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
Temporarily went with tockify https://tockify.com/transform.uk/monthly
Which does the job for now. I like the look of mobilize though. Just running on too few brain cells at the moment.
Ukraine Gets Depleted Uranium Munitions, Mexican SocDems Make Progress, Indonesian Laundering Bust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RezHsxyjSJg&ab_channel=FirstThought
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Anyone who tells you that the rich are not getting richer at the expense of the poor and middle class is lying or uninformed. Anyone who seeks to lower taxes for the rich is on the take of the rich.
Anyone who tells you that the rich are not the biggest polluters hastens the destruction of life on earth.
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The ugliness of UK political decision making https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/09/08/the-ugliness-of-uk-political-decision-making/. Ministers are proposing cuts to the benefits of a million vulnerable people currently considered unable to work. They want to force them into work. This week I have shown how to raise more than £35 billion of additional tax in the UK, all from wealthier people. There is more to come. So we don't need to penalise people unable to work, at all. That is being done by choice. This is the ugly side of UK political decision-making.
No to merging Liverpool hospitals. Come to the demo on 7th October https://saveliverpoolwomenshospital.com/2023/09/07/no-to-merging-liverpool-womens-hospital/
@zimpenfish That looks well worth an investigate, TY
Hi folks
I want to create a publicly visible calendar for activists in my area
Can't find something lightweight and suitable because there's a whole pile of solutions.
Has anyone got something to recommend? I'm happy installing software and running stuff on a server. Just too many choices and a lack of bandwidth to go through them.
Thanks
I graduated in 1987 in Applied Statistics and Computing
⅓ of the cohort were women
I dunno where that clown was looking
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• Spending £10bn on making schools not terrifying death traps: nah.
• Spending £22bn on restoring the Palace of Westminster: sure!
They’ve lost the plot.
Send them a signal they’ll never forget.
#VoteBinface
@bobthomson70 Even their own advisors have told them to ditch their "fiscal rules" - which are made up anyway.
It gives them an excuse to do nothing though. Unless we can get a very loud movement demanding things get better they will sit on their hands.
This rebuilding falling down schools and hospitals. It's a few tens of millions? 50? Sound like a lot.
But then 32bn on track and trace?
The millions that was wasted on PPE that ended up buying yachts and planes?
The billion they found to bribe the DUP?
It's peanuts, in fact.
Same with the strikes, paying people properly etc. etc. far more has been spent thwarting unions than it would have cost to meet their demands in full.
What's bankrupt is the right wing ideology.
Hey Apple, when I say grinder, I mean grinder, not Grindr.
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And Laura Ann Carleton doesn’t get to be friends with anybody anymore, or attend church functions or backyard barbecues, because she was murdered.
She was murdered over *political views.*
Just some things I noticed.
https://armoxon.substack.com/p/if-you-want-to-be-friends-then-why
@ColinTheMathmo it does seem plausible though.
Confusing infinite sequence with equal distribution with irrational number where distribution is unknowable and may not contain certain digits at all. Type 1 thinking shortcut.
I think we’re in Monty Hall territory.
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And this is why child rights are human rights.
"Call me old-fashioned, but if I were a parent, I'd quite like to know whether my son, Sam, was showing up at school as Samantha."
"If you don't already know, there's a reason she's not telling you.
It's you. You're the problem."
@cabel I feel that way about Cleese. He’s just fallen into the idiot tropes without doing any thinking.
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People in the UK may be left in the wilderness without secure messaging services, if the #OnlineSafetyBill retains its encryption busting clause.
Forcing platforms to comply with client-side scanning is state-mandated private surveillance of the kind that we see in authoritarian regimes. Platforms will leave rather than compromise #security and #privacy.
It'll particularly harm journalists, campaigners and activists who rely on #e2ee to communicate safely. #ukpolitics
https://techmonitor.ai/policy/privacy-and-data-protection/what-if-whatsapp-really-does-leave-the-uk
I don’t know whether Ivermectin would have helped. You don’t know whether it would have helped. But what’s important – what is scandalous – is that the FDA doesn’t know either, and still doesn’t care to know whether lives would have been saved through the use of treatments in place of, or in addition to, the vaccines. https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathancook/p/once-again-the-fda-admits-it-lied?r=cfvq7&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
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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
