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
RT @helenmallam
Discussing whether politics is too brutal without mentioning the cruelty dished out to children living in poverty? Oh, I get it, they mean the ‘brutal’ holding to account of MPs. #PoliticsLive
RT @Normanjam671
We now have the right as a country to make people stateless breaking international law.
We're a pirate island off the coast of Europe.
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Reddit: "My friend is in university and taking a history class. The professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and the students need to mark up its essays and point out where ChatGPT is wrong and correct it."
https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/117gtom/my_friend_is_in_university_and_taking_a_history/
Honestly, this is great! The students learn to check sources, discover that ChatGPT is unreliable, *and* can't use it to generate essay question answers for them, all at the same time!
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Malcolm X was assassinated 58 years ago today. This remains as one of my favorite pieces of wisdom he shared. And now, they're making it illegal to even claim the knife is there.
"If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there." — Malcolm X
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Because the god of the GOP would hate to miss an opportunity to watch a baby suffocate…. #religionkills Florida couple unable to get abortion will see baby die after delivery https://flip.it/NjRJfu
Someone has forgotten the farming deal with Australia that will shaft British farmers. Funny, that.
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RT @johnredwood
Now we are short of imported salad food will the government do more to support UK farmers growing the food we need? Stop subsidies to leave land wild and spend the money on new food growing.
https://twitter.com/johnredwood/status/1628272679298953217
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How do you explain our crises to someone in a parallel universe?
#war: when two people have a difference of opinion and send millions of people to die while some companies profit immensely.
#ClimateCrisis: when politicians do the wrong thing instead of saving humanity while some companies profit immensely.
housing crisis: when there are empty houses and people without homes while some companies profit immensely.
#capitalism: when everything goes to shit while some companies profit immensely.
The hypocrisy of the imperial machine is boundless.
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People like to say that "You can't change people's minds with data!" That's kind of true, but not really. You can definitely get some folk to change their position on topics with data. You can't get other folk to stop being racist/sexist, etc with data, because racism/sexism etc are lies, and the person got themselves into that situation specifically by rejecting the truth.
But good news, not everyone is racist/sexist because they reject the truth. Some people have had the truth kept from them.
Biden visits country he spent $5bn toppling the government of while blethering about democracy. Fixed that headline for you.
RT @D_Raval
The debate about #WindfallTax shouldn’t be limited to energy companies. All industries who lucked out on the Ukraine invasion should be subject to it. Banks who hit the lottery with rising interest rates are obvious candidates. https://twitter.com/FisherAndrew79/status/1627927468689563648
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‘Here it is better not to be born’: Cobalt mining for Big Tech is driving child labor, deaths in the Congo
Child labor, sexual assault, birth defects, abject poverty, workers buried alive: A new exposé on artisanal cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo lifts the curtain on a nightmarish world in which billions of people are unwittingly complicit
#pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #Climate #Congo #Africa
RT @Normanjam671
Voting Labour for things they aren't offering is magical thinking.
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
I still haven't made it to Black history yet. I'm still on white US history.
Q: Why is it OK for Black folk to like the Black Panthers, but white folk can't like the klan? Black supremacy is just as bad as white supremacy! Why the double standard?
A: Black folk know white US history, so they know that the Black Panthers were not Black supremacists.
(At this point, half of the Black folk reading this just involuntary said "COINTELPRO!" out loud).
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
I still haven't made it to Black history. Still on white US history.
Q: Why does it seem like so much of the anti-Asian hate that I see on TV and in newspapers is done by Black people? It seems like Asian folk should be legitimately afraid of Black people! Why does it seem that way?
A: Racism. Most Asian hate attacks are done by white folk. Asian folk are significantly safer from Asian hate, when they are around Black folk.🙂🙃
Newspapers lied on us.
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
I will get to Black history. For now, I'm still on white US history.
Q: Why is so much Black music about violence and misogyny? I'm not racist, but I think Black culture is just more violent. Why does it seem that way?
A: Racism. Rap, trap, and drill, are only the most popular genres of Black music listened to *by white people.* The most popular among Black folk is R&B, almost 2X as popular. Violent rap is mostly for y'all.🤷🏿♂️
https://www.statista.com/statistics/945163/leading-music-genres-african-american/
RT @simonmaginn
Sonia Sodha's disgraceful Observer hate-screed made serious factual errors and must be corrected by Observer immediately.
It is simply not acceptable for a major UK newspaper to publish lying trash like this.
Observer, your reputation is in the gutter.
Do something.
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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
