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

The funniest thing about the last couple days of my timeline is that I have not once told anyone not to vote. I haven’t even said whether *I personally* will or will not vote.

And yet a lot of people are furiously convinced I’ve been lobbying against voting because I made factually correct observations about the electoral process.

In other words, the process indicts itself.

Friends, if a discussion about how voting works sounds like advocacy against voting, then the problem is with voting, not with the discussion.

#OtD 30 Apr 1883 author Jaroslav Hašek was born in Prague. Whilst most famous for writing the satirical anti-war masterpiece The Good Soldier Svejk, Hasek was also a soldier, an anarchist, a PoW, a drunk, a dog-stealer, a cook and much more https://t.co/pq8VG5lre8 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10256/jaroslav-ha%C5%A1ek-born?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Nationalising Thames Water will not in any way threaten the stability of UK financial markets https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/29/nationalising-thames-water-will-not-in-any-way-threaten-the-stability-of-uk-financial-markets/. Treasury sourced rumours that financial markets that nationalising Thames Water might cause massive upset in UK financial markets are deliberate misinformation intended to reinforce the Bank of England's policy of excessive interest rates.

Laws are never equally enforced or applied especially when you have tons of investors money. It is a sad reality. https://bsky.app/profile/lonestartallboi.bsky.social/post/3kiib4qnjt324

Their problem with protestors is not that they "disturb the peace". It's that they disturb the violence.

USC went from cancelling their valedictorian’s commencement speech on a made up claim of safety, to canceling all commencement speakers, to canceling commencement altogether—all to prevent the student USC educated on genocide studies from applying her USC education at USC.😑

What a complete failure in leadership.

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OP @masterdon1312

Shamelessly pinched from the World Bollard Association ™️