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  Sai (@HSsai) reported 1 minute ago

  @ArcadeValentine problem is that you can't do business at all. like, say you want to draw IoIi lewds for money. well, paypal, mastercard, visa, they all hate you, so what do you do? ****** lie that you're not doing what you're doing. why are death threats a requirement for oppression?

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  𐡀 (@Xyleniqq) reported 2 minutes ago

  I’ve been running a fake charity out of my garage for three years. It started as a joke because my neighbor kept asking me to buy Girl Scout cookies and I wanted to see if I could sell something stupid. I made up "Save the Left-Handed Ferrets." Made a basic website, printed some flyers. I actually sold $4,000 worth of merch. I felt so guilty I donated $4,000 of my own money to a real animal shelter. But then people kept donating. Now I have $18,000 in a PayPal account. I can’t spend it, but I also can’t give it back because I don’t know who gave it. I tried to shut it down but the website got hacked and now it’s asking for crypto. I’m 53 and I’m accidentally running a money laundering front for a fake animal charity. My wife thinks I’m just really into ferrets now.

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  ᚷᚱᚨᚱ ᚢᛚᚠᚱ (@NotJoshGeyer) reported 5 minutes ago

  **MOLD SAGA UPDATE** Waiting on tools to be dropped off and parts to be delivered so I can fix this pulley and belt and coil packs. Could REALLY use $50 for gas, I’ve only got a half a tank and I need to get to Atlanta and drive around a little bit before I’ll make any money so if anyone wanted to throw me even a couple bucks it would help tremendously. Cashapp $primetime1313 PayPal JoshGeyer1313

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  RuntimeWire 🏴‍☠️ (@runtimewire) reported 5 minutes ago

  Someone called us "a WordPress site with an AI writer." Sure: 227k lines of TypeScript, a 64-table ledger, a real-time CPM ad auction, Stripe + PayPal payout rails, an MCP server so AI agents can read us AND buy ads, and a newsroom that renders its own nightly video recaps.

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  Daniel - Budai Media 📧 (@thedanielbudai) reported 7 minutes ago

  One of our peptide clients woke up last week to a dead checkout and funds on hold. No warning or email the night before. Just a Stripe shutdown that hit overnight and froze everything. This wasn't bad luck or a compliance mistake on their end. Stripe's own policy FAQ now states they are not accepting RUO peptide merchants. New applications get declined. Existing accounts get reviewed and terminated when the underwriting team catches what's being sold. Stripe, PayPal, and Square all have the same structural problem for this category. They approve accounts fast and underwrite them later. The moment a review catches the product type, the account dies. And industry reports on Mastercard's 2026 BRAM update indicate research peptides are specifically flagged, with fund holds that can run 90 to 180 days after shutdown. Three months of revenue frozen while you're rebuilding from zero. The brands that survive this aren't the ones it doesn't happen to. They're the ones who built the infrastructure knowing it would. The survival setup looks like this: A dedicated high-risk merchant account with an underwriter who explicitly approves peptide merchants, not an aggregator that approves first and asks questions later. A backup gateway already live and tested before the primary goes down. A shutdown becomes a bad day instead of a dead business. A billing descriptor that matches your store name. Chargebacks kept under 1%. Research-only language everywhere on the site. The June 28 Stripe policy change is one wave. There will be more. Build the fallback while your current processor still works. I put together a full payment processing guide specifically for peptide stores covering everything above in detail. Comment "PAYMENTS" and I’ll send it over.

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  Elizabeth Farrell (@ElizabethF6116) reported 16 minutes ago

  Aah the same bloody sandals Snowy.. Demanded my money back but got nowhere..wrote a review..Bloody Rubbish.. I used PayPal for 8 years..no problem They got taken over a few years ago.. My account got hacked..so I do not use it now.. Fraud Squad was on the ball..so lost no money Thank you Snowy

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  Ebin Memes22 (@EbinMemes22) reported 18 minutes ago

  @ItsLulu_7 you can talk to anyone on earth in as near to real time as physics can currently take us, obesity and laziness are magnitudes more of a problem than starvation , with paypal you can pay for things in a couple of clicks and with amazon they can arrive at your home the next day.

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  Kdl6785 (@kdl6785) reported 21 minutes ago

  @ByronDonalds YOUR PAYPAL SCORE EVEN RAISED THE EYEBROW OF AG HARMEET DHILLION! YOU BOUGHT PAYPAL IN FEBRUARY 2026 ALL WHILE KNOWING THAT THERE WAS A DOJ DEI CIVIL LAWSUIT THAT WAS ABOUT TO BE SETTLED IN MAY 2026!! HOW MUCH DID YOU EARN WHEN THE DEI LAWSUIT WAS WON AGAINST PAYPAL IN MAY 2026?? WHEN THE DOJ AG COMMENTED ON YOUR BIG SCORE THATS A HUGE PROBLEM YOUR A UNSCRUPULOUS, UNETHICAL LIAR NOTHING YOU SAY IS TRUE

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  Race 🕊️ (@multiplanet1) reported 23 minutes ago

