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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A reminder that this govt are privatising our healthcare without any mandate to do so.
- not in their manfesto
- not debated in parliament
- not challenged by media
This is an unelected PM profoundly changing our healthcare…
This is not democracy!
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I see a lot of depressed people say “oh I feel so bad, I’m such a burden on the people in my life.”
And, yeah, you are. You’re absolutely a burden on someone. I am a burden. We are all of us a burden. And that’s ok.
My kids are young and for a lot of my time with them they were helpless blobs. They have been so much work! They have made me tired, they have made me sick, they have made me worried, they have spent my money, they have punched me in the junk. Don’t let anyone sugarcoat how hard it is to be a parent.
And I would do anything for them. I would die for them. I love them more than anything and would do it all over again, gladly, a thousand times.
It’s ok to be a burden. Literally every human being is, at some point, a burden on someone else. All of us need help almost all of the time.
Because we take care of each other.
David Graeber once noted that we’re fragile biological beings who die without each other. It’s ok to be a burden. Be a burden. And take care of someone else when they’re a burdens. It’s the only thing we can do, really: take care of each other.
It’s ok.
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As this weekend's #doctors #strike enters is 2nd day, you will be unsurprised that the issue is essentially what counts as a 'credible offer' on pay & conditions; #RishiSunak & #SteveBarclay think what they have offered is 'credible', the #BMA (and doctors) don't agree.
If I'm asked to choose between the #Tories & #healthcare professionals' view of what is 'credible' in the #NHS, you'll forgive me if I dismiss the Tory position, based on their engineering of the #NHS crisis in the first place!
I didn’t know about this, I thought the way the British treated India was bad, but this takes the absolute biscuit.
Why might Africa want France gone? https://open.substack.com/pub/justinpodur/p/why-might-africa-want-france-gone?r=cfvq7&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
@zimpenfish aye, there’s the rub.
I’ve been thinking for a while that once I retire I won’t code at all.
I like coding, even enjoy it, but 40 years is a long time.
Gonna call my house Dun Codin.
I used to love this stuff, now I just sit and write code so I can eat and collect guitars.
Sobering, but there is a way through
For Bread: on capitalism's global food crisis
https://youtu.be/nXYKFVXjQcU via @ProlekultFilms
I'm wondering if we need to change GTTO - Get the Tories out - to GATO - Get all Tories out - including the red ones that want to carry on privatising the NHS.
Thoughts?
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Some photons I caught on my driveway last year, the North America nebula. #astrophotography #fourthofjuly
The “Free Market” is Destroying the Environment
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Nothing says "Science should be free of gatekeeping and special interests" like trying to move #ScienceTwitter to #BlueSky, an invite-only proprietary service run by tech billionaires 🤷
My thoughts on a new left party in Britain
What we always had
If we always do what we always did, what do we get?
Updated my server to the safe version - that took a while to find the time
Now I need to see if I can work out how to upgrade Ubuntu because it won't
Hi folks
I might be off mastodon for a while. There's a security vulnerability I need to patch so I'm stopping the machine for a while.
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Does anyone think that message has made its way to Calais? Syria? Albania? Anywhere else refugees are coming from?
"Don't go to the UK. They covered up a painting of Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Children aren't welcome there".
What on Earth was Robert Jenrick thinking?
And how cruel and inhuman do you have to be that you make life just a little bit worse for unaccompanied refugee children?
If he can be that sadistic towards them, how would he treat your kids if he could get away with it?
Unless they're scared of us they will give us nothing, and it doesn't matter which colour you pick.
It's the same here in GB. Build and fight as best you can, no-one is coming to save you.
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If the least harm people are in charge it also takes the wind out of the sails for the ones who are willing to go to battle, "ooh look, our guy's in charge".
Welp, he's not "our" guy and doesn't have to even pretend to listen to us because of voting to reduce harm means he has no need to court us.
Have you got it yet?
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I was listening to a very interesting analysis of people voting to reduce harm, in the USA known as "vote blue, no matter who".
The political establishment know they've got the more radical voters in the bag and don't need to actually DO anything to keep them on side. This means they're gonna go for the middle class swing voters that might vote for the other elderly nincompoop.
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For 75yrs a health service the envy of the world
The NHS is not intended for profit, something the Tories could never comprehend
Death from a thousand cuts, privatisation, lack of investment & low pay taking it to the edge of oblivion
#SaveOurNHS NEVER vote Tory
#NHS75
#nhs
#GeneralElectionNow
#toriesout
I did say that, when Starmer was being quizzed about "would you do a deal with X", the only party he didn't rule out was the tories.
I was right.
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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
