Jack - Oi, Shiny!
@oishinythings.bsky.social
Jewellery maker and collector of shiny things.
Jewellery at: OiShiny.Etsy.com
Turtle Of Calm wallpapers at: https://ko-fi.com/turtleofcalm/shop
Jewellery at: OiShiny.Etsy.com
Turtle Of Calm wallpapers at: https://ko-fi.com/turtleofcalm/shop
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Shiny things, get your shiny things in time for Christmas!
If you're in the US, please get your orders in ASAP - official cut off is the 12th but I don't want to leave it up to chance.
oishiny.etsy.com
#Handmade #ShopIndie #DisabledArtist
If you're in the US, please get your orders in ASAP - official cut off is the 12th but I don't want to leave it up to chance.
oishiny.etsy.com
#Handmade #ShopIndie #DisabledArtist
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my nibling has adorable crochet stuffies, hats, and bags for sale on Etsy at VERY reasonable prices if you’re looking for handmade gifts. please clear out their shop so i can convince them they need to charge more!
www.etsy.com/shop/FiberAr...
www.etsy.com/shop/FiberAr...
November 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
my nibling has adorable crochet stuffies, hats, and bags for sale on Etsy at VERY reasonable prices if you’re looking for handmade gifts. please clear out their shop so i can convince them they need to charge more!
www.etsy.com/shop/FiberAr...
www.etsy.com/shop/FiberAr...
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I really need more sales to cover my rent and bills this November/Native American Heritage Month! Buy some beadwork for yourself and for gifting-- every sale helps <33
Boosts also appreciated 💕
Online store → cvkvlv.com
Goal progress in comments ↓
Mvto! (Thank you!)
#Beadwork #MutualAid
Boosts also appreciated 💕
Online store → cvkvlv.com
Goal progress in comments ↓
Mvto! (Thank you!)
#Beadwork #MutualAid
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I really need more sales to cover my rent and bills this November/Native American Heritage Month! Buy some beadwork for yourself and for gifting-- every sale helps <33
Boosts also appreciated 💕
Online store → cvkvlv.com
Goal progress in comments ↓
Mvto! (Thank you!)
#Beadwork #MutualAid
Boosts also appreciated 💕
Online store → cvkvlv.com
Goal progress in comments ↓
Mvto! (Thank you!)
#Beadwork #MutualAid
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There are people on here who get a lot of praise for their funny alt text and I hate it because nothing in the alt describes the photo. They just think they're being funny and clever when they're actually just excluding people.
Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
There are people on here who get a lot of praise for their funny alt text and I hate it because nothing in the alt describes the photo. They just think they're being funny and clever when they're actually just excluding people.
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Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
Guess whose hearing aid seems to have packed up, right before dinner with new people? I really don't use it much now I don't work outside the house, but.
(It'll be fine, I managed 20 years without. This one did me 10+ years. Will have to see about getting an NHS one.)
(It'll be fine, I managed 20 years without. This one did me 10+ years. Will have to see about getting an NHS one.)
November 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Guess whose hearing aid seems to have packed up, right before dinner with new people? I really don't use it much now I don't work outside the house, but.
(It'll be fine, I managed 20 years without. This one did me 10+ years. Will have to see about getting an NHS one.)
(It'll be fine, I managed 20 years without. This one did me 10+ years. Will have to see about getting an NHS one.)
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If you've been waiting for a smaller/netted lepidolite, watch this space, I've just finished 2 and I'll have them listed soon.
Got 2 showstoppers already up for grabs:
oishiny.etsy.com
#Handmade #ShopSmall
Got 2 showstoppers already up for grabs:
oishiny.etsy.com
#Handmade #ShopSmall
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
If you've been waiting for a smaller/netted lepidolite, watch this space, I've just finished 2 and I'll have them listed soon.
Got 2 showstoppers already up for grabs:
oishiny.etsy.com
#Handmade #ShopSmall
Got 2 showstoppers already up for grabs:
oishiny.etsy.com
#Handmade #ShopSmall
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Want to brighten up your desktop or lock screen?
I have over 150 different wallpapers ready to download:
ko-fi.com/s/a74e0de697
This one is a freebie from a summer trip to the shore. (Not quite seaside, it's an odd bit where the water comes in.)
#Weston #Hampshire #Photography
I have over 150 different wallpapers ready to download:
ko-fi.com/s/a74e0de697
This one is a freebie from a summer trip to the shore. (Not quite seaside, it's an odd bit where the water comes in.)
#Weston #Hampshire #Photography
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Want to brighten up your desktop or lock screen?
I have over 150 different wallpapers ready to download:
ko-fi.com/s/a74e0de697
This one is a freebie from a summer trip to the shore. (Not quite seaside, it's an odd bit where the water comes in.)
#Weston #Hampshire #Photography
I have over 150 different wallpapers ready to download:
ko-fi.com/s/a74e0de697
This one is a freebie from a summer trip to the shore. (Not quite seaside, it's an odd bit where the water comes in.)
