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

For 75yrs a health service the envy of the world

The NHS is not intended for profit, something the Tories could never comprehend

Death from a thousand cuts, privatisation, lack of investment & low pay taking it to the edge of oblivion

#SaveOurNHS NEVER vote Tory
#NHS75
#nhs
#GeneralElectionNow
#toriesout

#racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness

Is there a Fedi equivalent of Goodreads etc. with an API? ramblingreaders inexplicably has no API and I am damn sure not adding x00 books by hand.

(And I am not faffing about installing a Python monster locally just to frob the database directly.)

"I am not angry because the submarine was badly-made. I am angry because I live in a vastly larger pressure vessel being managed and maintained by the exact same people." -- https://cohost.org/hystericempress/post/1731218-reflecting-on-it-th @hystericempress

Posted because I kept seeing this quote posted with the names filed off, so I did a quick google search to find the original so I could share it with full attribution.

I'm getting super-spammed with retoots and faves, so I don't need any more.

A cryptobro DMed me to ask if I wanted to join his mailing list.

I spent slightly too long making this to send in reply.

Water companies paid out more than £50bn in dividends to shareholders in the last 30 years. Thames Water is now £14bn in debt and the Government will probably have to bail them out.
Even then they’ll refuse to take the company back into public ownership and will basically give it back to their friends after paying off the debt.
And there’s billions that still needs investing in the water infrastructure itself.
Who ever thought privatising water monopolies was a good idea?

The income cap on Social Security taxes is rigged for the rich.

A CEO earning $20 million a year pays Social Security taxes on ~1% of their income.

Meanwhile, a normal worker earning under the cap pays Social Security taxes on 100% of their income.

How does that make any sense?

https://youtu.be/GfZuB7XSFys

After centuries spent exploiting and extracting resources from a lot of the rest of the world to bolster its own wealth, Europe has spent decades erecting borders to keep those affected out. It is now pumping out huge sums of money to stop migration in ways that are demonstratively emboldening warlords, militias, dictatorships, and other systems that oppress people further. #Colonialism #Capitalism via @ketan https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2023/06/15/how-has-the-mass-drowning-of-migrants-off-greece-become-in-any-way-normalised/

"cis is a slur" is some next level, roided-up ultra-erasure.

It's also very Newspeak. Double plus Newspeak. Delete the language that describes the concept to delete the concept.

It's funny, but it's also very very bad. Pure eliminationism.

Explain to me how refusing a vaccination -- which increases risk of harm to others -- due to "sincerely held beliefs" is just fine, but someone else's medical decisions about themselves require passing laws against it.

Oh, right. Bigotry.

LB: Billionaire thinks he's too good for safety testing, says it gets in the way of rapid innovation, and within 5 years innovates himself into a watery grave because his innovative sub design wasn't safe. A+ 10/10 no notes

The next step in the #Tory engineered #NHScrisis:

Some trusts are offering 'golden hellos' to #nurses to encourage them to apply & stay where there are staff shortages.

All this will do is move the staffing crisis more firmly into the most cash-strapped Trusts & reinforce the unevenness of #healthcare.

For the #Tories this looks like a 'market' working & they'll see it as part of the 'solution' not adding to the crisis!

Trusts fighting for staff is not the answer to any Q.

#SaveOurNHS