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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 23:54:40 JST Aral Balkan

   Just got an email saying Kitten’s been rejected for funding by Sovereign Tech Fund. No reason given.

   I don’t even know why I try anymore, really.

   We’ve never received a single penny of public funding for our work even though everything we make is free and open source and all our work is for the common good.

   We do have a group of folks who support us via patronage – thank you all so much. It doesn’t pay the rent but it means a lot.

   https://small-tech.org/fund-is

   #SmallWeb #SmallTech #funding

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 23:57:43 JST Aral Balkan

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     PS. I mean “I don’t know why I try applying for public funding” not why I keep working on the Small Web. I will continue doing the latter regardless of what it takes.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 00:07:07 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Ryan for a permanent ceasefire

     @ryanrandall Just saw/fixed, thanks. Ironic, though, no? :)

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     Ryan for a permanent ceasefire (ryanrandall@hcommons.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 00:07:08 JST Ryan for a permanent ceasefire

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     @aral That bites—your work definitely deserves support.

     Speaking of which, there's a typo in that URL ("-is" when it's almost certainly "-us").

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 00:08:12 JST Aral Balkan

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     • JP

     @jp Yep, just saw/fixed. Thanks for the heads ip ;)

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     JP (jp@social.funnyna.me)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 00:08:13 JST JP

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     @aral I think you meant to type fund-us instead of fund-is ^^

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 00:15:26 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Konstantin 🏳️‍🌈

     @konstantin Thanks :) 🙌

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     Konstantin 🏳️‍🌈 (konstantin@social.headbright.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 00:15:27 JST Konstantin 🏳️‍🌈

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     @aral Aral, the /fund-is link gives a 404

     Edit: fixed 🙌