#Weston #Hampshire #Photography
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As UK Disability History Month begins, we take this moment to reflect on the long fight for equality and human rights led by disabled people. UKDHM has marked this vital history every year since 2010 and continues to highlight the ongoing struggle for justice.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
As UK Disability History Month begins, we take this moment to reflect on the long fight for equality and human rights led by disabled people. UKDHM has marked this vital history every year since 2010 and continues to highlight the ongoing struggle for justice.
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ICYMI: get 25% off your Whimsy Station order with code: SaleSeason!
Runs through 11/30, and you also get a free baby sea monster with every order over $25.
I've added 80(!) items to the shop this week, so please look around! Also, there are a lot of magical sea creatures! #bsnm 🧶
Runs through 11/30, and you also get a free baby sea monster with every order over $25.
I've added 80(!) items to the shop this week, so please look around! Also, there are a lot of magical sea creatures! #bsnm 🧶
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
ICYMI: get 25% off your Whimsy Station order with code: SaleSeason!
Runs through 11/30, and you also get a free baby sea monster with every order over $25.
I've added 80(!) items to the shop this week, so please look around! Also, there are a lot of magical sea creatures! #bsnm 🧶
Runs through 11/30, and you also get a free baby sea monster with every order over $25.
I've added 80(!) items to the shop this week, so please look around! Also, there are a lot of magical sea creatures! #bsnm 🧶
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Okay, tonight's inventory selection. Just one, seen earlier this week.
But it matches today's featured trio of works, a coordinating necklace and two pairs of earrings [shown below], beautifully.
It's one of Wings's newest cuffs.
But it matches today's featured trio of works, a coordinating necklace and two pairs of earrings [shown below], beautifully.
It's one of Wings's newest cuffs.
November 27, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Okay, tonight's inventory selection. Just one, seen earlier this week.
But it matches today's featured trio of works, a coordinating necklace and two pairs of earrings [shown below], beautifully.
It's one of Wings's newest cuffs.
But it matches today's featured trio of works, a coordinating necklace and two pairs of earrings [shown below], beautifully.
It's one of Wings's newest cuffs.
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My book is out and it’s about the power of archive and voice and my fellow fellows are dope as hell in it
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014906...
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014906...
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
My book is out and it’s about the power of archive and voice and my fellow fellows are dope as hell in it
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014906...
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014906...
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To add to this thread which you should read if you're interested in the business of writing, I am a NYT Bestseller. I technically make a living from Hood Feminism, though I wouldn't say I make a great living from it. I earned out a 6 figure advance in my first year, and have sold almost 400K books
You can see from this how it's possible for a writer to be a bestseller and not earn a living. I've hit bestseller lists in the UK with 2.6k sold in a week, fewer in Canada. In the US, I think it's 5k+? (I haven't done that yet.) A good start but a far cry from the 22,000 you need to make $50,000.
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
To add to this thread which you should read if you're interested in the business of writing, I am a NYT Bestseller. I technically make a living from Hood Feminism, though I wouldn't say I make a great living from it. I earned out a 6 figure advance in my first year, and have sold almost 400K books
Want to brighten up your desktop or lock screen?
I have over 150 different wallpapers ready to download:
ko-fi.com/s/a74e0de697
This one is a freebie from a summer trip to the shore. (Not quite seaside, it's an odd bit where the water comes in.)
#Weston #Hampshire #Photography
I have over 150 different wallpapers ready to download:
ko-fi.com/s/a74e0de697
This one is a freebie from a summer trip to the shore. (Not quite seaside, it's an odd bit where the water comes in.)
#Weston #Hampshire #Photography
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Want to brighten up your desktop or lock screen?
I have over 150 different wallpapers ready to download:
ko-fi.com/s/a74e0de697
This one is a freebie from a summer trip to the shore. (Not quite seaside, it's an odd bit where the water comes in.)
#Weston #Hampshire #Photography
I have over 150 different wallpapers ready to download:
ko-fi.com/s/a74e0de697
This one is a freebie from a summer trip to the shore. (Not quite seaside, it's an odd bit where the water comes in.)
#Weston #Hampshire #Photography
If you've been waiting for a smaller/netted lepidolite, watch this space, I've just finished 2 and I'll have them listed soon.
Got 2 showstoppers already up for grabs:
oishiny.etsy.com
#Handmade #ShopSmall
Got 2 showstoppers already up for grabs:
oishiny.etsy.com
#Handmade #ShopSmall
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
If you've been waiting for a smaller/netted lepidolite, watch this space, I've just finished 2 and I'll have them listed soon.
Got 2 showstoppers already up for grabs:
oishiny.etsy.com
#Handmade #ShopSmall
Got 2 showstoppers already up for grabs:
oishiny.etsy.com
#Handmade #ShopSmall
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hey so I have a job but I'm not starting for a few weeks and I won't get paid for longer. We're like $700 short on the mortgage, can anyone help out? (anything else will go to living expenses until wife gets paid again) #UglyDogs #MutualAid
gofund.me/e187e74db
paypal.me/writerbecc
gofund.me/e187e74db
paypal.me/writerbecc
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
hey so I have a job but I'm not starting for a few weeks and I won't get paid for longer. We're like $700 short on the mortgage, can anyone help out? (anything else will go to living expenses until wife gets paid again) #UglyDogs #MutualAid
gofund.me/e187e74db
paypal.me/writerbecc
gofund.me/e187e74db
paypal.me/writerbecc
And once more, somehow it's 2am? I'm really off schedule. Got a pendant and a half wrapped today. It's driving me nuts how slow this is - I need to work fast enough to get enough money to pay rent, and somehow have enough free time to find some other kind of actually sustainable work.
