I refuse to accept that our future will be to live in puritan hell states. Keep calling!
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I refuse to accept that our future will be to live in puritan hell states. Keep calling!
this is what "reasonable concerns" liberals are trying to import into the US btw
with a particular set of economic policies the US went from the depths of the great depression to dominant global superpower, subsequently the entire mainstream political spectrum resolved to never do anything like that ever again
They're actively targeting creators who call in & banning them, making it even more important to call if you're a customer & not a creator Tell them they shouldn't be dictating how you get to spend the money you put your blood, sweat, and tears into earning
nah, we don't know who posted that
she's against it right up until they need her vote
counter-argument: if the Dems were doing a better job at pretending to resist we'd be in worse shape, they are doing us a favor by letting us know exactly which side they are on, and there's no way the democratic party I've known my whole life would be on ours here
one commonality between the right's response to disease and climate change... if you want to pretend something isn't a problem and have people believe it, you also have to pretend the solutions aren't necessary and should be abandoned
they like what he's doing and want more of it. i'm afraid you will have to actually oppose the fascists yourself
she can but she won't
demand from who
Says it all. From Susan Collins' ribbon cutting in Searsport today.
much effort has been spent on convincing people that don't like either the republicans or the democrats that they're therefore reasonable centrists, when the reality is that somebody who dislikes two different right wing parties is probably somewhere on the left whether they know it or not
Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
Senator Susan Collins got an earful from protesters at a ribbon cutting ceremony in Searsport today.
Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books
the "terrorism related charge" is support of palestine if you were wondering
the merging of corporate power and state power is not socialism or communism, it's fascism
the merging of corporate power and state power is not socialism or communism, it's fascism
The answer to "What happened to [social justice movement]?" is pretty much always "it was suppressed by violence." Official and otherwise. Far from the only way repression works (read the investigations into the co-option of the formal BLM org), but it's a major one.
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
Wow it turned out that all those blue wave follow back accounts are now being weaponized by a reactionary politician? Who would have ever guessed this?
Censorship of porn is just the test run. Age verification is going to kill the open web mashable.com/article/age-...
Ok - so I'm going to do a real context+write up but for now, here's what some of these things look like. To start my data reference is DCinbox which is ~208,000 official e-newsletters over the past 15 years.
funny thing to think about is the dems won during the year with the huge police protests and people going on about no kids in cages, and the dems completely ate shit during the year they blew all this off and went as hard as they could with trying to court the 'moderate republican' vote
I just don't want to hear "We can't fight every battle!" from people who take every Friday off.
no no, the aim is censoring the internet, protecting children is just what they dress it in
If you think Gavin Newsom is fighting fascism because his comms people post, but the encampment protesters last year were out of line, or Black Lives Matter protesters went too far, or anti-ICE protesters were wrong because they flew Mexican flags, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT FIGHTING FASCISM LOOKS LIKE.
don't worry about it, he doesn't
the ACA wasn't created to provide healthcare, it was created to funnel $$$ to private insurance companies
liberals falling into their bizarre "sure, nobody really likes the guy, but we have to vote for him because he's the most electable" doublethink again
AUGUST 16, 2025
If you're reacting dramatically to Trump's attacks on unhoused people in DC, but giving people shit bc they don't support Newsom, the gentlest thing that I can say is that your politics are inconsistent. Yell all you want. I can't feel called out by someone with that kind of moral flexibility.
They moderating bluesky like its a fucking subreddit lmao. Just willy nilly banning anyone they personally dislike if they happen upon a skeet of theirs trhy personally had an issue with
Bluesky moderation suspending trans people for wishing ill on the members of a hate group who are actively working to eradicate us shows us what a morally bankrupt crock of shit civility is and how it only serves to punish victims and protect victimizers. Bluesky should be ashamed of themselves.
