what do i believe ? i believe in music. i believe it's something that exists beyond us, that has a connection to the divine. i believe that when you play or make music you are channeling the spirit of the universe through you

i can excuse shameless repressorphobia but i draw the line at gerard way

yikes guys. these new community guidelines? they’re Bad

Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand Steam and Itch.io are worried about trouble with their payment processors, and Mastercard is not a payment processor.

Great work by PC Gamer showing MasterCard shares much responsibility for what happened to Steam

www.pcgamer.com/games/master...

If you're legitimately scared of diyhrt then I hate to break it to you. But you're the biggest dork alive and rely too hard on the government to hold your hand about your own gender

not to mention elon musk and like pretty much every member of the billionaire class at this point. I’m not really a prison abolitionist. i just think the people being imprisoned should be fucking nazis and billionaires (and honestly maybe nobody else).

probably my hardest authleft opinion ever but: overt nazi, white supremacist, chauvinist, and nationalist speech and expression is actually dangerous and should absolutely be censored. i think when we win we’re gonna have to gulag joe rogan, jordan peterson, ben shapiro, and every other righty clown

A riff on the famous Mike Primavera (@primawesome) tweet about shelter cats and coyotes, with substitutions in brackets My neighbor told me [Republicans] keep eating his [vulnerable minority groups] so I asked how many [minorities] he has and he said he just [Votes Blue, No Matter Who] and gets a new [minority] afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding [vulnerable minorities] to Republicans and then his daughter started crying.

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look man. nobody's voting for the lukewarm ass gavin or pete or whoever's currently promising to throw trans ppl under the bus for a 4% year-over-year loan refinancing program for pell grant recipients over the age of 35. everyone's fucking had enough

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.

Tell Mastercard to end their unjust policy now.

Black and white image of Emmett Till in hat, white shirt, and tie.

Emmett Till would be 84 today.

Not 114. Not 104.

84.

He would be my uncle. Not great-great or great uncle. One of my parents' siblings. This is why we remember.

transition music in a metroid sitcom

I'm seeing so many of my mutuals struggling rn & it's a problem. Even (and seemingly especially) the ones who appear well-established are in crisis right now.

Y'all need to pay your sex workers yesterday. Better late than never.

i am trying to be a good role model but i am 5 years old and bedraggled and dying

every part of this order is crueler than the last. ending housing first programs, freezing funding to harm reduction programs & safe injection sites, broadening the ability of the state to involuntarily commit those it deems to be a threat to themselves OR THE PUBLIC - a clusterfuck start to finish.

Send an email, but also, just call anyway. It comes off more like they want to divert the attention to someplace easier to wave off, and if they don't like the calls, that tells me people need to call even more.

i want to note that the christofascist attack on "porn" isn't actually an attempt to make the internet or the world child safe in any real way. these people abuse the fuck out of children and oppose sex education largely because it makes children able to identify and name that abuse

Patriarchy is core to a fascist regime, as is control over cultural production, the means of distribution, the tools to shape ideology and manufacture consent. 'Obscenity' then has always been a tool of control, of regulating sexuality to be ... well, not non-exploitative, but under strict control.

the entire world is designed to fuck us to death and deny us all recourse except to talk about it and maybe alchemize it into some kind of beauty and even this, to them, is unacceptable

Brazil rallies to defend much-loved payment system from Donald Trump’s attack

To connect the recent Steam and Itch situation to another ongoing bit of news: Visa and Mastercard (and other US companies like PayPal, Stripe, and Meta) clearly believe they are entitled to dictate how people spend money not just through their services, but anywhere at all

archive.ph/jigm3

Guardian Frame: De-brief!, one of my favorite things i’ve ever had a hand in, is unfortunately affected by itch’s current de-indexing of adult work on the platform. I’m posting it here for now for visibility until itch gets its shit together. mothtown.itch.io/guardian-fra...

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.

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...

MAGA Doesn’t Care About Sex Abuse To many on the right, sexual predation isn’t harmful at all. It belongs to their worldview.

"If there is ever proof that Epstein provided Trump with young women or girls, the base is primed to dismiss it, or glorify it. To them, girls and young women are one more commodity that he has the right to collect. Sexual abuse is more like property damage." @sarahjones.bsky.social

This puts new light on Elon's musings about "replacing the sum of human knowledge" with AI. Once you've put your system between people and facts you can then change the system to disappear the facts. Super efficient memory hole at scale!

If you are going to spam like, which as she says clogs the feed at best and gets your account flagged at worst, RESKEET THEM.

We all know money can be tight. Why do you THINK it’s so imperative for us to try and further our reach? If you can’t pay us, share the posts so someone who can will see.

@patitolindo208r.bsky.social if you’re gonna spam like my media tab, tip me. ko-fi.com/strongcat

This is Nazi shit. One step away from “American Progress.” Maybe I should bring back “Death to Destiny”

“the party being led by jeffrey epsteins best friend wants to repeatedly examine your childs genitals” is a true statement