassination by cruise missile to b
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@Mschatelaine@mastodon.scot
She/her: Writer, activist, Green, trans. "If your 'legitimate concern' is a view you hold regardless of the evidence, and which you use to justify any hateful thing you do or say, it is neither a 'concern' nor 'legitimate'. "It is an excuse, cloaking something very different." - David Allan Green
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She/her: Writer, activist, Green, trans. "If your 'legitimate concern' is a view you hold regardless of the evidence, and which you use to justify any hateful thing you do or say, it is neither a 'concern' nor 'legitimate'. "It is an excuse, cloaking something very different." - David Allan Green
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Jan 03, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop @Phosphenes@mastodon.social @mwl@io.mwl.io which says that the tangerine shitgibbon should go at least as hard as his Russian opposite number on anti-drone defences. As was said about the Iron Lady, they only have to be lucky once, he would have to be lucky every time. Imagine random container strikes popping up willy-nilly around, say, golf resorts ...
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#ScribesAndMakers Dec 24: Reading at your typical pace and assuming no unexpected interruptions, about how long would it take you to read a 300 page book? A: I'm currently sight-impaired (need catarac
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She/her: Writer, activist, Green, trans. "If your 'legitimate concern' is a view you hold regardless of the evidence, and which you use to justify any hateful thing you do or say, it is neither a 'concern' nor 'legitimate'. "It is an excuse, cloaking something very different." - David Allan Green
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She/her: Writer, activist, Green, trans. "If your 'legitimate concern' is a view you hold regardless of the evidence, and which you use to justify any hateful thing you do or say, it is neither a 'concern' nor 'legitimate'. "It is an excuse, cloaking something very different." - David Allan Green
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Dec 24, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop six to eight hours, all told. Either all in a one-er until I sleep at four AM, or over months if I can't get engaged with it
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I check five of those six boxes so I guess I'm not visiting the USA any time soon … https://mastodon.social/@linkingdot/115675231934269313
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She/her: Writer, activist, Green, trans. "If your 'legitimate concern' is a view you hold regardless of the evidence, and which you use to justify any hateful thing you do or say, it is neither a 'concern' nor 'legitimate'. "It is an excuse, cloaking something very different." - David Allan Green
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@Mschatelaine@mastodon.scot
She/her: Writer, activist, Green, trans. "If your 'legitimate concern' is a view you hold regardless of the evidence, and which you use to justify any hateful thing you do or say, it is neither a 'concern' nor 'legitimate'. "It is an excuse, cloaking something very different." - David Allan Green
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Dec 17, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop only five? I got all six
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