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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This year on #ValentinesDay support the #gigeconomy #workers at #Deliveroo & #UberEats by not ordering food from these platforms & helping them make their one day strike effective.
Many drivers struggle to earn a #livingwage, while their exploitative conditions are now well known.
these are no tech-firms, their business model is based on #wagetheft & the denial of workers' rights as a way to build market share & profitability.
Stand with the riders & drivers!
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What's currently getting in the way of the #India - UK #trade deal?
Now it seems the Indian Govt. is keen to get national insurance contributions paid by temporary staff in the UK (mainly in the IT sector) transferred back to India... the UK, of course, wants to hold on to the money even though the #workers concerned would never receive an associated pension in the UK.
Oh dear, quiet state #wagetheft has been exposed... and the Indians (unsurprisingly) are not happy
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You can say you opposed it, you can say you were indifferent, you can say you were complicit, but the one thing you cannot say is that you didn’t know.
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@eyald
If only it'd be true.
If only zionists actions didn't impact the lives of tens of millions of people.
If only zionism didn't advocate hate and the removing of people from their ancestral homes, cuting of olive trees, filling of wells with concrete.
Yes, if only zionism didn't mean playing with tens of billions of $ worth of arms of destruction., including atomic bomb.
If only zionism could stay an intra-Jewish matter
...but unfortunately, it's not the case.
So as long as zionism will mean war, destruction and mayhem, to innocent people, I'll remain an anti-zionist, and YOU have no say on this.
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Going Green, the view from the beginning of 2024
https://www.greenplenty.info/going-green-the-view-from-the-beginning-of-2024/
Just moved the Green Plenty blog off Substack.
Import tools worked really well, I don't have any paid subscribers so no problem there.
Also copied the posts from my blog on francis.fish so everything's in one place.
First post https://www.greenplenty.info/coming-soon/
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you know, i'm pretty fucking sick of billionaires
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As both Labour & the #Tories scrabble to find new ways to 'listen to business', we seem to be caught up in the old claim that 'What is good for GM is good for the USA'... refracted into UK #politics (again).
However, what experience tells us is that Capital's factional interests seldom produce a political economy that serves the long-term general interests of #business or us.
We need politicians with clear & workable economic strategies, not people who respond to the CEO's who shout loudest!
@NedMan a chip that catches fire in your brain.
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Microsoft has endorsed KOSA, the legislation that the GOP wants to use to cut off access to information for LGBTQ youth (leading to untold self-harm, suicide and destroyed lives) and ruin the open Internet with ID requirements.
Please contact your reps and demand they vote against it.
Also, fuck you, Microsoft.
To take quick action: https://www.stopkosa.com/
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Although prepared for last Autumn's budget, this briefing from the Women's Budget Group on #gender & #taxation remains apposite as the #Tories contemplate more destruction & hobbling of #publicservices:
'Because of structural gender inequalities in the labour market and society – and because women are more likely to be unpaid carers - women rely particularly on public services. Cuts in public services therefore have a disproportionately detrimental impact on women'!
https://wbg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Tax-Pre-Budget-Briefing-Autumn-2023-FINAL.pdf
I went walking in my old blog and found a couple of articles I think are decent
https://francis.fish/2021/08/15/the-tina-disease/
https://francis.fish/2021/03/02/emotional-labour-and-the-paradox-of-ownership/
In fact there's a lot there when I look
Things make more sense now http://smbc-comics.com/comic/consciousness-3
By "Those folks" I mean the people complaining
Keep seeing crying about a small number of people in the Green party who went along with #ItWasAScam - not good.
Those folks happily voted for the party that killed millions of Iraqis and Afghanis, and was going to carry on with austerity too.
Think a bit harder, please.
@RealJournalism Accountable?
Have a read of a book called “Endless Holocausts”
There has never been any accountability except when fuelled by the needs of the empire to browbeat the enemy du jour
See also “American Exceptionalism and American Innocence”, which seems to be the story you’re telling here
Is anyone else pasting this URL every time they see a Brewdog ad? https://www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/brewdog-pay-the-real-living-wage
It certainly does :)
@angusm @cstross @pluralistic have you seen Dark Star? Where the bomb has to be talked out of blowing up and changes its mind later.
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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
