Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

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@dianshuo @pluralistic Break Apple's (and others') stranglehold on consumer freedom, yes

9 days after Inauguration Day, 404 Media wrote about how this declassified World War II-era government guide to sabotaging fascism became one of the most popular open source books on the internet.

One of our top stories this year. Happie holidays <3 https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/

@JeniParsons @otfrom I hate that I had to click though to find out which inhumane UK government decision you were talking about.

If only we had a human rights lawyer in charge... 😬

"Yesterday, President Trump met with Benjamin Netanyahu and openly endorsed the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza. He called it “voluntary” even as Israel enforces a medical siege, blocks food and fuel, and leaves children dying of hypothermia in flooded tents.

“More than half of Gaza will leave if given the opportunity,” Trump claimed, suggesting Palestinians would choose to abandon their homeland for “a better climate.” He praised Israel for “living up to the [ceasefire] plan 100 percent” even as authorities have documented 969 Israeli violations over 80 days, including 418 Palestinians killed and 1,141 wounded since the so-called “ceasefire” began.

Mainstream media has largely ignored this monumental moment: a US president openly supporting ethnic cleansing while Israel weaponizes humanitarian deprivation to force migration."

-- via Drop Site News, but I can't link there because it's on Substack. Oh well.

Only one month until we all in Britain celebrate six years since we Brexited. Can't believe things have been so good since we broke our chains and threw off the oppressive yoke of our evil European overlords. Smooth sailin'! I actually love being poor and watching society collapse. It's brilliant and exactly what we all voted for. No more doctors! No more teachers! No more healthcare! I actually hate being able to afford food and am glad to be living through an unprecedented mental health crisis that the government who was supposed to save us has now decried as laziness. Hooray! Hooray for everything! I'd do another Brexit if I could. Is there any way we could make things even *more* shit? Perhaps allocate the remaining community resources to pay racists to spend all day kicking us in the genitals in between painting roundabouts. Let's do a double Brexit. Just keep on Brexitin' until no buildings are left standing and everything is on fire. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🫡

The GMB union has now gained over £1bn in compensation payments for gender-based wage discrimination in local councils & is not yet finished with the claims (another 10,000 look to be launched in 2026).

Its great news for the women gaining the compensation for under-payment & shows why unions (the collective organisation of labour) is necessary & also why our political class are not keen on supporting the revival of workers' right to organise.

#workers #unions #gender
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/27/equal-pay-settlements-for-female-council-workers-pass-1bn

Oh, it's Effective Altruism bros. In other words, fascist-adjacent grifters who hate the poor and want them to die.

This is a red flag, folks: wherever you see EA boosters, if you scrape away the glossy skin of "altruism" rhetoric you'll find the grinning skull of Nazism underneath.
https://merveilles.town/@lrhodes/115792320270901533

When so-called Free Speech Absolutists begin to work hard to protect the free speech of their opponents (rather than seek political and legal means to shut them down) I'll be more inclined to believe their support for free speech in principle & not merely the attempt of the powerful to have their say while denying others their's.... until then lets be clear these supporters of free speech are not what they claim to be (which is no news to most of you, I realise).

#FreeSpeech

"Coding is no longer the bottleneck".

So what you're saying is that NOTHING HAS CHANGED.

One, two, three, four — Free the Filton 24!

"How do we distinguish ourselves from the companies in Silicon Valley?"

Ethics spring to mind.

@aral I'm Jewish, I have family in Israel and I lived with my partner in Tel Aviv for 3 months, a decade ago. But I'm outraged at the atrocities Israel has been committing and I'm infuriated both by people who conflate opposition to Israel with antisemitism, as well as those who use hatred of Israel as a justification for actual antisemitic acts. Being Jewish and a supporter of Israel are not the same thing. And I see it as the duty of Jewish people everywhere to stand against genocide.

So I accidentally blew up my Hubzilla instance. It was a perfect storm of trying to move things, trying to clean things up, cleaning *all* the wrong things and *none* of the right things, and hardware failures.

I don't think anyone was really using it apart from me and @Protestation (sorry!) and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to rebuild it, but I did — mainly because I realized that fedi really is the only way in which I socialize at all these days.

So, as sad as that is — if you're reading this, you're part of my people, and you should know that I lost quite a few of my people, so even if you don't know who I am, I would really appreciate if you boosted this post to help me find again the people who do. Thank you!