Today’s Shopify irritation: I send stickers with a plain old $0.73 stamp, but my art prints require more expensive shipping if I want to ensure they don’t get creased in transit.
If someone orders a print AND stickers, there is no way to tell Shopify that I will combine them into the same package unless I pay for the $300/month plan. Surely this is a fairly basic scenario?
For anyone looking to adjust their media diet, now’s a great time to consider escaping The Algorithms with RSS. My blogroll lists some of the blogs, newsletters, and independent news sites I follow.
For feed readers, I use Inoreader, but there are many other good options.
My subscription to Ryan Broderick’s Garbage Day renewed, which means it was time for my annual moment of confusion followed by a chuckle as I try to figure out why my budgeting software thinks I’m paying for trash collection services
if you hear someone say “your body, my choice”, you’re legally allowed to punch them in the face. after all: your body, my choice. i don’t make the rules.
ah. well.
I must once again urge you: please do not record your abortions on the blockchain.
There are a lot of very worried people right now, fearful of an impending regime that may well crack down on things like reproductive care, gender-affirming care, or the ability for immigrants to even continue to remain in the US. Some have suggested people get familiar with cryptocurrencies in the event they might have to circumvent an authoritarian state.
find your joy
stop doomscrolling for a second and look at this cutie. he doesn’t even know what an election is.
So proud of my home state for a ballot question seeking to limit the kind of massive corporate spending that has plagued this election cycle, and all elections since Citizens United.
Mainers: Vote yes on 1, fight to end billionaire influence on politics!
Great piece on BlueSky and enshittification by Cory Doctorow. “I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will.” I also really appreciate his point that it’s not the blockchain venture capital that leads to enshittification, it’s the venture capital.
Cory is a fellow POSSE-er (and major inspiration to me when I adopted the practice), and has opted not to use Bluesky. Personally, I’ve gone the route of using the platforms that interest me, even the enshittification-prone ones like Bluesky and Threads, but hedging my bets by plugging them into my POSSE system where they can just as easily be unplugged if need be.