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
And once more, somehow it's 2am? I'm really off schedule. Got a pendant and a half wrapped today. It's driving me nuts how slow this is - I need to work fast enough to get enough money to pay rent, and somehow have enough free time to find some other kind of actually sustainable work.
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Christmas is an invasive holiday it keeps encroaching on other days it is not native to.
November 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Christmas is an invasive holiday it keeps encroaching on other days it is not native to.
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Treat someone to a little magic at Christmas - look at this glowing beauty:
oishiny.etsy.com/listing/4405...
#HandmadeGifts #DisabledArtist #ShopSmall
oishiny.etsy.com/listing/4405...
#HandmadeGifts #DisabledArtist #ShopSmall
November 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Treat someone to a little magic at Christmas - look at this glowing beauty:
oishiny.etsy.com/listing/4405...
#HandmadeGifts #DisabledArtist #ShopSmall
oishiny.etsy.com/listing/4405...
#HandmadeGifts #DisabledArtist #ShopSmall
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You claim to care about poor and disabled people on fixed incomes and that's why YOU need to pirate?
I beg of you, as a poor person who is alive because she can WFH while taking immunosuppressants: get my name out of your mouth. Poor and disabled people make a living creating art--support it.
I beg of you, as a poor person who is alive because she can WFH while taking immunosuppressants: get my name out of your mouth. Poor and disabled people make a living creating art--support it.
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
You claim to care about poor and disabled people on fixed incomes and that's why YOU need to pirate?
I beg of you, as a poor person who is alive because she can WFH while taking immunosuppressants: get my name out of your mouth. Poor and disabled people make a living creating art--support it.
I beg of you, as a poor person who is alive because she can WFH while taking immunosuppressants: get my name out of your mouth. Poor and disabled people make a living creating art--support it.
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I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.
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Since this year of all years I think skipping the big stores and shopping small businesses is a great thing, I asked my discord community to give me links to their shops!
view.flodesk.com/emails/69274...
Please link to your own shops in the replies, and show us some pics of your favorite items!
view.flodesk.com/emails/69274...
Please link to your own shops in the replies, and show us some pics of your favorite items!
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Since this year of all years I think skipping the big stores and shopping small businesses is a great thing, I asked my discord community to give me links to their shops!
view.flodesk.com/emails/69274...
Please link to your own shops in the replies, and show us some pics of your favorite items!
view.flodesk.com/emails/69274...
Please link to your own shops in the replies, and show us some pics of your favorite items!
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Oh no I just saw a picture of the art supply suitcase go by so it must be time for my yearly psa: don't buy that.
I've been given it many times in my life and it was usable once: in 1989.
"But I don't know what to get my artist friends/talented cousins for the holidays!"
I will help.
I've been given it many times in my life and it was usable once: in 1989.
"But I don't know what to get my artist friends/talented cousins for the holidays!"
I will help.
November 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Oh no I just saw a picture of the art supply suitcase go by so it must be time for my yearly psa: don't buy that.
I've been given it many times in my life and it was usable once: in 1989.
"But I don't know what to get my artist friends/talented cousins for the holidays!"
I will help.
I've been given it many times in my life and it was usable once: in 1989.
"But I don't know what to get my artist friends/talented cousins for the holidays!"
I will help.
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AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
TAPS SCREEN
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
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Just finished this exquisite smoky rainbow pride dragon tamer choker! 🐉🏳️🌈 Check it out at Varanid Paradise 🦎💎
www.varanidparadise.com/shop/p/2969d...
www.varanidparadise.com/shop/p/2969d...
Smoky Rainbow Pride Dragon Tamer Choker — Varanid Paradise Reptilian Atelier
This exquisite dragon scale choker brings an autumnal and agender vibe to the classic rainbow pride color scheme with elegant smoky satins, metallics, and polychromes. Fine Czech glass adorned by Japa...
www.varanidparadise.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Just finished this exquisite smoky rainbow pride dragon tamer choker! 🐉🏳️🌈 Check it out at Varanid Paradise 🦎💎
www.varanidparadise.com/shop/p/2969d...
www.varanidparadise.com/shop/p/2969d...
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A little later than I'd planned but let's go necromance some plants y'all! Join me for #GreenhearthNecromancer by @silverstringmedia.bsky.social
twitch.tv/cypheroftyr
twitch.tv/cypheroftyr
cypheroftyr - Twitch
I'm back from #PAXU Let's raise some plants from the beyond. #PRCopy #GameDemo !gfm #2KStreamingBeta
twitch.tv
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
A little later than I'd planned but let's go necromance some plants y'all! Join me for #GreenhearthNecromancer by @silverstringmedia.bsky.social
twitch.tv/cypheroftyr
twitch.tv/cypheroftyr