Eli they/them
@maryshelleywasr.bsky.social
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I think it needs to be pointed out as well that Visa is clearly losing money off these calls clogging their systems and still thought it was worth the money to re-train their employees/contractors. They're not scared enough to drop the issue altogether, people need to keep calling and snail-mailing.
Visa is now actively shutting down calls regarding their censorship and prohibition of the sale of legal product.
They clearly retrained their staff on how to deal with our calls. That doesn't happen unless there's critical mass.
KEEP IT UP. They are trying to turf the calls as fast as they can.
They clearly retrained their staff on how to deal with our calls. That doesn't happen unless there's critical mass.
KEEP IT UP. They are trying to turf the calls as fast as they can.
August 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I think it needs to be pointed out as well that Visa is clearly losing money off these calls clogging their systems and still thought it was worth the money to re-train their employees/contractors. They're not scared enough to drop the issue altogether, people need to keep calling and snail-mailing.
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I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity.
"What service is Microsoft providing?"
Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.
"What service is Microsoft providing?"
Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.
August 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity.
"What service is Microsoft providing?"
Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.
"What service is Microsoft providing?"
Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.
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As I said in this article, ultimately it is readers who will be the deciding factor.
Shouting online DOES NOT MATTER. What matters is DO YOU READ THE MANGA? DO YOU BUY IT?
If you read it on the app, you are voting for more. And more you shall receive.
www.thepopverse.com/comics-manga...
Shouting online DOES NOT MATTER. What matters is DO YOU READ THE MANGA? DO YOU BUY IT?
If you read it on the app, you are voting for more. And more you shall receive.
www.thepopverse.com/comics-manga...
August 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
As I said in this article, ultimately it is readers who will be the deciding factor.
Shouting online DOES NOT MATTER. What matters is DO YOU READ THE MANGA? DO YOU BUY IT?
If you read it on the app, you are voting for more. And more you shall receive.
www.thepopverse.com/comics-manga...
Shouting online DOES NOT MATTER. What matters is DO YOU READ THE MANGA? DO YOU BUY IT?
If you read it on the app, you are voting for more. And more you shall receive.
www.thepopverse.com/comics-manga...
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"Once you’ve built the system to block kids from YouTube, you’ve built the system to block anyone from anything. And that system will be irresistible to future governments with different ideas about what content people need to be 'protected' from."
— @mmasnick.bsky.social in @techdirt.com
— @mmasnick.bsky.social in @techdirt.com
Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube
Last fall, heavily influenced by Jonathan Haidt’s extremely problematic book, Australia announced that it was banning social media for everyone under the age of 16. This was already a horrifically …
www.techdirt.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"Once you’ve built the system to block kids from YouTube, you’ve built the system to block anyone from anything. And that system will be irresistible to future governments with different ideas about what content people need to be 'protected' from."
— @mmasnick.bsky.social in @techdirt.com
— @mmasnick.bsky.social in @techdirt.com
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Sex workers' rights and feminism have always intertwined, even if certain feminists don't want to acknowledge it.
Records exist in archives that document women being detained and examined for sitting at a restaurant alone; for changing jobs; for being with a man; for walking down a street in a way a male official found suspicious; and, often, for no reason at all.
August 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Sex workers' rights and feminism have always intertwined, even if certain feminists don't want to acknowledge it.
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Ofcom says that if you refuse to censor yourself under the Online Safety Act, it will force payment processors and ISPs to stop doing business with you.
When the government can't shut you up, the banks and credit cards will.
Absolutely terrifying.
www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...
When the government can't shut you up, the banks and credit cards will.
Absolutely terrifying.
www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...
August 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Ofcom says that if you refuse to censor yourself under the Online Safety Act, it will force payment processors and ISPs to stop doing business with you.
When the government can't shut you up, the banks and credit cards will.
Absolutely terrifying.
www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...
When the government can't shut you up, the banks and credit cards will.
Absolutely terrifying.
www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...
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he hasn't stopped calling~ have you? 🫵
how to call: stop-paypros.neocities.org
info and resources on pay discrimination: cartoonist.coop/censorship-p...
how to call: stop-paypros.neocities.org
info and resources on pay discrimination: cartoonist.coop/censorship-p...
