Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social
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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
RT @technopopulist
The situation for the Conservative Party is worse than you think. The difficulty lies, however, in explaining how serious it is without falling into the language of hyperbole. So, I shall simply list some developments as dispassionately as I can.
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RT @WarmongerHodges
If you vote Labour on Thursday, there will be no £600 off. It's a rhetorical bribe.
The only way to solve the cost of living crisis is by renationalising energy. And Starmer won't do it because he's not on our side.
This Thursday, send a message to Starmer and Johnson. #VotePAL https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1521080315481051136
I keep wondering what will happen when the totally overvalued Tesla finally crashes. All those promises suddenly won't be kept.
Probably get bailed out as usual. Then try to switch to luxury car mfr and get slaughtered by the people who know how to actually make luxury cars.
RT @KernowDamo
25 years yesterday since the #Blair Labour landslide of 1997 and the Labour right flatly refuse to move on from then. Media pals, donors, continuity Tharcherism, appeasing the left, lack of public scrutiny there were reasons why he got away with it & why Starmer won't #DamoRants.
The other thing is, he *is* a monster.
RT @cstross
@epidatageek Yeah, but it pays off for the well-educated folks, not the Masters Of The Universe. So it had to be discouraged.
RT @MitchBenn
New video: A JURY OF ONE’S PIERS
http://patreon.com/mitchbenn
RT @acgrayling
Dishonesty is rampant in British politics.
Most of it from the right-wing Tories & the lickspittle press whose non-dom owners support them.
A horrible toxic potage that makes our country weak & sick.
The single word that sums it all up: Brexit.
We were going to see Larkin Poe in Manchester tonight but the old nose is streaming and I have a banging headache. I don’t want to give it to others, either.
I’ve had the tickets since the first lock down.
Hope they come back to the U.K. again.
RT @keirshiels
Glen Owen does not have a Twitter account.
RT @BWallArthur
The Tories are that scared and desperate they're trying their best to rekindle the brexit cult wars.
All they know is division and decline
I just turned some blocked domains from here https://freeradical.zone/about/more and here https://toot.cafe/about/more#blocked-instances into a Ruby script and loaded them up onto the Green Plenty server.
If other new admins are interested I can DM them the script.
Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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Oh you lovely creative creatures - stop apologising for your work! Stop making excuses for it!
Your work is valid. You don't need to say 'sorry for the' or 'sorry it's a bit' or sorry anything. Everyone here is learning - some people have been learning for longer than others. Every single one of us knows that sometimes the paint splodges or the pen wobbles or we mess up somewhere.
It's fineeeee. You're fine. Own it, and carry on. <3 
Off to the May Day march in Liverpool.
Just discovered that you need to set your avatar as well as your profile photo here. There seems to be a bug that will slap the profile photo full size when people click on your profile, which makes your toots a little hard to read ;-) #nomoa
RT @caitoz
I feel the need to reiterate that the censorship we're seeing about Ukraine is of a whole new kind than anything we've seen before. There's no pretense that it's done to save lives or protect democracy, it's just "We need to control the thoughts that people think about this war."
RT @RichardBurgon
This week the Tories have pushed through a series of deeply reactionary laws that will:
▪️Accelerate NHS privatisation
▪️Rip up rights for refugees
▪️Criminalise 'noisy' protests
▪️Disenfranchise citizens through mandatory voter ID
We're in a very dangerous moment.
Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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General advice for people coming over from Twitter and Instagram regarding hashtags:
Hashtags are a useful and important tool here. Clicking on a hashtag will show you results from across different servers, so they're important for federating content and finding people.
There's no need to have loads of tags on your post like Insta to try to catch more engagement, but also you won't be punished for using tags like Twitter.
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- Socialist Fiction
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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
