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

When politicians say protestors against immigrants have 'legitimate concerns' they may be right;

protestors are concerned about the continuing cost-of-living crisis, the unavailability of good jobs in their area, the feeling that society is stacked against them.... but, what his not legitimate is seeking to channel that disquiet & frustration & turn the blame on migrants.

The real reason for this social malaise is home-grown not the migrants... its classic bait & switch politics.

#politics

Report: "No more silence, no more complicity": more than 60 EU lawmakers demand an emergency meeting to sanction Israel.

They also demanded that the EU lobby member states to implement an arms embargo on Israel & "sanctions against the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation & individuals within the organisation."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/eu-members-demand-emergency-meeting-sanction-israel

#EU #USPOL #EuroPol #BDS #GazaGenocide #GHF #USCo-perpetrator .

Imagine being a welder. And every day you come to work you have to worry about whether your tools are where you left them. Or if your controls have been reversed. Or the tanks are mislabeled or rearranged. Or if your 110v equipment suddenly requires 220v. Or the trigger on your MIG welder only works after you tap on three fire hydrants. Or your visor has ads pop up in the way of your vision. Or cameras and microphones show up to record all your work and you don't know who has access to those recordings. Or that supply of rods you just purchased will no longer work with your torch because the manufacturer decided that you can only use rods purchased from them, even though that was not disclosed at the time of purchase.

Why the fuck does tech get away with it?

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If you read the Daily Mail, you are by definition, misinformed.

The word 'ye' in names such as Ye Olde Inn ('the old inn') was originally simply pronounced 'the'.

The pronunciation with y is due to a misinterpretation of the first letter.

'Ye' originated as a second-best way of writing 'þe'. The first letter, þ, was called thorn. It was a letter for the th sound that originated in Old English.

Where did þ come from? How did it disappear? And why was it substituted by y in the word 'ye'?

Click my new infographic to read all about it:

So, it looks like the Govt. is throwing OFWAT under the bus as a key cause of the ongoing crisis in water & sewage provision.... but this suggests two further Q.s:

Can & will a 'new' regulator be any better? Getting a new regulator up to speed without using OFWAT's old staff may be slow...

but, also will this then be allowed to let the actual culprits (the where firms) off the hook ('we were badly regulated, gov').

As an attempt to draw a line it may not work

#water
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/18/ofwat-to-be-abolished-as-ministers-explore-creating-new-water-regulator

During my 60+ years of life I have never seen a right-wing party achieve power by telling the truth. Not once. Anywhere.

“UKLFI said a Massive Attack show last month had prompted complaints by Jewish and Israeli audience members because it included comparison of Israel’s actions with the Holocaust ‘We wrote to Massive Attack to convey this, and requested that future performances do not repeat these actions. We believe in free speech and artistic expression however we felt this performance crossed a line and made audience members feel deeply traumatised.’” Not as traumatised as the people in #Gaza

Yesterday was my first bad day on Mastodon, and what happened to me could happen to you, so let me explain what went down, and how I got blocked by a lot of people.

In March, I wrote a post critical of Musk (picture 1). I then asked another Mastodon user (Harriett) whom I have found friendly, if she would help me translate a Danish phrase to English, and linked to the Musk post where the phrase would be relevant.

But yesterday — 4 months later — that blew up in my face. Here is how…

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