:uwasa_sana: I'm bringing back the weekly Top Listeners post, but we're changing things up a little. Instead of posting weekly, I'm just going to be updating this post once a week with the top RFS listeners! So, without further ado, let's give a big shout out to:

@KikiLaFey,
@sunlightroses,
@tati,
@Wraithe,
@BustaMarx,
@maddy,
@chieroglyph,
@nobody,
@catsalad

Thank you for listening and keeping this little federated pirate station going! :hacker:

liberals: look no one is saying open borders

me:

Some unexpected expenses have cropped up and I'm a little bit tight. Anything you can offer, even a retweet, helps. Thank you! paypal.me/MsAprilDaniels

One of the most annoying things since transition: thanks to E and also becoming more connected to my sexuality, I sometimes now will be horny but only be able to have responsive attraction. This means I kinda need the context of a partner to fully activate and enjoy said horniness, and can’t even take care of my libido on my own. 😅

Like, with spontaneous attraction as a primary modus operandi under T dominance, if I felt horny, I could feel attraction and activate my sexuality automatically. It was a single dynamic altogether. Under E dominance, libido, attraction, erotic feelings, sexuality, and such are more like an orchestra…and sometimes I can’t conduct it myself no matter how much I might want to.

I still get spontaneous attraction sometimes too, but this happens a lot. Part of the reason I wish I had a partner who lived within 15 minutes. Hard to do a booty call when your girlfriend lives across an ocean 🤭

walking sticks: *exist*

TERF taking a breather from attacking trans people: Is this the collapse of civilization?

:boosts_ok_gay: PSA: Apparently google trains or indexes their AI on your PRIVATE Google Drive Documents:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/comments/1vfwuf5/a_player_found_out_the_actual_name_of_my_games/

(TLDR; Indie dev had their audience ask Google highly specific questions about future content of their game, and it spat out an exact name of an upcoming enemy type. Furthermore it listed scrapped ideas and ideas that *only* existed in their *private* Google Docs.)

hmmm...Werewolf of Washington, Wasp Woman, Werewolf Bitches from Outer Space, Day of the Dead....huh, I wonder what this list of movies has in common?

I suggest keeping an eye on my creative account, @mallory_sinn, and @brooke to find out why this list exists and keeps growing. 😉

Simple example: I want to buy a new adult coloring book, and any basic search turns up MANY that are AI generated and just useless and terrible for coloring. And the way they will be listed and shown makes it even harder to determine if it’s AI or not, on purpose.

One of the things I hate most about GenAI: it’s misuse and abuse has trained me to doubt and distrust new art, music, and media at first glance. I don’t want to treat everything with suspicion, but it’s poisoned our cultural environment so much.

New blog-post: "When online commenters 'detect' my art as AI"

→ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1164/when-online-commenters-detect-my-art-as-ai

I just wanna give a personal thanks to everybody out there for all the community support for @wwu

Community pressure *does* work and *has* helped us in negotiations.

Workers at Wikimedia Foundation just want to do their jobs effectively without interference or fear of losing their jobs. And those jobs are to support the communities of editors, readers, outreachers, organizers, fact-checkers, template writers, module debuggers, and more who make Wikipedia and its sister projects happen.

Floof balls

#CatsOfMastodon #BlackCat #OrangeCat

You know those mastodon users…they’re all trans furries with 4 sets of pronouns that can pick any lock in less than 20 seconds, use Linux, and are obsessed with moss.

we balter

Get unionised, honey

Someone I know after working for a big grocery store for 10 years was happy to tell me they make $1 over the minimum wage.

They can only be scheduled for 24 hours per week. I suspect if they got scheduled for 40 hours the company would have to pay them benefits.

The company they work for is public. Looking up the CEO, he gets paid ~$12.6M per year. While the employees are making basically minimum wage, which is $18.25/hour in BC.

The CEO pays himself more than $8000/hour. He makes over $64,000 in a single 8-hour day, more than the employees make in an entire year.

I don't care who you are, no amount of work you do could possibly be worth this much over your employees. This is wage theft, and when combined with all the executives of the company, artificially increases the cost of products sold in the stores for all Canadians.

Tax. The. Rich.

#WealthInequality #Corruption #TaxTheRich

Forget touching grass. I need to lie in a bed of moss until it slowly covers me and the forest makes me its own.

In addition to all this, I am having to white woman and threatening to call the inspector general and my state representatives about breach of contract by HCAI if they don't resolve this.

I fucking hate being structurally pushed repeatedly to karen and do white woman nonsense. That shit feels so damn icky, bleghehghgehgh

Also, sorry, it’s been a very fucking stressful day that’s also involved jumping through hoops for gender affirming care.

I love how in the US, there’s no way to do things right unless nepotism. You either have to have a family that can pay for things, a family that knows people, or you can go get fucked and die in a ditch.

Oh, and it didn’t used to be like this. I was informed all these things were changed this year. Heck, from what I’ve seen, these programs really worked and were set up to help students succeed about a decade ago. Huh, what happened in California since then…oh, Gov. Gavin Newsom the two-faced nepo baby shithead was put in power.

If he runs for president, you can trust I will out every ounce of strength I have in making sure he is defeated because that asshat has made the lives of me, my family, and my friends, and my community intensely worse in so many ways. He deserves a hard bitch slap for what he’s done. Rant rant rant grumble grumble…