Dear community,

Special Fish needs your support now.

For the entire month of February, I'm asking the community to help keep Special Fish running. I run this site entirely on my own as a working artist, living off my work.

Special Fish depends on users like you for hosting, maintenance, and keeping the site running. Every user costs the site money. If you use Special Fish regularly or just don't want to see it go away, please consider supporting it. A yearly contribution of $40 is suggested (that comes out to $3.33 per month). Supporters pay for users who don't have the means to support the site.

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~ Elliott

This message is temporary and will be removed at the end of February. Thank you for reading :)

Bob @bob

https://www.bobvanvliet.com/notes, Netherlands

I have no idea what this is. But it's wonderful.
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Things the EDC crowd don't seem to carry

  • Lunch boxes
  • Fruit
  • A4 paper
  • Ovaries

Dear students,

  • As the teacher of this cours, I have power over you.
  • I don't like that, but I cannot change it.
  • What I *can* do is to hand over my most powerful tool of control: grading.
  • You get to decide on your own grade in this course.
  • Grades are bullshit anyway.
  • I'd rather have my course be pass/fail.
  • But I'm not allowed to do that.
  • I'm tempted to just give everyone an 8/10 if you pass.
  • But the grading system also has power over you and I cannot change that.
  • So I decided to just leave it up to you.
  • Not whether you pass, I decide that. But if you do the work, everyone passes.

Observations

  • There is a surprising amount of overlap/connection between here and are.na.
  • I've been low-key using are.na for quite a while but only for myself. I didn't explore, browse, or follow.
  • https://www.are.na/non-propositional/
  • I've only recently been diving into the small or indy web. Via which I found special fish.
  • This connection made me take a closer look at what people post/collect on are.na.
  • I get a very 'tumblr for grow-ups' vibe over there
  • I used to be on tumblr quite actively (well, actively following/reading in any case).
  • https://bobvanvliet.tumblr.com/archive
  • All this has got to mean something, I suppose?

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elliott