Notices by artsyhonker aka Kathryn (artsyhonker@mastodon.art), page 7

@mpstevensuk A few. I use Subway Tooter as an Android client.

Mostly people are nice. There's a fair amount of nonsense.

I think on balance there are more very left/progressive people here than on birbsite, though there are also definitely instances full of Nazis, which you can block.

@mpstevensuk we have content warnings

@mpstevensuk Hello! did I pass?

@saxnot Hello, you seem quiet recently. I hope all is well.

@shoutcacophony Oh, I'd even say most of the time it isn't intended.

It's just... convenient, or very often looks that way, if we can get people to "behave" so we spend time on doing stuff rather than herding cats.

But it's actually very dangerous.

Be careful of people who think/suggest/imply that "unity" means we must all be the same or all have the same priorities or use the same strategies.

That isn't unity, it's uniformity. Pushing uniformity can lead to some ghastly places. Insisting on uniformity often benefits machines over workers; systems over people; abled over disabled; privileged over oppressed; until being different is seen as somehow being defective or lesser.

That isn't unity, it's fascism.

Also be careful of people who never mess up.

Argh I should have CW'd this, sorry

@lilletale two, but three different tips

@Solobasssteve owwwwwwww. Glad you are on the mend.

@celesteh Stay safe.

I feel like some kind of #BulletJournal monster, mixing brands like this, but it works.

@luka Before I set up Patreon, I didn't really have a way for people who love my music to give me money for it. Neither publishing nor recording are big earners for many choral composers.

@luka I really do think "I give my music away for free" is part of why people pay me, though. In the genre in which I work, the alternatives would be that I sell sheet music to people, or get paid commissions. It's... not the healthiest market, for a bunch of reasons, and I'm not fully part of the social world of people who succeed in that approach.

So people who support me want to support *me*. Some of them would probably buy my sheet music anyway, others would not.

@luka It's definitely something I want to do with at least one of my projects, though: essentially spend a month working on it once a year, and then an extra day per month here and there the rest of the time. This is a project with regular weekly releases. (It's a curation project rather than composing, though!)

@luka Interesting and thoughtful post!

I wonder if part of the solution to irregular working but wanting regular output might be to work further in advance. Create something, but sit on it for six months or a year before release; then you know what your release schedule is like far enough in advance to do more communication. In the meantime "repackage" what you already have.

This won't always work or be appropriate, and if anything requires *more* discipline.

@lilletale thank you :-)

@verityvirtue I miss Hydration Cat from birbsite