This is DEFCON 1 priority, y'all. Call your senators, reps, call your friends and tell them to call their senators and reps about this. Call your grandma and tell her to call her senators and reps about this. What we have here will be *gone* if these bills pass.

I think we all knew this was eventually going to come up regarding VPNs but it still burns my biscuits that the solution politicians have landed on is just "remove privacy for everyone" www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Big Oil is "wildly desperate to dodge the growing array of lawsuits over the damage caused by their decades-long scheme to deceive the public about climate change," writes @aaronregunberg.bsky.social. The fossil fuel industry is again urging the Supreme Court to help them escape accountability.

An easy way to explain luddites: Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand. And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before. That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.

They’re describing it as a “shock and awe” campaign, which is why it’s essential to show them there’s huge opposition NOW. Call / email your reps to let them know you oppose censorship bills like KOSA and the SCREEN. Read up and get involved in the @fightforthefuture.org Week of Action.

Our feature artist/tutorial today is this great page on FORESHORTENING ARMS AND HANDS, by the talented @miyuliart! Always keep in mind that the MID POINT of an object ALWAYS SHIFTS BACK when foreshortened - meaning we see FAR MORE of the volumes CLOSEST to us! #anime #manga

firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now (copy paste-able in the alt text)

This started the same time I got a new phone that didn't have a headphone jack, so I found my old MP3 player and have been listening to tunes on that while I'm out instead. And I kid you not, my phone time has nearly been halved. It's amazing. Stop using Spotify, and stop using your phone for music

when Michael Phelps was dominating US swimming there was endless coverage of all his genetic advantages. His wingspan, the way his body processed lactic acid, on and on and on. Nobody, not one person, floated the idea of kicking him out of the sport for genetic advantages

it’s kind of insane it came out that the president might be one of the most notable pedophiles in modern history and he’s just still the president

Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children. Committee hearings begin tomorrow.

A fellow furry has been kidnapped by ICE thugs. Ardwoof's family are fighting to get her released. Please help in any way you can. Share, repost, donate! Free Johanna! @opalmutt.bsky.social www.gofundme.com/f/help-johan...

this is going to be a fucking shitshow, lmao

*not shopping at Target intensifies*

3/ In every country we reported, Trump's health budgets have been a crisis of LGBTQ *employment*. HIV is a slow-acting virus & while "the cuts" have caused death, overwhelmingly, the biggest and fastest form of harm has been Black & brown LGBTQ people losing work theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...

One of my former mentees is a tribal member and the most recent things we talked about over e-mail is that ICE is detaining Indigenous people but it goes vastly underreported.

Shopping small is meaningful!

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma. #WorldAIDSDay

Disabled people were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis. They coined the term “useless eaters”. They tested the gas chambers on us. They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives. That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous. We’re not expendable

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

Today and tomorrow need as many calls as you can muster! Keep calling visa and mastercard!

Normal and great 🫩 > Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private. www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

FREELANCER TIP: THE 25% RULE! The MOMENT payment hits your bank account, calculate 25% of the value of the invoice and then transfer that amount immediately to a savings account and DO NOT TOUCH IT. THAT'S FOR TAXES. Then pay yourself the remaining 75%. Account for this when determining rates!!!

NEW: Over 50,000 people attempted to block the founding convention for the new youth org of the far-right AfD party on Nov. 29 in Gießen, Germany. Wide-ranging actions-including 19 blockades around the small city-prevented a majority of participants from attending. Police violently beat blockaders.

They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing. This is who MAGA is now.

Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from. tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this. 🧵⬇️

I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.

square is giving away the $59 chip reader for free as long as you log in to your account to order it 👁️👄👁️

The right is full of grown-ass adults who are afraid of vaccines, kid's books, and anyone Twitter or OAN tells them to fear, including the entirety of NYC, and NYC is full of people who cheerfully chase federal agents out of the state and then do stunts on Citibikes; you tell ME who's going to win.

Vinay Prasad of the FDA claims that he has proof that 10 children died from COVID19 vaccines, so the FDA will now target flu shots, look at whether people should receive multiple vaccines at the same time, and make the vaccine approval process significantly more difficult.

I suspect I'll get crap for this, but I do think it's something we all need to be reminded of, especially fans and creators of things.

If you’re in Tennessee’s 7th district, vote for Aftyn Behn- it’s a much tighter race than expected(in a good way). Tennessee going for a progressive is a huge deal, and ofc would be a major blow to republicans.

Federal immigration enforcement officials called off a planned raid on Canal Street today shortly before it was slated to begin. New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.

ICE convoy retreats from Manhattan's Chinatown after hundreds of New Yorkers confront them.

ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join. NYPD arriving with barricades.

New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

YOU CAN WATCH SNOWBEAR FOR FREE ON YOUTUBE. I REPEAT. YOU CAN WATCH SNOW BEAR, A HAND DRAWN FRAME BY FRAME SOLO ANIMATION PROJECT BY AARON BLAISE, WHO DIRECTED FILMS LIKE BROTHER BEAR, FOR FREE ON YOUTUBE.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith: “In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’” open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

I feel like it is very hard to function on a daily basis if you think too hard about how many things in the US are completely falling apart and/or actively being destroyed right now, which is one upside to being recently laid off

The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.

With the help of Pillowfort users, we're at 84% of the way to our funding goal for November! Help support a NSFW-friendly independent platform and help keep Pillowfort running: pillowfort.social/donations

The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.

I keep seeing people trying to play down the payment processor situation, saying it's only the extreme NSFW accounts getting sacked. Well. One of the cutest SFW furry artist got banned from PayPal. What more proof do y'all need that we need to keep fighting the good fight? Also go support Nakufin.