Hi all. Thank you for all your comments and responses on the rate increase. After considering your feedback and discussing options we have decided to increase the monthly rate to $15 instead of $20. We are also doing away with the annual membership option for now.
I also share some of your frustration that locals doesn't allow for tiered membership rates. I was under the impression that anyone could join our locals group without paying, they just couldn't access the group links unless they were paying members. Now it is my understanding that while anyone can read our locals posts, no one can post or reply unless they pay. That's unfortunate. Ideally we'd have some kind of free or very low cost (just to weed out trolls) option to engage on the forum, and a higher fee to join the zooms.
I'd love feedback from y'all on what platforms are good alternatives to locals.
Perhaps substack? Let me know what you think!
Happy new year to everyone, and I'll see you tomorrow at 3pm pacific if you are coming to my group this week.
Someone shared this with me who said it had been circulating in the Hasidic community. Will likely offend a lot of people these days.
Hi everyone, I haven't been active in Solid Ground for a while, but I am still alive and kicking! I now work as personal assistant to a mind-bendingly weird and diva-esque artist-lip-syncher-performer named Fiona Blueberry. She is blissfully clueless about politics and seems to be completely unaware of the culture wars. Working with her is a breath of fresh air. If you need a mood lift, I encourage you to watch this video we made together. Happy 4th, everyone! Wishing you fun/love/peace on this holiday. :) www.fionablueberry.com
This is Frances Staudr in the Tumwater school district in Washington State. https://x.com/BrandiKruse/status/1974585600109088813
I appreciated the nuanced analysis provided here. One thing that I found so striking and sad is how younger and younger children are being recruited by the gangs, in some cases even to kill people.
I showed my daughter some public sculpture today. It was metal fashioned to look like wicker and rope.
She said that the artist was a “liar” and that “lying is mean”. I argued, that “is it only ok to make it out of rope or wicker to be a good person? “
“No” she said.
I then was then thinking about this statement, and mentioned this idea of “is it bad to pretend to be something your not”
She said “well only for the sculpture, not for other things”
The other thing obviously is the man she lives with, pretending to be something he is not. “Lying?”
