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
I would absolutely echo the views of the expert commentator! There is no way you will get me into a Boeing 737 Max series of aircraft unless it's at gunpoint!
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“Florida has banned Pride Flags in classrooms because clearly Florida has nothing to be proud of.” - Stephen Colbert 🙌
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Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as #uBlock Origin will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).
The new #Chrome manifest will prevent using custom filters and stops on demand updates of blocklist. Only #Google authorized updates to browser extension will be allowed in the future, which mean an automatic win for Google in their battle to stop YouTube #AdBlockers .
#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (@mozilla) and/or #TorBrowser (@torproject) if you haven't done so already!
EFF (@eff) on Google’s Manifest V3:
⚠️https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening
⚠️https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation
Chrome Manifest V3 Transition Timeline (2023-11-16)
🚩https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/
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I want to make this crystal clear for all you MAGA weirdos out there.
✨I DO NOT WANT TO UNITE WITH YOU.✨
I don't want a slice of pizza from you. I don't want to visit your car wash. I don't want to support your kids' softball team. I don't want your food, your clothes, your electronics, your applicances, your houses, your cars, trucks, planes, or hoverboats. I don't want anything you make, sell, import, export, teach, manage, grow, build, or finance. I don't want a single fruit of your labor anywhere in my home, or a single dollar of yours in my pocket. Here is why:
• You have white supremacists in your party, and you don't care.
• You have KKK in your party, and you don't care.
• You have Nazis in your party, and you don't care.
• You have Proud Boys in your party, and you don't care.
• You have traitors and insurrectionists in your party, and you don't care.
So no. I don't want anything to do with you. Here's what I do want:
I want you to keep wearing your stupid little red hats and put your Trump2024 stickers on your businesses. I want to see you. I want to know exactly who to avoid. I will happily go spend an extra ten dollars halfway across town rather than walk next door to give you one penny of my money.
No unity with racists, homophobes, sexists, and insurrectionists. Not now. Not ever.
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The world’s top 1% of emitters produce over 1000 times more CO2 than the bottom 1%
When you don't tax the shit out of the rich, this is what you get. Our life support systems are not compatible with the existence of the rich.
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Rishi Sunak, "Our plan is working"
Sir Michael Marmot, "We're starting to suffer Victorian diseases.. Universal Credit pays 70% of the cost of essentials.. If you're on Universal Credit we guarantee you will get sick because we don't give you enough money to eat healthily, to heat your home"
"Britain has become a poor country with a few rich people.. It's worse to be poor in Britain than in most other European countries. Poor people in Britain have a lower income than Slovenia'"
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The Conservative party will suffer an electoral massacre if it doesn't deliver what the voters want.
Unfortunately what the voters want is for the Conservatives to suffer an electoral massacre.
So the bottlers of sparkling wines on the continent are going, at enormous expense, to tool up to fill a new non-standard sized bottle just to please a few British fuckin wankers fetishizing prehistoric measures even though that bottle size could not legally be sold anywhere else in the EU - I don't think so!
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My friend @TLB73 has told me that his Universal Credit (UC) has been cut by £50.
If you claim UC, kindly complete this poll.
(Your name is not revalled in this poll, but my DMs are open should you wish to write something or other)
Feel free to boost even if you are not a claimant
Thanks xxx
I live in the UK and my UC ..
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« Ron DeSantis should have to carry his Presidential run to term even if it threatens the life of his party. »
Burn, baby! Burn!
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https://www.tax-the-rich.eu/
a EU citizen's initiative to tax the rich more so that we can take more action against global warming and social inequalities.
It currently has 100k+ total votes, but we need a lot more to make it work. France already has 130% of the needed votes (76k out of 55k), but e.g the netherlands only 2% (400 out of 20k).
I just voted as dutch citizen, but if you know anyone that would also be interested in this, please do refer them to the website!
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Tertiary Syphilis is a hell of a drug.
#DonaldTrump #TerriarySyphilis
'Deeply confused' Trump mocked for blaming Jan. 6 on Haley: 'Only person he won't blame' is himself https://www.alternet.org/trump-haley/
As everyone possessed of a functioning brain cell knows, the 'small boats crisis' is entirely the fault of the fucking tory scum.
There is no legal route to access asylum in the UK for the overwhelming majority of refugees! Why do they want to come to the UK, one might ask - it is party because the British government and civil service couldn't organize an orgy in a brothel so it is ridiculously easy to disappear and work on the black in Britain, but also because English is the world's most popular 2nd language which gives most people who want to settle in the UK an advantage over settling in say France or Germany!
www.france24.com/en/france/20...
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Travellers on Boeing 737 flights will be allowed to bring on-board screwdrivers, drills and any other tools deemed necessary to keep the doors from flying off, aviation authorities have confirmed. https://theshovel.com.au/2024/01/16/screwdrivers-now-permitted-on-boeing-flights-to-allow-passengers-to-help-with-maintenance/
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
