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My thoughts wrt the past few days.

This wouldn't just ban federal funds from directly funding gender-affirming care, it would be an effective ban on ANY facility that receives ANY federal funding for ANY reason from providing gender-affirming care.

It's a de-facto ban.

Call your congressmen.

Petition EN7799 - Stop VISA and MASTERCARD from dictating access to Legal Content. Petition Status The petition is currently open for signatures OPEN CLOSED 一雪一〇 PRESENTED RESPONDED Petition Reason VISA and MASTERCARD control the payment processor market, in a monopoly, that is not regulated in the least. These companies openly dictate access to services, sales, or operations, of legal items, or legal businesses, based on their own political views. Credit Card Processors should only be there to process legal transactions, and not dictate what someone spends their money on. VISA and MASTERCARD are so big and control a market that can be equated to a utility. There are no alternatives widely available in the market, despite these companies acting as a key part of all payment infrastructure. just like water companies or electricity providers are regulated to prevent them from stopping service based on arbitrary views, VISA and MASTERCARD should be held to the same standard.

Australians, spread this petition far and wide. Demands Parliament “open anti-trust investigations and penalize the unregulated monopoly of a key part of everyday infrastructure,” as “payment processors are not there to regulate what legal content people consume.”

www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

apropos of nothing, here's the link to that particular listing:
palmettostatearmory.com/psa-ar-15-bl...

#ArmTransWomen

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And because someone struck me with this idea, here is Cinq Association Knight of Despair, now with that shoulder cape thing from the Southern Cinq.
#knight_of_despair
#project_moon
#lobotomy_corporation

The extra shots that couldn’t fit in the last post.

When the manager stands your blessed employee right next to a dying Crimson Ordeal at low health:

Posting the art that kicked off my formation in this headspace. Here is the Knight of Despair, modeled in low-poly.
#project_moon
#knight_of_despair
#lobotomy_corporation

So TIL there’s two people in this head, counting myself.

Shampoo asking Akane is she wants to make out while Akane nods enthusiastically.

A quick meme redraw with Shamkane. Because they're an under-loved Ranma ship.

ShamKane truly is hella underrated.

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Specially women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, etc.

Always doing it's best to hide their contributions to the games we love....

relooted is being made by a team of developers from numerous african countries, but only its white south african creative director was able to demo it to summer game fest attendees. this was most certainly not always the plan

Our communities are on edge right now. Please do not depend on influencers and pundits for updates about what’s happening in this city. Do not add to the panic. These are important things to remember:

I'm tired of having to coddle harry potter fans

if you have spent money on harry potter in the last five years, your money has contributed to the deaths of real trans people & the defense of their killers

that is a fact, don't celebrate a harry potter video game during pride month for fuck's sake

Mainstream media ignore Trump’s planned Office of Remigration, a term for ethnic cleansing Mainstream media outlets almost entirely ignored news that the Trump administration is reportedly reorganizing the State Department to include a new “Office of Remigration.” “Remigration” is a term lo...

Pathetic: ABC’s GMA, World News Tonight, This Week, CBS’ Mornings, Evening News, Face the Nation, NBC’s Today, Nightly News, Meet the Press, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal all failed to cover Trump's new office for ethnic cleansing.

Screenshot of the same person's account of coming back to work post 9/11 with no interruption because the HR workers were all killed in the attacks

One of the most insane 9/11 stories to me -- this woman got laid off the day before, missed the attacks, then came back to work because the HR department all died

This just happened to my friend’s partner. There’s so much blame going around among the bereaved who lost him but the truth is he was priced out of surviving asthma.

Trump DOJ eliminates funding from Baltimore violence interruption efforts April in Baltimore ended with a historically low number of homicides. Five people were murdered that month, the fewest in any recorded month in the city’s history, ending a decade where the city…

Trump DOJ eliminates funding from Baltimore violence interruption efforts
baltimorebeat.com/trump-doj-el...

BANGING THAT "GET OFF SUBSTACK" DRUM AGAIN TODAY

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For everyone in NC, Thom Tillis is one of the most vulnerable senators in the GOP. Call now to make him listen to the constituents he claims to represent.
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Today in "I can't believe we have to call our reps about this:"

The Senate votes tomorrow on a crypto bill that would ENABLE Trump to keep accepting bribes from billionaires, corporations, and foreign govts.

We can block it if every Dem holds firm. Call now: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

since a bunch of people are going to get angry at the idea that reaching out to a 'friend' who is actively aiding and abetting in your marginalization isn't actually effective, I've decided the best option is to lean into it and make them even more upsetti spaghetti with one simple trick

the other part of why LLM tech is so enraging to a lot of people is that the tech press is bafflingly credulous about how it actually works, neither the boosters nor the critics actually care to understand what this technology does and doesn't do, what it can do and what it never will do