August 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
he hasn't stopped calling~ have you? 🫵
how to call: stop-paypros.neocities.org
info and resources on pay discrimination: cartoonist.coop/censorship-p...
how to call: stop-paypros.neocities.org
info and resources on pay discrimination: cartoonist.coop/censorship-p...
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This is neat: there's a website that archives public meeting summaries and *pays* people to go to the meetings to take notes and upload them. (I think you have to do a training first. They pay $20/hour.)
minneapolis.documenters.org
minneapolis.documenters.org
Documenters.org: Making Local Government More Accountable
All the info you need on public meetings in your town, in one easy-to-search place. Get TRAINED and PAID to hold your local government accountable. Powered by City Bureau.
minneapolis.documenters.org
August 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
This is neat: there's a website that archives public meeting summaries and *pays* people to go to the meetings to take notes and upload them. (I think you have to do a training first. They pay $20/hour.)
minneapolis.documenters.org
minneapolis.documenters.org
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Can't wait for the day when all of the browsers and every other service that added "Al" to their product have to dig that shit back out of their code because the bubble burst and they lost a huge amount of their userbase when they thought their "Spongle the Al sloth" chatbot was a good idea.
July 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Can't wait for the day when all of the browsers and every other service that added "Al" to their product have to dig that shit back out of their code because the bubble burst and they lost a huge amount of their userbase when they thought their "Spongle the Al sloth" chatbot was a good idea.
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While we [NYC PLAN] understand their gratitude, barely avoiding budget cuts is insufficient – our libraries need increased, sustained funding. Please read our statement about what continues to be needed for our NYC public libraries. nycplan.org/nyc-plan-res...
NYC PLAN response to Library Funding in the FY’26 Budget
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for…
nycplan.org
July 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
While we [NYC PLAN] understand their gratitude, barely avoiding budget cuts is insufficient – our libraries need increased, sustained funding. Please read our statement about what continues to be needed for our NYC public libraries. nycplan.org/nyc-plan-res...
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Burnt-out animators, low wages, excruciating deadlines, and toxic working conditions. How is Animator Supporters continuing to push to make a better workplace in anime production?
Fighting for a Better Anime Industry - An Interview with Animator Supporters' Jun Sugawara and Genga-chan
www.animenewsnetwork.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Burnt-out animators, low wages, excruciating deadlines, and toxic working conditions. How is Animator Supporters continuing to push to make a better workplace in anime production?
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What they aren’t showing on Fox News
June 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
What they aren’t showing on Fox News
Nothing like being sick and having trouble taking my cough medicine to remind me why I don't do shots.
June 1, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Nothing like being sick and having trouble taking my cough medicine to remind me why I don't do shots.
Fucked up and evil that coughing doesn't give you abs 😭
May 31, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Fucked up and evil that coughing doesn't give you abs 😭
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Your daily reminder that the U.S. Postal SERVICE is a service that is designed to benefit taxpayers and not a business that should be expected to turn a profit.
NEW: The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $3.3 billion in this fiscal year’s second quarter mainly due to “significant challenges out of our control,” including workers’ compensation costs, Luke Grossmann, USPS chief financial officer, said at the open session of the governing board meeting
May 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Your daily reminder that the U.S. Postal SERVICE is a service that is designed to benefit taxpayers and not a business that should be expected to turn a profit.
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one thing about Abolish ICE in this moment is people can see how it’s not going to happen through Congress, but through people’s own ongoing actions, whether that’s legal remedies to free people from detention, coming together to monitor ICE arrests and activity—delegitimizing ICE day in and day out
May 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
one thing about Abolish ICE in this moment is people can see how it’s not going to happen through Congress, but through people’s own ongoing actions, whether that’s legal remedies to free people from detention, coming together to monitor ICE arrests and activity—delegitimizing ICE day in and day out
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The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"
May 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"
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We now have a dedicated series page for everything U.S. vs China: www.npr.org/series/g-s1-... It helps our audience keep track of the twists and turns in one of the world's most consequential diplomatic relations.
U.S. vs. China: Inside a great power rivalry
Are the world's two largest economies headed toward decoupling?
www.npr.org
May 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
We now have a dedicated series page for everything U.S. vs China: www.npr.org/series/g-s1-... It helps our audience keep track of the twists and turns in one of the world's most consequential diplomatic relations.
