Short a Bucky

Short a couple thousand bucks. Lives like Oscar the Grouch

[catchymemes]

MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE

[cursesandcrows]

Me for the last 15 years: im a bit burnt out rn but im sure next week will be different

[sacred-portal]

[avantegarda]

I may be an absolute disaster of an adult but when someone younger than me asks for advice I turn into a Wise Professor

[avantegarda]

Youngster: how do you cope with exams/anxiety/time management

Me, who just had a panic attack while eating a bagel at 2 pm:

[girlballs-archive]

maybe if i eat a big fucking bagel I'll feel better

[cilceon]

[ebb-is-learning]

being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. "you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas". studies have proven its making people dumber. "i asked ai to generate this meal plan". its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. "ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign". its spreading misinformation. "meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid". its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. "i was talking with my snapchat ai-" theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. "youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification". my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more "well at least-" "but it does-" "but you can-" im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?

[tomfoolerytotality]

Superman isn't woke. You're just so evil that you see a man doing acts of kindness and you think it's a targeted political agenda

[otakuvampyre]

This but for people this post is talking about. 🤣

[laikaspeaks]

Get peer reviewed, bitch.

[voyage-of-the-porn-spreader]

tgis is so fucking funny to me. they accidentally Rock Lee'd a retired racehorse

[voyage-of-the-porn-spreader]

imagine youre a fat horse and your new neighbour is a personal trainer

[technofeudalism]

“no crew, no help, just pure hustle” cut to this poor woman bawling her eyes out. what the fuck is wrong with people? why is this being framed as a good or impressive feat? this person makes below poverty wages already. Burger King meanwhile takes in $27 billion in global revenue every single year. everyone involved in making this woman endure this should be tortured and force fed chicken fries until their heart gives out. fuck this country.

[sherlocking-out-loud]

for anyone in the UK, needing to access discord and unable or unwilling to provide an ID:

[thalassous]

as someone with experience in the discord console, unfortunately they made it a little trickier than just ctrl + shift + i about four years ago, i believe.

specifically what you're going to want to do is find settings.json in %appdata%/discord or the mac equivalent which is found with finder > go > go to folder. there is a setting there titled "DANGEROUS_ENABLE_DEVTOOLS_ONLY_ENABLE_IF_YOU_KNOW_WHAT_YOURE_DOING": and if it is not, copy and paste "DANGEROUS_ENABLE_DEVTOOLS_ONLY_ENABLE_IF_YOU_KNOW_WHAT_YOURE_DOING": true into the .json and then, only then you can do crtl + shift + i or command + option + i on mac.

best of luck!

[thesplendidsnout]

So. ^THIS^ extra-step guide totally works!

When you've enabled dev tools and opened Discord's console, input THIS code:

Object.values(webpackChunkdiscord_app.push([[Symbol()],{},r=>r.c])).find(x => x?.exports?.default?.__proto__?.getCurrentUser).exports.default.getCurrentUser().ageVerificationStatus = 3;

[oneatlatime]

I love how Avatar perfectly balances "the kids are going to save the world!" with "which is pretty fucked up, actually."

[oneatlatime]

Wisdom in the tags.

[oneatlatime]

Yet more wisdom in the tags!

[atlaculture]

Why the show has great re-watch value.

[trickr-treat]

[paper-mario-wiki]

reposting from bsky, but heres a cheat sheet for how to properly send a message to payment processing companies over the recent highly conservative shift in where youre allowed to legally spend your money

more info here!

[albycnyu]

Full Credit to planetstardream on bsky for providing ALT TEXT and new Stripe HQ info (I just copy-pasted it here with slightly bigger fonts)

Anti Censorship Cheat Sheet

Why? Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Paypal have been censoring free speech and legal business on the internet for too long. Their most recent targets are Steam and Itch.io, but they have also been pressuring websites like Pixiv, Patreon, Fansly, Onlyfans and more for years, applying draconian standards for what kind of adult/pornographic content platforms and their users can host and sell. If we as consumers and creators want to regain ground on this issue, we have to make our voice heard.

