If you're in the states, the Better Business Bureau is your friend
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If you're in the states, the Better Business Bureau is your friend
Oh my gosh, getting in touch with the BBB WORKED. PayPal is restoring my account and I should have access to my money again. If you are in the US or deal with the US PayPal and your account is randomly, without warning, and without explanation closed down, file a complaint with the BBB!
Crunchyroll started as a piracy website that would steal the work of fansub groups and lock it behind paywalls, which caused Fansub groups to literally encode messages during the "Brought to you in part by these sponsors" segments, warning viewers that if you paid for the subs, you got scammed
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
PLEASE do this if you haven't already it takes sub 5 minutes to do and it's the last day to fill out! 👇👇👇👇
the usual vagueness is present here that is usually a bad sign to come for adult content. bluesky is taking feedback on the guidelines at this link below. Let them know these are not satisfactory docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... points that need addressing are: [cont]
HEY! FELLOW FURRY PORN ENJOYERS!! THE DEADLINE TO FILL THIS FORM ENDS ON THE 28TH T O M O R R O W Go let Bluesky know your grievances about their vague guidelines NOW Or face the possibility of us artists being kicked from the platform! This DOESN'T just affect nsfw art, it affects EVERY artist
Y’all this is literally how we can fix things. Especially in the coastal cities it’s basically free energy AND clean water.
If you’re new to the fight, please don’t be afraid to get involved! A lot of the ppl fighting since Day 1 need reinforcements or backup
American worker pay increased by just 3.6% in 2024. CEOs, on the other hand, saw their pay rise twice as fast -- over 7.7% increase. Median total pay for bosses at the biggest corporations rose to $19 million last year.
gAI art is bad because it's stealing labor. stealing labor from art is easy because no one sees art as labor, they see it as talent. they see it as talent because it's easier to believe they have a right to hate you because they can't stand they gave up and you didn't. fuck them, pay labor.
🧵 “Target is experiencing its 6th straight month of declining foot traffic, with store visits down nearly 8% and a $12 billion loss in market value following its rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.” Heads up, anti-DEI investors www.blackenterprise.com/target-decli...
"...BUT LET'S BUILD THE ENTIRE WORLD ECONOMY ON IT!"
This is the part where they're going to pretend every single one of us who were correct about "AI" for the past few years actually wasn't, because that would mean the media, tech executives and most of Wall Street were wrong.
I actually want more of this. I want ai companies to land all sorts of highly visible contracts with low stakes that they publicly flub. I want everyone to understand this shit doesn't work before it's integrated into something life threatening, like, say, hospital scheduling.
#SaveSpeech its the work week, so remember to contact your US representatives! Tell them to OPPOSE the following bills: Kids Online Safety Act (s.1748) Interstate Obscenity Definition Act (s.1671) SCREEN Act (s.737) FADPA (H.R.791) ACPA Block BEARD Act www.congress.gov/members/find...
It's becoming increasingly obvious that the internet we've had for the past 30 years is being actively dismantled. We need to start taking proactive action to protect data and lines of communications on websites that haven't been affected yet, before they are. Censorship is rapidly coming.
I'm seeing fewer posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation, and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them and losing them money. Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of. ⬇️
Good morning. This is a reminder to keep calling the paypros. Don't give up, dont stop. If you do, you are accepting living in a world without big titie anime girls. DO YOU WANT THAT?
Reminder: If Visa and Mastercard are allowed to limit what games you buy, there's nothing stopping them from limiting what food you buy, where you buy your clothes, what services you're allowed to pay for, and more. This is a fight for your freedom to spend your money on your terms. Keep calling!
I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic
If you’re looking for a little uplifting news to improve your mood heading into the weekend I recommend reading every word of this article. 💙❤️
This directly pertains to being LGBTQ+, making art, making LGBTQ+ art, and making adult content, and will affect your ability to do any of these on the internet. Go fill this out and tell them to clarify their guidelines and stand up to fascist censorship pressure. It takes five to ten minutes.
SPEAK UP!!! WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER FRICKIN SOCIAL TO NUKE NSFW CONTENT ONCE THEY GOT ENOUGH USERS! CENSORSHIP ALWAYS LEAD TO BANNING QUEER, BPOC, DISABLED PPL IMPORTANT CONTENT NEXT!
because they don't tell you in the head or sub-head: the brand is DermaRite. there are specific products & batch numbers in the article
Holy shit Keep calling We’re going to win
it seems that, as a democrat, if you offer people policies and solutions other than "I'm not a republican" and "nothing will change", they will support you
I'll say it again: if you are terminally-online & have a vast reservoir of pent-up angry energy from feeling powerless as the world around you gets worse and worse it is 1000% more productive to direct that energy towards Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, and Paypal than any other target #SaveSpeech
This statement means more calling. Today my rep said there aren't restrictions on LGBTQ content. Curiously when I asked about adult content, they said my assumption that it's not supported at all was incorrect. I finally had to relent to email so we wait. 1-888-926-2289 Say you're from California.
