Lucas França, PhD
@lfranca.uk
Immigrant, adopted Geordie 🇧🇷🇬🇧.
Physicist ⚛️, neuroscientist 🧠, and computer scientist 👨🏾💻. Assistant Professor. 🏳️⚧️ ally. (he/him)
Physicist ⚛️, neuroscientist 🧠, and computer scientist 👨🏾💻. Assistant Professor. 🏳️⚧️ ally. (he/him)
If you still don’t use VPN in 2025… Why?
November 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
If you still don’t use VPN in 2025… Why?
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Matrix multiplication is not easy to understand.
Even looking at the definition used to make me sweat, let alone trying to comprehend the pattern. Yet, there is a stunningly simple explanation behind it.
Let's pull back the curtain!
Even looking at the definition used to make me sweat, let alone trying to comprehend the pattern. Yet, there is a stunningly simple explanation behind it.
Let's pull back the curtain!
October 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Matrix multiplication is not easy to understand.
Even looking at the definition used to make me sweat, let alone trying to comprehend the pattern. Yet, there is a stunningly simple explanation behind it.
Let's pull back the curtain!
Even looking at the definition used to make me sweat, let alone trying to comprehend the pattern. Yet, there is a stunningly simple explanation behind it.
Let's pull back the curtain!
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They support fascist ideas;
They agree with historical fascism;
They join fascist demonstrations;
They believe in racist and supremacist ideas;
But no one wants to call them what they are.
They agree with historical fascism;
They join fascist demonstrations;
They believe in racist and supremacist ideas;
But no one wants to call them what they are.
October 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
They support fascist ideas;
They agree with historical fascism;
They join fascist demonstrations;
They believe in racist and supremacist ideas;
But no one wants to call them what they are.
They agree with historical fascism;
They join fascist demonstrations;
They believe in racist and supremacist ideas;
But no one wants to call them what they are.
It’s appalling that a former human rights lawyer is saying this nonsense. The level of misinformation coming from the Prime Minister is shocking - and no journalist will ever challenge it!! 🤬
The Home Office doesn't lose as many asylum & deportation cases as it does because of some supposed marginal differences between the application of Art 8 in UK courts and the ECtHR view, it loses so many cases because it's caseload has long been woefully mismanaged...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Starmer wants rethink on international law to tackle migration
The PM gives the clearest sign yet the government wants to reform how human rights laws are applied in immigration cases.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 5:56 AM
It’s appalling that a former human rights lawyer is saying this nonsense. The level of misinformation coming from the Prime Minister is shocking - and no journalist will ever challenge it!! 🤬
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The real reason the Home Office keep losing cases.
Agreed. At @lawforchange.uk in 2 years we have funded 15 cases against the Home Office. 6 still pending. Of 9 resolved, 7.5 went in favour of applicants.
It’s not really “Human Rights” that trips them up, but rather their constant failures to follow their own procedures.
It’s not really “Human Rights” that trips them up, but rather their constant failures to follow their own procedures.
October 2, 2025 at 5:41 AM
The real reason the Home Office keep losing cases.
Starmer is uniting the country… Against him!!
September 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Starmer is uniting the country… Against him!!
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Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.
Also frankly I am quite desperate! A party that’s at best ambivalent on the question of whether I’m English and wants to deport my friends is 9 points ahead in the polls and the current leader is floundering and visibly out of his depth!
September 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.
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In case it needs restating, autism isn't caused by Tylenol, or vaccines, or woke parents or whatever. It's not a disease, and it doesn't need curing. Eugenicists and fascists love to think of ways to eradicate us because they are unwilling to understand us. But we will outlive them.
September 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
In case it needs restating, autism isn't caused by Tylenol, or vaccines, or woke parents or whatever. It's not a disease, and it doesn't need curing. Eugenicists and fascists love to think of ways to eradicate us because they are unwilling to understand us. But we will outlive them.
Another day, another white person telling me how I should deal with racists.
a close up of a woman 's face with her eyes closed and earrings .
ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with her eyes closed and earrings .
media.tenor.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Another day, another white person telling me how I should deal with racists.
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i feel like labour saying "they can't do it to EU citizens" and not say anything reassuring about non-eu people on visas is not a thing to be chilling out about tbh. like ok cool, it "doesn't cover all foreign born nationals". what about the rest of them?
September 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
i feel like labour saying "they can't do it to EU citizens" and not say anything reassuring about non-eu people on visas is not a thing to be chilling out about tbh. like ok cool, it "doesn't cover all foreign born nationals". what about the rest of them?
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Yes, you can and should argue that Reform’s new policy would lead to an economic crash that could resemble a full-on depression, not just recession.
But you should also be able to straightforwardly say it’s *wrong*. Not that it should matter but: It’s not even bad politics to say that!
But you should also be able to straightforwardly say it’s *wrong*. Not that it should matter but: It’s not even bad politics to say that!
September 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Yes, you can and should argue that Reform’s new policy would lead to an economic crash that could resemble a full-on depression, not just recession.
But you should also be able to straightforwardly say it’s *wrong*. Not that it should matter but: It’s not even bad politics to say that!
But you should also be able to straightforwardly say it’s *wrong*. Not that it should matter but: It’s not even bad politics to say that!
Over last few weeks I realised that the easiest way to be blocked by - self proclaimed - progressive types is talking about how pervasive white supremacy is. As a whole ‘whiteness’ will not want to be challenged in its ways and privileges. Even those who say ‘not me’ will react when challenged…
September 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Over last few weeks I realised that the easiest way to be blocked by - self proclaimed - progressive types is talking about how pervasive white supremacy is. As a whole ‘whiteness’ will not want to be challenged in its ways and privileges. Even those who say ‘not me’ will react when challenged…
If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky
September 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky
Have they left already? 🍊
September 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Have they left already? 🍊
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I find these two men (particularly these two)
telling us their approved version of parenting - deeply sinister.
