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

@DrALJONES There won’t be a Palestinian left alive when #Israel is finished it’s #Genocide in #Gaza. 💔 the #USA and #UK should be in #TheHague with them for this.

When I was a young child, and a teacher told my class that anyone could grow up to be President, I didn't recognize that as a threat.

“Social Security classifies🚨1000s of immigrants as dead, as part of Trump crackdown.”

Inexcusable, incompetent, lawless, & racist, Trump-Musk’s regime is classifying immigrants as dead to facilitate #deportations. Musk says #DOGE is efficient & saves money bc he uses AI & young tech bros, w/o any knowledge of how govt agencies function. The richest man on earth isn’t a genius, & he’s as disingenuous, fascist, & xenophobic as #Trump.

#USPol #Musk #Fascism #SSA #Racism https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/10/self-deportation-immigrants-social-security-dead/

https://www.europesays.com/1985641/ Pew pew… (Bruce MacKinnon, April 2017) #PoliticalHumor #PoliticalHumor #Politics #USPolitics

The official Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has called for a boycott of Microsoft’s Xbox and all of its gaming products, accusing the company of complicity in Israel’s illegal occupation links to its prison system.

The boycott includes Microsoft Gaming, consoles from the brand, Xbox Game Pass, Candy Crush, Call of Duty, Minecraft, and gaming accessories, which they say generate a significant income for the company.

https://www.newarab.com/news/bds-urges-microsoft-boycott-over-firing-pro-palestine-staff

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#Gaza #Palestine

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords starting to look like a reasonable basis for a system of government

It would be great if the collapse of human civilisation could at least take the weekend off. I think we could all do with a bit of a fucking break, don't you?

Ask yourself this: will fares in self-driving cabs be cheaper? Will subscriptions to vibe-coded SaaS cost less? Will tickets to see model-generated movies be a fraction of the current price?

Or do all these technologies just solve the problem of having to pay people, with no benefit to anyone else except shareholders?

And then ask yourself this: if nobody's getting paid, who's hailing the taxis, using the SaaS and watching the movies?

"Universal Basic Income would remove the incentive to work", say people with enough money to never have to work again but who mysteriously carry on.

"One datacentre today consumes as much electricity as 100,000 households, but some of those currently under construction will require 20 times more."

Plus half a trillion $ and rising fast. And for what? Buggy code, Uncanny Valley videos, suspect social media posts and Studio Ghibli knock-offs?

And all in pursuit of a technology that will likely never fulfil its promise and never make any money?

Local man shocked system designed to reward psychopaths now run by psychopaths.

#capitalism #fascism

Public service announcement: this is *not* a dire wolf.

It is a genetically modified grey wolf made to resemble an extinct species, so a bullshit company can raise more money for their bullshit projects.

#Deextinction is a scam on so many levels I don't even know where to begin. It will *not* help us save endangered species. Instead, we should spend our money on preserving their habitats *before* they go extinct.

your daily reminder that degrowth is planned. a Recession caused by a ridiculous chaos-fascist is NOT degrowth.

degrowth is deliberate movement of production into areas that are needed by people like safe housing and healthcare, and away from weird perversions of capitalism like private jets and coal.

The UK's murder prediction AI will create a dangerous, criminalising loop.

This tech repackages flawed police data as neutral. Then replicates itself.

The existing over-policing of racialised, low income and migrant communities will be hardwired into police operations.

We need #SafetyNotSurveillance

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill

#PreCrime #policing #police #AI #crime #ukpol #ukpolitics

Interview: Ten British nationals are now facing allegations of war crimes over their service in the Israeli military in Gaza.

The 240-page report, the first of its kind, was submitted on behalf of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and the Public Interest Law Centre.

Barrister Michael Mansfield lays out the war crime allegations.

https://zeteo.com/p/britons-war-crimes-israel-gaza-uk-mansfield

#warcrimes #uk #uspol #internationallaw #ukpol .

Hi I just read the following data point and now I’m angry so you need to read it and be angry too:

“During the pandemic, governments instituted eviction moratoriums, deployed emergency rental assistance, expanded unemployment assistance and the Child Tax Credit, and issued cash directly to millions of lower-income Americans.

IN EFFECT, POVERTY DROPPED BY 45%.”

(Screamy caps my emphasis not theirs)

So not only do we KNOW what works, we have data to support it working HERE.

"She may have registered fake assistant jobs to steal EUR 4,800,000 from the EU via fictional salaries, but I agree with her politically, so just like Donald Trump she must not be held accountable!"

Keir Starmer Is Very Serious About the Status Quo

“I do think people need hope, but it needs to be what I call ordinary hope, realistic hope,” Starmer told Pickard.

“Serious” is one of Starmer’s favorite words, and it is echoed by reporters. It’s certainly true that Britain and the world face a whole host of serious problems. The trouble is that Starmerism has absolutely nothing to offer when it comes to actually fixing them. On migration, he’s tacked to the right, promising to work with a potential National Rally (far-right) French government to stop small-boat movement. ​“For me, that’s what serious government is about. So yes, we will work with whoever,” he said. On climate, his Labour has jettisoned its pledge for £28 billion in green investment. A party named for labor has cut back its proposed New Deal for Working People.

Perhaps one of his ugliest swings has been to slide towards transphobia: a reminder that ​“seriousness” is at its core an appeal to white masculinity. Often, as Joe Kennedy pointed out in Authentocrats: Culture, Politics, and the New Seriousness, as a weak substitute for class politics. In this line of thinking, so common in the press, working-class people are too thick to understand complicated concepts and are terrified of anyone different from themselves; their material concerns are brushed aside, as they mostly were in Labour’s manifesto, in exchange for some perceived cultural red meat."

https://inthesetimes.com/article/britain-keir-starmer-corbyn-election-serious

#uk #unitedkingdom #starmer #transphobia #socialism