Any moment now, as Christmas and (American) Thanksgiving get closer, people will start posting suggestions of things to donate to food banks and 'Reverse Advent Calendars'.

I can't stress this enough:
Just. Give. Money.

Food banks can usually get more bang for their buck than you can.
They'll probably be able to give you a tax receipt for money, but not for cans.
And it lets them buy, store, and distribute food in the volumes they need and can handle.

(Please boost to make sure people get the message.)

#FoodBanks #FoodInsecurity #Christmas #Thanksgiving #Charity #JustGiveMoney

Every day, trying to learn one new thing about Mastodon. Today: The SEARCH field in Mastodon will only search the tiny part of the Fediverse to which your instance (also known by some as Mastodon server) is connected. There is NO global search, and this is by design.

Apparently someone did create a global search tool but took it down after a backlash from the community:
https://midrange.tedium.co/issues/how-mastodon-search-works/

#LearningMastodon

Hi there! I'm the senior editor of #picturebooks at Page Street Kids 📚 I'll be testing the waters here to continue what I've been doing on Twitter: mostly keeping up with the latest #kidlit news/trends and #kidlitart, attending pitch events, updating my #MSWL, and blathering about the books I've worked on to anyone who will listen :) #introduction

You can find my Manuscript Wishlist here:
https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/kayla-tostevin/

And our submission guidelines here!:
https://www.pagestreetpublishing.com/submission-guidelines

If you need it and want to join, here is the BlackTwitter instance https://blacktwitter.io/about

#BlackMastodon
#BlackTwitter
#BlackFediverse
#BlackFedi
#BlackAcademics
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#BIPoc
#black
#diversity
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