Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

Well

#introduction

I have returned to Mastodon and am going to make more of a go with it.

I write software, using Ruby, to pay the bills.

I write socialist fiction, recently started a substack for my Green Plenty project, which will probably end up as a book.

I relax by playing the guitar, making music in general, walking, canoeing (but I need to get my fitness back up to pre-lockdown levels).

My kids are in their late 20's and I've been married for over 30 years.

At work I just heard the "we are a family" rhetoric.

My family are people I know and love and want to hang out with.

The people I work with are all lovely, and I like working with them. My choice to hang out with them is based on not starving, however.

I worked at Oracle during 9/11. Ellison sent an email saying "they are all family". 2 months later mass firings to keep da monez flowing.

When push comes to shove family stay with you. I mean the family you choose, not the one you didn't :)

When I graduated from my Applied Computing and Statistics degree in 1986 about 40% of the cohort were women

So this thing about women not doing computing wasn't true then. I think they were driven out by the macho types.

I mean, you've seen the film Hidden Figures.

The cliches about brains and ability are rubbish - there is a problem with the system because things got worse. The current status quo ain't all that.

It's funny looking at current pictures of Johnson. He's a fair bit younger than I am, but looks older, and pretty broken.

I do hope he doesn't drop down dead.

I want him to face trial, and then drop down dead.

Today I discovered the V programming language https://vlang.io/ - think I might use it as my playground projects language because it's so light weight.

If you're interested in the Green Plenty concept https://greenplenty.substack.com/p/the-case-for-green-plenty?s=w

I agree with Musk over the Biden laptop thing - even a broken clock is right twice a day.

I bought a sub last year because I thought the work the Eye did on the Post Office corruption was really good. As is their Covid coverage. But this, sigh. I cancelled the sub.
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RT @OwenJones84
For the second week in a row, Private Eye have run a story accusing me of bullying based on - and I really must emphasise - this tweet.

Maybe you're thinking I'm being misleading, that's there's more to it, that they can't really mean just th…
https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1519600155519037441

Small announcement. I have commissioned a Mastodon instance at http://greenplenty.social registrations are open if you want to join. There's a few things I still need to do to get a broader pull of toots from the fediverse but it's there if you want to register.

Well, off to a day of meeting hell

Good old Medium, finger on the pulse