@emorydunn Good job!

However… it’s still going to be net 90 because… fuck you, that’s why. 😬

#freelancer #fuckyoupayme

Exposure Bucks - Sarah Lawrence

Beim morgendlichen Blättern in der Timeline ist mir gerade ein Artikel zu Spotify und deren (nicht)Vergütung begegnet.

Aber mehr noch als der Artikel hat mich die Illustration, mit der er bebildert war, angesprochen.

Eine kurze DuckDuckGo Suche später habe ich die mutmaßliche Urheberin gefunden: Sarah Lawrence, eine Designerin aus Atlanta/US, die das Motiv bereits 2016 geschaffen hat und auf Ihrer Website schreibt:

Every freelancer knows this struggle – "I can't pay you, but I can offer you plenty of exposure when this thing launches!" – this is a lie, meant to take advantage of struggling artists. I got so fed up with this concept that I wondered... what if you could pay in Exposure? With Exposure Bucks?

This design immediately went viral once released and sold out at Cotton Bureau. Ironically, it resonated so well with the creative community that it gets posted without permission about once a week since 2016.

sarahclawrence.com

Das Motiv gibt es auch in ihrem Cottonbureau shop.

Exposure, after all. Seufz.

#Exposure #FreelanceStruggles #FuckYouPayMe #illustration #SarahLawrence

https://webrocker.de/?p=29553

I wasn't on or at this panel, but Stephen's in my circles.

TLDR: The authors and editors of
Trans and Gender Diverse Voices in Libraries did a panel at UNC a year ago and they've still not been paid, and communication has been craptastic.

Read the comments, they're worthwhile.

https://stephengkrueger.com/2025/04/08/happy-birthday-to-the-panel-that-unc-sils-still-has-not-paid-us-for/ #translibrarian #librarian #fuckyoupayme
Happy birthday to the panel that UNC SILS still has not paid us for

Just over a year ago, the editors and several chapter authors from Trans and Gender Diverse Voices in Libraries did a panel for the School of Information and Library Science at the University of No…

Stephen G. Krueger

Seeing as all it seems to take is money to get Trump to do whatever you want (Kraken is the latest I've read about but there are many examples) should we regular folk have a whip-round and see what we can muster up to convince him not to be a fascist fuck stick?

If 100,000,000 of us each put in a dollar that should be enough to get /something/ given all it took Kraken was a million to make their legal woes go away.

https://blog.kraken.com/news/sec-lawsuit-dismissal

#USPol #Fascist #FuckYouPayMe

A win for fairness

Agreement to dismiss the SEC’s lawsuit against Kraken

Kraken Blog
I could be doing better things with my time, but also #FuckYouPayMe :)

For all the kiddies playing along at home, I give you Mike Monteiro telling it how it is...

#FuckYouPayMe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U

Mike Monteiro: F*ck You, Pay Me

The most popular CreativeMornings talk of all time, Mike Monteiro gives us some valuable advice on how to get paid for the work that you do.Mike Monteiro at ...

YouTube

Them: “omg do we ever need your help”

/me sends them a contract

Them: "no not like that”

#FuckYouPayMe

Great advice here for creatives and freelancers from Mike Monteiro. There's very little to protect small creatives from bad clients in the absence of a solid contract.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U

#Freelance #CreativeWork #FuckYouPayMe #YouTube #MikeMonteiro

Mike Monteiro: F*ck You, Pay Me

The most popular CreativeMornings talk of all time, Mike Monteiro gives us some valuable advice on how to get paid for the work that you do.Mike Monteiro at ...

YouTube