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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Just because it is Monday morning and the #TwitterMigration is still going on, it may be worth repeating that #science would do well to replace their antique journals with modern technology:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634
The three most important reasons why:
- The most prestigious journals publish the least reliable science:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00037/full
- Journal prices are tenfold inflated:
https://f1000research.com/articles/10-20/v2
- Open infrastructures for research data, code, models, software, etc. are sorely needed.
@tomasino @zimpenfish @RonJeffries the @me link starts to make more sense after watching this. People can work out if it’s still you whatever service type you send from.
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Here’s an idea: let’s call people “people” on the fediverse instead of “users” whenever we can.
Compare:
“There are 42 users on this instance.”
vs
“There are 42 people on this instance.”
Which acknowledges our humanity more?
Language matters. We don’t need to perpetuate mainstream technology’s othering/colonial framing of “us” – designers/developers/other “clever folks” – and “them” – the users (usually one step removed from “dumb user” and usually the ones who get used).
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Alright, this thread is dedicated to your favorite old school R&B tracks. Drop a song!
RT @SimonUbsdell
@brokenbottleboy “Our way of life” is always such an ugly phrase ... it’s the classic tell of racists and authoritarians and bigots and bastards everywhere.
The way these violence lovers try to include the rest of us with their “we”. Revolting.
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RT @brokenbottleboy
Nick Timothy has a hard-on for state violence but wants to pretend he’s very intellectual by quoting Max Weber and Edmund Burke.
https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1589523792283717632
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I would like to connect with historians, writers, and poets here. Where can I find them?
@jaycie most groups have those dynamics.
Joke
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RT @ThomasPride
A woman in a hot air balloon is lost. She spots a man fishing from a boat below. She shouts, "Excuse me, can you help? I don't know where I am."
The man consults his GPS: "You're approximately 30 feet above ground, 2,346 feet above sea level, 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north ...
https://twitter.com/ThomasPride/status/1589522606264266752
RT @ArgyleLoz
I served in the Royal Navy for 22 years, c***s like you make my blood boil, it's not the job of the Navy to harass vulnerable people in the Channel, the Navy will always protect life, we're not in the habit of blowing away desperate, unarmed people, go to hell you fascist... https://twitter.com/benhabib6/status/1588907394402488320
Thread
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RT @Dr2NisreenAlwan
Hey, you can say the UK needs to train more doctors and nurses without throwing NHS workers who trained abroad under the bus. Easy.
https://twitter.com/Dr2NisreenAlwan/status/1589513323389018112
RT @breakdecks
Mastodon may not replace Twitter, but at least it has better leadership.
Meet Eugen, CEO of Mastodon Social:
No you wouldn’t
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RT @ennui365
RT @PhilipProudfoot
Labour appealing to your racist gran who didn't think much of that "foreign-sounding lady doctor"
RT @BThroughParty
Abolish billionaires.
That's it, that's the tweet.
RT @PamelaFitzNWC
This is awful. An insult to the many Irish, Jamaican and so many others without whom the NHS would have crumbled decades ago. Displays such ignorance of the history of the NHS and its workers. https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1589201343499341825
RT @BeckettUnite
The UK now has the worst health system in Europe.
In 2011, the UK had the highest ranked health system in the world.
It took them a decade to destroy our NHS.
Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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"We’re coming to the end of the line, here. There’s nothing left for working people in the rich world to sell off or promise away."
Cogent, also bleak, piece from Cory Doctorow on what is occurring
The End of the Road to Serfdom
https://doctorow.medium.com/the-end-of-the-road-to-serfdom-bfad6f3b35a9
@pluralistic
@RonJeffries never tried it because I didn’t understand what it was for.
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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
