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Salt, vinegar, and everything sinister Mid 20s and tired of this grandpa *incoherent creature noises* Small business masterlist in the pinned post

[angstemperor]

Small Business Masterlist: Ellipsus Edition

This will be its own website eventually but right now I have 600+ small businesses/artist from tiktok and instagram listed here and it's still growing. The original masterlist posts will stay up for anyone that has them saved in their likes. This post will be updated with the website link as and when I get that going.

[covid-safer-hotties]

Pomegranate Medical

💚 Covid PPE and Tests, by and for the Covid Cautious community 💚

New stock and a small sale on respirators! One of the best shops for low-volume covid-cautious supplies!

[covid-safer-hotties]

Found an email in my inbox:

Hello gays and allies and if you're not one of those why are you even on my mailing list? Just for you, you can use code HOMOPHOBE to pay 200% at checkout There is no discount code for the 25% off, simply add items to your cart and the discount will show up in checkout :) Swabs for Pluslife are not eligible for discount. Much love from your non-local masked queer, Fern. Offer automatically added at cart/checkout 6/3/26 - 6/10/26

[baapi-makwa]

Besides one short drive to town in September i haven't left the house since i came back from the hospital the last time ... dec 2020

[baapi-makwa]

I'm scared.

[covid-safer-hotties]

This is one of the artists I knew who died "during the pandemic" (in quotes because covid is still circulating at similar levels worldwide: it's still during the pandemic)

After a fall, his condition got so bad he had to be hospitalized. While staying there, he caught covid, the thing he's scared of leaving his house about, and subsequently died. When people say that not having a spring break in 2020 or being able to go to the movies "broke" them during "lockdown", I think about Ken, a beautiful soul who spread so much kindness and creativity on this site, who was already disabled and living such a meager existence before being forgotten and killed by institutional disinterest in disease prevention. Please look at and spread his art. Please remember Ken. Please keep covid in mind and work to prevent it so stories like Ken's stop happening.

It also infuriates me that I can have feelings like these about someone I never met, who lived hundreds of miles from me, and there are people out there abandoning their friends and parents and siblings for having similar reasonable fears about societal ableism (and in Ken's struggle, native genocide). I miss his updates every day. I miss the joy he felt whenever someone bought him a new pack of markers so he could make new works of art. I miss the pride he felt seeing his art used by folks on the rez trying to make life better for others. You are missed and remembered, Ken.

[angstemperor]

In the words of a good friend of mine

Happy pride, divas 💅

[smokbeast]

Golden ringed Octopus

[covid-safer-hotties]

Test sale!

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[covid-safer-hotties]

[depsidase]

[000l]

[shrewreadings]

like to charge, reblog to cast.

[catchymemes]

[covid-safer-hotties]

[alphacrone]

writers and artists everywhere all the time

[creatingblackcharacters]

Now, a question for my Black followers ONLY:

The rest of you can (and really ought to!) reblog, but it's not your turn to talk. Just listen and reflect!

What DOES a good apology for antiblackness look like, to you?

Not a shitty twitter apology that dodges accountability. Not a genuine apology made to white fans to soothe their embarrassment and egos and maintain white solidarity.

What does an ACTUAL apology for antiblackness consist of, to you?

What actions do you need to see from people who claim to be better, to deserve your support despite a history of being unsafe?

Why do you think nonblack people feel they're entitled to grace, and what would actually EARN them your grace? What makes you not want to offer it at all?

I think there's a disconnect between what the group being harmed needs, and what people think the group being harmed should settle for. We've been forced to know the latter. How do Y'ALL feel?

[glitchadoodle]

I talked about this with a group of my peers. We’re all Black. We settled on the idea that no apology would be good enough if there is a history and pattern of this behavior.

The best someone could do is stop whatever anti-Black practices got them on the chopping block to begin with, make an internal vow to do better, and not look for external validation from ANYONE that they are, in fact, “better”. They need to be better for better’s sake.

I think people feel entitled to grace due to the growing consciousness that anti-Black rhetoric and thoughts are curated, not innate. On some, ‘you can’t blame me for the sins of my father’ type shit. However, if you constantly surround yourself with people and situations that pump out anti-Black rhetoric, it’s gonna be a no for me. Maybe if they were willing to nuke their lives and call out that rhetoric in the peers, I’d consider grace but I recognize that at both extreme and unrealistic. I’m from the south. I know you aren’t cutting off mamaw and papaw no matter what they say or do.

[hoodiedeer]

Reminder, if you ever pay someone for a commission on Paypal (NSFW OR NOT) you SHUT THE FUCK UP in any text box it gives you.

(No this does not mean try to be a snarky comedian and say it was "bomb materials" or "fuck u" or whatever. Don't play with people's livelihoods, just shut the fuck up and don't type anything at all, it's not that hard.)

[greeds]

[dreamsy990]

i saw someone say nobody needs to know what a .txt file is anymore. what the fuck is the world coming to

[dreamsy990]

unironically i think we need to bring back computer labs because APPARENTLY some people WERENT taught basic computer literacy and internet safety in school

[dreamsy990]

things about computers/the internet i think kids should be formally taught in schools because theyre important to know and the amount of soon to be grown adults i know who know NOTHING about any of these is quite frankly almost all of them (and resources to learn if you dont know these things, because its never to late to get better with computers)

how to troubleshoot by yourself when you have a technical problem

what common file types are

some very basics on how to use ""developer tools"" on your computer (because i cant think of a better way to refer to them) like task manager and command prompt (and their mac equivalents, terminal and activity monitor ofc)

how to read and understand a privacy policy and what your personal data is, as well as what it being collected actually means and steps you can take to keep it private

how to understand terms of service (hey. if you have trouble with reading legalese and worry about being able to understand these policies anyways, here's a site that gives basic summaries of privacy policies and ToS)

what a cookie actually is

internet privacy and your digital footprint!! seriously i dont know why we stopped teaching people that they shouldnt be putting their entire real identity online in a world where your online actions can ruin you irl

basic safety measures like antivirus software (and why you should use it or if the built in one on windows or mac is enough for you) and backing up your computer (also a mac guide)

common keyboard shortcuts (and on mac)

as an additional note: things i think everyone should know on computers and the internet but schools may bit hesitant to teach about for whatever moral/legal standards schools pretend to operate on

vpns and adblockers! (btw for most of these where you can pay for things im purposefully not recommending any specific software but seriously just use ublock origin for an adblocker)

how to not get a virus while pirating something

what a temporary email is and when to use one

red flags that you shouldn't trust a website (and how to quickly check the security of a site)

what javascript on a website does and how to disable it to get around paywalls

[dreamsy990]

ok one last addition! if you want to take it one level higher, i think learning the very basics of at least one programming language is good for people. it makes computers less scary and it makes you feel very cool, and a lot of people get discouraged about it because it seems overly complicated and hard to learn outside a formal classroom setting, so heres some resources for learning the very basics of python (because i consider it the easiest language to learn and knowing one language will make it easier to learn others)

an online compiler so you dont need to download anything or worry about running code directly on your computer if that makes you nervous

a basic video guide to introduce you to python and walk you through beginner steps

a guide to some syntax and commands you should know (this was literally my lifeline in my first CS class)

some performance tasks to give you things to code to practice and assess yourself

[aphractal2]

triple baka

[angstemperor]

@bingubus