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Vancouver's proposed 2026 budget has been released.

It proposes a property tax freeze, a 10% increase to the Police Services budget, a 6% increase to Fire/Rescue Services, and lots of other cuts, including Arts & Culture, Planning & Sustainability, and much more.

Full report here.

Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Logo Looked Nothing Like a Campaign Logo The bodega-influenced visual language of an outsider campaign.

In particular Aneesh Bhoopathy, from the design coop Forge, who designed the identity. A brilliant reminder to *employ human creatives!*

www.curbed.com/article/zohr...

Get Ready for Harper-Style Public Service Cuts, Says Analyst | The Tyee Budget 2025 proposes cutting 40,000 government jobs.

The federal Liberals’ new budget proposes to cut about 10% of government jobs over the next four years to bring the public service to a “sustainable size” — reneging on its election promises. @isaacphannay.bsky.social reports. #CanPoli

Sorry (Not Sorry) to This Man, Who Died Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

In 2019, Keke Palmer gave us a momentary imagining of an America untouched and unaffected by Dick Cheney.
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Mastercard thinking they don't need extra people to man the phones? Make them regret that decision! Make them regret that the Corpse Party ESRB Tetralogy got scrapped. Ask what stuff you ARE allowed to buy for the holidays. Go through your entire shopping list item by item, store by store

Kill The Music is 40% Off ($5.99) to celebrate a new Major Update!

v1.40 Moshpit Update adds New Songs, New Round Modes and New Items! We’ve also re-balanced the game, addressed major issues and improved performance as well.

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The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies AI is propped up by a global sweat shop operation, where exploited workers polish the software for wealthy corporations in the west.

“…for an AI chatbot to generate an autopsy report, contract workers have to sift through thousands of gruesome crime scene images, a gig known as ‘data labeling.’”

Breaking news: the "AI first" company is relying on the hard work of real human artists at Titmouse to give them high quality animation instead of using Generative AI because "AI first" is a meaningless slogan designed solely to get likes on LinkedIn.

Israel Detains and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls Meanwhile, there’s not a peep from mainstream media in the U.S.

I don’t see many people talking about this, but Christopher Smalls, Amazon labor organizer, was on a freedom flotilla that was captured and is now being physically assaulted in custody. newrepublic.com/post/198550/...

Kill The Music is 30% Off for steam's autumn sale ($6.99)

We've updated and tuned Kill The Music over the last month or so and it's the best it's ever been so far!

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Reading Rainbow Is Back, With Mychal the Librarian Hosting! - Reactor The butterfly is back in the sky; can’t wait to fly twice as high.

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!!

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Green-tinted photo of an attendee playing a VR game at Vancouver Game Garden 2024. Bright pink text reads “0 DAYS TO GO!” and “Vancouver Game Garden”

Vancouver Game Garden 2025 is… starting RIGHT NOW?? 🎮🌻

Join us today & tomorrow from 11AM-5PM at the Roundhouse Community Centre for this free, all-ages event full of indie game demos, a video-game-artist alley, educational talks, and cool prizes like a limited edition t-shirt and stickers! ✨

YouTube video by Keniisu What's REALLY Happening with Internet Censorship Right Now

Hey, trying to explain Online Censorship to people who arent in the nsfw scene or who arent as online as you are, and need some help?

This video is actually a really great primer on the current situation, and why we have to develop an absolutist stance on free speech for EVERYONE's sake.

Queer Liberation Library Queer Liberation Library (QLL) is fighting to build a vibrant, flourishing queer future by connecting LGBTQ+ people with literature, information, and resources that celebrate the unique and empowering...

