Franchesca

Derry girl living in Amsterdam. Software Engineer. Sometimes I’m wrong about stuff, and that’s ok. She/her

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2026-09-25 09:48:10 UTC

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I’m constantly thinking about that quote from Count Zero these days, it’s so chilling. Not knowing your address kind of reminds me of that thing where kings and queens don’t carry money because it’s “vulgar” and they have people to do all that stuff for them.
Also thinking about how all the things we would fear of a true artificial intelligence are already true of these billionaires. We are “lesser beings” who are just resources to them to be disposed of at will.

2026-08-27 12:44:56 UTC

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in Europe we have mosquito borne diseases incoming. Predicted years ago, but now we really are seeing deaths from it, hundreds infected in Greece and tens of deaths so far, even cases and a death in the Netherlands now. We have droughts, fires, and tornadoes which were also originally described as fear mongering when predicted. Perhaps now Europe will start to care?

2026-03-25 17:11:31 UTC

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is this for choosing which cookies/legitimate interest (whatever that is) to switch off? They always make those super confusing (on purpose ofc)

2026-02-09 20:51:16 UTC

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Next feature for those white, middle class neighborhoods: search party, join neighbors across your community to lynch some poor bastard Karen thought was a bit “out of place”.
(They already letting ICE use this footage 😡)

2026-02-09 12:40:17 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116040147544374851
Nothing has changed in the US, it’s still The Grapes of Wrath o’clock there
#note1yty…mrvc

2026-02-04 21:28:25 UTC

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reminds me of Northern Ireland during the troubles, just another day la la la oh there is a row of soldiers with automatic weapons poking through the bottom of the hedges in next door’s garden, and there comes the military helicopter to pick them up again from the field behind. La la la here come the armored personnel carriers with the guy with the gun sticking out the “sun roof”, let’s wave to them for a laugh. It’s just amazing what becomes “normal life” during a civil war.

2026-01-27 18:19:29 UTC

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You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
(Maya Angelou)

2026-01-19 13:20:43 UTC

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Ireland stares at you through 900 years of history (and counting). 😅

2026-01-12 08:32:09 UTC

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it’s also not true that you have to read non-fiction to learn from reading! You learn very sophisticated things from reading from the point of view of someone else, and it changes how you deal with other people. I always find that people who don’t read fiction as a matter of course are missing something in their understanding of others, but they are incapable of seeing it.

2025-11-18 19:05:36 UTC

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or with the cloudflare outage today, you need to understand that software ultimately runs on hardware and will crash if it runs out of physical resources to load a config file that has become too big. Probably some engineer did warn of the risks, only a Harvard business grad ignored them.

2025-11-03 20:54:17 UTC

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the popularization of the idea that Christmas should be a rest from the drudgery of capitalism can be traced back to the wonderful Charles Dickens, who did a lot to increase empathy with those at the thinner end of the wedge. I feel like the world could do with another few doses of this medicine right now!

2025-11-03 13:31:13 UTC

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anything other than 1 and you’re an absolute psychopath!

2025-10-07 06:13:32 UTC

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hey, the UK has a long history of using troops against UK citizens. I grew up under British occupation in Northern Ireland.

2025-09-28 18:44:49 UTC

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mfa fatigue (spam them until they accept), cloning the mfa device / sim, or possibly via a password reset mechanism (if that wasn’t correctly secured, or the email account linked to it was compromised).

2025-09-17 11:53:59 UTC

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for anyone in doubt, you should read about the Jewish council in Amsterdam during Nazi occupation that collaborated to communicate with families and advised them to comply. The Netherlands had the highest rate of Jewish people murdered, mostly because they had detailed records of where everyone lived, but also because complacency and reassurances meant that many left it too late to flee.

2025-07-29 09:39:18 UTC

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Also, isn’t the point of winning an election to implement your policies, not your opponents policies? Did you really win anything if you end up as a clone of you opponent? The only reason to do this would be all the political corruption you can engage in while in office.

2024-09-04 05:22:33 UTC

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https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/113/077/606/362/778/033/original/32f01ec3fa8fcd75.jpeg

2024-08-16 18:19:37 UTC

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I loved this one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Lower_Decks