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
Paul Brownjohn
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‘Real hope’ for cure as personal mRNA vaccine for melanoma trialled
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/26/cancer-mrna-vaccine-melanoma-trial?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Paul Brownjohn
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This is just so delicious!
DeSantis lied to migrants to get them on a plane to Massachusetts as a political stunt. Because they were victims of that crime, they were eligible to apply for legal status as the victim of trafficking. They can now live and work legally in the US!
https://www.newsweek.com/desantis-migrants-marthas-vineyard-visas-1892919
The deputy leader of Reform and a parliamentary candidate Ben Habib has just said on the Julia Hartley Brewer show that it is now Reform policy to let refugees drown in the Channel.
I too have a Kindle and, whilst it is an easy way to carry a lot of books around, there is one thing about it that REALLY annoys me. Pagination - with an e-reader there is no reason to paginate - what I want is an e-reader that scrolls - page flipping is appropriate to paper books but not to electronic copy. For god's sake give us the option of uninterrupted scrolling!
Paul Brownjohn
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Hindsight, depressing though that is
@Roadwarrior29 it is. That place is too degraded to survive.
It's existential, I don't think everyone who lives in NI Scotland or Wales understands this.
England cannot continue. We need to leave before it drags us down with it.
You want an NHS *at all? You want any protections for nature? You wa*nt any kind of social norm or contract and not live in a bad remake of "the Purge"? You want to be able to afford food?
Then your only choice is independence.
These tory wankers have got completely out of hand!
For those who think nurse's pay is in any way adequate in the UK compared to other countries - these are the figures for nurses working in Luxembourg:
https://www.salaryexpert.com/salary/job/registered-nurse/luxembourg/luxembourg
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ukpol rwanda
Tonight the MPs will debate and vote upon a law to send refugees to Rwanda. Not people who they claim aren't refugees. Just actual refugees.
They sold it as "for processing there" initially, but in fact it's just send them there never to return.
At a cost of over a million pounds per refugee.
Since the courts found that Rwanda might not be safe, the law they will debate declares that it is in fact safe. Even if a civil war breaks out tomorrow, even if a volcano turns the whole country into a lava-floor, it'll still be legally safe according to our MPs.
They seem to think that the Parliament is some kind of supreme body able to define and enforce the nature of truth, rather than being just one of many institutions of state which are set up to compete with checks and balances in order to prevent tyranny.
I can't think of a more obvious demonstration that the house has lots it's wits entirely and has become crazed with power.
They think they can legislate truth, and should have no legal restraints upon them.
You'd hope an election soon will remove them, but the opposition, Labour, are fine with it, so long as it doesn't include our military collaborators. They have an amendment saying it's fine to send everyone I guess, except not those who collaborated with our military.
What a broken country. We need to disband Westminster, really, it's become corrupt beyond redemption.
The Israeli SS
I have often thought the same - the only women who get to the top do so by emulating the absolute worst traits of men!
@RickGaehl @TimWardCam @vandyke4ad
Indeed! I'm sure there is a way to store transparencies that protects them from fungal degradation but whatever it is, clearly, I didn't do it!
I met a photographer over in India who was trekking around India with around 1000 cassettes of Kodachrome in several lead lined sacks to avoid them being fogged going through airport x-ray machines. He made a living selling photos via picture libraries. Interestingly, back then most picture libraries would only accept Kodachrome for 35mm submissions!
@TimWardCam @vandyke4ad @RickGaehl
I just found a better one of the body in the river
@TimWardCam @vandyke4ad @RickGaehl
I ended up dumping most of the 100s of slides I took in India as after years of storage, when I got them out to scan them - fungus had got to them and most were quite badly degraded and therefore not worth scanning!
I did learn two, now fairly irrelevant, bits of information. I had a Canon T90 at the time and I was offered up to 10 times what it was worth in the UK. Most of the offers were likely scams but some were probably for real as sophisticated cameras were subject to 1000% import tax back then.
In that era (1988) colour slide film was almost completely unavailable in India - certainly the Kodachrome I used for most purposes back then was totally unavailable. However, I managed to find a few cassettes of various sorts of Ektachrome most of which were out of date! I wished I had taken 10 times the amount of film with me!
@TimWardCam @vandyke4ad @RickGaehl
Mine were taken in 1988.
@TimWardCam @vandyke4ad @RickGaehl
Aside from the reflection pic, and the body in the river, you took pretty much the same set of pics as I did!
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
