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

Every Doctor

Call for a ceasefire in Gaza:

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/we-call-for-a-ceasefirenow-2?source=direct_link&

#GazaGenocide

Remember that any one of these billionaires could solve San Francisco’s homelessness crisis overnight, yet instead they spend their money vilifying the poor and attacking those of us who are trying to house people

Christ alive. There's a fediverse-to-bluesky bridge set to activate soon and the service is opt *out*. That means all your content (public, listed only if the creator is to be believed) will be automatically ported over to a commercial social media platform without your express consent.

According to the creator, you can opt out by adding "#nobridge" to your bio or domain block "bsky.brid.gy".

Maybe think about telling this person what you think about their opt out strategy.
https://snarfed.org/2024-02-12_52106

#FediBlock

The long-run goal is, I think, the same for every human being, that politically he or she may be allowed to live free from fear, insecurity, terror, and oppression, free also from the possibility of exercising unequal or unjust domination over others.
You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once— there has to be a limit. #EdwardSaid
Good Morning to everyone except those who continue to defend/endorse genocidal assault in #Gaza
Day 128. #EndOccupation

This year on #ValentinesDay support the #gigeconomy #workers at #Deliveroo & #UberEats by not ordering food from these platforms & helping them make their one day strike effective.

Many drivers struggle to earn a #livingwage, while their exploitative conditions are now well known.

these are no tech-firms, their business model is based on #wagetheft & the denial of workers' rights as a way to build market share & profitability.

Stand with the riders & drivers!

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/12/takeaway-riders-deliveroo-uber-eats-strike-valentines-day-living-wage-delivery-drivers

What's currently getting in the way of the #India - UK #trade deal?

Now it seems the Indian Govt. is keen to get national insurance contributions paid by temporary staff in the UK (mainly in the IT sector) transferred back to India... the UK, of course, wants to hold on to the money even though the #workers concerned would never receive an associated pension in the UK.

Oh dear, quiet state #wagetheft has been exposed... and the Indians (unsurprisingly) are not happy

You can say you opposed it, you can say you were indifferent, you can say you were complicit, but the one thing you cannot say is that you didn’t know.

#israel #palestine #gaza #genocide

you know, i'm pretty fucking sick of billionaires

As both Labour & the #Tories scrabble to find new ways to 'listen to business', we seem to be caught up in the old claim that 'What is good for GM is good for the USA'... refracted into UK #politics (again).

However, what experience tells us is that Capital's factional interests seldom produce a political economy that serves the long-term general interests of #business or us.

We need politicians with clear & workable economic strategies, not people who respond to the CEO's who shout loudest!

Microsoft has endorsed KOSA, the legislation that the GOP wants to use to cut off access to information for LGBTQ youth (leading to untold self-harm, suicide and destroyed lives) and ruin the open Internet with ID requirements.

Please contact your reps and demand they vote against it.

Also, fuck you, Microsoft.

To take quick action: https://www.stopkosa.com/

Although prepared for last Autumn's budget, this briefing from the Women's Budget Group on #gender & #taxation remains apposite as the #Tories contemplate more destruction & hobbling of #publicservices:

'Because of structural gender inequalities in the labour market and society – and because women are more likely to be unpaid carers - women rely particularly on public services. Cuts in public services therefore have a disproportionately detrimental impact on women'!

https://wbg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Tax-Pre-Budget-Briefing-Autumn-2023-FINAL.pdf