You can't just "wish ill" upon someone. That's not allowed. You have to use your vast fortune and influence to shape public opinion and law against the millions of people upon whom you wish ill.
it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
happened to click on the bluesky tos feedback post again after seeing somebody quote it, and noticed your replies have now been hidden as well
they're definitely reading them because they're selectively hiding replies they don't like. but yes, form too
it sure does
half of all bloomberg stories are just "area asshole wants to juice stock by lying"
Unless someone can offer another tech reason- it really looks like Bluesky manually hid the top two comments initially under this post which were both “stop banning Palestinians”
Any reason no one can see this post under here anymore? It was the top comment bsky.app/profile/cpm5...
i can no longer see my own reply in that thread, which is fascinating. it does show up under replies on my profile, though bsky.app/profile/jens...
from the sidebar, settings > content and media > thread preferences
i changed my thread settings to sort by most-liked and they definitely don't show up. i do see some other less-liked posts mentioning palestinians, including one of my own, so i don't think it's an auto-filter... they must be manually hiding replies they don't like
and finally, stop hiding replies asking you to stop banning palestinians
i will only believe bluesky cares about keeping people safe once singal and vance have been banned also, stop banning palestinians
OH MY GOD WE ARE WINNING YALL KEEP CALLING DO NOT STOP DO NOT STOP CALLING LOOK AT WHAT WE ARE DOING!!!
nah, they were saying this for a reason. stripe still needs to explain what that reason is, they need to explicitly protect lgbtq *and* adult content in their terms of service, and then assure us this adjusted policy will be communicated to their support reps
no, generative ai has no will or intentionality and articles like this are purely marketing
twice today, when pressured, Stripe operators have said, plainly, that i cannot use stripe for the purchase of LGBTQ content. not just adult content, but explicitly LGBTQ.
hear me out here, what if none of it is a 'distraction' and they're just doing a lot of horrible shit simultaneously
#SaveSpeech Updated list of major US bills ya'll need to yell at your congressmen about, w/ talking points. Tell em to say NO to: SCREEN ACT KOSA IODA www.congress.gov/members/find... CALL EM. MAIL EM. EMAIL EM. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD.
I don’t think people like Pete Buttigieg are making decisions based on some polling they’re seeing that we aren’t, I think instead they’re trying to appease large donors and secure backing for future campaigns that they don’t particularly care whether they win or not.
pete buttigieg looks like a deepfake of himself
farthest i've been n: mt. katahdin s: st. petersburg (the florida one) e: tokyo w: salt lake city
Hey, it would mean so much to me if y'all kept up the pressure with phone calls to payment processors to show to them how much people care and that they can't just ignore it—my livelihood depends on adult games not being censored! You can find info and phone scripts here: stop-paypros.neocities.org
Visa employees clearly told to deescalate ASAP MasterCard employees more than familiar with the issue Stripe feeling the pressure ACLU put out a statement CBC covered all this What you are doing is WORKING You are getting RESULTS KEEP CALLING KEEP WRITING WE ARE GOING TO WIN!!
cheerleading corporate censorship with the expectation they'll never come after anything you value is the definition of useful idiot
Stripe, Visa and Mastercard have all made some kind of public statement within the last 24 hours about the #SaveSpeech backlash. While theyre continuing to dig in their heels, a response is MEANINGFUL PROGRESS. it means we are having an effect. yall are doing great. keep up the energy! Call! Mail!
have they considered opposing republicans
PRESSURE PAYPAL! it's good that visa and mastercard call centers are feeling the pinch, but it's not just on them! put the pins on paypal! every adult artist you know lives in fear of the paypal freeze out--but as customers, you're safe! support us with a call!
Puritanical right wing assholes have been coming for sex workers' and pornographers' right to exist & do business online for almost as long as the internet has existed But this wave IS different 1/?
Paul McCartney's mother forbade him from listening to The Beatles when he was growing up. "It wouldn't make sense," she'd say. "It doesn't make any sense.."
