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

All Tyre Nichols wanted to do was go home.

All Trayvon Martin wanted to do was go home.

All Amadou Diallo wanted to do was go home.

Breonna Taylor WAS home.

#TyreNichols #BlackMastodon

Decades of research prove that the best way to end homelessness is...

Give people a home. Seriously. That's it. No strings, no prerequisites, no faith-based, holistic, means-tested, yoga-cebtric meditation parole. Just a home.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2356643-we-can-reduce-homelessness-if-we-follow-the-science-on-what-works/

This is your infrequent reminder that you can’t get a pointer directly from a loop variable in Go; you have to create a copy in the loop to gat a pointer.

Catches me out a couple of times a year, I think.

#Go #Golang #Annoyances

How likely is it that you will still be on Mastodon a year from now?

#BOOST OK

A neighbor said to me that she and her hubby got worried when they heard my dogs barking and thought about calling the police for a welfare check. I was like don't do that. Stop calling the police on Black homes. My dogs will bark because they are fucking dogs. If you get my Black ass killed over dogs barking my family will sue your ass. Quite a bit of it is ablelist too because I live alone and these old biddies can't imagine a single woman living in a house alone. Stay out of my damn business.

Sorry to get political but schools should probably have books

#BrightonAndHove's irreplaceable black bookshop* Afrori is facing a quadrupling of rent, and will be without premises from 1st April.

They need to raise £25k to relocate (including 3 months' rent upfront). This payday, chip in to their crowdfunder here: https://afroribooks.co.uk/products/help-afrori-find-a-new-shop

* So much more than a bookshop: talks and events, kids stuff, meals, community, and a unique focus on black writers marginalised almost everywhere else

#Brighton #books #reading #Sussex @bookstodon

“Since the acquisition, the company's only actions have been to silence critics of Elon, to expose journalists and others to harm, and to violate basic ethical standards and privacy laws." https://futurism.com/elon-musk-twitter-leaked-messages-twitter

Maybe we should have thought about that before letting millions of people to become ill with long covid?

Does he really think it's a choice for the people who are off work long-term sick?

Andy Ngo is stalking antifascist accounts on Mastodon and screencapping "incriminating" posts. Be careful out there folks.

#NATO’s Twisted “Diplomacy” With #Russia & #Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv9jBoT3B9Q

"We are now in a very bad situation, because I think it’s a historic wrong decision, for it’s against the majority of the population in Germany. According to new polls, the majority in Germany is against sending battle tanks to Ukraine. The majority is in favor for more diplomacy, for a negotiated peace in Ukraine," Dagdelen, who is member of the Left party, told a German news outlet on Thursday.

Sad and poignant