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

For the sake of empathy, I ask you all to take a second to consider things from the perspective of Conservatives:

Inflation is out of control. Housing is unaffordable. The healthcare system is broken. Everyone is drowning in student debt. Ecosystems are collapsing. We're constantly on the brink of war.

So naturally, one would ask, how can we even hope to solve these daunting and complex issues if we do not have detailed information on the genitals of every American citizen?

Ddespite occasionally admitting that #profits & imports might be contributing to #inflation we're back to the tired old narrative that its #workers are to blame.

The Bank & economists in the City of London are still talking about #wage rises being 'worryingly high' (not their's of course) and so we cannot expect #InterestRates to go down any time soon!

Given profits have 'recovered' but real wages remain below pre-2010 levels, I think its fair to say this is about cementing low-wage Britain!

Q. as #rents in the UK start to increase at a much slower rate (projected to continue into 2024), have we reached 'peak rentier'?

Are #landlords finally finding they have reached the limit of the money they can extract from household expenses?

If so the #Tories have served the rentier class well; when people can afford no more rent, the landlords have reached the optimal level of profit;

the social price is penury for the renters, but offers a good income for Tory MPs & their landlord chums!

The rotation of Earth really makes my day

This feels appropriate for the second thing I've ever posted to mastodon.

I might be starting to get the hang of this ...

#CellTower 578

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https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower/?p=578

(Still takes me ages)

Current streak: 18

It’s essential that those who are most at need are aware of this! Please share widely. While it shouldn’t be necessary, it is!

These fuckers are content to watch us die.

This bullshit is going to condemn our species to extinction unless we find a way to depose these sociopaths.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/03/back-into-caves-cop28-president-dismisses-phase-out-of-fossil-fuels

#cop28 #copOut #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

My daughter snagged this screenshot before it changed. Enjoy

#kissinger #wikipedia #hell #henrykissinger

Anyway, the age of tech workers being treated well is over.

If you're a tech worker, you should be in a union.

You will be fucked over. You will be treated poorly. You will be stack ranked and fired over arbitrary bullshit.

When you get to your next employer, start on day one. Talk to every rank and file member of the org about unionizing. Make it happen. We have to protect ourselves.

Hey folks!

Please do NOT report artists for sharing links to where their art is available to purchase!

Just DO NOT be such a jerk!

If you want artists to keep sharing their work on mastodon, this whole "absolute no commercial posts at all" attitude has to stop. There is a huge difference between a big corporate ad campaign and an individual artist posting a link to their own art shop.

Edit/Update: Well, this blew up. I'm muting now, and won't see replies.

#ArtForSale #art #visSocialTips

I am urging you to check out my Low Quality Facts merch. Not because Redbubble is having a bunch of Black Friday sales, but so I can show my family a screenshot of the receipt during Thanksgiving dinner and say "Who's wasting their life now, nerds?"
https://www.redbubble.com/people/LowQualityFacts/shop?utm_source=rb-native-app&utm_campaign=share-artist&utm_medium=android

And so the #Tories have weaponised #workingfromhome in their bid to force #longterrmsick & those with mental conditions (leaving them unable to leave the house) back to work...

Sarah White, the head of policy at the national disability charity Sense (quoted in the Guardian) said:
'Everyone should be able to work if they want to and can, but this latest government move looks sets to punish disabled people, adding more anxiety on to disabled households that are already struggling'!

How do you make a billion dollars in #capitalism

The question is answered by #RobertReich
a Professor at UC Berkeley (incidentally, former U.S. Secretary of Labor, who served in the Ford, Carter and Clinton administrations).