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

dependency injection 👌

Blue plaques across the country commemorate MP votes that have made sewage dumping legal. Pathetic gaslighting responses suggest they won’t be doing anything to rectify.
But remember, voters have the power to remove those MPs at the next general election, in under two years.

The so-called Tragedy of the Commons was basically white nationalist simplistic bullshit.

Great article on Elinor Ostrom and her work on commons:

https://aeon.co/essays/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-is-a-false-and-dangerous-myth

THIS.

All Tyre Nichols wanted to do was go home.

All Trayvon Martin wanted to do was go home.

All Amadou Diallo wanted to do was go home.

Breonna Taylor WAS home.

#TyreNichols #BlackMastodon

Decades of research prove that the best way to end homelessness is...

Give people a home. Seriously. That's it. No strings, no prerequisites, no faith-based, holistic, means-tested, yoga-cebtric meditation parole. Just a home.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2356643-we-can-reduce-homelessness-if-we-follow-the-science-on-what-works/

This is your infrequent reminder that you can’t get a pointer directly from a loop variable in Go; you have to create a copy in the loop to gat a pointer.

Catches me out a couple of times a year, I think.

#Go #Golang #Annoyances

How likely is it that you will still be on Mastodon a year from now?

#BOOST OK

A neighbor said to me that she and her hubby got worried when they heard my dogs barking and thought about calling the police for a welfare check. I was like don't do that. Stop calling the police on Black homes. My dogs will bark because they are fucking dogs. If you get my Black ass killed over dogs barking my family will sue your ass. Quite a bit of it is ablelist too because I live alone and these old biddies can't imagine a single woman living in a house alone. Stay out of my damn business.

Sorry to get political but schools should probably have books

#BrightonAndHove's irreplaceable black bookshop* Afrori is facing a quadrupling of rent, and will be without premises from 1st April.

They need to raise £25k to relocate (including 3 months' rent upfront). This payday, chip in to their crowdfunder here: https://afroribooks.co.uk/products/help-afrori-find-a-new-shop

* So much more than a bookshop: talks and events, kids stuff, meals, community, and a unique focus on black writers marginalised almost everywhere else

#Brighton #books #reading #Sussex @bookstodon

“Since the acquisition, the company's only actions have been to silence critics of Elon, to expose journalists and others to harm, and to violate basic ethical standards and privacy laws." https://futurism.com/elon-musk-twitter-leaked-messages-twitter

Maybe we should have thought about that before letting millions of people to become ill with long covid?

Does he really think it's a choice for the people who are off work long-term sick?