Fran
@aventurafranji.bsky.social
Mostly reskeets. Environment. Politics. Music. Film. Vegan. Travel. Welsh Rugby. Sometimes Guardian-reading. Often tofu-eating.
She/her.
She/her.
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Pathetic, stupid, and wrong. Congrats on racing everyone to the very bottom of the sewer.
Al Jazeera Media Network says initiative will shift role of AI 'from passive tool to active partner in journalism'.
Al Jazeera launches new integrative AI model, ‘The Core'
Al Jazeera Media Network says initiative will shift role of AI 'from passive tool to active partner in journalism'.
www.aljazeera.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Pathetic, stupid, and wrong. Congrats on racing everyone to the very bottom of the sewer.
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Please join Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelley, Ruth Wilson Gilmore and many others in signing this call for an academic and cultural boycott of the UAE, in relation to its complicity in genocide in Sudan.
spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
December 19, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Please join Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelley, Ruth Wilson Gilmore and many others in signing this call for an academic and cultural boycott of the UAE, in relation to its complicity in genocide in Sudan.
spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
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Colombian mercenaries in Sudan ‘recruited by UK-registered firms’.
Company provides address false address but still incorporated.
Companies fuelling and profiteering from death, atrocities.
UK zeal for deregulation encourages murderous companies.
Company provides address false address but still incorporated.
Companies fuelling and profiteering from death, atrocities.
UK zeal for deregulation encourages murderous companies.
Colombian mercenaries in Sudan ‘recruited by UK-registered firms’
Exclusive Guardian investigation finds companies set up by people sanctioned by US hired Colombian fighters for Rapid Support Forces, widely suspected of war crimes in Sudan
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Colombian mercenaries in Sudan ‘recruited by UK-registered firms’.
Company provides address false address but still incorporated.
Companies fuelling and profiteering from death, atrocities.
UK zeal for deregulation encourages murderous companies.
Company provides address false address but still incorporated.
Companies fuelling and profiteering from death, atrocities.
UK zeal for deregulation encourages murderous companies.
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1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
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Fujitsu boss to face grilling from MPs over the Post Office Horizon compensation.
Public purse footing the bill.
Fujitsu and its execs, PO execs, lawyers, accountants benefitted from false prosecutions, haven't paid anything.
No one charged for the scam which destroyed lives of innocent people.
Public purse footing the bill.
Fujitsu and its execs, PO execs, lawyers, accountants benefitted from false prosecutions, haven't paid anything.
No one charged for the scam which destroyed lives of innocent people.
Fujitsu chief to face MPs grilling over Post Office compensation
Paul Patterson will appear before the business and trade select committee on 6 January amid mounting pressure on Fujitsu to make a sizeable contribution to the Horizon scandal compensation bill, Sky N...
news.sky.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Fujitsu boss to face grilling from MPs over the Post Office Horizon compensation.
Public purse footing the bill.
Fujitsu and its execs, PO execs, lawyers, accountants benefitted from false prosecutions, haven't paid anything.
No one charged for the scam which destroyed lives of innocent people.
Public purse footing the bill.
Fujitsu and its execs, PO execs, lawyers, accountants benefitted from false prosecutions, haven't paid anything.
No one charged for the scam which destroyed lives of innocent people.
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So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
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All tourists to US will have to provide social media details from the last 5 yrs.
Email addresses, phone numbers; names, addresses, and birthdays of family members.
Plus face, fingerprints (already collected) and DNA data of visitors.
Boycott the felon.
Email addresses, phone numbers; names, addresses, and birthdays of family members.
Plus face, fingerprints (already collected) and DNA data of visitors.
Boycott the felon.
US plans to start checking all tourists' social media
The potential social media mandate being proposed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would apply to anyone visiting, whether they require a visa or not.
news.sky.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
All tourists to US will have to provide social media details from the last 5 yrs.
Email addresses, phone numbers; names, addresses, and birthdays of family members.
Plus face, fingerprints (already collected) and DNA data of visitors.
Boycott the felon.
Email addresses, phone numbers; names, addresses, and birthdays of family members.
Plus face, fingerprints (already collected) and DNA data of visitors.
Boycott the felon.
