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
It immediately put me in mind of a forest on fire (you haven't raked up your fallen leaves, have you?)
Well, here's something that will surprise absolutely no one with an operative brain cell!
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“Again, I warn you:- not to be ordinary not to be young not to fall ill not to get old.” Very chilling and haunting words reflecting 13 years of Tory Government and yet some gullible muppets still support them, why….because they’re manipulated and brainwashed by the Sun, Express, Mail, Telegraph and BBC!
I'm strictly a stills man, myself but I can see the attraction of video for this sort of subject. I'm still after a really good, sharp shot of one with a coiled proboscis.
I've started growing Eupatorium Cannabinium in the garden, which is even more of a butterfly/moth magnet than Buddleia (with the major advantage that it's native rather than a foreign invasive species!). It seems not only to attract the creatures but to send them into a stupor after they have fed on it (bit like me after Sunday lunch) thus making them slow moving, dozy, apt to settle for a rest and thus much easier to snap!
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Brexit is costing £100billion each year! Workers are proving difficult to find yet Tories continue to suppress wages. This is ineptitude driven by dogma, #ToryMadness! #ToryLiars #ToryBrokenBritain
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/jan/31/rishi-sunak-brexit-conservatives-uk-politics-latest?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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🎙️"Once we realised that people weren't going to stop talking about it no matter how much we tried, we made the quick and decisive decision to remove him."
Government spokesperson explains the sacking of Nadhim Zahawi.
We get quite a few Humming Bird Hawk moths in our garden. I tried for ages to get a decent shot of one with its proboscis coiled!
Then my subject obliged by doing something I have never seen one do before, it settled for a rest!
I was very surprised by the number of people who decided it chimed with their view of the BBC. I wondered if my view of the BBC bias was an individual one but perhaps not!
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RT @doglab@twitter.com
It takes 3.2 seconds to RT and help find her missing mum Nicola Bulley who was last seen walking her dog near a Lancashire river she was last seen on the morning of Jan 27 walking her dog on a towpath by the River Wyre off Garstang Road please call 116 000 with any information
I'd say that you are extremely pro-establishment and therefore blind to what is obvious compared to the 700+ positive responses I have had to my original post.
You only have to watch a very few news and current affairs programmes to see that interviewees of the left are hounded mercilessly and constantly interrupted whereas government interviewees are accorded a dignified silence and allowed to pour forth a stream of known lies without the least objection from the fawning so called BBC journalists!
Perhaps you should consider opening your eyes and ears a tiny bit - maybe?
From Twitter. So probably a response to idiots and liars about Brexit, NHS, unfairness, bigotry etc
Could try the output bin of the high security shredder...
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It is free and all you need is a selfie and a National Insurance number.
Local elections are on 4th May! Please share and tell others. Do not let them suppress your vote.
https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id-voter-authority-certificate
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RT @Parody_PM@twitter.com
I have a dilemma over who should be the next Party Chairman. I can't decide whether it should be Fiona Bruce or Laura Kuenssberg.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Parody_PM/status/1620050360827260928
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@Robsterthermidor @Paulos_the_fog The BBC is a fantastic institution we should be proud of. Unfortunately the BBC News department is shockingly pro-establishment and needs a major revamp.
It is only laughable Americans who ever thought it was cool to shop for healthcare like you are buying a new 3 piece suite!
I have never been able to understand why even leftish Americans defend the status quo in healthcare in the US like there was ever anything good about it! I can only assume they have been very effectively brainwashed!
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This is absurd. Woman goes into early labor, goes to an in-network hospital, but the doctors worked for an out of network hospital? So they parents are on the hook for $12K? RIDICULOUS.
Please shut up forever about how cool it is to "shop for your healthcare" LITERALLY NO ONE WANTS TO DO THAT. This is "shopping for your healthcare": being wheeled into the ER and having to check to make sure EVERY PERSON is in your network. Completely impractical and ridiculous.
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@EugeneMcParland Twitter currently is allowing the Wagner Group to post a recruitment ad for Americans to go and fight for Wagner in Russia. Wagner commits war crimes in Ukraine. Throws bodies at the fight. Can you let your bigger following know please?
https://twitter.com/Blackrussiantv/status/1619769832156860416
@TheUSASingers@union.place
Ain't that the bare truth!
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RT @KathHodgson
This is @Laura__Farris MP for Newbury. Despite her constituency having a high proportion of the world’s rare chalk streams, she voted for another 15 years of dumping sewage into rivers and onto beaches.
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
