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

I just saw J D Vance called a “broligarch-funded shillbilly” and I can only wish I could write half so well ☠️

Just got laid off. If anyone's looking for a senior writer/showrunner/narrative designer I could really use the work, as this was a contract position and there will be no unemployment.

Games industry, audiodrama, screenwriting, novels, anything with story... I have over ten years of experience and I'm good at what I do. #getfedihired

Hello all, this is a reminder that I am available for (remote) work!

My last 4 years were spent as a software engineering manager and I'm open to similar work if your organization is in need!

I lead with humanity and vulnerability, focus on coaching and mentorship, enjoy strategy and architecture, and am known for speaking up when a question needs to be asked or the elephant in the room needs to be addressed. 🐘

Reach out! (and I'd appreciate if you could boost too)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariaburrell/

Microsoft now blaming the EU for the crowdstrike issue, because the EU made them open their APIs to third party developers in 2009 is hilarious.

If your APIs had any kind of gracious error handling, this wouldn’t be an issue. Fix your bad code, Microsoft, stop pointing fingers.

The way you make a name that ends in S possessive depends on which style guide you follow:

AP Stylebook: Harris' campaign

Chicago Manual of Style (and others): Harris's campaign

#AmWriting

Everybody in a UBI study could spend it all on drugs & I would still support UBI.

Stop asking virtue of the poor which you don’t of the rich.

Twitter didn't make them this way, Elon didn't make them this way, Trump didn't make them this way. All those people/things did was give them permission to be this way in public.

I hate to inform you of this, but the fascists in your families, your work spaces, your social circles have always wanted this, have always intended this, have always thought of the other as less than human. They were just afraid to tell you because of social consequences. That's what changed mate.

Them: “You’re not trans, why are you always defending them?”

Me: “I am also not a domestic cat, and if I see you abusing one of those I’ll kick your ass too.”

When you see the word "privatize" just think "extract wealth by choking public good to death"

After 15+ years of hustling to publish #academic journal articles and books, a significant proportion of my work is now being sold off to #Microsoft to train #LLMs. I never consented to this, and of course when I started my career, I never predicted this.

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/academic-authors-shocked-after-taylor--francis-sells-access-to-their-research-to-microsoft-ai

That whoosh you're hearing is me rushing to sign on to whatever class action lawsuit is in the offing.

We should never normalize race science and eugenics. Ever.

Child poverty is caused by a lack of money. Only more money for those in poverty can solve it. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/07/18/child-poverty-is-caused-by-a-lack-of-money-only-more-money-for-those-in-poverty-can-solve-it/ By setting up a task force on child poverty, Labour is enabling its perpetuation by avoiding the need to take action now. History will remember it for doing so.

Journalists: ‘The protection of our confidential sources is a sacred principle for which we are prepared to defy authority’

Sun Journalists: ‘Bollocks to that. We breached the confidentiality of a Zoom call planning a climate protest, recorded it,and handed the recording to the police like good agents of the state.’

In 2023, Google and Microsoft each consumed 24 TWh of electricity, surpassing the consumption of over 100 nations, including places like Iceland, Ghana, and Tunisia, according to an analysis by Michael Thomas.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/google-and-microsoft-consume-more-power-than-some-countries#xenforo-comments-3849364