Gonna be honest, it did feel a bit like I had been going crazy, especially since even before any of these revelations, a lot of career transphobes were quite openly pedophilic, Germaine Greer self-described as a pederast "like all women of taste", and yet nobody seemed to see the red flags.
It’s not “losing money” any more than air traffic controllers or public highways or street lights or fire departments are “losing money.” It is a government service. It’s not SUPPOSED to make money. It’s supposed to reliably deliver to anywhere in the US, even the unprofitable places.
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
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an earlier comm for @angerytreecko.bsky.social!
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Listen.
The ban on trans kids’ healthcare is likely DOA in the senate. It probably isn’t going to become law.
That said? You should be furious with these evil motherfuckers.
We owe these terrorized kids a better world.
For their sake, don’t ever fucking let the GOP win “to send a message” again.
Call your senators when you can, folks. It's late for a lot of the US, but the fight's not over.
I had to watch Alabama's ban on gender affirming care for minors go into effect. It impacted multiple people in my life. It is cruel beyond words.
Pick up the phone. Call all of your reps. Don't tell me it won't matter--I call Tommy Tuberville. EVERY FUCKIN' TIME. I won't gift them silence on this.
Some thoughts: When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge. You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be. Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history. You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired. Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.
Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.
Here’s a blurb on what I mean:
1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch.
I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.
#SaveSpeech
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hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.
I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.
There's only too much to really say at this point over what could've been said. It'll be up to deep dives and analysis to make sure that part is remembered
it's fascism, folks.
Incredibly needy
It would've been an excellent capstone, but she ended up not needing g it against perennial scapegoat Vince
To everyone saying that Ashley didn't deserve to win #BigBrother27, I hate to break it to you, but you simply do not understand Big Brother or how to win a social game.
There are three worse winners easily. Evel Dick, Jag, and Josh, and this win shows that the social game is vital
The purpose of these laws is to censor LGBTQ speech and make children less safe and easier for predators to abuse.
Extremely disappointed in Bluesky for this.
I knew you'd find something eventually
remember to respect women, people of color, the LGBTQ+, and marginalized groups out there ‼️
Every elected Democrat is going to say the right thing, but remember that when 2 Democratic state legislatures were assassinated, elected Republicans went on a smear campaign of disinformation blaming Tim Walz and Democrats themselves.
Only 40 days have passed since Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were tragically killed by an unhinged Trump supporter, yet this story has largely faded from national awareness. We must not allow that to happen.
Ladies and gentlemen. THIS deserves your condolences and empathy. Not a whole ass white nationalist who wasn't shy about how much he hated people like me or folks in the lgbtq community.
Think its stupid that VISA and Mastercard think something as innocent as Cat Ear accessories are a bannable offense?
Then heres something you can do about it. Complain to visa and MC, call your representatives.
Advocate for porn, whole heartedly.
I simply cannot stress it enough.
You cannot sit this out.
They are coming for EVERYTHING. No media, no creators are safe under these policies. They want us poor, they want us criminalized, they want us disenfranchised.
Call paypros. Call your reps. Do SOMETHING.
Woke up to quite the update on this. I had been in contact with Payment Cloud about getting their service and they waited until now to hit me with the image below. Again, stringing me along instead of being upfront. They had seen my website multiple times before this.
Oh, hey.
Visa and Mastercard now say you can't pay for WoW. Magic the Gathering. FFXIV. DnD. Lord of the Rings. Because they're all "adult" content against their ToS just for being "fantasy".
Let that sink in.
Spread this like wildfire and have people in those circles call them. No quarter.
Attention fellow AUSTRALIANS! 🇦🇺
We now have an official petition to parliament to STOP MASTERCARD and VISA from its campaign of censorship, restricting what legal products we can buy.
Please sign it now, and if you're not an Aussie, spread the word!
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