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

To quote the excellent Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy@mas.to...

"Reform has failed. I think it has two seats. It is doing nothing like as well as UKIP did. It is annoying the Tories. It is giving racists and headbangers something to do. But it is not winning support. Its only real achievement seems to be to keep the Greens off the BBC."

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/05/04/labour-is-not-as-out-of-touch-with-reality-as-the-tories-but-it-has-only-a-vague-relationship-with-it/

I was introduced last week to the concept of an “accountability sink”; a structural technique for saying “the rules/tools/processes made me do it” and therefore avoiding accountability. They aren’t universally bad but booooy is AI going to create a lot of them in bad places, like (checks notes) killing civilians.
https://kolektiva.social/@danmcquillan/112377379849654399

#FreePalestine

Woking becomes the first council in Surrey to have no Tories at all. I repeat, IN SURREY. 🤣
#LocalElections #GTTO https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/woking-election-results-chobham-byfleet-29102102

Well, well, well, one of the 'clarifications' offered to businesses by Labour's watering down of its New Deal for Workers, is to allow zero-hours contract to continue (despite a commitment to ban them completely) of workers choose them;

cue, off-line (verbal) pressure & 'incentives;' to adopt zero hours contracts 'voluntarily'...

Clueless about employers methods!

If Keir Starmer was trying to build trust in an incoming Labour Govt.,its not workers' trust that he is interested in.

#workers

i need a job so badly

this month is my last chance

im a software developer with a decade of experience who needs a remote position, please reach out if you can offer something

edit: wow! i really wasnt expecting this to be actually seen by people! i have replies asking for a more detailed list of skills, so:

Rachael's mini-resume

I am a senior software engineer in the US with 10 years of professional experience. I am seeking a fully remote position. My previous job of 6 years was built around PHP/Laravel on the backend and Typescript/Angular on the frontend. A typical LAMP stack. As a senior developer I was often responsible for the planning, delegation, and execution of projects, and also had a key role in gathering requirments. I was also responsible for database administration.

Languages: PHP, Typescript, Rust, C#, Java

Assorted list of various tools and buzzwords: Linux, Windows, SQL, MySQL, git, Azure, REST api, JSON api, GraphQL, Node.js, npm, Angular and AngularJS, Material, Laravel, Lumen, SASS, RPA, UiPath, AWS

Leadership ability: Had ownership of projects, and regularly led a small team through the entire design process, from requirements to maintenance. Worked in a quarterly Waterfall pattern. Gathered requirements from users, created a list of stories/tasks to complete, and discussed among the team how we could best divide and accomplish the project. Communication is key, and I am always in communication with the teammates on what's getting pushed and what people need help on. I never treat the project managing role as being a superior, I talk to the team like fellow humans and offer help and receive help, free of any judgment, to create an open environment where there is no reason for team members to be afraid to voice their struggles.

I am most interested in a Rust position, but am open to anything and have the most experience in PHP/Typescript.

Thank you for reading.

All #Democrats had to do was apply pressure to their own administration about #Israel but they were so afraid of #Trump they would not criticize Biden, and look what happened. Biden is going to lose the election, people are horrified. This is what happens when thinking people apply a cult mentality. It will be worse under Trump for you, but it is already so terrible for so many under Biden, they simply won’t vote. #uspol

I'm a Tenured College Professor. I'm Quitting. Here's Why.
by Jessica Wildfire

"Most of my professor friends can't support themselves. That includes the fancy tenured professors, even at nice schools. They have sugar mamas & sugar daddies. They're married to lawyers and bankers, or IT managers. If they're like me, they've got a secret side hustle.

Here's an irony:

My university forces everyone to disclose outside income. So if you have a second job or a side hustle, you're technically supposed to report it. You're supposed to ask them for permission. They can say no.

That's right, the same university that gave me a chocolate bar for a raise also says I can't take on a second job to support my family. They're worried it would distract me from all the free work I'm doing for them." https://www.okdoomer.io/im-a-professor-heres-why-im-walking-away-from-my-tenure/

The headline of Gaby Hinsliff's piece this morning in the Guardian says it all:

'if we run out of teachers, who will teach our children?'

The crisis in our schools is not just an immediate problem of education but will have impacts across the generations.

We needed to have sorted this out long ago, but the toxic impact of Tory education policy has undermined, disempowered & compromised the teaching profession to such an extent we're now in crisis

#teachers #education
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/30/parents-voters-ministers-run-out-teachers-recruitment-schools

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