This is the first comment we have seen publicly from Stripe about this situation. We need to keep up the pressure so they are forced to talk about more.
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act. TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets! Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963
A Trump order seeks to impose involuntary confinement on homeless and mentally ill Americans. Trans people are already at a higher risk. But a nightmare scenario of mass confinement hangs over the order - the right defines trans people as inherently mentally ill. slate.com/life/2025/08...
Dozens of companies are hiding how you can delete your personal data, The Markup and CalMatters found. www.wired.com/story/data-b...
18 million children will lose free school meals because of the Republican cuts to food assistance. time.com/7308619/trum...
this is from back in May, but while youre calling your representatives about the SCREEN act and KOSA, its worth including a mention about the 'Interstate Obscenity Definition Act' (IODA). remember, you dont need to go into great detail, you just need to be another tally of citizens saying "no"
Cops get half a city's entire budget and and they rob, via asset forfeiture, literally more than burglars do. Similar to how employers steal more money in wages than all robbery and burglary combined, except you're also forced to pay them 168+ hours overtime a week boingboing.net/2020/12/21/u...
Easiest submission I’ve ever done fr — and these sorts of things are often simple too, so that’s saying a lot. Stop censorship IMMEDIATELY. Literally 2 clicks, name/email, (optional) subject/body edits, and 1 final click. Please pause your scrolling and do it now. cartoonist.coop/censorship-p...
The correct framework for talking about this, KOSA, Visa and Mastercard, FOSTA/SESTA, and all other crackdowns on consensually created adult content Prohibition. We've tried it, it didn't work, it could never have worked, and it will never work.
today at the park we saw wild turkeys and some dude behind us was like “bro look at those owls” so what I’m saying is don’t ever let anyone make you feel stupid. you can visually identify a turkey
LRP: Seriously, raise hell. They won't stop at *just* porn. They'll classify a bunch of stuff they don't like as "porn", innocuous stuff, stuff that shouldn't be. No one should tell you what you can and can't watch, do, or spend money on.
What’s a smut peddler to do these days?
you can just call up your representatives and give their office a big ol list of bills you want them to vote "no" on. you dont have to do individual calls for each or even go into detail if you dont have the time or energy. you can just say "do not support THESE bills" and go down a list.
DONT STOP CALLING
Sports Illustrated is covering it now. Time to pretend to be a normie shareholder who wants to know why the brand is damaging its own reputation.
banned from a livestream for mentioning mastercard is definitely a bad look imagine it would have been simpler to just let somebody buy a video game. idk
I know this shit is working because I'm in FinTech and have been dealing with clients upset over their payment processor staggering with their funds and payments. Shit has been crazy all week. KEEP. CALLING.
you know what would be really funny? if people started calling MasterCard saying "I mentioned MasterCard in a Riot/Valorant/League of Legends stream and I got timed out/warned/banned. I don't understand why that would happen. Can you explain it to me?"
Great idea. Mastercard DID NOT WANT to be brought up negatively in the context of their sponsorship of Riot's esports Weaponize that against them
Riot Games is accused of actively suppressing any negative comments related to Mastercard or otherwise mentioning the anti-game/NSFW censorship movement on its esports broadcasts. The decision to do so was reportedly made internally, according to an obtained statement. www.si.com/esports/news...
This is not how corporations respond to an ineffective protest. This is how they respond to a protest that they would like to have go away. So don't let it go away. Keep it going. In fact, Streissand Effect this shit. Call attention to how much they want this to go away.
The bosses all understood this is what voting for Trump was voting for. If youre a worker and you thought it was for cheaper groceries or lower rent or access to burrito taxis or whatever you got conned
Just said to myself "I bet they're just asking Copilot what to do at this point" so I decided to check
There's a good tactic to keep them on the phone longer in here: Start by saying you're concerned about a statement that the processor has put out, and then read the entire statement without stopping. This will cause confusion and awkwardness if they just repeat it back to you, which they likely will
#SaveSpeech Remember, if youre american, contact your reps and urge them not to support KOSA and the SCREEN act! Unlike Pay-pros, you dont need to waste time. All they NEED is to know is that you dont support it. Heres some talking points if desired tho: www.congress.gov/members/find...
![SCREEN ACT: -full age verification. (biometric scans, ID uploads, background checks) -Deeply unsafe for personal and data privacy. Security/data breaches are rampant, and uploading so much sensitive data to every single we site is just asking for mass ID theft. -id verification is much, much harder on small websites than larger ones, creating a chilling effect and stifling speech for anyone that isnt a massive corporation -draw comparison to UK's OSA [online safety act] and the backlash it is receiving](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xawhcpoqu6pdxpp72fd43wuf/bafkreief25czuj2rgcjc4nckpa7fdhn7d42427c4znmr5btinjnmvouwsq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Hey @petebuttigieg.bsky.social, should Obergefell be sent back to localities too? Maybe your right to adopt children should depend on where you live? Or do you only back “states rights” for trans kids, you pathetic focus-group moral coward?
