New Green Plenty post: Gratitude
Well I did another one. This one's called the Elephant in the Room, an' it's about Jezza. https://www.greenplenty.info/the-elephant-in-the-room/
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
Who are the Resident Doctors & why are they going on strike (agains)?
Here's Charlotte Tomlinson's discussion of the issue, putting the timeline of over a decade of failed settlements at its centre & making clear that any discussion of the Resident Doctors dispute with the NHS needs to be put into this long(er) historical context, if we are to understand the dispute!
Stop Giving Harm a Microphone by Andrea Fomera
"But still, it’s caused me to want to withdraw myself and disengage in the communities I found purpose and belonging in. This is a direct consequence of giving microphones and amplifying the behavior of people who post their “opposing views” online and engage in bad faith arguments."
https://afomera.dev/posts/2025-10-25-stop-giving-harm-a-microphone
Report: Israel seizes a gift from Scottish firefighters to Palestine
"A fire engine given to Palestinian firefighters by Scottish ones has documented clearance, but Israeli officials refuse to let it through customs."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/scottish-gift-west-bank-seized-israeli-may-sent-back-uk-report
#palestine #IsraeliCrimes #USPol #UKPol #Europol @palestine .
Asking immigrants for 'A-level English' is absurd | Letters
#CommunicationSkills #OrwellianPolicies #ALevelEnglish #AbsurdRequirements #CitizenshipDelay
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/23/asking-immigrants-for-a-level-english-is-absurd
p.p.s. By their web-based design, web apps have much less access to the data stored on your phone. It's much harder to spy on people from web apps.
That's why so many companies try so hard to push you away from their websites and towards their app store apps, because app store apps make it much easier for them to spy on you.
To disable the AI nonsense in the latest Firefox update, open a new tab and go enter about:config into the address bar. Enter the following and make them false:
browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
browser.ml.chat.enabled
browser.ml.enable
browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
extensions.ml.enabled
sidebar.revamp
Developing Rosebank oil field 'pure climate vandalism', Scottish Green insists
#ScottishGreens #ClimateAction #OilFieldDevelopment #Sustainability #RosebankOilField
More Labour selling the country for tuppence shenanigans https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/15/labour-housing-memo-leak-steve-reed
Our country is being sold under our feet to big US vulture capitalists. This needs to be shared widely. https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/10/14/free-zones-rachel-reeves/
Message in a bottle time again #GetFediHired #jobsearch #needwork. Might have to add smoke signals, sky writing, and shortwave radio (via @va2nw ?) channels to get the word out.
Growing increasingly needy in search for software developer work in the #Ottawa #Montreal areas. #C #C# #Erlang #Java #NodeJS #Forth #Shell #SQL #BSD #Linux #English #French and more. Very versatile, adaptable, experienced. I cook too; every office should have someone who can make Neapolitan style #pizzas for team lunches & parties.
Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.