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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RT @EdDavie
Finland outlawed fee paying schools and now has the world's highest performing education system and Europe's lowest income inequality https://twitter.com/AllieHBNews/status/1597349611450032128
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So how will people remember me when I die, That Vegan Teacher?
However people choose to remember me. One thing I can say for certain is that I won’t be remembered for being someone who harassed people purely for what they eat.
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RT @PhantomPower14
Michelle Mone’s alleged involvement in corrupt PPE contracting could be just the edge of this. She won’t go down alone and this may be a Tory scandal that detonates the party, pulling Sunak in. The next General Election might be closer than we think.
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RT @tottinge
I sometimes wonder is "performance management" at some companies is really just "firing enablement."
It seems to help the company know which people to fire, when, and how to do it legally.
As a service.
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RT @SpeakingSatan
RT georgetakei: Conservatives were furious when a baker had to bake a cake for a gay couple. But now they want to force Apple to host content it finds harmful and dangerous?
Make it make sense.
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RT @PAL_Left
PAL opposes the privatisation of, or the transfer of existing public services, land or property to private ownership, or to social enterprises or ‘arms-length’ management organisations which are the first steps to their privatisation.
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RT @Thelma_DWalker
Over 2,000 followers just since this morning for our new @PAL_Left Twitter account.
Together we can change our world for the better
@BThroughParty @LeftUnityParty @FreeNorthNow @LIndependents
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RT @KatyMontgomerie
Who are these people
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RT @LeftUnityParty
Massive investment in clean energy is just common sense.
Renewables are nine times cheaper than fossil fuels and, well… renewable.
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RT @LeftUnityParty
Left Unity National Conference agenda, motions and amendments are all available on our website.
Join us this Saturday 3 December 2022 from 11am until 4pm (online).
https://leftunity.org/left-unity-national-conference-2022-motions-and-amendments/
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RT @LeftUnityParty
Anneliese Dodds says “no one supports strikes".
Well we do. RT if you do too.
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RT @thatbloodyMikey
The Hatred towards underpaid NHS & Royal Mail Staff, but not the bosses forcing them into foodbanks.. Honestly, this country has a sickness.
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RT @Normanjam671
Aspiration is the biggest con in politics as we all aspire for different things.
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RT @Lynneth1000000
@PoliticsJOE_UK Go to jail. Do not pass go, do not collect £400,000.
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Today 70,000 UCU members begin historic strike action across every university in the UK.
Given we get pay docked and we all are experiencing a cost of living crisis we are not doing this lightly.
Stand with us.
#ThereIsPowerInAUnion #ucuRISING
https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/12636/Biggest-ever-university-strike-begins-in-fight-over-pay-pensions--conditions
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"No-one wants strikes" is very different from saying "No-one supports strikes".
RT @SaulStaniforth@twitter.com
"ok. So you blame the government, you say you don't blame the nurses. So in a word, yes or no, do you support them walking out?"
Anneliese Dodds: "Well look, no one supports strikes"
Speechless.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1596060876359970816
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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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Long thread
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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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
