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It’s dry enough out that, while watering the backyard, a hummingbird flew down to chase droplets in the air for a drink.

I now feel blessed by the tiny birb. 💜

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Promoting an Indie Game: Skate Bird! 🏂🐦 

Hay frens!! A friend of mine is making a really awesome game and just launched the Kickstarter for it! If you like birds and enjoyed Tony Hawk style skateboard games, this one's totally up your alley. ❤️

kickstarter.com/projects/megan

@isatis@vulpine.club I am heavily biased by the golden age of IRC, which was exactly this. I used Bitlbee with IRSSI for quite awhile to federate back to the “mainstream” chat applications of the era, which later grew to include Jabber, AIM, ICQ, MSN, and later even a Skype and Twitter interface.

A modern equivalent sounds quite nice, honestly.

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@kelseyhusky @mawr @Aradia Please enjoy this template that absolutely should not be used for this purpose:

finances (+) 

Update: that was a very scary number. 😶

My celebration for paying off the thing was Subway, because somehow, I hadn’t yet had lunch.

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pol, cult ideologies primer, birdsite link 

Useful thread on cult ideologies. While its examples are from uspol, this is an accessible read on how cults work, how they structure their dependencies, and how to recognize their recruitment practices:

twitter.com/AlexandraErin/stat

(This now fits into an entire genre of writings and videos on the subject, but this one is quite good.)

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[1/3] Seattle Area PSA: Trans Pride Safety Bulletin (cw: white nationalists) 

There's a Trump rally scheduled at the same time as Seattle Trans Pride, likely intending to disrupt the event.
Here's the info I've found:

• They're likely meeting at 4th and Columbia downtown & will march from there

• The hosting group has connections with known white nationalist movements

• The Gender Justice League is aware of this and is requesting donations for additional private security for Seattle Trans Pride

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[2/3] Seattle Area PSA: Trans Pride Safety Bulletin (cw: white nationalists) 

WHAT CAN WE DO?

• DO attend the event with friends and stick together!

• DO NOT engage the fascists (while they're in a group).

• DO NOT call the police to ask for their help. The SPD is NOT an ally of the transgender community and is not welcome at Trans Pride. Instead, the Gender Justice League has asked for donations to cover the costs of additional private security.

* DO donate here:
transprideseattle.org/donate20

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[3/3] Seattle Area PSA: Trans Pride Safety Bulletin (cw: white nationalists) 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Members of the "Patriots of Washington" putting on this event were former members of white nationalist group "Identity Evropa":
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity

Also, UW College Republicans president and known white nationalist James Allsup:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Al

The Gender Justice League Alert post:
facebook.com/GenderJusticeLeag

The event page for the Trump Rally:
facebook.com/events/628847080914588/

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re: finances (~) 

@Taylor And if you’re wondering if that sounds like a hellscape for bad actors, it kind of is. It was only a decade ago when that market blew up in what we now know to be the subprime mortgage crisis.

re: finances (~) 

@Taylor In the US, loans are sold on an open market. It’s common to have it split up between who holds the security (usually immediately sold to a federal agency) and who services the loan (often sold as an annuity between creditors).

I can’t speak to why it’s legal, but it happens because the value of assets fluctuates depending on the value of the dollar. So when the offering price EvilCorp™️ provided up front exceeded the time value of the payments, it sold.

finances (~) 

“Hi, we’re transferring your loan servicing from KindOfOkay Credit Union to EvilCorp™️ beginning July 1st. Don’t worry, no other changes will be made to your loan.”

*Googles EvilCorp™️, finds consistent one star reviews and multiple BBB complaints*

Welp, I guess I’m paying this off earlier than I’d planned this year.

We’re pretty sure a raven has moved in with our local crow population. They seem pretty chill around our local crows, too, and vice versa.

tiny spider (+) 

This tiny friend decided to web around my work monitor this morning (they’ve since been politely moved outside to the garden):

@chr On the other hand, I’m not sure how I would feel about having my gender expression only intelligible by wizards and cats.

@chr The agender flag distinctly needs more octarine.

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