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
When I was writing computer code for a living, I used to liken it to playing chess all day every day.
https://bigthink.com/the-present/coding-is-not-fun/#Echobox=1678372868
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"The modern British right are doing all they can to reframe basic humanity as a vice. It really isn’t Gary Lineker whose job should be on the line today." https://www.newstatesman.com/quickfire/2023/03/defence-gary-lineker
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#OtD 9 Mar 1914, women battled police in Glasgow during Emmeline Pankhurst's speaking tour of Scotland. They used jiu-jitsu and barbed wire concealed in flower bouquets, and one woman fired blanks from a revolver https://libcom.org/history/violence-suffragette-movement
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"assholes were literally the primary target market when automakers wanted to make SUVs mainstream"
https://youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo
Gary Lineker can comfortably afford to tell the nobs at the BBC to fuck right off and I really, REALLY hope he does!
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"Fascism first causes, then thrives on, the chaos for which it presents itself as sole cure." - William Gibson
@GreatDismal @GreatDismal
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It must be hilarious for the #RestOfTheWorld to watch a pompous, arrogant, big-headed, yester-year country like the
"U"K🇬🇧 make fart noises as it deflates like a balloon with a puncture.
IMO it has to deflate entirely before the holes can be patched and sensible, independent things can begin to grow in its place.
Right wing arseholes are getting their collective knickers in a twist about the number of refugees coming across the channel in small boats. However, the reality is that Britain takes an absolutely minuscule number of refugees compared to other more welcoming nations! Germany, for example, has opened its arms to 2,234,932
Anyway here are the figures:
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Income precedes work for the same reason you eat breakfast before you go to work. Lack of income is preventing a great deal of valuable work from happening for the same reason students find it difficult to learn on empty stomachs.
UBI will fuel all work.
https://www.scottsantens.com/the-toothpaste-argument-for-universal-basic-income-ubi-gotz-werner/
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If the Tories hate being compared to the Nazis, they should maybe consider stopping the rhetoric and policies that the Nazis would have enthusiastically supported.
Nazi comparison advice, there.
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Leaky Sue doesn't hang about releasing the new Border Force training video, does she? #SuellaBraverman #RefugeesWelcome
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How a country’s healthcare expenditure correlates with its citizens average life expectancy.
With one notable anomaly.
Source: Latinometrics using World Bank data
From Twitter
Couldn't put it better myself!
Fly Boy 💙Proud to be a European!#FBPE
@flyingstraight
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Mar 6
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@john4brexit
The people voted for cheaper food, cheaper fuel, FOM in EU, lower taxes , more money for the NHS etc etc NONE of which came true not just because of the MPs but because it was never possible - cut yourself off from your largest trading partner and we see the results QED
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#Brexit: EU suppliers wary about doing business in UK, warn manufacturers
Why would you trade with a country that has chosen to make trade much more difficult for you? Obvious now. Obvious in 2016.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/07/brexit-eu-uk-manufacturers-make-uk-rishi-sunak
Paul Brownjohn
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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
