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Corey. He/they. 30s. You are responsible for the energy you bring to this place. Header image by Jocelin Carmes. Icon image by my cat being a baby. Back to blocking blank blogs until the latest bot wave ceases.

[vampirejuno]

Hands down my favorite interaction between them. Never fails to take me out

[badndngirl]

just write a shitty poem, what do you have to lose

[badndngirl]

To everyone reblogging this and saying something like “my dignity,” may I submit this very good and accurate tweet

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Workers from Starbucks Workers United put their bodies on the line Nov. 19, shutting down Starbucks' distribution center in York, PA, the largest in the US.

Stand in solidarity with these working-class heroes, DON'T BUY STARBUCKS ANYWHERE UNTIL THEY WIN THEIR STRIKE!

Via Eric Blanc

[sharas-bae]

The union is asking customers not to shop at Starbucks while the strike is ongoing. (Not all strikes include a boycott component, always important to check!)

You can also sign the pledge to this effect (numbers are helpful) or donate to the union strike fund.

[vampirecatprince]

This is from earlier this week FYI- so it's a ongoing, active strike.

[depsidase]

[stormwaterwitch]

Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits

Reblog this on the first of the month for good luck all month long!

[dumbbbunnnyy-deactivated2021021]

[girlballs]

i hope everything gets easier for trans women

[lepusrufus]

I think we as a society don't hate ads enough. We can always hate them more you know.

[digitaldiscipline]

[carys-the-ninth]

"Was this book good or was I deeply 19 when I read it:" an investigative journalism series

[not-your-lawyer]

“Was this book bad or was I simply lacking enough life experience to appreciate the narrative when I read it” : an award-winning followup

[mudwerks]

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.

well…darn

[flippyspoon]

like to charge reblog to cast financial ruin of the AI industry 🔮

[stjohnstarling]

Visa and Mastercard may be getting a lot of calls about their adult content policies, but I just called in to PayPal and not only was there no wait, the customer service rep I got had never had one of these calls before (they were very nice about it.)

Don't overlook the online processors - even more than Visa and Mastercard they are the ones pressuring online retailers. PayPal is the one that's been pressuring Patreon over the last year or so.

I've had no luck reaching Stripe, all of the numbers people have dug up ring through as disconnected.

[stjohnstarling]

CONTACT PAYPAL:

(US): [phone] (outside US): 1-402-935-2050 Customer Service: [phone]

CONTACT STRIPE:

(Headquarters): [phone] (France): [phone] Stripe: [email protected]

Let me know if anyone can find more up to date info for Stripe!

[jasperygrace]

I called Stripe yesterday with this number:

(US) 877-887-7815

It goes direct to a voicemail box, and the message encourages you to reach out via email, but you're able to leave a message and they may call you back, as that's what happened to me.

They're also getting a high call volume, so if your call doesn't connect the first time, try again later.

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. martha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1989. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[nyancrimew]

with the protests in LA today and the violent federal and local pushback from police: we (me and my editor ryan fae) are accepting leaks, insider data, and public + leak archives relevant to ICE/DHS, LAPD, LASD, and anyone else that could shift the power of knowledge to the people if it were published.

in my words:

for now it's just minor archival data and some older data, but YOU can make a change to that.

we have three bits up already. the below article will be updated constantly. contact info at the bottom of the article. we promise anonymity and general source protection.

#FckICE 2025 - cumulative leaks and data

let the games begin

[datsderbunnyblog]

I love the dynamic in the Discworld fandom on this site, I think it's mainly because there are a lot of dormant fans, if you will, who've read and loved the books for years but haven't engaged much recently, who sort of reappear whenever a fun post is doing the rounds. It's fantastic. We get the cozy small fandom vibe without the screaming matches, but also get the popular posts from time to time, y'know?

[datsderbunnyblog]

YEP. In fact for some people it’s Emotions Day right now.

[datsderbunnyblog]

To everyone tagging and commenting with some variation of “Oh, I almost forgot that it’s tomorrow!”

“Damn! Damn! Damn! Every year he forgot. Well, no. He never forgot. He just put the memories away like old silverware that you didn’t want to tarnish. And every year they came back, sharp and sparkling, and stabbed him in the heart. And today, of all days...”

That’s so very meta of you.

[datsderbunnyblog]

IT'S EMOTIONS DAY TOMORROW

[datsderbunnyblog]

#oh I need to read enough discworld to understand what emotions day is

For anyone who's confused today, I won't spoil/explain what the 25th of May is in the Discworld fandom, because I think a big part of what's special about it is the way the plot unfolds in the book.

What I will explain though is that it'll make sense when you reach a book called Night Watch, which is the 29th book in the overall series and the 6th book in the City Watch subseries. If you haven't got that far yet, just take your time and enjoy the series! If you want to start with the City Watch stories then the first book you should check out is Guards! Guards!

And have fun!

[datsderbunnyblog]

It's that time of year where this post appears again like Reg Shoe digging his way out of his own grave

[nervebynerve]

“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get our work done. I think one purpose of art is to get us out of those routines. When we hear music or poetry or stories, the world opens up again. We’re drawn in — or out — and the windows of our perception are cleansed, as William Blake said. The same thing can happen when we’re around young children or adults who have unlearned those habits of shutting the world out.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin 

[datarep]

“Big Beautiful Bill” Effect on Income Groups

by CognitiveFeedback/reddit

[afloweroutofstone]

A great bill for the rich! Everyone else, get fucked

[afloweroutofstone]

Some colleagues and I wrote an article explaining what's wrong with congress' massive reconciliation bill being debated right now, from three different perspectives: 1) economic justice, 2) anti-militarism, and 3) immigrant rights.

We also created an action form that makes it easy for you to send your members of congress an email asking them to reject the bill.

What you need to know about the budget reconciliation bill

Economic inequality and military spending are at historic highs. Nevertheless, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a budget reconciliation proposal that would take money away from low-income people and working families and redistribute it to wealthy oligarchs and weapons companies.    This unconscionable bill would fund tax breaks for the rich, military weaponry, and detention centers. We must demand that Congress reject this proposal, along with any other bill that places greed, exclusion, and militarism above our rights to healthy food, clean water, health care, education, affordable housing, and good jobs for all.  ...Where will the money for these new benefits for the wealthy come from? Congress plans to make enormous cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and other critical programs that are relied upon by people all over the country. One estimate suggests that this bill will take $1,000 a year away from the poorest people in the U.S. while giving a shocking $390,000 to the richest 0.1%. 

Tell your member of congress to reject the reconciliation bill!