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Paul Brownjohn

@paulbj.bsky.social
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Woodworker, computer programmer, photographer & Anglo/Francophone. Anti-Brexit. Live in the UK as of a couple of weeks back. A bit of a radical socialist with green leanings.

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 1h
Having heard nothing from them, I phoned them again today and they had taken my address down completely wrong! We pay these useless tossers!
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 1h
Nevertheless they did have some legible data from the letter as it found it's way into my file on their system. During the phone call, I gave them my new address in the UK.
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 1h
Astonishing! I wrote to the DWP to ask to pay my pension into a different bank account. No response, so I phoned them & it turns out that my letter didn't scan properly so it was illegible. Did they write to me or phone me - nope - they just ignored it.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This 👇
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 6h
I refuse to interact with them, I just insist on talking to a human being over and over again. If they don't connect me to a human then I hang up
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 6h
"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press 3."
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 17h
...who has had a major stroke and now needs a medical exoskeleton to move around - ...who is clearly suffering from dementia - who has the fucking nuclear codes!
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 17h
That is utter fucking bollocks! I lived in Luxembourg where I would have been surprised if I could not get an appointment to see a family physician the same day I asked for an appointment. At worst, I'd expect to be seen the day after I sought an appt.
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 17h
What are you talking about - of course they have a plan. It's simple, if you're too poor to afford healthcare, you're disposable, and the MAGAs want you dead! Simple isn't it!
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 23h
Stupid choices anyway - more sensible choices would be Mar-a-lago and Washington DC
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Absolutely 👇
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Honestly though, given California's distance from Iran, if I were them, I'd take out Washington DC and maybe New York or Norfolk Virginia; much more practically useful targets than the orange paedophile's suggestions!
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The President of the United States inviting Iran to "take out" two major American cities should receive as much coverage as a President of the United States having a bad debate.
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It is most unfortunate for the many Jews who hate zionism, but it is nevertheless a fact that all Jews will be tarred with the zionist brush. No one on earth has contributed more to the current rapid growth of anti-semitism in the world than Netanyahu and his zionist chums.
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yeah sure - operatives carry deadly plague bacteria around the lab in test tubes with just a cork in them. They don't wear protective clothing or any sort of respirators, do they? I assume the Russians think we are as gullible as their own people who believe every single lie spouted by the Kremlin.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Insanity 😡
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Confronting the reality of what one voted for can be very distressing!
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is the sort of government sponsored terrorism that will guarantee that many Labour supporters like myself will vote against Labour in any election. IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE TO ARREST PEOPLE FOR OBJECTING TO GENOCIDE!!!
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If scientists ever find out the answer, you can rely absolutely in the USA and the Israelis to abuse the finding to the absolute limit!
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It is a fact of life that the US economy ALWAYS does better under Democratic leadership than it does under Republicans but it is the right-wing pricks who claim the credit!
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My soul?
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JUSTICE @justicehq.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
But pushing 1000s of cases into already-creaking magistrates’ courts, where there are no juries, will not fix our backlog, or speed things up. It’s time to focus on genuine solutions to delays, like maximising sitting days, fixing crumbling courts, & preventing offending at the outset. (2/2)
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Love it 👇
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🎯🎯🎯🎯
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
One of the negotiators on the EU side laughed at the dumb-arsed US suggestion and remarked in private, that if they did that, they would end up hanging from lampposts by their scrotums; so huge would be the public fury!
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That's the reason very few US products are sold in the EU - because they contain substances that are banned in the EU. When trying & failing to negotiate a trade agreement back in the 0-ties, the US wanted the EU to accept banning country of origin labelling so people would unable to boycott them!
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Nana Boricua 🇵🇷 💙🌴🌊 @nana-mary.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why do people continue voting for Republicans? I get it if you’re a white collar criminal, part of the Epstein Class and/or Billionaire, religious bigot, in the cult, or an uneducated racist. Working class citizens, gullible enough to believe their constant gaslighting, are big fools. #Pinks
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Ronnie: How Far Willing to Go?
ALT: Ronnie: How Far Willing to Go?
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Mark @markyarn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you want vibes, these are they
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Impiety @noholyscripture.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Monotheism The religious pluralism of the ancient world was gradually supplanted by the homogenising dogma of Christianity & later Islam, dividing us into believers & infidels. How much more tolerant, intellectually open society might have been had monotheism never emerged & so zealously promoted!
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Get it, NOW?! 👇 Enjoy. 😎✨
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Corpsy @corpsepilot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thank you 🥹🕯
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump is never 6' 3"; I have met him and although he was definitely taller than my 5' 8", he didn't stand out like someone 6'3" would have done. My guess is, he is about 5' 11"; no more!
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm certainly NOT mourning his passing!
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Puts me in mind of the retired priest Father Jack who is obsessed with drink from the "Father Ted" series on TV.
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's my ambition to die of something else - ANYTHING ELSE!
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Some butterflies from previous summers - there were practically none this year as it was often too hot for them and in any case many flowering plants on which they depend died in the heat and drought
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They are following the usual protocol for similar cases. "Watchful waiting"; do nothing & see what happens. As a urologist put it to a friend of mine, "this type of tumour is so slow growing that, at your age, you will most likely die of something else long before your prostate becomes a problem"
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ha! Talking of trump's involuntary movements, I can't help seeing Peter Sellars as Dr Strangelove towards the end of the film, in a wheelchair trying desperately to stop his right arm doing involuntary Nazi salutes! That's the orange rapist paedophile to a T.
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ahhh a fellow sufferer; I have lost wallet & lost passport dreams all the time. Another speciality is lost car dreams. In reality, I did spend well over 40mins in a car park frantically looking for & failing dismally to find my car only to realize that I was driving my landlords car that day.
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Since the Norman conquest, there have been further waves of immigration from the Indian sub-continent, from the West Indies, from Africa, from Hong-Kong and more recently from the EU, it is a total joke therefore to even postulate the existence of large numbers of "indigenous" people in the UK
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Britain has undergone successive waves of immigration from the Romans to the Vikings, to the Jutes, to the Angles, to the Saxons, to the Normans.
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Absolutely agree! To allow any of the triumphalist parades that used to be the norm in NI, is utter madness!
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
...and your electricity needs will drop precipitously as you will now glow brightly in the dark!
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I must admit though, having had a positive biopsy, it does feel a bit like the sword of Damocles hanging over me!
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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Before I left Luxembourg, I had a Prostate MRI scan. The results showed a low risk of any clinically significant cancer requiring treatment. So, I can relax a bit. I had a biopsy some years ago with some samples containing cancer cells but it seems to be pretty inactive.
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