Notices by Tansy Hoskins 🍉 🍉 (tansy@wandering.shop)

Getting things on track with my new second hand laptop :)

Installing Linux: This weird (for me) task that I do every five years and then completely forget all about how to do it.

Following detailed instructions for unusual sequences that must be done precisely in the order set out by the light of the snow moon otherwise the enemy will not be vanquished....

The spell worked!

Hurrah! 🧙♀️

Well this is not good - Windows is back?!

What went wrong?

I never had this before. Any links to a simple fix it guide would be appreciated (I can't find one that explains it).

Do I start again? Why has the windows demon not been banished after all?

Update: Thank you all, I have a solid plan now! ⭐

Hmmmm can I outsource this tech question to the Fediverse..?

The hinge on my Lenovo laptop has broken and can't be easily repaired so I need a new laptop.

I will install Ubuntu onto it and wondered if anyone wanted to recommend a suitable and *inexpensive* replacement laptop from e.g. Curry's in the UK?

So much choice and I don't know what to pick. 14 inch screen and light is good. #Linux Thanks in advance!

London tonight - 2,000 people outside Downing Street tell prime minister Starmer to condemn Trump's war crimes in Venezuela.

Thread: 1

Am I connected to anyone here who specialises professionally in political graphic design?

Posters, logos, campaign materials?

@aral @joynewacc @aseelfromgz @casey

Thank you all so much - this is really useful, kind and impressive solidarity work.

Trusted activists are ensuring the fediverse remains a safe haven for people trying to survive genocide.

Check out the exceptionally useful:
https://gaza-verified.org/

"We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed below and we verify that their accounts are genuine.

Beyond that, we’re in touch with them daily and trying to help them raise funds to stay alive."

https://gaza-verified.org/

Queer Cinema for Palestine Global Screenings – June 2025

'No Pride in Genocide, a groundbreaking global film event co-organized by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) together with hundreds of partner groups worldwide.

QCP 2025 features more than 100 screenings in over 30 countries all over the world, from China to Ecuador, of a collectively-curated stellar short film program throughout the month of June 2025.'

https://queercinemaforpalestine.org/2025/05/22/queer-cinema-for-palestine-global-screenings-june-2025/

Published my Newsletter today.

Really needed to get this out of my system:

https://tansyhoskins.org/my-books-have-been-stolen/

Enjoyed this from @_elena.
https://mastodon.social/@_elena/114348001009857066

As a journalist on the Fediverse with a Ghost site and newsletter, I don't need the adoption option, but I'd LOVE IT if more people signed up to my free newsletter.

Being niche and not being a mega Ghost success story like 404 or Molly W (both of whom I think are great) I can't really say that avoiding the big social media channels is a great plan for reach, but I do it anyway because it's what I believe in.

https://tansyhoskins.org/

I wrote about the importance of Resistance, drawing strength from the past, meeting Steve McQueen and having an essay in his new book 🌹

https://tansyhoskins.org/resistance-with-steve-mcqueen/

ALCS Day!!!

Reminder to all writers - join the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society and get two cheques per year.

ALCS: 'If you’ve ever written anything and had it published or broadcast, you can join. Our members include fiction and non-fiction writers, translators, adaptors, scriptwriters, magazine and journal article writers, editors in all genres.'

Just do it - it's worth it!

https://www.alcs.co.uk/join-alcs/who-can-join/

ALCS: Make sure you receive the money you’re entitled to as a writer when someone copies or uses your work. We collect money from all over the world, then pay it to our members. So far we’ve paid a total of £700 million.

More info: 'We’re mainly a UK organisation. You’re welcome to join if you live overseas, but it might be more convenient for you to join your local collecting society. We have reciprocal agreements with over 55 collecting societies around the world...'

https://www.alcs.co.uk/about-alcs/what-we-do/

@afewbugs Just saw this but I am glad the BBC wrote about it! shocking stuff.

Fashion is so good at showing what a f*cked up system capitalism is.

At 09:06:02 AM this morning the CEO of Amazon Andy Jassy had already made the annual salary of a Bangladeshi garment worker. 10 minutes later, Zara’s Oscar García Maceiras had done the same.

Why do women wear flowers in their hair to work in the hell of a Tamil Nadu garment factory?
Why do unions know to check on a woman who stops wearing flowers?

You don't get to write this kind of piece (or even know it needs writing) without doing the long, hard work of grassroots union solidarity, so thank you Nandita and Nikita for such an insightful article.

https://tansyhoskins.org/factory-flowers-beauty-and-survival-in-indias-garment-factories/

Guardian and Observer journos on strike today - don't visit those sites.

Digital picket lines!

[Source: National Union Of Journalists bulletin]