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

@flexghost No we just got to the point where people like Musk, Brand and co were getting more regularly exposed so they no longer pretend to hide who they are. We are now in the era of "what you gonna do about it prole"

Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: ‘Is curing patients a sustainable business model?’
Goldman Sachs analysts attempted to address a touchy subject for biotech companies, especially those involved in the pioneering “gene therapy” treatment: cures could be bad for business in the long run.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html

#medicine #pharma #business

@CoachMark We've done a lot of different ones. A few of my favorites:

We took turns lying face down on the ground with a spilled bucket of the good candy, we told the kids that's what happens to kids who stole candy and said they could have it if they wanted to try and get it. We gave them candy anyway, so they had to decide how brave they were. Little kids didn't give a fuck and would go pick up a few pieces and even poke the body a bit and be on their way, older kids would either not even try or would be terrified, we'd spook them if they got close.

We did Spooky Christmas a few years ago, decorated the garage like Christmas in a haunted house, my Brother dressed like murder Santa. You had to go tell Santa what you wanted to get candy. The best part was once again Little kids aren't afraid of Santa, even if he's carrying a head. In fact, they were so excited they wanted to hug him and sit on his lap and the whole deal. It was adorable.

When facing the "All we need is STEM!" approach to education, my usual response is:

Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem -- which did we fail?

Billionaire CEO says unemployment 'has to jump' to put 'arrogant' workers in their place.
#classwar
#FightBack
#EatTheRich

https://www.rawstory.com/tim-gurner-video/

Adding to this 6 weeks later.

Quakers aren't allowing anti-trans orgs to hire their venues, refused permission to anti-trans entryists who tried to start a "GC Quakers" group, no longer stocking a book by a Quaker author because they are anti-trans on social media and they're actively blocking anti-trans people from their social media sites.

#Trans #Quakers

More #political #hypocrisy:

So, the #WorldBank has been happily supporting #fossilfuel business via trade financing even as it claims it is pushing for a #greentransition.

Somehow, the #energy firms keep getting their fingers into the pot of state (and global) economic support... its almost like they had good connections & were effective lobbyists.

Anyone who thinks shifting to alternate #energy sources will be easy might want to look back to #tobacco for the fossil fuel playbook!

It's hilarious that some folks think a secret group of rich people control everything instead of the widely known group of rich people that control everything.
#classwar

Fascists tell lies to pull at the heart's strings, then they stab you in the back and pull out your heart.

Anyone who tells you that the rich are not getting richer at the expense of the poor and middle class is lying or uninformed. Anyone who seeks to lower taxes for the rich is on the take of the rich.
Anyone who tells you that the rich are not the biggest polluters hastens the destruction of life on earth.

The ugliness of UK political decision making https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/09/08/the-ugliness-of-uk-political-decision-making/. Ministers are proposing cuts to the benefits of a million vulnerable people currently considered unable to work. They want to force them into work. This week I have shown how to raise more than £35 billion of additional tax in the UK, all from wealthier people. There is more to come. So we don't need to penalise people unable to work, at all. That is being done by choice. This is the ugly side of UK political decision-making.

• Spending £10bn on making schools not terrifying death traps: nah.
• Spending £22bn on restoring the Palace of Westminster: sure!

They’ve lost the plot.
Send them a signal they’ll never forget.
#VoteBinface