a feature @sam and I have been talking about adding to horse town is custom css so people on the instance can deck our their profile pages, this feels more important to me than The Discourse
"no quadrilaterals on my website" will definitely make people subscribe to my newsletters lol
trying to figure out a good price for selling an annual subscription for the plotter postcards I've thus far been sending only to Patreon supporters. $50/year for 4 plotter drawings ($12.50 each) is my ballpark based on like, cost of wear and tear on the machine, materials, and time, but I don't know if that's a realistic amount for someone to pay for four 4x6 plotter drawings.
Some of my closest friendships emerged from that web page. The apartment I've lived in for the last five years? We took over the lease from friends I met on twitter, and who I first met IRL when they invited me over to this apartment to hang out and watch a movie to take my mind off my dad recently dying. Twitter hasn't really been that kind of online place in a long time, but it's weird and sad to think about the role it played in my stupid little life.
FYI this appears to be the most current guidance on contributing to a strike fund for New School PT faculty on strike https://www.instagram.com/p/ClzLqxELvY6/
meta mastodon talk
I should probably develop this thought further in not-a-microblog, but I think maybe it would be helpful to situate federated social in the context of mutual aid and concepts like "we keep us safe" rather than replicating a model of deferring responsibility to a corporation.