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

I used to love this stuff, now I just sit and write code so I can eat and collect guitars.

https://francisfish.com/towards-a-lean-manifesto/

Sobering, but there is a way through

For Bread: on capitalism's global food crisis

https://youtu.be/nXYKFVXjQcU via @ProlekultFilms

I'm wondering if we need to change GTTO - Get the Tories out - to GATO - Get all Tories out - including the red ones that want to carry on privatising the NHS.

Thoughts?

The “Free Market” is Destroying the Environment

https://youtube.com/shorts/lfF_EIl5Mx0?feature=share

My thoughts on a new left party in Britain

What we always had

If we always do what we always did, what do we get?

https://greenplenty.substack.com/p/what-we-always-had

Updated my server to the safe version - that took a while to find the time

Now I need to see if I can work out how to upgrade Ubuntu because it won't

Hi folks

I might be off mastodon for a while. There's a security vulnerability I need to patch so I'm stopping the machine for a while.

Unless they're scared of us they will give us nothing, and it doesn't matter which colour you pick.

It's the same here in GB. Build and fight as best you can, no-one is coming to save you.

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If the least harm people are in charge it also takes the wind out of the sails for the ones who are willing to go to battle, "ooh look, our guy's in charge".

Welp, he's not "our" guy and doesn't have to even pretend to listen to us because of voting to reduce harm means he has no need to court us.

Have you got it yet?

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I was listening to a very interesting analysis of people voting to reduce harm, in the USA known as "vote blue, no matter who".

The political establishment know they've got the more radical voters in the bag and don't need to actually DO anything to keep them on side. This means they're gonna go for the middle class swing voters that might vote for the other elderly nincompoop.

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I did say that, when Starmer was being quizzed about "would you do a deal with X", the only party he didn't rule out was the tories.

I was right.

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Did you know that 10% inflation means that it will take about 5 years for your buying power to halve?