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
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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.
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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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RT @Black24Payne
Toyota alone sold like 10 times the amount of vehicles Tesla did in 2021. This bubble has to pop at some point https://twitter.com/GoodPoliticGuy/status/1519780841630617603
RT @Theophite
really gives away the lie that this immigration restrictionism has anything to do with environmentalism rather than just naked racism https://twitter.com/GlenColton/status/1520148205501321217
RT @JohnWight1
Alice Walker is anti-apartheid not anti-Semitic.
Israel is a brutal racist apartheid state.
Enough. https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1520076255235915779
RT @angelicaross
Being anti-trans won’t free you from patriarchy or racism. How small of you to be seduced by the opportunity to oppress others for a taste of power while remaining powerless in your own life.
Went to a walking boot shop yesterday for a proper fitting. Today we’re going to try the boots and see if I can walk more than 5k before the pain starts. Actually quite excited, I want to get back to walking a decent distance and that 7k barrier really annoying.
That’s 7k with sticks, btw, without it’s about 5.
I also learned about toe boxes and different knot tying ideas that are really obvious when someone shows them to you. The mindfulness of boot wearing.
This is the US, but I think it’s worth thinking about. If they co op isn’t a workers’ co op it often uses its rhetorical community credentials to screw its workers over. So still a capitalist hell hole. https://organizing.work/2019/04/why-do-coops-hate-unions/
RT @FromSteveHowell
Liz Truss has sent a team of "war crime experts" to Ukraine to collect evidence against Russian troops - but she voted for a law giving British soldiers immunity from prosecution for war crimes.
There's a word for that.
RT @AyoCaesar
The silence of the Labour front-bench on the case of a vulnerable, non-verbal black British boy being wrongly detained and nearly deported is the straw that broke the camel’s back for me.
RT @CGMeifangZhang
Things you should know about #Space Cooperation.
Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
10/
Just upgraded the Green Plenty Mastodon instance to 3.5.1
Had to bump Ruby version to 3.0.3 (which is painless if you know the rbenv command)
The rest of it seems to have gone ok
I did reboot, though, rather than just run the restart commands.
I also did Ubuntu updates of everything so the machine is up to date too.
Digital Ocean's turnkey Mastodon is version 3.1.3.
Next thing is to lock things down a bit. I'm going to borrow what's in https://freeradical.zone/about/more - seems like a good starter.
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Apparently, hate-speech instances are going through the introductions tag to target LGBTQ+ people.
If you see anything like that, report it. This is not okay.
- Socialist Fiction
- https://francis.fish
- Green Plenty
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- Medium
- https://medium.com/@fjfish
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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
