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

I was being "funny". Someone made it funnier. Well played. 👏🏼

@ravensrod

A lot of Germans are posting in German about #Giessen today, and since many of our friends overseas may be confused, here's a summary:

The current iteration of the Nazi-Party, the AfD, is holding a summit in the town of Giessen today. They announced the formation of a youth org (Hitler-Jugend?). A ton of people came to protest. The police are busy protecting the Nazis, and politicians in the current government see fit to attack the protesters.

This needs international attention.

#depol

OwnCast is a Fediverse alternative to Amazon's Twitch. It's a livestreaming platform with built-in chat. You can chat without an account, or use your Mastodon etc account to verify your chat identity. Lots more info here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/owncast-live-streaming-and-chat-on-the-fediverse

If you'd like to try it out, you can follow this OwnCast account that holds regular music streams and it will post in your Mastodon etc feed when it next goes live:

➡️ @video

#FediTips

David Hinchliffe offers an uncomfortable truth in a letter to the Guardian:

'In what is now very much a our “me first” society, it is swimming against the tide to refer to the common good. But accessing private healthcare is anything but a neutral act. It significantly worsens the prospects of those who are unable, or unwilling, to take this step, whose health problems are often considerably worse than those of the queue-jumpers'.

#SaveOurNHS #heath #NHS #politics

@francis @markdennehy Separated by 75-80 years, alas. That's two *long* political careers apart.

Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.

A new decade-long Brexit study explains it: a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year

– means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.

Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.

https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/new-boris-johnsons-brexit-titanic-success-was-half-right/

@junesim63 I taught an Afghani girl in 2000. She was in my GCSE class. She was a widow, who had been tortured by the people who had killed her husband. She had to leave school to help her mother with her asylum case.
When I think of refugees, I think of her.
Western politicians have money and land for data centres but not for people.
What is the point of democracy if those are its values?

RFK, Jr., Releases Report Attacking Medical Care for Trans Children | Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-jr-releases-report-attacking-medical-care-for-trans-children/

Bosses see the magic show of generative AI, and then employees are tasked with pulling actual rabbits out of actual hats.

It's important that decision-makers see the rehearsal.