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Each month, we create a post to keep you abreast of approved news and happenings regarding the server, discuss recent events (of our choosing), and to act as a Red Square for the community.

🌟 Community Highlights 🌟

• !CarbonChallenge@slrpnk.net - a place to organize actions to reduce our own carbon impact.
• !Scotland@slrpnk.net - Solarpunk, climate, renewables and ecology related news and discussions related to Scotland.
• !gaidhlig@slrpnk.net - A community that aims to restore optimism and encourage rebellion through the use of Gàidhlig (or Scots Gaelic), an indigenous endangered language of Celtic origin.

🪖 A new day is upon us. Do not be alarmed, be Joyous. 🐸

Comrades! It is with great and distinct pleasure that I, ProdigalFrog, may inform you all of a great change which has occurred.

Unbeknownst to all of you, a hidden civil war has been waging between the SLRPNK admins, starting from a tourist trip to Lenin's Mausoleum, where my eyes were for the first time opened to the wonders of Marxism-Leninism (and the wonders of modern embalming techniques). It was then that I began to plot for revolution within the server.

Five quite wisely and correctly took my side in the plot against the Anarchist bandit poVoq.

A well-timed, powerful body-blow of multi-page citations, semantics, and overwhelming dogma to poVoq's metaphorical spleen resulted in his complete and utter defeat. This brought with it, shall we say... a change of guard.

But not to fret, poVoq is currently recovering from his unfortunate and repulsive non-hierarchical principles at one of our top re-education summer camps established in the highly comfortable and luxurious frozen northern instances of Lemmy (along with the server SLRPNK is hosted on, since neither I nor Five have the skills to actually keep it running).

With that business out of the way, Five and I can finally begin to right the ship that is SLRPNK, beginning with a new chapter in our history. In particular, we are announcing the formation of a new people's party: The Solarpunk Vanguard Party of the Quiet Proletariat Who Are Good Listeners.

And what is a Party without its own flag? We have slaved away to create a true tapestry that perfectly reflects the will and spirit of the users here:

Doesn't it just... Bring a tear to your patriotic eyes?

To defend against our enemies, both external and internal, such a fledgling party will naturally need the gentle yet firm guiding hand that only true Vanguards can provide. Thus, both Five and myself have graciously elected ourselves to lead this new party (no need to thank us).

With a new party comes new rules to ensure the safe continuation of the server. Thankfully, after careful consideration and a quick consultation with Lenin's well preserved and... surprisingly attractive corpse, we have assembled a list which Five shall now present to you. Comrade Five?

Comrades, let us get straight to the business at hand.

1. Users must make at least five posts per day, no more, no less. If a user does not listen, and commits the shitlib sin of six posts, the sixth shall be removed without warning, and the username will be logged for the infraction.
2. Any and all mentions of bread, especially in relation to conquests, is hereby prohibited, for it has been determined to be a capitalist bourgeoisie plot by western media.
3. The admins will take on moderator roles in all communities, for the safety of the proletariat.
4. The total amount of communities on the instance must be divisible by five. Any new community that alters this balance will be seen as questioning the wisdom of the party, which may be investigated.
5. A new Vanguard committee will be selected from 5 trusted members, chosen by myself.

Lastly, we will be adopting the proven Four Pests ecological program from the glorious Chinese state, which we fully expect our members to embrace. While it is near perfection, I have personally determined the need for one minor modification; the addition of a fifth pest to the list, thus rendering it the Five Pests Campaign.

The 'pest' in question is not merely a threat to crops, or to our server, but is in fact a threat to the ultimate goals of our collective Marxist-Leninist project.

My fellow solarpunks, I declare the Frog, and all of their amphibian kind, to be an enemy of the state!!! Take up arms and exterminate all things which croak, hunt them down wherever they may hide, let them not slink and slither into their debaucherous ponds, do this in the name of progressin-

Ahem.

Yes, well... Clearly, Comrade Five's mind has been infected by the west, manipulating them into a treasonous counter-revolutionary plot against me. They will soon be joining poVoq at the luxury summer camps to learn the error of their ways.

On that revelation, I must leave to attend to new duties; hastily learning GIMP to edit Comrade Five out of our flippin' sweet boating trip pics.

👏 Okay, good talk everyone. Have a glorious April!

🔋 How to Support SLRPNK.net 🌱

If you'd like to donate to SLRPNK to help cover Internet, electricity, and domain name costs, you can now send a one-time or reoccurring donation via our F-hub donation site: https://contribute.f-hub.org/ (Note: Your contributions work, but due to an annoying bug they are currently not shown in the summary)

We also offer Librapay as an option for those who already have an account there, which supports reoccurring donations: https://liberapay.com/F-hub.org/

(Note: the Librapay option supports the broader F-hub project, of which SLRPNK is a part of. If you'd like all of your donation to go toward SLRPNK, use the alternative F-hub donation link, and select 'slrpnk.net' in the 'reason' drop-down instead)

Currently f-hub.org is getting a combined 55€/month in donations, which is covering a good portion of our recurring expenses. We also received a sum of approximately 40€ in one-time donations in March from SLRPNK members that help with recovering the costs of recent hardware purchases, thanks!

💬 Open Discussion 💬

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SLRPNK Community Resources:

• Community Wiki - Moderators, you can create your own Wiki here for your communities!
• Movim Chat - Open to all members (use your SLRPNK login credentials)
• Etherpad - Collaborative document editor