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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Incel influencer Andrew Tate tried to come for Greta Thunberg, and she absolutely murdered him with her reply. Thank you, Greta. 😂 😂 😂
https://god.dailydot.com/andrew-tate-greta-thunberg/
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Who'd have thought the winning tweet of the year would be such a late entry?!
Inside joke in the Conservative party is that the free trade deal with the Cayman Islands is worth more than the Single Market.
To them.
"If people on council estates took to the streets to hunt down a helpless animal & then gloated as they watched dogs tear it to shreds, they’d be called savages. When upperclass folk wear elite uniform, ride horses & watch pedigree dogs rip a fox to shreds it’s called “sport”."
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The #Netherlands ‘s rural #cycling network could be the eighth wonder of the world: thousands of miles of smooth, signed, scenic, separated paths connecting every remote corner of the country.
The result? A cycle #tourism industry worth €2.4 billion annually to the national economy.
and of course, the Netherlands have to huge advantage for cyclists, of being relatively flat!
There were numerous attacks on Sikhs in the USA following 911 but I credited with Scots with more intelligence!
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I found this meme on social media ten years ago.
It is in answer to people who say that they want marriage to "go back" to being "traditional"
It lists 8 different ways that marriage was set up in the bible, including references.
I had to use some abbreviations for the alt-text to be able to fit in 1500 characters. I hope that it is readable.
Doesn't this rather come under the classification of
'cutting off you nose to spite your face'
They must have been fantastically stupid to think that
brown skinned = immigrant;
white skinned doesn't = immigrant!
By far the greatest killer drugs in the world today are alcohol and nicotine (in the guise of tobacco). Nothing else comes close to their lethality!
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The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.
The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.
People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.
If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.
People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.
If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
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British politics - Brexit
The Atlantic:
"How the UK Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe
Britain chose finance over industry, austerity over investment, and a closed economy over openness to the world."
Quite. Twelve years of Tory incompetence have ruined Britain. Britain is following Argentina's path - without the World Cup wins.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/10/uk-economy-disaster-degrowth-brexit/671847/
I do the same but for different reasons
It's good to see a woman in power who is up to the job unlike Theresa May and Mary (Liz) Truss!
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I get the feeling this BBC journalist waited their whole life just for this moment.... 🤣
I did, I DID!!! I gave myself a floor-standing bandsaw (I'm into woodworking!)
Applies to dogs too, to some extent!
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I like following people who oppose NHS privatisation. If that’s you, could you pls share this post and follow me, and I’ll follow you back? Trying to find ‘my people’ 🤣💙
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
