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Hey folks! Keeping it brief¹.

Good news: Move is (mostly) complete! I am IN the new place. It is good. The majority of my stuff is unboxed; we're making progress on communal stuff and "project stuff" as much as can be (some furniture has to live in the Living Room until a roomie's bedroom is properly de-wallpapered, some boxes can't be moved to their forever home until said forever home is moved into place, and so on) and the house and whole situation is increasingly livable. I've got a bathtub! I have room to stretch! I could go on about things like how much friendlier to my disability needs the stairs are, or how I feel so much better about wearing affirming clothes, or how good baths feel, or... well, you get the picture. It is Good. Things are Good.

Thank you everyone who helped with expenses while we were getting there. It means so much I can't even express it.

The bad news isn't even all that bad, when I think about it. But I'm still calling it "bad" news just for symmetry, since "Good News" and "Annoying News" or "Neutral News" doesn't quite sound right.

Bad news: the sale of my car brought in more than it could have, but less than I had hoped, and basically covered "food and meds during the moving process". Other sources of income haven't reopened yet. I'm watching the calendar for the next chunk of guaranteed income and that's not for a little while yet; even though that'll stretch MUCH further in the new place than it ever used to in the old one, we still gotta get there. I'm not broke, but I'm also not "safely comfortable" yet. Which brings me to the meat and potatoes of my request!

If you've got a couple bucks to throw my way and help a disabled gal out, I appreciate it. This is normally where I put some disclaimer about "oh, help people in more need first" but I figure nah, I can trust y'all on prioritizing, and I need to get better about asking for help anyway, so: here is a donation link! https://ko-fi.com/jazzelves

Every bit helps: there's no way for me to get a Real Job in this situation (I could lie and get through a bunch of interviews but the moment I had an incapacitating flare in the first week, I'd be out, I know this because it has happened) and I haven't done the auditing for creative energy in the new place yet. I'm actually really hopeful that it'll improve dramatically, just like almost everything else in my life has! I'm just still in "unpacking and settling in" mode, which is not the same as "getting my writing and development chops back online" mode. The upshot of all that is "I'm going to be making trips to secondhand shops and otherwise locally selling some stuff soon but other than that, I don't have Regular Income right now". That should change, and should hopefully change Sooner rather than Later, but until then, I'm gonna keep asking for help.

1. She said, proceeding to write multiple paragraphs. Is this what creativity returning feels like? Mayhaps! Who knows!

Doing another boost, looking for help with bills and expenses. Everyone needs help these days, and ya girl is no exception.

yeah. PREVIEW OF HOW WE ARE IMPLEMENTING READ ONLY MODE:

we’ve had a “permission” setup for a while that set your account to read only. it was used to put users in timeout when they weren’t doing anything bad enough for a ban but still needed to chill for a bit.

we’re currently doing an audit to ensure that nothing can slip through this permission. on october 1, we will bulk assign it to all users.

all site functionality that doesn’t involve changing or creating things will remain.

ADDITIONALLY: the data exports include a “find your friends” page which is a unified set of profile contact links for everyone you followed. we want to make that part easy.

ADDITIONALLY: the data exports include a “find your friends” page which is a unified set of profile contact links for everyone you followed. we want to make that part easy.

Bro I've been spending the past few days going insane looking at a Google spreadsheet like Sisyphus looking at his boulder.

I could cry, thank you @staff for doing that. You didn't have to but you're doing it and that's why I'll always be a friend of eggbug.

ANYWAY MAKE USE OF PROFILE LINKS Y'ALL. IT'S LITERALLY FREE REAL ESTATE!!!

Addendum from @plumpan about not wanting that info to be publicly available in the archives

After some thinking, I need to move all my RSS to Inoreader or some other web based thing because I need something I can access on mobile and surprise, a standalone windows program doesn't do that.

I also have a new idea for regular-non-blog posting to make it easier for me, but I need to test some more stuff. The general idea is to make a Daily entry in Obsidian, and just add to the document at the top, pushing older stuff in the day down, then repushing the update to the RSS. I don't know if this will trigger the New post stuff again, but its my groundwork for this.

This plan is dead. It pushes it as an entirely new post which... not what I was hoping for. Shame. I was hoping it'd just update the post and repush the notification.

Obsidian is good for a lot of things, but I can't seem to access the raw XML file. It uses an njk to like, automate the feed, so I can't just access the XML and add shit to it Bummer.

Maybe I'll just construct my "Posts" throughout the day then push them at the end of it, before I go to bed. Sort of like a Thought Roundup post.

After some thinking, I need to move all my RSS to Inoreader or some other web based thing because I need something I can access on mobile and surprise, a standalone windows program doesn't do that.

I also have a new idea for regular-non-blog posting to make it easier for me, but I need to test some more stuff. The general idea is to make a Daily entry in Obsidian, and just add to the document at the top, pushing older stuff in the day down, then repushing the update to the RSS. I don't know if this will trigger the New post stuff again, but its my groundwork for this.