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

Sentiments (quite widely) expressed recently:

Once you've jailed protesters for 5 years for peaceful protests, the next wave may well work on the assumption that 'you might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb' & shift to actions that more clearly carry prison sentences.

Will we see the right-wing demonstrators who disrupted people's daily lives in Southport & elsewhere handed similar sentences (if & when caught) that were handed out to the Just Stop Oil protesters?

#politics #ruleoflaw

Infosec peeps: Patrick McKenzie (@patio11) wrote an excellent overview of the Crowdstrike debacle for novice users. It explains things like the difference between kernelspace and userspace, and has an appropriately high level of snark throughout.

The focus towards the end is why this hit US banks at a disproportionally high rate, and why it could have been much worse for all of us.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/crowdstrike-bug-hit-banks-hard/

Would be nice if NHTSA spoke about road safety as clearly as Jalopnik.

https://jalopnik.com/these-are-the-unbreakable-rules-of-driving-1851608168/slides/8

Austerity does not save money https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/07/31/austerity-does-not-save-money/ Like almost all economic truths, austerity works in the opposite way to that which most people think. It does not save money. Instead, it prevents the government from creating the money required to deliver what the economy is capable of.

Taxing the rich isn't enough. Don't say "tax the rich," say "expropriate the rich."

Vivian Wilson, a daughter of Elon Musk who he keeps verbally attacking at every possible opportunity for being trans, has spoken out on Threads about all the misinformation Musk has been spreading and how her experience of this abuse has been.

You can read many of her statements in the following posts:

1 - Debunking the Misinformation Thread

2 - Response

3 - “Didn't Know I was Dead”

4 - She Disowned Him

5 - Response to Conservative Reactions

6 - Elon Musk Illegally Keeping Children of Grimes

(if your instance federates with threads you may be able to read them directly)

Keep it going, girl! ✨🏳️‍⚧️

"Obviously Elon can’t say the same because in a ketamine-fueled haze, he’s desperate for attention and validation from an army of degenerate red-pilled incels and pick-mes who are quick to give it to him."

https://www.advocate.com/news/elon-musk-trans-daughter-vivian-wilson