New post on my programming blog
Returning to Elixir/Phoenix
If you're interested in the Green Plenty concept https://greenplenty.substack.com/p/the-case-for-green-plenty?s=w
Speaking of lifestyle things to address obesity and diabetes, has anyone asked Marty Makary and RFK where in the actual fuck they expect people to exercise in somewhere like OKC or North Denver? “Just walk around your neighborhood” is unsafe without sidewalks. Gyms cost money, and you have to get there, and many don’t have childcare while you’re there.
These wellness-focused fucks are so used to their hospital gyms and safe neighborhoods that they can’t imagine reality. Fuck ‘em.
Please annoy all the usual suspects and vote for Gary Lineker as best presenter in the National TV awards. You have to wade through a few categories to get to the correct bit, but don't let that put you off!
#GaryLineker #Palestine #Gaza
Vote | National Television Awards
https://www.nationaltvawards.com/vote
I’m officially done with takes on AI beginning “Ethical concerns aside…”.
No! Stop right there.
Ethical concerns front and center. First thing. Let’s get this out of the way and then see if thre is anything left worth talking about.
Ethics is the formalisation of how we are treating one another as human beings and how we relate to the world around us.
It is *impossible* to put ethics aside.
What you mean is “I don’t want to apologise for my greed and selfishness.”
Say that first.
Under Pete “whiskey dick” Hegseth’s leadership, the US Marine Corps changed their grooming standards in a way that will result in expulsion of mainly black Marines. Many black men have an inflammatory response to close shaving, causing painful scarring. The military knows this, and decades ago issued waivers allowing neatly kept beards for service members in this situation. Now the Marines are doing away with it. This hurts readiness, is overtly racist, and is fucking stupid.
‘Keir Starmer’s cowardice has made Labour a party for no one’
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/21/labour-keir-starmer-amelia-hansford-opinion/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into UK News @uk-news-PinkNews
Britain's strictest headteacher claims transgender children more likely to be 'white' and 'privileged' - The Standard
https://apple.news/AmyyKxp_gTDaE-083mXWeVw. She certainly has strong opinions. She’s wrong of course, but when did that ever stop a self serving gobshite?
maybe a bit early in the morning for this much swearing. Fair warning.
@HarriettMB @sundogplanets we know how to fix Climate Change without all these unproven technologies.
But that would mean Rich Men would be a little less rich so wild super-science ideas that appeal to rich idiots is the way we're going!
Don't anybody ask the Scientists if this shit will work, get some influencer on Twitter to say it's fine instead!
We really do not appreciate how amazing we are
abortion, persecution
A few days ago I posted about the case of Nicola Packer accused, tried but found not guilty of having an illegal abortion....
If you thought the details of that post was horrific, the further details of her treatment revealed in this interview are both heartbreaking & disgraceful - a women abused by legal process.
Misogyny has no place in the legal system but we can see all too well that its structurally embedded in the law!
Stupid? Evil? The "immigration" thing.
What do reform voters want? They *pretend* they want numbers to go down. Now, this is already a false debate, shifting a debate about rights/benefits/costs to reducing people to numbers.
But it's also a lie. Because what they want is US-style performative cruelty. Which is impossible under the rule of law.
And so, "responding to voter concerns on immigration" is a sure vote loser. --
Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.