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
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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?
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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.
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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
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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.
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Trump cares only about one thing and that is Trump.
#unfit and he has proven it…
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I promise, this is not satire:
Elon Musk sues a number of large companies for what he considers the illegal act of not wanting to do business with Elon Musk.
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Kaivan Shroff (by way of Jay Kuo) on how it's entirely possible for us to have multiple identities at the same time.
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Apparently scientists are saying "WhEn A mAn vOTeS fOr a wOMaN he aCtUAllY tRanSiTioNS iNTo a WoMAn!!
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Can you imagine taking over as CEO of a company while they have two astronauts stranded up in space because your company has become incompetent at building stuff that works safely?
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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
