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I do not have resources to cross-check and verify this, but this does seem like somewhat of a lead

x.com/gelbooru/sta...
Lozer T. User on X: "Currently people are contacting Visa and Mastercard, en-masse, in an effort to get them to explain why they are banning legal content from being transacted through their systems. These arbitrary restrictions caused companies, such as Steam, https://t.co/NMV53kcV69, and others to" / X
Currently people are contacting Visa and Mastercard, en-masse, in an effort to get them to explain why they are banning legal content from being transacted through their systems. These arbitrary restrictions caused companies, such as Steam, https://t.co/NMV53kcV69, and others to
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August 6, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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acvalens.com
Analysis from me:

I would not be surprised if this was a reference to changes in U.S. federal policy. Project 2025 revealed a keen investment from Trump admin in the censorship of pornography through controlling institutions responsible for accessing it

Unclear without any further info
August 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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acvalens.com
Spoke with an anon source who had an interesting insight into Visa policy. Per a convo with their bank on the Steam/itchio situation today, Visa put new restrictions into place due to a new "government policy." The exact phrase used by Visa. No specific country was listed as the source of the policy
August 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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mannlicherhund.bsky.social
I'm seeing fewer posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation, and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them and losing them money.

Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.

⬇️
acvalens.com Ana Valens | 🔞 @acvalens.com · Aug 6
Spoke with an anon source who had an interesting insight into Visa policy. Per a convo with their bank on the Steam/itchio situation today, Visa put new restrictions into place due to a new "government policy." The exact phrase used by Visa. No specific country was listed as the source of the policy
August 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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gerarddraws.bsky.social
and people are wondering why artists are so mad àï stole our labor

this is why they want it so bad
our labor has value
upongoblinhill.bsky.social Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · Aug 17
These are spreads for McCall's magazine by Andy Virgil, 1959. Each spread was paying about $1,500 at that time. Today that would be between $9,000-$12,000. The average price of a brand new car in 1959 was $2,200.
August 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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trance.bsky.social
You know what's funny about Chris Pratt

If you saw him on twitter, you had his number years ago. People who are asshats who do social media, show themselves to be asshats over time pretty quickly.

That's a great thing about social media, imo.
August 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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nancylevinestearns.bsky.social
🧵 “Target is experiencing its 6th straight month of declining foot traffic, with store visits down nearly 8% and a $12 billion loss in market value following its rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.”

Heads up, anti-DEI investors

www.blackenterprise.com/target-decli...
FAFO Still In Full Effect At Target As Foot Traffic Continues To Decline For Retail Giant
Since Target decided to eliminate its DEI initiatives, Black people have been standing on business. The corporation continues to decline.
www.blackenterprise.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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anildash.com
However bad you think Facebook’s leadership is, however cynical and venal and opportunistic, they are worse.
jwherrman.bsky.social John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · Aug 19
A little pushback on the "AI researchers are like NBA stars" stuff: Meta, which is driving this narrative, is uniquely toxic. In an industry that contains Elon Musk! nymag.com/intelligence...
It also hasn't helped that Zuckerberg's recent, Altman-esque attempts at Al prophesying are even less convincing from within the industry than from outside it, and to the extent he has tried to articulate a vision - replacing friends with Al, a vaguely defined "superintelligence" that will somehow mainly benefit individuals - it comes across as borrowed and incoherent even by the low standards of CEO AI prognostication. And whatever motives you might ascribe to the leaders of Al firms, the talent they're pursuing tends to be — by a few definitions of the word - somewhat idealistic. If they're worried about Al risk, they're probably more inclined to work for someone like Anthropic's Dario Amodei than Mark Zuckerberg circa 2025. If they're interested in pure research, they're probably going to want to work for people they see as fellow pure researchers - people like Google's Demis Hassabis or a founder like Ilya Sutskever. If they're a bit more accelerationist and spend a lot of time absorbing the sort of Al discourse that's popular on X - or if they're just looking at where concentrations of like-minded talent already exist - they might be more inclined to work at OpenAI. Gruesome as parts of it may be, even XAI has a coherent pitch to a certain sort of "cracked" Al engineer: lots of resources, few guardrails, proximity to Elon Musk, and a corresponding ideological mission. Perhaps most importantly, setting aside various specific motivations and theories of what the Al arms race really is, you won't find a lot of people in the industry who would bet on Meta winning it, at least right now. (Though one could argue that the company's entertainment-centric, slop-and-advertising-adjacent approach to actually monetizing Al so far represents a realistic if disheartening path toward extracting value from LLMs.) That Mark Zuckerberg has a weaker future-of-Al pitch than the MechaHitler guy goes a long way toward explaining his company's outlier offers (recent stories about internal materials allowing "sensual" chats with kids certainly can't help). But elements of Meta's reputation that are less visible outside of the tech industry are playing a major role as well. At Forbes, Rashi Shrivastava and Richard Nieva describe deeper problems, reporting on constant internal restructurings (the fourth in six months is underway, according to the Information), unclear priorities, and bruising demands to work on products that, so far, have been poorly received. While punishing "9-9-6"-style work schedules are becoming more common at AI firms, employees are often motivated by genuine enthusiasm, fear of their companies losing a high-stakes race, and, of course, lots of equity tied to their work's success. Since 2023, Meta's general orientation toward its employees has become much harsher, with layoffs and public warnings from leadership sharply diverging from the company's financial performance. A widely circulated internal memo from a (now former) Al researcher at Meta warned that a "metastatic cancer" was threatening the company's work culture. Last week, in a post meant to push back against "sensationalist" reporting on the memo, he described his intention to draw attention to the "unhealthy" traits of the Al organization and wasn't actually much gentler: • The fear that people feel on a daily basis of reviews and getting fired, commenting on a lack of safeness people felt, which is crucial for morale. • The necessity of a culture and processes that enable 'big projects' to come to fruition. • The management culture not promoting a sense of camaraderie among employees, leading to a lack of sense of belonging. • Instability in team assignments, leading to experience not building up and crystallizing over time.
August 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
living through 2025 and having to wake up, go to work, handle responsibilities etc feels like this
a clip of James Acaster on the Great British Back off saying, "Started making it. Had a breakdown. Bon appetite." as he presents a dish to the judges.
May 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
There are too many things to be mad at, plz, my poor brain
June 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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kortizart.bsky.social
We gotta get back to calling our representatives tomorrow with 5calls.org, for this and everything else that’s happening right now 💀

