Hestia's Hearth and Home Thrift

Hestia's Hearth and Home Thrift A thrift store supporting Spiral Moon Family Circle and its projects. Currently, online shopping with local pick-up only. A program of Spiral Moon Family Circle

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Posting a new, definitely not AI post each week, until we raise enough money to hire a real live person who isn't me to ...
08/22/2026

Posting a new, definitely not AI post each week, until we raise enough money to hire a real live person who isn't me to do marketing. Or until we get volunteers to do it.

Let's start with pointing out that an AI system to post social media posts wouldn't have missed so many posts this week đŸ˜‚

It's been interesting watching bigger organizations and events try to sort out how to deal with AI. And most are giving middle of the road policies, which makes me wonder: is that enough for the folks who want zero AI? Is it too much for the people who are pro-AI? I'm not buying or selling, mind you, I'm just wondering how much effect and of this actually has on support, or is it just a lot of noise with no follow through.

Anyway. Here's that hand-drawn post from a couple weeks back, and now Facebook wants me to use AI to turn it (and a picture from a lunch we made a while back) into tarot cards. Seriously.

Every week I'm going to put together a new post, that's definitely not AI (this one is my own photos), until we either get enough support to have someone besides me doing it (because I actually can't do everything) or until our reach drops so much that I realize that AI is the only option.

https://spiralmoon.org/membership/ - memberships starting at $5/month

08/21/2026

One of the things we focus on is education. We have all sorts of classes for all sorts of people of all ages. We also are happy to work with other teachers - our online education systems are ready and waiting.

Posting a new, definitely not AI post each week, until we raise enough money to hire a real live person who isn't me to ...
08/14/2026

Posting a new, definitely not AI post each week, until we raise enough money to hire a real live person who isn't me to do marketing. Or until we get volunteers to do it.

Let's talk about Hestia's Hearth and Home Thrift. It's our thrift store - online for now, but working on a brick&mortar space, because we need places like thrift stores where we can know our money isn't going to run charities that wouldn't help our community members. It keeps things out of landfills, helps people save money, and will fund a physical space for our organization and our community, along with providing for other charity work. We have winter coats, lunch boxes, purses, candle holders, games, and a ton of other stuff either listed on the site or in bins in my living room waiting for me to get with the program and get them listed. See first comment for more info.

Look, I know that a lot of corners of the internet are really anti-AI right now - particularly the Pagan community, where people are boycotting events and deplatforming presenters. I get it (though I wish there was more nuance in the discussions). Thing is, though, having seen the state of our community's support for any sort of business or organization, I'm not actually convinced that threatening withdrawl of support makes any difference, because most people aren't supporting their local businesses and organizations to begin with.

Every week I'm going to put together a new post, that's definitely not AI (this one is my own photos), until we either get enough support to have someone besides me doing it (because I actually can't do everything) or until our reach drops so much that I realize that AI is the only option.

https://spiralmoon.org/membership/ - memberships starting at $5/month

08/13/2026

You know how our community is big on following charismatic leaders? I'm not one. Marketing doesn't come easy. Telling everyone about the things we're doing doesn't come easy. I'm an engineer. I'm a Capricorn. I'm really good at solving technical problems. But marketing in the modern age is just a problem to solve, right?

Ask me anything. Let's talk about what Spiral Moon is getting done, and what we could use help to manifest in the future.

08/11/2026

Internet marketing advice says you want to see behind the scenes info - so let's take a very short tour of my very tiny office.

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