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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So Michelle Donelan was in Brussels today to formally sign-up to the UK re-entering the EU's #Horizon research programme.
Now, the Govt. is going to spend up to £10k per organisation to help them (re)attract #scientists & prepare bids for the rest of the programme's duration.
So essentially, we've held out for a better deal (which we didn't get), but due to #RishiSunak's dithering, we now have to 'pump prime' appplicants who are out of the habit of applying and/or have lost key staff
idiocy!
What have the tory rabble in the UK said they are going to do now?
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How much have the #Tories cost average #workers?
Average wages (adjusted for #inflation) are no higher than before Global Financial Crisis of 2008.
If wages had continued to grow at their pre-2008 pace, average wages today would be £43,000 rather than £32,300
So, on average we are £10k worse off than it the #Tories had been competent, or perhaps more accurately if they had not waged a #classwar on the population in the interest of their rich chums!
[figures from Resolution Foundation]
Paul Brownjohn
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I have always felt that slut was another way of saying generous with her body.
Paul Brownjohn
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Poll: If I saw a dating profile of someone I liked the look of, where she self-identified as a slut, I would:
Paul Brownjohn
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Good news, the experiment, having run for decades, has produced the following conclusions:
1. Gun control laws save lives.
2. ‘Thoughts and prayers’ do not save lives. They enable more mass murders.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/16/ar15-bloody-photos-bump-stocks/
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Wait. What?!
KISSINGER IS DEAD?!?! 🕺
🥳🔔🔔🎵🔔🔔🎶🔔🔔🥳
😜 Really? Y'all ain't shittin' me? He's really dead? Has someone seen the body? Dtlriven a stake through its cold, dead heart?
*dances a little jig of mourning*
🕺 Woo hoo! 🥳
😜 Can't use him in the "Death plays Grab-Em" memes anymore. No huhu. 🤣
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Good Thursday, sorry to say but i rejoice with the death of Henry Kissinger, to bad was so late and of natural causes, but the #World lost a monster today.
Well! Who would ever have guessed?
https://www.indy100.com/politics/less-intelligent-people-voted-brexit
Call me old fashioned but I just don't see airports filled with the lingering smell of chip fat being quite as romantically associated with visits to exotic places as the whiff of kerosene jet fuel commonly smelled around airports!
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Alessandro Marcello 6 Concerti "La Cetra", Heinz Holliger
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tm1VFimhi60&si=zyQmTrE2lsczQT84
#ClassicalMusic
#HeinzHolliger
#AlessandroMarcello
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UK’s flagship post-Brexit trade deal worth even less than previously thought, OBR says
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/25/uks-flagship-post-brexit-trade-deal-worth-even-less-than-previously-thought-obr-says
Office for Budget Responsibility says UK entry into the Indo-Pacific agreement will add just 0.04% to GDP in the long run.
Everything about Brexit has been a disaster, it should be reversed...
Some years ago, I ran a business with friend who was black. I was round his place one night whilst there was a programme about the USA in the 50 and 60 on TV. It occurred to me that, during the time I had known him, there were quite a few places in the southern states of the USA where it would have been, if not unlawful, at least inadvisable for me to go into a bar with my partner for a beer. Maybe there still are.
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