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Holy shit this is amazing
May 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Holy shit this is amazing
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Sounds CVH has been listening to organizers. This is a major achievement.
For 66 days the Netanyahu government has blocked ALL food and aid from going into Gaza. Now we're told it plans to seize and reoccupy huge parts of Gaza, as it pushes for Trump's plan to force 2 million Palestinians to leave.
That would be ethnic cleansing by another name. We can’t stand for it.
That would be ethnic cleansing by another name. We can’t stand for it.
Van Hollen discusses humanitarian disaster in Gaza as Netanyahu government continues blockade
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
May 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Sounds CVH has been listening to organizers. This is a major achievement.
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“The traditional justification for letting government agents freely access people’s luggage isn’t really appropriate for looking at digital data,” EFF’s Sophia Cope told @kqednews.kqed.org. “But the courts haven’t been fully convinced of that argument.”
Traveling Internationally? What to Know About Airport Phone Searches at the US Border | KQED
Amid large-scale denials of visas to international students and the detention of tourists to the U.S., as well as the deportation of U.S. citizens, more immigrants and citizens alike are feeling anxio...
www.kqed.org
May 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
“The traditional justification for letting government agents freely access people’s luggage isn’t really appropriate for looking at digital data,” EFF’s Sophia Cope told @kqednews.kqed.org. “But the courts haven’t been fully convinced of that argument.”
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every day there are new horrors for gender-marginalized people and women--trump going after the equal credit opportunity act, loss of body autonomy, exterminationist anti-trans attacks ramping up--and every single day we have to talk about "male loneliness" and "it's a brutal time to be a young man"
May 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
every day there are new horrors for gender-marginalized people and women--trump going after the equal credit opportunity act, loss of body autonomy, exterminationist anti-trans attacks ramping up--and every single day we have to talk about "male loneliness" and "it's a brutal time to be a young man"
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If you think AI generated art is awful, you should be equally repelled by AI generated fic. Both are terrible, and both steal from human artists and writers. Fic writers are already barely valued, and seeing people use AI for fic is honestly painful 🙃 "just for fun"??? fuck off :)
April 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
If you think AI generated art is awful, you should be equally repelled by AI generated fic. Both are terrible, and both steal from human artists and writers. Fic writers are already barely valued, and seeing people use AI for fic is honestly painful 🙃 "just for fun"??? fuck off :)
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spoke to badru, the indie dev who recently decided to pull a game he considers his "baby" from xbox in solidarity with bds. he told me the team has received such enthusiastic support that they've already made back money lost, and he hopes other indies will follow their lead
!["A lot of developers are on contracts or under situations where this would be a bigger decision for them to make. But now I see some other indies realizing that this is an option, a way to show solidarity with BDS,” he said. “So I do hope to see other indies taking their work off of Xbox. There's so many people like me where being on Xbox is not making or breaking your ability to survive, and it just feels gross."
In the meantime, Badru is just glad to see that people care.
"I know the gaming community has two very different faces, but the side of it that I see the most, especially among indie developers, is very progressive, cares a lot about peace and justice, and does not like to see what's been going on in Palestine,” he said. “People have been really enthusiastically positive about [Tenderfoot Tactics’ removal from the Xbox store]. It's been really nice to see."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreid7zi6wsopwefyztm4wger7p3znqcj6ntb5a3wds7l7y7dtc7zq6y@jpeg)
April 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
spoke to badru, the indie dev who recently decided to pull a game he considers his "baby" from xbox in solidarity with bds. he told me the team has received such enthusiastic support that they've already made back money lost, and he hopes other indies will follow their lead
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Hi I used to work at Starbucks customer service: if you call or email about this, they are absolutely tracking those numbers, and a sufficient amount of public pushback does make them rethink shit sometimes, so now would be an EXCELLENT time to let them know they’re being ableist shitheads
April 24, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Hi I used to work at Starbucks customer service: if you call or email about this, they are absolutely tracking those numbers, and a sufficient amount of public pushback does make them rethink shit sometimes, so now would be an EXCELLENT time to let them know they’re being ableist shitheads