🚨🚨 The Forbes Union is working to rule this week! That means we’re working our normal 40-hour workweek that we get paid for and not a minute more. Here’s why:

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Eva Beylin

@evabeylin

May 12

it's pretty embarrassing for Canada that ethereum was essentially founded by Canadians & many crypto builders are Canadian yet most of them have left Canada

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I wish everyone with a $crypto project that claims to help uplift disadvantaged people would have to live like those they claim to want to help for 1 year.

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Hearing more stories of non US SWers being detained in the US based on facial recognition. Latest one wasn’t even working. She had deleted all her ads too. She just had a layover at LAX while traveling from Europe to Australia.

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May 11

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One of my favorite historical examples of this, for intimate apparel, is how open-crotch underwear was once the norm and closed-crotch underwear was seen as scandalous…when it is very much the opposite today.

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@dieworkwear

May 9

The issue of respectability in dress, and what constitutes "proper" attire in public, has raged for as long as people have worn clothes. People who take this position fail to recognize that their own clothes were once the "yoga pants" of their day. I will run through examples

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So Alabama's really going to vote on whether a pregnant person should go to jail for murder if they don't produce a live birth. legislature.state.al.us/pdf/Searchable But hey! The pregnant person can't be prosecuted over miscarriage due to physical or sexual assault from a partner. Generous.

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"But with the industry being what it is, career seems like the wrong framework—it’s more like a monetized hobby."

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All the Exciting Media Outlets Are Dying. What the Hell Comes Next? | The Walrus

Once-giant digital outlets like BuzzFeed News and Vice are either dead or dying. The media landscape looks bleaker than ever

one of the biggest fallacies about relationships is that there is a right person out there waiting for you to find them and when you do, you’ll suddenly be in a great relationship but great relationships aren’t just out there waiting for you—they are co-created, they are *built*

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The tool is money. The goal is freedom. Never confuse that.

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Woke up to my Etsy account being permanently suspended 😭 I rely on it for a living . Been building it since 2014. If you want to support my art , I still have my website .

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Creepy Gals

Creepy Gals offers unique apparel, accessories, and art that satisfy your kitschy Valentine fantasies! Our collection features quirky t-shirts, offbeat accessories, and edgy artwork designed to...

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slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl.

In Louisiana, traffic to Pornhub dropped 80% following the state's new age-verification law. But does this mean people stopped watching porn? No, since people could just visit sites that weren't complying with the law or skirt it with a VPN.

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Pornhub blocks Utah because of age verification law

"Until a real solution is offered, we have made the difficult decision to completely disable access to our website in Utah."

The price of adoption.

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paddington bear stan account (sped up 3x)

@adriyoung

May 9

i believe in gender equality until it’s time for me to put my luggage in an overhead bin

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we talked about this 🤦‍♀️ import/export of art is protected under the Berman exemptions, and offering software services to Iranians is exempt from sanctions under General License D-2

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I just wanted to mint a new artwork on opensea but...

My page on opensea is lost! Cause apparently I'm Iranian!!! I'm so sad

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My unhinged questionable choice in my 30s ended up being my dream come true ♡ I'm excited for her.

My first piece for

, on the royal women of Dubai who risked everything to flee the brutality of its ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, while he publicly espoused gender equality. A story of mind-blowing courage and terrifying cruelty.

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The Fugitive Princesses of Dubai

As the emirate’s ruler espoused gender equality, four royal women staked their lives on escaping his control.

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Mariah | muvaofmarketing.eth/celo

@muvaofmarketing

May 9

Are you going to start making moves or keep making excuses? You can’t do both.

Some wild transactions in the mempool... Here, someone's paying 10 Million sats in fees to send 12 Million sats. That's a 78% transaction fee. 🤯

if i hear about one more “usecase for bitcoin upgrades” that’s just fancy gambling, imma scream

HEY KIDS: Want to know what AI Hype looked like 15 years ago, when Bostrom was (kind of) fashionable and Kurzweil's skin didn't look like a paint shop accident? Check this dossier at spectrum.ieee.org/special-report it's a perfect time capsule of SINGULARITY HYPE

$25 is a small price to pay for censorship resistant transactions

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@La__Cuen

May 8

When bitcoiners get angry about increased network demand/activity driving up transaction fees, yet also want “mainstream adoption”😝

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"Ownership of digital currencies in Turkey was the highest in the world at 27.1% followed by Argentina at 23.5% -- well above global crypto ownership rate estimated at 11.9%"

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Cryptoverse: Digital coins lure inflation-weary Argentines and Turks

Can inherently volatile cryptocurrencies become safe-havens? Apparently they can in some parts of the world, such as Argentina and Turkey, where soaring prices and tumbling local currencies have...

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Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D

@RVAwonk

May 7

This woman was forced to carry to term a pregnancy that nearly killed her, then was prosecuted for her behaviors during pregnancy — not b/c she was doing anything illegal, but b/c her behaviors weren’t healthy for the pregnancy they forced her to carry.

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Doctors Warned Her Pregnancy Could Kill Her. Then Tennessee Outlawed Abortion.

A Tennessee mother wanted to end her high-risk pregnancy, but doctors feared prosecution.

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Remember the time

banned me for life bc I had an unrelated tumblr where I reblogged nude statues? I do.

Transaction fees are supposed to go higher, and this is what we all expect to happen in the future. If you can't afford high fees, you'll be priced out of the Bitcoin blockchain and will transact over the Lightning Network. This is just a preview of what Bitcoin will look like

“Crypto is dumb I can’t think of a single use case.” Gestures at any industry where the ppl who make stuff cant monetize it themselves. we got ppl getting removed from the banking system for fixing this prob. And everyone else crying and diddling themselves bc tube sites are hit.

Hamantaschen for dinner is a vibe. 😋

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My latest for

on a bill that would study how illicit actors use #crypto and how to stop them. Thanks to

@KMSmithDC

of the

@BlockchainAssn

for her insights. forbes.com/sites/digital- Thanks

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Congress Wants To Learn How Terrorists Use Crypto And How To Stop Them

U.S. lawmakers reintroduced a bi-partisan bill last week that would mandate government studies on how terrorists and criminals are using cryptocurrencies for sanctions evasion, money laundering and...

"A Florida woman, unable to get an abortion in her state, carried to term a baby who had no kidneys. Deborah Dorbert’s son Milo died in her arms on March 3, shortly after he was born, just as her doctors had predicted he would."