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

How do you make a billion dollars in #capitalism

The question is answered by #RobertReich
a Professor at UC Berkeley (incidentally, former U.S. Secretary of Labor, who served in the Ford, Carter and Clinton administrations).

The counter girl hopped right up when I walked in and was clocking in to help me.

Me: were you on break? I can wait until it's over I'm not in a hurry.

Her: no, we're supposed to clock out when there aren't customers

Me: oh no, honey, no. That's illegal.

Her: 😳

Me: not for you, for your manager or whoever told you to do that.

Her: it is?

Me: it's called wage theft when your boss doesn't pay you what you earned. when your boss requires you to stay here, he needs you pay you for your time.

Her: oh.

Me: here, this is the office number to an employment lawyer, call her and tell her you need to come in to talk about this

Her: I don't have any money

Me: we're gonna get your money, you already earned it sweetie.

Edit message to include a link to info about worker's rights:

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/workers

Sunak scraps cap on bankers bonuses.

But won't give junior doctors a genuine pay rise

And the number of people in destitution has more than doubled in the last 5 years

But the little prince still insists he's delivering for the "British People"

Priorities so fucked, it hurts

Sarah Murphy

Waitin' for people to stop being excited about paying what used to get you a house for an electric car, and start being excited about paying an extra hundred bucks a year in taxes for an amazing transit system.

Electric cars are not going to make it okay to keep living like we do. It was never okay.

The argument “nobody would choose certain jobs if they had a universal basic income,”is revealing.

It means your way of living depends on the coercion of others; that nobody would find it worth doing those tasks for you without the threat of starvation, which you created artificially.

Nigel Farage ‘giving very serious consideration’ to joining I’m A Celebrity - Evening Standard

https://apple.news/ADPyD23NBR5mUbBqFWy1yyA. Wouldn’t it be cannibalism for one arsehole to eat another?

Hey folks, I've seen a lot of talk going around about adblockers lately. I worked in the advertising technology and security industry for five years and the one core piece of advice I have is:

Holy fuck never give an advertiser your data. You cannot believe how bad it is. Don't. I run three layers of ad block protection and I'd run more if it was feasible. If you want to support creators give them money.

Petition to increase NHS funding for gender dysphoria treatment. This would address the decades long waiting lists in some areas.

Please sign if you're a UK resident or citizen.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/640490

@cstross I expect Trump's most precious artwork is a print of dogs playing poker which he insists is the original.

Please, remind your right-wing friends that they can kill the woke virus by microwaving their phones on high for seven minutes.