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dicknixon.bsky.social
Rome might not use those words but Rome has thrown open the door to them being used, and clearly backs them. Think about that.
richraho.bsky.social
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
tagishsimon.bsky.social
Dumb bot relying on the fact that someone had linked the item to a wikisource encyclopedia article on the Peninsula Wars.

Not for the first time, having been advised of the issue the bot owner did ... nothing.
Confusing the encyclopaedia article and its subject
Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi, can you check your bot on Q309719 and Q3140? It's adding instance of (P31)encyclopedia article (Q13433827) on them which they are not. They might be other qids concerned. --Jahl de Vautban (talk) 12:20, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

    @Jahl de Vautban Hi, both items contains incorect link to en.wikisource - article in encyclopedia, so bot marks them as article. Correct solution is delete incorrect statements + remove incorrect sitelink. JAn Dudík (talk) 19:56, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
tagishsimon.bsky.social
Proper obelisk. Good job, Inverkip (and photographer Gregory Beecroft).

www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/it...
White granite obelisk photographed on the oblique with one face lit, the other in shadow, on a square pedestal set in a circular cobbled area surrounded by grass, behind which is the Firth of Clyde, and beyond that, hills of the Cowal Peninsula and Bute in the background.
tagishsimon.bsky.social
Easy when someone points it out. Again, very well done & thank you. I only spent, umm, quite some time not finding it.

Obvs, now, had I basic reading comprehension...
Aerial photo of Port Laing Wynd, a mansion by the sea at North Queensferry, with OpenStreetMaps markup including a commemorative plaque on the retaining wall. Current Location data for the memorial - specifies it is "Adjoining and facing Fife Coastal Path at rear of address, 3 Port Laing Wynd"
tagishsimon.bsky.social
All of these, for one reason or another, not tracked down at all, or sufficiently to map them on OSM. Text lists in the ALT image descriptions
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/44635 - St Marys RC Cathedral - WW1 Stone of Remembrance
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/79035 - Lancaster TX264 Crash-RAF Kinloss Memorial
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/81264 - RM Condor-Falklands
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/81927 - The Black Watch in WW2 - Perth, no location
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/82073 - Scottish Insurance Corporation Ltd WW2
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/76603 - Montrose Academy WW1
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/76604 - Montrose Academy WW2
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/81926 - The Black Watch - Dunalistair Memorial Home Regimental Crest
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/68972 - Montrose Air Station - Those who never returned home 
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/85704 - The Ben Nowak Centre
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/78743 - The Burn House
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/86037 - Lethnot and Navar - plaque on churchyard wall
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/70806 - Lieutenant G C O Paton - Port Laing
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/44456 - Madras College WW2
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/85249 - Peace Garden, St Andrews
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/85223 - Polish Parachute Brigade, Scoonie
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/85231 - Katyn Massacre
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/8517 - Dunfermline Garden for Heroes
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/85135 - Lochore
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/109589 - Methilhill
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/55231 - Wellsgreen and Rosie District - East Wemyss
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/44673 - HMS Petard - Queensferry Cemetery
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/44671 - HMS Warspite - Queensferry Cemetery https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/97101 - HMS Tiger - Queensferry Cemetery
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/89103 - Broxburn Public Band
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/65514 - Gordon Highlanders, Edinburgh Castle
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/44642 - Scottish Horse, Edinburgh Castle
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/76634 - Edinburgh Provincial Teacher Training Centre
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/44694 - Archangel gun
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/44695 - Haig Memorial Gun
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/76625 - Merchiston Castle School Memorial Hall
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/76626 - Edinburgh Academy, Gymnasium
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/89293 - Fala
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/53590 - Royal Scots Cottages - Muirhouse
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/53628 - Royal Scots Cottages - Penicuik
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/85649 - Dechmont Memorial Hall
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/88965 - South Queensferry - Vennel Cemetery
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/87474 - Canongate
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/69230 - Kelso
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/76298 - Kelso
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/61062 - Edinburgh Wavereley
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/61949 - Glasgow sorting office
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/44630 - Edinburgh Wavereley 
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/58006 - Fair Isle South War memorial
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/96221 - Squadron Leader P V Lloyd
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/85601 - Battle of Dunnichen (otherwise Nechtansmere)- Anniversary Stone
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/57861 - Montrose air museum
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/106522 - F…
tagishsimon.bsky.social
Thanks Josh; good find. Estate agents (and you) ftw.

I have a list. Here's a lost retaining wall bearing a plaque, somewhere around Port Laing, North Queensferry...

* www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/it...

* www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/1457042...
plaque on a retaining wall being unveiled by a woman, observed by a man in a kilt.
tagishsimon.bsky.social
@bandrdt.bsky.social do you have any clue where in Blairgowrie the Scottish Veterans Garden City cottages are? IWM claims Emma Street, but I'm unconvinced / cannot find this tablet on Google Streetview.

* www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/it...
Blairgowrie Scottish Veterans Garden City Association
Memorial type: Board / Plaque / Tablet
www.iwm.org.uk
tagishsimon.bsky.social
Only in much the same way that you can only imagine a good design "resistant to overreach" which "will only allow specific uses of data"

And that's a you problem. What are you smoking?
tagishsimon.bsky.social
Ha ha ha ha ha. Grow the fuck up.
tagishsimon.bsky.social
I have a 53 page, 113 point bulletin for the IWM; but it's still cooking - am only ~70% through their memorials list. Mainly duff coordinates and a handful of duplicate records.

taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/ref%3Ai...
ref:iwm | Keys | OpenStreetMap Taginfo
taginfo.openstreetmap.org
tagishsimon.bsky.social
Think I'd go with repointed and perhaps repaired?
tagishsimon.bsky.social
Bernie is not exactly the yardstick, though, is he.

Until you see that the Democratic Party has flaws so deep that they act against their own interest, you're bound to repeat the same patterns. Getting pissy with someone who tells you that, is for the birds. Just juvinilia.
tagishsimon.bsky.social
You were out several posts ago, but you're still here. When Dems put up decently progressive candidates they get votes. When they put up machines, not so much. That's just the way it is.
tagishsimon.bsky.social
I seem to remember the Biden Harris regime arming Bibi, and Kamala speaking out against pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Two of the reasons she lost.
tagishsimon.bsky.social
Nice try. Viable alternatives win. Non-viable alternatives lose. Remind me of the result, Lilith.
tagishsimon.bsky.social
Winning ad hominem argument there, Kitty. You must be proud.

Face it, you have to be really fucking useless to lose to Trump. But Kamala managed it.
tagishsimon.bsky.social
Empircally they weren't, no. They lost, remember? A viable alternative would have won.
tagishsimon.bsky.social
Your complaisence is emblematic of the reasons the Dems lost. Good luck with that.
tagishsimon.bsky.social
Don't learn the lesson, repeat the pattern in 2028. It's about the Dem candidate not the Rep candidate.
tagishsimon.bsky.social
Bigots gonna bigot. There has to be a viable alternative; the Harris Dems were not that.

Don't expect people to vote against something. People don't do that. They vote for things. Offer them a shit sandwich and watch what happens.
tagishsimon.bsky.social
Sublime Fawlty Towers stuff. Accepting a P45. Losing her voice.
tagishsimon.bsky.social
You're not making a difference nor helping. You're just making a fool of yourself.