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

#LAfires #Slavery #EnforcedLabor

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My child has established “stay whimsical, silly geese” as a gender-neutral way to depart from a group and I have secured their consent to steal it and make it available to anyone else who finds it useful

People privileged by the power structures that systemically oppress you will always tell you to fight against your oppression within that system. That's because they are the system.

The #UK is a hellscape for #disabled people. I extend my deepest sympathies to all of you there. The US isn't much better but we tend to sublimate this stuff a little more.

This story is about UK elites tsk-tsking that disabled people in the UK are helping each other apply for benefits.

Fucking Brits, I tell ya.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/07/sickfluencers-tiktok-disability-sickness-benefits

I welcomed sinners, tax collectors and Samaritans, so yeah, I'm okay with diversity and inclusion.

To those who see greed as _the_ problem:

Like other evolved human traits that cause problems, we're stuck with the inclination, but we can manage it.

Smallish groups can manage it, eg, by ostracising gluttons & teaching chn to control it in the interests of belonging.

Very large groups need govts to share that job of fostering our best qualities & discouraging the worst.

Neoliberal govts do the opposite.

We keep voting for them against our best interests.

#Greed #Neoliberalism #USPol .

Speaking of, over and over and over and over again it is proven that private healthcare insurance is more expensive for the individual AND the state.

The ONLY argument that holds water for private health insurance is the pure "I refuse to pay for poor people's health" argument, aka "I am actually too selfish to function in society"

Trump, Musk, etc., are the natural result of a system based on conflating money with success. If you don’t like the fucking gods, maybe stop practicing the fucking religion.

#capitalism

@ChrisMayLA6 @ScotInTraining

95% of immigrants are actively recruited to the UK by British employers. So aren't taking any risk to get here. The problem is when they arrive. As one social care worker said to me, they come to Africa and bring us to Europe where we have to work for the boss who can treat us badly because they know if we lose the job we risk having to go back and that would all but destroy our lives. Europe has a tradition of going to Africa and bringing back workers to work in terrible conditions and do the jobs that no-one wants to do here, we'll not for the low pay.

It is very common for migrant workers to be told which shifts to work, they get no sick pay and no statutory sick pay, they often are not paid overtime or holiday pay, and racist abuse us a regular part of their work.

A very small number come here as refugees. Virtually all are from countries with very bad human rights records and the UK take a very small number compared to other countries. So they are not illegal and are not breaking any laws indeed the law says refugees can arrive this way.

Sorry for being pedantic but I think there is a lot of deliberate misinformation here and we need to challenge all assumptions.

“I have never understood why, when everyone on the planet is one accident or medical condition away from disability, many people seem to lack any empathy and do not attempt to understand how it must feel to be refused service because of a disability.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87x2p535wqo

as a "computers person" i do not know how to solve the problem correctly the first time, what i do have is an endless list of strange tactical maneuvers that might solve a problem and an ability to prioritise them

Why do Labour believe in private equity? https://youtu.be/R4YNFMhNiB4?si=EYyPxVok-nmmlgdl The logic of private equity capitalists is contrary to everything that it seems sound government, good governance, sensible pension fund planning and long term thinking should stand for. So why is Labour besotted with it?

Yet the most glaring omission in #COP29 in Baku wasn’t financial. It was the failure to address the elephant in the room that stares us all in the face: fossil fuels.

Without drastically cutting emissions, all the financial commitments in the world will amount to little more than patchwork.

Fossil fuels must be front and centre, not sidestepped if we’re serious about real progress. Anything less is just rearranging deck chairs on a sinking ship.

https://theclimatehistorian.substack.com/p/the-grand-finale-in-baku-money-promised

#climatechange