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After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I sent those deaths threats directly to him in a text message & informed him of what his name calling & words were doing - it was a direct assassination threat on my son. And he was extremely - I won't repeat what he said - but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care"
December 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
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BP to scrap paid rest breaks and most bank holiday bonuses for forecourt staff.
Changes to employee benefits would cut take-home pay by at least 6.25%.
Would exec pay and dividends be cut? No chance.
Hard-won rights eroded as corporations rule without ever being elected.
Back to Victorian times.
Changes to employee benefits would cut take-home pay by at least 6.25%.
Would exec pay and dividends be cut? No chance.
Hard-won rights eroded as corporations rule without ever being elected.
Back to Victorian times.
BP to scrap paid rest breaks and most bank holiday bonuses for forecourt staff
Exclusive: Plans to offset increase in minimum ‘fair pay’ set by Living Wage Foundation will affect 5,400 employees
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
BP to scrap paid rest breaks and most bank holiday bonuses for forecourt staff.
Changes to employee benefits would cut take-home pay by at least 6.25%.
Would exec pay and dividends be cut? No chance.
Hard-won rights eroded as corporations rule without ever being elected.
Back to Victorian times.
Changes to employee benefits would cut take-home pay by at least 6.25%.
Would exec pay and dividends be cut? No chance.
Hard-won rights eroded as corporations rule without ever being elected.
Back to Victorian times.
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In practical terms, Labour and Reform become harder to tell apart on issues like migration every day.
Where is the same outrage, understandably, seen against Farage when he talked about deporting children from those who will defend/deflect this because it is a "Labour policy".
archive.today/ECeZx
Where is the same outrage, understandably, seen against Farage when he talked about deporting children from those who will defend/deflect this because it is a "Labour policy".
archive.today/ECeZx
December 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
In practical terms, Labour and Reform become harder to tell apart on issues like migration every day.
Where is the same outrage, understandably, seen against Farage when he talked about deporting children from those who will defend/deflect this because it is a "Labour policy".
archive.today/ECeZx
Where is the same outrage, understandably, seen against Farage when he talked about deporting children from those who will defend/deflect this because it is a "Labour policy".
archive.today/ECeZx
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In 2019 a group of Bolivian indigenous women aka the “Climbing Cholitas” summitted Mount Aconcagua, Argentina (highest point - Southern Hemisphere) The women had previously worked for years as cooks for mostly rich male mountaineers. They climbed in traditional dress #WomensArt
December 5, 2025 at 6:18 AM
In 2019 a group of Bolivian indigenous women aka the “Climbing Cholitas” summitted Mount Aconcagua, Argentina (highest point - Southern Hemisphere) The women had previously worked for years as cooks for mostly rich male mountaineers. They climbed in traditional dress #WomensArt
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Yesterday the organisers of Eurovision prevented a vote on whether Israel should be excluded. Four countries then announced that as Israel would be included they'd boycott the event - Ireland, Slovenia, The Netherlands and Spain.
Boycott Israel. Back BDS #GMB
Boycott Israel. Back BDS #GMB
December 5, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Yesterday the organisers of Eurovision prevented a vote on whether Israel should be excluded. Four countries then announced that as Israel would be included they'd boycott the event - Ireland, Slovenia, The Netherlands and Spain.
Boycott Israel. Back BDS #GMB
Boycott Israel. Back BDS #GMB
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Sudan Doctors Network says 'deliberate suicide-drone attacks' targeted a kindergarten and several civilian facilities.
RSF kills dozens, mostly children, in war-torn Sudan’s Kalogi: SAF sources
Sudan Doctors Network says 'deliberate suicide-drone attacks' targeted a kindergarten and several civilian facilities.
bit.ly
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Sudan Doctors Network says 'deliberate suicide-drone attacks' targeted a kindergarten and several civilian facilities.
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Children, photojournalist among Palestinians killed by Israeli forces across Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Israeli forces kill 357 Palestinians in 50 days of ceasefire
Children, photojournalist among Palestinians killed by Israeli forces across Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Children, photojournalist among Palestinians killed by Israeli forces across Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
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Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.
