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 @simonmaginn
Bank of England’s top economists tells households they ‘need to accept’ being poorer https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/huw-pill-bank-of-england-b2326566.html
I think poor Diane Abbot has just had enough. I don’t blame her.
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we need to expand the definition of violence in people's minds to include indirect violence that the state perpetuates on a mass scale
someone who starves to death because they were cut off benefits was murdered by the person who signed the piece of paper that resulted in people having their benefits cut off
someone who was arrested and imprisoned and dies in prison because they were not given medical care was murdered by the state just as much as if they were directly killed by a cop
someone who dies of a viral disease because the state decided people don't have to wear masks and it is better to let people die of disease than hamper economic growth died because of state policy, the people who made this decision have blood on their hands
houseless people who freeze to death because cops got rid of the tents they were sleeping in were murdered by the cops and by the politicians who ordered the tent camp evictions
someone who dies of a stress related illness because they couldn't take time off work without starving to death died because of capitalism
it is not okay to demonize self defense against indirect violence as if it was the ones defending themselves who started the violence, and not seeing indirect violence for what it is contributes to this
someone who starves to death because they were cut off benefits was murdered by the person who signed the piece of paper that resulted in people having their benefits cut off
someone who was arrested and imprisoned and dies in prison because they were not given medical care was murdered by the state just as much as if they were directly killed by a cop
someone who dies of a viral disease because the state decided people don't have to wear masks and it is better to let people die of disease than hamper economic growth died because of state policy, the people who made this decision have blood on their hands
houseless people who freeze to death because cops got rid of the tents they were sleeping in were murdered by the cops and by the politicians who ordered the tent camp evictions
someone who dies of a stress related illness because they couldn't take time off work without starving to death died because of capitalism
it is not okay to demonize self defense against indirect violence as if it was the ones defending themselves who started the violence, and not seeing indirect violence for what it is contributes to this
@cyrilpedia Unbelievable. I thought this was put to bed 50 years ago. A dentist friend did once say that Afro Caribbean folk can have brittle teeth and it meant taking special care doing extractions, but that’s just being a decent human.
RT @RedJohnBounds
@OliProbertHill Can you show me where Starmer has committed to these?
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I'm sorry but this is just the funniest shit ever.
These losers were mad that celebs had checkmarks and they didn't. Now they can buy the same checkmark and they're mad that the celebs won't.
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I've seen other terms, but I use the label "fossbro" to refer to a set of toxic attitudes which through their vocalness defines the software freedom movement to those outside it.
Comprising:
* Ableism, thinking everyone should have the skills & desire to modify their software.
* Entitlement, thinking they're the entirety of the community a FOSS project may wish to serve. Harassing you if you e.g. reduce the visibility of configuration options.
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RT @RedJohnBounds
@tracieo41096854 Funny how the far right give a fuck about homeless people only when they can use it to attack immigrants.
RT @TheAuracl3
Welp. What Klint is saying about his granddad is what just about every white person with racist relatives has said: it’s not just racism handed down from a bygone era. It is active radicalisation and no one else in the family wants to or is equipped to deal with it. https://twitter.com/cwebbonline/status/1649242754537644039
RT @Nurseborisbash
The same people who think that woke is an insult, also think the victims of bullying are snowflakes.
I'm shocked.
Shocked🤭
RT @paulbristow79
We are not a serious country https://twitter.com/dominicraab/status/1649334236216713219
RT @RedJohnBounds
@sales_belinda If you have to become the Tories to beat the Tories, you haven't beaten the Tories.
RT @Normanjam671
I'm chronically ill and bedbound.
It isn't benefit fraudsters causing me to not have enough money to live on, it's a political class that doesn't fucking care.
This is the Minister of State for Disabled People playing at being a police officer.
RT @RedJohnBounds
@UKIP You're scum.
RT @Ladyblues666
@nazirafzal @mettlesome_teri What of Starmer's bullying of his 'friend' and colleague Jeremy Corbyn?
Or is it just Tory bullying that offends your sensibilities?
RT @jasongorman
Seems to me like gov't agencies, media outlets, news orgs etc couldcollaborate on a 3rd-party system of social media account verification and technology companies and OSS communities could work on API protocols and client s/w that takes TW etc out of the loop completely
RT @AndyPeacock999
Frightening disabled people to stop claiming benefits, to kill themselves, to live in fear?
This is fascism. https://twitter.com/DWPgovuk/status/1648998758766575619
RT @Normanjam671
Attacking the poor during a cost of living crisis, I'm shocked. 🙃 https://twitter.com/DWPgovuk/status/1648998758766575619
RT @ShihabSJoi
@DWPgovuk @VotePursglove You sick twisted out of touch bollockbags may you rot in the sewer we flush you into
All the folks putting on the tin foil hats because there's going to be a test of an emergency warning system. Calm the fuck down.
Get angry about the right things. This isn't one of them. People doing their jobs and testing a system designed to warn you of danger are not your enemy. This smells like Daily Mail paranoid nonsense.
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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
