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curiouswombat ([personal profile] curiouswombat) wrote2022-03-14 07:53 pm
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Armstreet.

 A quick link to  Armstreet - "War in Ukraine and ArmStreet .For those of you who don't know them, they make the most amazing medieval clothing for re-enactment, LARP and so on.   I have bought from them in the past.  They are a Ukrainian company.  That link goes to their blog - they are based in Kharkiv, which has been badly bombed and some of the staff have left the city, others remain.  


People have been buying gift vouchers to send them money - and now they are also making Warm blanket for refugees fleeing war for free. Available in: satin fabric of random colour :: by medieval store ArmStreet   They have bought fabric and are making easily washable blankets - which you can buy from them for them to distribute for you - the info is on the page from the second link.

Over on my LJ there are nice pictures of my daughter and her husband hand feeding red pandas, and some garden pics.  What  shame I can't post them directly here - there is little point in using the URL from LJ if the main reason for this blog is in case that one disappears.


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[personal profile] cmcmck 2022-03-14 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
DW's little widget, the insert image thingie on the posting page is simpler than many people claim.

I simply cut'n'paste from my phohothost (google pics) and it works perfectly well if you want to add pics here and I post a heck of a lot of pics.
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2022-03-15 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
I can understand wanting to be careful with some pics!

DW is still a work in progress in some ways.
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[personal profile] kazzy_cee 2022-03-15 09:19 am (UTC)(link)
I've just tried using the link from Google photos and it doesn't work for me..... :(
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2022-03-15 10:06 am (UTC)(link)
I use google pics.

Have you tried just doing a straight cut'n'paste from google into your post? It limits the size you can use, but it's a reasonably sensible size.
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[personal profile] kazzy_cee 2022-03-15 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks - I’ll give that a try.
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[personal profile] kazzy_cee 2022-03-15 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
I’m just copying and pasting my Lj entries but I didn’t think about the link to the photos (doh!).
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[personal profile] kazzy_cee 2022-03-15 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
I've just been looking and experimenting with how to add images. OMG it's clunky! It won't let me use the other two places I've backed up images (Google and Amazon) as they won't work even using a sharing link!

It's so frustrating!

ACK!!
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[personal profile] desdemonaspace 2022-03-15 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for posting this. I'm trying to do more, so I can live with myself.
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[personal profile] desdemonaspace 2022-03-15 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree - money helps most.
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[personal profile] cairistiona 2022-03-15 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for the links to the Ukrainian business and their blanket project. I've got a local charity in mind to donate to (money helps them best, as they then can partner with corporations and get bulk rates etc), but I've been wanting to find an actual Ukrainian business or charity that is legitimate (much harder to verify charities in other countries from here in the US; here, our charities are all rated by Charity Navigator, who examines balance sheets and accounting and giving etc to make sure it's not some con man sitting on a pile of money).

For pics here on DW, I think I had the best luck using Flickr, although I also tried copy/paste from Google. Neither are ideal, and it doesn't get around the privacy issues, but it does at least work, after a fashion. DW needs to rise above their 'only for uncensored fic' past and realize that a lot of people do more than just post fics here nowadays. That said, I'm still very grateful DW exists and is eager to help out with LJers who drift this way due to *waves at everything*.