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

Damning on Zahawi. Because it all stinks. But concluding that ‘only a thorough investigation whose findings are published in full can prevent further erosion of public trust in government’ is wildly delusional.
Trust is smashed to pieces and this ‘investigation’ just adds to the damage.

"Do not question the one that protects you"

CONs continue to excuse unacceptable behaviour on the basis that the individual is “successful “.

A bland way of saying “the rules don’t apply to us”

People who jump at the chance to say "An AR-15 isn't an assault rifle" are the gun version of people that tell you "His name isn't Frankenstein, it's Frankenstein's monster".

You are technically correct. You are missing the point. Nobody likes you.

A reminder that the public domain contains more than just old stuff from the 1920's & earlier. Like what, you ask?

Well, did you hear that musician & satirist Tom Lehrer just put his songs into the public domain? https://openculture.com/2022/12/tom-lehrer-puts-his-songs-into-the-public-domain-makes-them-free-to-download.html

I just despair about british politics. The tories are smashing everything are are obviously corrupt to the core. What is Labour doing about it. Sweet fuck all. We should be rioting in the streets and everyone says "mustn't grumble"

Pasteups in San Diego, California in honor of comrade Tort, a 26-year-old Atlanta Forest defender who was shot and killed by cops on Wednesday.

The Atlanta city council plans to clear the forest to build a massive police training facility dubbed "Cop City".

@samir they went from 'do no evil' to 'do know evil' pretty quickly.

And then they owned the news with AMP.

Google likes to claim it loves the web. Google fucking broke the web.

Cookie notices on every fucking website? They need those because they use Google Analytics or Google Ads.

Recipe sites that go on for fucking days? That’s because Google penalises websites when you leave too quickly, and they can’t show as many ads.

Obviously-bullshit machine-generated “content” designed to entice you to click ads? That’s because Google Search is a monopoly.

I’m so tired of Google.

#StopCopCity

What is astroturfing? And why should we care?

We’ve embarked on a series of legal interventions focused on the opaque lobby groups based at Tufton Street: https://glplive.org/qen

Since the Paper of Record is again publishing op-ed pieces about the Fierce Urgency of Doing Something About the #Debt without even once mentioning global #finance or the international monetary system - while also insisting that you must believe in MMT in order to disagree we’re facing an imminent crisis - here is my piece from two years ago explaining why this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the issue:

https://www.markcopelovitch.com/post/how-much-debt-is-too-much-next-question-please

@JamesGleick @pluralistic

Always gratifying when someone gives a name to a process you can feel but not yet identify precisely