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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
Interesting fact (iirc correctly) from yesterday
20,000 people have joined the teaching union in the last couple of weeks.
RT @dib50511659
@BladeoftheS @VintiquesMark Here is an LBC host peacefully removing a one man pensioner protest on TV. The fact the presenter accepted a criminal conviction (by way of official police caution) rather than a public court is hearing.
RT @mitchelltorok
@fjfish Fishi's short selling in 2008 helped crash the market. He's the fire fighter who starts fires for the thrill of praise for putting them out.
And corruption, incompetence, selfishness, stupid complacency, self-serving blindness ....
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RT @AP_Europe
Rishi Sunak is marking 100 days as U.K. prime minister. While he calmed financial markets in the early days of his tenure after his predecessor's damaging economic policies, Sunak still faces a host of challenges including high inflation and strikes. http://apne.ws/n6UXqS6
https://twitter.com/AP_Europe/status/1621056598788415488
Tell me you don't know how capitalism works without saying you don't know how it works. For-profit behaviour and humanity/compassion are completely incompatible.
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RT @SteveChalke
Why does British Gas - who’s profits are up by 700% - go to the courts for warrants to break into the homes of the poorest (in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis) & then force-fit prepayment meters, which leave their customers cold & unable to cook? What…
https://twitter.com/SteveChalke/status/1621049449769480192
RT @mikewhoatv
Johnson is so desperate to find benefits to Brexit that he has to rely on barefaced bollox… https://twitter.com/peterstefanovi2/status/1620874364987273218
@tomflood missed “no cars”
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uk trans pol
the constant "we need to get more signatures for this gov petition" deal is a massive nonsense circus.
it doesnt do anything.
the only time they U-turned on doing more horrible things to trans people was when the PM's girlfriend told him to think again.
RT @feldowling
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Kids queuing with their unemployed parents at the jobs office because the schools are all on strike - the Toriest of sights in Tory Brexit Britain
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Johnson & Johnson’s bankruptcy gambit fails. “J&J told women to put carcinogens down their underwear. For decades. It gave tens of thousands of women ovarian cancer. Then it tried to use Texas's courts to walk away with billions. But this time, a court stopped them… This time, the company might just have to pay for its crimes.” | Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/01/j-and-j-jk/ @pluralistic
I have mild arthritis in the index finger of my right hand. TIL clapping a lot at speeches can make it throb like a bastard.
Off to Liverpool for the day of action march.
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Me: Free software licenses should include ethics clauses.
Folks: Don’t be silly, you can’t put restrictions on licenses like that. It’s unworkable.
Apple: You can only run this operating system on hardware I sell.
Folks: Sounds good to us, sir. Whatever you say, boss!
If our only answer to unethical licenses is indifferent ones—as opposed to ethical ones—I don’t see how we win this. I feel the offhand dismissal of ethical licenses in technology has been and is a mistake.
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Solidarity with everyone taking strike action today.
Support teachers.
Support rail workers
Support nurses
Support doctors
Support ambulance crews
Support firefighters
Support Civil Service staff
Support bus drivers
We band together to make this country better.
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Why is it that a pay rise for a teacher causes inflation, but a bonus for a banker doesn't?
@catsalad the only rule that key words need to be upper case is in people's heads.
RT @greg_herriett
Apparently defending a Holocaust survivor is antisemitic.
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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
