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

“Most of our users are on Desktop”

I love this illustration on survivorship bias. I had this discussion more than once already about statistics and how what's not represented can talk much more that what's in there. 😊
https://andy-bell.co.uk/most-of-our-users-are-on-desktop/?utm_source=geoffreycrofte

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/631561/

Petition to reverse the decision to block the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill.

Boosts appreciated

The UK "government" helped the boss of Russia's Wagner group to mount a targeted legal attack on a British Journalist.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/prigozhin-government-russia-ukraine-hack-libel-slapp/

Here in the UK we are a banana republic with no bananas.

#ukpolitics #corruption #wagner

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've just discovered there's a petition on the #UK government petitions website to remove #LGBT content from the curriculum, resurrecting the horrendous Section 28 from the 1980s.

There is also a counter-petition. As of this morning, the remove petition has over 178,000 signatures, the counter-petition has just over 2,500 signatures.

Please sign the counter-petition.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/631529

Petition is UK residents and British citizens only, but anyone can boost.
#LGBTQ #TransRights #Trans

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.