Capitalism wrecked Geogege Bailey and mutual aid saved him. #ItsAWonderfulLife
AngelaRashida
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autistic solo mama to an amazing kiddo. surviving poverty. lover of living things. educator. artist. writer. empath. queer. mystic. anti-capitalist. pro labor. anti-racist.
I'm here to try to make new friends and have a social media experience that is mindful and fulfilling.
Scrümbled Eggs 
All jokes aside, remember what Christmas is really about, people.
Rich people being terrorized by spectres until they agree to pay their employees a living wage.
I'm so grateful to those who took a chance to respond here. I'm liking this place more every day! I followed most of you and will continue to collect new friends to support my new way to consume social media. Love and hugs and happy holidays!
I’m going to openly share about #mentalhealth and say that I am feeling extremely lonely right now as I tend to around the holidays. I’m #neurodivergent and decided to give up my blood family to choose #generationalhealing for my life. I wanted to raise my sweet girl in health and love. But it’s SO hard to do inside capitalism. I need to share to feel clear and honest, but I also need more community and support. Reaching out, giving hugs to those who reach back. Love and uplift my friends. ❤️❤️
Nora Reedpart of the reason i chafe at the self promo stuff and the "just be a full person" messaging is that "just be a full person", don't just be a shop usually means "cultivate an identity that can be consumed for free, so people will pay extra for connection to it parasocially". i would like my patreon and my shop to be things i do because people want to support my work and because people want to buy stuff, respectively
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@eniko @candyleader The people telling artists to "quit spamming" are the same ones telling #BlackMastodon they can "just block anyone you don't like".
Meanwhile I'm over here having to dm an artist I really liked because she didn't have a store anywhere I could find.
Hit me with those links, peeps! I can buy scented candles from local craftspeople any time, I want something different from artists in my timeline!
Eniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)So let me be very clear; this is just Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Artists who come here fearing imminent homelessness are going to be preoccupied with gaining enough eyeballs to make that not happen. Building a community is a tier above that in the hierarchy of needs and is not something people are gonna be shooting for if they might starve within the next few weeks. Once they're stable, almost all of them will move on to building a community because community and audience aren't even mutually exclusive. And scolding people who are frantic about basic survival about their lack of noble goals for using this platform isn't helping
Just. Fucking stop. Let people engage with the fediverse however they want *or need* to. Jesus
Like, my god. A whole class of creative people are biting their nails fearing for their literal lives because a fascist just burned down the only means of generating income they have and in some cases the only means of generating income that /society will afford them/ and they're coming here exhausted and terrified and instead of warmly welcoming them in you're going tut tut and telling them they're doing survival wrong. Just. FUCK
Especially stop this if you are a cis straight white dude who works in tech and as a democratic party operative who's never had to worry about food on the table your entire goddamn life
EDIT: IMPORTANT NOTE: if you're a butthurt reply guy please note i am describing the dude I am subtweeting directly, I am describing a *specific person*