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

Some comments and thoughts after being on the receiving end of various interview processes

The vicissitudes of interviews:

https://francisfish.com/so-the-vicissitudes-of-interviews/

@kinetix @ottaross @FiXato They deleted some kind of SQL fix one time. Something to do with it not being in the right place or something. Thing is, it was the only place on the Internet where you could find an answer to that question.

So the pedantic nonsense meant that it disappeared.

Plutocrat wealth creates black holes in society that suck resources and monopolise decision making away from the rest of us. We must move away from the peculiar distortions created by this wealth by abolishing it. You often see the phrase tax the rich - but have you thought past this a little? It implies the rich, with their black hole wealth warping and tearing the world - wrecking it for the rest of us, should still exist but be a bit nicer ...

https://greenplenty.substack.com/p/engines-of-change

From Anne Pettifor:

Asset price inflation and the consequent rise in the wealth of the 1% is so normalised, it is scarcely discussed – even by the 99%. But we have lived through forty years of what Whitney Baker rightly calls “hyperfinancialisation” and an orgy of money-funded speculation. “We know nothing but relentless asset appreciation.”

The rich cannot believe their forty years of ‘easy money’ luck.

https://annpettifor.substack.com/p/central-bankers-inflation-cousins

Not enough people know about this

Those Angry at Rushdie’s Stabbing Have Been Missing In Action Over a Far Bigger Threat to our Freedom https://www.mintpressnews.com/salman-rushdie-stabbing-julian-assange-freedom/281757/#.Yvyz5mUmv8M.twitter

Sentence I just got from an article in the Financial Times about public sector pay:

Fresh evidence of the pressing need to recruit and retain more staff was highlighted in new research by the Health Foundation on Wednesday. It found that the NHS in England could face a shortfall of about 38,000 full-time equivalent registered nurses by 2023-24 if it is to continue to deliver pre-pandemic levels of care.

This shit cannot go on.

The fact that someone could write this and not feel any apparent shame is quite shocking

https://web.archive.org/web/20211128214718/https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/benefits-world-hunger