Less claps, more better pay and working conditions
Support the posties, the rail workers, the nurses, ambulance drivers, public sector staff. While the government wasted billions during the pandemic, the staff got no pay increases. They’ve had enough. It’s the government holding the country to ransom. Not the unions. All power to the strikers. Solidarity to them
Michelle Mone took £29m profit from a crony £200m PPE deal, with which she bought herself a £10m yacht.
And corporate profits hit a record high in 2022 while the cap on bankers bonuses was lifted.
And yet Nurses asking for a pay rise that keeps them from food banks & rent poverty is apparently 'greedy' and unaffordable.
What is wrong with the UK that we tolerate this Tory bullshit?
There's plenty of money around but it's all going into the hands of the rich.
#FollowBackFriday #NursesPayRiseNow
Humans have learned absolutely nothing in a century.
This is a real newspaper article regarding people's behavior during the 1918 influenza outbreak.
Governments, agencies, and all other entities around the world should be immediately reevaluating their existing relationships with Twitter and all other Musk-controlled firms. - Report: Twitter dissolves Trust & Safety Council of ~100 experts, created in 2016: https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/12/twitter-disperses-the-trust-safety-council-after-key-members-resigned/
Migrating from Twitter to Mastodon
I assume many of you are watching the Twitter soap, waiting for the moment that the social media platform burns down completely. Its fresh owner Elon Musk is abusing his newfound powers to vent his far-right extremist ideas, firing most of Twitter's employees, shutting down the content moderation team, and s
https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/migrating-from-twitter-to-mastodon/
#Rant #Slackware #Software #federation #mastodon #media #social #twitter
The R Foundation is now on Mastodon. Follow us for official news about the R Project for Statistical Computing. #rstats
I do research in visual/computational neuroscience, spend too long doing Linux admin and not long enough demonstrating against the shitshow that is the UK government....