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
Sorry to be so 'bodily' this early in the morning but I am seriously wondering if there is something wrong with me!
Tell me: "does one slurp of one's morning coffee bring on an URGENT need to go for a shit?" or am I quite abnormal in that respect?
Given the extraordinary speed with which it seems to act, I am guessing the caffeine, if caffeine it is that causes the effect, must be absorbed by the mouth or at least by the stomach in very short order indeed! However, I wonder if it is simply a case of "Incoming - everyone needs to shuffle down a bit to make room!"
Is there a gastroenterologist in the house who can offer his/her opinion on the subject?
Paul Brownjohn
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Hopeless ignoramuses, useful idiots, shameless cowards, hateful hypocrites, avaricious assholes, mendacious megalomaniacs, and Putin puppets: the Trump cult, the Republican Party — America’s shame.
#MAGA #DonaldTrump #Trump #GOP #RepublicanParty #WhiteNationalism
So apparently, according to most Americans who voted for Trump - the tariff war that Trump has said he would declare against China and some other countries will mean that China (and the other impacted countries) will have to pay the tariffs. The economic illiteracy it really BURNS, it really screams "I'm an economic ignoramous" in MAGALAND. Don't the imbeciles understand that it's not China who will pay the tariffs, it's them!
Paul Brownjohn
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At the time I got married, 13 years ago, I lived in a flat. I liked it cos it was a short walk from the train station. Good for getting home after late nights out.
My wife moved in. One day she said, "The only problem with this flat is that it's a long walk from the station."
Long?
Turns out it's short if you go thru the woods & by the dark underpass, a route a woman would never think of taking.
And that was my 1st lesson in how we inhabit the same space but live in different worlds.
Paul Brownjohn
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Nigel Farrage on the BBC just now "...he wasn't the bogeyman he was in '16...". A convicted felon who instigated an insurrection in '21!
But, it seems to me, the main thing determining this outcome of this election is that he is white and not female.
SMDH this AM.
Paul Brownjohn
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My grandmother was in an iron lung. Fortunately, she managed to recover.
EVERY SINGLE ONE of my great-grandparents LOST children to childhood diseases that science had eradicated until anti-vaccine morons started bringing them back. https://mstdn.social/@mcnado/113420204821350697
Seems somehow terribly appropriate!
Paul Brownjohn
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You can register to vote on Election Day in the following states: AK, CA, CO, CT, HI, ID, IL, IA, ME, MD, MI, MN, MT, NV, NH, NM, RI, UT, VT, VA, WA, WI, WY, + Washington, D.C.
Boost and share! #kamalaHarris #FederatetheVote
Paul Brownjohn
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I might be getting overheated but honestly the pm dog whistling to Trump with an anti-immigrant speech on the eve of the US election was crass.
Can he not even wait until the orange is in the White House again before signalling how much on board he is?
Paul Brownjohn
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If Trump is indeed God's choice, His plan must be to speed up the extinction of humanity, writing mankind off as a failed experiment.
Paul Brownjohn
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Paul Brownjohn
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Watching MAGAs panic at the thought that women might vote opposite their husbands reminds me that after no fault divorce was legalized in 1970, female suicide rates dropped 20%
The "strong 1950s family unit" that GOP is nostalgic about ignores record high female suicide, suffocating DV, & 0 female financial autonomy.
GOP was always about control of women, and nothing about that has changed today.
Paul Brownjohn
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Paul Brownjohn
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Teen MF Vogue:
Kamala Harris Is Not Our Savior. But a Donald Trump Win Would Be Catastrophic.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/kamala-harris-but-a-donald-trump-win-would-be-catastrophic
Paul Brownjohn
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I was already planning to vote for Kamala. You don’t need to sell it to me this hard.
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
