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
I wonder what the equivalent figures would be for women in European countries.
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Properly jaw-dropping moment this evening: an e-mail from my US publisher saying that "since it's a science book", they'll publish Blue Machine WITH METRIC UNITS. So I don't have to convert everything to foot pounds per square elephant. In YEARS of writing for the US, this is the first time I have ever had a hint that there is a world outside feet and inches. Progress! #Books #Metric #Science
This merely confirms my personal experience that Americans are amongst the vilest of the world's nations!
Pressure from Downing St on the BBC to tow the fascist party line has been an open secret for as long as I can remember so these revelations are simply confirmation of what we all already knew!
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RT @Normanjam671
I was a drug abuser from the age of twelve when I started with solvents, until seven years ago.
I used every sort of drug imaginable during that period.
I never once scored drugs of an asylum seeker.
Suella Braverman is telling lies comparable to Trump to dehumanise refugees.
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@AuldFoggerty I live in Germany and there is a similar scheme here for deposits on plastic bottles and cans. If I drive 20 minutes down the road to the Netherlands they have their own scheme even though both countries are within the EU Single Market.
Now, whilst I would agree that having a single scheme would be beneficial, there is absolutely no problem in the two countries operating their own bottle return systems.
This action serves only one purpose: to undermine the Scottish Parliament.
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1776-1933 - major bank crisis every 10 years
1930s - FDR bank rules enacted
1930s-1980s - no major crisis
1980s - rules rolled back
1980s-2010 - major crisis every 10 years
2010 - Dodd-Frank rules enacted
2010-2018 - no major crisis
2018 - rules rolled back
2023 - crisis?
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It’s wild that during Reagan’s presidency everyone watched the first generation of families that required two incomes to survive and we had to come up with terms for us kids left alone at home but Reagan isn’t seen as the guy that drove the death of the middle class in America to enrich the wealthy when he clearly accomplished that.
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The Prime Minister of Luxemburg has summed up the mess the UK finds itself in following Brexit.
"They were in with a load of opt-outs. Now they are out, and want a load of opt-ins".
Never has a country voluntarily screwed up it's own future so badly.
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Any decent strong society is based on excellent publicly funded Universal Health Care. It is the rock on which everything else is built. Discuss.
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🎨 Gary Lineker sees red as ref misses off-the-ball incident - NationalWorld cartoon
Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak's attack on asylum seekers went unnoticed as the Match of the Day host was sent for an early bath...
#UK #News #Politics #GaryLineker #MatchOfTheDay #SuellaBraverman
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For the removal of doubt, I would be as horrified and disgusted if ANY Government of the day deliberately set off to suborn the BBC output to their ideology. It is creeping fascism and must be called out by all decent people everywhere. Fantastic work by Gary Linker, hero of this parish.. In this case, the Tories clearly have an agenda that is the very antithesis of democracy, decency and the values of which we used to be justly proud. This creeping fascism must be stopped.
Both the absolutely compromised chairman and the DG should go and they could take the other two extreme right wing harridans with them - Fiona Bruce and Laura kuensberg!
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Ok now that Lineker and the BBC have sorted out their differences, can we talk about the Government’s new Immigration Bill which is reminiscent of the laws of 1930s Germany?
duolingo, anti-gamification
I think a lot of such sites were created with Americans in mind who don't function the same way I, a European, function. Therefore people like myself find them infuriating, irritating or just simply downright unusable!
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Red Squirrels Boycott BBC over Attenborough Censorship
Reports are appearing in the Hundred Acre Wood media that red squirrels are refusing to appear in any more BBC wild life documentaries in response to an episode of David Attenborough's latest series The Wild Isles being dropped.
Leader Squirrel Nutkin said "F**k the Tory b*****ds."
#Attenborough #BBC #censorship #wild isles
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
