Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@social.cleverlibre.org
Retired software engineer & woodworker.
Anglo-francophone.
Detest tories. Subscribe to green, leftish radical politics but not to any particular political party!.
Love the EU and all it stands for, moreover, I spent the last 10 years of my career working at an EU agency.
Enthusiastic photographer, especially wildlife and most especially butterflies.
Slightly knowledgeable gardener.
Atheist; loathe almost all religions and pity the people deluded enough to follow them. I make exceptions for Buddhism as it isn't really a religion in the strictest sense of the word as it doesn't postulate the existence of any god, and Jainism which is the epitome of peace.
For anyone who is interested, my header photo is of the most stupendous sunset I have ever seen. On the right is the waterfront of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on the left is Thailand and in the middle, acting as the border between the two countries is the mighty Mekong river.
Joined Nov 2022
@johnmee@mastodon.ie
That's exactly what they said about mine but my urologist, the cancer committee at the hospital (it's a centre for cancer treatment so they have a multi-disciplinary committee to oversee the treatment of victims) and a completely unrelated prostate cancer treatment centre in Germany all say the same - no treatment for the time being.
A radical prostatectomy is something I would like to avoid for as long as possible or more to the point, completely if at all possible!
Paul Brownjohn
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Tories keep trying at attack strikers by saying it's not fair on 'hard working people'
Nurses, who ARE hard worker ng people only got half an hour with a lazy minister
Nurses literally died working their guts out to save ives after the Tories let Covid run out of control
Tories broke the NHS - deliberately. It is managed decline to then asset strip
@johnmee@mastodon.ie
Yes at the moment my PSA level is pretty stable but if it starts to climb, they are threatening me with a PET scan with a prostate specific marker to see if the biopsy caused it to spread elsewhere and probably another MRI scan to see if there is any evidence of it spreading within the prostate
@johnmee@mastodon.ie
Glad to hear you had a good outcome, I have just been diagnosed with the same! However, at the moment the medical profession is saying do nothing but keep an eye on it. I guess that means they have caught it very, very early.
Moths, with images. #MothingMonday #5
@rogward
I believe the Jersey Tiger is either very rare or absent from the British isles.
The other moth that is a frequent visitor to my garden is the Humming Bird Hawk moth.
Moths, with images. #MothingMonday #5
Paul Brownjohn
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Imagine being that rich.
Imagine being that rich and being able to choose to be anything you want. You could be an artist, or a daredevil, an astronaut, an explorer... You could choose to spend your days just reading, you could be a reader.
The sheer vastness of possiblity, of all the things you could be.
Imagine being that rich.
Imagine being that rich and choosing, of all things, to be an arsehole.
@peterbrown @EuropeanPowell@toot.community
As the UK parliament is and always has been sovereign, any set of laws that can be enacted can be un-enacted. However, any set of laws that were once enacted will have their texts in the archive and so can just as easily be re-actived by a single act of parliament.
Paul Brownjohn
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@EuropeanPowell they are actually not interested in writing replacement laws. They are only interested in increasing the gap between EU regulation, and UK regulation, to make it as difficult as possible to rejoin the EU.
Paul Brownjohn
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What humanity is currently doing to the Earth, basically just so that a few very rich people can get even richer for a little while, is absolutely, unequivocally, the height of stupidity
Paul Brownjohn
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RT @spudpeel@twitter.com
Brexiters are caught between two stools these days: hatred of the poorest (refugees) and hatred of the richest (Harry & Meghan).
And in the middle? A big F*ck All.
Or perhaps it's self-hatred?
Either suits: it's hate all the way. The only blurring is where it elides into fear.
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Is your MP angrier about a Netflix show than people unable to heat their homes and feed their kids? If yes, I think it’s time for a different MP.
I'm lucky - I don't live in England, I live in Luxembourg so the penury of Penicillin won't affect me - oh and I'm allergic to the bloody stuff anyway! Whenever I say that to a doctor who wants to give me some, they almost audibly groan as apparently being allergic to Penicillin is extremely fashionable right now (like allergy to gluten) and seldom 'real'. However in my case , it is real! If I take oral Penicillin I come out in a hideous urticarial rash and if I'm injected with it intra-muscularly, I go into shock, my blood pressure collapses and so do I.
Paul Brownjohn
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Dominic Raab’s long-awaited bill of rights seems doomed again, @thetimes reports
Sunak is understood to have told the deputy prime minister this week that he has “deprioritised” the long-awaited overhaul of the Human Rights Act
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dominic-raab-bill-of-rights-halt-uk-third-time-3gxdc8c9g
Paul Brownjohn
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7,200,000 (over 1 in 10) people are now on an unnecessary waiting list for #NHS treatment, because #Conservatives are deliberately depriving it of both money and staff.
Their ideological attack on the UK cares not for your loved ones health or welfare, not one jot.
#GeneralElectionNow
#NHSCrisis
#ToryCostOfGreedCrisis
#BrexitHasFailed
I saw both Bob Dylan and Lou Reed (a year or so before he died) and neither made the least, tiniest effort to engage with the audience - none; not a fücking word!
In the case of Lou Reed, around 1/3 of the audience walked out before the 'go grab a drink quick' interval. Considering that a ticket for that particular gig was NOT cheap, that says something pretty negative about the quality of the performance!
I love taking pics of butterflies although I don't think I'm very good at it.
Just read your intro - I too cut my programming teeth on 8086 Assembler and later 'C', progressing to Visual Basic then C#.
I ended my career with 10 years as an Oracle consultant doing SQL and PL/SQL
Retired software engineer & woodworker.
Anglo-francophone.
Detest tories. Subscribe to green, leftish radical politics but not to any particular political party!.
Love the EU and all it stands for, moreover, I spent the last 10 years of my career working at an EU agency.
Enthusiastic photographer, especially wildlife and most especially butterflies.
Slightly knowledgeable gardener.
Atheist; loathe almost all religions and pity the people deluded enough to follow them. I make exceptions for Buddhism as it isn't really a religion in the strictest sense of the word as it doesn't postulate the existence of any god, and Jainism which is the epitome of peace.
For anyone who is interested, my header photo is of the most stupendous sunset I have ever seen. On the right is the waterfront of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on the left is Thailand and in the middle, acting as the border between the two countries is the mighty Mekong river.
Joined Nov 2022
