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

It’s essential that those who are most at need are aware of this! Please share widely. While it shouldn’t be necessary, it is!

These fuckers are content to watch us die.

This bullshit is going to condemn our species to extinction unless we find a way to depose these sociopaths.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/03/back-into-caves-cop28-president-dismisses-phase-out-of-fossil-fuels

#cop28 #copOut #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

My daughter snagged this screenshot before it changed. Enjoy

#kissinger #wikipedia #hell #henrykissinger

Anyway, the age of tech workers being treated well is over.

If you're a tech worker, you should be in a union.

You will be fucked over. You will be treated poorly. You will be stack ranked and fired over arbitrary bullshit.

When you get to your next employer, start on day one. Talk to every rank and file member of the org about unionizing. Make it happen. We have to protect ourselves.

Hey folks!

Please do NOT report artists for sharing links to where their art is available to purchase!

Just DO NOT be such a jerk!

If you want artists to keep sharing their work on mastodon, this whole "absolute no commercial posts at all" attitude has to stop. There is a huge difference between a big corporate ad campaign and an individual artist posting a link to their own art shop.

Edit/Update: Well, this blew up. I'm muting now, and won't see replies.

#ArtForSale #art #visSocialTips

I am urging you to check out my Low Quality Facts merch. Not because Redbubble is having a bunch of Black Friday sales, but so I can show my family a screenshot of the receipt during Thanksgiving dinner and say "Who's wasting their life now, nerds?"
https://www.redbubble.com/people/LowQualityFacts/shop?utm_source=rb-native-app&utm_campaign=share-artist&utm_medium=android

And so the #Tories have weaponised #workingfromhome in their bid to force #longterrmsick & those with mental conditions (leaving them unable to leave the house) back to work...

Sarah White, the head of policy at the national disability charity Sense (quoted in the Guardian) said:
'Everyone should be able to work if they want to and can, but this latest government move looks sets to punish disabled people, adding more anxiety on to disabled households that are already struggling'!

How do you make a billion dollars in #capitalism

The question is answered by #RobertReich
a Professor at UC Berkeley (incidentally, former U.S. Secretary of Labor, who served in the Ford, Carter and Clinton administrations).

The counter girl hopped right up when I walked in and was clocking in to help me.

Me: were you on break? I can wait until it's over I'm not in a hurry.

Her: no, we're supposed to clock out when there aren't customers

Me: oh no, honey, no. That's illegal.

Her: 😳

Me: not for you, for your manager or whoever told you to do that.

Her: it is?

Me: it's called wage theft when your boss doesn't pay you what you earned. when your boss requires you to stay here, he needs you pay you for your time.

Her: oh.

Me: here, this is the office number to an employment lawyer, call her and tell her you need to come in to talk about this

Her: I don't have any money

Me: we're gonna get your money, you already earned it sweetie.

Edit message to include a link to info about worker's rights:

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/workers

Sunak scraps cap on bankers bonuses.

But won't give junior doctors a genuine pay rise

And the number of people in destitution has more than doubled in the last 5 years

But the little prince still insists he's delivering for the "British People"

Priorities so fucked, it hurts

Sarah Murphy

Waitin' for people to stop being excited about paying what used to get you a house for an electric car, and start being excited about paying an extra hundred bucks a year in taxes for an amazing transit system.

Electric cars are not going to make it okay to keep living like we do. It was never okay.

The argument “nobody would choose certain jobs if they had a universal basic income,”is revealing.

It means your way of living depends on the coercion of others; that nobody would find it worth doing those tasks for you without the threat of starvation, which you created artificially.

Nigel Farage ‘giving very serious consideration’ to joining I’m A Celebrity - Evening Standard

https://apple.news/ADPyD23NBR5mUbBqFWy1yyA. Wouldn’t it be cannibalism for one arsehole to eat another?

Hey folks, I've seen a lot of talk going around about adblockers lately. I worked in the advertising technology and security industry for five years and the one core piece of advice I have is:

Holy fuck never give an advertiser your data. You cannot believe how bad it is. Don't. I run three layers of ad block protection and I'd run more if it was feasible. If you want to support creators give them money.