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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What Jesus said: "Love your neighbor as you love yourself."
What Christians heard: "Build a wall and shoot anyone who gets past it."
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Researchers estimate that if the top 1% of Americans paid the full amount of taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion a year.
That’s just UNPAID taxes. Not new or higher taxes.
This is the real looting in America.
#JustPayYourFairShare #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #GOPTaxCutsBankruptAmerica
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But... most homeless US folk are still white? Facts. Unaffordable housing combined with a lack of social programs or safety net lead to homelessness in the US in general. Because in the US, most white people will oppose social safety nets if they believe that Black people will benefit, or if you remind them of "changing demographics." Because racism.
https://academic.oup.com/sf/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/sf/soy046/5002999
Convince a racist white US citizen that "Black people receive welfare!" and they'll oppose their own benefits🙃
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'People said it did in his career': 33 pictures that defined British politicians.
Heh.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/feb/03/33-pictures-that-defined-british-politicians
"The image of Johnson flailing in the air after attempting a pointless stunt seems to be a resonant metaphor."
Bozzy Bear's *always* been a pointless stunt but this image is a defining moment.
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Listen to Carl Sagan’s thoughtful response to “are you a socialist?”
I would absolutely echo the views of the expert commentator! There is no way you will get me into a Boeing 737 Max series of aircraft unless it's at gunpoint!
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“Florida has banned Pride Flags in classrooms because clearly Florida has nothing to be proud of.” - Stephen Colbert 🙌
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Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as #uBlock Origin will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).
The new #Chrome manifest will prevent using custom filters and stops on demand updates of blocklist. Only #Google authorized updates to browser extension will be allowed in the future, which mean an automatic win for Google in their battle to stop YouTube #AdBlockers .
#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (@mozilla) and/or #TorBrowser (@torproject) if you haven't done so already!
EFF (@eff) on Google’s Manifest V3:
⚠️https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening
⚠️https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation
Chrome Manifest V3 Transition Timeline (2023-11-16)
🚩https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/
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You can like Russian literature and the ballet and still want Ukraine’s liberation. You can want Jewish people to be protected and want the same protections for Palestinians. You can criticize Joe Biden while knowing Trump is a rapey non-starter. You can stand against genocide and expect society to stand with you, and insist on it. You can believe in science and vaccines and wear a mask 😷. You can want everyone to do well and be valued without it devaluing anyone. Promise.
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I want to make this crystal clear for all you MAGA weirdos out there.
✨I DO NOT WANT TO UNITE WITH YOU.✨
I don't want a slice of pizza from you. I don't want to visit your car wash. I don't want to support your kids' softball team. I don't want your food, your clothes, your electronics, your applicances, your houses, your cars, trucks, planes, or hoverboats. I don't want anything you make, sell, import, export, teach, manage, grow, build, or finance. I don't want a single fruit of your labor anywhere in my home, or a single dollar of yours in my pocket. Here is why:
• You have white supremacists in your party, and you don't care.
• You have KKK in your party, and you don't care.
• You have Nazis in your party, and you don't care.
• You have Proud Boys in your party, and you don't care.
• You have traitors and insurrectionists in your party, and you don't care.
So no. I don't want anything to do with you. Here's what I do want:
I want you to keep wearing your stupid little red hats and put your Trump2024 stickers on your businesses. I want to see you. I want to know exactly who to avoid. I will happily go spend an extra ten dollars halfway across town rather than walk next door to give you one penny of my money.
No unity with racists, homophobes, sexists, and insurrectionists. Not now. Not ever.
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Republicans have decided not to do anything about the border until after the election. So it must not be an emergency.
Repubs don't want a solution. They want the problem.
All border problems going forward belong to weakling Donald and WEAK republicans.
WEAK!
The Republicans really hate the USA.
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The world’s top 1% of emitters produce over 1000 times more CO2 than the bottom 1%
When you don't tax the shit out of the rich, this is what you get. Our life support systems are not compatible with the existence of the rich.
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Rishi Sunak, "Our plan is working"
Sir Michael Marmot, "We're starting to suffer Victorian diseases.. Universal Credit pays 70% of the cost of essentials.. If you're on Universal Credit we guarantee you will get sick because we don't give you enough money to eat healthily, to heat your home"
"Britain has become a poor country with a few rich people.. It's worse to be poor in Britain than in most other European countries. Poor people in Britain have a lower income than Slovenia'"
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The Conservative party will suffer an electoral massacre if it doesn't deliver what the voters want.
Unfortunately what the voters want is for the Conservatives to suffer an electoral massacre.
So the bottlers of sparkling wines on the continent are going, at enormous expense, to tool up to fill a new non-standard sized bottle just to please a few British fuckin wankers fetishizing prehistoric measures even though that bottle size could not legally be sold anywhere else in the EU - I don't think so!
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My friend @TLB73 has told me that his Universal Credit (UC) has been cut by £50.
If you claim UC, kindly complete this poll.
(Your name is not revalled in this poll, but my DMs are open should you wish to write something or other)
Feel free to boost even if you are not a claimant
Thanks xxx
I live in the UK and my UC ..
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
