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

The public thinks climate change is just everything getting slightly hotter. But it's not.
It's war.
It's fascism.
It's famine.
It's a lack of clean drinking water.
It's forced displacement.
It's pestilence.
It's wet bulb events that will kill tens of thousands in a single day.
In essence, it's a complete collapse of the biosphere with resulting societal collapse.

It's what Bernard Woolley from “Yes, Minister” would have called 'one of those English irregular verbs’.

"The billionaire CEO has an ‘unusual' or ‘boundary-blurring' relationship with the female employees; YOU must complete a mandated sexual harassment refresher course; Bob from Accounting has been escorted out of the building.”

#ElonMusk

@Beedazzled Truly, the Tories are a death cult.

Lynn Conway, computer hardware pioneer (and genius) has passed away. None of her obits do justice to her accomplishments, so here's wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway

She pioneered asyncronous execution, VLSI circuit design, and practically the whole modern field of chip design.

She was also a trans woman who -- having been unfairly terminated by IBM -- never stopped fighting for the rights of trans people.

Rest in power, Lynn.

#UKpolitics #Sunak 's #Gender

What the hell is he on about...
While the country is looted bare, he goes on about this [relatively] non-issue.
Or at least it should be a non-issue. Who cares about the gender chosen by somebody else ?
Hasn't he got something better to talk about, saving starving people for instance.
But look at the proud adoring female faces... It scores !

"UK's Sunak on Gender: 'A Man Is a Man and a Woman Is a Woman'" [ < 1 min]
by BloombergQuicktakes

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R2DW29PkyA4

#NeverVoteConservative

@PeterGray @ChrisMayLA6

I would guess that JLL consultants have multiplied the cost of building a house conventionally. Buying land after planning consent. Maybe £500,000, or a bit less, and multiplied it by the number of houses needed.

I would estimate a local authority would be able to build a similar house for £150,000 and less for a terrace and less again for an apartment. You might be able to get it down to £100,000 but material and labour costs are high. Building at scale would help. These would be high spec maybe even passive house standard if you add £20,000ish.

So if the private sector needs £200bn, the state could do the same for £50bn ish. But it would not cost taxpayers this at all.

The best but is that the net costs is zero. State production would see any investment converted to an asset. An asset with guaranteed income. Councils could sell half of the units at market or discount rates to key workers or young families or pensions looking to downscale.

Literally, housing for free.

#OtD 11 June 1936 Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists attempted to hold an impromptu rally in Tonypandy, Wales. 6,000 locals forced the fascists to flee in what would become known as the 'Battle of De Winton Field' https://t.co/QYrb1Z56la https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8322/battle-of-de-winton-field?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

How do I register to vote in the 4 July 2024 general election? #politics https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/05/how-do-i-register-to-vote-in-4-july-2024-general-election