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
“We” (actually you) are covered in the blood of innocent brown people who lived far away and didn’t count. Maybe leave them alone next time?
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RT @Tobias_Ellwood
Reading this I (again) reflect on what is our foreign policy bedrock that distinguishes us from other nations?
What is our place, our purpose in the world?
Ukraine shows we can rekindle the int’l leadership (now needed) - as storms gather again.
This👇negates our ef…
https://twitter.com/Tobias_Ellwood/status/1589513937715806208
RT @DaphneHunter19
"128 scholars, who include leading Jewish academics at Israeli, European, United Kingdom and United States universities, said the [IHRC AS] definition has been “hijacked” to protect the Israeli government from international criticism" https://aje.io/nwzaxc via @AJEnglish
RT @christineburns
Sack in haste, repent at leisure… https://twitter.com/jamesdoleman/status/1589593689567133697
Bob Blackman - Mule Train https://youtu.be/CNLLT00AFU4 yeah
RT @GoodLawProject
Today we're in Court for the final stage of the hearing of Mermaids versus the Charity Commission regarding the charity status of LGB Alliance
https://glplive.org/lgba-tw
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Don't believe the hype. The UK's Bill of Rights is a con. Far from improving them, it weakens rights protections.
#RightsRemovalBill #UKPolitics #HumanRights
Here's a piece I wrote a little while ago for @humanrightswatch -- the last time this misguided piece of legislation was on the Parliamentary agenda. Although the revised Bill remains to be seen, I would guess it's going to come back with some even more worry anti-migration provisions, curbing access to courts. https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/06/22/uk-governments-bill-wrongs
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RT @MichaelRosenYes@twitter.com
I saw at 1st hand over 3 months the work that nurses do. They cared for me when I was in a 40-day coma and wrote a 'Patient Diary' of all they did to keep me alive - and then in the Rehab hosp they assisted the OTs and physios to teach me to walk. I 100% support the strike.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MichaelRosenYes/status/1589398589079711744
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Just because it is Monday morning and the #TwitterMigration is still going on, it may be worth repeating that #science would do well to replace their antique journals with modern technology:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634
The three most important reasons why:
- The most prestigious journals publish the least reliable science:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00037/full
- Journal prices are tenfold inflated:
https://f1000research.com/articles/10-20/v2
- Open infrastructures for research data, code, models, software, etc. are sorely needed.
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Here’s an idea: let’s call people “people” on the fediverse instead of “users” whenever we can.
Compare:
“There are 42 users on this instance.”
vs
“There are 42 people on this instance.”
Which acknowledges our humanity more?
Language matters. We don’t need to perpetuate mainstream technology’s othering/colonial framing of “us” – designers/developers/other “clever folks” – and “them” – the users (usually one step removed from “dumb user” and usually the ones who get used).
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Alright, this thread is dedicated to your favorite old school R&B tracks. Drop a song!
RT @SimonUbsdell
@brokenbottleboy “Our way of life” is always such an ugly phrase ... it’s the classic tell of racists and authoritarians and bigots and bastards everywhere.
The way these violence lovers try to include the rest of us with their “we”. Revolting.
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RT @brokenbottleboy
Nick Timothy has a hard-on for state violence but wants to pretend he’s very intellectual by quoting Max Weber and Edmund Burke.
https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1589523792283717632
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I would like to connect with historians, writers, and poets here. Where can I find them?
Joke
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RT @ThomasPride
A woman in a hot air balloon is lost. She spots a man fishing from a boat below. She shouts, "Excuse me, can you help? I don't know where I am."
The man consults his GPS: "You're approximately 30 feet above ground, 2,346 feet above sea level, 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north ...
https://twitter.com/ThomasPride/status/1589522606264266752
RT @ArgyleLoz
I served in the Royal Navy for 22 years, c***s like you make my blood boil, it's not the job of the Navy to harass vulnerable people in the Channel, the Navy will always protect life, we're not in the habit of blowing away desperate, unarmed people, go to hell you fascist... https://twitter.com/benhabib6/status/1588907394402488320
Thread
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RT @Dr2NisreenAlwan
Hey, you can say the UK needs to train more doctors and nurses without throwing NHS workers who trained abroad under the bus. Easy.
https://twitter.com/Dr2NisreenAlwan/status/1589513323389018112
RT @breakdecks
Mastodon may not replace Twitter, but at least it has better leadership.
Meet Eugen, CEO of Mastodon Social:
No you wouldn’t
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RT @ennui365
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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
