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

Ghengis Khan just crossed the floor to join Labour and there are rumours that Attila the Hun will follow. Both are dissatisfied with Sunak's policy on employment rights.

I run uBlock Origin or other ad-blockers in every browser I use.

Sometimes I get the "hey, you're blocking ads, we can't make money" popups. From otherwise agreeable news sites.

Then I think to myself, if you just ran the ads yourself, from your own site, without the adsystem trackers involving Meta/Google/Amazon, then the ads would probably get through.

The ads themselves aren't the problem. It's that publishers want to send all the data and most of the revenue to someone else.

#ads

Mom: "It costs nothing to be polite."

Billionaire Techbro: "Actually..."

Me: boo 😒 hoo. The environmental impact of this mess is unbelievable and sad

“Put yourself in their shoes” assumes shoes fit universally. Real empathy is more like: “Acknowledge they’re wearing shoes made for feet unlike yours, walking paths you’ve never trodden.”

#Tesla whistleblower says #Musk wanted to deport her team for raising brake issue https://electrek.co/2025/04/20/tesla-whistleblower-says-musk-wanted-to-deport-her-team-for-raising-brake-issue/

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

When I was a young child, and a teacher told my class that anyone could grow up to be President, I didn't recognize that as a threat.

“Social Security classifies🚨1000s of immigrants as dead, as part of Trump crackdown.”

Inexcusable, incompetent, lawless, & racist, Trump-Musk’s regime is classifying immigrants as dead to facilitate #deportations. Musk says #DOGE is efficient & saves money bc he uses AI & young tech bros, w/o any knowledge of how govt agencies function. The richest man on earth isn’t a genius, & he’s as disingenuous, fascist, & xenophobic as #Trump.

#USPol #Musk #Fascism #SSA #Racism https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/10/self-deportation-immigrants-social-security-dead/