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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May I have your attention:
Autism is neither a disease, nor a birth defect. We have got to push back hard on this eugenicist garbage.
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I'm always amazed by how the ALL POWERFUL, ALL KNOWING GOD needs all these sad whiny shit-stained little douchebags to do his bidding...
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Georges Clemenceau comes to mind:
"America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation."
A bit harsh, perhaps, but it's definitely in the degeneration phase.
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“ "In the first century in Israel, Christianity was a community of believers. Then Christianity moved to Greece and became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome and became an institution. Then it moved to Europe and became a culture. And then it moved to America and became a business." --Richard Halverson
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Crashing the economy is not an unintended side effect of Trump's stupidity, it's an intended effect of Trump's stupidity.
Destroying the economy was always part of the plan. Making you sick was always part of the plan. Making people stupid was always part of the plan.
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"The killing of Kirk was 'heinous', so were the killings of MELISSA HORTMAN & HER HUSBAND; THE HAMMER ASSAULT OF NANCY PELOSI's HUSBAND; & THE JAN. 6, 2021 ATTACK ON THE US CAPITOL BY A TRUMP MOB,” said Greg Casar. (NYT)
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"I want the country I was born in back. I was born in 1955 into social housing. We kids had a great comprehensive education. Most of the boys moved into apprenticeships and learned a trade. Others went on to higher learning to become our doctors, teachers, lawyers, etc. All of our council rent and energy costs were nationalised, everything went back to the government and councils. This country was destroyed by privatisation and capitalisation."
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/readers-thoughts-jeremy-corbyn-new-party-disrupt-uk-politics/
Is there now any doubt whatever in anyone's mind that trump is the absolute worst POTUS the US has ever elected!
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As Trump’s decision to kill 11 drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea suddenly starts looking even worse.
Sen Kaine🚨reached out to numerous GOP Sens to ask them to join his letter laying out basic Qs for Trump about drug boat bombing, Senate stffr tells me. 0 Rs agreed.
25 Dem Senators just laid out 10 tough Qs for Trump & Hegseth to answer about the decision to bomb that Venezuelan "drug boat"🚨w/o any clear authorization or rationale.
#Execution #WarCrimes #Protest #USPol
https://newrepublic.com/article/200356/trump-drug-boat-bombing-takes-darker-turn-damning-new-info-emerges
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The Constitution affords every American the right to due process and a protection from unreasonable search and seizure of your private property. The Roberts court has decided you don't have those rights if you look Spanish. This is disgusting. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/us/politics/supreme-court-los-angeles-immigration.html?smid=bsky-nytimes&smtyp=cur
Am I the only person sick to fuckin death of hearing people eulogizing Charlie Kirk?
So far as I can make out, he was a thoroughly objectionable, extreme right wing, racist, white supremacist, misogynist, bigoted arsehole who called on rich right-wingers to post bail for the worthless scumbag who attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer!
He was also a huge supporter of the 2nd amendment and went on record as saying that the freedom to own guns in the USA was worth the loss of a few lives.
"Hoisted with his own petard" applies!
Am I the only person sick to fuckin death of hearing people eulogizing Charlie Kirk?
So far as I can make out, he was a thoroughly objectionable, extreme right wing, racist, white supremacist, misogynist, bigoted arsehole who called on rich right-wingers to post bail for the worthless scumbag who attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer!
He was also a huge supporter of the 2nd amendment and went on record as saying that the freedom to own guns in the USA was worth the loss of a few lives.
"Hoisted with his own petard" applies!
Am I the only person sick to fuckin death of hearing people eulogizing Charlie Kirk?
So far as I can make out, he was a thoroughly objectionable, extreme right wing, racist, white supremacist, misogynist, bigoted arsehole!
He was also a huge supporter of the 2nd amendment and went on record as saying that the freedom to own guns in the USA was worth the loss of a few lives.
"Hoisted with his own petard" applies, methinks!
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Kemi Badenoch's widely reported assertion that a future Tory Govt. would ramp up exploitation of North Sea reserves until the basin was drained, just indicates why the Tories are a spent force...
Britain's future (like the world's) lies in a green transition, both for environmental reasons but also as regards effective & efficient continued energy production.
That she cannot see that (like many of the global political class) tells us all we need to know about the Tories' future...
Ah - that's handy, isn't it!
https://cybernews.com/security/paypal-credential-dump-hacker-claims
I already knew that you had to be completely fückin brain-dead to support Reform UK, but actually dead it taking it a bit far!
It's interesting to contrast the cowardice of the sons of many of the rich and famous like trump in the USA, with the most famous family in the UK, the royal family.
Trump got a deferment through being unfit to serve even though he had been adjudged fit previously (Lieutenant Bone Spurs) and George W Bush got posted to the National Guard. Neither ever served in Vietnam even though they should have done!
Contrast that with Prince Andrew, the Duke of York who was a helicopter pilot on the front line in the Falklands war and was in harms way ever day he was there!
One of the jobs Prince Andrew (and other helo crews) was assigned was to hover his helicopter just above the vessel on which he was based so as to cause sea-skimming missiles to see the helicopter as the target rather than the warship itself! The idea was that the sea-skimming missiles were never designed to fly more than a few metres above the sea's surface so locking on to the helicopter would cause it to fly above the ship but below the helicopter. Prince Andrew himself recounted an event that caused the Royal Navy to stop using helicopters as a decoy when under attack by sea skimming missiles. A missile actually flew over the top of the helicopter rather than between the ship and the helicopter as was expected!
Likewise with Prince Harry who crewed an Apache attack helicopter on the front line in Afghanistan. His life was on the line during every sortie!
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
