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A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

If you’re in the US and you’re able to, please go vote. Even if your slate is just local elections. Change has to begin locally.

A Final Fantasy 14 screenshot showing an Au Ra dark knight wielding a great sword while dressed in white mage artifact armor.

A Final Fantasy 14 screenshot showing a Hrothgar pictomancer wielding a paintbrush while wearing paladin artifact armor.

A Final Fantasy 14 screenshot showing an Elezen dragoon wielding a lance while wearing fisher attire.

Fashion enjoyers, this one is for you!

From Patch 7.4 onward, you'll be able to equip any glamours regardless of your class/job! ✨

Mix and match your favorite outfits and slay on the battlefield! 💅

if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Amazon just turned every single Ring camera into a potential ICE camera for sending your neighbors to concentration camps.

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

Are you a PNW voter who usually returns your ballot via U.S. Mail? Switch to a drop box to ensure it counts this year! Do not return your ballot through the United States Postal Service -- there's a real risk it won't receive a timely postmark.

Are you a PNW voter who usually returns your ballot via U.S. Mail? Switch to a drop box to ensure it counts this year!

Do not return your ballot through the United States Postal Service -- there's a real risk it won't receive a timely postmark.

Happy Michael Festival

If people don’t communicate their needs, issues, or triggers and hide things from you only to unleash them like a deluge that’s toxic as hell. You deserve people around you that will have those hard conversations, communicate clearly, and foster actual community. True friends grow together.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

It's shocking how many of our problems would evaporate if we just treated each other with kindness.

Trans rights are human rights.

I recently had the “Where are you from originally?” It was as comfortable as it could have been. 🙃

the trans pride flag

Here is some non-satire for you:

Trans rights forever.

that one image of the person with blue eyes with superimposed text reading "it is vitally important that you be a pervert. i am not kidding. you need to be horny. don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise. they are your enemy. kill them"

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

I don't care about the Cracker Barrel logo. I don't care about Sydney Sweeney's jeans. I don't care what a Labubu is. I just want you to have healthcare, food, and a safe place to sleep at night.

i will defend you in private and never even tell you about it, because i handled it.

If you do not support trans rights unconditionally, I am not your friend.

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Leela from futurama looks at a candy heart that says You matter even if you aren't making money

You always have and always will.

yandere-angela i think it's important to acknowledge that the reason why mastercard/visa has such a stranglehold on american society is because cash is not the main form of payment in the usa. the predominance of card has effectively privatized currency in japan, one of the reasons why dlsite and other similar websites are able to just remove visa as a payment option instead of changing any of their merchandise (aside from the fact that visa doesn't have a monopoly here) is because cash payments for online transactions remain an option. even if you don't have a jcb credit card or paypay or whatever, you can still pay for your online purchases using cash by taking your barcode to a convenience store, and you can do this for essentially every online vendor, meaning credit card companies can't just impose their moral judgments on your purchases with much repercussion butch-snorlax How does that barcode system work? I've never heard of something like that. yandere-angela 1. you add whatever porn games or movies or books you want to your cart and go to checkout 2. you select cash payment at conbini as your payment method 3. youre emailed a barcode that you take to the conbini 4. you show it to the cashier, they scan it, and you pay what you owe. note that the cashier does not see what youre buying and the transaction is complete

Japan is in no way perfect, it has many flaws, but this sort of thing is fucking phenomenal and I so desperately wish we had an approximate of it becuase fuck man it sucks that so much of our lives get dictated by corporate morality

Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy. Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.

This itch.io NSFW policy change is unfortunately nothing new, the problem isn't the platforms themselves but rather Visa/MC strong-arming these services into revising their NSFW policies.
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Folks! The ban against states regulating AI is DEAD! It’s was voted 99-1!

This victory belongs to us all! Unfettered GenAi is an issue for us all, and groups from all walks of life came together to demand we regulate! Your calls and action made the difference! So thank you everyone! We did this!

Because it's getting skipped over:

Muslims don't look the same, don't believe the same, don't share the same clothes, the same race, the same skin, the same foods, the same rules, the same culture, or the same language. We just share the Quran.

Only way to know who is a Muslim is to ask.

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if you/someone you know is threatened by anti-LGBT legislation in your state, Hebrew Free Loan Society has interest-free loans up to $10k to cover moving costs to a safer state (MN law qualifies it as a "Transgender Refuge State" for instance). you don't have to be Jewish hfls.org/move-to-thri...