Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social
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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
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DHH is an absolute Musk Cuck (I won't even link his awful blog post) - he lives in a completely different reality
I suspect the AI will name itself "Omimator" or something
I live in a 20 zone
It's also a little misty (but still 20 metres viz or so)
So why are clowns driving at 40 without even their side lights on?
When did thinking become such a scarce commodity?
Starmer's own staff think he's useless. You couldn't make it up. A void in a suit.
In other tech news I just started using the Zen browser and also replaced iTerm with Ghostty
I've been re-lerning Elixir/Phoenix because I want to create a small personal project and Rails is far too heavy for small things.
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Bluesky: we’re decentralized!
Also Bluesky: if our one and only mod team doesn’t like your content, the entire social network won’t see it
Also Bluesky: if our one and only mod team doesn’t like your content, the entire social network won’t see it
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A land that's fit for bankers
A land that's fit for bankers
Well TIL that South Road can sometimes have black ice. I moved off the pavement to let another dog owner get past and went flying. Flying Fish in Birkenhead!
I'm fine, barked my knuckles a tiny bit and slight bruise on my elbow. People were so nice and helpful.
I’ve just noticed something really odd.
The Apple weather app on my phone reports temperatures that are about 2°C lower than the Met Office app. The Met seems to be the most accurate. The Apple app is really good at predicting when it’s gonna rain in the next hour or so.
Why there is temperature difference is a bit of a weird one, and I can’t find an explanation for it.
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My child has established “stay whimsical, silly geese” as a gender-neutral way to depart from a group and I have secured their consent to steal it and make it available to anyone else who finds it useful
Finally got around to resurrecting my Mastodon instance. Discovered I could pay exactly the same and have 30GB more disk, given how disk hungry it is is a good thing.
The next thing I need to do is find the energy to update, or move it to something that's less resource hungry.
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The #UK is a hellscape for #disabled people. I extend my deepest sympathies to all of you there. The US isn't much better but we tend to sublimate this stuff a little more.
This story is about UK elites tsk-tsking that disabled people in the UK are helping each other apply for benefits.
Fucking Brits, I tell ya.
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I welcomed sinners, tax collectors and Samaritans, so yeah, I'm okay with diversity and inclusion.
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To those who see greed as _the_ problem:
Like other evolved human traits that cause problems, we're stuck with the inclination, but we can manage it.
Smallish groups can manage it, eg, by ostracising gluttons & teaching chn to control it in the interests of belonging.
Very large groups need govts to share that job of fostering our best qualities & discouraging the worst.
Neoliberal govts do the opposite.
We keep voting for them against our best interests.
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Speaking of, over and over and over and over again it is proven that private healthcare insurance is more expensive for the individual AND the state.
The ONLY argument that holds water for private health insurance is the pure "I refuse to pay for poor people's health" argument, aka "I am actually too selfish to function in society"
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Trump, Musk, etc., are the natural result of a system based on conflating money with success. If you don’t like the fucking gods, maybe stop practicing the fucking religion.
Finally deleted all the accounts I had on Twitter.
Decided that not using them was still giving support to Space Karen Grifters R Us because it counted in the figures.
btw I don't mind Space Karen getting $50bn as long as it's at 95% tax.
Well, I've been looking a t Bluesky. Thing is,. it's another Twitter, with all of the things I didn't care for that much. I don't feel motivated to go there.
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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
