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 @WillBlackWriter
Tory @BenHouchen is blocking everyone who tweets this article from @PrivateEyeNews - as though he imagines covering his eyes will make it vanish.
Why though isn't @BBCNews, the @DailyMailUK covering it? Do they share the same political stance?
RT @jdpoc
@GregHands The campaign to stop the deportations was joined by Tory MPs.
The deportations were stopped, because they were illegal, as decided by the highest court in the land.
Why do you hate British laws? Why do you hate British justice?
RT @Agitate4Change
Twitter gave Keith a fact-check wedgie 😂🤣😂🤣😂 https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1648395000017981441
RT @docrussjackson
#THREAD
Matt Goodwin argues a new ‘woke aristocracy’ has taken control of British society & are imposing their ideology on everyone else, & that this influence is more significant than 13 years of Tory rule, the right-wing media, & corporate interests.🤪
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/14/first-edition-new-elite-matthew-goodwin?CMP=share_btn_tw
RT @AaronBastani
This is really fantastic from @paulpowlesland with Nigel Farage.
Calm, confident, informed, persuasive.
RT @Rachael_Swindon
Can someone possibly justify to me spending £100 million from the public purse placing a crown on the head of an unelected monarch while pensioners are freezing to death and children are eating out of street bins?
RT @wisecur
@brokenbottleboy They get owned so easily
GB is an anachronistic joke. But I ain't laughing.
Shards from Christ's cross to be used in coronation, by @LKTranslator https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/shards-from-christs-cross-to-be-used?r=cfvq7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Been listening to @pluralistic 's Little Brother trilogy. Super fun! I hadn't realized it was YA fiction ahead of time, so not my usual genre, but it's still quite fun and a great way to pass the time on long road trips. (I'm about half way through book two.)
Besides the plot, the main character/narrator dives into explanations of things like public/private key cryptography, history of the internet, Alan Turing and Enigma, the founding of EFF, copyright and trademark law and lots of other interesting topics. (I'm guessing that more than a few of the events are autobiographical.)
I'm having a lot of fun with it. Highly recommended. Looking forward to upcoming (adult fiction) book Red Team Blues.
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Humans don't have to be likable
I'll add: people don't have to be likable or nice to you or grateful, to deserve food, housing, kindness and care (including healthcare)
There is no such thing as "undeserving poor".
Every poor person deserves help and respect; if you have a mental file or image of people who are undeserving of either, you need to look at yourself.
Poverty ain't a moral failure.
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Quote from article: Once the Nazis took power they banned books, outlawed drag shows and homosexuality, changed school curricula to remove mention of their atrocities in WWI, and rewrote election laws so they’d never again lose an election.
My thoughts: A whole bunch of people, myself included, started pointing out parallels between the Trump-era GOP and the Nazis well before he was elected. We were accused of employing hyperbole, and told to "give him a chance."
Well, just call me Cassandra ... because here we are.
Just. Like. I. Said. We. Would. Be.
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Human rights are universal. It’s not for this Government to pick and choose who does and doesn’t deserve them
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/1aef6730-deef-11ed-a0a8-657f9e54fc6a?shareToken=43c2d6a9994fcb2d6d982c121c2d64e9
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This is Ralph Yarl’s official Go Fund Me page. Please donate. Thank you.
#JusticeForRalphYarl #RalphYarl #BlackMastodon #Mastodon #usa #AndrewLester
RT @Isobel_waby
congratulations to @SamGorst standing as an Independent Labour Councillor in Liverpool. NOT afraid to show he supports the many not the few, supporting+working for all regardless of race or colour, that is what REAL SOCIALIST do unlike Starmers Cult full of bitterness+ignorance.
RT @Kit_Yates_Maths
“the current Prime Minister, his predecessor Boris Johnson and his Deputy, Dominic Raab, are all now under simultaneous investigation for alleged parliamentary and ministerial rule-breaches.”
Latest from @AdamBienkov @BylineTimes
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/04/18/everything-to-declare-the-conflicts-of-interest-rishi-sunak-wont-talk-about/
RT @magmogz135
@ToryFibs Remember when @jeremycorbyn won the 'MP of the Year' award & they decided to drop it that year?! 😄
And yesterday, @loosewomen got 96% on a poll about protesting & deleted it 😉
Their getting more & more desperate as they know they've lost all the arguments🤷♀️
#CapitalismAndGreed
RT @AndyPeacock999
@CatHobbs @LabourList Why would anyone support the nation's food supply being in the hands of the likes of the
greedy and unscrupulous heirs of Shirley 'Tesco ' Porter?
Nationalisation of supermarkets seems pretty sensible whilst supporting a thriving and diverse farming industry.
The tragedy of the commons is what happens when you let market-driven ideologues fuck things up.
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A note on a key chapter of neoliberal theology:
'The Tragedy of the Commons thesis has been thoroughly debunked by Nobel prize winning development economist Elinor Ostrom and countless other researchers and practitioners; they have shown that, in fact, most commons like grazing lands and water supply are not open access regimes but managed very successfully through community institutions and local access rules.'
@pvonhellermannn
https://medium.com/@p.vonhellermann/the-tragedy-of-the-non-commons-4bfad884cdbe
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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
