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
Lovely shot!
The squirrels where I live, in Luxembourg are also all of the red variety but their fur is much darker than that on the one you photographed; almost black on certain parts of their bodies.
@Gussets
The auto-punctuation feature can be turned off!
A truly magical day! I have found out. How to turn off the profanity filter In Microsoft Word 365.
For those who are unaware of the problem, if you try to dictate. “fucking”, “cunt” or a wide variety of other words that are sometimes regarded as profane, Microsoft Word 365 replaces them with a row of asterisks, whether you like it or not.
I have also discovered that the Microsoft Word 365 auto-punctuation system is utterly fucking useless. It contrives to put the wrong punctuation where you wouldn't put it anyway if you had a brain and capitalise things right, left and centre where they shouldn't be; in all a complete fucking abortion!
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@Brexitpirates
The Tories' sense of right-and-wrong is so far off the scale in the wrong direction you begin to wander if they're all on drugs. In their heads, do they believe they're being principled and strong? Why now? They've shown not a jot of integrity or decency before this.
Basically, they're an incompetent and callous ship of corrupt narcissists.
Even the likes of the Express are siding with the nurses....
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If you're argument against nurses going on strike is "but patient safety" then you have misunderstood what the strike is about.
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If you want to explain Cognitive Dissonance...😂
@hasmis
I have had so many people tell me that I could do everything I do with my fairly sophisticated cameras (all 5 of them) with the latest all singing, all dancing iPhone or whatever, that I tend to overreact a bit these days.
On a different but similar topic, I used to be an Oracle programmer for an EU agency that did translation work for other agencies that were too small to maintain their own team of translators. Some ignorant prat tried to tell me that translators are now redundant as 'Google Translate' does it flawlessly! Yes, there really are people around who are that stupid! I have to assume he was not well versed in the language he was trying to translate into! I suspect he may have been a close associate of Elon Musk!
@hasmis
I can't be arsed with cameras in phones, I only use them when desperate. It's a myth that they are any competition for 'proper cameras' - they most certainly are NOT!
@CentralBylines@bylines.social
Maybe he's not used to taking so much flak and can't handle it. Maybe he has realized that he has completely fcüked up and is about to lose a large proportion of his absolutely massive investment and wants someone else to blame!
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birdsite - EU law issues
Éric Freyssinet: Deputy Director of France’s Cyberspace Gendarmerie here!
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RT @Femi_Sorry@twitter.com
🇪🇺 Which system is less corrupt? 🇬🇧
🇪🇺 EU Politician Eva Kaili found guilty of paid lobbying (bribery).
625 (1 against) MEPs vote to fire her.
🇬🇧 UK MP Owen Paterson found guilty of paid lobbying (bribery).
243 (6 against) Tories voted to change the roles to protect him.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Femi_Sorry/status/1602650076555386886
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@johnmee@mastodon.ie
Yes the younger you are the keener they seem to be to remove the prostate. I'm 72 and perhaps that's why they are not in any hurry to operate.
A friend of mine had the same but he was in his 50s which is pretty young for a prostate cancer, so they operated the moment his PSA levels started climbing.
I was given an MRI scan then they used the MRI to guide a needle biopsy. They only found cancerous cells in 2 of 24 samples.
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The NHS was created in 1948. In the following years the U.K. has had some truly horrendous governments. They have neglected, meddled, vilified and undermined the NHS in a wicked variety of different ways.
Not one of these governments have ever been so unforgivably horrendous they have caused the NHS Nurses to go on strike.
Take a bow Sunak. This is your historic day.
A couple of day back, I was thinking of buying myself a very expensive Christmas prezzie - a Leica 100 - 400mm zoom lens (for any 4/3rds camera). Normally about 1600€ but on Amazon.de, it was listed at around 740€. I popped one in my shopping basket then dithered and dithered - after all even at that price it's a LOT of money! Finally, this morning I thought "damn it, I'm having it!" but when I went to go to the checkout, a notice appeared saying that it was no longer available at that price but now costs 1579€; a price increase of over 800€!!!
So no bloody Leica lens for Christmas - I'm sulking BADLY!!!
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
