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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Going Green, the view from the beginning of 2024
https://www.greenplenty.info/going-green-the-view-from-the-beginning-of-2024/
Just moved the Green Plenty blog off Substack.
Import tools worked really well, I don't have any paid subscribers so no problem there.
Also copied the posts from my blog on francis.fish so everything's in one place.
First post https://www.greenplenty.info/coming-soon/
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you know, i'm pretty fucking sick of billionaires
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As both Labour & the #Tories scrabble to find new ways to 'listen to business', we seem to be caught up in the old claim that 'What is good for GM is good for the USA'... refracted into UK #politics (again).
However, what experience tells us is that Capital's factional interests seldom produce a political economy that serves the long-term general interests of #business or us.
We need politicians with clear & workable economic strategies, not people who respond to the CEO's who shout loudest!
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Microsoft has endorsed KOSA, the legislation that the GOP wants to use to cut off access to information for LGBTQ youth (leading to untold self-harm, suicide and destroyed lives) and ruin the open Internet with ID requirements.
Please contact your reps and demand they vote against it.
Also, fuck you, Microsoft.
To take quick action: https://www.stopkosa.com/
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Although prepared for last Autumn's budget, this briefing from the Women's Budget Group on #gender & #taxation remains apposite as the #Tories contemplate more destruction & hobbling of #publicservices:
'Because of structural gender inequalities in the labour market and society – and because women are more likely to be unpaid carers - women rely particularly on public services. Cuts in public services therefore have a disproportionately detrimental impact on women'!
https://wbg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Tax-Pre-Budget-Briefing-Autumn-2023-FINAL.pdf
I went walking in my old blog and found a couple of articles I think are decent
https://francis.fish/2021/08/15/the-tina-disease/
https://francis.fish/2021/03/02/emotional-labour-and-the-paradox-of-ownership/
In fact there's a lot there when I look
Things make more sense now http://smbc-comics.com/comic/consciousness-3
By "Those folks" I mean the people complaining
Keep seeing crying about a small number of people in the Green party who went along with #ItWasAScam - not good.
Those folks happily voted for the party that killed millions of Iraqis and Afghanis, and was going to carry on with austerity too.
Think a bit harder, please.
Is anyone else pasting this URL every time they see a Brewdog ad? https://www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/brewdog-pay-the-real-living-wage
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To me, the most frustrating thing about capitalism is not that it exploits everything and commodifies everything and then, ultimately, turns all those things into trash.
The most frustrating thing about capitalism is that it has created such intellectual decay among most humans, that it is deemed as normal to accept that if something cannot be solved by the market, then it cannot be solved at all.
BrewDog's decision to withdraw the real Living Wage for bar workers during the most acute cost of living crisis in a generation is outrageous.
Add your name: @FairHospitality @BrewDog @BrewDogJames https://www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/brewdog-pay-the-real-living-wage
Ghost seems to be the platform of choice, either self hosted or paying. Also if you self host you aren't giving 10% of your income to people you'd rather avoid.
I used it for my stuff because it was easy, and it meant people could follow and get an email when I posted something new. I never asked for money because I have enough and wanted to make sure the people who needed it were getting it.
I have a couple of posts almost ready to go but ...
Time to move, probably to something I host myself. It's just boring. I ain't gonna help pay any fash though. They get enough mainstream help as it is.
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A lot of writers have been leaving substack because the investors are the kind of people who like to monetise fash content and used the notes feature to do that because freeze peach. Quite nasty individuals by all accounts.
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It's interesting times time again
I had the Substack app on my phone and took it off because I didn't like waking up to misery, and the Notes section was abused by people commenting on popular posts they obviously hadn't read but they wanted you to read theirs, and nuts to that kind of selfish crap. Blocking people didn't seem to stop them posting at you and being annoying, either.
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Brewdog releases new ‘Stop Complaining or You’re F**king Sacked’ IPA https://newsthump.com/2021/06/10/brewdog-release-new-stop-complaining-or-youre-fcking-sacked-ipa/ via
@newsthump
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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
