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KOSA dropping duty of care is great but this article buries a very important lede:

A bill package will be introduced once the govt reopens that is a collection of multiple bad "child safety" bills, COPPA 2.0, the Sammy Act, and the App Store Accountability Act [age verification]

CALL YOUR REPS

These Bay Area Restaurants Are Offering Free Food to SNAP Recipients Amid a government shutdown that will cut off aid for 42 million Americans, local food scene folks plan to pick up the slack.

While the feds continue to play stupid games, SNAP recipients are set to lose food aid for the next month. In the Bay Area, a growing number of restaurants are stepping up to help, and we're maintaining the list. Share with anyone who needs it. www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...

With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

not sure if it’s obvious by now but i’ve got orders to monitor ICE activity and, as usual, i’d appreciate any help bsky has to offer. if you gotta tip, my signal account is in my bio.

i’m very mechanical. i can track things. data. paperwork. but i could always use help w/ people.

Hi folks, this is again a plea for help. There still is no cleared donor. People working through the system but again-if you're at all interested in trying to help, it takes months to get cleared as a donor. There's a lot of delays/appointments.
So please consider and spread it around, thank you.

Remember that the predominant form of age verification for porn sites — the new mandates passed in nearly every red state in the past few years — is a facial scan coupled with government ID.

a meme template with the following prompts: What scares your character (real)? What scares your character (in movies/fiction)? Imagine they trick-or-treated as a kid. What would have been their best/favourite costume? A blank triangle to place your character in. whose corners are labelled "TLC PRESENTS GHOST DADS WITH INFRARED CAMERAS", "SCOOBY DOO", and "DAVID LYNCH PRESENTS THE GHOST IS A METAPHOR"

DMs! Make your players fill out this "fun" meme template I designed! Definitely don't use any of the answers for nefarious purposes! It's hallO/Ceen! Fun!

Players and anyone else with O/Cs, go nuts!

layout by @sephiramy.bsky.social

A source familiar w/ internal workings at MasterCard notes the company does not plan to recruit additional call center workers for the Christmas season, as MasterCard does not expect higher call volume than usual. A resurgence of calls re censorship during the busy season would be huge strategically

Relevant to the season but horror AU's are so unpopular for no reason. "I'm going to put him in a situation" ok put him in Silent Hill

Donate to Help Reunite Victor Dominguez-Avilez with Family, organized by Jony Contreras Victor Dominguez-Avilez was on his way to work when an ICE agent unfai… Jony Contreras needs your support for Help Reunite Victor Dominguez-Avilez with Family

On friday afternoon my coworker was abducted by ICE in front of the laugh factory in lakeview. The videos were spread everywhere and he is currently facing deportation in an immigration center in Texas. Please consider donating to help cover the legal fees
FUCK ICE

gofund.me/19e51a8e7

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

LEGALLY YOU SHOULD BE SENDING INVOICES FOR GOODS AND SERVICES. IF YOU TAKE COMMISSIONS ON PAYPAL DO NOT USE FRIENDS AND FAMILY. YOU ARE NOT SAFE, YOUR CLIENT IS NOT SAFE.

THIS IS A FORM OF TAX EVASION.

YOU SHOULD BE USING INVOICES.

weretober day 22. mechanical. featuring Warwick from LoL.

#weretober #warwick #lol #arcane

Illustration of various animals wearing hats

Choose a tiny creature wearing a hat

Screenshot from urbandictionary.com featuring black and blue text on a white background. The text reads: National throw short people day On October 21, you can anybody under 5’6” with no permission needed Prepare to be yeeted for it is national throw short people day By Pug? October 6, 2021

It’s my day

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

Bringing back this thread. These so-called "crime free ordinances" are getting worse. They're the most racist laws you've never heard of, and they're most prevalent in BLUE states. And they're spreading.

Apparently we might have to go to court over this. Please, if you can’t donate, at least share the post. I really don’t want to have to deal with the remaining financial issues from the residence itself *and* legal costs at the same time.

Hi. I'm alive. Been trying to take what time I can to try and recover enough from autistic burnout to not be a person I dislike. 🫠

We made it through about a week with my paycheck, but I'm down to my last 50 and don't get paid this week.

Please help me keep calm. I am medically falling apart.

An extremely underreported point is the interplay between the disappearing middle class in the United States, the stark increase in wealth and income inequality, and the collapse of resources necessary to organize things like a general strike.

Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.

Did a new one

people who earnestly try to argue that blocking certain accounts deprives u of important opposing viewpoints are assuming these certain accounts are posting in good faith
which is a dangerous assumption tbh

It’s been 11 days since I last got a donation to this. I’ve gotten enough where it isn’t a complete emergency anymore and have been able to get more hours at work, but I’d really appreciate knowing that I won’t be scrambling to pay next month’s rent bc I could barely cover this month’s expenses.

The problem with people learning incorrect things from porn is a problem with media literacy rather than a problem with pornography <3

Not having a degree doesn't make you uneducated.

My wife is far smarter than I will ever be. She was the first person in her family to go to college but she couldn't finish through no fault of hers. So she doesn't have a college degree,

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

This is a great time to remind everyone that you should in fact, still be calling MasterCard, Visa, Stripe, and other payment processors to annoy the shit out of them.

Because I'll tell you right now, that shitheel? Not gonna have to worry about them accepting payment.

*Artists will.*