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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you know, i'm pretty fucking sick of billionaires
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As both Labour & the #Tories scrabble to find new ways to 'listen to business', we seem to be caught up in the old claim that 'What is good for GM is good for the USA'... refracted into UK #politics (again).
However, what experience tells us is that Capital's factional interests seldom produce a political economy that serves the long-term general interests of #business or us.
We need politicians with clear & workable economic strategies, not people who respond to the CEO's who shout loudest!
@NedMan a chip that catches fire in your brain.
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Microsoft has endorsed KOSA, the legislation that the GOP wants to use to cut off access to information for LGBTQ youth (leading to untold self-harm, suicide and destroyed lives) and ruin the open Internet with ID requirements.
Please contact your reps and demand they vote against it.
Also, fuck you, Microsoft.
To take quick action: https://www.stopkosa.com/
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Although prepared for last Autumn's budget, this briefing from the Women's Budget Group on #gender & #taxation remains apposite as the #Tories contemplate more destruction & hobbling of #publicservices:
'Because of structural gender inequalities in the labour market and society – and because women are more likely to be unpaid carers - women rely particularly on public services. Cuts in public services therefore have a disproportionately detrimental impact on women'!
https://wbg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Tax-Pre-Budget-Briefing-Autumn-2023-FINAL.pdf
I went walking in my old blog and found a couple of articles I think are decent
https://francis.fish/2021/08/15/the-tina-disease/
https://francis.fish/2021/03/02/emotional-labour-and-the-paradox-of-ownership/
In fact there's a lot there when I look
Things make more sense now http://smbc-comics.com/comic/consciousness-3
By "Those folks" I mean the people complaining
Keep seeing crying about a small number of people in the Green party who went along with #ItWasAScam - not good.
Those folks happily voted for the party that killed millions of Iraqis and Afghanis, and was going to carry on with austerity too.
Think a bit harder, please.
@RealJournalism Accountable?
Have a read of a book called “Endless Holocausts”
There has never been any accountability except when fuelled by the needs of the empire to browbeat the enemy du jour
See also “American Exceptionalism and American Innocence”, which seems to be the story you’re telling here
Is anyone else pasting this URL every time they see a Brewdog ad? https://www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/brewdog-pay-the-real-living-wage
It certainly does :)
@angusm @cstross @pluralistic have you seen Dark Star? Where the bomb has to be talked out of blowing up and changes its mind later.
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To me, the most frustrating thing about capitalism is not that it exploits everything and commodifies everything and then, ultimately, turns all those things into trash.
The most frustrating thing about capitalism is that it has created such intellectual decay among most humans, that it is deemed as normal to accept that if something cannot be solved by the market, then it cannot be solved at all.
@Adam_Cadmon1 And given there still is systemic discrimination what they're actually saying is they're fine with it and don't want to be reminded.
BrewDog's decision to withdraw the real Living Wage for bar workers during the most acute cost of living crisis in a generation is outrageous.
Add your name: @FairHospitality @BrewDog @BrewDogJames https://www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/brewdog-pay-the-real-living-wage
"ended very badly"
Yeah - the restoration starved millions and we now have an oligarchy waging wars on people.
Children born in that period have the markers of living through a famine.
They were promised the social net they had AND the western consumerism built on robbing the global south. Apart from the oligarchs they got neither.
Ghost seems to be the platform of choice, either self hosted or paying. Also if you self host you aren't giving 10% of your income to people you'd rather avoid.
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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
