The high deficit this month and our current monthly recurring expenses means I have put Ten Forward in fundraising mode.
This means that signups are closed and any new signups require a minimum one year commitment to our Tier 1 subscription.
I will leave Ten Forward in this mode until we either have a much lower deficit or we do not have a deficit at all.
Existing Ten Forward members have already been quite generous so right now I ask for contributions from the wider fediverse as well.
If you have ever felt the positive impact of Ten Forward on your fediverse experience, I ask that you consider contributing with one of the links below.
https://donate.tenforward.social
https://www.patreon.com/packetcat
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/staticsafe
Thank you.
[ boosts are of course welcome and encouraged. ]
Reposted from bsky.
PSA that Gumroad will start taking 30% cut from the artists if their product was found on "search" and "discover" page this start in 2025.
https://bsky.app/profile/charon.monster/post/3ld3edykb2k2btipsy actual asking for £2 support to test her studio - it's kinda cringe
Omg. people. Is there anyone here who would like to test signup to my studio? Like, if you've been meaning to anywway but you've been waiting - it's £2 a month
... I ask because I think it's working
but I don't trust that it does, because the person who got through successfully was already a previous member, so I don't trust that anyone totally new can sign up
Um, *gestures at link below*
Damage/robbing of queer bookshop
My local indie queer bookshop has been bricked and robbed just before Christmas - Please if you are thinking of buying any books/graphic novels in the UK to have posted - buy from them:
https://bsky.app/profile/thebookishtype.bsky.social/post/3ldiljry7ac23
They also have a Pay it forward section if you'd like to donate either £3, £5 or £10 to them:
https://thebookishtype.co.uk/collections/pay-it-forward
(This is the same place where I went to the Banned Books talk earlier)
We have to protect our local queer spaces
My friend is part of a local parents email list and someone sent an email to that list mentioning he blogs about working on a video game. my friend checked it out.
This guy is making a 3d video game only using photographs of extremely detailed scale model dioramas he is building by hand.. He calls this... "the real engine". And it's inspired partly by Myst.
It's both awe-some and a head-scratcher for me. But it looks great.
https://novalis.org/blog/2024-10-18-building-a-game-with-the-real-engine.html
Serious dental problems - please help
My girlfriend has had dental fproblems for years and they continue to get worse because she's in america and the american healthcare system is just a number of loan sharks in a trench coat. He's disabled, unable to work, has no income and can't afford insurance. we could really use any help you've got, expecially if there are eny fedi dentists eager to do some pro-bono work. if only
https://ko-fi.com/bunnyan
#mutualaid #MutualAidRequest #transcrowdfund
we should do spaceship fedi where we make instances only able to federate posts between each other within some arbitrary "radius" while we drift through space so that we can develop mutually inconsistent creation myths and then fight about it when we come back into orbit
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