@deborahh hi Deb. I believe you’re right! 🌸🙌👍

https://aus.social/@coolandnormal/109622693500608854 I'm a #Gardener looking to do a qualification in #Horticulture.

Although the qualification can be done in a classroom setting, I would prefer to do it as a #traineeship partly because I think I would learn more and partly because I need the work. Signing up for a traineeship based qualification requires regular work on a contract.

I have a special interest in #Tea #CamelliaSinensis particularly #Puerh
I'm also interested in #NativePlants #LandRegeneraton #FoodSovereignty and helping elderly and disabled people maintain their gardens, their access to food and their connections with nature.

I have farming experience and am happy to do mostly outdoor manual labour. I'm a casual university #teacher so a school garden program or other educational environment would also be suitable.

Please #boost if you know anyone who might need #Gardening #Horticulture #LandCare #GroundsKeeping #MarketGardening in #GundijimaraCountry or surrounds.

Edit: I can organise the qualification, the prerequisite is that I be contracted to someone else's horticulture business (rather than self-employed in horticulture, as I am now). There are government kickbacks to make it worth your while.

I currently work at Melb Uni, so #PartTime is fine, although I would consider giving that up for #FullTime

#JobHunting #CareerChange #FediHired #HireMe #ManualLabour

I'm a casual #Gardener looking to do a qualification in #Horticulture. Although the qualification can be done in a classroom setting, I would prefer to do it as a #traineeship partly because I think I would learn more and partly because I need the work. Signing up for a traineeship based qualification requires regular work on a contract.

I have a special interest in #Tea #CamelliaSinensis particularly #Puerh
I'm also interested in #NativePlants #LandRegeneraton #FoodSovereignty and helping elderly and disabled people maintain their gardens, their access to food and their connections with nature.

I have farming experience and am happy to do mostly outdoor manual labour. I also have a few years university #teaching experience, so a school garden program or other educational environment would also be suitable.

Please #boost if you know anyone who might need a regular #Gardening #Horticulture #LandCare #GroundsKeeping or #MarketGardening #Worker in #GundijimaraCountry or surrounds

Hello my lovely Campers!

The wonderful @mawr updated their Compact Notifications CSS for v.4.0, and I've applied it to ComicsCamp.Club.

Here's the original post: https://plush.city/@mawr/109349447597523301

Keep in mind, this will only apply to viewing your notifications in the web app, mobile apps notifications will be unaffected.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns! Lots of love. :camp_counselor: #Groundskeeping

Hello my lovely Campers! Today I have some #Groundskeeping to do, but it's really exciting!

We have mods! Four of them, in fact! Up until now it has just been little old me looking after us all, and that's been working fine, but due to some ongoing health problems I wanted to bring some other folks into the fold to help out.

Say hello to your new mod team:

@Napdragon
@jectoons
@nebulos
@Aoife

Just getting them settled into the roles now. Reach out to them or me if you need anything! 🏕️

Hello, Campers!

A couple announcements:

I've re-implemented the condensed notifications CSS after finding an updated version fixing an issue that was introduced in Mastodon v2.8. You can find the code here for details: https://github.com/psydwannabe/mastodon-snippets/blob/master/CSS/condense-notifications.css Let me know if you have any issues with it!

Also, we are now running Mastodon v3.01! This comes with some fun quality of life updates. You can see the details here: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/10/mastodon-3.0/

Keep being awesome, folks! :camp_counselor:

#Groundskeeping

Happy Sunday my lovely campers! ⛺ 💚

I've noticed that the CSS code that shortens and minimizes some notifications in the Notifications feed seems to no longer be working as expected. As such, I'll be disabling the custom CSS for now until I can find a fix.

Hope you're all having a wonderful weekend! :camp_counselor:

#Groundskeeping

Hello, Campers!

Just a heads up that your friendly @CampCounselor is going to be away for a week or so starting today. This shouldn't affect everyday operations, but may mean I'll be slower to answer questions, deal with reports, and other things.

I'll be back soon! Have lots of fun in my absence. :camp_counselor:

#Groundskeeping

Hello Comics Campers! ⛺ 💚

I wanted to give you all the heads up that ComicsCamp.Club will be returning to Invite Only sometime in the near future. This means people will no longer be able to "request registration" from our Instance Homepage; they will require an invite from a current ComicsCamp.Club member in order to register an account here.

This is so we can let our community grow organically through word of mouth. Don't be afraid to invite your friends!

