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

the privileged call violence everything that is a threat to their status quo. those of us outside of privilege call it self-defense.

learn the difference between violence and self-defense.

@DaywalkingRedhead @stupidjim

“It’s comically difficult” to turn off your new car’s data collection, EFF’s @Thorin told Sherwood News. “I do this for a living and I am not 100% positive I have gotten everything correct, which is ridiculous.” https://sherwood.news/tech/how-to-opt-out-of-the-privacy-nightmare-that-comes-factory-installed-in-new/

Brilliant response. With just the right amount of sarcasm which I love.

My favourite #MetGala recap:

Incredible. Read the text of the ceasefire agreement.

The ceasefire mandated release of ALL Israeli hostages, a permanent & indefinite ceasefire—meaning Hamas could never offensively take up arms against Israel again—and Qatar, Egypt, USA, & the UN serving as Guarantors.

Israel still said no.😐
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/6/text-of-the-ceasefire-proposal-approved-by-hamas

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is brilliant in its own right, and also works as meta-commentary, as no LLM could get the scansion that tight and the rhymes that enjoyable: "well, actually"/polydactyly and plagiarise/Hbomberguys are markers of humanity https://mathstodon.xyz/@andrewt/112380073199982452

@Npars01 @CWilbur @samhenrigold

Thanks to you know who…

Starmer is setting out to be a man who does not rise to the challenges https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/05/05/starmer-is-setting-out-to-be-a-man-who-does-not-rise-to-the-challenges/ Keir Starmer says Labour is for everyone - so long as they’re part of an aspirational family that loves their country and who appears indifferent to the environment, growing international isolation, fascism and inequality. What about the rest? Who is looking after that majority?

The JDL is back. #Toronto

NYPD, finding a bike lock that literally anyone can buy: We have determined that professional agitators have infiltrated the student protests.

NYPD, seeing a discarded pizza box: And we have a strong hunch that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are the culprits.

Every university protest against the genocide in Gaza has specific demands.

Each group wants their university to do something specific.

At UT Austin in Texas, for instance, the protesters have called for the school to divest from Israeli weapons manufacturers. I'll say that again. The school has official working agreements with weapons manufacturers that are currently being used to kill Gazans.

If your argument against students is "they're just using this as an excuse to not to go to class and just want to cause disruption" then you are either being lied to or you are the one lying to others.

If you have not heard of the specific demands and terms of what would stop the protests...

...then you might want to question where you get your news and what other propaganda you have consumed and currently believe.

#stopGenocide #GazaGenocide #protest #universityProtests