They'd have to do far more than reverse. They'd have to purge govt of all the fascists and billionaires & rewrite laws & establish new protocols to prevent this from happening again. Otherwise, the Overton window keeps moving further and further to the right, with future Dems to the right of Trump
the fact that they refused to reverse things is why people get disillusioned and then stop voting for them, which I suspect is the plan. I'm at the point where I just assume malfeasance he's motherfuckers
@billseitz And the resort guests are tired of the surly dissatisfied nature of their staff. They are trying to replace us with robots as quickly as possible.
In the late 19th century there were a lot of horses. What happened to them after the automobile took over?
@mike805 @Inkican @Bill Seitz I assume most of them died of old age, but the horse breeding industry definitely wound down as the automobile became more popular.
@Natanox Both Tipeee and Patreon have found that only 1% of their creators use the "per-creation" model. It seems they're streamlining their features to focus on more popular options.
Patreon initially planned to switch to the new model in Nov2025, but due to technical issues with a payment processor (Apple), they've postponed the deadline several times. Tipeee recently announced a Jan2026 deadline, so I've decided to move both platforms to the new monthly subscription model at the same time.
@halla Thank you for your words and your support since the first episodes! As you can imagine, this change affects me so much... That's why I'm releasing three comic pages to talk about it. π
The change will take effect on Patreon on 12 January. Until then, the page still shows 'per-content'.
This is because I have decided to give one month's notice to allow my patrons to adjust their budgets. (Don't worry though: I won't release the 'per-content' mechanism during this period.)
@Numerfolt Liberapay. This is because it doesn't have the 5% fee that Patreon and Tipeee take. (To fund Liberapay, you have to support them... on Liberapay.)
Okay, I looked at their FAQ and basically there are the transaction fees that I pay? Like I send you 1β¬ per month and pay some cents so you can get the full β¬? And I can donate to them too, which is nice.
@fr3d Unfortunately, that's one of the side effect; I wrote them an email in October about it. I'm still around as a volunteer contributor now, but it is clearly not the same time budget. π
I signed up for the minimum for now: $1.00 a comic. I hope it's better than nothing. Your art is wonderful as are your stories and I appreciate your anti-genAI stance.
you might want to change the denomination of your membership options on patreon. I see 5β¬/month in the overview of all my memberships, but when looking at your membership options it still shows as "xβ¬ / episode".
I really enjoy the short stories you post here. I hope(expect) you will beginn posting them on patreon too, once the switch to monthly is done?
Yes I saw it and I'm afraid I can't change it at the moment. Patreon will make the change on their side one month after I publicly announce it. It's all part of their policy for moving accounts around. Just to let you know, I won't be posting the episode until the 12th of January. (the effective date for my first monthly) :) I'll post something on Patreon to let my supporters know about it.
@gws Ha ha, you mentioned something that made me struggle while drawing this announcement. At first, I drew a little guy with a two-day beard and a brown haircut, sitting at my desk in front of my monitors.
But I was worried it wouldn't be really iconic, so I decided to go with Pepper as my avatar. I was fine with it, as I often used her for various things, but maybe it's a bit awkward in the end. π
Imo per content model is dangerous anyway. It rewards churning out quantity rather than quality. It means that an artist might need to release unfinished stuff just for the sake of being able to pay their bills. And for the supporter it is unsafe because there is little control to how much you pay. If someone pays 5β¬ per creation, assuming 1 creation per month, and suddenly you turn in 1 creation per day or something this might be more than the person can or wants to afford.
So per month or something means stabilty for both artist and supporter, just extra effort is not awarded. Per creation creates pressure for the artist and exchanges uncertainty of delivery for uncertainty in when and how much you pay.
@lazy I'll see, but I've never received anything monthly in my life (except the Liberapay weekly support, and thank you very much for being a part of it, but it was a minor part of income so far). I'm a freelancer working 'per task' since I was 18. I only knew that: making the work, getting paid, and I'm 44 years old π ... I really hope this change will be a good thing!
β’White supremacists terrorized Black and Indigenous people for 300 years. β’And when that terror was finally made illegal, white rebel groups rose up to further terrorize Black and Indigenous people another 100 years. β’And now, while 0 reparations were paid to remedy that 400 years of violence, teaching about that history is called a βterror threat by Antifa.β
America: Where actual white supremacy terrorism is ignoredβbut documenting that history is terror. π
It's the same kind of ongoing colonial violence happening in Canada too. We're dealing with residential school denial & more related white supremacy abuses.
23 Democrats vote NO on Trump impeachment. The man is literally enacting fascism, funding genocide, abandoning our allies, and invading Venezuela -- and these 23 are perfectly okay with that. Primary every one of these fascism enablers and vote them out of office. Who needs MAGAs with these complicit corporate Democrats β¬οΈ 1 / 3
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida Jim Costa of California Jason Crow of Colorado Henry Cuellar of Texas Sharice Davids of Kansas Donald G. Davis of North Carolina Shomari Figures of Alabama Jared Golden of Maine Vicente Gonzalez of Texas Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire β¬οΈ 2 / 3
Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey Adam Gray of California Rick Larsen of Washington Susie Lee of Nevada Kristen McDonald Rivet of Michigan Jimmy Panetta of California Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington Josh Riley of New York Hillary J. Scholten of Michigan Kim Schrier of Washington Greg Stanton of Arizona Thomas R. Suozzi of New York Eugene Simon Vindman of Virginia
The usual suspects out of WA,. Larsen usually votes with the pack but for some reason has a soft spot for GOP presidents. Perez especially has been a POS from way back; she's probably a Trojan Horse candidate who just ran as a Dem because the GOP was unelectable at the time. Kim Schrier represents a pretty solidly monied, conservative area but usually she's smarter than this.
