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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.

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just sewed on a machine using a zipper foot for the first time and that shit was SUBLIME

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The City of Atlanta Georgia has decided to demolish the research and conservation center of the Amphibian Foundation. This organization works tirelessly to conserve the Frogs, Toads, Salamanders, Newts, and other amphibians in the United States. In addition, they provide key education for herpetologists on the care, conservation, and preservation of reptiles and amphibians.

This emergency need is compounded by the government mass firing of conservation officials and the pulling of funds from many of the country's conservation organizations.

If you can help please donate here:

Key points from the Amphibian Foundation.

Our building will be demolished in 2026, and we need to identify a new location (or locations) for 7 labs and over 1,000 animals, many of which are endangered and part of critical conservation programs.

We've identified a new location for most of AF, but not our research and conservation programs. We have an amazing lead, but it's not confirmed yet.

Our first fundraising project is the AF Emergency Fund as the minimum cost estimates to move this many labs and animals safely is $50,000. (It costs about 50 USD per animal to move them)

If you can't donate.. please share... here.. and everywhere else.

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Hey guys something fucking bad happened

KOSA/the kids online safety act has been reintroduced into legislature after it passed Senate last year and then got snubbed. It is not unlike the bill that just passed in the UK a few weeks ago. If you don't want what happened in the UK to happen here, now would be a good time to vocally oppose it.

Here is a petition that can be signed by Americans. Attached to the petition is an easy tool that allows you to call and leave messages for your representatives. I have already done so. You can also email your representatives by searching for their name, most have message submission boards as well. This thing died once, it can die again.

Please sign/share the petition and contact your representatives.

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It will get cold again eventually. The summer will not last forever. I’m not doomed to live in this unbearable heat for all eternity. <- said while gripping the countertop so hard that the tile is starting to crack

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In our 20 years of working with the Lakota, we have never been this worried about meeting basic food needs on the reservation. Our food pantries are running low and are incapable of meeting the people's needs this summer. Additionally, our diabetic-friendly food pantry just needs food that meets the health needs of people with diabetes and on dialysis. [...] We need your support to continue the food pantries, the buffalo house, the community gardens, our employment programs, the youth center, and our youth programming. —Jeri Baker

Support One Spirit and help the Lakota people shore up food against the federal budget cuts.

If you send me a receipt of donation, I'll doodle for you!

Full transcription of the email below:

In our 20 years of working with the Lakota, we have never been this worried about meeting basic food needs on the reservation. Our food pantries are running low and are incapable of meeting the people's needs this summer. Additionally, our diabetic-friendly food pantry just needs food that meets the health needs of people with diabetes and on dialysis.

Federal budget cuts threaten the nutrition and health needs of the Lakota people, who are already short on both. The programs we started to feed the people, empower them, and ultimately build self-sufficiency are in danger. We need your support to continue the food pantries, the buffalo house, the community gardens, our employment programs, the youth center, and our youth programming. Make no mistake: We will continue as much as possible. This is not only the best way forward for the Lakota, but it is also a symbol of resolve and determination to reach a goal that benefits everyone.

We are asking for your help now. It is with you that we have come so far and been able to support the efforts of the Lakota to become self-sufficient. It is also with you that we will be able to meet these new challenges head on and overcome them.

—Jeri Baker

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anyway, I love adult content. I love erotic art having a space to exist online. I love seeing people making connections over creativity and shared hog cranking. I don’t love everything everyone is cranking their hogs to but it’s also none of my god damn business. fuck the evangelical rise of censorship. fuck ruining people’s livelihoods.

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PSA that having disabled friends or relatives DOES NOT automatically make you a good ally. you’re not given a pass. do better. do your work.

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Yoooooooo

So the government just defunded PBS and NPR which is fucked. That being said, the public can cover the damage if we orginize and donate.

Only about $1.60 of tax dollars per US citizen per year are spent on the public broadcasting budget. NPR and PBS offer beong able to make small monthly donations, some being 7$ per month or lower if you want.

If you want to donate 1.60$ per month to your local station, you can multiply how much funding they get from you by 12. If you do their monthly donation of $7 per month, your donation can equal the tax dollars of 54 people spent on public broadcasting per year.

If you want to donate to your local station, look them up by your town here to make sure your local stations get helped specifically:

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As AI art gets harder to clock, I feel like we are going to need to have a discussion about attribution and it's probably going to bum some people out.

