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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“More than 4,000 European medics have chosen not to work in NHS since Britain left EU, data reveals”
Yet another way in which the conservatives have trashed our NHS.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/27/brexit-worsened-shortage-nhs-doctors-eu?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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But monopoly and monopsony are closely related phenomena. Monopsonies use control over buyers - the fact that we all have Prime - to exert control over sellers. This lets them force unfavorable terms onto sellers, like deeper discounts. In theory, this is good for use consumers, because prices go down. In practice, though...
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Most of us have #AmazonPrime. Seriously - 82% of American households! Prime users only shop on Amazon. Seriously. More than 90% of Prime members start their search on Amazon, and if they find what they're looking for, they stop there, too.
If you are a seller, you *have* to be on Amazon, otherwise no one will find your stuff and that means they won't buy it. This is called a #monopsony, the obscure inverse of #monopoly, where a buyer has power over sellers.
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In Bezos's original plan, the company called "Amazon" was called "Relentless," due to its ambition to be "Earth's most customer-centric company." Today, Amazon is an enshittified endless scroll of paid results, where winning depends on ad budgets, not quality.
Writing in Jeff Bezos's newspaper *The Washington Post*, veteran tech reporter Geoffrey Fowler reports on the state of his boss's "relentless" commitment to customer service. The state is grim.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/amazon-shopping-ads/
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For the last time: Matt Hancock is not a celebrity.
He was an awful health Secretary, famous for mismanaging the UK’s response to the pandemic and getting caught having an affair.
That’s not celebrity, that’s lamentable.
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Elon Musk is running Twitter into the ground.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX was outed as a Ponzi scheme.
Jeff Bezos is touting his philanthropy as Amazon lays off thousands.
The billionaires will not save us.
They're tearing society down — and we're all the collateral.
From birdsite
RT @docrussjackson
These "anti-woke patriots" live among us. They all hate the #NHS & get their brains washed by the Dubai-based-multimillionaire-funded GB "News" & the foreign-billionaire-owned "Talk TV".
The Foxification of Britain is well under way. Stand by for election conspiracy theories...
From birdsite
RT @humongous_huw
@BBCNews What?..for eating animal cocks...?
No he's not forgiven.
He presided over the dead of tens of thousands without remorse.
His PR and £400,000 fee may have softened his image with a small number of the public & lots of bots; but the man himself will remain a monster.
#ImACeleb
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RT @edwinhayward@twitter.com
The RW media pillory Remainers for their glee at seeing things fall apart because of Brexit.
It's not glee. Nobody wants Britain to fail.
No, it's relief. The relief of the perpetually gaslit, discovering that reality matches their worldview, not all the lies they've been fed.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/edwinhayward/status/1596660628881432577
From birdsite
RT @docrussjackson
Today's divisive shit-stirring Express front page - ostensibly about plans to house *asylum seekers* in 'military units' - accidentally reveals the awful truth about twelve catastrophic years of "patriotic" @Conservatives' rule: "2,500 British veterans are homeless."
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RT @dominored1
@docrussjackson @Conservatives So the story: Despite huge increase to billionaire and corporate company wealth, 2,500 veterans are on the on the streets after twelve years of Conservative governance.
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If UK health spending had matched the EU average per person between 2010 & 2019 – the NHS would have an extra £40bn annually. Important work by @HealthFdn@twitter.com.
We can have European level health services but only if we pay for it.
https://www.health.org.uk/news-and-comment/charts-and-infographics/how-does-uk-health-spending-compare-across-europe-over-the-past-decade #AutumnStatement
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How wonderful.England’s rivers wont meet standards for good chemical health until 2063 they will contain toxic substances for decades. To think in September 2000 overall health of rivers was at 92% yet in 2022 they are at 14%. It is an absolute disgrace.
#freshwaterfish #freshwater #rivers #environment #pollution
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musk is now liking tweets claiming antifascists are pedophiles from people designated white nationalist leaders by the southern poverty law center (cc: @michaeledisonhayden @hannahgais)
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We created the account at Mastodon only a week ago and this community here grown to over 32,000.
Thank you for welcoming us here, thank you for all boosts, comments, advice, support and your engagement.
We are still learning and try to find our specific language on this platform. Your feedback is much appreciated.
Remember with us and amplify our voice.
#mastodon #Memorial #NeverForget #history #education #memory #Remember #followerpower #follow #Holocaust #Shoah #community #fediverse
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RT @M_Star_Online
Cost-of-living crisis a ‘matter of life and death’ for women and children experiencing domestic abuse, campaigners warn http://ow.ly/UEXv50LNBwq
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RT @MikeOkuda
Republicans yelled about the cost of gas but somehow forgot to mention that they voted against legislation to fight price gouging by the gas companies. They also voted against fighting inflation & against lower prescription drug prices. They are NOT friends of working Americans.
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@francis "...when he has something to publicise about discrimination"
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RT @ShereenFDZ
A mother & her daughters were killed in their home after their house was set on fire by a white neighbour. The girls were 3 & 1.
May you & your daughters get all that is good, away from this vicious world. Every khateeb should honour them at jummah today. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/22/mother-dies-nottingham-fire-killed-two-children-fatoumatta-hydara
David Baddiel FINALLY Apologises To Jason Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Z-0CQ8QFk&ab_channel=NovaraMedia
"his argument is invalidated by his own career"
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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
