Lee Harvey Oswald was an absolute weirdo who was so personally off-putting that when he tried defecting to the USSR, they collectively went "wow, uh, no thanks, actually".

Truly one of the most brutal indictments of someone up until Ryan Routh was declared too much of a loon for the Foreign Legion.

(1/4) “E2” may be a riff on “Children of Time”, but in the Xindi Arc, with the crew all alone in the Expanse, it has quite a different tone. It also has a moving scene for T’Pol, which crucially is the first step for her in learning to live with the onslaught of emotions she’s been struggling with.

anyways opening quote is from linked, which combines reasonable tactical advice like "we should have integrated ground-based air defenses" with crazy strategic thinkering like "we can fight a whole-ass war without ever shooting back"

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Visa employees clearly told to deescalate ASAP
MasterCard employees more than familiar with the issue
Stripe feeling the pressure
ACLU put out a statement
CBC covered all this

What you are doing is WORKING
You are getting RESULTS
KEEP CALLING
KEEP WRITING
WE ARE GOING TO WIN!!

Strangely* despite getting many times that number of calls in opposition to their censorship, they've started yelling at people, hanging up and screening emails instead. Weird, huh.

* not really

THEYRE AT IT AGAIN
CALL YOUR REPS, WE HAVE ANOTHER BILL TO KILL

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Friendly reminder for those that don't know it in the midst of this #Visa and #MasterCard situation.

Their automated systems rely on inputs to do their job, but repeated entry of a completion key when prompted (such as the #) will usually result in your call being pushed through to a person.
🙏🏻😎🩷

Welcome to the weekend! You made it sailor. Which censorious payment processor would you like to call first? Thanks to my moot @dieselbrain.bsky.social for the Stripe number, can confirm it works

stop-paypros.neocities.org

it's the same number in Canada btw. And there was only about 30 seconds of wait time before I got to unload on a CS rep. You are right, they tried to push to email, and I simply said "No, I would rather do this by talking to someone."

Whole thing took me about 7 minutes including wait time to do.

itch.io/updates/upda...

The fact that they only needed ~1000 people to call in and email to get their way is actually pretty crazy. There are more people on some of the Discord servers I'm in that could equal their weight, and some of these are just podcast fandoms.

Chapter Four: Llaetus’le

As the Romulan Senate embarkes on an audacious plan, they trigger a crisis that will threaten the survival of the Star Empire and an Invasion by a species called Llaetus’le - The Borg

NEWS:

Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."

We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.

One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...

So you know how Steam updates their TOS to restrict "NSFW" content at the request of payment processors like Visa and Mastercard?

The group behind that pressure campaign is coming after Itch.io.

If you are selling books on itch, this concerns you.

www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...