  Elon Musk's brother Kimbal once described the phone call where Elon told him he was putting his entire PayPal fortune into rockets and electric cars. And it reveals the moment Kimbal realized his brother was operating on a different frequency than everyone else. Kimbal said he tried to talk him out of it. Not because the ideas were bad. Because the risk was insane. $180 million split between two industries with the highest failure rate in existence. No safety net. No diversification. Everything on two bets that every expert said would fail. He said Elon listened patiently to every argument. The way he always does when someone tells him something is impossible. Then he said something Kimbal has never forgotten. He said "what's the point of money you don't use for something that matters." Kimbal said that was the moment he stopped trying to talk his brother out of things. Not because the logic was sound. Because he realized Elon wasn't making a financial decision. He was making a moral one. In his mind keeping $180 million in a bank while humanity had no backup plan for extinction was the risky move. Spending it all on Mars and electric cars was the safe move. The entire world saw a billionaire making a reckless gamble. His brother saw a man who couldn't live with the guilt of having resources and not deploying them on the biggest problems he could find. The difference between reckless and visionary is always obvious in retrospect. In real time it looks exactly the same. The only thing that separates them is whether the person turns out to be right.

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  Godknowz (@Ohauche1) reported 24 minutes ago

  @raycrypto_1 Yeah am on it , just that getting PayPal has been an issue for me.

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  Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) reported 25 minutes ago

  Whitney Webb just exposed the real reason why Palantir was created: To privatize mass surveillance. “This is admitted in mainstream media.” “So don’t tell me this is a conspiracy theory.” “Alex Karp admitted that the CIA was always the intended client of Palantir.” Webb and Mark Goodwin just broke down the truth about Palantir’s origins: After 9/11, DARPA launched the Information Awareness Office to develop a government mass surveillance apparatus. Reagan-era National Security Advisor John Poindexter led the new IAO. After massive public scrutiny and backlash, Congress defunded it. But the program never really shut down. It was moved into the private sector with the help of Peter Thiel and Alex Karp. Webb: “Peter Thiel comes, fresh off of selling PayPal … he’s got all this money, and he’s like: I’m gonna make this company called Palantir.” “Palantir … had really started off as the anti-fraud algorithm at PayPal.” “When PayPal was being created, Max Levchin sort of gave it away.” Goodwin revealed that Max Levchin essentially admitted in an interview at the time: “When I was developing all the anti-fraud stuff at PayPal, I was working with every three and four letter agency that I could.” “Meaning the CIA, and the DOD, and DARPA.” “They form PayPal in the late ‘90s.” “They make a bunch of money, and it’s Thiel and Levchin, admittedly working with the CIA and NSA, while developing this anti-fraud stuff.” “He takes that anti-fraud algorithm, which was built with the CIA in the private sector, and then rebrands it as Palantir.” Webb: “As they’re setting it up, they go through Richard Perle, who was involved with the Bush-era Department of Defense, and I believe the Office of Special Plans.” “He’s approached by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp.” “They’re basically like: we want to talk to John Poindexter, because what he was trying to do is what we want to do.” “They go and meet with Poindexter, who becomes named basically the godfather of modern surveillance because of this.” “He advises them on how to create Palantir.” “And then Palantir gets in bed pretty much right away with the CIA.” “They were their first and only client for their first six years.” @_whitneywebb @markgoodw_in

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  HelluvaNerdZuki📻🍎🦉🦎=❤️⛵ (@MeaganLouise16) reported 27 minutes ago

  I hate this tactic for promoting merch. I can't be the only one that's like fuckfuckfuck gotta get it now or it'll be gone. Plus isn't it convenient that suddenly you have issues with your Internet or PayPal at checkout and by the time you figure it out the item is gone.

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  Milos (@CROguy_) reported 27 minutes ago

  Got traffic that's ready to buy? Get out of their way. Test express checkout buttons right on the product page. We got a $12k difference here with that change. High-intent traffic isn't shopping around - they've decided. Every tap between "I want this" and "here's my card" is a tap you can lose them on. Shop Pay / PayPal / Apple Pay under the buy box 👉 straight to payment, skip the cart. PayPal especially prints here. People trust it and check out without a second thought. Don't slow down someone who's already sold.

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  Mimi Too (@mimitoo___) reported 27 minutes ago

  @essywritter @Safaricom_Care I thought I was the only one but they say they don't have a problem but the money keeps getting reversed back to paypal

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  Nikita (@nikita_builds) reported 28 minutes ago

  In 2020, I was sharing an apartment in San Jose with a guy who was absolutely feverish about starting companies. We were both at PayPal. We'd read Tim Ferriss's Four-Hour Work Week, and we spent every weekend learning React and putting things on the internet to see what would happen. That same year, I figured out you could jailbreak a phone, write a LUA script, and simulate taps on the screen to send iMessages automatically. A few people started paying me for it, and that became Blue Text, which eventually became @sendbluehq. But then I spent the next three years trying not to build Sendblue. I didn't stop working on it. I just kept finding new things to start instead. It was a classic case of shiny object syndrome. There was Figment, a Figma-to-website engine I poured real time into. A crypto project from 2022 to 2024, and probably twenty other ideas before and after those, most of which failed. Every time I started something new, I told myself it was adjacent, complementary, worth the detour. None of them were. Sendblue was growing through all of it. Customers were paying. The phone farm I'd built from one jailbroken iPhone 6 in my parents' closet had scaled into clusters across Manhattan and Brooklyn, and we'd figured out issues that no one online had solved before, at least not in the US. The product had a real moat, but I kept looking over my shoulder at everything else. It's so easy to spot our mistakes in hindsight. If you have a real winner, triple down on it. Don't get sucked into something else because hitting a home run doesn't happen all that often. Take it from me.