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

@bobjmsn best ignored. No publicity.

@DrALJONES Yes,

https://americandragnet.org/ has a full report.

"ICE spent roughly $97 million on data brokers in this period [2017-2021]. The primary contractor that has provided this service is Thomson Reuters, which offers a person-search database called CLEAR."

I would wager even after switching to LexisNexis, ICE kept the data from Reuters. There's no way they washed their hands of that and it not contibuting to what we see now. Sealed records from 12 years were used in one recent arrest.

@DrALJONES Reuters has turned out to be a blatantly pro-fascist, pro-genocide organization that directly, materially aided in the current ICE kidnappings as well.

@palestine

#FuckReuters

Here are a few thoughts about the most costly pattern I see in the IT world – and unlike many other patterns that oscillate over years or decades, this one occurs over months, weeks or even days. I call it, "do you even tech, bro?"

https://artisanalgeek.blog/2025/202508-do-you-even-tech-bro.html

An example of algorithmic resistance

An Irish Author threatened by UK Genocide loving government when she lives in Ireland and the British were kicked out of most of Ireland.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/18/uk-warns-sally-rooney-after-novelist-pledges-to-fund-palestine-action?traffic_source=rss

When politicians say protestors against immigrants have 'legitimate concerns' they may be right;

protestors are concerned about the continuing cost-of-living crisis, the unavailability of good jobs in their area, the feeling that society is stacked against them.... but, what his not legitimate is seeking to channel that disquiet & frustration & turn the blame on migrants.

The real reason for this social malaise is home-grown not the migrants... its classic bait & switch politics.

#politics

Report: "No more silence, no more complicity": more than 60 EU lawmakers demand an emergency meeting to sanction Israel.

They also demanded that the EU lobby member states to implement an arms embargo on Israel & "sanctions against the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation & individuals within the organisation."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/eu-members-demand-emergency-meeting-sanction-israel

#EU #USPOL #EuroPol #BDS #GazaGenocide #GHF #USCo-perpetrator .

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If you read the Daily Mail, you are by definition, misinformed.

The word 'ye' in names such as Ye Olde Inn ('the old inn') was originally simply pronounced 'the'.

The pronunciation with y is due to a misinterpretation of the first letter.

'Ye' originated as a second-best way of writing 'þe'. The first letter, þ, was called thorn. It was a letter for the th sound that originated in Old English.

Where did þ come from? How did it disappear? And why was it substituted by y in the word 'ye'?

Click my new infographic to read all about it:

So, it looks like the Govt. is throwing OFWAT under the bus as a key cause of the ongoing crisis in water & sewage provision.... but this suggests two further Q.s:

Can & will a 'new' regulator be any better? Getting a new regulator up to speed without using OFWAT's old staff may be slow...

but, also will this then be allowed to let the actual culprits (the where firms) off the hook ('we were badly regulated, gov').

As an attempt to draw a line it may not work

#water
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/18/ofwat-to-be-abolished-as-ministers-explore-creating-new-water-regulator

During my 60+ years of life I have never seen a right-wing party achieve power by telling the truth. Not once. Anywhere.