What's infuriating is that if all the "present" voters had voted "no" this wouldn't have been tabled.
Iβm guessing maybe thereβs more behind that. Perhaps they donβt want JD Vance to ascend to the throne? Whoβs really pulling the strings anyway? Let Trump fail in the eyes of his supporters first rather than let him use an impeachment to gain support again? The psychology of when to impeach? But when is the right time?
Josh Riley is a democrat in the same way Trump is a businessman. You can call yourself whatever you like, but his voting records speaks volumes about his character (or lack thereof).
β οΈ Scam alert: if anyone ever asks you to "temporarily change" the email address on your Mastodon account, DO NOT DO THIS.
There is currently a scammer posing as a server admin telling people to temporarily change their Mastodon account's email to an address supplied by the scammer. This is a scam, don't do it.
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is this for real? someone said they accidentally reported my account and said to contact this person now they say they want me to change my email address
edit: confirmed scammer. do not respond to a text like this
Something very similar was attempted with me through Steam. That was two or three years ago. I think the perpetrator got what was coming to him, because I reported the incident to all three mediums/platforms he tried to exploit to do it.
Also, don't feel bad if you fall victim to a scam. There's no shame in it. We're all vulnerable to one type of scam or another, and the biggest protection is accepting that and staying vigilant.
p.s. To add a bit of context, the scammer may message you to claim they reported you by accident. They then try to convince you to get in touch with a different account that pretends to be an admin who can "fix" the situation. All of the things they tell you are lies.
The scammer is actually running both accounts and just wants to take over your account by tricking you into changing your email address to their email address. They would then use your account to post other scams.
I've seen a similar scam go around on discord. I'd imagine it'd be easy to fall for this sort of thing if you aren't tech inclined or don't know about this stuff. I hope all of these jerks get exactly what's coming to them and like someone else said in this thread, let's not shame people if they do end up falling for scams.
Yeah, never a good idea to shame anyone as: 1) They are victims, it's just wrong to shame victims 2) All of us are vulnerable, we should all be keeping our guard up 3) Shaming discourages victims from warning others, so the shaming is just helping the scammers
self hosting with Ghost is so much better and less expensive. If you canβt hang with all the techiness of self hosting, there are a few hosts out there that can and for about what the substack will cost you.
Well, not fail per se, just be a piece of garbage.
I think I mentioned that I was planning on ordering a Boox Go7 which is an Android e-reader, which is to say its basically an Android tablet just with an e-reader launcher installed and an e-ink screen.
That's it laying on my Lenovo 11in tablet. Umm, I would've expected a 7 inch tablet to be around half the size of the 11, but oK. Problems started out of the box, the thing was thin, light, and felt more like a toy. Initial start up was glacially slow.
And things basically went downhill from there. Turn it off on the launcher screen? It not only closes all open apps, but it also defaults apps back to standard, ie FireFox stops being my default browser, and the factory installed browser takes over. Oh, and FireFox now launches all web pages in desktop mode which is much smaller print and harder to read.
Then there's the random glitches, like my keyboard having no visible space bar, the graphics on my solitaire game giving me a headache, or my RAR program basically not having any interface.
Ummm, I hope this isn't an example of what to expect with Android e-ink devices.
Oh, and I already got the replacement, no surprise, but I did what I should've done in the first place, just grabbed a Lenovo 8 inch tablet. A more classic design than my 11's (I have two, the old and the newer one), but its about the right size, and I expect it'll be typical Lenovo, won't knock your socks off, but it'll do the job at a very reasonable price, in this case, $99 on sale. Funny thing, if I picked it up today from Best Buy via Lenovo's website, I got an extra $10, so I guess I got rewarded for being impatient?
BREAKING: House Oversight Democrats release 19 photos of rich and powerful people with child rapist Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump. The Oversight Dems have 95,000 photos in their possession as furnished to them by the Epstein Estate.
Came to diaspora when G+ closed years ago, then the instance closed and I moved to diasporasocial,net That server was disconnected days ago. All of this week it shows as Error 500, with no other information, and no heads up from the admins. A friend here suggested I join. Now I have to figure out how to regain content, and contacts.
I have been a photographer (never a professional) for over 40 years. Now retired from a long career in IT, am devoting most of my time to travel and photography.
Will post more when I regain contacts, and figure out how to connect in diaspora again.
If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy.
If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts.
But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.
(Then when they give a tiny fraction of their hoard to build a museum wing with their name on it - we call them philanthropists)
Because the Calibre ebook library software just acquired AI garbage (as of 8.16.2, this week), it has *already* been forked. For AI-free Calibre, seek out clbre:
Mubasher is a U.S. citizen and ICE fascists kidnapped him. This denial of due process is the fascism Trump is enabling. We cannot tolerate this. This is indefensible.
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it's December already and still no #GeneralStrike. no wonder things have gotten so much worse that trump is outright torturing and murdering people while STILL no release of the Epstein files
Cold today in #stl , likely to be equally as cold #tomorrow , so I decided to cancle my shift, frankly I've made enough for the week. Well, more or less, goal is $700, with a min of $500. Last week we made a bit over $200, that's it because I took off because of the weather, so making $6xx this week is a bit of a shortage, but not bad, and I don't _have_ to work as hard as I do. #today #stlouis #work
U.S. prosecutors have told the Supreme Court that they want to give up their fight to preserve the convictions of a former Fox executive and a South American sports media company in a corruption case related to the TV rights for international soccer β¦
After two months of pressure and violent threats, Republican state senators voted against Trump's effort to eliminate two House seats held by Democrats.
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