HEY!!! Before you start buying holiday gifts and giving all your money to billionaires, here's a suggestion: This holiday season choose small, high quality, customized, unique gifts from artists here on Mastodon. There many amazing artists here making the perfect gifts for your loved ones.
You can find out our work through the hashtags:
#art #handmade #fedigiftshop #shophandmade
Help others find our work through reblogging our toots starting with this one. ❤️

My shop:
https://genderlessbyskaly.etsy.com

I wrote a piece on a #Coop alternative to Etsy that just launched, one that puts power back into the hands of artists & makers:
@coopartisans (glad they're on Mastodon!)

I didn't realize the extent to which #Etsy had become toxic to sellers until starting interviews for this piece. It's clear that artisans are being drawn to this because an alternative is long overdue.

(there's a tech issue with the authorship at the top; it names me as the author at the bottom)

https://www.shareable.net/artisans-cooperative-an-etsy-alternative-owned-and-run-by-artists-and-makers/

Devastated at the Maine mass shooting. My deepest love & condolences to the at least 22 fatal victims, dozens more injured, & thousands more traumatized.

Maine is the 565th mass shooting of 2023. It’s the 298th day of the year. We are suffering a mass shooting every 12.5 hours.😓

No other developed nation allows this perpetual atrocity. This is a barbaric policy choice & we are paying the ultimate price.

We need a federal ban on assault weapons & a ban on lobbyist money in politics ASAP.