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ZEROPOLARIS 🏳️‍🌈 @zeropolaris.bsky.social · Mar 15

medical debt is a motherfucker. so i’ve opened up my commissions again, for both digital and traditional pieces. i do character art, traditional painting portraits, and full illustrations.

#commission #oc #procreate #art #illustration #painting

a commission sheet for the artist Zeropolaris. it shows a man dressed in a suit smoking a cigarette on a country road. text: Character commissions. plus free photo background. dm or email thezeropolaris@gmail.com to get your character artwork started! portrait $100, half body $200, full body $265.

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parker parrella @parkparr.bsky.social · 12d

Valley of the Three Suns☀️

A square acrylic painting against a white background. Painting features a rich pink sunset with three suns setting over distant purple mountains, beneath the suns cast yellow reflections into the water and large brown slopes hug either side of the scene

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11d

yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Hegseth: "We are overhauling an inspector general process that has been weaponized, putting complainers and poor performers in the driver seat. We are doing the same with the equal opportunity policies. No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complains ... no more walking on eggshells."

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 13d

there is no fear in America that informs policy so profoundly as the terror that we might accidentally afford someone human rights or dignity without first determining that they have earned those things; and, by extension, the idea that those things must be earned.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14d

This is weakness. They can't stand being protested so they're going to bring absurd charges against protesters they know they can't sustain in actual court. It's going to tie up massive amounts of resources while real crime goes uninvestigated. This is pure intimidation and trying to instill fear.

Alt text: A tweet from Attorney General Pam Bondi (@AGPamBondi) dated September 26, 2025, at 8:55 PM. The tweet states that the Department of Justice will not stand idle in response to violence against ICE officers. Bondi announces she is deploying DOJ agents to ICE facilities to protect agents, federal property, and arrest those committing federal crimes. She references President Trump’s executive action and instructs Joint Terrorism Task Forces to investigate entities engaged in domestic terrorism and violence against federal agents. The DOJ will seek serious charges including conspiracy, assault, civil disorder, and terrorism offenses. She directs the FBI, DEA, ATF, and USMS to work with DHS to locate, apprehend, prosecute, and remove illegal aliens. The tweet concludes with “The rule of law will prevail.” The post has 1.9 million views.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15d

UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2

When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline.

109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.

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magical slime @kokoronis.com · Sep 7

artists aren’t the fucking bourgeois or “elite”. every artist i know can barely make rent. every artist i know is one severe enough hospital bill away from being homeless. we’re not all banksy or andy warhol. sick of this idea being passed around as we deal with companies exploiting us constantly.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18d

The same bs they're spewing about autism and tylenol is the same bs they're spewing about trans people's healthcare. It's the exact same playbook and the fact that the media can see through one and not the other is a damning indictment of how complicit they are in the attack on trans lives.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 18d

Talking points leaked to me show US diplomats instructed to call accusations of Israeli genocide in Gaza "politically motivated and categorically false" as well as a "propaganda campaign"

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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 18d

Happy Rapture Day to all who celebrate 💋

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onion person @junlper.beer · 22d

the fact that a sitting US president is talking about antifascism being terrorism should tell you a lot about what he thinks his own government represents

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 22d

Ok my cis friends, we are going to need a lot of you to step the fuck up and fight hard for us

www.them.us/story/trump-...

FBI to Categorize Trans People As "Nihilistic Violent Extremist" Threat Group, Report Says

The choice is being championed by the Heritage Foundation, which is behind Project 2025.

www.them.us

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🔞BunnydewArt🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ➡️ BLFC w/ MOOPA.INK B24 Tues. 10/14 @bunnydewart.bsky.social · 23d

putting this on your timeline again

Text over a sparkly flowery background which reads: “WE SUPPORT SLUTS AND WHORES ON THIS PAGE”.

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Ian MacEwan SPX table I-4 @ianmacewan.bsky.social · 21d

If this surprises you in the slightest, idk maybe go sit in a dark closest and take a moment

Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 22d

"Kamala Harris cites concerns about trans athletes in her book"

And, there it is.

ttps://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/kamala-harris-book-trans-athletes-00573966

Kamala Harris cites concerns about trans athletes in her book

The Trump campaign attacked Harris over her positions on transgender rights. She says they were misconstrued.

www.politico.com

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 23d

Every pundit who took at face value the idea that the Right sincerely cares about free speech, or ideological diversity, or in fact has any principles at all, should be wearing a dunce cap and writing a lengthy mea culpa right now. Not for our catharsis but for public awareness at least

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 23d

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them.

They want us all eradicated.

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Flyer from The Heritage Foundation Oversight Project titled “Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism (TIVE): Background and FAQs on Need for an FBI Domestic Terrorism Designation.” The page defines “Transgender Ideology” and “TIVE,” outlining beliefs allegedly associated with them. It claims such ideology justifies violence against opponents or frames opposition as violence. The text references the alleged assassination of Charlie Kirk, urging the FBI to classify TIVE as domestic terrorism.

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Continuation of flyer with a section titled “Recent Instances of TIVE-Motivated Acts of Domestic Terrorism.” Lists multiple violent events from 2018 to 2025, attributing them to transgender ideology. Includes mugshots of two alleged attackers. Followed by a “Frequently Asked Questions and Key Terms” section, addressing whether transgender people are terrorists, comparing TIVE with “Nihilistic Violent Extremism,” and discussing FBI designations.

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Section titled “Terminology Used by TIVE.” Defines terms including cisgender, deadnaming, Gillick competence, misgendering, “Right to Exist,” “Trans genocide,” and a phrase “You either have a live boy or dead girl, you choose.” Each is presented as terminology used in or associated with TIVE. Page layout is text-heavy, no additional graphics.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 24d

Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, Bernie Sanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT.

