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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.

I can’t emphasize enough right now that the millionaires tax in Massachusetts has allowed public schools to provide free lunch and breakfast for all students. We can take their money and do good things with it!

Sailor Mars shopping-cart surfing with the caption: if you see someone stealing food, no you didn't.

Hey.

Mastercard really said "you complained too much about the porn bans so mommy's taking away your xbox" lmao they're literally 12. Cry harder, babies

This is insane.

The Trump Administration is trying to get in the way of businesses having compassion for their own customers.

The cruelty IS THE POINT.

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.

Alan Moore knows the score

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 🔥

Little Spoon
(retouched some parts)

"grow up" doesn't mean you can't keep enjoying things you liked from your childhood

"grow up" means learning about the world outside yourself and taking responsibility for your place in it

it's not cringe to like HP because it's a kids book

but because adults should know fuckin better by now

If you’re upset about this (as you should be), pick up the phone and call

stop-paypros.neocities.org

It's better

Once again:

“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!

“FUCK AI” is turning into a movement.

After his Frankenstein Q&A at the Chinese Theater, Guillermo del Toro asked the audience to scream “FUCK AI.”

artists we can help combat this: please stop using Friends and Family for commission payments, it's one of the biggest red flags of a scammer to help prevent our commissioners from getting scammed

I'm so bad at asking for help, but being in the hospital for 2 weeks, and being unable to sit up long enough to work on comms has put me in a bind. I don't have enough to pay my home bills as i've had to use all my savings to keep myself afloat. Anything helps.

www.paypal.com/pool/9jFOKOs...

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Happy Halloween/Samhain to those who celebrate! 🎃👻

Trans joy in spite of it all.
Trans joy in spite of it all.
Trans joy in spite of it all.
Trans joy in spite of it all.

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.

Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.

Just. Keep. Reading.

Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship? From late-night host cancellations to removing LGBTQ+ history from government sites, politicians in both parties are contributing to the overwriting of the internet — a place where lots of queer and t...

"Big Tech giants don’t care about keeping kids safe or protecting LGBTQ+ rights to free expression. They care about making money. If given the choice between fighting expensive lawsuits and policing speech the way Trump wants them to, we can anticipate what they’ll do."

Heads up on the new Affinity program.

You can tell them not to use your content to train AI, BUT, there is another AI setting that is on by default until you turn it off.

You need to go to your account settings and switch it off. I just found it switched on by default.

Just for clarity: This is on the Canva site for your Canva account, and this has always been the case with your Canva data (definitely go turn it off!).

The Affinity app is excluded from this setting until you upload a design to Canva, then this setting takes effect.

"Trump is weaponizing the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program to target organizations that don't align with his extreme agenda." Congressional Equality Caucus logo.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness isn't a game piece—it's a tool that countless Americans rely on to make education more affordable, but Trump is changing the rules to target organizations that don't align with his partisan political agenda.

Here comes the new age of piracy and jailbroken phones.

Anti-Trans Congresswoman Nancy Mace Now Pushing Anti-Gay Slogans From The 80s “Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve,” she tweeted on Tuesday, seemingly unprovoked.

Nancy Mace is now pushing anti-gay slogans from the 80s.

“Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve,” she said on twitter, despite having voted for gay marriage twice.

Anti-trans panic always spreads to the rest of the LGBTQ+ community.

The latest from S. Baum.

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