Login

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Not available on mastodon.xyz.
mastodon.xyz is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A Mastodon instance, open to everyone, but mainly English and French speaking.

Administered by:

Server stats:

824
active users

mastodon.xyz: AboutProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.3.4

#merch

4 posts4 participants0 posts today
Continued thread
Public *
Thomas Dugaro

Also geht auf #Konzerte!
Kauft #Merch, Tonträger, und seid nicht sauer, wenn sich jemand rar macht und nicht alles ins Streaming stellt, denn sobald man das tut, ist die Musik für die Musikschaffenden im Grunde wertlos. Sie wandert in den digitalen Müllcontainer, zusammen mit allem, was jemals gemacht wurde.

Public
Cambionn

Thanks everyone for the great day at the @nllgg meetup. Can recommend it to anyone who is using or interested in #Linux and #opensource. Like last time, met a lot off interesting people. And I can now say, they're a great audience too! It was #cool to hear some came specially for my talk about #leavingBigTech

Like last time, left with cool #merch. Especially #happy with the #fuckofgoogle #stickers from @CEDO and the @os_sci #pluche!

Up to the @nluug conference!

A pinguin pluche looking cool with his sunglasses and a OS・SCi logo on it's white little belly
#NoBigTech#OSSCI#NLUUG
Public
FAWM

🎉🎸 Shout out to all the fawmers who created 13,500+ songs this FAWM, once again exceed "FAWM escape velocity!" 🎶💥

It's also Bandcamp Friday — and while the "Ukulelecorn" shirt sold out quickly, you can still grab some stickers and other treasures over at the FAWM Bandcamp store. Today, 100% of the proceeds go to support FAWM. 🤘

fawm.bandcamp.com

And be sure to explore the #fawm tag on Bandcamp to discover more FAWM-born releases by fellow fawmers!

FAWM mascot stickers
FAWM mascot stickers
#Merch#BandcampFriday
Public
Hiisikoloart

I also make kids illustrations, like stickers and book covers <3 if you need something fun that kids certifiably think are fun, email me at:

hiisikoloart@gmail.com

Please share, I need commissions to make it through the month and would really love to get new clients to delight! (:

A digital sticker sheet with 6 illustrated characters - a black cheeked goose lady dresses in yellow shirt and black trousers, with three golden neacklaces on her long arched neck. She is smiling and holding one wing over hee chest in relaxed pose. A little tuxedo kitten dressed in a grinning pumpkin costume, orange woolen socks to match, and a white knitted hat with a big black pompom at the top. He has green, slightly crossed eyes. A rainbow fish lady dressed in a blue gown made of fabric and running water that spews from the top from a shower head to the bottom of the dressed flared into a basin like in a fountain. A belt bump draws the water back to the top in continous loop. Her body consists of blue hues while her fins are golden and orange, while her lips are stark red. She is waving happily. A blue bird with yellow under chin and blue body stands hands in his pockets, wearing a a white tank top and light brown cargo shorts. A tuxedo cat dressed in a 1940's style detective clothes, staring at a cat's eye gem through a magnifying glass. A happy squirrel with a big poofy tail munching on acorns, wearing a white collared shirt and gray suit pants. Texts read: "Commission stickers and other illustrations hiisikoloart@gmail.com. ONE sticker 20€, SIX for 100€, inl. Paypal fee and tax. HiisikoloART kids sticker pack commission."
A paperback cover for Detective Purrsky, The Case od The Missing Cat's Eye by Marsha Black. Illustrationd depicts a 80's style house with stone laid decorative wall, and wood panelled walls, blue front door with a stained glass window, and several other doors for other critters. At the pink roof is a waterway for small rodents and lizard and a like to travel through. On the forefront stands a tuxedo cat wearing 1940's style trenchcoat and a hat with wide rim. Je is smiling and lookign at a cat's eye gem through a magnifying glass. The cover also includes a blurb for the book, hKA watermark, and reminder that it was made by hiisikoloART.
#art#stickers#kids
Public *
Still Mad About CD Prices

I'm not an "organizer" and I have spent 50 years avoiding "leadership," but I do think about it sometimes. I often think about the pitfalls and hurdles of #organizing for any positive social change. On my mind lately is how personal motivations and incentives can interact with systemic/structural things to make change difficult.

Because I'm in #higherEd, I'm thinking about two things rn:

  1. #University administrators (deans, provosts, presidents, directors, etc.) consistently act like Republican Senators or corporate CEOs when they make policy decisions and interact with "underlings". They can be seen as filling spots that might otherwise have been filled by people who would act in the public interest; they frequently prevent public-interest actions. The #profit-driven US system has installed them there, blocking change from the #faculty and #students from going "higher," and blocking information, resources and also possibly change from coming "down" to the students and faculty. Administrators, I think, have crippling career expectations, often unwritten, that lead them to act almost according to a script, while also clinging to their positions with a deathgrip and often developing a bad case of chip-on-the-shoulder #authoritarianism while doing it.

  2. The #facebook group "the professor is out" (TPIO) is for faculty in toxic situations wanting advice and support in #leavingAcademia. Great. However, within a year or two of the group's formation, it was very popular so the creators (apparently) quit or lost their day jobs and seem to have made TPIO their entire income stream. They started selling #merch, coaching, workshops, etc. And they started blocking messages threatening their income, like offers of help from "competing" entities and posts questioning the wisdom of guiding all fleeing academics into doing #dataScience or #UX for the companies that fund the politicians defunding higher ed. The mods gotta pay rent, and now the only way they do this (not to mention staying alive if they get sick) is to generate income from this group.

That's all. It's just a tangled, not always helpful #system. It has evolved to protect itself, in interesting (and frustrating) ways.

#perverseincentives#thoughts
ExploreLive feeds
About