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
Incredibly tired today
I think the clock change plus being asked to do the impossible with too few resources has done me in and I can't even start today
However, if I don't get going then a few people won't have jobs in a month or two, including me.
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Folks, I’m going to ask you to please consider that over 31,000 people – including over 13,000 children – have already been murdered by Israel in the last handful of months before stating that the person from your own country that was just murdered by Israel is your red line or the point where you think Israel’s genocide has finally gone too far. I really need you to understand that Palestinians are people too.
#israel #palestine #gaza #genocide #WCK #ethnicCleansing #apatheid
@Thebratdragon @bobjmsn evaporating puddle. Pool is pushing it.
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@bobjmsn lets be honest, if the polls are even close to accurate, it will be a shallow pool of candidates after....
@katve phone number? If you want to share what works for you then fine. Saying how others should behave is a bit too far.
There are a lot of vulnerable people on here who fled from toxic places and are understandably cautious and still use a degree of anonymity. That should be fine by everyone.
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Here's a Q. for you.
Does the spat between Peter Mandelson & Angela Rayner over Labour's 'commitment' to workers' rights look a little staged to you?
Mandelson argued that Labour should be careful about reviving workers' rights without full consultation with business;
Rayner 'hit back' saying his comments are like the 'squealing' of businesses over the introduction of the minimum wage.
All a bit too convenient when Labour is being accused of cosying up to business?
@wellingtonrock some kind of government backed bond to loan them what they need.
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Brianna Ghey. We will not forget.
How two teenagers planned the murder of a trans schoolgirl. The plan, the arrest and the sentencing.
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"...I recommend this job to anyone who is looking for a dynamic, fast-paced work environment."
OK listen. Doll.
NO ONE is looking for a dynamic, fast-paced work environment in 2024. We are exhausted. Get in your DeLorean and take that attitude back to 1984.
Given chatGPT and the other AI nonsense is the equivalent of an enormous predictive text box. How does anybody know that “summarising academic papers” isn’t just making shit up?
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Ibly 🏳️⚧️ 
oh snap, i accidentally started spreading misinfo, and someone else is also spreading misinfo, so let’s clear the air here:
vultr has not changed anything recently, and they do not claim full pepetual commercial rights over hosted content.
this is a post made to drum up bullshit over terms that existed since 2022, and did not pertain to the content you hosted on their VPSes. for reference, the account that made this post was made 5 days ago.
i found this out because when i went to send an email to close my account, they sent this back, which clarified that no, this information is bogus. and that, regardless, the lines are being removed from the ToS to clarify things.
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1bouuv7/warning_vultr_a_major_cloud_provider_is_now/
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@DrALJONES These articles are missing a zero on the casualties. The Palestinian health ministry puts out only hospital confirmed deaths. All the hospitals are now part of the rubble and so is the record keeping system. The low numbers make it look like the US backed abuses and atrocities are not so bad.
"Crucially, the state has increasingly become a commissioner and regulator of services, rather than a provider – a hollowed-out state rather than a smaller state."
@futzle also centrist melts with a penchant for burying criticism of politicians they like and twisting articles about critics.
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Cancelled my recurring donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. As others have pointed out, they're rolling in money, and I've come to dislike their hands-off editorial stance, with editors deleting content by and about women, their continued publishing of the exact location of Aboriginal cultural sites leading to damage by trespassers, not to mention their idly standing by while French Wikipedia deadnames trans people. They can go away and think about their moral high ground without my support.
@ChrisMayLA6 I believe there’s also a class distinction. Anecdotal stories that point to privately educated people learning instruments and are more likely to know people who know people as it were. Or have parents that do.
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One way (but not the only way) to measure the mental health crisis that has beset Britain is to try and calculate its cost(s).
The Centre for Mental Health has tried to do that & come up with a figure of £300bn.... which they think is a likely underestimate.
For individuals the coats are not measure in money but in pain, lost social opportunities & a degradation of wellbeing. Putting an aggregated cost on this does, however, the scale of the issue.
#mentalhealth
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/27/mental-illness-costs-england-300bn-a-year-study-shows
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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