#Groundskeeping #MastoAdmin

Happy Wednesday, Campers!

Today I took the initiative to preemptively block the two Gab domains I know about (.com and .ai) before they switch their software over to Mastodon in July.

Hopefully this means we won't see a lick of them when they enter the :fediverse: Fediverse.

I'll continue to block all future Gab domains as I become aware of them.

Take care!

#Groundskeeping #MastoAdmin

All right, the poll is over, and we had zero votes against it, so I went ahead and added the condensed notifications CSS for our instance. You might have to refresh your web client to see the changes.

I'll check back in with y'all in about a week to see how we all feel about the change! :da_w00t:

#Groundskeeping

Good evening, Campers!

The awesome @mawr from plush.city posted some custom CSS with which we can minimize the size of toots in our notification windows on a per-instance basis. To see what that looks like check out this toot here: https://plush.city/@mawr/102135807350595891

So my question is: Do you want me to try it out here at ComicsCamp.Club? We can trial it for a week or so and see how we all feel afterwards. :camp_counselor:

#Groundskeeping

Hello my lovely Comics Campers! ⛺ 💚

Your friendly admin (@Rheall) is leaving for the :alaska_robotics: Mini-con and #ComicsCamp tommorrow, and as such will not be available for almost a week.

I know you will look after each other while I'm gone! I'm looking forward to the Alaskan mountains, but also getting back to y'all and this fantastic community we've made.

Keep being awesome! :camp_counselor:

#Groundskeeping

Happy Friday, campers! :camp_counselor:

If you're wondering what the influx of new users is all about, I set our instance to the new "request registration" mode. This means people can request an account here without needing an invite from a current user.

If you see any of these new users around, say hi! Show them a good Camp #welcome. ☺️ And if anything looks spammy or not cool, do use the report function, and I'll see what I can do.

Keep being awesome, campers! ⛺ 💚

#Groundskeeping

Happy Friday my lovely Campers! :camp_counselor:

You may have noticed some changes lately… that's because yesterday @mastohost updated our instance to v2.8.0!

There are some exciting changes in this version including:
— Polls
— Featured hashtags on your profile
— A new landing page for our instance
— New options for managing followers
— And more!

More on the changes here: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/04/mastodon-2.8/

Keep being awesome, campers! :heart_sp_pride:

#Groundskeeping #MastoAdmin

Hello, Campers!

Just a quick note to tell you I've suspended the Misskey instance xn--6r8h.tk for racism and harbouring Nazis. This instance will no longer federate with us.

Take care!

#Groundskeeping #MastoAdmin #DomainBlock

Happy Friday, campers!

Just a notice to let you all know that I have suspended the Misskey instance waifuappreciation.club for anti-trans sentiment and nazi sympathizing. This instance will no longer federate with us.

Be well, all!

#Groundskeeping

In my endless quest to increase transparency and get everything squared away, I have updated our about/more page with a list of domain blocks for our instance:

https://comicscamp.club/about/more#blocks

I'm always on the lookout for ways to make our community safer. These instance blocks are an attempt to do just that.

If you have a block you'd like to recommend, or one you'd like to contest, please get in touch!

Keep being awesome, campers! ⛺

#Groundskeeping

Happy Monday, campers! :camp_counselor:

I spent some time today updating both our About/More and /Terms pages. I added a table of contents to help make them more navigable, and also added a Privacy Policy (adapted from Mastodon.social's) to our terms page.

If you haven't yet, take some time to familiarize yourself:

Community Code of Conduct and Moderation Policy: http://comicscamp.club/about/more

Privacy Policy: http://comicscamp.club/terms

Keep being awesome, campers! ⛺

#Groundskeeping

Happy Friday, Campers!

I'm here to ask for your help: I'd like to come up with a hashtag people can use to tag their comics-themed shop talk. Script writing, thumbnails, story help, page critiques, asking for resources… if all these things were united under a common hashtag that we all used it would go a long way to connecting various comics and narrative art creators with each other.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a good hashtag to use?

#Groundskeeping

Happy Sunday, Campers!

A quick reminder that we are open for custom emoji submissions! If there's a custom emoji you'd like to see available here, let me know, and I'll do my best to make it happen.

Likewise, if you want to make your own, here are the deets:

— Must be less than 50 KB
— PNG file
— Can be animated!
— Any height/width, though the closer to square they are the larger they'll appear and the more readable they'll be

DM me to chat about it! ⛺ 💚

#Groundskeeping