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Anna McLean

@mcdrln.bsky.social
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Biological person. Erstwhile engineer, poor runner, purchaser of musical instruments I never play. Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.

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Anna McLean @mcdrln.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
For some reason his comments remind me of a scene from Mars Attacks!
The movie Mars Attacks! A Martian ambassador announces “Dignity and respect” to an assembled human welcoming committee
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Anna McLean @mcdrln.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
You know you’re getting old when you start getting this unsolicited mail through the post…..
Brochure for next level later living.
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Anna McLean @mcdrln.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
And add in NHS changes too, as the BBC triumphantly reports
Main story on the BBC News website at 16.40 on 17 April 2025: “We will pursue NHS if gender policies don't change, equalities watchdog warns
It comes after a Supreme Court ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex.”.
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Anna McLean @mcdrln.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Updated ten stage model with alt text
The stages of genocide are:

Classification – The differences between people are not respected. There’s a division of ‘us’ and ‘them’ which can be carried out using stereotypes, or excluding people who are perceived to be different.

Symbolisation – This is a visual manifestation of hatred. Jews in Nazi Europe were forced to wear yellow stars to show that they were ‘different’.

Discrimination – The dominant group denies civil rights or even citizenship to identified groups. The 1935 Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their German citizenship, made it illegal for them to do many jobs or to marry German non-Jews.

Dehumanisation – Those perceived as ‘different’ are treated with no form of human rights or personal dignity. During the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Tutsis were referred to as ‘cockroaches’; the Nazis referred to Jews as ‘vermin’.

Organisation – Genocides are always planned. Regimes of hatred often train those who go on to carry out the destruction of a people.

Polarisation – Propaganda begins to be spread by hate groups. The Nazis used the newspaper Der Stürmer to spread and incite messages of hate about Jewish people.

Preparation – Perpetrators plan the genocide. They often use euphemisms such as the Nazis’ phrase ‘The Final Solution’ to cloak their intentions. They create fear of the victim group, building up armies and weapons.

Persecution – Victims are identified because of their ethnicity or religion and death lists are drawn up. People are sometimes segregated into ghettos, deported or starved and property is often expropriated. Genocidal massacres begin.

Extermination – The hate group murders their identified victims in a deliberate and systematic campaign of violence. Millions of lives have been destroyed or changed beyond recognition through genocide.

Denial – The perpetrators or later generations deny the existence of any crime

(For more information see the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust website)
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Anna McLean @mcdrln.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
In Gregory Stanton’s ten stage genocide model, we are arguably moving from stage 7 to 8…
Gregory Stanton’s 10 stage genocide model. Available here: https://www.genocidewatch.com/tenstages
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Anna McLean @mcdrln.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Not my image, and I can’t remember where I nabbed it, but happy new year
Caution, such toys are to be dried on a cool setting
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Anna McLean @mcdrln.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Britain in 2024: puppuccinos and nighttime milk for dogs on the one hand, and huge numbers of homeless people and folk using food banks on the other
Canine treats on display in the local M&S. By contrast, lots of humans not to far away are either homeless or hungry.
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Anna McLean @mcdrln.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Has anyone ever bitten into a poppadom only to find that it leaves behind an imprint of K2 from Broad Peak basecamp?
K2 as appeared in a poppadom (not to scale)
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Anna McLean @mcdrln.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
It’s increasingly difficult to argue that we are, in fact, *not* living in a simulation
World leaders giving and receiving gifts. The top image shows the presidents of Brazil and China discussing moon rock. The image below is of the current Italian PM being handed a modern day Bendy Bully.
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Anna McLean @mcdrln.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I try not to go over to the old place given its descent into the mantle, but it can still provide a giggle or two
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Anna McLean @mcdrln.bsky.social · 25/12/2023
To turn a phrase beloved by so many conservatives, at least Larry knows what a Prime Minister is
Larry the cat auditioning for the next series of I’m a celebrity get me out of here
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