I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24d

They're openly saying they want to sacrifice LGBTQ people and the planet to appease fascists. This is not only a losing strategy, this is morally repugnant.

Every single one of these people should be ashamed, but we know they won't because they are amoral sociopaths.

"News article titled A New Democratic Think Tank Wants to Curb the Influence of Liberal Groups, published September 17, 2025, in The New York Times by Reid J. Epstein. The article explains that the Searchlight Institute, led by Adam Jentleson, aims to persuade Democrats to play down issues like climate change and LGBTQ rights to appeal to more voters. A color photo beneath shows five people standing outdoors: Cam Thompson, Charlotte Swasey, Adam Jentleson (center), Tré Easton, and Danielle Deiseroth."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26d

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson

By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.

www.thecrimson.com

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Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social · 28d

"We have to cancel kristallnacht 2.0 because the guy was one of the people we were grooming to take part in it" is a heck of a twist to be sure

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Sep 11

A controversial $165 billion data center campus in New Mexico revealed numbers about its water consumption publicly for the first time. Filling up the four data centers would use 10 million gallons of water, and the ongoing consumption would be 7.2 million gallons every year.

How much water will the $165 billion data center near El Paso use? Developers unveil figures ahead of Doña Ana commissioners vote

A public meeting in Sunland Park this week was standing-room only as community members expressed concerns about the massive project, especially its planned water usage.

elpasomatters.org

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · Sep 9

Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Sep 8

OpenAI confirms they're helping make an AI-generated movie called 'Critterz'

• Goal is to finish production in 9 months
• Budget is ~$30M
• Plan is to debut the film at Canne
• 'Paddington 3' writers penned the script
• Art will be fed into Chat GPT 5 and other image models

(via WSJ)

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · Aug 30

They're actively targeting creators who call in & banning them, making it even more important to call if you're a customer & not a creator

Tell them they shouldn't be dictating how you get to spend the money you put your blood, sweat, and tears into earning

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · Aug 13

CALL STRIPE
CALL PAYPAL
CALL MASTERCARD
CALL VISA

DO NOT. STOP. CALLING!
#rocktheboat

stop-paypros.neocities.org

UPDATED
Stripe A
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.
• 354 Oyster Point Blvd. South San Francisco,
CA 94080 US (United States HQ)
• 10 BOULEVARD HAUSSMANN, 75009 PARIS
(France HQ)
• Grand Canal Street Lower, The One Building,
Dublin D02 HD59 (Ireland HQ) (yes, it's called The One Building)
• +1 888 926 2289 - State you are from California when calling this number
• 1(888) 963-8955 (San Franeisco HQ)
• 353 1 903 8449 (Ireland HQ)
• (877) 887-7815 (Customer Support/Complaints)
• UPDATED +33-805-11-19-67 (France-HQ) Seems like the line was disconnect due to our calls.
• complaints@stripe.com
• Complaints Form

PayPal !
Unfortunately, PayPal doesn't seem to have any e-mail address, as it uses its website's customer support. You will need to log in to your PayPal account if you wish to access Customer Support lines or messages. Here's a few lines we found so far :
• 2211 N 1st St. San Jose, CA 95131 US
• 1-402-935-2050 (US + Canada)
• 1800 931 678 (Australia)
• Customer Complaints Form (Australia)
• enquiry@paypal.com thank you sassinthedark.bsky.social for the info!

UPDAIED
MasterCard
• 2000 Purchase St. Purchase, NY 10577
US
UPDATED +1 914 249 2000
• CEO of MasterCard: 0 -> 6432224#
→> 1
• President of Mastercard: 0 -
54757287425# →> 3
• Play the roulette: 0 -> Any numbers until you get connected to someone
1 800 307 7309 (US) - Options for operator
: 1-1-2-2-2-1
List of toll-free numbers by region
1 636 722 6100 (St. Louis Office)
• 914.249.2000 (Global Headquarters, US)
• 636.722.6100 (Operaction Center, US)
• 971.4.391.4200 (Dubai HQ)
• 305.539.2300 (Latin America HQ)
• 914.249.6518 (North America HQ)
• 1-800-627-8372 (US Only)
• 1800-120-113 (Australia)
• +1-636-722-7111 (International)
• customer_support@mastercard.com
List of executives' Linkedin profiles

UPDATED
Visa !
900 Metro Center Bivd, Foster City, CA
94404
NEW +1 650 432 3200 (Headquarters, US)
• Ryan McInerney (CEO) - 4 ->
6246376397926#
• Paul Fabara (Chief Risk Officer) - 4 - > 3222727285#
• Kelley Tullier (Chief People and Corp. Affairs Officer) - 4 ->
885543753559#
• Source
• Thank you profbadvibes.bsky.social
for these finds!
1-800-847-2911 (US + Canada) - US Option
Selection for Operator: 1-1-2 / 1-1-3
• List of phone numbers by region
• 1-888-289-9322 (Confidential Compliance
Hotline)
• askvisa@visa.com

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parker parrella @parkparr.bsky.social · Sep 8

Red Haze, Burning Sun 🌅

A landscape acrylic painting. Painting depicts a red lake scene with a bright yellow sun setting on the horizon behind pink clouds. branches from above block some rays of the setting sun.

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parker parrella @parkparr.bsky.social · Sep 3

Impact💥

A circular painting against a white background. Painting depicts a red desert with a distant pink cloud plume against a blue sky, and a large white star bursting from the center of the cloud

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Sep 6

If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at [email protected] if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

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