The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art)
Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money
www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...
The whole point of defending the right for uncomfortable, or even reprehensible fiction to have the right to exist isnt that its all cool and nothing is ever wrong with it
Its that government/corpo organizations will NEVER look at things with the """nuance""" you think is so self evident
happy international women's day
Tapping the sign
you should keep drying up their user revenue source in the middle of
trying to take the company public
You cannot ethically do this @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social — not even after 7 days, not even with Dept of Homeless Services leading instead of the NYPD. There is no ethical way to harass and steal from people who have been so failed by society. The only ethical thing you can do is to give them a home.
A humidifier on the sink in front of a bathroom mirror. The combination of small "on" and "full" lights above a wide curved vent make a pleasant smiling face and on the back of the humidifier, which can be seen in the mirror, another wide curved air vent and the two screws holding it together above it make a horrified face.
Me whenever I have to communicate with other human beings #anxiety
Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps.
I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.
people's evidence for "third gender" cultures is always just like "we badgered and humiliated this trans woman about her penis until she admitted to being 'biologically male'." therefore, they must be aware they're not REAL women. unlike those dirty delusional trannies we have here in Civilization
Like, yes, "pornography" is absolutely a pretext to use the law as a cudgel to try to eliminate trans folks entirely from public life (followed by eliminating us completely). There is no question about that.
But also? Fuck the pretext. Pornography is not inherently bad. Get the fuck over yourself.
Age verification and social media bans are explicitly ways to isolate queer, neurodivergent, and abused kids.
"the vast majority of you won't have to worry about this" I don't even fucking care if it turns out it's only three people that have to worry about this, it shouldn't be implemented, period. Keep cancelling your Nitro, they're clearly noticing
"Don't worry! This will only affect a few Other People and totally 99% most likely Not You, therefore it's not a real problem! 😊" has done so much heavy lifting for the surveillance state and rise of fascism over the past 25 years.
Discord isn't walking back anything yet, but this shows they are feeling the pressure and you should keep bullying and contacting them until they relent.
Discord straight up declares any queer channels 'Adult', because of course keeping the 'children' safe means wiping any LGBTQ people from the web. If you say shit like this, you're saying you don't give a shit about those who will, and can fuck off.
Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.
And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!
Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)
Just sharing this again for no reason: hothardware.com/news/death-s...
screenshot of discord's Confirm cancellation screen, reporting that "Something went wrong while processing your request" for some reason.
if you're in line at the nitro canceller, STAY IN LINE
To repeat.
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And to repeat:
The political faction saying we must all have to log legal ID before speaking or accessing speech on the Internet,
and the political faction who believe transgenderism is a dangerous mental contagion that spreads by speech about transgenderism,
are the same faction.
Cancel your subscription, don't give them a cent, and also download all important info.your community has only on discord
Make backups
If this keeps going we will have to find alternatives
Age verification is deanonymization,
Deanonymization is censorship.
The Supreme Court is now taking away your right to anonymously *read* a form of speech. If speaking can mean that your readers have to subject themselves to potential consequences to read it, how can there be freedom of speech?
"Why do you care if you have to ID yourself online you have to ID if you go into a bar irl or buy booze or go into a sex shop"
Yeah cool but the cashier behind the counter at the sex shop doesn't log my full government name, age, height, gender and birth place if I go in there to buy a dildo.
Cancel Discord Nitro if you still have it. Hit them where it hurts.
discord.com/press-releas...
If you want to verify who is an IRS Free File Alliance partner, all 8 of them (including FreeTaxUSA) are listed here along with the requirements for using each one.
Intuit used to be one of the partners but kept trying to trick people into using a paid version.
apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile...
If your Irish American imagine if in the 1800s ice existed and they beat and humiliated Irish immigrants fleeing the great famine.
Enjoy a clip of @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social and I discussing… cube… and, relationships…?
Early access to Ep 2 of the Paper Dolls Podcast available now at Patreon.com/NYC_MTG for just $3/month!
Watch Loading Ready Run @loadingreadyrun.com
learn to play #Netrunner in their most recent stream! Thanks for covering Netrunner, very fun watch!
www.twitch.tv/videos/26882...
A lot of people are choosing to miss the point here which is not “Every problem is super easy to solve and democrats refuse to do it” but that when there *is* a simple solution they will insist it’s much more complicated and the simple solution is impossible.
fantastic news everyone, every other week you can hear your two favorite transsexuals, @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social and I, yap for about an hour about pretty much anything we want. our first episode is simply propaganda for our favorite format, Pauper!
rss.com/podcasts/pap...
(Apple Podcast link soon)
Wait, there's a Walls Combo deck in pauper? I CAN PLAY MY BOY AXEBANE GUARDIAN IN A CONSTRUCTED FORMAT!?
(listen to the podcast y'all, it's great)
