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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If you think “overpopulation” is at the root of environmental crises like climate change and you won’t acknowledge that the problem is actually an economic system that promotes relentless resource extraction, consumption, and externalizing costs to the environment, then you need to answer my follow-up question of “how many people do you think need to be genocided and which ones?”
It’s a fair question and you should show you’ve thought through your position.
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Labour is making a virtue of the fact that its plan for office is to manage a steady ship where nothing will change. That would be a great policy if all was going well, but everything is falling apart all around it, and that means that the actual message is that it has no idea what to do about that fact.
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/05/20/stabilty-is-not-change-its-acceptance-of-a-failing-status-quo/
Rush rush #CellTower 746
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@raiderrobert I had to buy it second hand but the book “4 Days with Dr Deming” was well worth a read.
Plus his 95% rule. https://youtu.be/NWYxPoI3vZg?si=ERxxII_9xe20QlGQ
Thanks for reminding me
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The strongest engineers write things down in a place where others can find them.
Writing externalizes your thinking, allowing others to give feedback on it. Consequently, your technical skills are your potential floor, and your writing ability is your ceiling.
https://blog.robertroskam.com/p/why-writing-is-an-engineering-superpower
C on a Unix platform, simpler times.
Not the best #CellTower 745
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Pro-Palestinian march in central London to mark 76th anniversary of Nakba
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Really shocking - UK is far and away the world's worst on #homelessness
John Burn-Murdoch in the Financial Times
"When people picture homelessness, they tend to imagine people sleeping rough on the street, tipped into insecurity by substance use problems. Viewed this way, one might imagine the US would rank highest in any international comparison ...
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I mean, sure they have an army of fascist murderpigs tooled up with military grade weaponry, but at the end of the day "the machine" in American society is basically five oil companies, a handful of weapons contractors, 10 techbros and about 8,000 extremely rich people.
We don't have to live (and die) this way... we could implode these fuckers overnight if we ever got around to learning how to count.
My dog thinks he’s getting supper. He stole a loaf of bread. So he isn’t.
Very useful take from someone who understands this really well
Why Israel Is in Deep Trouble
https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/why-israel-is-in-deep-trouble?utm_medium=ios
@Radical_EgoCom @dragonsidedd also see Cold War propaganda. In the now destroyed Soviet Union most people were fed and housed. It’s far too easy to go with the capitalist narrative. Not saying things were great or perfect. There is a reason SU and China made capitalist powers froth as much as they did.
Missed out tuning SQL.
Nearly 40 years before the mast man and boy. 😀
So it’s new job / income source time again. Old company ran out of money.
Sitting with a notebook and cuppa in the garden thinking. Not letting myself write any code or use computer for at least a couple of days.
If you know anyone in the market for senior full stack Rails/React/Hotwire person please get in touch.
Just come out if small co CTO so can do that too.
Plus pairing, mentoring, architecture review. Code base review and critique.
@skry I wouldn’t hang them. Use their fortunes to move people off polluted land and make the execs live there with their families and clean it up. With toothbrushes.
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▶ Suella Braverman FAILS To Provoke Pro Palestine Activists
Podur makes an interesting point. Israel has mobilised everyone and smashed everything. After the continuous destruction Palestinians can’t be threatened into silence any more so they will fight. They’ve been lied to so many times that they will keep fighting. Israel is losing. But the price the Palestinians are paying, terrible.
Useful analysis from the Anti Empire Project
Why Israel is stuck
https://open.substack.com/pub/justinpodur/p/why-israel-is-stuck
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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
