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Giving Tuesday
Dec. 2nd, 2025 01:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithToday is Giving Tuesday. This holiday is about charity in all its forms. You can give money, time, goods or services, whatever you have to share.
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Small Business Saturday
Nov. 29th, 2025 12:09 amysabetwordsmithCelebrate Small Business Saturday. Shop small, shop local! What are you doing for Small Business Saturday?
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Tumblr at Risk
Apr. 11th, 2025 10:09 pmysabetwordsmithThe latest round of capitalist roulette has placed Tumblr at risk of malfunction or collapse. Not a lot of official news is available yet, but what there is sounds ominous. Are you moving to Dreamwidth? Find your Tumblr friends here.
Tumblr’s parent company, Automattic, has announced layoffs -- about 16% of its employees. TechCrunch is reporting 281 Automattic employees have lost their jobs. It’s unclear how many of those Automattic employees are Tumblr staff.
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Tumblr’s parent company, Automattic, has announced layoffs -- about 16% of its employees. TechCrunch is reporting 281 Automattic employees have lost their jobs. It’s unclear how many of those Automattic employees are Tumblr staff.
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Giving Tuesday
Dec. 3rd, 2024 03:59 amysabetwordsmithToday is Giving Tuesday. This holiday is about charity in all its forms. You can give money, time, goods or services, whatever you have to share.
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ysabetwordsmithStop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media
Prodigy was upset that people were, by and large, using the free communication service they tossed on there just to have more content and not their weird Random Garbage You Don’t Need Storefront. And in many ways, that complaint has only gotten louder over the decades. Stop talking to each other and start buying things. Stop providing content for free and start paying us for the privilege. Stop shining sunlight on horrors and start advocating for more of them. Stop making communities and start weaponizing misinformation to benefit your betters.
It’s the same. It’s always been the same. Stop benefitting from the internet, it’s not for you to enjoy, it’s for us to use to extract money from you. Stop finding beauty and connection in the world, loneliness is more profitable and easier to control.
Stop being human. A mindless bot who makes regular purchases is all that’s really needed.
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Prodigy was upset that people were, by and large, using the free communication service they tossed on there just to have more content and not their weird Random Garbage You Don’t Need Storefront. And in many ways, that complaint has only gotten louder over the decades. Stop talking to each other and start buying things. Stop providing content for free and start paying us for the privilege. Stop shining sunlight on horrors and start advocating for more of them. Stop making communities and start weaponizing misinformation to benefit your betters.
It’s the same. It’s always been the same. Stop benefitting from the internet, it’s not for you to enjoy, it’s for us to use to extract money from you. Stop finding beauty and connection in the world, loneliness is more profitable and easier to control.
Stop being human. A mindless bot who makes regular purchases is all that’s really needed.
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Small Business Saturday
Nov. 30th, 2024 12:23 amysabetwordsmithCelebrate Small Business Saturday. Shop small, shop local! What are you doing for Small Business Saturday?
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