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https://www.tree.fm/

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Somehow, we’re already (nearly) halfway through the month of September 😱 Where has the time gone?!

How is everyone doing with their small webbing so far? The theme of this check-in is troubleshooting: if there’s any part of your Small Web September project that you aren’t sure how to accomplish, or maybe something that you worked on didn’t turn out quite right, come and ask about it here!

It doesn’t have to be specific to this month, either – maybe it’s a past project that you hit a wall on, or a future project you’d like to start. If you haven’t run into any issues yourself, feel free to offer suggestions to people in the comments who have!

Here are some question prompts for this check-in:

How is/are your Small Web September projects going? Are you working on the same things that you put down in your Goals (if you decided to set goals), or something else?
What do you plan to focus on for the second half of September?
What’s an element of your project that you found unexpectedly challenging? Did you manage to solve the problem, or not yet?

As a reminder, this is the second of four ‘check-in’/comment points that will be published during the event – you can check out the schedule and dates of these posts over on the event intro. There’s no cut-off point for commenting on them, so you can add something at any time – you also don’t need to comment on every one or do them in order! The themes are a loose guide; all discussion is welcome.

For our previous check-in post, head on over to Small Web September Check-In 1: Links!

Current Mood: mellow

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thisfinecrew

Hi, it's been a while. I'm going to try to post like once a month on Palestine stuff so there's some more awareness of things that are going on. Because there's a lot.

Israel continues to bomb multiple Arab nations and threaten them; they last struck Qatar attempting to assassinate Hamas leaders who were there at the invitation of the US to discuss a ceasefire with Israel. The result of that is now Arab nations are rethinking their relationships with the US. They are also continuing to bomb Gaza daily and round up people in the West Bank.
Laura Loomer got the US to stop issuing travel visas to Palestinian children traveling for humanitarian and medical treatment.
Meanwhile, in the US, the House just passed a Lauren Boebert amendment to the Pentagon budget that would target the BDS movement.
Rep Brian Mast just introduced a new bill that would allow Marco Rubio to revoke US passports, including US citizens, at his whim, but basically if you criticize Israel.
Earlier this week, progressive House Reps and others like Mahmoud Khalil and Cynthia Nixon did a big push for HR 3565 Block the Bombs Act, which would block the President from selling certain munitions to Israel, except under specific conditions. There are now 46 cosponsors, all of them Democratic. 7 joined this month. Although Reps Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene have both made statements opposing Israel, they have not joined as cosponsors.

Orgs and places to donate to:

watersword posting in

thisfinecrew

H.R.5106 - Restore Trust in Congress Act is bipartisan legislation that aims to ban Members of Congress and their families from engaging in insider trading. The supervising ethics office will impose penalties and issue any additional guidance, as well as publicly disclose fines that will be set to 10% of the stock’s asset value, plus disgorged profits.

The STOCK Act of 2012 has helped expose the extent of potential conflicts of interest and provided the public with transparency into lawmakers’ financial activities, but a lack of enforcement has stopped it from achieving the goal of curbing insider trading.

(In related anti-corruption legislation: Close the Revolving Door Act of 2025, legislation that would impose a lifetime ban on former Members of Congress from becoming lobbyists.)

Contact your representative.

enchantedsleeper posting in

smallweb

We’ve reached the first check-in point for Small Web September! How is everyone doing so far? Whether you’re just getting warmed up or are already ticking off goals (or maybe you just found this and want to join – welcome!), come and share your progress in the comments of this check-in.

The theme of this week’s check-in is links! Earlier this year, I came across Coy (

osteophage)’s link compilation in praise of links, which led me down a rabbit hole of reading various essays about the importance of hyperlinking and being a good steward of the web. This includes not making your own site into an effective dead end, but sending people on to interesting destinations via links that you’ve included there.

I’ve always been a lover of curating cool webpages and sites, but it struck me that I wasn’t actually doing much of this on my own little website – now, it’s a personal fanworks archive, so you could argue that linking out to random pages is a bit out of step with the purpose of it. However, it broadened my thinking about where I could start adding more links: from archiving rec lists to linking out to gifts that other fans had made for me over the years.

So, the discussion starter for this check-in is: how do you link, and to what? Do you have a link hub or set of interesting finds? Would you like to do more with links?

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Current Mood: thoughtful

Indeed do many things come to pass

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Resource: tree.fm, an audio library of global forest sounds.

Small Web September Check-In 2: Halfway House/Troubleshooting!

Palestine/Gaza Awareness

H.R.5106 - Restore Trust in Congress Act

Small Web September Check-In 1: Links!

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