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

RT @eloncodereview
Can I ask you all to please keep line length to 80 characters. Otherwise I will need to accept landscape printouts. 🙏

RT @D_Blanchflower
⁦@mrjamesob⁩ described @iealondon as a “hard-right lobby group for vested interests of big business, fossil fuels, tobacco, junk food” and urged newspapers to stop quoting them “as an educational charity because they don’t reveal who funds them” yup https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/09/lbcs-james-obrien-wins-ofcom-battle-with-institute-of-economic-affairs

RT @jonlis1
OK, everyone. I think it’s time I told my Boris Johnson story. It’s a story about the time as foreign secretary where Johnson committed a straightforward resigning offence, got caught out, then got away with it.

Thread.

RT @simonmaginn
Letter to @guardian
#ItWasAScam

RT @petersaysathing
"will you leave Twitter because Elon bought it?" buddy i rent an apartment and go to work, my entire life is a goku hypergravity training session of spending time in places owned by morons i hate

RT @historyoarmani2
Since Elon Musk owns Twitter now bringing this back before it’s not allowed anymore

RT @whizyk
I spoke to some former Elon Musk fans about what drew them to him — and what was the final straw.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/10/28/23426922/elon-musk-army-fandom-former-fans-twitter-ceo

RT @doctorow
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on http://pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/28/fade-to-black/#trust-the-process 2/

RT @mikegalsworthy
Freeports were the big idea of Rishi Sunak. And in the light of Sunak shunning #COP27, you may want to read this:

"Worryingly unaccountable, freeports are set to change the landscape of England’s green and pleasant land"

https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/environment/freeports-too-free-and-not-ports/

RT @ChrisStrategic
A+ thread on the tyranny of Adobe and Pantone.

Remember, you can always take your money elsewhere.

@affinitybyserif provides alternatives for Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.

All for a modest, one-off fee.

Plus - they hail from the mighty, mighty Nottingham! https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1585913960741609472

RT @JujuliaGrace
Can I be really honest about something? This is difficult. Various incredibly abusive ‘parody’ accounts of me have been set up, and we had a live event planned yesterday, to meet people about NHS privatisation. My background is as a psychiatry doctor. And when you’ve worked in…

RT @socioEqualiser
Already tired of the entire "I'm leaving twitter" discourse

Twitter was created and run by one right wing techbro billionaire and now it is in the hands of another.

Nothing will change 🤷

Anyway everyone on the left should absolutely make sure they use an adblocker on twitter

RT @Lexialex
I'm old enough to remember a time when the whole world would have been shocked and outraged by such a statement https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestinian-birthrate-racism-numbers

RT @johnwhilley
Monbiot’s ‘always side with the oppressed’ call over Ukraine and other states in Western foreign policy sights is a fatuous ‘left’ posture that ignores the principal force of US imperialism and deeper complexities of US-shaped Great Power relations. A superb dissection by Cook. https://twitter.com/jonathan_k_cook/status/1585665357171331073

RT @SaulStaniforth
The 2014 ImmigrationAct targeted peoples ability to get a bank account/driving license. It also removed a key protection for Commonwealth citizens in the UK (allowing the Tories to target the Windrush generation)

Yvette Cooper said it wasn't tough enough

She didn't oppose it

RT @acgrayling
World close to ‘irreversible’ climate breakdown, warn major studies https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/27/world-close-to-irreversible-climate-breakdown-warn-major-studies?CMP=share_btn_tw