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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Still voting to put sewage in our water ways. Brexshit.
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RT @YvetteCooperMP@twitter.com
New Home Office figures show 200 rapes reported each day - record high
But just THREE of them made it to court
Just appalling
Charge rate so much worse than 7yrs ago
Complete failure by Conservative Govt & criminal justice system to tackle violence against women & girls /1
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/YvetteCooperMP/status/1618564688287236096
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@EnPrimeurLefty
W - well-informed
O - open-minded
K - knowledgable
E - everywhere
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👆 So all of the sex our ancestors had prior to churches inventing marriage was 'sinful', huh?
It's a wonder all of those gods allowed that (apart from them not existing, obviously).
I think deserves a medal - perhaps a George Medal would be appropriate!
It's long overdue time that these tory thieves and murderers were held to account!
I popped into the bank whilst I was in town today as it's bang opposite the hospital where I had an outpatient appointment.
I wanted to ask them about a loan for a car, what I had in mind was to put in 6500€ of my savings and borrow 6500€ from the bank to buy a decent second hand car. however, what they proposed, in view of my age, 72, (so they said) was to lend me the money on the condition that they could block an equivalent sum in my savings account.
Now the whole idea of using a bank loan instead of the cash that I have in my savings account was that that way, I would still have my savings available in case I needed them for something urgent like for example medical treatment that is not refunded by the healthcare system here.
So the bank are proposing to borrow 6500€How stupid do you think I am of my money, block it, and then lend it back to me at 4.5% interest!
Fuck that! How fucking stupid do they think I am?
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HMRC investigate Zahawi and extract millions in tax from undeclared profits
I hope this is the start of a long list into money salted away offshore by Politicians.
Suspect, some MP's are updating old returns
But we need people to highlight fraud to HMRC and reporters to bring us the news
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RT @Haggis_UK@twitter.com
Alastair Campbell: "For Sunak to say nothing to see here... while Zahawi kept changing his story... frankly lying, a straightforward breach of the ministerial code... & the public do care... they care that this lot are utterly incapable of doing anything, b/c they're dishonest.."
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1617943543460548609
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RT @BBCMarkEaston@twitter.com
Whoops! That much-quoted ‘UK had the fastest growth in G7’ claim in 2021 turns out to be wrong. @ONS@twitter.com admits a ‘manual error’. Growth was second SLOWEST.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BBCMarkEaston/status/1617474719175053313
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Billionaires should not set climate policy.
Billionaires should not set water policy.
Billionaires should not be setting any policy.
Billionaires should not be platformed to give opinion on crises & injustices they helped create & have financial stakes in monopolizing policies on.
Billionaires should not exist.
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Under the leadership of Rishi Sunak, the UK Treasury helped the boss of Russia’s murderous mercenary army to circumvent its own sanctions and launch a targeted legal attack on a British journalist
Find out more about this story here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/prigozhin-government-russia-ukraine-hack-libel-slapp/
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RT @zoenicholson4@twitter.com
We have “95% of the renewable technologies” to power the world now. We don’t need miracles we need political will and not in the pockets of fossil fuel giants. Using what we have now and stop using fossil fuels could get us to 80% renewable usage by 2030. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/23/no-miracles-needed-prof-mark-jacobson-on-how-wind-sun-and-water-can-power-the-world?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/zoenicholson4/status/1617828576887291905
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#OnThisDay, 24 Jan 1901, British aid-worker Emily Hobhouse first visits Bloemfontein concentration camp in South Africa. Her subsequent report on the conditions Boers are being held in by the British government causes uproar.
Her ashes are interred in the National Women's Monument, at the site of one of the camps.
Over 26,000 people died in the camps.
#WomenInHistory #BritishHistory #History #Histodons @histodons
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RT @jimfitznews@twitter.com
🚨 EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION - A vast cache of hacked material from Russia has shed new light on how the UK govt helped warlord Prigozhin mount a targeted legal attack on a journalist in London. This is #londongrad writ large. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/prigozhin-government-russia-ukraine-hack-libel-slapp/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jimfitznews/status/1617580880935153666
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Russian society, sick with fascism, now has students informing on each other. Abhorrent.
RT @ivanastradner@twitter.com
This is Russia.
Olesya Krivtsova (a 19 y.o. 🇷🇺 student) criticized Russia’s war in Ukraine on Instagram. Her fellow students reported her & now she is awaiting trial that could lead to 10 years in prison for her online comments
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/19/arkhangelsk-student-war-critic-arrested/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ivanastradner/status/1617493134870454272
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L - Lesbians aren’t shooting things up.
G - Gays aren’t shootings things up.
B - Bisexuals aren’t shooting things up.
T - Transgender people aren’t either.
Q- Queer people are safely on the list.
It’s radicalized right wing fascist MAGAs that are shooting things up.
Republicans are a bigger and more widespread threat to children.
#lgbtq
Speak up now, because they may come for you next.
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By giving the tory scum an 80 seat majority, moronic British voters, particularly in the red wall constituencies, have destroyed the UK, have utterly destroyed the prospects of a decent life for their kids and grandkids and have deprived millions of a way of making a decent living - the country's fishermen, 1000s of workers in the Midlands who used to make car parts for the VW group, the workers at BritishVolt who are now facing redundancy and countless others.
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