I hope their christofascist, MAGA-flavoured manoeuvrings backfire so dramatically, in our secular, progressive country, that they rue the day they decided to tell us how to live our lives.
telling us their approved version of parenting - deeply sinister.
I hope their christofascist, MAGA-flavoured manoeuvrings backfire so dramatically, in our secular, progressive country, that they rue the day they decided to tell us how to live our lives.
Nigel Farage:
"Children who have two stable parents have a better chance in life... The most stable relationships, the ones that last the longest, tend to be between men & women... There's an awful lot of kids in the country not getting the kind of start... they deserve."
Farage has two ex-wives.
"Children who have two stable parents have a better chance in life... The most stable relationships, the ones that last the longest, tend to be between men & women... There's an awful lot of kids in the country not getting the kind of start... they deserve."
Farage has two ex-wives.
September 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I find these two men (particularly these two)
telling us their approved version of parenting - deeply sinister.
I hope their christofascist, MAGA-flavoured manoeuvrings backfire so dramatically, in our secular, progressive country, that they rue the day they decided to tell us how to live our lives.
telling us their approved version of parenting - deeply sinister.
I hope their christofascist, MAGA-flavoured manoeuvrings backfire so dramatically, in our secular, progressive country, that they rue the day they decided to tell us how to live our lives.
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During a visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center last March, I was confronted with an environment of fear, uncertainty and discrimination which struck me as a troubling moral issue that also raises serious safety concerns. Read all about it here: www.thespacereview.com/article/5060/1
September 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
During a visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center last March, I was confronted with an environment of fear, uncertainty and discrimination which struck me as a troubling moral issue that also raises serious safety concerns. Read all about it here: www.thespacereview.com/article/5060/1
Updating Apple things... It's always a great day!!
September 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Updating Apple things... It's always a great day!!
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There's no excuse of ignorance any more. Every single person on that fascist march knew who Tommy Robinson was and every single one of them knew why they were there.
This isn't Brexit. People weren't conned. They willingly went out to join in, led by a five times jailed thug. Stop making excuses.
This isn't Brexit. People weren't conned. They willingly went out to join in, led by a five times jailed thug. Stop making excuses.
September 15, 2025 at 7:18 AM
There's no excuse of ignorance any more. Every single person on that fascist march knew who Tommy Robinson was and every single one of them knew why they were there.
This isn't Brexit. People weren't conned. They willingly went out to join in, led by a five times jailed thug. Stop making excuses.
This isn't Brexit. People weren't conned. They willingly went out to join in, led by a five times jailed thug. Stop making excuses.
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luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.
September 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.
Freedom for me but not for thee…
Your periodic reminder that when the Right witter about "free speech" they mean their freedom to issue constant harassment, misinformation, and death threats, and your freedom to never object to it.
Several people fired after clampdown on speech over Charlie Kirk shooting
September 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Freedom for me but not for thee…
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I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
September 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
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Republicans, in earlier eras, would have absolutely lost their collective sh*t if another country had the temerity to try & tell us how to run our own domestic courts & sought to impose international penalties on us for doing that.
"Respond" to what? Brazil applying its own laws to a Brazilian in a fair and transparent process?
Rubio vows US response following conviction of Brazil's Bolsonaro reut.rs/4piCG0f
September 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Republicans, in earlier eras, would have absolutely lost their collective sh*t if another country had the temerity to try & tell us how to run our own domestic courts & sought to impose international penalties on us for doing that.
Brazil also just sentenced a 4-star general to 26 years. It is hard to emphasise how relevant that is in terms of South America, particularly considering the US-sponsored dictatorships from the 60s and 70s. The sentence was also given by a civil court!
⚖️🚨 PENA DE BRAGA NETTO
⛓️ 26 anos
24 anos de reclusão
2 anos de detenção
+ 100 dias-multa (1SM/dia)
GENERAL 4 ESTRELAS CONDENADO EM TRIBUNAL CIVIL, SIM
⛓️ 26 anos
24 anos de reclusão
2 anos de detenção
+ 100 dias-multa (1SM/dia)
GENERAL 4 ESTRELAS CONDENADO EM TRIBUNAL CIVIL, SIM
September 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Brazil also just sentenced a 4-star general to 26 years. It is hard to emphasise how relevant that is in terms of South America, particularly considering the US-sponsored dictatorships from the 60s and 70s. The sentence was also given by a civil court!
Bolsonaro just got sentenced to 27 years and 3 months for attempting a coup!!
⚖️🚨 URGENTE | PENA DE JAIR BOLSONARO
⛓️ 27 ANOS E 3 MESES
24 ANOS E 9 MESES DE RECLUSÃO
2 ANOS E 6 MESES DE DETENÇÃO
+ 124 DIAS-MULTA, 2SM/DIA
⛓️ 27 ANOS E 3 MESES
24 ANOS E 9 MESES DE RECLUSÃO
2 ANOS E 6 MESES DE DETENÇÃO
+ 124 DIAS-MULTA, 2SM/DIA
September 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Bolsonaro just got sentenced to 27 years and 3 months for attempting a coup!!
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Dear friends from other countries:
please join the Brazilians as we celebrate this groundbreaking decision.
please join the Brazilians as we celebrate this groundbreaking decision.
A majority of Brazil's Supreme Court judges have voted to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro of plotting to overturn the 2022 election. https://cnn.it/3VIY1Cn
September 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Dear friends from other countries:
please join the Brazilians as we celebrate this groundbreaking decision.
please join the Brazilians as we celebrate this groundbreaking decision.