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

https://youtu.be/gw2vowJ0E8c

Groundswell is run by fascists. Please share #nzpol #nzpolitics #nzfascists

Oh the weather outside is fright'nin,
But the workers are all still strike'in,
So take them a cup of tea,
And stop fucking voting Tory.

Oh the fire is rightly raging,
So the picket lines are paging,
Support the workers today,
Better conditions, and better pay!

For those wondering, ′′ how did i do it?":
I Boiled 10l of water, added 2 tablespoons of vinegar, 1 teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate, two cups of coke and half cup of lemon juice then stirred well .
Waited 3 minutes, put the pan in the solution for 45 minutes, then added a quarter cup of chlorine bleach to the mixture.
Then I brushed it with a firm toothbrush and put it back into the liquid for another 25 minutes.
I took it out, rinsed it and it looked exactly the same, so I threw it away and went out and bought a new one.

I've seen so many bad takes lately about how defederation is "overreaction" or "childish" or whatnot

Usually seems to come from the idea that Fedi is "a platform"

and I'm like

No

No it's not a platform

it's a loose federation of a bunch of small social networks (one per instance), and any "a platform" that you might see is the emergent result of admins doing all the defederation and cleanup work behind the scenes

Tory Government to weaken water pollution goals in yet another ‘attack on nature’.
When is enough enough, people?

#Sewage
#Pollution
#AttackOnNature

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/09/government-to-weaken-water-pollution-goals-river-health?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The problem with Capitalism is at some point you run out of other people.

Today Hunt will pat himself vigorously on the back for announcing Kwarteng’s Big Bang 2.0 and he will claim that deregulating the city to allow greater risk-taking and enrichment of bankers is a Brexit bonus.
And the Tory hellcycle of…
Obscene risk-taking triggering financial crash triggering austerity triggering Brexit triggering deregulation to help bankers….
will be complete.
And what’s more they’ll insist it’s what people voted for.
Utter charlatans.

I still see posts with people wanting no politics. So I will leave a reminder:

1. Politics = how we make decisions about living together in society.

2. Not participating in politics = endorsing the status quo.

3. Refusing to participate in politics is a privilege. It is also a decision to abandon those in a more vulnerable position.

You might want to abstain and that's fine.
But someone has to combat injustice, racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBTQ hate.

Missionary work (whether Christian or Muslim) is a form of imperialism.

@francis Gotta rename them to the anti-labour party.

Oh FUCK raspberry pi.

They apparently hired a cop who used their tech to build surveillance platforms, and they're doing everything from just being dismissive toward to outright blocking everyone who's calling them on it.

Fully ruined their credibility, their public relations profile, several Christmas presents, and their own wallet, all in one fell swoop. Great. Just fucking stellar

If you actually managed to source a raspberry pi this giftmas season, I highly recommend you cancelling that order, and letting them know exactly fucking why.

Maybe something like "In light of Raspberry Pi's recent entanglement with deeply unethical surveillance practices and their dismissive behaviour toward their rightly concerned customer base, I need you to immediately cancel this order, and issue me a refund."

Here's a list of raspberry pi alternatives, as of this year:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-raspberry-pi-alternative/