Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@qoto.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
If Britain goes to war, any member of the royal family who is in the armed services is expected to serve alongside his comrades in arms and most or all of them absolutely insist on serving on the front lines if that's where their units are sent. The recently disgraced Prince Andrew served as a naval helicopter pilot during the Falklands war and he was sent on life-endangering missions the same as all the pilots who served alongside him.
During the occupation of Afghanistan, contrary to the extremely insulting comments of the Papaya Paedophile, Prince Harry served as a front line gunner/pilot on attack helicopters.
This is in stark contrast to the utterly cowardly sons of the rich in the USA who suddenly develop fuckin bone spurs when the shit hits the fan, or get shuffled off to the National Guard rather than the front lines!
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You'd think that starting an illegal war without Congressional approval would be enough for impeachment?
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When Starmer says that UK planes are in the air as part of a defence operation in the Middle East are we to understand that the UK is acting in defence of Israel and also US military assets, and this at a moment where Israel and the US are in breech of international law?
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Donald said, "Our president will start a war with Iran because he has no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective."
I hate it when he talks in the third person.
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Okay so let me get this straight, a oligarch country that elected a suspected pedophile & known rapist over his Christian values, and an illegally nuclear genocidal apartheid nation that keeps electing war criminals to do war crimes, those are the good guys because they bombed a primary girls school
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All those billionaires and CEOs who loudly declared they were leaving New York for Dubai when Mamdani was elected mayor may have missiles falling on their luxury resorts right now, but at least they escaped free bus access and a handful of subsidised supermarkets. A small price to pay, surely
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Q. is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dead?
When the fog of war clears & if his body (really) has been found, the next Q. is: who now leads Iran, and what will be their response to the US/Israeli attacks?
Will they seek to negotiate a peace (or semi-peace), or will they assess to avenge the death of the country's leader & other victims of the air strikes?
As always in war, the decisions of leaders can shape the lives of normal people on both sides; now we wait to see what's next.
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Because trump raped children americans are going to die.
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"Two sexes," they say. "Any others are unnatural"
MUSHROOMS: but we have 17,000 sexes. Whoops sorry just discovered another one. Make that 17,001.
"The female of the species," they proclaim, "is the one that carries the fetus to term. Males can't get pregnant. It's unnatural."
SEAHORSES: but our males do.
"It's so simple," they declare, a little nervously, "If you were born with a penis, you're a male. Boom."
SPOTTED HYENA: but our females have penises.
"If you were born with a vaginal canal, you're a girl," they scream. "If you weren't, you aren't. End of story."
TURTLES: but our males are. and they can even breathe through them.
"Biological sex can't be changed," they shriek, self-righteously."That's just science".
CLOWNFISH: but we do it all the time
"You can pretend to be a gender you weren't born as, they gasp, assuring themselves that surely this time they will emerge victorious, "animals can't just up and change their chromosomes. That's common sense."
BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS: but we can. explosive chromosomal macroevolution is literally a part of our lifecycle.
"But chromosomes determine biologi-"
BEARDED DRAGONS: ours are determined by the weather
"But the Bible says male and female he made th-"
BLUEHEADED WRASSE: all of us are born female
"But you can't just wake up one day and deci-"
GROUPER (MALE): we literally do.
"But gender isn't flui-"
GROUPER (MALE): sometimes we change back
"But you can't just pick what gender you're going to be on any given day!" They shriek, "It doesn't work that way!!"
GROUPER (FEMALE): ahem
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Should alchemy be taught along side chemistry? I mean, some folks really believe it, and we should be fair.
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@ChrisMayLA6 rarely has such a large majority been given with so low an expectation from the electorate.
People wanted things to be better.
After 14 years of Tory incompetence and scandal which brought the country to it's knees the only way should have been up.
And then there was suits. Sue Grey who didn't last long. Streeting piling up lucrative lobbyist donations whilst ruining trans kids lives, and then there is Peter Mandelson...
A man who's history alone should have made Keir think "Hang on a bit..." but no. Apparently he'd outsourced the thinking to McSweeny.
Can't wait to be rid of them but I'm not seeing hope on the horizon.
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
