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NOTICE FROM THE OTW PAC

The Policy and Abuse Committee (PAC) has gotten several tickets where folks have lost access to their AO3 account because someone else has logged in and changed the email/password.

This was possible because folks were reusing the same email/password combo across multiple sites, and one of the other sites was compromised.

From PAC

Due to recent data breaches of other websites, many email/password combinations stolen from those sites are now circulating the internet. If you’ve ever used your AO3 password on another website, we recommend that you immediately change your password: https://archiveofourown.org/faq/your-account#changepassword Security reminder: You should never reuse the same email/password combination on multiple websites. Please keep your AO3 account email up to date, so that we can contact you if there are any issues with your account. To change your AO3 email: https://archiveofourown.org/faq/your-account#changeemail AO3 accounts are always free to create and use. You can request an invitation here: https://archiveofourown.org/invite_requests

Don't let this be you - make sure your AO3 password is unique to your AO3 account!

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Albanese firmly stands up to Trump by vowing that the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is NOT negotiable and cannot be bargained with in Trump's trade war.

Basically: Trump is imposing tariffs all over the place to drive prices up, reduce how much other countries export, and use that economic wrecking ball as a negotiating tactic to force Trump's corporate interests on others.

Big pharmaceutical companies in the US don't like that the PBS requires them to negotiate on price, thus reducing the cost of medicines for Australian by hundreds if not thousands of dollars. So, those companies would like Trump to slap Australia with a bunch of tariffs and then use that as leverage to undermine and erode the PBS.

Labor has promised to reduce the maximum cost of PBS listed medication from $30 to $25 if re-elected. Labor previously in 2023 reduced it from $42.50 to $30.

Labor's cost of living relief measures of reducing medicines by up to 40% over the course of a few years is such an obvious good idea that even Peter Dutton, to his limited credit, has promised to do the same and also promised that the PBS won't be a bargaining chip in negotiations over US tariffs. In a plot twist: Dutton wants to also stand up against Trump and be united with Albo but this does mean Dutton's only good policies are the ones he's copying directly from Labor press conferences.

So yay! Some positive news! Albo has a spine AND we'll be getting cheaper medicine, whether Trump fucking likes it or not.

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there was a great study a few years that went into the whole "ppl online are bigger jerks than irl cuz theres a virtual wall and no repercussions" and the researchers were expecting to see that be the case but it turns out that people who were really angry or argumentative online were also found to just be assholes in person and people who were pretty patient and nice online were found to be patient and nice in real person as well

and it just debunked that whole cynical idea that people will naturally be mean if theres no punishment for it

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aaugh i hate citing sources *excruciatingly loud sounds of tearing metal combined with tortured human screams and fleshy hitting noises* ok that wasn't so bad actually..

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EBAY ARE ADDING AI TO THEIR SITE. YOU HAVE AUTOMATICALLY BEEN OPTED IN. GO AND OPT OUT.

you cannot turn it off via the app or mobile site, you HAVE to be on desktop.

To turn this off, sign into your account click on the Hi (your name)! > My eBay > Account > AI training preferences and you can toggle off the permission.

(via bluesky)

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Your friendly reminder to not spend money on gacha.

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Text: decoupling pregnancy from femininity means accurate and more inclusive language and treatment, but it also allows cis women to refuse motherhood without refusing womanhood, which is great for feminism and terrifying for misogyny.

–THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS. As a sterile cis woman who doesn’t want to have children anyway I feel this is every ounce of my being. “Define woman” types tend to do so in a way that excludes me too, so I got to stand with my trans sisters.

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Today I met happiness

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just wanted to share the National Down Syndrome Society’s message for this year’s World Down Syndrome Day (21st March) 💛💙

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at work: i could be cooking and cleaning and coding and reading and working out and weaving tapestries and playing video games and climbing a mountain and having sex and filming a movie right now yet they keep me trapped in this prison. idle hands are the devils plaything and i am being forcibly molded into his perfect conduit. i must break free, seize the day and waste not the beauty inherent to finite mortal life

at home: my one true passion upon this pointless earth is bog mummy imitation

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Ok I made a fun one for the fun side of tumblr! You’re propositioned by this person at the bar for a beautiful night of love making

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Tesla is tanking so hard it is dragging the entire EV segment's sales down into the negative. When you omit Tesla from the equation, EV sales are up 13% across the board.

Don't let anyone tell you EV sales are in a slump.

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i have understood so many things about online leftist culture by the fact that when i said "your local community has people you will morally and politically disagree with but you cannot lock them out of accessing any tangible service you’re organising" one of the tags responding said "this isn’t about proshippers in here you’re not welcome" like. folks. focus with me. some of us are homeless here.