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, Naked Running.
Apparently, this means running without GPS, music and any other tech.
I wish I knew this an hour ago.
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Georgia has now outlawed abortion before most women know they are pregnant. I sure hope women in Georgia will make a point to get out and vote in the senate runoff.
Senator Warnock will protect your rights. Herschel the Hypocrite won't. His mistresses will still have options because he is rich. Most women won't.
So vote, damnit! And bring friends.
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Scottish independence Quote from Chris Patten
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RT @Joel_CPFC@twitter.com
I lost my account and all my followers, could people help me get some back by RTing please?
Preferably pro-EU, anti-Tory.
(CPFC not obligatory).
I'd be glad all over.
Thank you.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Joel_CPFC/status/1595463061762080768
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@Brexitpirates
With outside temperatures in the UK hovering around 5 to 7 degrees this evening, many won't have turned their heating on for fear of the costs.
They'll be sitting, huddled in one room, desperately trying to stay warm & hoping not to fall ill.
If they spend money on heating, they risk losing their home or not being able to afford food.
If they don't stay warm, they risk hospitalisation, & as Tories have decimated the NHS, it's an extra pressure they don't need.
#ToriesCostLives
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And yet the French have repeatedly offered to allow the UK to site asylum processing centres on French soil.
Which of course the UK government has refused.
Because forcing vulnerable people to risk their lives in small boats plays better with their racist voters.
RT @connellyandrew@twitter.com
Incredible moment where Suella Braverman inadvertently admits the absurdity of the UK asylum system.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/connellyandrew/status/1595376648261623810
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Why shouldn’t you just delete your #twitter ? Abandoned social media accounts represent the same risk as abandoned domain names. Name #squatting works because reputation and influence gets attached over an account’s life -Those followers you spent time building up don’t just dissipate when you go. For a threat actor this is a huge opportunity. Some accounts carry more #influence than presidents. So if you stop using an account purge it, leave a last message, then securely lock it. (Please share)
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Doing a bit of an experiment. Boost if you agree!
Trans rights are human rights.
Black lives matter.
No human is illegal.
Love is love.
Her body is her choice.
Science is real.
Kindness is everything.
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If Mastodon is too hard for someone to use, maybe it’s because they’re stupid. Which is a great way to keep out trolls, who are not know for their sparkling intellects.
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Tulip Siddiq tells Jonathan Gullis to pay attention. 👍
https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1595054678584463360?t=3gXfXkSbj9BElp5j7JiDOQ&s=19
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RT @BasitMahmood91@twitter.com
I still find it mind boggling that we can subsidise MPs meals to the tune of £17 million but the government can’t find enough money to extend free school meals to 800,000 children living in poverty.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BasitMahmood91/status/1594418465531920384
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RT @joinmastodon@twitter.com
Mastodon has just passed over 2 million active monthly users, a new record! People are voting with their feet. The future of social media doesn't have to belong to a billionaire, it can be in the hands of its users.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/joinmastodon/status/1594121627083493378
Geese, species unknown, flying south for the winter just as the first hard frosts are forecast for this area (-4°C).
#altext
Five geese of indeterminate species are silhouetted in black against a greyish blue sky with their wings in various stages of a wingbeat.
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UK to have worst economic decline in Europe next year -and by some margin... #Brexit #BrexitIdiots #BrexitBreaksBritain
This is astonishing! Are there really that many cretinous morons who actually believe that the Covid vaccines killed more people than Covid???
When I was seven or eight, I was given a copy of the “Ladybird Book of Butterflies & Moths”. The idea was to record seeing each one of the several dozen varieties of butterfly and moths illustrated in the book and when you had ticked off all the varieties in the book, you could send off for a badge or a certificate, or something like that.
The area where I lived was particularly blessed with species variety in the butterfly world as it encompassed chalk down land, salt marsh, ancient woodland on clay soil and a variety of other habitats. This meant that I had little difficulty finding most of the butterflies in the book, but one particular species evaded me: the European swallowtail, “Papilio machaon”. This was not surprising as it is found, to this day, in the UK only around the Norfolk Broads and even there it is rather rare.
I pestered my mother for months to take me to somewhere where we would see a swallow tail and no matter how often she explained that the only place we would be likely to see one was, back in those days, 3/4 of a day's journey on the train. I was distraught; inconsolable, even! I cried, I sobbed, I begged, but all to no avail; in the end, I just had to accept that my ladybird book of butterflies would never be complete!
I had almost completely forgotten about the ladybird book of butterflies until a few months back when a swallowedtail butterfly appeared in my garden. I have never seen one before, nor since. It took me right back to my childhood and the gamut of emotions that I endured due to that damned book of butterflies.
The only problem I have now is “what the hell did I do with that sodding book?”
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A yellow swallowtail butterfly feeding on the purple Buddleia blossom in my garden in Luxembourg. A rare species even over here!
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"Netflix labels Ancient Apocalypse a docuseries. IMDB calls it a documentary. It’s neither. It’s an eight-part conspiracy theory that weaponises dramatic rhetoric against scholars."
My piece in The Conversation arguing for real #archaeology, not #pseudoarcheology
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You’re not the product anymore. You’re a community member in your host’s ad-free server they pay for. There’s no venture capitalist payday coming for them. Everything you do here costs your host a little bit of money. Find out how you can chip in.
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
