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

Given the Tories prioritised the maintenance of profits under the varying conditions (from recession to lockdown) across their years of Government, we cannot be surprised that the TUC will seek to 'restore' pay levels (and living standards) to levels last seen around 2010..

However, of course while 'maintaining' profits is seen as a legitimate business policy, restoring living standards for workers is seen as special pleading & exceptional (now even by Labour).

#workers #politics #TUC

“Since the beginning of August, about a third of aid missions within Gaza were denied access by Israeli authorities …”
~Elaine Loughlin, The Irish Examiner

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🤓

I NEED TO WRITE A NOVEL IN THE STYLE OF PHILIP K. DICK

In which a burned-out hack is hired to write marketing copy for a VC outfit who back firms who build internet-of-things devices that monetize doorknob-turns or fridge-door-opening or similar.

He discovers the VCs are feeding their tame techbros ideas horked up by a GPT engine trained on the collected works of Philip K. Dick.

But before he can whistleblow them for copyright violation his smart home appliances turn on him …

MrsD: What has four letters, starts with F and ends with K.

Me: No it doesn't! 😁

The most obnoxious aspect of the highly obnoxious Australian politics is that that Gaza gets framed as a “political” issue.

If you saw a man dismembering a child, would your reaction be “political”?

We are gaslit into thinking that basic human empathy is controversial.

#auspol
#gaza

A person, K, who supported our Ops team in Purchasing confided in one of us that K was undergoing chemo and was at a point where K needed to shave their head. K didn't know what to do about this because we were all onsite workers, and K didn't need the whole building to know that K was going through chemo. And the usual worries that even though Management knew about K's problem, what may happen if that became office gossip.

Ops member said, "Don't worry, just be yourself tomorrow, and if anyone asks, just say 'talk to Ops'."

Our Ops team decided to collectively shave their heads. Ops then came up with a story about Ops & K going out bowling, getting really drunk, and losing a collective bet where we had to shave our heads.

K didn't know this. People kept going into K's office asking what happened, and K just looked mildly embarrassed and said, "Talk to Ops."

Everyone in Ops made up a wilder story than the last. It became a competition. Every anecdote had some kind of praise or regard for K. K eventually walked over to Ops, and found out what we did.

By the end of the day, the following was accomplished:

K didn't have to tell anyone anything.
Ops developed a reputation for mild insanity and a lack of regard for social consequences.
Nobody was going to cross Ops to gossip about K.
Management had a private aside with an Ops member, who made it really clear where the entire Ops team stood.
K had no issues with any private requests to management, aside from the occasional question about how Ops was doing.

K is doing just fine.

#HowTo #Ops #FuckCancer

Why are people loosing their minds these days!? Could it be immigrants to blame, or trans kids, or racial minorities, or environmentalists, or unions, or...
Does anyone have an explanation?
#USpol #UKpol #AUSpol #Twitter #X #ElonMusk