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

Given the Tories prioritised the maintenance of profits under the varying conditions (from recession to lockdown) across their years of Government, we cannot be surprised that the TUC will seek to 'restore' pay levels (and living standards) to levels last seen around 2010..

However, of course while 'maintaining' profits is seen as a legitimate business policy, restoring living standards for workers is seen as special pleading & exceptional (now even by Labour).

#workers #politics #TUC

“Since the beginning of August, about a third of aid missions within Gaza were denied access by Israeli authorities …”
~Elaine Loughlin, The Irish Examiner

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I NEED TO WRITE A NOVEL IN THE STYLE OF PHILIP K. DICK

In which a burned-out hack is hired to write marketing copy for a VC outfit who back firms who build internet-of-things devices that monetize doorknob-turns or fridge-door-opening or similar.

He discovers the VCs are feeding their tame techbros ideas horked up by a GPT engine trained on the collected works of Philip K. Dick.

But before he can whistleblow them for copyright violation his smart home appliances turn on him …

MrsD: What has four letters, starts with F and ends with K.

Me: No it doesn't! 😁

The most obnoxious aspect of the highly obnoxious Australian politics is that that Gaza gets framed as a “political” issue.

If you saw a man dismembering a child, would your reaction be “political”?

We are gaslit into thinking that basic human empathy is controversial.

#auspol
#gaza