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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@Geri More power to your elbow Geri. As one who has been fortunate not to have needed any benefit (and my late wife stubbornly refused to countenance claiming for her own disability, and we were fortunate enough to be able to live on one income), I look from the outside at the dreadful inequities inherent in the system that increasingly appears to be set up to punish those who are unable to work. Uncaring, unfeeling, discriminatory and thoroughly unfair. 😢
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One of my friends wrote this about big tech’s contempt for everyone else, an eloquent critique in my opinion
https://open.substack.com/pub/whatwelost/p/the-biggest-insult
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I’ve been reading “Hayek’s Bastards”. What shocked me is how racist they are. All the so-called “race realism” has roots in neoliberalism too.
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Sooooo... we realised at the weekend that the blog Moira originally wrote about Althea Gibson for is offline.
Luckily, we kept a copy on file, so today we have a NEW blogpost with a revised and updated version.
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Yesterday Dutch parliament shamefully passed an extreme law criminalizing being undocumented, and also criminalizing aiding undocumented people. The Dutch national police has now released a statement that they can't support this. Most appreciated. https://www.politie.nl/nieuws/2025/juli/4/00-reactie-politie-op-instemming-tweede-kamer-met-anmw.html
Just deleted blue sky and threads from my phone again.
Too much like Twitter, I was getting wound up by strangers with bad takes who seem to be rather too fond of murdering children.
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Been a while since I did this
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Regrettably, we already did. It's called "Brexit," and it fucked the entire country. Twat.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/glastonbury/rod-stewart-nigel-farage-reform-support-glastonbury-legends-slot-b2778834.html
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Sorry to ‘told-you-so’ but I hope everyone who has sneered at my refusal to use Spotify over the years is pleased that their investment in music convenience is paying off so ethically.
Please stop supporting the platformisation of art. Buy music from musicians. Go to their gigs. Buy physical media. Use bandcamp.
Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup | Middle East Eye https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/spotify-faces-boycott-calls-over-ceos-investment-defence-startup
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“If the group is proscribed next week, as is expected, being a member of or inviting support for Palestine Action will carry a maximum penalty of 14 years. Wearing clothing or publishing a logo that arouses reasonable suspicion that someone supports Palestine Action will carry a sentence of up to six months.”
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"trans people stopped persuading"
i wrote this in 2021. a year before Lia Thomas.
i was let go soon after. www.vox.com/identities/2...
The massive Republican push to...
Starmer's announcement on Twitter that the Govt is now a partner with firms like BlackRock is not about rebuilding the UK’s public infrastructure, far from it, this is about facilitating Blackrock's ambitions to expand its financial portfolio by hoovering up housing, education, health, nature, and green energy, by exploiting public-private partnerships (PPPs) to the max. This should be immediately stopped. https://open.substack.com/pub/europeanpowell/p/blue-starmer-has-handed-over-governance?r=cfvq7&utm_medium=ios
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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
