There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.

This is a *very* long thread (Leaflet might be useful for this kind of thing, actually) but a worthwhile read

today on “things i should probably muse about elsewhere”: if we collectively want to move away from hypercentralized web platforms, microtransactions, invasive data collection, etc., there will need to be a cultural shift around contributing to and paying for the platforms we use

Reminder since some people are misunderstanding, this is not about the books themselves being demonetized to the AUTHORS or being banned from sale, they're demonetized from the AFFILIATE PROGRAM where a website gets a cut when they link products on Amazon.

tl;dr it looks like Amazon is demonetizing erotica (not just queer erotica, even cishet ones like 50 Shades, but F/F ones seem to be especially targeted even if not erotica) from their *affiliate program*, which is not a great sign. iheartsapphfic.com/2026/02/17/h...

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everyone should continue to repost and reshare their own art forever actually. your art doesn't have a lifespan of relevance and if anyone tells you otherwise they have the ability to curate their own timeline and are just being rude on purpose at that point

[Your 23yo mutual]: I stayed up till 5am, I've had 3 energy drinks today, I've ran 5 miles, I am unkillable [Your 36yo mutual]: You know what. Heating pads are really nice, even when your body isn't in agony. It's just a very comforting feeling as you sit there doing your tasks.

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

DHS is demanding tech platforms identify people behind accounts that document ICE or criticize the government. EFF and ACLU are calling on the platforms to resist complying while court challenges play out.

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This is extremely true. I also had the accommodation of note takers in some classes, and it was a very win/win situation. A lot of disability accommodations used to provide some jobs to undergrads, and now have been bundled up and pushed to disabled students, or faculty members.

The U.S.A Embassy gave a security alert of the probable collapse Cuba will suffer very soon, we're already suffering massive power outages and everyone is really on edge and scared. I would appreciate if y'all could share my art, I will open emergency comms once I finish the ones on waitlist :(

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I like to think the Heavyweight fighters look out for their juniors a lot, especially early in their careers when they're still figuring out how to set boundaries in their newfound fame #ffxiv #arcadion

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Animators, i want to remind you that like 10 or 15 years ago there was a wage-fixing conspiracy involving 3 major studios, and they were found guilty in court and had to pay affected employees, but our rates never recovered. We have to make them pay all of us more than the minimum, when it pops.

They keep changing tactics but keep kidnapping my neighbors. Every time they claim they’re drawing down things get a little worse.

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This. Fuck, this so often

Yesterday, someone made a Dungeons & Dragons analogy for vaccines in our (Facebook) comments. I don't play or understand D&D, so I asked our Preparedness Coordinator to explain. I still don’t understand it, but he said this analogy will be understood by people who do! Anyway, please get vaccinated.

It is not a coincidence that the Minnesota occupation is “ending” right before the Senate is due to vote on funding for ICE. The fascists want you to think it’s all over and to disengage, but I hope the strategy backfire as a whole country thinks, “Are they coming here next?”

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I've said this before, but it makes me insane that in an age of human civilization when the ultra-rich have hoarded over half of all wealth, the go-to visual shorthand for depictions of gluttony is still "fat"

BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote. The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.

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JUUUST TO CLARIFY: when i say "black modders/creators" here, i very explicitly mean modders/creators who are black IRL. i do not mean non-black modders who make black mods and/or mod a black character ingame. the feedback i need is feedback rooted in lived experience.

hi! i have been chipping away at making a black modding compendium, similar to my transmasc one. (images below have the non-tldr) TLDR: im looking for black modders/creators who would be willing to offer feedback on what i currently have + this is a task i want to pay you for taking the time to do!

I remember the whole reason the US government insisted on banning, and then taking over, tiktok was because it collected so much data that could end up in the hands of the Chinese Government. And how scared we should be of that possibility.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

While cancelling Nitro is all well and good, just a reminder that age verification itself won't go away as a whole unless KOSA, the SCREEN Act, and tons more are buried and done with. Please contact your reps if you don't want this to spread to other platforms.

Hey y'all. A South African dev released a blackity black game during BHM and it's currently getting the usual suspects in the reviews. Imma grab this up myself anyway, but can we all be some chums and help push the racists out of the reviews? 🙂

So AI is - A zero-profit money sinkhole - Slowing down workers who have to keep fixing its hallucinations - Filling the internet with lies and deception - Fighting creativity - Ruining the customer tech market - Killing open source software - Destroying education But for some reason we "need" it?

Pearl-clutching lefties better catch up really quick because they are using consensual adult erotic labor as a stand in for a moral panic whose energy needs to be directed at the rapists and human traffickers who are sitting in public office. Sex workers need rights & free ALL trafficked people.

It feels both amusing and disturbingly prescient that in the word processor I was using, "purient" kept getting autocorrected to "priest"

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hello this is the official petition to bring back mass market paperbacks!! mmpbs are good actually and everyone should do them!! i think esp romantasy readers would really love that shit! and you can still spray those edges!!! bring back mass market paperbacks thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

This. Sex positivity also means recognizing boundaries. Too many people have this idea in their head that being open about sexuality means you can just say and do whatever.

tapping this post like a sign aggressively I won't stand for my boundaries being disrespected by literally anyone and if someone doesn't like it, they're free to leave I am tired of my OCs being sexualized just for existing and being a certain body type

Look, I’m a kink-positive person, but y’all have got to stop leaving sexually charged comments on entirely SFW pieces. I don’t need to know that your “pants got tighter” or you want to cuddle “and then some.” I’m not a mindless receptacle for the horny comments of complete strangers. Knock it off.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

So all the “oh I couldn’t understand a word of the halftime show!” idjits now know what it’s like to be deaf at a event w no interpreters. I wonder if this will change their mind about disability inclusion? (All signs point to NO) youtube.com/shorts/K4ytd...

You don’t have to be in the streets to resist. Writers, artists, disabled folks—we’ve always fought with words, memory, and care. This is resistance too. #CreativeResistance #DisabledVoices #ArtIsPolitical

In the wake of a massive confirmation that the tech industry’s run by deranged pedophiles, not a single tech platform should have the balls to start demanding ID and enacting invasive policies. Yet they continue. They’re the ones being outed as dangerous and we’re the ones being regulated.

Today my therapist told me to take the day off from trying to do things (i.e. self-teach and work) and just relax. The temptation to go Do Things is still there, but the 'relaxing' thing is helping. ...only a little, though.