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Sparty T. Dragon @spartytoon.bsky.social · 9h

Hmm, looks like F+TM tickets are manageable. Which is good 'cause I'm going to the designated ticket buyer, and my friend will reimburse.

Can't get 'em until next paycheck though. Student loans. :/

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Andy Merrill “Brak” 🐸 ❌👑 @amerrill2.bsky.social · 9h

We need The Onion now more than ever!

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h

Unlike other places, The Onion is quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically.

Please subscribe.

Join The Onion

Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.

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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 13h

Deinonychus at Dusk.
#SciArt

A digital illustration. A feathered dinosaur is shown silhouetted against a hazy golden sky, with distant mountains behind. A crescent moon has already risen.

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 21h

I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:

"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."

No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 16h

Tell Mastercard and Visa about this. When you call tell them you're going to petition your bank to switch. Doesn't matter how much you think they would. It happened.

Cobalt @boinkplanet.bsky.social · 16h

Funny story: my bank recently sent out an emergency notification letter, which stated they were sending me a new debit card, because they had changed vendors. The old card was a MasterCard. The new one arrived - it’s Discover.

Looks like even banks are noping out of MasterCard’s madness.

Ana Valens | 🔞 | COMMS: (4/5) @acvalens.net · 1d

MasterCard is marketing its new MasterCard Threat Intelligence platform to issuers & acquirers. A source familiar w/ MasterCard’s internal operations told me MTI is flagging anime, VTubing, adult content, tabletop, video games as potentially “high fraud risk”

fintechmagazine.com/news/how-is-...

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 11h

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

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Welcome to Ninety Nut November @swolecialism.bsky.social · 15h

stop calling kristi noem ICE Barbie. it's demeaning and insulting to Barbie

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Kawa @kawarcc.bsky.social · 8d

In light of the cut to SNAP this coming month, I'd like to share that Aldi grocery stores have a "Feast for 10" deal for $40 until 12/24. It includes everything for making turkey, sides, and dessert.

www.aldi.us/products/tha...

Feast for 10

www.aldi.us

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grateful gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1d

listen we may have lost our family business, made our kids miserable, had to live in a barn with goats and lost $50,000 to a local Russian slumlord, but at least we dont have to see gay people in public

Another family, the Hares, also moved from Abilene, Texas, to Russia to shield their three sons from what they say are harmful elements of American culture.

“It was the promise of a country that would not promote the LGBT agenda. We liked the fact that LGBT is basically outlawed here in official ways,” Leo Hare, 62, told NBC News via a video call from the family’s new home in Ivanovo, Russia.

Russia has strict laws against the “promotion of nontraditional sexual relationships,” which have in practice banned public displays of LGBTQ identity, including wearing or posting the rainbow flag on social media.

They say their initial plan to rent an apartment in Moscow fell through just as they boarded the plane from Texas, and the family spent a bitterly cold winter caring for chickens, horses and rabbits on a farm 70 miles south of Moscow in exchange for free board. At one point, they even had to bring the goats and their newborns inside their cabin to keep the animals from dying.
Leo Hare thought their troubles were over when their landlord's son offered a generous interest rate for investing their $50,000 nest egg in what he described as a car import business. But they only saw one payment before he stopped sending them money and refused to return their money, Leo Hare said.
The couple went to the police and the local court to file complaints about their lost money and with their concerns that they had been swindled, but say they have received no help from law enforcement officials. NBC News contacted Domodedovo police for comment but did not receive a reply.

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Chef Diogenes @chefdiogenes.bsky.social · 20h

Please remember - donating shelf stable goods is GREAT but cash is king. Shelters and non-profits have business relationships with distributors and grocers, they can turn $1 into $10 for hungry folk.

Help how you can. Signal boosting helps, too.

Welcome to Ninety Nut November @swolecialism.bsky.social · 21h

Alright you beautiful protein shake swilling hogs, the orange man has continued to be bad and people are going hungry. So it's time to help people. Y'all know I wouldn't tap your gains for a bad cause. I've chipped in and hope y'all are able to too.

teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/participants...

