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[mtbcleadgenbuzz]

Scaling Your Small Business: Effective Strategies For Success

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[yoyosbazaarsadventure]

I want to knit a Joseph Joestar scarf again, with my preferred type of yarn and seven more years of experience than I had last time I tried. It is possible or likely I may only make one, and in that case,

[noisytenant]

When you eliminate the dream of making money from website, the "how to maintain an adequate scale of moderation and not give everyone permanent trauma" problem is i think one of the biggest barriers to making new web spaces. this problem is discussed by some fediverse folks, but solutions seem in short supply.

i feel like a lot of it just involves having realistic expectations and readily available emotional/material support--high bar to clear unfortunately

if you want to make a space for primarily marginalized and downtrodden and traumatized people, you are probably one of those people, and those factors generally deprive you of the kinds of support that would make quality moderation sustainable

and being constantly triggered and often criticized exacerbates existing emotional issues and often makes people act immaturely. it can turn into a feedback loop--worse moderation, more stress, even worse moderation

so i think this is why a lot of moderators also get trigger-happy--"the less I have to think about it, the better"

anyways, here's to posing a problem without a solution

[poepill]

blog name change for halloweeeen

thinking of changing it up for halloween, but im caught on which one to go with. then i realized i didnt hav to choose; with a fun lil poll someone else can choose for me! 🦇

[spider-man-2o99]

do u think miguel has 2 deal with stinky bitter venombreath in th mornings... how could u even Try to cover that up. lord. miguel just inexplicably always carries around those specific extremely-flavored hard candies in his pockets like a Grandma in case of Emergencies bcuz the taste of mint is Overwhelming 2 him but now he seems like even MORE of a cryptid to the people around him who don't Know About the whole Spider-Thing,,

[nominalnebula]

hi, you've just unlocked my hyperfixation topic, let me tell you all the ways you're being stupid about it

[samaspic31]

im so fucking mad about capitalism's devaluation of manual labor (especially financial, hi raise the fucking wages) and expectation to outsource labor, leading to dire exploitation (everyone is exploited, but manual workers especially AND don't get compensated for the toll on their body AND get looked down on unlike white collar workers, all that because making intellectual products is worth 10 times more money i fucking guess). The average person used to have so many more practicak skills and we used to know how make so much more stuff, having people cook, clean, take care of your children and sew for you was the height of luxury for a wealthy woman, depending so much on buying to substain your lifestyle was reserved to the extremely wealthy. People were expected to hold more basic skills outside of a hyperspecific field of their career like today and were allowed to spend time on broad and practical knowledge, and today schools do not even out the playing field because it's still mostly theoric regurgitation (which great, but give all the youngsters a cooking, crafting and sewing class and teach them accounting im begging) making people into highly specific tools relying on buying most of what they don't even think they can make, because disempowered. (this is linked to capitalist shaming of perceived failure and beginners and imperfection but that's a whole other can of worms)

Like for example it was just a given painters made their own paint (or started by making it for their mentor, any way they were taught how), it was considered a necessary first step, a way to understand your medium, and a way no to depend on anyone else or a corporation, and i think a lot of artists are missing that step of having to spend effort on the medium itself. I don't know how my graphic tablet works and i can't make acrylic paint and that's a shame

Like it was always normal for the already rich to leave all physical work to exploited workers but today it's everyone else's case too (at least in the economic north), making your own stuff is a counterculture thing, and even poverty or being an exploited worker eats so much of time that it makes it so buying is necessary and stuff made with exploited labor the only affordable option, fucking vicious cycle

there were deep inequalities with how the teaching of those skills were segregated, which was for which gender and social class, im not saying it was universally good, and women were expected to accumulate way more skills just to do all the managing of a household AND get that labor devalued, just, urgh, it was considered important to know at least i guess

also the birth of packaging and the rise of single use plastic+ worldwide transport of goods is heavily linked to this and a consequence of a global economic boom but it's still a fucking disaster-

anyways buy a s little new shit in as little packaging as you can and fuck corporations

[quilleth]

WIP Wednesday (ish)

Alright the holidays are over (yay!) and I can tentatively turn my energy to doing some other things over the next couple weeks because i have this week and next week off work. So, time for another poll! I've got a couple less options on this one because I need to figure out where the others were going before I can really write more for them. They're marinating XD

For every vote a writing option gets, I will write 1 sentence. For other options, I'll give myself a more solid goal once the voting closes.

[neversetyoufree]

Heyo, I want you guys' feedback for something important!

Tumblr eating my post earlier got me thinking, and given the sheer amount of writing I've done on this blog, it would probably be a good idea to start backing up my meta somewhere that won't randomly make some posts (or even whole blogs) disappear out of nowhere. So:

I'm hypothetically down for any of these (or any combination thereof).

A few notes:

For those unfamiliar with Pillowfort, it does require either an invitation link or a $5 payment to join. I'm happy to send invite links, but this might be a limiter

If I start reposting (more) on Pillowfort, it'll probably be on my main grassbreads account. I already have a handful of VnC posts on there, including some that are reposts from this blog.

Please only vote for making my own website if you think you (or anyone else) would actually, like, visit it. It's a cool idea in theory, but I don't think it's worth the effort of making it if I'm the only one that ever goes there 😔.

[astriiformes]

Okay, hang on, we're streamlining this -- for everyone who has expressed interest re: Pentiment, here's a poll for evenings this and next weekend so I can get a better idea of when the most people are available:

[bordonfreeman]

Hell world hell world

[good-night-space-kid]

Don’t make things too difficult on yourself. If you have a specific question or something you’re looking for, make a post in a Facebook group and somebody will probably know

[senadimell]

Can’t believe Microsoft doesn’t have a keyboard shortcut for typing em dashes...an embarrassment, that’s what that is.