But:

But:

-whatever floats your boat

-we don't sink other peoples ships just because they aren't our ships

this is so real

After the auction: Please wait for our email!

We know how exciting it is to get to 8pm and realize you've won the auction! However, in all this excitement, please don't jump the gun.

We will email all high bidders within 24 hours of auctions closing with a full list of the auctions you've won and instructions for how to submit your donation proof. Please do not contact us with your donation proof until you get this email.

What's more, we've changed the process this year, so even if you're an FTH pro please be sure to read this email carefully! You will need the link in this email to submit your donation proof.

We know it's annoying to have to wait possibly an entire day before being able to proceed, but we need to make sure we've accounted for all the auctions, checked for late bids that need to be removed, etc etc before we can start processing your donations.

If you believe you were the high bidder on an auction and you have not received an email from us within 24 hours (so by 8pm EST Sunday), please let us know.

WINNER!!!

Hello Hello and welcome to this week’s six sentence story based on the word REMOTE. Follow our unnamed narrator as she defies the odds and wishes she had not. It was a slim chance, one in a million if that, so remote that the chances of her being on of the unlucky ones had barely even crossed her mind, because when had she ever “won” anything. That was the thing about odds though, because while…

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The ML agreement is FUCKED.

So the MLs got a new agreement. And it’s predatory, and borderline illegal.

Some highlights!

•A confidentiality clause holding MLs liable if they speak out, and forbidding them to discuss internal documents with users or even other volunteers. Unclear rn if that includes co-MLs.

•A mandate that MLs report anyone in their forums [because oh yeah they have to mod regional forums on their own now] that break any kind of supposed rule to HQ (including, literally, use of profanity), and an obligation that they report other MLs and participants for violations of the literal written letter of local laws (including places where being queer or speaking against the government is a crime).

•MLs have to swear to listen first to Nano HQ for directions in case of a public health emergency (instead of, you know, government health agencies).

•MLs are legally liable for everything that happens in their regions, giving the HQ that's telling them what to do and when to do it a free pass.

Also this:

As of right now the Director of Community Engagement is…

Difficult to contact and best reached on an ‘unofficial’ discord server. Which two MLs were kicked from for sharing publicly available info and one for being in a server that had criticised HQ.

The full agreement can be found here.

Make no mistake, this is trying to silence and exploit MLs. Nano has not changed.

🪡 The golden needle tag is now live!

We know how hard it is to browse EVERY auction, especially with over 1000 on offer this year. As we enter the last 36 hours of the auction, we're opening up the 'golden needle' tag.

This features all auctions that are looking for their first bidder - that could be you!

So take a look at what's on offer, and if you haven't put your first bid down yet, now is the time to get some golden needles in our very large haystack.

Agreed, put the Kraken back on the map!!!

Im weighing in on the discourse. We need to start putting sea monsters on maps again.