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

And Laura Ann Carleton doesn’t get to be friends with anybody anymore, or attend church functions or backyard barbecues, because she was murdered.

She was murdered over *political views.*

Just some things I noticed.

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/if-you-want-to-be-friends-then-why

And this is why child rights are human rights.

"Call me old-fashioned, but if I were a parent, I'd quite like to know whether my son, Sam, was showing up at school as Samantha."

"If you don't already know, there's a reason she's not telling you.
It's you. You're the problem."

People in the UK may be left in the wilderness without secure messaging services, if the #OnlineSafetyBill retains its encryption busting clause.

Forcing platforms to comply with client-side scanning is state-mandated private surveillance of the kind that we see in authoritarian regimes. Platforms will leave rather than compromise #security and #privacy.

It'll particularly harm journalists, campaigners and activists who rely on #e2ee to communicate safely. #ukpolitics

https://techmonitor.ai/policy/privacy-and-data-protection/what-if-whatsapp-really-does-leave-the-uk

Innit, though. Reposted with alt-text.

@ryanhoulihan What about making us forget Jeff Bezos. He must still be supervilla-ing while we’re looking away.

@TheRatCantRead

"acute COVID infection is likely the least of our worries." Thanks for sharing https://www.salon.com/2023/08/13/long-is-devastating-and-far-from-rare-as-infections-rise-again-why-are-we-still-ignoring-it/. Great quotes: "We need to depoliticize COVID...stop with these political attacks. We need to come together and realize that long COVID is robbing people of their lives. They might be alive, may be existing, but they're not living...We need better public health messaging too..."
#COVID #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver

I see a lot of depressed people say “oh I feel so bad, I’m such a burden on the people in my life.”

And, yeah, you are. You’re absolutely a burden on someone. I am a burden. We are all of us a burden. And that’s ok.

My kids are young and for a lot of my time with them they were helpless blobs. They have been so much work! They have made me tired, they have made me sick, they have made me worried, they have spent my money, they have punched me in the junk. Don’t let anyone sugarcoat how hard it is to be a parent.

And I would do anything for them. I would die for them. I love them more than anything and would do it all over again, gladly, a thousand times.

It’s ok to be a burden. Literally every human being is, at some point, a burden on someone else. All of us need help almost all of the time.

Because we take care of each other.

David Graeber once noted that we’re fragile biological beings who die without each other. It’s ok to be a burden. Be a burden. And take care of someone else when they’re a burdens. It’s the only thing we can do, really: take care of each other.

It’s ok.

As this weekend's #doctors #strike enters is 2nd day, you will be unsurprised that the issue is essentially what counts as a 'credible offer' on pay & conditions; #RishiSunak & #SteveBarclay think what they have offered is 'credible', the #BMA (and doctors) don't agree.

If I'm asked to choose between the #Tories & #healthcare professionals' view of what is 'credible' in the #NHS, you'll forgive me if I dismiss the Tory position, based on their engineering of the #NHS crisis in the first place!