How? Bombard them with phone calls. Collective Shout, the organization that lobbied to have Steam and Itch.io change their TOS, did so with only around 1000 phone calls. Visa and MC have backed down from pressuring Onlyfans to remove adult content entirely due to public backlash. Clogging their phone lines for an extended period, over a month at the absolute least, will almost guarantee that these companies will at least have to pay attention to the backlash. This list is not exhaustive, but some contact points for the 4 targets are:

Visa

US/Canada: [phone] US option selection for operator: 1-1-2 or 1-1-3

Mastercard

US: [phone] US option selection for operator: 1-1-2-2-2-1 Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111

Stripe

Headquarters: [phone] THE STRIPE HEADQUARTERS NUMBER NO LONGER WORKS. THE NEW NUMBER IS 877-887-7815 France: [phone] Email: [email protected]

Paypal

US: [phone] Outside US: 1-402-935-2050 Customer Service: [phone]

Try to hit all 4 targets per day. This is only going to have an effect if as many people as possible call every day as long as possible. This is a marathon, not a race. If you can, it is also a good idea to try to spread the word to organizations and groups that can either actively combat these huge companies legally, or can spread news, in a manner supportive of this movement, more effectively than your average person.

Examples of organizations:

ACLU Canadian Civil Liberties Association local legislators/gov representatives

Examples of spreading the news: local newspapers special interest publications videogame streamers

[END OF ALT-TEXT]

Okay hi! I did see an update about Stripe which I'll copy-paste here too.

⚠️ = Priority target for itch.io

Stripe is currently a major priority, as they have the ability to deny itch.io's eligibility to their services according to itch.io's owner.

UPDATE [2025-07-29] : Stripe has responded with the following statement:

Stripe has a policy against commenting on users. Generally speaking, we take action when we conclude that users violate our terms of service. We do not support adult content.

A new number has been added to Stripe. Keep calling.

354 Oyster Point Blvd. South San Francisco, CA 94080 US

[phone] - State you are from California when calling this number

1 [phone] (San Francisco HQ)

[phone] (Customer Support/Complaints)

[phone] (France HQ)

[email protected]

okay... i think that's everything

do what ya can and let your voice(s) be heard everyone!

[albycnyu]

If you're not aware a PHASE 2's been added.

MAILING PHYSICAL LETTERS

Dieselbrain (@dieselbrain.bsky.social)

#SaveSpeech its been a week, and while we cannot let up pressure on making phone calls, we need to start applying pressure elsewhere now as

Get your pens, papers, and stamps ready ! 😆

[steampunkforever]

Furthermore whoever removed the audio jack from phones should be grilled in front of congress. The fact that I need a dongle to listen to music on a modern telephone while 20 years ago I could have simply plugged a universally standardized cord into the audio jack everyone knew how to use is an anti-human move that should be punished.

[political-us]

[ghostseeds]

Inside America’s Quiet Safety Revolution: How Local Leaders Are Cutting Crime Without More Cops

While national rhetoric leans on fear and force, mayors in cities like Chicago, Baltimore, and Birmingham are reducing homicides through dat

[snowfireblues]

I need more news like this

[heystephen]

just a cute little fact but august 1st is also designated as the universal birthday for shelter dogs whose actual birthdays are unknown

[heystephen]

happy dogust and happy birthday to shelter dogs ❤️

[todaysbird]

HAPPY UNIVERSAL DIRTHDAY!

Site where you can click to donate a meal to a shelter dog!

and another, the iconic Freekibble

[gentleman-velvet]

Okay so bad news for everyone on YouTube right now

Starting the 13th, we will have an AI determine if we are children or not and if you are a child, than you are forced to send your ID, send a selfie or a credit card

This has the obvious cons of having your privacy being revoked from you and and in case there is a security breach, major identity thefts.

So what do we do in this scenario?

Well right now I have real idea as this is relativity new to me, but I do have two plans

Plan 1. Bug the shit out of them, send letters and send emails about how much of bad idea this is.

Include why the AI will mess up and target adults who watch cartoons, include privacy issues, censorship issues, anything you can think of that relates to this. I want you guys to bug the hell out of YouTube until they reverse this idea

Plan 2. Blackout.

Since the thing is coming out on the 13th.

The plan will be to completely avoid YouTube at all cost for that day, no watching, no sharing, no uploading, no nothing.

Download videos before things go down, watch Netflix. Whatever you do, don’t touch YouTube.

That’s all I can say right now, I also want you guys to let YouTubers know of this situation cause if it’s important for everyone on the website to talk about this immediately

Spread this stuff around, let people know of YouTube’s upcoming policy and how it’ll hurt everyone