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Stock of Spotify over last month showing sharp decline, from near $700 in value to $615.

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!

Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.

We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

LET'S GET LOUD! 🗣️

On Starbucks's busiest sales day of the year, workers are holding rallies in 16 cities. And we need YOU there!

When customers and community members speak out, the company listens. Let's stand together against corporate greed and union-busting!

RSVP: bit.ly/redcuprallies

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#zelink #zelda #リンゼル #TheLegendOfZelda #totk #botw

It's still spooky season in my heart. 😌

Iris and Lillium from Countdown to Countdown. Lillium is in a grey suit, seated for a portrait. Iris is in the midst of tying his apron to prepare for painting. It also, of course, looks very homoerotic.

A private portrait

#ocs #ctccomic

I work two jobs. My wife just lost hers. We could use help. 🧡

Reposting because, and I say this with love, some of you are going to see this and go “oh shit, I need to check my bottle” and then immediately forget about it so if this could affect you, go check right now before you even scroll to the next post, I mean it.

If we go on strike, our union of 12,000 workers are calling on customers to NOT BUY STARBUCKS.

Sign our pledge to not cross a picket line and we'll send you local calls to action - nocontractnocoffee.org

to doom is to die. the right feeds on this. live defiantly in their faces. stand on your beliefs. carry your struggle without shame and people will see themselves. stay true to your beliefs and show people a better world

Travel pillow and bag labels (like to put your name and contact info on your bags)

it’s like they’ve invented a new kind of night time. it is one million o’clock pm.

if you're able to vote, you should—not just for yourself, but for every person that isn't able to vote because this country makes it so immensely difficult for too many to practice their rights.

some voting rights orgs:

blackvotersmatterfund.org
asianamericanadvocacyfund.org
www.fairfight.com

Cyborg mascots attack BIG BOSS ROBO!! NO ART WITHOUT WORKERS!! (Note: Jessi added this alternative description for the March newsletter for a bit more clarity: A red, black, and white illustration of the Cartoonist Cooperative's mascots, Inkling (an inkwell) and Nibford (a dip pen), smashing a cyborg boss character. Text above and below reads, "No art without workers!")

The Cartoonist Co-op is no longer affiliated with Affinity due to their recent integration of AI tools.

You can read the Co-op's official statement on AI here: cartoonist.coop/journal/ai/

Art by Cy McQuinn (@cymechdraws.bsky.social)

Funny story: my bank recently sent out an emergency notification letter, which stated they were sending me a new debit card, because they had changed vendors. The old card was a MasterCard. The new one arrived - it’s Discover.

Looks like even banks are noping out of MasterCard’s madness.

Tell Mastercard and Visa about this. When you call tell them you're going to petition your bank to switch. Doesn't matter how much you think they would. It happened.

We Have Enough Dead Friends By Lena Oleanderson Come over. The doors are open, my flat's a mess and so is my heart but the doors are always open. Come over. I will make soup, probably from frozen but the important thing is we will both eat. You don't have to be dying, but if you are, or you feel like you are, or if living's been hard, call me, and I will show up. It doesn't have to be that bad, it doesn't have to be bad at all, but if it is, please call. Do you want me to do the groceries? Do you want me to mop the floors? Do you need to be held; you don't have to be dying to be held. If you want me to be there, I want to. I'm on the bathroom floor again, and breathing is hard, and eating's been hard, and sleeping, the world is a laden thing rolling around on my chest lately. Just being alive is heavy tonight, but we have enough dead friends. Come over.

I don't think I've come across a poem that taps into my ethos when it comes to navigating queer community within the context of a hostile world as much as "We Have Enough Dead Friends" by Lena Oleanderson.

I strive to make my home a sanctuary where other faggots feel safe and cared for.

The goal of being a third place is making it hard for people who have it as their second place (work) to make ends meet at their first place: home.

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

Here is a compiled Google Sheet list I put together of over 100 regional food banks, their area of focus, and a link to their respective website.

Use it for donations. Use it for resource reference.

He needs a nap ✨⭐️
#Zelda #Nintendo #Art

Very important factor to this

Once again:

This is a really vulnerable time for paypro call centers. It's already been reported that Mastercard is stressed by our persistence

I know we're all busy around this time too but let's fire the engines 🔥

Joseph Scrimshaw tweet from 2022: "Daylight Saving Time is increasingly hard to notice when my digital devices are like, 'What? Nothing happened. We know what time it is.' And my stove is left blinking and screaming, 'IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!' "

Ah, it's that time again...

hi, i am affected by snap/ebt being delayed. can i please have some help i rely on that to feed myself and sometimes it still isnt enough. i dont know what im supposed to do going forwards in regards to paying for my groceries if it doesnt come back in time

people needing all sex in smut to be Perfectly Safe And Clean and Negotiated and Realistic, i s2g imagine reading a fantasy book where the author goes "by the way, don't worry, dragons aren't real" in the middle of the book like bitch i'm not here because i think dragons are real

Open enrollment is coming up! If your employer is changing health insurance companies, make sure that you call your doctor to confirm they are in-network with your new insurance provider. Your doctor CANNOT quote expected cost, but they CAN tell you if they are in or out of network

getting kind of scared about social safety nets being replaced by like… everyone voluntarily fund your neighbor’s wellbeing out of your own paycheck

this country needs a rebrand of the idea of taxes. taxes can be good. distribution of resources is good. in the same way that your $1 donation to a food bank equals much more purchasing power than you have at the grocery store, economies of scale allow so much more to happen than doing it all alone

what if our taxes funded something other than war? what if we felt good about handing over 30% of our paychecks, knowing we and our communities will be taken care of? lol!