I'm supporting Feeding America!

To feed America’s hungry through food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger

teamfeed.feedingamerica.org

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 19h

One of those places where academia and creative fields rhyme.

Frank J. Barbiere @fjbarb.bsky.social · 2d

Many full time creatives have “invisible safety nets” like bread-winning partners, trust funds, external support, etc. No shame on anyone, but it creates a false vision of success. The cost of going to cons alone on top of hoping to eat as a freelancer are untenable, IMO.

Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 2d

When people hear that I'm returning to part time work they often ask "are things not going well with your art?"

The problem really is things are going well, but the world is so unstable that I long for some consistency and income that I don't have to pay quarterly taxes on

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 19h

New awareness campaign

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Genderflux Superfluid @rewhan.bsky.social · 18h

This revelation hits like a brick to the head.

Nobody abuses food stamps, because if you can pay for it with food stamps, its food, and food is a human right, End Of Fucking Debate.

Oh, you don't like -what KINDS- of food they spend their stamps on?

Tough shit. Mind your own goddamn business.

VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 20h

No-one abuses SNAP. 0 people have ever abused SNAP.

Emily @emilyonhere.gay · 4d

“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten

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Sparty T. Dragon @spartytoon.bsky.social · 1d

Blorg post about Florence + The Machine, and how I relate. www.pillowfort.social/posts/6828021

spartytoon: Some animal instinct starting up again

So, Everybody Scream is finally out, and it is GOOD. Florence's usual mix of mystical and mythical and real and mundane is on full display. The SONG Everybody Scream is going to be a BLAST at conc...

www.pillowfort.social

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𝔍𝔞𝔲𝔣𝔣𝔯𝔢 𝔅𝔢𝔫𝔷𝔬𝔡𝔦𝔞𝔷𝔞𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔢 @kingofcatastrophy.bsky.social · 1d

Back in my day they were Demotivationals

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Jacques O'Lantern @ass.golf · 1d

I'm so old I remember when memes were called image macros

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Sparty T. Dragon @spartytoon.bsky.social · 1d

Both have been in use for a while, but Meme won out at some point. I can't recall when.

Also, all image macros are memes, but not all meme's are image macros, so really the catch-all term just kinda took over there.

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Justin @justinskolnick.bsky.social · 1d

Fred Autocorrect
@boursier

Randos: "We're fucked."

Educated friends: "Don't worry, it's illegal to become a dictator."

Very Well Educated friends: "We're fucked."

9:54 AM • 11/27/16 • Twitter for iPhone

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Lee Black @leeblack.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the most sick, workouse-spirited thing that hot pre-cooked food like rotisserie chicken isn’t covered by SNAP. You aren’t even allowed to get a toasted sub with SNAP, and for what reason besides cruelty. You sound like that saying nothing pleasurable should be covered by it btw

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more

that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

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Sparty T. Dragon @spartytoon.bsky.social · 1d

My kung fu buddies don't get it, but they're not really F+TM fans, lol.

It was one of those "oh no, we are lame in the same way" moments when I was getting into TWRP. I kinda laughed and and rolled my eyes at Sung doing karate stuff, then caught myself doing kung fu to F+TM so uh. Yeah. XDDD

Sparty T. Dragon @spartytoon.bsky.social · 1d

For the record, I have been combining kung fu and Florence and the machine for long time. I've got a vague idea for a solo form for a couple of songs, actually.

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Sparty T. Dragon @spartytoon.bsky.social · 1d

Cleaned my room while I was at it. I think The Old Religion is the most kung-fu choreography song on the album, lol. Definitely had to do some kicks and stuff for that one. XD

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Sparty T. Dragon @spartytoon.bsky.social · 1d

Wellp, listened to Everybody Scream in proper album order (as opposed to on suffle 'cause VLC for mobile was stuck in shuffle mode). Yep. Yep, that's a good-un.

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Barry Pierre @jorgpierre.bsky.social · 2d

Once again:

Microsoft is a corporation that turns 30% of it's new code is written by AI into (basic stuff breaking)

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