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

“Trump urges UK and other nations to send ships to help secure Strait of Hormuz after Iranian attacks”

Ooh, ooh, no; if you start an illegal war that is now going badly, you don’t get to drag the rest of us in to prop you up.

(Obviously some idiot governments will respond with assistance - UKGOV almost certainly will because they haven’t the sense of a four day old pilchard - but let me have my fantasy that everyone tells him to shove it up his Vance.)

If you work in tech in the UK, join a union.

Even if your employer is great now, things can change. The current general obsession with AI is a good reason to be aware of all of your rights.

Even as a lone member in a company you have access to valuable advice and support. 🤞 You may never need it, in which case your membership helps those that do.

UTAW are a bit more political / campaigining: https://utaw.tech/

Prospect a bit less: https://prospect.org.uk/tech-workers/

#union

The ruling of the European Court of Justice yesterday is amazing news to non-binary people IMHO : The ruling clarifies that Member States must issue document matching the presented gender of citizens - it does at no place limit the definition of gender to male or female. Considering how barely any member state recognizes non-binary gender, this will be an amazing foundation to sue countries to provide them.

#CURIA case C-43/24.

#nonbinary

Dear @ShabanaMahmood,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.