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"That company was Fujitsu"
Kevin Maguire pointing out that the company behind the Post Office scandal is still holding and winning government contracts #GMB
Kevin Maguire pointing out that the company behind the Post Office scandal is still holding and winning government contracts #GMB
December 2, 2025 at 6:54 AM
"That company was Fujitsu"
Kevin Maguire pointing out that the company behind the Post Office scandal is still holding and winning government contracts #GMB
Kevin Maguire pointing out that the company behind the Post Office scandal is still holding and winning government contracts #GMB
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UK Govt bends to Trump's imperialism. NHS to pay 25% more (3bn) for drugs after UK–US tariff deal.
Money will buy less, higher taxes or longer healthcare queues as Trump wants bigger profits for US companies.
Build your supply chains or be blackmailed. Whatever happened to 'take back control'?
Money will buy less, higher taxes or longer healthcare queues as Trump wants bigger profits for US companies.
Build your supply chains or be blackmailed. Whatever happened to 'take back control'?
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
UK Govt bends to Trump's imperialism. NHS to pay 25% more (3bn) for drugs after UK–US tariff deal.
Money will buy less, higher taxes or longer healthcare queues as Trump wants bigger profits for US companies.
Build your supply chains or be blackmailed. Whatever happened to 'take back control'?
Money will buy less, higher taxes or longer healthcare queues as Trump wants bigger profits for US companies.
Build your supply chains or be blackmailed. Whatever happened to 'take back control'?
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Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.
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So how exactly are they meant to get to them? Many are placed in areas without accessible transport links. They can't afford to pay for journeys themselves because of how little support they get.
Yet again Labour choosing to pander to Reform than think of consequences.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yet again Labour choosing to pander to Reform than think of consequences.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 7:47 AM
So how exactly are they meant to get to them? Many are placed in areas without accessible transport links. They can't afford to pay for journeys themselves because of how little support they get.
Yet again Labour choosing to pander to Reform than think of consequences.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yet again Labour choosing to pander to Reform than think of consequences.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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So predictably, far from satisfying anyone, Mahmood’s proposals have opened up space even further to the right for people to indulge their most deranged anti-immigration obsessions. Where does she go from here? Seek to match them in a gruesome auction of cruelty she can never win?
Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
So predictably, far from satisfying anyone, Mahmood’s proposals have opened up space even further to the right for people to indulge their most deranged anti-immigration obsessions. Where does she go from here? Seek to match them in a gruesome auction of cruelty she can never win?
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Rachel Shabi: "UNICEF have issued this report, 280 Palestinian deaths & 672 injuries since the pause began. That is not a ceasefire, if that many people are being killed there is no way you can describe that as a ceasefire. Israel is continuing unimpeded to violate the ceasefire"
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Rachel Shabi: "UNICEF have issued this report, 280 Palestinian deaths & 672 injuries since the pause began. That is not a ceasefire, if that many people are being killed there is no way you can describe that as a ceasefire. Israel is continuing unimpeded to violate the ceasefire"
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How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More then 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Anyone trying to shut down criticism of Labour by saying "Reform would be worse" is, at this point, merely helping Labour smooth Reform's path. Anyone who actually wants to stop Reform will recognise that the path to that goes through stopping this iteration of the Labour Party
November 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Anyone trying to shut down criticism of Labour by saying "Reform would be worse" is, at this point, merely helping Labour smooth Reform's path. Anyone who actually wants to stop Reform will recognise that the path to that goes through stopping this iteration of the Labour Party
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About that “ceasefire”:
The latest Israeli airstrikes in Gaza killed at least 24 people and wounded another 54, including children.
apnews.com/article/gaza...
The latest Israeli airstrikes in Gaza killed at least 24 people and wounded another 54, including children.
apnews.com/article/gaza...
Israel launches strikes in Gaza ceasefire's latest test as hospitals say 24 killed
Israel's military says it has launched new airstrikes against Hamas militants in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began on Oct. 10.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:06 AM
About that “ceasefire”:
The latest Israeli airstrikes in Gaza killed at least 24 people and wounded another 54, including children.
apnews.com/article/gaza...
The latest Israeli airstrikes in Gaza killed at least 24 people and wounded another 54, including children.
apnews.com/article/gaza...