Francis Fish

Francis Fish

@fjfish.bsky.social

Write, musician, coder, socialist https://greenplenty.social/web/@francis https://www.greenplenty.info/ Not a USAian

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Farage threatening the rights of EU citizens with settled status to have benefits including pensions in this country They've contributed economically and they have earned those rights Let's be ready!

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Reform UK's Suella Braverman claims massive taxpayer-funded water bill at home equal to 18 baths a day Claim to have used 1,504 litres of water daily at her £1.2million four-bedroom pad in a five-month period. Reform have promised benefit cuts for the disabled, old, sick, poor, unfortunate.

mirror.co.ukSuella Braverman claims huge taxpayer-funded water bill equal to 18 baths a dayEXCLUSIVE: Benefits-bashing Reform UK MP Suella Braverman claimed £45,000 in parliamentary expenses towards her utility bills, newly-emerged files show - leaving the taxpayer on the hook

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If Jewish pupils are feeling upset when they see a Palestinian badge, the correct response is not to erase Palestine from schools--it's to educate those kids that a genocide is taking place and the correct moral position is to oppose it. Anything less is a dereliction of duty.

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It seems that Reform UK are protesting that some of Councillors have been 'psychologically damaged' by being outed as despicable racist & misogynist violence inciting fascist thugs ... meme via Karen Maunder

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America isn't witnessing the rise of fascism. It's watching its own fascist foundations become impossible to conceal. The empire isn't abandoning its traditions; it's doubling down. The mask is slipping, and the ruling class is done pretending. #USImperialism

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This article fails to mention: 1. Private companies cherry-pick patients. I spoke to one lady with cataracts in both eyes. A private company swiftly fixed the simple one, and left the complicated cataract to the NHS🚨 2. Private companies poach NHS staff to do the work🚨 …

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This project is expected to generate about $130bn. The UK is expected to get just $15bn spread over 30 years. The Israeli company that owns the majority share will get about $50bn.

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The Energy Secretary says North Sea drilling “won’t take a penny off energy bills.” The Health Secretary says summer heatwaves put pressure on the NHS. So where’s the Government’s impact assessment? If they don’t have one, they should delay the decision on drilling for oil & gas until they do.

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This week, the lads ask whether Britain might see riots like the ones in France. Hosts and guests talk at length about the terrors of immigration, and it doesn’t occur to any of them that Britain has in fact seen years of sustained rioting, arson and fighting with police by the far right.

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Replying to @henrymance.ft.com

Ah Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. Morals of an alley cat, character of a snake oil salesman, and reliable good judgement of a Labrador rolling in fox poo

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CNN@cnn.com

Elon Musk has said he will give every child in America a stake in SpaceX, his $2 trillion aerospace and artificial intelligence company, as tech firms face intensifying scrutiny over their impact on society. https://cnn.it/4yWTjTJ

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Our NHS has been hollowed out over the last few decades. Thank you @premnsikka.bsky.social The UK has 2.4 NHS beds PER 1,000 people Japan: 12.6 Germany: 7.7 Austria: 6.6 France: 5.4 OECD average: 4.2 This is why we have the disgrace of corridor care. It's time to invest and rebuild our NHS

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Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social

"[the attack] took place around 4am.. while people were asleep.. targeted a residential apartment.. killed a 33yo woman while her daughter was caught in the flames watching her mother burn" Meanwhile the UK media pretends a motion declaring zionism is racism is the problem

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Royal Mail has been told that it could save £650m by only delivering things 3 days a week. Did you know that the taxpayer could save £4,000m a year if Royal Mail had never been privatised, or if it was renationalised, and deliver 5 days a week. I'd go with that.

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Replying to @diplomatofnight.com

not enough people are emphasizing that many of these people fought against an American youth anti-war movement because they liked the President prosecuting the war & the people doing the killing

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People are claiming that Elon Musk messed with Starlink in Ukraine because Trump asked him. I think a more likely reason is that Ukraine damaging Russian data centers embarrassed Elon by showing how many of his Twitter followers are nonexistent and how much traffic on Twitter is driven by bots.

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You might have seen my post on this yesterday. While I got lots of nice messages, I also got a load of hateful bile, so I've written this article to set the record straight. The dehumanisation of disabled people has to stop www.normalisland.co.uk/p/disabled-p...

normalisland.co.ukDisabled people are not riding around in free cars. That’s not how it works.Sorry folks, but I’m breaking character today because Nigel Farage has pissed me off and I need to set the record straight.

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Replying to @normalisland.co.uk

@mrjamesob.bsky.social has been predicting this for months; when the migrant numbers fall to the point where they’re no longer an effective target of hate, they will set their sights on the disabled. Scum is too nice a word for them.

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The year is 2026. Aaron Rupar is openly calling trans rights 'Purity Politics'. This is the natural conclusion to liberalism.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

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When someone is banning news outlets you have to wonder what are they afraid of?

Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social

In addition to being the UK's most Kremlin-sanctioned newspaper, Byline Times has now been banned two years running from both Conservative and Reform UK party conferences. Judge us by our critics, and subscribe to support our work: subscribe.bylinetimes.com @peterjukes.bsky.social

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There is nothing racist about any ethnic or religious group wanting their own homeland. The problem is if this desire is at the expense of another people. Zionism in practise meant "a homeland at the expense of Palestinians". It's really not hard to grasp this basic point!

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One of key feature of modern political commentary is the reluctance by establishment pundits to admit or even consider that many people vote Fascists not out of "economical anxiety" or concern about crime or immigration but because they support Fascists and their violent rhetoric and goals.

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I was thinking about Neuromancer and the distinction between constructs like Dixie Flatline — an LLM with the memories of the real dead hacker — and the AIs ‘Neuromancer’ and ‘Wintermute’ — which have artificial general intelligence. Anthropic et al. are selling Dixies like they’re Wintermutes.

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Labour has banned peaceful protest for Palestine. It should not be hard for Andy Burnham to condemn thugs.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social

Asked if the Government considers the masked thugs swarming British ports “far right” Andy Burnham’s spokesman replies that “it's an operational matter for the police to set out their response to the protests on the ground. So I will leave them to respond to that.”