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Beef or Disco, a not-cis cracker
Beef or Disco, a not-cis cracker
@moistdrippings.bsky.social
18+ queer fan of queer things, including Hannibal and Thai BL/GL dramas. Call me Moist, Beef, or Disco, they/them. YKINMKATO + proship. 🌈🍖
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Expensive goods changing hands without consideration is one of those blaring lights you look for when investigating public corruption. It means the giver is expecting something other than money from the receiver.
A great detail in this New York Times story: the Russian diesel under the Trump-Putin deal was shipped without any US buyers having paid for it. Three vessels are now at sea.
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WATCH: A defense contractor CEO and his close associates donated nearly $900,000 to dozens of politicians and got over $40 million a year in government funding. He told the FBI that Sen. Susan Collins was his most important patron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyiFFB7Kjg
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little bit of a tangent: i once had a department chair who physically threatened me because the graduate student he was having an affair with was struggling in my class. i ended up resigning a few months later. so dating a student can have far-reaching consequences beyond the abuse of the student.
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This would be a good show for anybody who wants to get into Thai BL… it is on a pay service but c’mon. C’moooooon. (Alternately, there are more appearing on Netflix in the US now! Idk about other English-speaking countries for sure but check into it.
Auau and Save and basically everybody are killing it on Mr. Fanboy, and from a series I kind of thought was gonna be more lighthearted and casual I am impressed! #MrFanboy
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This would be a good show for anybody who wants to get into Thai BL… it is on a pay service but c’mon. C’moooooon. (Alternately, there are more appearing on Netflix in the US now! Idk about other English-speaking countries for sure but check into it.
Auau and Save and basically everybody are killing it on Mr. Fanboy, and from a series I kind of thought was gonna be more lighthearted and casual I am impressed! #MrFanboy
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If you donated to Josh Turek without realizing he was running on a federally funded trans healthcare coverage ban, you can request a refund of your donation here: help.actblue.com/hc/en-us/art...
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Ha ha ha ha… I remember in senior year of high school we had our only required economics course (only half a year!) and our teacher was talking about how even gifts are meant to be taxed. Someone (maybe me?) asked about inheritance, and she said “that’s taxed, too”.
if millennials could afford homes this wouldnt be a problem but this is going to hit the generation like a truck
Ha ha ha ha… I remember in senior year of high school we had our only required economics course (only half a year!) and our teacher was talking about how even gifts are meant to be taxed. Someone (maybe me?) asked about inheritance, and she said “that’s taxed, too”.
if millennials could afford homes this wouldnt be a problem but this is going to hit the generation like a truck
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Now why did CBS's chief legal correspondent think it would be fine to tweet some rank Islamophobia? www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...
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Replying to @doctorow.pluralistic.net
Expedia's position, in other words, is basically Amazon's position, so Expedia is doing exactly what Amazon is doing: they charge huge fees to hotels, and then force the hotels to raise their prices everywhere through a "most favored nation" deal: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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That's what happened with Expedia. Almost every travel site you can find online has been purchased by Expedia (Hotels.com, Travelocity, and Orbitz), and the ones that aren't Expedia subsidiaries were acquired by its main rival, Priceline (Booking.com, Kayak, Agoda and even Opentable).
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Amazon doesn't mind if prices go up, so long as Amazon's price remains competitive. So Amazon imposes a requirement on its suppliers called "most favored nation," which requires sellers to offer their best price on Amazon: pluralistic.net/2026/02/25/m...
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For merchants, that is an *incredibly* expensive proposition: 51-60% of every dollar you spend with an independent merchant on Amazon is claimed by Amazon through junk fees, listing fees, commissions, processing fees and other scams: pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/c...
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This has only been accelerated by America's precipitous slide into oligarchy, which has exhausted the savings *and* the credit-card limits *and* the home equity of the majority of Americans, who increasingly can't afford to buy anything: dreamagainusa.org
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Here's Amazon's sleaziest commercial practice: when you search Amazon, the top results for your search aren't the best matches for your queries; they're products sold by the companies willing to pay the most for search placement, in a "real-time auction" that runs every time you search.