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

I run uBlock Origin or other ad-blockers in every browser I use.

Sometimes I get the "hey, you're blocking ads, we can't make money" popups. From otherwise agreeable news sites.

Then I think to myself, if you just ran the ads yourself, from your own site, without the adsystem trackers involving Meta/Google/Amazon, then the ads would probably get through.

The ads themselves aren't the problem. It's that publishers want to send all the data and most of the revenue to someone else.

#ads

Mom: "It costs nothing to be polite."

Billionaire Techbro: "Actually..."

Me: boo 😒 hoo. The environmental impact of this mess is unbelievable and sad

“Put yourself in their shoes” assumes shoes fit universally. Real empathy is more like: “Acknowledge they’re wearing shoes made for feet unlike yours, walking paths you’ve never trodden.”

#Tesla whistleblower says #Musk wanted to deport her team for raising brake issue https://electrek.co/2025/04/20/tesla-whistleblower-says-musk-wanted-to-deport-her-team-for-raising-brake-issue/

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

@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 .