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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On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
@emsquared
Are you suicidal yet?
Paul Brownjohn
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It's a bright morning in the City of York. Everyone who matters knows that most of the UK's economic problems would be helped massively by (re)forging closer ties with the EU, so why can't Labour see it? The silence from Starmer & Co. is deafening?
We have similar over here in Luxembourg except that ours are for House Martins not bats
Yes, but conservatives who treat everything as a vehicle for profit are fucking imbeciles!
Contrast that utter stupid policy with the enlightened policy implemented by the government of Luxembourg, where I live.
All public transport, buses, trams and trains, within Luxembourg is now completely free; it is paid for by the government! The idea was to try to reduce the traffic jams for which the capital city was justly famous. From where I live the capital city is about 20 - 25 minutes drive but in the rush hour, that used to turn into anything up to 90 minutes or more if there were accidents or vehicles broken down!
It was mostly paid for by increasing the tax on company cars both for individuals and for companies and by other motorist targetted fiscal measures.
It has been reasonably successful as proven by the fact that the trams in the city are packed out every day despite there being a very frequent service indeed.
The tram lines are being extended out to more far flung areas like Luxembourg's Findel international airport some distance outside the city and eventually to Esch-sur-Alzette; Luxembourg's 2nd city.
Paul Brownjohn
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Working from home is a massive climate benefit and a massive benefit for cities with poor public transit systems. It takes loads of cars off the road which reduces emissions and traffic. It blows my mind that we want to throw that away.
Paul Brownjohn
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Tories had 14 years to improve things in the UK. They didn't.
Instead, they gave their cronies our money, cut their taxes & enobled them.
They crashed the economy, took away our freedoms & left infrastructure to rot.
Tories are the cancer that destroyed Britain.
#NeverTrustAToryPolitician
See George Orwell's novel '1984' for further details.
I saw him interviewed on TV the other day. His speech was fatastically fast - like machine gun fire. My immediate suspicion was that he was high on cocaine or amphetamine
That'll be because the Labour party are so scared of losing the votes of the bigoted imbeciles in the "red wall" constituencies who voted for Brexit as the didn't like "them thar furriners everywhere".
One my crowning educational achievments was an unclassified result (so bad they didn't give me any marks) at 'O' level in RK (religious knowledge). I am SO VERY proud of that!
Paul Brownjohn
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Ambulances called to Amazon’s UK warehouses 1,400 times in five years
In 2018, a freedom of information request from the GMB union found that a Tesco warehouse in Rugeley, near Birmingham, recorded only eight ambulance callouts in three years versus the 115 logged at a nearby Amazon site. Both warehouses employed large numbers of workers at the time – 1,300 at Tesco’s site and around 1,800 at Amazon’s.
Trump policy - lie like a bastard every day; say whetever enters your head.
@heidilifeldman @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews
There's the rub - I'm neither a US citizen nor US based!
@heidilifeldman @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews
If I could donate, I would BUT I believe candaidates for POTUS are not permitted to accept donations from overseas and I'm Luxembourg based!
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
