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my cool friend Ash achieved the impossible: ✨millennial homeownership!✨ plumbing passed inspection, and then failed, immediately and EXPENSIVELY. 🙃
she has no social media presence but she's always had my back, so i'd like to have hers. here's a link to her gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-ashs-urgent-home-repairs-in-salem
and a charity bundle with a zine, wallpapers, discord emojis and printables i'm selling to help: https://ko-fi.com/s/1555f7d616
I didn't want to make this post but unfortunately my hand has been forced. Sentona Games told me this week, after ignoring me for two months, that they will not be paying me the $24,000 deferred payment they owe me for hours worked in 2025 per the terms of our contract. When they hired me, I fell for their effusive praise of my past work writing Lily's Garden and believed in their stated mission. I agreed to work full time for half my normal rate, as the company was extremely cash poor, on the stipulations that they pay promptly and that when their large-dollar funding from the Marc Impact program came in (in September, they said) they would pay me the other half of my rate for hours worked in 2025. I received zero complaints and only praise about my delivered work. Buy many (most?) of my monthly checks were weeks late, and the continued delay in receiving those checks and my deferred payment landed me in housing court, where I was at risk of eviction. The stress was immense; Sentona was my only client. I had to withhold a significant amount of completed work, and I did not perform any work for them in November or December because I was so stressed trying to find other work just to pay my rent. It became clear to me that I was never going to receive the money. I was informed in January that the Marc Impact money came in. After I sent them my invoice they did not reply to repeated reminders for two months. On Monday, I demanded payment within 24 hours, telling them I would be evicted per my housing court agreement if they didn't. They finally sent a long email that boiled down to: "you're too expensive, we just don't feel like we should have to pay you that money, so we're not." They are based in Croatia and I'm in the US; my legal options for recovery are limited and expensive. They know this, which is why they didn't pay me. After telling other game industry peers about this, I was unsurprised to discover the CEO, Nikolina Finska, had pulled this scam on vulnerable visa-holders in Finland in the recent past, leaving, as the affected individuals put it, "a trail of bodies." Sentona is currently interviewing to replace me as the writer/narrative designer for Merge Medicine. If they offer you the position, don't take it. Regardless of discipline, I would avoid working for Nikolina and Sentona Games altogether. I don't like airing this; it's not a strong-arm tactic, as I know I'm never getting my money. I just can't let others be hung out to dry when Sentona inevitably screws them over too. Beware. | 26 comments on LinkedIn
To celebrate its 2nd anniversary, Potion Stand Story is on sale all month! ✨ https://doodlemancy.itch.io/potion-stand-story
By the way, if you go to https://github.com/claude and "block this user", every Github repo you visit containing code credited to Claude will actually have a warning sigil
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POLL: Fedi people, do you have a website or blog or personal wiki or some other kind of online Thing That You Control Yourself that other people can find you on that isn't paid for / maintained by someone else, meaning YOUR THING is at a web address like you.whatever, not at you.someonelse.whatever or someoneelse.whatever/you, I mean are you paying the tenner a year or however much for a whole-ass domain name all for yourself (or for you and a small group of IRL friends), and if not do you want to be, THE POLL, and here is the guidance and elaboration on options:
1) No and I don't want my own site, Fedi and/or other social media scratches that itch for me just fine and I'm content with this arrangement
2) No, but I have a Vague Yearning or a Curious Itch and I wonder sometimes what it would be like, but so far it's just feelings and not plans, I haven't taken any concrete steps towards making My Own Website a real thing that exists, but I'm comfortable saying that I would probably *like* it to exist some day when I'm ready
3) No, but more of a Not Yet than a no; maybe I've bought a domain name and not put anything on it yet, or I haven't yet bought a domain name but I'm researching my options (whether I do it in a lazy few minutes here and there or in focused making-notes sort of study, both count for the purposes of this question), I've spent some time thinking about this With Intent, and I feel less "*wouldn't* this be nice" and more "*won't* this be nice" about this endeavour
4) Yes I own at least one domain name, come on Dan this is Fedi, and at least one of my domains even have websites or services associated with them
BOOST THIS TOOT to get an INCREDIBLY INACCURATE IMPRESSION of how many people have and/or want websites and a more accurate picture of how many people On Fedi have and/or want websites
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