I know it’s not my normal content but I’ve shared things about my Etsy shop on here before so I wanted to post about the Etsy strike going on from April 11-18.
We are striking because Etsy has continued to increase fees for shop owners and are increasing their transaction fee from 5% to 6.5%. Myself and many of my fellow shop owners are using Etsy as a primary source of income and this increase would mean we would make even less than we already do.
On top of transaction fees etsy takes .20 per listing posted, .20 to auto-renew a listing (which happens every three months or so), and a payment fee of 3% + .25 per sale.
We are making more demands of Etsy like ending the star seller program, cracking down on resellers, and removing roadblocks between shop owners and their earnings (including their infamously shitty shop support system). Please do more research on your own and educate yourself about the demands and issues in this matter.
I will be participating and putting my shop in vacation mode and we ask that you don’t purchase from Etsy during that time.
Obviously not everyone will be able to participate in the strike but we ask that you support those striking and not purchase on Etsy during those days. If you would like to buy from an Etsy seller during that time contact them directly.
Give your money to artists not corporations.
To read more about the strike go here
Articles about it are here and here
Sign the petition here
“There are millions of users on tumblr”
No there are only 7 of us and we all agressively rb each other’s posts
i'm struggling so much with who i am it's like super painful. 😃
Felt like I needed to post this here, too.
[ID: A set of screenshots of a Twitter thread. The Twitter users display name is "Stevie!! Angry Cripple" and their username is adonyann. The thread contains five tweets, which say:
I have been made fun of for not understanding people because I can't process speech sometimes. Snapped at/ yelled at for taking a while at the till because I have arthritis and can't move my hands as fast, or because I use a cane and that makes getting out of the way slow. Told off by people for dropping things in a store because my hands cannot hold on sometimes. Belittled by staff for getting locked in a bathroom because the accessible one wasn't in order or available and I can't always open locks. Told that if I can't handle walking up 3 flights of stairs when the lift is broken I'm probably not cut out for education. That because I can get around with a cane, using my wheelchair is deceitful. That because I can stand for a short time I'm not entitled to a seat. These are a few examples off the top of my tired, currently foggy, head of the way people have used words to belittle, joke about and dehumanise me for being disabled. Words are not "just words" when they humiliate or hurt vulnerable people who are suffering already. Things like this lead to less accessibility, support and resources for us. Ableism isn't "just words" and it never will be.
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I can't find interest in.. anything, anymore.
Lately I've realized I'm just, dragging myself from place to place, and that I don't really feel much? And I thought a way to change that would be to make a list of hobbies or interests I can do.
Nothing has worked. It's been at least a week and I've spent so much time on websites trying to find something, but I really don't like anything. Do I even want to do anything?
Many scientists have been telling us how the world will look like, if we don’t act now. However, others, like Chan, are tracking what success might look like.
They are not simply day-dreamers either. They aren’t being too optimistic. They are putting together road maps for how to safely get to the planet envisioned in the 2015 Paris Agreement, where temperatures hold at 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than before we started burning fossil fuels, this article from July states.
“Three decades is enough to do a lot of important things. In the next few years—if we get started on them—they will pay dividends in the coming decades,” says Chan, the lead author of the chapter on achieving a sustainable future in a recent UN report that predicted the possible extinction of a million species.
Making these changes won’t mean years of being poor, cold and hungry before things get comfortable again, the scientists insist. They say that if we start acting seriously NOW, we stand a decent chance of transforming society without huge disruption.
No doubt, it will take a massive switch in society’s energy use. But without us noticing, that’s already happening. Not fast enough, maybe, but it is. Solar panels and offshore wind power plummet in price. Iceland and Paraguay have stripped the carbon from their grids, according to a new energy outlook report from Bloomberg. Europe is on track to be 90 per cent carbon-free by 2040. And Ottawa says that Canada is already at 81 per cent, thanks to hydro, nuclear, wind and solar.
Decarbonizing the whole economy is within grasp. We can do this.
“If we have five years of really sustained efforts, making sure we reorient our businesses and our governments toward sustainability, then from that point on, this transition will seem quite seamless. Because it will just be this gradual reshaping of options,” Chan says, adding: “All these things seem very natural when the system is changing around you.”
yes yes of course, our lord and savior hottest bitch
Me : *translates Hozier from German to French*
Google : plus chaud
Me : I wonder what that mean *translates plus chaud to English*
Google : HOTTEST BITCH
Me : *looses the last two shits I had together*
Transphobes always want to talk abouthow hrt or puberty blockers will cause"irreversible changes" to trans kids bodies and "kids aren't old enough to make that decision" Meanwhile, I know 3 people who've ended up permanently disabled or dead because of high school (or earlier) sports but no one's fear mongering about that.
And I gotta say I was much more informed about the "risks" of hrt then I ever was about the risks of any of the sports I played.
they'd just throw it away when cleaning anyways, so why get mad? that people are actually reusing plants?
I’m totally gonna do it
*Starts beat-boxing to ease your woes*
environmental, queer, mental health issues | main acc: @alienbelievertragedy
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