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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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Really shocking - UK is far and away the world's worst on #homelessness
John Burn-Murdoch in the Financial Times
"When people picture homelessness, they tend to imagine people sleeping rough on the street, tipped into insecurity by substance use problems. Viewed this way, one might imagine the US would rank highest in any international comparison ...
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I mean, sure they have an army of fascist murderpigs tooled up with military grade weaponry, but at the end of the day "the machine" in American society is basically five oil companies, a handful of weapons contractors, 10 techbros and about 8,000 extremely rich people.
We don't have to live (and die) this way... we could implode these fuckers overnight if we ever got around to learning how to count.
My dog thinks he’s getting supper. He stole a loaf of bread. So he isn’t.
Very useful take from someone who understands this really well
Why Israel Is in Deep Trouble
https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/why-israel-is-in-deep-trouble?utm_medium=ios
Missed out tuning SQL.
Nearly 40 years before the mast man and boy. 😀
So it’s new job / income source time again. Old company ran out of money.
Sitting with a notebook and cuppa in the garden thinking. Not letting myself write any code or use computer for at least a couple of days.
If you know anyone in the market for senior full stack Rails/React/Hotwire person please get in touch.
Just come out if small co CTO so can do that too.
Plus pairing, mentoring, architecture review. Code base review and critique.
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▶ Suella Braverman FAILS To Provoke Pro Palestine Activists
Podur makes an interesting point. Israel has mobilised everyone and smashed everything. After the continuous destruction Palestinians can’t be threatened into silence any more so they will fight. They’ve been lied to so many times that they will keep fighting. Israel is losing. But the price the Palestinians are paying, terrible.
Useful analysis from the Anti Empire Project
Why Israel is stuck
https://open.substack.com/pub/justinpodur/p/why-israel-is-stuck
Yay! #CellTower 744
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One word #CellTower 743
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This is great but can we please also have Fedora (& Ubuntu, etc.) acknowledge they started shipping operating systems without a functional screen reader when they switched to Wayland and that that’s still the case?
This is not to name and shame. Unless we acknowledge this as an error on par with shipping without monitor support and unless the culture is altered to make accessibility a showstopper, it’ll happen again.
#Fedora #GAAD #Accessibility #A11y #Linux #OpenSource https://fosstodon.org/@fedora/112450335722898487
Just posted this on Xhitter:
I've seen a lot of people supporting the genocide here ... I sincerely hope you eventually regain your empathy, and until that day, the children you're ignoring haunt you in your sleep.
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Mozilla has updated Firefox to have some new data collection silliness. It seems OK, but if like me, you're skeptic, chose the hamburger menu, go to settings, type "firefox da" and the setting will pop up. Uncheck stuff and you're good to go.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/share-data-mozilla-help-improve-firefox
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A brand new Oxford University analysis has debunked #NHS privatisation.
Oxford researchers looked at studies of healthcare #privatisation and found they agreed on one thing: privatisation leads to poorer quality care for patients.
https://invidious.perennialte.ch/watch?v=sA1GK65J1x8
#SaveOurNHS #WeOwnIt #healthcare #OurNHS #PrivatisationFails #PeopleNotProfits #CorporateTerrorism #video #research #hospital
If you're an anti-imperialist this site looks useful https://anti-imperialist.net/blog/2023/05/23/imperialism-and-the-international-split-of-the-proletariat/
Make a point
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Rando interrupts convo with picture of fat Palestinian and says where's the famine - call them a child, original poster gets all shirty
Wuddabout October
Wuddabout the previous 70 odd years
Waste of time
Today’s lesson is - do not argue with zionist trolls on Twitter, rather like the saying about wresting with a pig - you get frustrated and the pig enjoys it too much.
There is hope.
“… after over forty years of neoliberal mismanagement, concluding with the austerity, social decay, and political crises of the last decade or so, the country is in need of radical modernisation, not a moderate clinging to established structures and habits. In short, we cannot simply put the grown-ups (whoever they may be) back in charge and return to a centrist Eden.”
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Since 1853, France has been occupying the islands of New Caledonia against the wishes of the Indigenous Kanak people. In the 1870s, the French government exiled the anarchist Louise Michel and many other participants in the Paris Commune uprising there.
In 1878, the Kanaks revolted against French oppression. Ataï, one of the leaders of the revolt, achieved several victories against the occupiers. After he was finally betrayed, the French colonizers cut off his head and brought it back to Paris. They refused to return it until 2014.
Today, colonialism continues in New Caledonia. The French government has just sent 1200 more police officers there from Paris to suppress the latest uprising.
Like Louise Michel, we support Indigenous struggles against colonialism. Get France out of New Caledonia.
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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
