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

@NedMan a chip that catches fire in your brain.

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

https://francis.fish/posts/

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

@angusm @cstross @pluralistic

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.

@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.

Meanwhile, out of sight https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/palestine-west-bank-israel-settlers-waging-second-nakba-as-war-on-gaza-rages

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

@argv_minus_one @cstross

"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.

I used it for my stuff because it was easy, and it meant people could follow and get an email when I posted something new. I never asked for money because I have enough and wanted to make sure the people who needed it were getting it.

I have a couple of posts almost ready to go but ...

Time to move, probably to something I host myself. It's just boring. I ain't gonna help pay any fash though. They get enough mainstream help as it is.

fin/