Rose Vargas
theetherealrose.bsky.social
Rose Vargas
@theetherealrose.bsky.social
A tiny lost turtle
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www.regulations.gov/commenton/FS... direct link to comment form!! Please submit, you don’t have to be in the US.
September 19, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Oh, hey.

Visa and Mastercard now say you can't pay for WoW. Magic the Gathering. FFXIV. DnD. Lord of the Rings. Because they're all "adult" content against their ToS just for being "fantasy".

Let that sink in.

Spread this like wildfire and have people in those circles call them. No quarter.
Woke up to quite the update on this. I had been in contact with Payment Cloud about getting their service and they waited until now to hit me with the image below. Again, stringing me along instead of being upfront. They had seen my website multiple times before this.
September 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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this is nightmarish and should alarm you no matter what your opinions on pornography are
September 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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So new studies showcase that the more you know how GenAi works, the less likely you are to use it! 😌

This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite!
The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi
The Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use It
AI can seem magical to those with low AI literacy, a new study finds. That, in turn, might make them more willing to try it.
www.wsj.com
September 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic
August 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Once again, there is an ACLU petition specifically made to stop Mastercard from unlawfully policing adult content. It’s getting pretty grim for us out there. Please sign and/or spread the word.
action.aclu.org/petition/mas...
Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy.
Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.
action.aclu.org
July 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Young Queers need to understand just how much of historic crackdowns on sex work, art, literature, etc...

was done specifically to target queer people, but under the guise of "fighting pornography/degeneracy/immoral content"
"there's no path between payment processors cracking down on adult content and LGBTQ games being targeted, y'all are being dramatic" is a take I have had to read just now.

It's 2025 man. Look around. It never JUST stops at the one thing, ffs.
July 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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A huge tax break snuck into Trump & the GOP's big ugly bill would allow private jet owners to write off the full cost of their planes in the first year of purchase.

Meanwhile, the law will cause millions to lose food assistance and healthcare.

"Party of the working class."
July 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Republicans want to cut Medicaid, nutrition & education to give a TRILLION dollars in tax breaks to the 1% & large corporations.

Now they’re going after Medicare, which would make our broken health care system even worse. Thousands will die unnecessarily.

We must stop them.
June 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Reporters should not be described as (or self-describe as) being “caught in the crossfire” in LA.

1. Reporters are being targeted by the government

2. Only one side is firing
June 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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don’t let them in. fuck ice. fuck fascists
June 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Twelve years (and 2.1 billion views) ago, when my brother and I decided that we could make videos that could maybe help people in their high school and college educations and then give them away for free, no one was there to tell us we were crazy, and I am very glad for that...🧵
May 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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The rise of AI and dumbass people LEAPING at the chance to use it to avoid having to think ever has made me want to go out of my way to use my brain and learn more than anything else has on this entire planet.

Fuck AI and fuck people who use AI. USE YOUR OWN BRAINS.
May 19, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Me: “Im good…nervous about this commencement I’m giving.”

My therapist: “Oh, where?”

Me: “MIT”

My therapist: “…what”
May 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Some day he will grow up, but now he is still small
🤲🍎
May 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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From Tumblr: "Can you compile a list that shows evidence that Crowley might induce the overlot?"

1. Riddle's Overblot

The idea of Ace challenging Riddle to a duel, which led directly to Riddle's overblot, was introduced by Crowley.

1/26
May 3, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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that's all
April 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia lived in Maryland with his wife and their three children, and has never been charged with any crime.

The Department of Homeland Security issued him a work permit, and he joined a union, working full time as a sheet metal apprentice.
April 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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April 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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April 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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It's Steel City con so please feel free to let them know you're extremely disappointed they would announce this when the show is underway and it's too late to change plans. To put it politely.

Cw sexual assault/harassment
April 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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When we say Trump is gonna get people killed
March 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Everybody is so touched by this anglerfish coming to see the light and I’m over here like “actually you are deeply misunderstanding the sensorium of deep sea creatures and that girl was blinded way before she got to the surface.”
March 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM