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
Paul Brownjohn
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@Paulos_the_fog Check the About page of this server to see the extra features Qoto has to offer. And yes, that does include this generous character limit. :)
And everybody can your full posts, even the ones with a low character limit.
Welcome to Qoto!
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RT @ShaunLintern@twitter.com
INVESTIGATION: What is Britain's problem with cancer and why can't we fix it?
A long read examining the NHS's "late diagnosis service". With @Ben_Spencer@twitter.com @tomhcalver@twitter.com @CjtClover@twitter.com
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-is-britain-still-lagging-behind-on-cancer-care-02bzp3vg8
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ShaunLintern/status/1583867123872722944
My character counter shows 65535 as a reducing total of number of characters I have left. I read in the help files that the char limit is 500 (so much better than Twatter) so is the instance I joined so much more generous with its char limit than others?
If 'yes', will my hoots display OK on other instances if they exceed the 500 char limit?
(counter now showing 65171 chars remaining)
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”Global Witness found more than 600 people at the talks in Egypt are linked to fossil fuels.
That's more than the combined delegations from the 10 most climate-impacted countries.”
"If you want to address malaria, you don't invite the mosquitoes”
#COP27
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RT @LouisHenwood
Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been reported to the Bar Standards Board for ‘a dishonest statement made out of self interest to promote her career’
Suella Braverman’s ‘photocopying’ CV claim is being assessed by legal regulator https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/suella-bravermans-photocopying-cv-claim-is-being-assessed-by-legal-regulator/
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NURSES VOTE FOR STRIKE ACTION
RE TOOT FOR SUPPORT
#GeneralElectionNow #SunakOut
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/09/nurses-in-uk-vote-to-go-on-strike-for-first-time-in-dispute-over-pay
Who knew butterflies were so damned HAIRY?
If I understand the situation correctly, Mastodon makes no money from advertising or subscriptions; so how does it pay its collective bills. Given the alleged huge influx of new users fleeing Musk, costs must be spiralling out of sight and yet it generates no income so far as I can see - so how?
Approval of a vaccine against Dengué fever without requiring pre-testing is a dramatic step forward. Dengué fever is, at present, confined to the tropics but with global warming, one of the primary vectors of the disease, the Asian Tiger mozzie, has been found in some areas of Europe. If it can establish itself here, so surely will Dengué fever.
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"The vaccine, called Qdenga and developed by the pharmaceutical company Takeda, headquartered in Tokyo, is particularly significant because it is the first for people who have not been exposed to dengue. The virus infects up to 400 million people a year. The Indonesian drug regulator approved use of the vaccine without testing for previous exposure in August. Europe’s drug regulator is also considering approving the vaccine without testing."
#Dengue
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This Mastodon is feeling very much like a community already… 🤗
And great to see so many pals from The Other Place here in This Place.
I thought I had avoided the dreaded Covid-19 until a month or two back when I developed a hacking cough that lasted for 4 - 5 days and I felt a bit off colour. A Lateral flow test was positive so I kept my head down for a week or so. After 7 days I was testing -ve every day for 3 days so I considered myself safe to venture out (masked of course). I didn't get a proper professional test as to do so would have meant taking a bus into town thus putting a bus full of people at risk!
It was all over comfortably within a week except that I experienced what I believe was the dreaded brain fog quite noticeably. For example: I'd be looking at the computer and thinking "I need to create a Word document". It would then take me anything up to 30 seconds to figure out how to do that. That sort of fogginess!!! (I used to be a computer programmer so creating a Word document is not alien to me at all).
Thankfully, my full faculties seem to have returned to me but it was getting rather scary for a while!
Has anyone experienced similar symptoms?
and another just to brighten up everyone's day in the cold winter weather that has now descended on northern Europe
For no special reason other than that the day seems to me to need brightening up a little.
Paul Brownjohn
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Some advise for new peeps on Mastodon:
The people you're following would generally *love* to follow you back IF you:
* Post an #Introduction toot and pin it
* Fill out your profile's bio
* Put in a profile picture
Whenever I get a follow request and there's no profile pic, no bio, no intro, and no toots posted yet in general, I don't follow back, because I don't know anything about that person. It's like being introduced to a person wearing a bag over their head. ;)
#Boost please :D
I have just opened the inbox of an email account that I seldom use and it's packed full of promotional messages from the fcükin TORY party - I nearly vomited!
For historical reasons, the only app that has that email address is Twitter so I assume that Twitter have sold the Cuntservatives my email address - bastards!
This is a shout out to errr...
Just joined up; haven't a clue how this system works!
So like, errr, HELLO!!!
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
