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

Liberals: we have no idea why the plebs are voting for the fascists… Maybe it’s our messaging. Darling, pass the Dom Perignon, won’t you… I must write a social-media treatise on this post-haste.

“Nazism was a movement built on its ability to bring together the forces of the right. The party had achieved this remarkable balancing act by appealing to as many prejudices and obsessions as possible; they embraced antisemitism, anti-Marxism, Völkisch romanticism, Nordic mysticism, atheism, anti-capitalism, eugenics, and colonial imperialism. The result was a wild and at times unstable mix of traditionalism, conservatism, and radicalism. Colonial imperialism was one of the more important of these political strands, and while campaigning at the ballot box, the Nazis skillfully exploited the nostalgic longing for the lost colonies to great effect.

Even after coming to power in 1933 and dismantling the democratic apparatus of the Weimar state, it is remarkable how acutely sensitive to public opinion the party remained. Despite the totalitarian nature of Nazi rule, the party machine, oiled from a decade of electioneering, was primed to keep its disparate support blocks moving in the same direction, constantly assuring each of them that their particular concerns and preoccupations were at the core of the party’s programme and in the forefront of the Fuhrer’s mind.”

- “The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism” by David Olusoga and Casper W. Erichsen.

Remember, if a boxer ‘hitting too hard’ was wild we’ve yet to get to the track and field events where lots of non-white non-stereotypical competitors maybe seen running too fast and jumping or throwing too far. Wild!

@ChrisMayLA6 I long ago decided that Suella Braverman was one of the most dangerous and toxic Tories. It seems that even her colleagues have finally reached the same conclusion!

100 % korrekt.

So @pluralistic is giving a talk in Defcon on: "Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses' insatiable horniness for enshittification." https://defcon.org/html/defcon-32/dc-32-speakers.html

This is fascinating. There were trans and intersex athletes competing at the Olympics in the early years, but everything changed during/after the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany, when the Nazis decided to go after Zdeněk Koubek, a trans man competing for Czechoslovakia
https://www.vox.com/culture/364032/trans-athletes-olympics-2024

The NHS ate my wife again.

She started work at 07:30… she got home at 22:00, exhausted, in tears.

And that’s normal.

Because there are not enough staff.

There are not enough staff because the conditions are shit. And the pay is jokes. And the expectations insane.

And the answer from Starmer… “cut waiting times by efficiency savings”. My dude, there is nothing left to squeeze.

#SaveOurNHS #VoteGreen

@leighms @KimSJ @ChrisMayLA6

"On too many managers in the NHS, analysis exists that shows that as a proportion of the work force the NHS has at least half the percentage that is common in business."

This is where you have to realise that the NHS SHOULDN'T BE RUN AS A BUSINESS!

#NHS #SaveOurNHS

Sentiments (quite widely) expressed recently:

Once you've jailed protesters for 5 years for peaceful protests, the next wave may well work on the assumption that 'you might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb' & shift to actions that more clearly carry prison sentences.

Will we see the right-wing demonstrators who disrupted people's daily lives in Southport & elsewhere handed similar sentences (if & when caught) that were handed out to the Just Stop Oil protesters?

#politics #ruleoflaw

Infosec peeps: Patrick McKenzie (@patio11) wrote an excellent overview of the Crowdstrike debacle for novice users. It explains things like the difference between kernelspace and userspace, and has an appropriately high level of snark throughout.

The focus towards the end is why this hit US banks at a disproportionally high rate, and why it could have been much worse for all of us.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/crowdstrike-bug-hit-banks-hard/

Would be nice if NHTSA spoke about road safety as clearly as Jalopnik.

https://jalopnik.com/these-are-the-unbreakable-rules-of-driving-1851608168/slides/8