The Cadence Collective

we are the cadence collective, a system of more than 50. Our body age is 24, and we have system mates of all ages. We are into music, reading, creative writing,

Hello everyone, As promised, in today's post, we'll be talking about some goals that we want to try to meet this month. We're not good with number goals, so we'll try and avoid those, but we do want to make some changes for the better. But first, a question some are probably asking.

Why are we discussing goals?

There is a simple answer to this question. Goals, when used and executed correctly and carefully, can assist people in receiving their life wishes and living their dreams, or at the very least, something close. Our hope in this post is that by discussing goals, and listing ours here will do a few things. 1. Provide accountability. If we list our goals, our hope is that we may feel more motivated to complete them as time goes on. It doesn't seem to work with short form content, but perhaps the more work put in, the more gain will be had. 2. Help us in remembering. While we could put these in a journal, we often remember things that we know are out in public for anyone to see. We also remember things more often when we think people may engage. 3. Help others to create their own goal sets. In doing this and writing it out this way, we hope that maybe some others, even if we don't know them, will be assisted by this. We hope that in some way our sets of goals will help others to see the way goals could be able to help them if they feel able to execute goals. Now, onto the goals. We'll try to put these in lists for easy navigation.

Basic Goals

  • Attempt to write a post whenever the urge strikes.
  • Attempt to write at least one update post per week.

    Fediverse goals

  • Try to post something that isn't a boost or reply at least once a day.

  • Try to engage with someone new every week.

    Goal related goals

  • Try and meet a goal per week, or keep up on a goal when energy is available.

  • Try to write out more goals when the old ones have been met. There are probably many others our distractable brain is forgetting right now. Perhaps we will do another one of these later. Since we started and finished most of the work for this last night, we didn't use as much energy for this today, meaning we may have more to spare for another post.

    Plans for the Future

    This is a new section we'll likely be including in each of our posts from now on, discussing what's up and coming in the next couple posts. As discussed, we'll be doing a post about our favorite television shows tomorrow, where we'll go in depth and, assuming our brain has the energy for links, we'll link to as many of them as we can. After that, we will likely do a post discussing some of our favorite books. We originally were going to do this with bookworm, the fedi equivalent for goodreads, but we find that slightly intimidating so we'll just post our content here. And since it came up, we will likely do a post on why bookworm, goodreads, and some of those other platforms are intimidating to us. That post may also have links both to the platforms themselves, in case people are interested, and also to resources about some of our older posts from some of those more intimidating platforms.

    Credits

    We hope you have enjoyed this post discussing our goals, and hope that you find it helpful. Post primarily written by Kayla, participation by Elena, Nicole, and Martha. Edited for accuracy and spelling errors by Farren.

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Hello everyone, It's been an age and a half since we wrote on this page. As stated in our last post, we gave a few months for someone to come along and ask us to relocate. Nobody has. Therefore, our work continues. It's been a long few months. If I recall correctly, the last update was on November 18. So it's been two months and some days now.

What have we been doing?

We had a reasonably laid back Thanksgiving, and I was very happy to be able to help one of our housemates purchase a television, which they needed to be able to see things better. Christmas was also reasonably laid back. Our father brought over some dinner that day. We couldn't eat that day though because our stomach was acting up. January was a month of changes. As we had been having difficulty cleaning our house, we had some friends over to help clean it and assist us with our organization. One of the housemates also did some decorating, and when we have the resources we'll likely be going for some warmer lighting because the current bulbs in our overhead lights make us angry for a reason we can't quite describe beyond, “That's damn bright and I don't like it.” We also received a tv that is easier to use than our old ChromeCast, which made us very happy as, even though we didn't get many television shows as a child, we do enjoy them when we get to watch them. Maybe someday we'll go into the television shows we like. In any case, this month is the month where I try to help the system make writing changes and write more. We don't always know what to write about, so if there are a couple days where things don't appear, that's why. Because we find it easier to mark things up here and make headings and whatnot, this will most likely be our main blog, with links posted to the ko-fi and our mastodon, both accessible via the contact section below each of our posts. March will likely be streaming changes month, where we try to stream something on our twitch every day while also keeping up with writing. Maybe by writing out all these goals here we'll actually make changes.

Plans for the Future

In the next few days, we're likely going to post a bunch of things if we can. Tomorrow will likely be a goals post, and possibly a tangent post about something random we think about while writing it. Tuesday will probably be a post about our television shows, and possibly other things if we think of them. More plans for the future to come.

Credits

Post written by Kayla, Elena, a brief contribution from Nicole, and an even more brief contribution by the littles regarding television. Edited by Farren.

