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Powerful and excellent 💪🏼✨ Congratulations on a successful vanquishing of The Laundry!

Very happy to have decided on a purpose for this sketchbook I was gifted (?) years ago: just absolutely fill it with no-sketch weird lookin’ dragons.

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Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.

I'll say it once and I'll say it again. If you think artists are just "naturally talented", you're deeply wrong. The only difference between you and us is that we kept trying when it didn't come out like we hoped.
You can always make art yourself. There's no bad time to start, you can start now.

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

Just a reminder that this is still very much accurate and relevant. Even when the EHRC publish the Code of Practice, which does not change the actual law.

A Google alert announces Chappell Roan concert tickets, but the image is of Weird Al

You sure about this, Google?

Really good find

Which is to say, okay, yeah, they definitely are doing something. Because “would do an unnecessary task immediately for benefit of future self” is not a typical standard of Socket executive function lmao.

I always feel like ‘oh, I can’t really tell if my ADHD meds are doing much’, and then I’ll make hot chocolate and think: gosh, if I had a container, I could pre-mix the cocoa and the demerara and the coffee creamer, and have hot chocolate ready to go. If I had a container I’d do that Right Now.

CPTSD can do a real number on our ability to express some of the most important things about ourselves. One of the biggest frustrations of many survivors is carrying entire worlds around inside us-- but running into walls when we try to put the most basic words to our experience.

you can just make art. right now. you can. you can do it on your phone, on a piece of paper. you can make someone a piece of free art if they inspire you. if you enjoy their characters. if they enrich your life. you write them a note with a drawing on it. you don't need artfight, money, zines.

Nintendo released a survey asking for feedback on physical and digital games.

This is definitely the chance to make your voice heard about Switch 2 Game Key Cards.

Source: theWellRedMage

Survey: nintendoofamerica.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

two bunny girls kissing and soaking in each others sweat

I like drawing queers as bunnies for so many reasons. I feel like bunnies have this implied innocence, so when you draw them being queer or fucking rawly or playing in each others blood its like. This is innocent because its true and sincere. Guilty of nothing but living and loving.

since we seem to be doing "young men" & "crisis of masculinity" Discourse™ again, here's a 🧵 on this topic from earlier this year:

The person we pretend to be to please or appease others isn't going to recover from CPTSD by virtue of being able to present well.

We only recover from our authenticity. Which requires us to cease waging war on who we are & who we've been.

a tall painting on canvas against a white background. painting depicts a rainbow against a blue sky with low hanging white clouds at the bottom. a tall star rises from the center

a tall painting on canvas against a white background. painting depicts a rainbow against a dark blue sky filled with stars with low hanging pink clouds at the bottom. a tall star rises from the center

rainbows🌈🌈

Visa employees clearly told to deescalate ASAP
MasterCard employees more than familiar with the issue
Stripe feeling the pressure
ACLU put out a statement
CBC covered all this

What you are doing is WORKING
You are getting RESULTS
KEEP CALLING
KEEP WRITING
WE ARE GOING TO WIN!!

Newgrounds' approach to verifying age is interesting and transparent.

make them take your hormones from your still living and feral fingers. you deserve to feel like a normal person.

start HRT.

Oh my god the PayPal call was SO FUNNY. The guy on the phone was like "We don't allow processing payments for explicit material." So I hit him with "So if I were to go and purchase a copy of Game of Thrones online, my payment would be blocked?" I think it clicked for him then.

screenshotting to agree not dunk since her quotes are disabled but; if you're making payment processor calls and you hit this, I think bringing up Game Of Thrones is such a huge brain strategy to throw at a layperson. GoT was HUGE and has all the shit Collective Shout weaponized to start this.

….however very weird thing about being awake rn is i can easily hear the church bell compared to daytime and it’s reliably chiming 6 minutes late. Odd.

“Hi,” says my unconscious mind, “I don’t think you spent enough time feeling scared and ineffectual to help those around you lately. I’m going to fix that!”

Yes, brain, I *definitely* wanted to wake up at >3AM from a nightmare about witnessing sudden and senseless violence occur to people close to me, but not me. What the fuck did you do that for.

Hi, I'm a Stripe customer. I'm calling because I've been seeing a lot of news about you denying service to storefronts that sell adult content and enforcing this crazy list of things that works can't even contain and it's like, stuff that's in Game of Thrones. That seems really over the line to me, because all of this stuff is totally legal to make fiction about. If this is something you're going to enforce a lot of people are going to look for alternatives, and I expect I'll be one of them. I recommend you change your policies before you start losing a lot of business, including mine. I can't support any business that enforces censorship like this.

hey have a script for leaving a message for Stripe.
the number i used Minutes ago so i know it works:

877-887-7815

you will not have to talk to a real person, this number leaves a message. i recommend switching up the exact wording so you don't just leave the same message as me.

I once read a comment saying something like "if you choose not to laugh at farts, your life will contain less laughter but still the same amount of farts". I think about that a lot.

Lehrer's performance is sampled in the track "Dope Peddler" by U.S. rapper 2 Chainz on his 2012 album Based on a T.R.U. Story, (2) In 2013, Lehrer said he was "very proud" to have his 60-year-old song sampled. His response to the request to use the song was "As sole copyright owner of 'The Old Dope Peddler', I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?" [21

Just realized I haven’t seen anyone post the Tom Lehrer-2 Chainz letter yet today.

i do not share the author's barely disguised fetish but i will defend to the death their right to publish it

So, obviously the whole Itchio / Visa / Mastercard thing is very bad, and I see a lot of calling campaigns kicking off, so I tried to put together a list of things that can move the needle at a call center. Do with this info what you will.

itchio putting out a list of prohibited material is unrelated to the impact our calls have. that's the list they were always going to have to put up. keep calling until the processors are made to give up enforcement of that list. do not stop calling.