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Breaking: The Supreme Court is now officially considering taking up a case overturning same-sex marriage.

This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.

ICE now has a budget bigger than most militaries around the world and has increased spending on weapons.

It's also engaging in a race to recruit 10,000 new agents who will eventually be out in American streets.

Some will be vetted, but how many unqualified recruits will fall through the cracks?

Food banks were already struggling to keep with demand. Then, Trump slashed $1 billion from crucial USDA programs supporting them.

Now, thanks to his shutdown, millions of Americans in at least 25 states will lose access to food stamps on November 1st.

The perfect storm of cruelty.

Robert Reich What Trump’s Tyranny Is Revealing to America

ICE agents abducting people off the streets. The National Guard unleashed in American cities. The Justice Department weaponized to prosecute political opponents. Threats by Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.

The tyranny is on full display — and it's waking America up.

Massive walkout underway at CDC.

RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.

MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

Writers, keep writing. Do not buy into the hype train telling you your job will be replaced in a few years. Those using AI are literally atrophying their brains ability to be creative. The future will need your words, your creativity, to function well.

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@shudder.com

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

Okay, but comparing making phone calls to doing gacha dailies sounds like a really good way of hitting my age demographic.

Not enough people say Sire or Milord these days

Meet the Philly filmmakers presenting films at this year’s BlackStar Film Festival From a mermaid's tale of self-discovery to a Toni Cade Bambara biography, city filmmakers are telling stories that meet the pulse of the times.

Philly’s BlackStar Film Festival returns July 31-Aug. 3. We reached out to Philly-based filmmakers whose projects will be featured at this year’s fest ⤵️ (1/3)

The Real Demon Inside ChatGPT AI chatbots strip language of its historical and cultural context. Sometimes what looks like a satanic bloodletting ritual may actually be lifted from Warhammer 40,000.

"AI companies used what amounts to the collective history of our species to create software that obscures its very richness and complexity."

www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

Hello! Are you a digital smut peddler! Do you make games, art, comics, books, or other kinds of kink or adult themed material that you sell? I'd like to talk to you!!! Please get at me via any of the contacts in my bio and please boost!

it worked! the guy i talked to said they've received hundreds of complaints since fri. he directed me to their online complaint form, but i took as long as possible and asked a bunch of questions about how to fill out the form to take up time. you definitely don't need a stripe account to do this!

imagine if your average PTA Karen got called a rapist the next time she made angry calls to visa to get some harmless media banned. it would make national news. heads would roll that very week. the double standards are absolutely breathtaking for people assumed to be queer or some kind of pervert

i want to note that the christofascist attack on "porn" isn't actually an attempt to make the internet or the world child safe in any real way. these people abuse the fuck out of children and oppose sex education largely because it makes children able to identify and name that abuse

it's actually so cool that the entire global creative ecosystem is basically held hostage by freak reactionary american companies.

FUCK VICE | G4EVER FUCK VICE - FUCK COLLECTIVE SHOUT FUCK VISA - FUCK MASTERCARD

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We've since added the Vice articles to our site, a literal copy + paste.

Vice wants these articles to burn so badly, but we're not letting them.

Don't fuck with gamers.

I've filed a complaint with both Mastercard and Visa. They really did try to redirect me to anywhere else INCLUDING their slapped together email line. Call them. File your complaint with them on the phone.

They are coming for queer people through payment processors. Queer content, whether adult or not, is hidden and delisted.

Sign the ACLU petition. action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

Call:
Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Global): 1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Canada): 1-800-847-2911

Good question. Both articles are archived

archive.ph/USxe6
archive.ph/x5cGQ

The article was removed and the writer has resigned.

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Call the ACLU, tell them you signed the MasterCard pledge, and talk to them about the urgency around itchio + Steam + Collective Shout!!!

Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there Everyone hated that.

So you know how Steam updates their TOS to restrict "NSFW" content at the request of payment processors like Visa and Mastercard?

The group behind that pressure campaign is coming after Itch.io.

If you are selling books on itch, this concerns you.

www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Maybe we could find out.

Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000

Here’s a short script:
“Hello, my name is _____, and I would like to file a complaint. I find it troubling that Mastercard is blocking content on (the platforms you use) and making it difficult for me to make legal purchases. I am going to stop using Mastercard if this isn’t rescinded and fixed."

@itch.io isn’t driving this, send letters to mastercard and visa

Men with long hair are an endangered species. We gotta start breeding.

It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”