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
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It’s time the politicians opposed to our well-being stopped condemning Just Stop Oil protests. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/07/09/its-time-the-politicians-opposed-to-our-well-being-stopped-condemning-just-stop-oil-protests/. Just Stop Oil are following in a wholly appropriate tradition of protest which was the only thing that delivered almost every social change from which we now benefit.
Be a bit carful if you have to handle it - they bite if scared! It's not venomous but it does hurt!
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"Donations from foreign powers are a significant threat to the UK’s national security and undermine the integrity and credibility of our democratic processes." This is what Lord Carlile said in the House of Lords, where he moved an amendment to the National Security Bill to require tougher checks on foreign donations to political parties. But the government is set to block this move, despite evidence of Russian and Chinese interference. Why? Find out more in this article:
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/06/22/lords-demand-political-parties-launch-tougher-checks-on-foreign-donations-but-ministers-set-to-block-move/
That would almost certainly mean allowing freedom of movement at which point we might as well rejoin the EU
The problem is who to vote for!
The Labour party under Starmer are resolutely pro Brexit (don't ask me why!) and have absolutely ruled out rejoining the EU or even restoring freedom of movement which is about the only thing that could possibly help the NHS along with farmers and many other industries that used to rely on EU workers!
Starmer's going to destroy the country completely just to appease a few bigoted fuckwits in the red-wall constituencies - the man's a fückin moron!
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Cartoonist Guy Venables and other cartoonists plan to repaint the mural Jenrick ordered removed. Asked what would happen if the cartoonists repainted the mural and the government ordered it removed again, Venables said:
"We will be cartoonists for a lot longer than Robert Jenrick will be in mainstream politics, so we'll paint it back on. If they paint it over, we'll carry on. It's all you can do about this kind of evil."
It's not just the UK - friends of mine in Belgium have terrible trouble with just exactly that problem. In rural Luxembourg where I live, you can safely leave stuff on the doorstep with almost zero chance that it will be stolen and only one delivery service regularly fails to ring the doorbell!
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"Swedish Authorities Charge Greta Thunberg With the Crime of Disobeying Cops"
We ALL should be disobeying cops and risking arrest. That's the only option remaining to inspire real change.
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice
Cops are just soldiers of the extreme right wing! Completely fückin useless at what are supposed to do - love poking their nose in where they are neither wanted nor needed!
In the UK, many people call them the "filth" - I tend to agree!
It's a bit like a guy who dumped his girlfriend getting angry because she is seeing someone else (of course she should have become a nun)
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Musk’s fury that the coders he sacked/forced out and then publicly disparaged are now working for a competitor is objectively hilarious.
Yes the first hot/burning season I spent there was absolutely BRUTAL!
Doi Sutep, the mountain at the back of Chiang Mai was almost completely ablaze as careless farmers had let their fires spread out of control (possibly deliberately) and the temperature, according to the local air quality monitoring station reached 47°C (the govt would never let a figure like that be published for fear of discouraging tourists. Officially the record is 41°C)
The air quality was an absolute horror story but the at that time there was not PM2.5 monitoring only PM10 but that was bad enough! I dread to think what the PM2.5 would have been that year and even locals were dying of heatstroke!
The most popular water over there is osmotically filtered as it's very cheap. Unfortunately OF water contains no dissolved salts at all so if you are sweating a lot, it's one of the worst things you can drink. In order to sweat and generate pee, your body needs sodium, potassium and other disolved salts and if the water you drink doesn't contain any they will get pulled out of your bloodstream by the kidneys and eventually the electrolyte imbalance or deficiency that that process engenders causes you to have a heart attack and die!
Gmail already does it but for targeted advertising purposes!
and what I am talking about is 'wards' with a maximum of 2 beds, doors you can open without touching them with your hands. Each room having its own dedicated WC and shower along with a TV set per patient.
Wow - apparently Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick said in 2011 she’d tried and failed to spike President Richard Nixon’s tea with LSD in 1970.
“I think Tricky Dick needs a little acid,” she later recalled thinking.
Just think how that might have changed to world!
Yes and the 'smoke' no longer smells like smoke but has an acrid, sulphurous sort of smell which used to send my lungs into a sort of spasm for a few minutes every time I went outside. It's combined with the hottest season of the year which only makes things worse.
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
