OK, weird question: I don't use #RSS feeds, but I am wondering if it's possible to set up an RSS feed of somebody's Facebook profile.

The reason I ask is, I have two grumpy old man friends who always bitch at me because I do not know what is going on in their lives because I'm not on Facebook. 🙄

I'm like, dude, you could call or text? But they are having none of it. One of them tells me that all of his poster public, so I should go look anyway. 🤣

I see this a lot with people who are still on Facebook. They believe that they have done ALL the work that they need to do to announce to whomever what's going on in their lives by posting on FB, and they get cranky because they don't want to redo that work with somebody who is not on the site.

They don't want to talk about stuff (what they would consider "rehashing") when I see them in real life, *because* they've posted it on Facebook.

So I'm trying to find a happy medium.

These are friends I want to keep, friends whom I enjoy, but they're drawing this line in the sand. Yet I don't fucking wanna have to put Messenger back on my phone.

That is my line.

I have a sleeper Facebook account that I set up a few years ago when I got in trouble for saying I wanted to punch a Nazi. I sent it up as a back door to the pages I managed in case they finally kicked me off for my political beliefs. I don't use it at all, though.

I have 27 friends on that account. I thought about sandboxing it on a computer that I don't *ever* use for real work or surfing or writing, the Chromebook that I bought for my mom.

This may be what I end up having to do if I can't figure this out. My login is a throwaway Gmail address that could only be associated with me by my location and service provider. It's not a GOL address on which I ever do any work, documents, anything. It's not even my real name. It's an anagram of my first two names. Eh.

Like I said at the beginning of this post, I don't even remember how to use an RSS feed anymore, but if I could capture their URLs and get an email or text when they post, I would probably put up with that.

I would appreciate some #tech advice on this,as I am very likely overthinking it!

#AskFedi

Heute in der Geschichte der #Arbeiterklasse: 20. Juli 1549: Beginn der Ketts Rebellion gegen die Einfriedungen. Am 6. Juli fingen die Rebellen an, Einfriedungen in Morley St. Botolph zu zerstören. Als sie am 20. Juli das Anwesen von John Flowerdew angriffen, versuchte er, sie zu bestechen, damit sie stattdessen das Anwesen von Robert Kett angreifen. Der Plan ging aber nach hinten los, als Kett sich den Rebellen anschloss und ihnen half, seine eigenen Zäune niederzureißen. Ihre 3.500 Mann starke Volksarmee eroberte Norwich. Sie stellten die Landbesitzer massenhaft vor Gericht und gründeten auf Mousehold Heath eine Republik. Die Bewegung gewann an Stärke, die Armee wuchs auf 16.000 Mann an. Die Behörden schlugen den Aufstand schließlich nieder. Insgesamt starben 3.000 Rebellen und 250 Söldner des Staates in den Kämpfen. Aber Kett lehnte die Begnadigung des Königs ab und sagte: „Könige begnadigen normalerweise böse Menschen, nicht unschuldige Männer. Wir haben nichts getan, um eine solche Begnadigung zu verdienen. Wir haben uns keines Verbrechens schuldig gemacht.“ Daraufhin folterten die Behörden Kett und hängten ihn langsam über mehrere Tage hinweg.

Zahlreiche historische Romane haben Ketts Rebellion thematisiert: „Mistress Haselwode: A tale of the Reformation Oak“ (1876) von Frederick H. Moore; „For Kett and Countryside“ (1910) von F.C. Tansley; „The Great Oak“ (1949) von Jack Lindsay; „A Rebellious Oak“ (2012) von Margaret Callow und „Tombland“ (2018) von C.J. Sansom. #workingclass #LaborHistory #rebellion #uk #england #enclosures #uprising #HistoricalFiction #novel #book #fiction #author #writer @bookstadon Quelle: Post von @MikeDunnAuthor

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2025-07-20 16:09:57

Today in Labor History July 20, 1549: Kett's Rebellion against the enclosures began. Insurgents began destroying enclosures in Morley St. Botolph on July 6. When they attacked the estate of John Flowerdew, on July 20, he tried to bribe them into attacking the estate of Robert Kett, instead. However, the plan backfired when Kett joined the rebels and helped them to tear down his own fences. Their 3,500-strong peoples' army captured Norwich. They tried landowners en masse and established a Commonwealth on Mousehold Heath. The movement gained strength, with the army growing to 16,000. The authorities eventually quashed the rebellion. Overall, 3,000 rebels and 250 mercenaries of the state died in the battles. But Kett refused the King's pardon, arguing: "Kings are wont to pardon wicked persons, not innocent men. We have done nothing to deserve such a pardon. We have been guilty of no crime." In response, the authorities tortured and hanged Kett slowly over several days.

Numerous historical novels have portrayed Kett's rebellion: “Mistress Haselwode: A tale of the Reformation Oak” (1876), by Frederick H. Moore; “For Kett and Countryside” (1910), by F.C. Tansley; “The Great Oak” (1949), by Jack Lindsay; “A Rebellious Oak” (2012), by Margaret Callow and “Tombland” (2018), by C.J. Sansom.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #rebellion #uk #england #enclosures #uprising #HistoricalFiction #novel #book #fiction #author #writer @bookstadon