Want to read ethically by ditching Audible/Amazon, Spotify, &c? 💙📚

1. Your local library needs support & has free physical & audiobooks

2. Queer Liberation Library: free digital library for US LBGTQ folks

3. Libro.fm: Audible but pays indie bookshops

4. Bookshop.org: physical books from indies

drawing of a man laying on bed with an old school phone in hand. he has a speech bubble that says "I'm so confused~ is what i'm buying illegal?" the text on the page says "keep calling and writing until payment processor censorship is reversed. one call a day makes a difference! mastercard and visa's statements aren't good enough. let's keep up the pressure together!"

he hasn't stopped calling~ have you? 🫵

how to call: stop-paypros.neocities.org

info and resources on pay discrimination: cartoonist.coop/censorship-p...

e-6695 (Consumer protection) Keywords Censorship Credit cards Internet Pornography E-petition Initiated by Carmen Tam from Waterloo, Ontario Original language of petition: English Petition details Petition to the House of Commons Whereas: Mastercard, Visa, and other payment platforms have been leveraging their power over consumer ability to purchase legal content; In 2021, Mastercard changed its policies to regulate adult entertainment by preventing the use of its payment platform on numerous adult entertainment sites; As of July 2025, video game distribution service Steam now cites rule 15, that “adult only” content is not permitted on the platform if it goes against payment processor’s policies. Steam does not describe what content is defined as “adult only”; As of July 2025, video game distribution website Itch.io has “deindexed” all adult NSFW content from browse and search pages. Users that previously purchased legitimate video games cannot access games that have been removed; and This has set an unsettling precedent of corporate censorship, causing concern in video game development teams, including developers, voice actors, and artists in other creative fields as their livelihoods are in limbo. We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to 1. Stop financial discrimination by payment platforms against legal goods and services; 2. Ensure transparency to consumers about content restrictions and the rationale behind them; and 3. Protect creators' rights to make legal adult content and ensure a fair appeals process for any penalized media.

The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures.

This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech!

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CYBERSIX PREMIERED ON SEPTEMBER 6, 1999 ON TELETOON IN CANADA!! HAPPY 26TH BIRTHDAY!!!

Black and white photo of Leslie Feinberg at a podium under a banner reading "Fight Transgender Oppression. A Better World's in Birth. Workers World Party"

“Our trans movement is getting stronger because we're fighting. But the progress we've made is fragile. History teaches us that when an economic crisis hits, the process of scapegoating becomes more intense and more violent.”

—Leslie Feinberg, “Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue” (1998)

I know you're tired of hearing it

I am tired of saying it

But please, if you care AT ALL about queer or adult content, make the calls. Keep the pressure up

beautiful

Kill The Music is out now on Steam! (we’ve been spared from a silksong shadowdrop)

Kill The Music is a Rhythm Action Roguelite about defeating hordes of enemies with musical instruments.

Pick it up now for $7.99 USD ($9.99 with a 20% Launch Discount)

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Donate to Help Georgie get a life-changing service dog!, organized by Hannah Templer PLEASE NOTE: if you are a current icoc/icc member please do not attempt t… Hannah Templer needs your support for Help Georgie get a life-changing service dog!

hi!! posting this again, getting so close to my goal! making big progress with my treatment and looking forward to being able to function and navigate the world more easily! any donations are so appreciated, shares too. thank you thank you

Journalist Discovers Google Vulnerability That Allowed People to Disappear Specific Pages From Search Negative articles about a tech CEO vanished from Google after someone made fraudulent requests using the Refresh Outdated Content Tool.

This is extremely bad: Journalist Jack Poulson discovered a vulnerability in Google that was being exploited to get his reporting about a CEO deleted off of the search rankings.

This is a wet dream for reputation management companies, censorious regimes, etc

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Call call call. Visa is literally begging us to stop calling and send emails. Calls cost them way more money and they can't use key words to filter them out

IT'S WORKING, Y'ALL!! Keep the pressure up!!

RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCEMENT: August 21st 2025

Kill The Music is a Rhythm Action Roguelite about defeating hordes of enemies with musical instruments.

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I'm agog that the person in the screenshot decided to take That conclusion instead of the far more accurate and obvious "if a bafta winning artist with 55k followers cant pay their bills with art, what the fuck does that mean for the rest of us in this economy/artist-hostile social climate"