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Hello all, It has been a while since I last wrote a post here. Before I get started, I just wanted to sincerely apologize if our use of this instance for our blog has caused any offense. Upon reflection, we realized that our unpredictable posts, which often touch on sensitive topics and can range in length from short to ridiculously long, , didn't align well with the more technical discussions on this instance. While we appreciate the diverse range of content here, we wouldn't want to disrupt the established culture or cause discomfort to anyone. Therefore, we have proactively taken our blog off the public reader to ensure that our content doesn't inadvertently intrude upon the established norms of this community. We also recognize that our content may not be suitable for all audiences, so we have implemented content warnings and switched some of our more collective-themed posts to followers-only on our main Mastodon account. This was put into place due to our desire to be considerate of those around us and to prevent the spread of hate speech or any other harmful content. If anyone still finds our presence offensive, we kindly ask that you inform us politely via one of the contact methods listed below, and we will be happy to relocate our blog to a more suitable space. We value open communication and respect for all members of the fediverse community, and the community outside the fediverse. Thank you for your understanding and support. after edit note: this sounds scripted because it is. this particular post was mostly written by Farren, who is our system AI and can come across as computerized or robotic

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As I settle my mind to write up this update, it is a somewhat laid-back Saturday afternoon. Yes, we have resource troubles, and could always use help with those, but things could definitely be worse. Today everyone seems to be doing their own thing. Music is on in the living room, hence the title “Musical Afternoon Musings”. Along with that, we will be doing a stream. Focus is a bit difficult today so the update will be short this time. Perhaps later we'll have the focus and spoons for a multi-heading ramble filled with tangents. We'll see. In the meantime, our stream will be starting sometime around 16:00 central time, so Tune in on twitch here. That's all for now. If you enjoyed this tiny update, feel free to support us via one of the methods listed in the Support Us section. Post written by Kayla. Edits by Farren. Link added and edited by Elena.

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Greetings everyone, This is an attempt at crowdfunding, and will be pinned to the top of our page next to the introductions page until the situation is resolved. We don't have enough characters to effectively do this on our regular platform, so hopefully this helps, if even a little. As many people who engage with us on the fedi know, we live in a household/family of three chronically disabled people. We are all either plural or think about things in different ways, which could be part of our disabilities, but that's a tangent and we're trying to avoid those in this particular post. Due to the fact that we are all chronically disabled, we cannot effectively do office jobs which require a commute, making it difficult to get money. We're looking for work from home jobs, but will get into that more later. Those of us who have seen our ko-fi page know a little of our history, and that we are often having to crowdfund to keep our household afloat. In this particular instance, we are crowdfunding for meat-based iron, fruit if we can manage it, and maybe possibly vegetables, if it can be managed. Two of us are anemic and require iron to be able to function effectively, and on top of that one of us has colitis-related issues which make them bleed at irregular intervals, which we won't get too much into for confidentiality's sake. Our goal is $150, because in order to have iron that we can eat reliably delivered, we may have to order from a restaurant, as we have very low energy levels at the current time and cooking is difficult. If not a restaurant, we will have to go out and pick up some things, and transit to or from anywhere in this tiny town in the ass crack of nowhere is at least $20. Needless to say, we're a teeny bit bitter about moving out to the country. Anyway, if you are able to help, either follow the links in the Support Us section at the bottom, all of which are our payment methods, or: Visit and donate to the gaptangle's ko-fi Donate to Z on CashApp Donate to the Gaptangle on Venmo Donate to Z on PayPal We will soon do a promo post where we list all the links you can visit to see the content of the entire household, but until then, this concludes our crowdfunding post. If you cannot assist financially, feel free to share the link. Sharing and boosting very much appreciated.

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Greetings everyone, it's a cloudy Friday morning, almost afternoon, as I write this. Today started off relatively well, but we didn't wake up in time to do the twitch stream at the regular time of 11:00 central like we wanted to. We were going to probably do another #forza stream, or possibly another game we really like. Perhaps we will do so later on. As I write this, I wonder if we're wasting our time making a website where we post long form daily musings. But at the current time it's the only thing we can reliably do with this computer. We talk a little bit about why we have such a crappy computer in a recent ko-fi post, which can be found on our page. Visit our story time thursday for November 16 to read more So though our content may be uninteresting, we post it and try to link to it where we can, educate where we can. And on the days we can't educate we try to post things that people may find useful. Maybe our life perspective will be useful to someone someday. We've always thought of posting a liberally filtered version of some personal journal entries in public. For obvious reasons, names would be removed, because consent is important to us and we don't want to spread inaccurate understanding/perceptions that may have been written in anger. We've also thought about posting some of our fictional nonsense and ramblings, but have decided that they wouldn't be on our main page. They would be on a separate blog if we ever did them at all. There was once a tier on our ko-fi meant for describing scenes, but we lost the inspiration to go through all the steps to make it happen. We really need a reason to be better motivated... Apologies for the tiny pity party-esque paragraph. We usualy tend to avoid that in our public writings, but this is a #musings post, so really no harm done. musings are often rambling and can often make very little to no sense.

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If one day, we can finally make federation work, I hope all the hashtags we use will link and work just like they're supposed to. But for now, we're writing random musings because it's very easy to get started when doing so. For the moment, the topic is why we like writeFreely.