Because the surest way to avoid platforming, reblogging, or encouraging AI art posting is to know where every image you share originated and that's 1) boring, tedious research and 2) extremely limiting in what you feel you can reblog. But if unattributed images never gets traction, people will start attributing their images.

I've been guilty of this in the past, but for a while now it's been my policy that if I can't verify the origin, I don't share the image. That goes for stuff like screen grabs of headlines too -- more than once I've avoided spreading misinformation by saving a post to research before I reblog, then seeing the post refuted before I've been able to verify it.

And I usually try to attribute photos I take -- case in point, the "woman with shrimp" post gets a lot of attention but not one comment about it being AI, despite it being pretty similar to something you'd get from an AI. That's because I clearly state it's in a museum and link to its catalogue page.

I'm not saying this to scold anyone -- I think yelling at the Internet to cite its sources is very much a losing game -- but because I don't see this discussed much. We're such fertile ground to be fooled by AI art because we've grown accustomed to not questioning the origins of any given image. And of course I also want to encourage both OPs to attribute their images and rebloggers to verify unattributed ones.

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One of the best parent responses I've had when a little kid asked about my wheelchair was that the mom just explained to her kid that some people's bodies are different in ways that make it hard or impossible to walk, so they use wheelchairs. She just explained it as another way that everyone is different, without invading my privacy or requiring me to participate in this genuine moment of learning for her kid. Then she just redirected her kids attention to something else, and the moment was over, without making a scene or interrupting my day.

I usually dont mind explaining to little kids when they ask, but it was such a RELIEF to not have to for once. I could just continue on with my trip to the farmers market! I really wish that was more of a standard response

I do often feel for the adults of little children being loudly curious about me and my wheelchair, I can imagine they’re feeling pretty awkward and embarrassed and potentially worried about me having my feeling hurt. But sometimes people’s attempts to make the situation go away are fairly obviously not going to have the desired effect.

If your 2 year old is pointing at me and loudly asking “mummy, what’s that?” in a voice I can hear from across the street, then pretending you didn’t hear their question is only going to make them ask in an increasingly loud voice and point in an increasingly obvious way until absolutely everyone in the vicinity has noticed. 2 year olds don’t tend to get hints in my experience.

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the thing about caring about ableism and fighting for disability rights, is that you can't center it about just your disabilities. i'm not d/Deaf. i still care whether an event has sign interpreters. i don't have photosensitive epilepsy. i still think that strobing lights are 99% of the time totally unnecessary and serve as a needless barrier to photosensitive people. i can transfer to a toilet mostly independently. i still think that public accessible bathrooms should have lifts and adult changing tables in them. you can't stop your disability activism where it stops benefitting you. that's not activism. that's selfishness

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If you like the word “queer” reblog.

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I have been procrastinating on making this post for weeks because putting my art out into the world for people to see is TERRIFYING! But I put too much work into this not to share it!

This sculpture is inspired by the song NOT ENTIRELY ALONE by The Narcissist Cookbook (@narcissistcookbook). Specifically, it is my take on Gift From God, made in my spare time with glitter and clay and (my best approximation of) leftover scraps of dying stars. This is my attempt at depicting the human soul: vibrant, ever-shifting, and shot through with light.

NOT ENTIRELY ALONE was the first TNC song that I heard, and they have rapidly become my favorite musician. Their music brings me hope and inspiration, makes me feel understood and less alone. These are hard times to live in, but I made this sculpture as a reminder that no matter how hard the times, we are never alone.

The backpack opens, and is full of little tiles with lyrics that are meaningful to me from various TNC songs written on them. I forgot to get any pictures of them, or of the LED star in the chest lit up in the dark, because I was working down to the wire to finish this in time to give it to Matt at the Boston concert last month! I literally took the picture with the star lit up in the line outside the concert venue, lmao.

I hope that other fans find this post! If you haven't heard of The Narcissist Cookbook, but like the sculpture and are curious about what inspired it, please give this song a listen!

If anyone is curious about what materials I used or my process for making it, just let me know! I'm happy to share more :]

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learning how to drive in america is like a fucking saw trap.

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the worse climate disaster gets, the more you’ll see closet eugenicists start to advocate for letting people die. you need to be prepared to combat the ideology wherever you see it, because it’s only going to get worse and worse Read everything having to do with climate disaster critically. If the central argument underlying what’s being said is that the death of disabled and/or racialized people is inevitable, natural, or desirable– that’s a fascist.

they might be appear to be a garden variety republican or liberal or even a leftist at first, but know that if that argument is being made, their underlying ideology is one of supremacism, and given additional climate stress, they will become more blatant about it.