Velvet Mousey

Velvet Mousey

@velvetmousey.bsky.social

Moderate Cafter of Various Types. Fanfic Writer. Lurker. Occasional Video Game Player. 36yo Autistic Anxiety Case.

29 Followers 241 Following 8 Posts Joined Oct 2023
4 days ago
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www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...

Federal Reserve is asking for public comment on potential regulations for the Board of Governors no longer compelling banks to deny services based on reputational risk.

IF YOU'RE IN THE US PLEASE GO COMMENT THAT YOU WANT BANKS TO NO LONGER DENY LEGAL SERVICES

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1 month ago

Might as well call them the Trump files at this point

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1 month ago
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In today’s #404DeepDive, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social gets into Ring’s new feature Search Party which was advertised at the Super Bowl which essentially turns the entire neighborhood into a security dragnet.

Read more: www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

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1 month ago
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Eric Carter Buy books online and find book series such as Eric Carter written by Stephen Blackmoore from PenguinRandomHouse.com

Got hit with a $3000.00 vet bill yesterday. Still looking for work. So, uh, buy my books, maybe?

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/EC2/e...

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1 month ago
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With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

Don't think I've ever seen a company spend this much money to universally make everyone afraid of their product

www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

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2 months ago
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If you saw posts with a link to a discord survey to ask your stan on AI, hold off first and check if its legit site. Some shady phishing sites are appearing.

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1 month ago
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Democrats Successfully Strip All Anti-Trans Riders From Final Appropriations Bills The HHS and Education bills once contained the most sweeping anti-trans provisions in congressional history. Now they contain none.

1. In a major victory, Democrats have managed to get all anti-trans riders stripped from the final appropriations bills.

This includes HHS and Ed, which had the worst provisions in congressional history.

If it passes, it will be a big win for 2026.

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1 month ago

Reupping this from last night.

If you're a library advocate or worker, you should be pissed. You should also be pissed if you're a taxpayer. MILLIONS of dollars have been stolen from you and from public libraries and museums to develop these propaganda trucks.

The administration brags on social.

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2 months ago

We are in fact DESPERATE for winter coats, waterproof gloves, and good boots. We get so many wonderful donations but it is so cold and the numbers of unhoused unsheltered people are going up at the absolute worst time for it, and we run out of coats weekly.

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2 months ago
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DAN KOH: “$30 BILLION for 10,000 more ICE agents… that would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all medical debt. Trump is making it easier to kill people than keep people alive.”

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2 months ago

"During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night.

The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for."

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2 months ago

The woman in this photo was trying to get around ICE vans to go to her doctor's appointment when they dragged her out and arrested her. She's fucking terrified. If you don't have empathy, then you're the toxic asshole.

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2 months ago

Flashbangs burn hotter then lava.

They've caused serious burns, severed hands, and even killed.

*That's* what ICE just tossed into a car full of kids.

Here's our investigation from 2015, by @juliaangwin.com:

www.propublica.org/article/flas...

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2 months ago
r/Minneapolis

If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, that's it for me.
I've spent the last week checking on my neighbors, engaging with my city, my local police, everyone. I've supported my friends and family, made sure they knew they weren't alone in their feelings of hopelessness, powerlessness. I've called and emailed my representatives, demanding answers, demanding action. I've just been overcome with this overwhelming, almost primal need to care for and support my community.

If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, and soldiers take to our streets, then that tears it for me. My son just turned 1yr. I've done my best to be a helper, so that I can still be around to support him and spend time with him.

But if I have to STAND OUTSIDE in the FREEZING COLD and get the SHIT KICKED OUT OF ME by the people who are supposed to be protecting me, if I have to do that to fight for goodness, and righteousness, and justice, then that's what I'm gonna fucking do. I'm going to do it because this is not the future I want for my son.

If you've been out on the streets, and you're tired, and you're hurting, don't worry. Rest when you need to. Because I know my home and I know my neighbors. When you need to rest, two more will replace you. I will be one of them.

This is my home. Minneapolis is not going to quit. Minnesota is not going to quit. And FUCK EVERYONE who tries to come in here and take from us the PRIDE, LOVE, and COMMUNITY we've built.

As long as I can stand, I'm going to plant my two feet between the oppressors and the home I love.

I love you all. L'etoile du Nord.

Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day

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2 months ago
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Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

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2 months ago

the standard you walk past is the standard you accept.

adults are responsible for the types of relationships they have, when those relationships are free from coercion and force.

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2 months ago
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🚨I’ve been warning about Trump using the Insurrection Act since before he was elected. Folks said I was being alarmist. Bet they’re not saying that now.

There’s been a total and dangerous failure of imagination. Except inside and around the White House.

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2 months ago
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2 months ago

Friendly reminder that contrarians are going to be throwing around soft justifications for what just happened. If you reply, do so with documented, sourced facts and remember that the reply is NOT for that person, but for the people passing by the feed.

This post has some documented sources:

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2 months ago

To every out trans person:

You’ve made the world a place where I can finally recognize myself.

Thank you for the visibility that turned a lonely path into a shared journey.

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2 months ago

I just left the Venezuela briefing.

It's worse than you thought.

Oil company executives seem to know more about Trump's secret plan to "run" Venezuela than the American people.

We need public Senate hearings NOW.

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3 months ago
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READ THIS!!

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4 months ago

Ten years ago you didn't hear some new scandal about Nazis every fucking day. This is not normal, and it's not okay.

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4 months ago

This is a big deal for several reasons:
1. Set up for the SCOTUS
2. The ruling is limited per the judge not believing they have power to go beyond the 5 institutions.
3. Jesus Christ, yall, my book might end up back on a shelf or two after being banned.

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6 months ago

Why did everyone suddenly stop acting like Tesla was a bad company you should be ashamed to own or drive all of a sudden? If anything Elon Musk just became way more of an overt nazi than before

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6 months ago
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Green approaches Blue, looking puzzled.
Green: Was there something we were supposed to do today?
Blue: I promised to give my brother a ride home from school.
Green: Hmm.

Still suspicious, Green pulls up this phone.
Green: No, that's not it. Let me check my calendar.

Green looks up to Blue, and the two look at each other.
Green: We forgot our anniversary again.
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6 months ago
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To my sticker making friends who rightly hate AI: One less option to worry about when printing stickers!

Feel free to recommend other printers in the comments that we can all use instead, bonus points for Canadian companies

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6 months ago

‼️Stop Payment Processors enacting censorship, SHARE THESE, I know you can bump those numbers up!

Canada has only 7.5k signatures: ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
UK has only 5k signatures: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Australia (has only 4k signatures): www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

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The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan) Robert Reich

Is your personal data being weaponized against you when you shop?

Are you paying a different price for products than anyone else?

You may be thanks to a shady practice known as "surveillance pricing."

Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) has introduced a bill to ban the practice.

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6 months ago

I just issued an executive order to safeguard vaccine access in Minnesota.

While the Trump Administration attempts to limit Americans’ access to preventative care, Minnesota will continue to be guided by science and the freedom to seek out medical expertise.

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