Because it cleared hurdles, yes, but support for this is shaky (even for some Republicans) and with enough continued outrage we CAN sink this ridiculous proposal!
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jun 22
“The rule, as reportedly rewritten by Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz in an attempt to comply with budgetary rules, would withhold federal broadband funding from states if they try to enforce AI regulations in the next 10 years.”
Moratorium on state AI regulation clears Senate hurdle | TechCrunch
A Republican effort to prevent states from enforcing their own AI regulations cleared a key procedural hurdle on Saturday.
techcrunch.com
June 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
to be clear, Iranian Parliament has voted to allow the Security Council to make the determination, apparently not every country just takes major geopolitical decisions based on one guy's mood swings
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jun 22
UPDATE: Iran has just voted to close the Strait of Hormuz. (Higher prices on everything loading)

nypost.com/2025/06/22/w...
June 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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melthegreat.bsky.social
Have you picked up your copy of Damn Good Story yet?

You can check out an excerpt here: drive.google.com/file/d/1fWPF...

You can pick up your copy here: ko-fi.com/s/4aed3fda2f

Don't be scared to share this post. Thank you.
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June 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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boltsmag.org
Bolts has heard from several Native voting rights groups that have been forced to downsize, as some foundations and donors fear funding democracy work. Says an advocate: “There is a huge effort to attack our democracy and our rights as Native people." boltsmag.org/voting-...
“A Law Without a Way to Enforce It”
In North Dakota as elsewhere, Native groups face a triple threat on voting rights: judges targeting the VRA, Trump officials hostile to enforcing it, and a funding crunch depleting their work.
boltsmag.org
June 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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sifill.bsky.social
And without due process this Georgia-born American citizen spends the rest of his life disappeared in a jail
in Jamaica.

Do you get it yet?
June 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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blackamazon.bsky.social
This is who the Dems are prioritizing over a diverse coalition that agrees on one thing

NOT HIM
erinoverbey.bsky.social Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · Jun 20
holy shit. Cuomo halted an investigation into the Weinstein case after a donation from Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm to his reelection campaign…

guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant
The Cut article from 2018: Cuomo halted investigation into Weinstein case after $25K donation from his former lawyer
June 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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pookleblinky.bsky.social
Oh you asked chatgpt? I asked Mothman and he said yes. We're getting married in August.
June 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
A US federal judge has ordered the release of 20-yr-old US citizen Adrian Martinez who was kidnapped by Trump regime forces.

Miller Law Group: "Adrian did nothing wrong, and was standing up for an elderly janitorial worker when he was violently assaulted and abducted by masked federal agents.” #3E
A smiling young man in a hoodie cradles a fluffy tabby cat against a backdrop of soft curtains and a candle.
June 21, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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golikehellmachine.com
the pope is setting the church up to make catholics pick a side, and good for it, what’s the point of being the pope if you can’t flex political and theological muscle
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Jun 20
Michael Pham fled Vietnam at the age of 13. He was named bishop of San Diego a month ago.

Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away”

timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...
ICE agents scatter as SD Bishop Pham, other clergy visit immigration court
"Our presence made a difference," one priest said, quoting an immigration lawyer saying their client was given more time to prepare for another hearing.
timesofsandiego.com
June 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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mollyknight.bsky.social
Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now.

www.latimes.com/california/s...
A 37-year-old U.S. citizen who was tackled to the ground and arrested after filming federal agents at Home Depot on Thursday said he was held for more than an hour near Dodger Stadium, where agents boasted about how many immigrants they arrested. "How many bodies did you guys grab today?" he said one agent asked. "Oh, we grabbed 31," the other replied. "That was a good day today," the first agent responded. The two high-fived, as Job Garcia sat on the asphalt under the sun, he said. Garcia was released on Friday from a downtown federal detention center. No apparent criminal charges have yet to be filed. He is one of several U.S citizens arrested during enforcement operations in recent days. Department of Homeland Security officias sav some trave ilegaly 11:04 C •ll 5G+ 824) latimes.com "You wanted it, you got it," the man yelled. An agent handcuffed him so hard "that there was no circulation running to my fingers," Garcia said. Pinned down, Garcia had difficulty breathing. "That moment, I thought I could probably die here," he said. The agent put Garcia's phone back in his pocket. The recording kept running. As Garcia was put into a vehicle, his video captured an agent twice saying: "I've got one back here." "You got one what?" Garcia shot back. "You got one what?" He said an agent told him in broken Spanish to "wait here,' though it could not be heard on the video. - 11:04 € • 5G+ 824) latimes.com "I f- speak English, you f- dumbass," he clearly shouts back. No agent asked if he was an American citizen, he said. Nobody asked for identification. "They assumed that I was undocumented," he said later in an interview. The video ends after about four minutes, while he is waiting in the van. CALIFORNIA Raid at a Home Depot in Hollywood shatters an immigrant refuge June 20, 2025 Garcia asked an agent to get his wallet from his car, so he could prove he was a U.S. citizen. Another agent retrieved his ID, but he remained handcuffed. They were so tight, his hands hegan to swell. Garcia asked an agent to get his wallet from his car, so he could prove he was a U.S. citizen. Another agent retrieved his ID, but he remained handcuffed. They were so tight, his hands began to swell. The agents switched him to handcuffs that looked like shoelaces. They took off around a corner, stopped to shuffle him into another van and sped off down the 101 Freeway. "I smeared my blood in their seat," he said. And he thought, "They're going to remember me."
June 21, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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thebeaverton.com
Local man blissfully unaware he’s picked as kill during every game of Fuck, Marry, Kill
Local man blissfully unaware he’s picked as kill during every game of Fuck, Marry, Kill
OSHAWA - The game of Fuck, Marry, Kill is a popular social activity where players are presented with three romantic options and must sort them into the titular categories as they see fit. Unfortunatel...
www.thebeaverton.com
February 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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romeverafter.bsky.social
Hello my darling chaos children. The world is on fire, but let's focus on a little bit fun right here and now. Today begins the #RomComBracket!
February 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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badfantasy.bsky.social
Friends. Trans rights are under attack.

I've started fundraisers to help two great organisations do the best work they can:

The Transgender Law Center (USA)
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Gendered Intelligence (UK)
localgiving.org/fundraising/...

Donations go directly to the charities.
February 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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ezralevin.bsky.social
UPDATE: 8 Dems voted today to confirm yet another Trump nominee during Musk's coup: Bennett (CO), Gallego (AZ), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Hickenlooper (CO), King (ME), Lujan (NM), Shaheen (NH). If you're a constituent, don't just call - write an op-ed, protest their office, make clear you care.
ezralevin.bsky.social Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · Feb 3
The Senate takes 3 votes this afternoon:
1) Go into executive session to consider Russell Vought to be OMB Director
2) Cloture vote for Pam Bondi for Attorney General
3) Confirmation of Christopher Wright for Energy Sec

These should be 3 easy NO votes for Dems. Watch yours and provide that input.
February 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
Now this is the stuff
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Feb 4
New York lawmakers are considering a change to the state's special elections law that would keep Rep. Elise Stefanik's House seat open for months, a move backed by Hakeem Jeffries as a way to deny Republicans’ already bare-bones House majority of a crucial vote.
Jeffries Works With N.Y. Democrats to Weaken G.O.P. Control of the House
New York lawmakers may give Gov. Kathy Hochul more time to schedule special elections, a move backed by the House Democratic leader that could keep a key seat vacant for months.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM