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MechaGM
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Arcano-Mechanical Storyteller. pngTuber. Co-host of the Three Men and an Anime Podcast. Avatar by: https://twitter.com/EteriCommishes Banner by: https://twitter.com/natartisticweeb Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mechagm Throne: https://throne.com/mechagm
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Republicans could override the filibuster and reopen the government with only 51 votes.

Any other solution requires the House, and Johnson is refusing to bring it back into session.

Republicans completely control the shutdown. They don't want to reopen the government.
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I know it's tedious to say at this point, but this is why we need to listen when porn artists and sex workers raise the alarm about this shit. Art and people that can be dismissed as "immoral" are ALWAYS the thin end of the wedge when the powers that be try and assert control over entire systems.
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-...
How is Mastercard Preventing Payment Fraud at Scale?
Announcing Threat Intelligence at Money 20/20 US, Mastercard showcases its latest technology in preventing fraud, combining insights from Recorded Future
fintechmagazine.com
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we were all brought into this world against our will & we should not have to pay to survive in it.
Anyway, SNAP should be universal. Just like school lunches in NYC. Not everyone needs it to survive but everybody gets it, no means testing.

There should also be a lot fewer regulations on what you can buy with SNAP and discounts, not bans, on hot prepared foods.
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This is a really vulnerable time for paypro call centers. It's already been reported that Mastercard is stressed by our persistence

I know we're all busy around this time too but let's fire the engines 🔥
#SaveSpeech

starting Nov 1st we're entering the holiday season, which is a big stress point for big businesses like Mastercard and Visa. These Paypros havent stopped cracking down on Adult Content, so we need to jump back into calling them in full force again!

stop-paypros.neocities.org
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Fun Fact: The purpose of a siege in warfare is to attack the citizens by preventing them from getting food. You starve them until they either surrender or die.
Making the active choice to withhold emergency funding and starve large swaths of the country is “political violence” and it should be reported and viewed as such
Seeing conservative commentators joyfully mock poor people and their children horrified at the prospect of going hungry really puts a laser focus into how completely full of shit they were while clutching their pearls over “political violence”.
Well, that was an interesting first attempt at a nuzlocke. Turns out that if Roark's Cranidos goes first with Headbutt and gets the flinch, things go very badly from there. XD So we lost that run. We'll try again another time.

after stream we raided the most excellent @ftwastes.bsky.social
Okay folks. Stream is going live... I'm just not feeling like streaming Pokemon Legends Z-A, but I've been meaning to give Platinum a real try... so, assuming the version I am using works, we'll be starting a Platinum Nuzlocke today. (will be folding laundry early on)

twitch.tv/mechagm/
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I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.

The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
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Not text to speech. It is specifically describing a fully produced and performed audiobook with a cast of characters and sound effects etc.

Things actors and engineers get hired to do.

They’ve proven they can do it for fifty fucking dollars.

And Boson AI gave them a winning spot for this.
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In case you’re curious what kind of uses for AI they were promoting at this HoYoverse sponsored event, here’s what one of the winners created with it:

“a cost-effective pipeline that produces audiobook content for under $50 per chapter, compared to $10K-$20K+ for traditional full-cast productions.”
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bluesky staff misexplaining the torment nexus post, a post about how tech people don’t understand the media they read, is going to make me laugh for a long time
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The privacy issue with KOSA "resonating with a large swath of people"-- that's you, that was you calling your reps. Don't let anyone tell you it's pointless

Let's do it again for the censorship bills in this new package
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There has never been a more urgent need to have a society internalize the sentiment “The cemeteries are full of irreplaceable men.”
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*pinching the bridge of my nose, eyes closed* And before the current hyper concentration of wealth, Mark, was there a stock market before then?
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Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.
ROB SCHMITT: People are using SNAP benefits to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair. This is a really ugly program.

SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.
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The DVD (1996) is now as old as the original 8-inch floppy disk (1967) was when the DVD came out.
Uuuugh... I have an annoyingly large headache coming on and thus I do not feel up to streaming right now. Blech.

Taking some tylenol and lying down for a bit. If it clears up quickly we'll do a short stream. Otherwise, I'll see you all on Sunday's stream.
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Just giving away the whole plan, eh?
Brooke Rollins: "SNAP is arguably just the beginning. The logical and inevitable end to where this all goes is the Democrats and the whole superstructure of constitutional government."
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“this mass deprivation, which we insist is bad and not our fault, is a great opportunity for us to talk about our plans for long-term mass deprivation”
Brooke Rollins: "I guess the silver lining in all of this is that we're having a national conversation on our SNAP program. This has shined a light on a program that especially under the last administration has just become so bloated."
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You know what we donate to the local food pantries? We donate MONEY. Because they can turn that money into what those they serve need the most. I do not know what those folks need better than the food pantry does. So I give them my dollars and they turn them into something useful.
Sweet Jesus, do not donate seeds to your food bank in October. Honestly, don’t donate seeds to your food bank unless you are specifically asked to, and even then I would think REALLY HARD about whether that’s regionally appropriate.

When I needed food donations, I was in student housing.
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the heritage foundation shifting gears into full rabid ethnonationalism in opposition to the current regime's kleptocrats and technofeudalists is the beginning of the custody fight over the right wing's future. both think they've won, and are now maneuvering to get rid of the other in 2028.
1. A watershed moment.

The President of the Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action, Kevin Roberts , has announced that the organization is standing by Tucker Carlson in the aftermath of Tucker’s interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.

This isn’t Kevin bending his knee to Trump…this is something new
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The strength of Platner's fundraising and his polling even after all this came out should speak to the electoral potential of attacking billionaires and advocating for strong social programs.

an unfortunate number of leftists have concluded "only this one guy can sell this platform to voters"