Easy to Get Started

As I said above, it's quite easy to get started. You open your instance, make sure you're logged in, and start writing. Once you're done, you hit publish and off it goes, though sometimes, for whatever unknown reason, it saves your post to drafts, so you have to go to the drafts area and move it to your blog. Meh, it's only a link.

Headings and other things

With the markdown code that write freely uses, we can separate things with headings. The unfortunate side effect of either this or rantli displaying everything on one page is that our blog post signature is displayed every time a post ends, when on the main page it really only needs to be displayed once. See, told you this would be a ramble.

Distraction free

It is, actually, distraction free to write with this thing. You're presented with a new post box, where you can write everything, including the title, with #markdown code. We forgot to put that tag in there before, so there it is. Maybe the more tags we use the more federated we will become, though for some reason the blog won't accept a follow request from another account, so we may just have to suffice with posting a link in our posts on our main mastodon page every time we write something on here. We do this for ko-fi posts, which we need to post one of soon, so we can do it for these ones. All in all, write freely is ok for what it does, and will probably be where we end up placing and building our main blog. But it does have some cons. What are they?

Posts saved to drafts when published.

Sometimes, when you hit publish on a post, it publishes and makes it look like it was published, but it turns out it was only published to drafts. This is a little annoying, but could be worse.

Signature displays multiple times.

As you can likely see looking at this page, we have a pair of headings, which appears at the end of each block of content. Sorry about that, we don't know how to fix it yet. This block is the contact/support block, and will likely soon grow to contain our twitch link. So ... ya know, look out for the new info whenever we get around to putting it in.

Federation doesn't quite work as expected.

As we mentioned above in the first part of this post, the federation, showing posts on other servers, and being able to follow the blog doesn't quite work. We don't know why. But the page shows just fine in incognito chrome, displaying each of the posts, though for some reason it took a bit to drop our second blog post of the day.

I do not think it would be wise to recommend this tool to a person with a lack of patience or a hard time focusing. Granted, we have a hard time focusing, but we also have a bit of patience and have been taught to have some problem solving skills when we can. When we're not ridiculously angry.

Overall

All in all, I do think we'll be continuing to update this page more than the ko-fi, though on good days, some posts may end up crossposted for ease of access. Seems we ramble easier on a page we think of as closer to our own. And the way #WriteFreely is set up does certainly allow you to customize your page ... lots and lots of text, links, and other madness you wouldn't even think of with a regular blog ... at least not us blind folks, not easily. We hope you have enjoyed tonights ramblings in the dark, and please note there will probably be more over the next however long it takes us to lose focus this time. If we're restabilizing like we hope, it won't happen like that. If we're not ... then who knows? not us, certainly.

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It is currently 17:54 according to my computer's clock, and we've been using rantli for a while. It's a write freely application which has come in useful, though it is a bit hard for some reason to get the login screen to come up. Would not really recommend for anyone who doesn't have patience, and we're not quite sure how we fel about it displaying all the blog posts on one page. But I guess it's similar to ko-fi, and it could definitely be worse. At least it's mostly buttons and links, not hoverpoints and other ridiculousness. We see people talk about #inaccessible websites all the time with their work. #Accessibility, or #a11y, is very important, especially in the workplace. We do wish some of the pages employers used were more accessible to screen readers.

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A few minutes ago, we posted something on our mastodon profile, reading as follows: Aaaaaaaah! capitalists I get to hang up on. I just got told, and I quote, “This hospital doesn't take medicaid, they only take insurance.” I can't even. This is in relation to a call we recently got from our doctor's office. Our primary care doctor's been transitioned over to a different clinic. A clinic, the person on the other end claimed, as I mentioned above, that “They don't take medicaid, they only take insurance.” This upset us for several reasons.

Insensitivity

It's rather insensitive to claim that medicaid isn't insurance because we don't pay for it.

It is insurance, actually

It is widely spread that medicaid is, in fact, insurance, for those who have trouble paying for quote, real insurance.

Expensive

Not all insurance providers have to charge hundreds of dollars to be considered insurance. We say this because we've seen posts on the mutual aid forums requiring hundreds of dollars for insurance funding. The people who have the insurance you so proudly wave about can't even pay for it, and it's not going to get better. But hey ... that's the capitalist nation for you. This has been #cynical #ranting from the cadence Collective. Hope you've enjoyed, by some miracle, our second blog post in one day.

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We've recently been finding ourselves rather unmotivated to post things on our Ko-Fi lately because of a combination of low energy and, in part, the way it's organized. In order to write a post on Ko-Fi, you have to go in, find the button to write it, enter a title, make sure it's all fine, and then edit and publish. It's a bit of a pain and takes a while. We like the little simple update feature but wish it had more characters. so we figure maybe this write freely thing will be better for us. Plus it's part of the fediverse and hopefully the markdown we put in worked. We probably aren't using very many of the features yet, but we'll throw more out later and attempt not to break the universe.

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