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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@garyj_co/116672607554705734

How you charge the Apple Magic Mouse is the least of its problems — that’s a little bit overblown. That said, this is legitimately funny 🤣

My bank emailed me "AI is changing check fraud. Here's what you can do to protect yourself."

Nonono, Mr. Banky-bank. Tell me what YOU are doing to protect me against check fraud. This is a you problem, caused by a system you designed and run. How about you don't externalize that cost onto me?

I have, since the 1980s, DESPISED any excuse like "oh sorry we got a new computer system" or "we can't do X anymore because of the computer". How you do business isn't my fucking problem. Don't give me excuses for not having your shit together.

This is the same as "we are experiencing unexpectedly high call volume." Well, that's pretty fucking poor planning on your part, then, innit? Hold times aren't long because of the forces of nature, they are because you're too fucking cheap to pay sufficient staff.

@GossiTheDog This sounds like confimation-bias-as-a-service. Not good.

@DrALJONES
Of course, 'libel' is a falsehhod. So this is a flat denial but dressed in the scariest term. Like with various children I know, the use of fierce terms of denial actually devalues the terms used because everyone else knows.
It's a scare quote.

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Dawkins extending more humanity to a language model than he does toward Muslims or trans people is hardly a surprise based on his personal and political views. https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2026/05/richard-dawkins-and-the-claude-delusion/

Since “streets with confusingly similar names” thread has come up again, here’s my example from where I used to live.

Vanbrugh Hill leads into Vanbrugh Fields which leads into Vanbrugh Park – from which you get branches for Vanbrugh Park Road and Vanbrugh Park Road West – which turns into Beaconsfield Park except Vanbrugh Park has jumped across an open area to become a road (continuing toward Blackheath Royal Standard) and also going the opposite direction leading into Vanbrugh Terrace before terminating at Shooters Hill Road.

All of that is related to Vanbrugh Castle which is, of course, at the junction of Maze Hill and Westcombe Park Road.

#London #FFHS

This is horrifying and barely getting media coverage.

Trump set April 30 as a deadline for the Zambian Govt. They must either accept Trump's new health funding agreement to have access to critical AIDS meds—and thus give the USA expanded access to its precious mineral resources like copper, lithium, and cobalt—or let its citizens die due to lack of vital AIDS medications.

Zambia is 98% Christian. Christians will die as a result of Trump's extortion. Notice how MAGA is wholly silent? Barbaric.

Zionism is barbarism.

#israel #zionism #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #genocide #barbarism

@ChrisMayLA6 It's also worth noting that the North Sea fields are 90% depleted. The gold rush was back in the 1970s and first half of the 1980s. Our best use for them today is probably compressed air storage using solar/wind to pressurize them (and release through turbines during low renewable times), or for CO2 disposal.

When you date people in an open source dating app...

#meme #chistemalo

National Rally failed to take any major cities in France’s mayoral elections in a setback to Marine Le Pen’s hard-Right party.

You won't hear this mentioned on British TV

BECAUSE THEY DID NOT WIN

think about it x.

Who'd have thought that a bill to constrain corporate donations to political parties in the UK contains many loopholes that would make it largely ineffective.... I wonder why that is?

Just more declaratory politics pretending to do something about the creeping corruption of our democracy but actually doing little to stop the political class sucking on the corporate tit (as it were).

Another policy area where the Greens are more robust than the mainstream!

#politics

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/19/corporate-donations-uk-political-parties-foreign-interference-bill-loopholes-centax

The US and Israel are bombing hospitals… hospitals. And this is normal now? No one’s even batting an eyelid?

Israel literally levelled every hospital in Gaza and these fuckers are spoken of as allies? Now they’ve reportedly bombed over 30 hospitals in Iran.

The inhumanity.

Fuck anyone who supports these sociopaths.

The journalists who spent time and energy learning Banksy’s identity, then published the details, suck.

They suck.

They could have spent that time and energy exposing corrupt billionaires and politicians.

They could have minded their business and let us continue to enjoy the fun of not knowing.

Those journalists are conscience free, romance free.

They suck.

#Banksy