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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Review of "The Terraformers" by Annalee Newitz - @annaleen
A most exciting, unique, quirky, and creative read. Newitz magnificently builds a world tens of thousands of years in the future that both transgresses ours and resembles it in many ways. I didn’t expect a novel oriented around terraforming a planet for a private corporation to contain the multitudes that this book does. It raises compelling questions of personhood, interspecies relations, love, sex, property, capitalism, colonialism, labor, autonomy, posthumanism and more, all while being hilarious and endearing. There are poop jokes and moose romances; rebellions and mutual aid. It’s hard to say more without including any spoilers. As my partner told me, “The more you explain this book, the more I feel like I’m on drugs.” I’d strongly suggest you read it yourself.
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Good morning. There is no crisis of asylum seekers invading Britain in dinghies. Transgender people are not causing anyone any discernible problems. There are however very real & desperate crises in cost of living, wages and a broken economy that they don’t want us to talk about.
RT @RedJohnBounds
Tories deep in the shit so time to start bashing refugees again.
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"Who should work at home, and who should return to the office? Companies are turning to personality tests for help."
No. Stop it. Cut it out. Please have the honesty to say "I overpaid a consultant for some lightly warmed phrenology to help justify our bad HR policies."
The NYT is trying to give me aneurisms.
People who have escaped from the worst terrors in this world should not be risking their lives again to claim asylum in the UK. There is an effective and compassionate way to stop small boat crossings and save lives. Watch & share this video #SafePassage https://bit.ly/3g50HZY
RT @RepAdamSchiff
Key takeaways from the Fox News scandal:
They fired people for telling the truth.
Hosts like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity pushed election fraud claims they privately knew were absurd.
For Murdoch only the money mattered.
And the biggest scandal:
No one is surprised
RT @embedded_iot
Absolutely magnificent. What a joke we are.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/05/boris-johnson-nominates-father-for-a-knighthood
RT @embedded_iot
If you have a duty to make WhatsApp messages public does that also extend to monetising them and maximising the impact by releasing them in small “tranches” of damage? And should other “journalists” not comment on this? #AskingForAJournalismStudent
RT @Felix_F_Fern
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-raise-ps100k-to-annoy-graham-linehan
Yes, I really did make this.
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France faces massive strikes over pension reform https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2023/03/501_346540.html?utm_source=fl
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This is the #EU map of droughts. Orange means the soil is dry, red means the soil is dying.
We in northern and eastern Europe better be ready to help out this summer #climate
https://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/edov2/php/index.php?id=1052
The dog is a red-brown colour, but has a layer of darker hairs over the top. Breeders call it "Red Stag" iirc.
In certain lights he looks black.
Hancock knew Tory policies were killing people https://open.substack.com/pub/councilestatemedia/p/matt-hancock-knew-tory-policies-were?r=cfvq7&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
@stu I have one of their long range ones that's OK, I also have the original one I bought that was iffy. I'm keeping it for when we finally sell this house and I might need multiple APs. They configure quite nicely with a phone app and can be powered with Power over Ethernet for less clutter, fwiw.
Thinking we need to steal a term from the Republicans, of all people, RINO. It means Republican in Name Only, as in you once didn't want to murder poor people and blame immigrants for your inadequacy but still claim to be a republican.
We need LINO, Labour in Name only, as in you wouldn't willingly do anything to help the worker class and will line up behind their enemies without even hesitating.
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@workingclasshistory I had forgotten this murderer was released by Labour at the time they were yammering about ethical foreign policy. Mind you, earlier incarnation sold him arms so not really surprising.
I was watching Happy Valley and just decided I didn't need any more misery in my life
Started watching The Consultant - it starts interestingly enough but then I remembered I have a whole pile of books I want to read to work on my ignorance about things that actually matter to me.
So doing that.
RT @helenmallam
Cathy Newman’s been attacking the messenger again, and while it’s true Oakeshott is a hard right ghoul who always acts solely out of self-interest, that’s not the story of the WhatsApp leak.
Our government wasn’t too bothered about us getting sick and dying, that’s the story.
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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
