With TWO HOURS TO GO left on Spritely's supporter drive I am gonna give a LIVE THREAD about why you should support @spritely and why I am SO PROUD OF THE WORK WE ARE DOING HERE!

Here is where I pivot to the ask.

I am asking YOU to support the Spritely Institute.

If you want to read up, do it! The information on what we're doing is laid out for everyone to see. There are papers on our homepage. Find out for yourself.

But I am asking YOU to support us.

@cwebber I am so excited!

We are a nonprofit research institute building open source tech and open protocols for the commons that CHANGE THE GAME on how the internet works.

An internet for you, for your friends and community, controlled by you and friends, without large corporate gatekeepers.

But we need your help.

"Spritely, brought to you by the people who brought you the fediverse!" We've done the research. Not to be smug but we ARE the experts.

We are telling you, decentralized social networks as they exist today are not enough.

And we are building the future.

Please help us! https://spritely.institute/donate/

And if that's not enough... if that's not enough! If the moral ask ALONE was not enough!

We show off our tech by making video games and if you donate at the silver, gold, or diamond levels YOU GET YOUR NAME IN OUR OPEN SOURCE VIDEO GAMES how cool is that? https://spritely.institute/donate/

In short:
- Horray the fediverse/ActivityPub is great
- Except literally the two people at the top of that spec are saying it's NOT ENOUGH and we have more to do
- Except THEY'RE BUILDING IT and so is the rest of their awesome team!!
- We need your help!
- Pls donate!
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https://spritely.institute/donate/

@cwebber "SICP-hugging cat girls"

\fans self

Thank you! As I write this we have ONE HOUR LEFT of our campaign and we have raised OVER $85k!!!! https://spritely.institute/donate/

THANK YOU EVERYONE! And if you haven't supported @spritely yet please do so! And thank you to those who have!

@simon_brooke If I need to thirst-post with copies of SICP for the sake of the Spritely fundraiser to appeal to a certain type to donate I WILL DO IT

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Here is me holding a copy of The Little Prover please donate to the Spritely Institute https://spritely.institute/donate/

Here are MULTIPLE images of me holding Software Design for Flexibility please donate to the Spritely Institute https://spritely.institute/donate/

"Christine have you no sense of shame"

I do not here is me holding a copy of Paradigms of Aritificial Intelligence Programming please please donate to the Spritely Institute https://spritely.institute/donate/

@cwebber @spritely I would like to point out that you've now raise more than Free Our Feeds, despite all their big name support.

Huge accomplishment.

Here's me holding the secret lore of MIT AI memos that I, and I alone, have at my house and which are not uploaded on the internet please donate to the Spritely Institute (donate ENOUGH and maybe I will seek to get them archived so everyone can read them) https://spritely.institute/donate/

"Christine this is really too much"

I appeal to you one final time, one last attempt to thirstpost to a Very Particular Kind of Person into donating to the Spritely Institute

Here is me holding an ORIGINAL COPY of Guy L. Steele's dissertation, RABBIT: A Compiler for SCHEME

Please donate to the Spritely Institute https://spritely.institute/donate/

Okay maybe the "let's outraise Free Our Feeds" wasn't my one and only shallow fundraising post I am not sorry

@simon_brooke @cwebber good times, that was the text for the Programming Languages and Paradigms course I took in 1996

@simon_brooke @cwebber (got me, I donated)

@va2lam @simon_brooke

@va2lam @simon_brooke (thank you!)