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

@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!

Ran into a problem in prod?
Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix.

https://github.com/donlon/cloudflare-error-page

#foss #devops #cloudflare #infosec

A while ago I posted about the legendary #Duralex glasses from France, and how the workers, facing possible bankruptcy, decided to turn it into a cooperative rather than accept being sold to investors that wanted to fire a third of the people. Well. They grew their revenue by 22% and plan to break even in 2027. They crowdfunded emergency funding, planned to be €5M which they had to stop when €20M was pledged within 48 hours. YES!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/22/french-people-want-to-save-us-help-pours-glassmaker-duralex

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What happened at Bondi, is a tragedy and is horrific, we should all spare a minute to reflect and offer condolences to those poor people and their families. As usual this butcher is trying to take advantage of a tragedy and make it everyone else’s fault. If you don’t support us, no matter what we do, this is what happens, it’s rhetoric we have heard from Israeli governments before. Ignore my genocide, my forced starvation of people, the state sponsored rapes, the murders and cover up’s of doctors, journalists etc. if there is a wider picture here and there shouldn’t be for now, let people mourn. If Netanyahu is looking to blame someone other than two scumbags with guns and heads full of shit, he should be looking in a mirror ……

#bondibeach #bondi #netanyahu #netanyahuwarcriminal #israel #gaza #gazagenocide

As Roy Lilley (NHSManagers.net) points out:

'The UK has around 2.5 hospital beds per 1,000 population. Across much of Western Europe & the OECD, the figure is typically between four & eight. Germany; eight beds per 1,000, France around six, Italy three & a half'.

Driven by ideas from Just-in-Time manufacturing the NHS has little spare capacity even before any surges. The winter crisis is not seasonal its a symptom of a service with too little slack being run on mistaken grounds!

#NHS #health

@ChrisMayLA6 The most comprehensive dataset for Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) crime we have for England and Wales is the Complex and Organised Child Abuse Dataset (COCAD), and what we see is that the only ethnic group somewhat over-represented in the data is white British men.

This will be due to being the most privileged group, and having more opportunities for abuse (leveraging positions of power, etc.). The Quillium Foundation and Centre for Migration Control reports have been discredited.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/14/city-guilds-uk-workforce-peoplecert-cost-cutting-drive by

At a time when the U.K. needs to address youth unemployment and increase productivity, we see City & Guilds, one of its proudest, primary educational and certification institutions, sold to an overseas Private Equity company to be sweated and stripped. Seems completely counterproductive. The UK desperately needs such organisations. As a teenager, I topped up my education by working through levels 1-3 of the C programming language C&G. It's transformed my career. The UK industrial strategy appears to be a joke. What is it, and how do we help young people learn the right things and get into the workplace? Maddening to watch us dismantle ourselves like this.

We know your brother's dying - please direct your enquiries to our lawyers.

Our government are fucking monsters.

"The prison, she said, has blocked the hospital from directly providing medical updates to her brother's family and solicitor, instructing them to go through the hospital’s legal team instead."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/families-say-they-are-being-blocked-contacting-palestine-action-hunger-strikers-hospital

#UKPolitics #SupportTheHungerStrike #FreePalestine #GlobaliseTheIntifada

Online age verification isn't the same as a quick ID flash: it's surveillance. These systems collect your data and undermine your ability to anonymously access and discuss sensitive topics online. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/why-isnt-online-age-verification-just-showing-your-id-person

From the estimable Stephen Collins

Because age verification is really just there to:

- suppress queer information
- restrict abortion access
- gatekeep sexual education
- slurp up more personal data for marketing

"But think of the children!"

Maybe we should think about the corporations that prey on their attention-spans and self-esteem instead.

Sign stuff here:
https://www.stoponlineidchecks.org

Info on how to help here:
https://docs.fightforthefuture.org/s/637497e2-8a61-42aa-82fe-1b847e113ebb#h-what-are-online-id-checks-and-why-are-they-a-threat

#CallToAction #Activism #InternetSafety