Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social
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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
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The week before Thanksgiving Twitter fires 4K workers, Amazon fires 10K workers, Facebook fires 11K workers, and Disney plans thousands of layoffs—all while US Billionaire pandemic wealth increased an absurd $1.7T.😳
A reminder that billionaires don’t create jobs—they exploit workers.
Tax billionaires. Unionize workers.
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Your annual energy bill:
April 2021: £1,138
April 2022: £1,971
*April 2023: £4,000
UK Energy corp annual profits:
April 2020/1: $1 billion
April 2021/2: $39 billion
April 2022/3: $74 billion
We must renationalise energy now.
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RT @MannieQuinn1
Baddiel was right to claim #jewsdontcount.
Naomi Wimborne Idrissi proved it when she was suspended by the Labour Party right after she was democratically elected as a member of the NEC.
Baddiel was totally silent on this, because she's not the kind of Jew he defends.
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RT @marksimpson82
Last RT: Even politely questioning things can remind people of an uneasy truth -- the pandemic is not over, and we should be doing more.
We mostly just pretend that the little we do is all we can ever hope to achieve. I don't blame public, gov could do so much more.
I was feeling really low and then Rosie turned up and made it OK. If you don't' have a Rosie I wish you did.
I wasn't keen on "Paper Girls" and then I saw a trailer and thought it might be worth a watch. 10 mins in looks interesting.
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@mafeesh I don't think that's true, technically, but for all practical purposes looks pretty nasty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Russia
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RT @blackintheempir
Experts in the US, who have been breaking their agreement with Russia for 30 years, are advising Ukraine who has been breaking their agreement with Russia for 8 years to not negotiate with Russia because they can't be trusted to keep their agreement.
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RT @simonmaginn
If 'Jews Don't Count', as David Baddiel asserts, it really is rather difficult to make sense of the last 6 years.
#ItWasAScam
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RT @Jackiew80333500
Baddiel waits 20 years, becoming the darling of the establishment media’s need to look elsewhere for racism, making a mint from his vacuous thesis, to apologise to Jason Lee for black face …. and it brings tears to tv critics eyes. Bullshit media
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RT @mrdavidwhitley
Just checked the last time a World Cup was held in a country where homosexuality was illegal, and of course it was England in 1966.
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RT @slutriarch
@benshapiro Why are you so upset by the truth?
The hateful rhetoric aimed at the LGBT community leads to mass casualty violence.
Take responsibility and own your words, coward.
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RT @BenChu_
Has the UK’s welfare bill really “soared by £90bn” as a result of the Autumn Statement?
A brief thread…🧵
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Exciting (for me) news. I'm writing a follow-up to #TheDecadeInTory
The book covers the fall of Johnson, drive-by prime minister Liz Truss, and the rise to power of Rishi Sunak from the Inbetweeners
The book is crowdfunded, and will be delivered to the publisher in June next year. Pre-ordering it now means your name goes in the book, plus options for a signed copy and whatnot.
Except here https://unbound.com/books/four-chancellors-and-a-funeral/excerpt
Hope you'll back it! Thanks everyone
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RT @RivkahBrown
Let me get this straight: @Baddiel only apologised to Jason Lee, 25 years after he blacked up and impersonated him, so he could *film it for his new telly show*? A show about how *anti-semitism is the most under-recognised form of racism*?
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RT @RBReich
The CEO-to-worker pay gap is now 351-to-1. In 1965, the ratio was 21-to-1. Trickle down economics is nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich bankers and wealthy executives.
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Once again if it wasn't clear:
Homophobia and transphobia aren't "opinions," they aren't 2 sided debates.
It's bigotry that leads to murder.
Spreading #QueerPhobia in any way ---
Literally kills people.
That includes politicians. It includes a whole political party.
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Being on Twitter was a lot like playing the violin on the Titanic, except we also made fun of the iceberg and the iceberg got really angry.
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This is from Scientific American, earlier this month.
What looks likely to have happened in CO (being cautious bc I don't want to get ahead of the facts) is stochastic terrorism. This was predicted. It was inevitable. We have been screaming about this, in the LGBTQ+ community, and this is likely far from end, we'll see more and more, because the anti-trans rhetoric was always leading to this.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-stochastic-terrorism-uses-disgust-to-incite-violence/
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RT @igorvolsky
The right has demonized LGBTQ people.
The right had worked to expand access to deadly firearms.
And now, an individual with a history of making violent threats killed at least 5 at Club Q in Colorado Springs. https://twitter.com/jayulfelder/status/1594320767503794176
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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
