Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

while i’m having questionable takes, we should teach the college basketball refs how to actually properly count to ten in sign language

if your goal is solely making NFC east make sense virginia does not have a team but unfortunately I already have beef with the virginia cowboys and they don’t even exist yet

pros:
-makes NFC east make some vague geographical sense
-the texans came first which & have a real awkward name if they’re gonna let texas have other teams
- gives new england someone to root for besides the patriots which is great because fuck the patriots

cons:
- cowboys fans might somehow become even worse??? hard to imagine tbh

i’ll let toronto decide whether or not they want to change the name bc it’d be equally funny either way

petition to force the cowboys to move to toronto

hm maybe i will just rec rss feeds for the rest of the month. dreamwidth tells me i have a lot of them 🤔

also if you want somewhere to start off your RSS feeds, acoup writes a very accessible and enjoyable history blog which mixes posts about points of interest in European history (mostly rome, which is his specialty but venturing into the middle ages at times) with breakdowns of pop culture topics eg. would any of that sci-fi hardshell body armor actually work?

https://acoup.blog

Have not been up on #DecRecs this year (I keep meaning to, & even thinking of things to rec and then forgetting 😅) but I do want to take a moment to rec subscribing to things via RSS! I just use dreamwidth.org’s built in reader which is Extremely Minimalist but there are many nice fuller featured rss readers out there (eg. https://netnewswire.com )

(also, tell your city council person you’re in favor of guaranteed income programs like this and that they should support the continuation of the program)

#Philly people! The city is trialing a program to give pregnant residents a no strings $1000/mo guaranteed income for 18 months and they still haven’t filled all the slots so if you know anyone who’s expecting and lives in Nicetown-Tioga, Strawberry Mansion, or Cobbs Creek who makes less than 100k please encourage them to apply: https://www.phillyjoybank.org

tumblr aggressively login walling people has gotten even worse over the last year so i figured it was maybe time for a reminder

there’s a slightly longer version of this PSA with a few more details on my dreamwidth ( https://satsuma.dreamwidth.org/25424.html? ) which you’re also welcome to either copy or link directly on tumblr as well

An event likely of interest to many of you here on fedi: #SmallWebSeptember

"Small Web September (is it too early for an abbreviation? Feel free to use SWS for short xD) is a chill, friendly and open event for anyone who'd like to make progress on their small web project(s) to join and share ideas, trade tips, and post progress. A small web project can be anything from a personal site/indie archive or shrine to a webring or directory, a list of resources you wanted to create, a coding how-to, maybe a set of icons or badges - the sky's the limit! As long as it's small web-related (by the definition helpfully offered in our comm intro post), it's suitable and we'd love you to join and work on it during SWS."

More info at: https://smallweb.dreamwidth.org/2335.html

Signups for Guardian Wishlist 2024 close next week on the 27th! Guardian Wishlist is a mulimedia gifting fest featuring the chinese drama/novel Guardian & related fandoms

More info and signups at: https://guardian-wishlist.carrd.co/

Apparently Ad Astra--the independent Star Trek archive--is trying to start a nonprofit for supporting indie fanfic sites: https://sl-walker.tumblr.com/post/757641168452517888/join-the-ad-astra-fanfic-discord-server

huh big day in the bnha fandom congrats y’all

If you’re a philly resident (or live nearby) Philly Bike Action is organizing a number of protests this week for better bike lane protections—attend if you can!

Protect the Bike Lanes - July 28, 2024
Take the Lane for Safe Streets: July 31 Broad Street Ride - July 31, 2024
PBA Citywide Town Hall Meeting - August - Aug. 5, 2024

https://apps.bikeaction.org/campaigns/safer-streets-now

Anyway please really do read the second half and click all the org links--there's a lot of great fannish orgs out there who get swallowed up by the monopoly the OTW has on fannish money and volunteer times, a fact which deserves to be rectified on its own merits even before you consider how egregiously the OTW has abused its volunteers and the trust of its members

(the similarities are because literally nothing has changed Re:the OTW in the last year, except now they've also come out as racist about the ongoing Palestinian genocide)