Call call call. Visa is literally begging us to stop calling and send emails. Calls cost them way more money and they can't use key words to filter them out
On itch io, payment processors, and the developers and creatives affected I wrote about the itch deindexing, stripe, a religious group & a call to action + shared amazing words from 25 affected creators who took their time to write me. 🔁 RTs Appreciated 🔁 #itch #indiedev #visualnovel #comic #novel
Ok I just called Visa since that's my card issuer. 1. Played dumb with frontline customer support ("why can't I buy my friends game on Steam / Itch"). They tried to dump me to email but I escalated to a supervisor. 2. Played smart with the supervisor, and caught them in a lie... 👇
Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
enormous violence is being done to us by unaccountable elites. they rob us blind, they send our neighbors to foreign dungeons or murder them in the street. they cut healthcare to build concentration camps and conduct a livestreamed genocide. they rape and traffic and brazenly get away with it all
“Please send us emails instead” means “we can put key words from your script on our corporate spam filter and ignore you, but calls shut down our entire contact infrastructure” Keep fucking calling.
So, obviously the whole Itchio / Visa / Mastercard thing is very bad, and I see a lot of calling campaigns kicking off, so I tried to put together a list of things that can move the needle at a call center. Do with this info what you will.
The cancel culture panic existed to coddle the powerful who experienced the mildest of criticism and to pave the way to astroturf conservative censorship into the mainstream
I'm not interested in these "you don't have to like or approve of porn but..." takes. I think actually everyone should approve of porn. I think we all should approve of a normal and essential expression of human sexuality that also happens to keep a lot of us fed and housed.
I know we're upset about itch, but they're not the only ones Payment processors harassed companies bc of a 1,000 email hate campaign But we can EASILY top 1,000! I prewrote an email + got the contact info - you just have to send! ↻💬♡ to boost We CAN make a difference 💕 #itch #censorship 1/🧵
Here’s a short script: “Hello, my name is _____, and I would like to file a complaint. I find it troubling that Mastercard is blocking content on (the platforms you use) and making it difficult for me to make legal purchases. I am going to stop using Mastercard if this isn’t rescinded and fixed."
Maybe we could find out. Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372 Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111 Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911 Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440 PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000
how much did anthropic pay you for this article
America is beautiful because no matter where you are in the country, if you are in a dangerous situation, you can use any active phone and call (for free! even on a pay phone!) a simple three-digit number & a trained emergency worker from the government will rush to your location to shoot your dog.
billionaires exist through exploitation, their existence is political
It is so, so important to learn to understand the difference between A Gross Thing That Freaks Me Out, versus A Thing Which Causes Actual Harm In The World because as long as you can't navigate the difference, your disgust is a lever that can be used to manipulate you
Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs
Turns out ICE abducting people in broad daylight and deporting them to black sites isn't great for the tourism biz
this november, elect the man who invented cars
to be fair sometimes they get pummeled by marisa kabas instead
came back from japan in late may, got through immigration in about five seconds and was waved through customs. all anybody asked for was my passport
sorry kid, watching your show would enrich a transphobe
anyone not vocally advocating to abolish ICE at this point is objectively pro-gestapo and that includes liberal politicians
you've discovered the thing they all have in common
the use of the exonerative tense here makes me suspect that it's the cops who injured the multiple people
Hey, remember when the Panama Papers were released and they showed how basically every wealthy person on the planet was avoiding taxes by offshoring their money and nothing was done about it except the reporter who broke the story was murdered with a car bomb?
The lesson that I wish more people would take from this whole thing is that borders and citizenship are entirely arbitrary concepts subject entirely to the whims of the powerful and only ever serve their interests. We don’t need them.
It’s almost like Americans were never fundamentally, inevitably “anti-immigration” and Democrats never had to just put their hands up and meekly chase Republicans (and lose), and affirm all their anti-immigrant positions that helped get us here at all!
it was a shit bill and surrendering the rhetoric about the border to republicans is part of why you keep losing
rich guy wants democrats to keep losing elections to republicans
If you have even the tiniest bit of an ability to do a power analysis I have no idea how you blame leftists for anything
the actions of establishment democrats are intensely confusing if you start with the assumption they are trying to win elections & help people, but immediately understandable if you start with the assumption they are trying to make the rich as disproportionately wealthy and powerful as possible
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