rob

@robparsons
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If anybody wants to know a few things about me

#UK - born in the NHS at 312ppm.
#Hedgehogs
#LiberalDemocrat
#WalterPresents
#CognitiveTrailTheory
#CovidIsNotOver
#Nightwish
#Springsteen
#ActuallyImReallyQuiteBoring

Profile pic is me with my fluffy sheep Ruffles. Header is about a hundred sheep who decided to form a ring on the downs one day. I'm not that interested in sheep, really.

Here's my reaction to last week's election results from a LibDem point of view. "The most unfortunate result possible." https://www.libdemvoice.org/the-most-unfortunate-result-possible-79698.html #UKPolitics
The most unfortunate result possible

In my view the results of this week’s local elections are the most unfortunate possible. They illustrate perfectly the limitations of our strength and of the nature of our offering to the public. We made enough gains for the party leadership to pretend to be victorious – and, yes, eight gains in a row is...

Liberal Democrat Voice
@linguistgoneforeign I am part way along that journey, and I am very impressed.

The reach of reading knows no bounds. We have Rebecca Yarros's excellent Fourth Wing in the library - and it's popular; see here: https://bookstodon.com/@rvl/115950058799255769

and here it is in the Thai edition in a bookshop in Chiang Mai.

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.” Milton
“Under whatever political institutions we live, there is a circle around every individual human being which no government be it that of the one, the few or the many, ought to be permitted to overstep.” John Stuart Mill.

Excited to announce that the @EUCommission has updated it's follow buttons on the website footer!
What's that first platform there? Could that be #Mastodon?
And where did the link to #X go?
All the posts and comments here on Mastodon calling for this, trust me we read them!

#SocialMedia #EU #EuropeanCommission #FollowUs

@stefan oooh, something new to play with.....

“He asked his mum once if they could have a cat. “One pet animal is enough, dear”, she said, looking at him meaningfully.”

My WIP is now a work.

Nanotales, a book of 26 short stories by Rob Parsons – that’s me - is on sale at https://ko-fi.com/s/19f8a3feeb Proceeds to St Peter and St James hospice. “variety of theme and gently humorous style” says a reader.

"Liberalism properly conceived is a repository of political sense and practical problem solving." Adrian Wooldridge
@twobiscuits @ChrisMayLA6 they also haven't spent the last forty years politicising aka wrecking what used to be a very effective organisation.