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
RT @shaun_vids
got no time for ostensible leftists who sit on the sidelines declaring 'the left' should be doing this or focusing on that. if you're part of the left, get on it
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Today, I realized that maths problems are the only place where someone can buy 60 watermelons and no one wonders why.
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My GP surgery just sent out a message saying all non-critical care has been suspended until further notice. Is this the sunlit upland? Best not get ill.
New Green Plenty article
No Plan for Utopia
But a better world is necessary
Over the break my MiL said she found it really annoying to have to pick the Aubergine (Egg Plant) from shop bought Moussaka ready meals.
I'm still laughing (but to myself).
@Zenbuffy WHen I graduated with Applied Statistics and Computing in 1987 ⅓ of the cohort were women. So something happened, the current picture is not what it was like originally.
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"My daughter got to do this program and there's nothing for my son, he's missing out, that's not fair, why can't you run it for him?"
Everything in tech is already for him 🤷 I'm trying to make it so the next generation of girls don't have to be the only woman in the room.
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RT @BeckettUnite
Wholesale gas is lower today than it was 457 days ago.
Your gas bill has nearly trebled since then.
A rip off.
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“In #Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment and counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Make sure everyone understands this — It’s costing us far too much to NOT provide housing and supports to those who are homeless.
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Nurses’ strikes rock Britain’s National Health Service https://www.workers.org/2023/01/68430/
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RT @CarolineLucas
Vital reading👇. The #NHS crisis is deepening by the day, people are dying unnecessarily, staff are beyond exhausted, saying they’ve never known such horrific conditions. Where the hell are you @SteveBarclay @RishiSunak? Just how bad does it have to get before you act? https://twitter.com/msbethanj/status/1610025560226373637
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RT @NiSoc6655
The only meaningful vote you have now is to not vote for the three Establishment parties.
A vote for any of them is a vote for austerity continuity.
Just published No Plan for Utopia
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RT @Teh_Snowflake
In our neoliberal context, it’s hard to know how to approach false consciousness.
Our society views the capitalist mindset merely as an innocuous form of idealism.
Try to inject dialectical materialism into the conversation, and you’re just a “meaniepants dream crusher.”
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RT @1957AJB
The NHS is in crisis-Hundreds of extra people are dying every week-Where the hell is @SteveBarclay ? Why isn't the 'flagship news programme of the BBC' demanding he provide a minimum service level of appearances to provide information about what he is doing? #r4today
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@workingclasshistory
The UK Conservatives have been using their propaganda playbook for decades.
The last round of Tory austerity saw a disproportionately huge rise in recorded deaths of people with disabilities as the state systematically reduced their benefits and excluded them from society while pushing a narrative that anyone not contributing financially was a burden and parasite.
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I was talking to a pair of Catholics. One mentioned how Pope Benedict, who died this week, was barely mentioned in mass this morning. The other responded that their priest gave a lot of time remembering him.
Me: "You know why they're not talking about him much, don't you? The same reason he retired. He was complicit in child rape."
The 2nd Catholic got angry at me, for bringing that up.
They got angry at *me*.
Not at Benedict.
This is what patriarchy does to people.
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I'm glad insulin is capped at $35 for people on Medicare. It's a bill Democrats unanimously vote for, and so-called "pro life" Republicans unanimously opposed.
But here's the thing.
Insulin needs to be free & accessible to all people. Healthcare is a human right & there's no reason why corporations should profit billions off a life saving drug, the patent for which was sold for $3.
In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no person should struggle with insulin access. #MakeInsulinFree
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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
