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Ralph Houston

@franktexas.bsky.social
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Retired translator and JOATAMON living in western Scotland. Enjoys sailing.

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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 2h
Why are the media so fascinated by Mr Toad? Every diarrhoeic spatter is awaited with breathless anticipation and reported in enervating detail. Even if they do succeed in getting his party into No 10, he'll never do any of it, as he's bone idle. Here's Muppet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tabby cat on windowsill to prevent Mr Toad's face appearing. Again.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 4h
Reason? A complete lack of reason is the problem.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 4h
Doesn't care? He requires it to be compromised!
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 4h
No change since 1953 then. (Soviet cartoon by Yuliy Ganf.)
English version of Yuliy Ganf's 1953 Soviet cartoon. Only 'War' is getting food at the restaurant. Healthcare, Sciences, Education and Arts get nothing.The Soviet version
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 5h
The SAVE Act is not to protect fair elections. Don't be naive.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 5h
If Reform gets power, it will be because of the unending support the BBC gives Mr Toad. He won't take it though - he's too lazy.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 5h
It's both of them!
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 5h
Who's going to remove him, and why? He's doing exactly what's wanted of him.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 5h
The harming of people he does not accept as human does not enter his awareness.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 21h
Oddly, this picture was directly under your post...
Clouds of smoke and flame
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
And it's ineffective at that. It doesn't stop crimes committed in the heat of the moment - and premeditated criminals do not expect to be caught.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
How is this a bad thing?
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
She's saying what her leaders and their followers want. In present-day America, you have to do what you can.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Mmm, lard - Homer Simpson would love it. (With vegetable oil, and all kinds of additives, I'm certain!)
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I think it's worse than that. Exacerbating climate change and deliberately causing shortages of power, water and semiconductors are integral to their goals.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
To @snaxlight.bsky.social and @midnightambassador.bsky.social - please don't rattle on into one or more continuation messages. Condense what you want to say. I'm sure there are good points in there, but I lack the patience to frankenstein the severed bits back together.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Interesting idea. More fundamentally,capitalism has to go, which means we need an alternative to money. Its problem is that it's possible to accumulate too much of it.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It would be unpleasant for rather a lot of people.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Only if he doesn't transfer power to someone worse. I really hope these midterms do his regime some serious damage without too many more citizens being eradicated.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
That Mr Toad's other pet broadcaster should do such a thing! I'm shocked I tell you!
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The media and pentagon are in favour.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What's your point?
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The fake Le Guin comment might be a paraphrase from 'The Dispossessed'. Please don't circulate these - it puts us in the same category as those we despise.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Indeed - it's 'Le Guin' BTW.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
They're one pay check from penury, same as the rest of you. Don't judge.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It's the 'uneasy contact lens wearer' face.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It's how the rich get even richer - debt! Most of Musk's 'net worth' is actually mutually-guaranteed loans. Were he forced to liquidate, he might not even come out in the black.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I'm completely with him on this one, though I have problems with his organistion and most of his claimed 'beliefs'.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Vlad's 'vriendje' heeft er al een in Iran vernietigd. Meer dan 165 dood.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It's a tough call. Under FPTP, you just need to hold your noses and vote Dem. If the Dems don't do well, the 2028 poll will be symbolic, as they are in Russia. I agree, so many Dems are unimpressive, like Schumer, Jeffries and Newsom. But if the GOP does well, the next two years will end the US.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The artists often reveal more about themselves...
Story book illustration of animals boarding Noah's Ark. Both lions have manes...
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Vreemd. Ik kan me helemaal niet herinneren dat Zelensky deze oorlog heeft begonnen.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Een misverstand. Ze bestaan wel - kijk hoe makkelijk, snel en pijnloos je een ziek dier kunt euthanaseren. Maar in de VS, moeten ze zo wreed mogelijk zijn.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'd have thought the clue was in the name of the prize...
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One that wants to normalise public state executions.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The best press? That's still Mr Toad, despite everything.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wealth taxes would require international treaties to create a level playing field. Politicians are too greedy, self-interested - and frequently rich - to go there. Capitalism must fall.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Because mainstream media are owned and run by those who would make less money if they did anything about climate change. Next question.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Worse than that, it's to normalise public state executions.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh yes we did! I asked my mother what 'carbohydrate' was before I went to school!
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thanks! I know I'm out of touch, but I still had to search for it... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_T...
en.wikipedia.org
Rogue Trooper (film) - Wikipedia
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Er, what's actually happening?
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Utter bollocks. He's lying as he always does.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In this administration, those two circumstances are not contradictory.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Als je de regering kunt kopen, 'hoef' je niets.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
More evidence, if it were needed, that our 'government' does not have the country's best interests at heart, and lacks the will and authority to do anything about it.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A facelift like that will put hair on your chest!
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Mijn vrouw noemt het trapschoppen. Ik ben er, jij mag er niet.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Another great mind gone. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
news.mit.edu
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There's no record of her saying this. It may be based on a passage from 'The Dispossessed'. Please stop circulating fake quotes - it makes us as bad as them.
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