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

Twitter didn't make them this way, Elon didn't make them this way, Trump didn't make them this way. All those people/things did was give them permission to be this way in public.

I hate to inform you of this, but the fascists in your families, your work spaces, your social circles have always wanted this, have always intended this, have always thought of the other as less than human. They were just afraid to tell you because of social consequences. That's what changed mate.

Them: “You’re not trans, why are you always defending them?”

Me: “I am also not a domestic cat, and if I see you abusing one of those I’ll kick your ass too.”

When you see the word "privatize" just think "extract wealth by choking public good to death"

After 15+ years of hustling to publish #academic journal articles and books, a significant proportion of my work is now being sold off to #Microsoft to train #LLMs. I never consented to this, and of course when I started my career, I never predicted this.

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/academic-authors-shocked-after-taylor--francis-sells-access-to-their-research-to-microsoft-ai

That whoosh you're hearing is me rushing to sign on to whatever class action lawsuit is in the offing.

We should never normalize race science and eugenics. Ever.

Child poverty is caused by a lack of money. Only more money for those in poverty can solve it. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/07/18/child-poverty-is-caused-by-a-lack-of-money-only-more-money-for-those-in-poverty-can-solve-it/ By setting up a task force on child poverty, Labour is enabling its perpetuation by avoiding the need to take action now. History will remember it for doing so.

Journalists: ‘The protection of our confidential sources is a sacred principle for which we are prepared to defy authority’

Sun Journalists: ‘Bollocks to that. We breached the confidentiality of a Zoom call planning a climate protest, recorded it,and handed the recording to the police like good agents of the state.’

In 2023, Google and Microsoft each consumed 24 TWh of electricity, surpassing the consumption of over 100 nations, including places like Iceland, Ghana, and Tunisia, according to an analysis by Michael Thomas.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/google-and-microsoft-consume-more-power-than-some-countries#xenforo-comments-3849364

Look who's talking about political violence

https://www.reddit.com/r/CommunismMemes/comments/1e5m70n/look_whos_talking_about_political_violence/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.”

“In every epoch, the ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas.”

“The division of labor, and the consequent division of society into different classes, forms the basis for the political structure of society.”

“The individual himself is the result of the social relationships of the class to which he belongs.”
https://youtu.be/ERf6Qvqwr6g

Political question, do you demand “more civility” before or after you “eradicate the un-human radical left like vermin in a civil war”?

if you have to make your feature opt-out because people wouldn't opt-in then you shouldn't be making that feature