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

@sundogplanets While simultaneously the UK and a few others are planning to seed clouds and do other stupid stuff in order to make it rain. Between too many satellites, too much space junk, a massive fuck-off mirror thing, and a bunch of chemicals which will rain back down on everything and everyone, and the negative effect on plants, micro-organisms, insects, birds, wildlife, then whole environment - all these entities incredibly stupid, or drunk on their own apparent power, or control freaks? One thing’s a certainly in all this - The Law Of Unintended Consequences - most of which will be unwelcome and unwanted, and difficult to manage.

@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!

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!

#law #feminism

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/13/i-hate-sitting-in-silence-now-nicola-packer-on-clearing-her-name-after-the-trauma-of-her-abortion-trial

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. --

Vibe coding claims of the "hours instead of weeks" variety are rarely accompanied by an actual example.

But when they are, they sure do look like they would have taken hours - maybe a Wordle clone or a Quote Of The Day app or a TO-DO list thingummy.

Y'know. The kind of stuff you might build at a hackathon.

I need to be very clear, that the push towards "vibe coding" - that is, deliberately deskilling people - is because AI code assistants are an (increasingly expensive) subscription service.

If you know how to code, you can just write Python, C, Java, R, PHP, whatever for free and make things. You may not own the tools of production, but at least you're not renting them.

If you have been deskilled so you only know how to vibe code, you will be paying for that privilege forever.

This also goes, by the way, for researchers who are starting to be convinced they don't need to learn how to be scientists anymore, because "the AI" can just do the science for them. Nope.

Hey Siri, define “lunatic hero”

“The blood of a US man who deliberately injected himself with snake venom for nearly two decades has led to an “unparalleled” antivenom, say”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr5d0l7el36o

Here's a great analysis of the Runcorn by-election from @CherylMorgan which seeks to correct various misapprehensions about why Reform won, whose votes they gained, and why Labour (and the media) are drawing the wrong conclusions.

And its admirably concise for a busy Saturday morning.

#politics #runcorn

h/t @Naich

https://www.cheryl-morgan.com/lies-damned-lies-and-the-british-press/

Anti-trans attitudes have existed for years, but organized disinformation campaigns are increasingly driving them https://phys.org/news/2025-04-anti-trans-attitudes-years-disinformation.html #science

It is weirdly jarring to see the Orange Lunatics ranting about how allowing backdoors and exceptions to secure messaging or crypto is a bad idea because "they can also be exploited by bad actors" whilst they are also advocating that the app stores have backdoors and exceptions. Do they think "bad actors" won't rush to exploit those as well?

(Who am I kidding? Most of the Orange Lunatics work for those "bad actors" in the first place. They're almost gleeful at the possibility of being able to shovel their ad-infested malware in front of billions of eyeballs with no constraints on what they can abuse.)

Ghengis Khan just crossed the floor to join Labour and there are rumours that Attila the Hun will follow. Both are dissatisfied with Sunak's policy on employment rights.