Ana decided to call out payment processors and their unilateral response was attempting to fuck up her life and that should be bigger news than it is as of now

This is killing me this week realizing the only reason I was able to hang onto my previous character hyperfixation so long was lucking out wrt discord, and failing to do that since means I never finish shit anymore from lack of motivation. This is the reason why fandoms die w/out new content now

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It is looking increasingly likely that Ana - probably the person most involved in organizing protests against payment processor censorship recently - is getting hit by retaliation by those organizations.

All I can say is I attended a Democratic Party event in DALLAS, TEXAS 10 days ago with officials and candidates and the biggest cheers were for Mamdani and the most questions/most frequent topic of conversation was Epstein. We should not overthink this.

A good reminder that danmei might be really cool in the surface, but it's absolute hell for the authors.

The irony here is painful. Alice Wong wrote a column for Vogue called Disability Visibility. You can still find all her writing for Vogue under her author name. But *Disability Visibility* - also the name of the advocacy group she launched - has been erased. Exactly how disabled people often are.

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"

Oh my god

Apparently Oswalt has been banned for this. Not debating the virtues of this policy right now - just noting that Bluesky admins seem to be establishing a hard policy of banning people for death threats, whether folks think of those posts as jokes or not. Just important to be aware of as you post.

While workers in 40+ cities began their ULP strike today, union baristas are also holding Red Cup Rallies in 17 cities! Here's a glimpse from Pittsburgh, where Starbucks customers are demanding the company stop union-busting and finalize fair contracts! #NoContractNoCoffee

HEY BTW this is why I hate the argument "minimum wage shouldn't be a living wage b/c it's fun money for teens" DID U KNOW there are teens who work b/c they actually need $$$?? Maybe if min wage were more than $7.25/hr this poor kid wouldn't have felt pressured to have sex with MATT FUCKING GAETZ

i feel like one thing that we should be making abundantly clear from now on is that the majority of anti-trans consent manufacturers are goddamn pedophiles. are you going to believe what a bunch of pedophiles say about us? what does that say about you?

we gotta get like three VPNs deep with signal chats set to a disappearing turnaround of minutes to be able to use adult words instead of "unalive" or "grape" meanwhile our political elite are apparently just emailing each other plaintext "up for sex crimes tonight ?"

[P] I rotated this a touch so that the top of the shield lines up with the green line. Look how misaligned the "D" and final "R" in DEPARTMENT OF WAR are. The Getty watermark obscures it, but the "U" and final "A" of UNITED STATES OF AMERICA are off, too. Some Design 101-level shit.

I refuse to believe this was not intentional as a marketing decision. You probably cannot legally call it that but the choice of making a cube naturally created viral marketing

Seriously thoughthis is a horrible time for Autism Sense of Justice. Like if you handed me these files and put me in the room with this man 10 yrs ago I would feel morally obligated to do everything in my power to make sure he never left it. And people with actual power just ignored it.

Maybe it's my Autism Brain or whatever, but I don't really get why anyone who had access to this stuff wouldn't have splashed these horrific revelations literally everywhere the second you knew about them. Take these fuckers down.

I honestly had this hit me with the thing with Gaiman because it's the only way being able to compartmentalize that shit while making tumblr posts about feminism and shit. You need to cut it out as an entitlement. "I am a rock star that deserves groupies" and if they don't come naturally, take them.

⚠️ this has happened to an alarming amount of people I know. remember that when you open a random .blend file there's the risk that it'll execute unwanted code. more details on how to prevent it/mitigate the damage in the quoted thread, as well as in this post: www.reddit.com/r/blender/co...

I occasionally get recommend posts from Maine subreddits because I'm from New England and it's wild to specifically see what seems to be astroturfing of "this is all a smear by the DNC who is threatened by him" while the DNC could very easily get away with condemning him publically rn but haven't.

Seems like a good day to promote this charity that buys and forgives medical debt in the United States. unduemedicaldebt.org

A big reason proc gen feels so different to AI in spite of superficial similarities is exactly this!! Proc Gen systems reflect the interests and creative preferences of the tool makers, whereas AI is catch-all sludge that reflects no specific point of view. It’s not remotely the same!

ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web" bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first

#SaveSpeech KOSA is continuing to pick up co-sponsors. You need to call your representatives and demand they oppose this bill! Use the links below to find your representatives and hammer their phone lines! 5calls.org/issue/kids-o... www.congress.gov/members/find...

I can’t believe people are still making this argument in a world where Harris lost and the highest profile democrat victory is a democratic socialist. The phrase “purity test” set America back 75 years. They need you to be ashamed of having values. bsky.app/profile/supe...

Look how not afraid of their voters they are

Let’s be clear: this is class warfare. Tens of thousands of working-class Americans are going to die because of this “deal.” Real people. Real deaths. For another tax break for the rich. Those who voted for it — Republicans and Democrats — are on the side the 1%, fighting against the rest of us.

A couple of folks have asked about this, so my Portland Frog Exodus 8 design is now available on shirts! For now they're only available by pre-order. They'll ship in approximately 4-5 weeks. willburrows.art/shop

If you understand this image without someone explaining it to you, remember to take your ibuprofen before bed.

Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot. Vote in your local elections! www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...

I don't know what alternate reality you inhabit , but the party *was* united, united around stopping a catastrophic increase in ACA premiums leading to 5+ million uninsured, and a death spiral in the ACA market, and collapse of the service and delivery system.

Useless

Hemp is defined as <0.3% delta-9 THC in dry weight. The minibus adds a ban on “any intermediate hemp-derived cannabinoid products which are marketed or sold as a final product or directly to an end consumer for personal or household use,” and sets a limit of 0.4 mg THC per container.

I just realized that since they opened the government and the dems want to hurt us on purpose and know they just fucked their own electablity, will probably double down on KOSA as the final nail in the coffin that will force us to stop being mean through surveillance

This is so offensive I don’t even know where to start. “Vote blue no matter who and also shut the fuck up when those people betray you.” Nope. We will primary every senator who doesn’t call for Schumer to step down in the next 24 hours. You work for us.

"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org

It's called "bluffing," and it's a lost art after social media has programmed people to broadcast their every thought.

This is gonna happen way more but to be clear the human doctors already do this and I wish people pushed back sooner. Like this is the specific reason I was declared too disabled to work in 2015. This is the standard malpractice, they have just automated it to further dodge culpability.

What is the argument for voting for Democrats for harm reduction if the harm is not fucking reduced

ERISA won't save you. The ACA market entering a death spiral will cause massive failures in the health care delivery system. Even more hospitals will close. Rural clinics will go under. Entire practices will be sold to venture capital.

I think tonight shows why “moderate to win elections” is a real risk the big divide in the Dem caucus, as many have noted, has been less moderate vs progressive than fight versus don’t fight but it’s not a coincidence that basically everyone in the “don’t fight” camp is a moderate

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

Caving for nothing means that Democrats are the ones responsible for the shutdown because they could have taken this shit deal weeks ago.

👇 THIS has totally backfired. I'm not sure which Senator did what now, but it makes me want to see the entire Dem caucus primary'd. I don't trust a single damned one of them

Truly amazing that any time the democrats have to bite the bullet and do something that ruins countless lives, there's always *just* enough votes to get it done, but if there is a vote on something that would actually improve people's lives, they are always one vote short. Crazy how that happens.

Senator's office not accepting voicemails? Fax them. Seriously. You do not need to have a fax machine. Hit Schumer up, now.