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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Exciting (for me) news. I'm writing a follow-up to #TheDecadeInTory
The book covers the fall of Johnson, drive-by prime minister Liz Truss, and the rise to power of Rishi Sunak from the Inbetweeners
The book is crowdfunded, and will be delivered to the publisher in June next year. Pre-ordering it now means your name goes in the book, plus options for a signed copy and whatnot.
Except here https://unbound.com/books/four-chancellors-and-a-funeral/excerpt
Hope you'll back it! Thanks everyone
From birdsite
RT @RivkahBrown
Let me get this straight: @Baddiel only apologised to Jason Lee, 25 years after he blacked up and impersonated him, so he could *film it for his new telly show*? A show about how *anti-semitism is the most under-recognised form of racism*?
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RT @RBReich
The CEO-to-worker pay gap is now 351-to-1. In 1965, the ratio was 21-to-1. Trickle down economics is nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich bankers and wealthy executives.
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Once again if it wasn't clear:
Homophobia and transphobia aren't "opinions," they aren't 2 sided debates.
It's bigotry that leads to murder.
Spreading #QueerPhobia in any way ---
Literally kills people.
That includes politicians. It includes a whole political party.
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Being on Twitter was a lot like playing the violin on the Titanic, except we also made fun of the iceberg and the iceberg got really angry.
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This is from Scientific American, earlier this month.
What looks likely to have happened in CO (being cautious bc I don't want to get ahead of the facts) is stochastic terrorism. This was predicted. It was inevitable. We have been screaming about this, in the LGBTQ+ community, and this is likely far from end, we'll see more and more, because the anti-trans rhetoric was always leading to this.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-stochastic-terrorism-uses-disgust-to-incite-violence/
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RT @igorvolsky
The right has demonized LGBTQ people.
The right had worked to expand access to deadly firearms.
And now, an individual with a history of making violent threats killed at least 5 at Club Q in Colorado Springs. https://twitter.com/jayulfelder/status/1594320767503794176
From birdsite
RT @jasonhickel
The richest 1% have already blown their fair share of the 1.5°C carbon budget six times over. They are literally devouring our planet.
From birdsite
RT @garyseconomics
This is a classic example of misleading economics language.
"We" did not just "get poorer".
The GOVERNMENT got poorer because it transferred money to WEALTHY INDIVIDUALS, who still have the money.
It is only the DISTRIBUTION that has changed.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/video/2022/nov/18/we-just-got-a-whole-lot-poorer-says-ifs-head-after-autumn-statement-video?CMP=share_btn_tw
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RT @AlexandraErin
The thing about point 3 here is that it renders Muskian longtermism a scam based on the promise of "free beer tomorrow".
If suffering in the present must be excused for greater happiness in the future, then suffering will always be excused. It's always the present. https://twitter.com/SnarkusAurelius/status/1594124755111931905
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RT @AlexandraErin
The most likely outcome of sending people to live on Mars is that they die on Mars, with little to no net improvement to the survivability of the human race and at the cost (actual and in terms of lost opportunities) to human survival overall.
Hmm instance ran out of disk space and died.
I thought I was running a job that cleaned up every week but not sure if it's running.
Some assembly required.
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RT @ShaunLintern@twitter.com
In the last year, 50k staff left social care - leaving 18% of care beds empty in August. Since 2010, numbers of district nurses have halved. @homecareassn@twitter.com says more than half of companies providing care to people are saying no to new clients. A quarter are reducing care
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ShaunLintern/status/1594035380440875011
Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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Are you enjoying the comfort of your Tesla electric vehicle?
Has your car automatically locked and is driving itself to San Francisco?
Congrats! You have been chosen to work at Twitter until they can bring their staff back.
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As the World Cup opens in Qatar, our thoughts are with the migrant workers who suffered to make it possible. We still recall how Qatar was the only government that was willing to host the next World Trade Organization summit after demonstrators shut it down in Seattle in 1999.
But rather than treating Qatar as exceptional, we should scrutinize the World Cup itself. Here's why our Brazilian comrades resisted the World Cup and its impact on their communities back in 2014:
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The CEO-to-worker pay gap is now 351-to-1. In 1965, the ratio was 21-to-1. Trickle down economics is nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich bankers and wealthy executives.
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RT @mikeysmith
STORY
21 Tory MPs have put TV Licences for their offices on expenses this year - after the government scrapping free telly for pensioners
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/21-tory-mps-claimed-tv-28534732
I was making some music and great progress.
Suddenly the well has run dry.
Meh
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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