I really respected the guardian when I was younger
You wish you had made up the phrase "AI vegan?" You don't think you would be able to come up with the phrase "AI vegan" on your own?
what is this lmao they will just print anything at the guardian these days
RFK Jr. has cancelled $500 million in funding for vaccine development. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
An info-graph regarding this post: #Twitch #VSky #MeltTheICE #NoICE
Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.
Damn fucked up how the duopoly that's super powerful and nobody can stand-up against has to fold against a government policy all of a sudden and it's the policy of one government dictating what every other nation does. Keep calling Visa/MasterCard. Fuck 'em. They can stop this shit whenever.
Read more: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...
The entire supply of fire retardant, the vital liquid dropped from planes to combat wildfires, is controlled by one company. That company, Perimeter Solutions, charges 20-30% more than it did four years ago. So our government pays them more and more in an effort to save lives.
I'm seeing less posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them, and losing them money. Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.
Keep up the pressure! #SaveSpeech
BREAKING: Student loan delinquency rates have hit a record high. The share of student-loan debt entering serious delinquency was 12.9%, the highest in 21 years of data. finance.yahoo.com/news/record-...
Good morning my lovelies! Another friendly reminder to make phone calls and write physical letters to Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Paypal, etc! Don't let up! Let these these companies know (politely) exactly how you feel about controlling and restricting the legal adult media you can buy online!
Keep calling your Congressmen about stopping KOSA and SCREEN dead in their tracks. Keep calling Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and Stripe.
Skyblivion — the upcoming fan remake of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion made by the TESRenewal volunteer modding group — has just dropped its first update since the release of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered in April, confirming the fan-made project will still release later this year.
we’ve made it clear that anyone who visits the US could be disappeared into a Salvadoran prison but I’m sure it’s the kids and their avocado toasts who’re to blame
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Visa is now actively shutting down calls regarding their censorship and prohibition of the sale of legal product. They clearly retrained their staff on how to deal with our calls. That doesn't happen unless there's critical mass. KEEP IT UP. They are trying to turf the calls as fast as they can.
Reminder that we haven't actually seen any results yet. Itch reindexing free NSFW content and Valve making a public statement are not results, they're distractions. The *bare minimum results* is a retraction of the restrictions placed on Itch and Steam.
Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, Stripe. Don’t forget to complete your dailies!! stop-paypros.neocities.org
This is why it's so important that we keep the pressure on. What we lack in money and powerful friends we make up for in our numbers and loudness. They want everything so we must give them nothing now.
there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort. It aired in 1990.
The people who believe they NEED laws to ban porn do so because they lack self control and need God to tell them that it's bad to do sex crimes. They think legal porn is a "slippery slope" because deep down they have disgusting urges and blame YOU for "tempting" them. Check his hard drives.
Please don't stop calling them. If you do, they'll win, and we cannot afford to let them win. We must keep the pressure going until they listen to us.
I didn't know I had to do this, but aight kids, take a seat right here and let ol' NightFaux show you how to fill out an invoice... You're gonna' thank me when Paypal/the IRS doesn't order a nuclear launch on your account for several hundred disorganized transactions in the future.
This article is right on the money by saying that the simple "Translation and lettering provided by Shogakukan" credit is cowardly. Maybe Shogakukan required that wording. Maybe they didn't. Either way, it is deceptive to not label this localization as what it is: slop. Because they know it is.
One thing that doing creative work teaches you is that ideas are worth nothing. Anybody can have an idea. In a writers room you have to come up with a hundred ideas a day, and most of those don’t make the page. It’s the work of making something that gives it value. The patina of humanity.
they were going to cure cancer with this. they pulled funding for curing cancer #political
I'm angry all the time these days, but it's actually unfathomable to me that one person has the power to halt scientific progress, doing *generational* damage. For literally all of our sakes, someone needs to do something. Get this man out of the government.
It's also still about porn too and despite everyone already having said it this week, I will say it again. Porn is exactly as worth fighting for as the rest of this stuff is. They just think every single one of these things is as dangerous and evil as they think porn is.
We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.
The people are sick of being lied to. We can’t afford NOT to do it. #MedicareForAll
Oh yeah let's double our efforts now. Since these bastards are involved dont let up. They've been trying this shit since 2018
When you get on the phone with payment processors, don't think you have to suit up for battle. Ana has a lot of informative [and really fun!] call demos about how you can be kind of clueless and polite but waste a ton of their time and money.
"they needed to hire multiple studios to do what the AI promised to do but was completely unable to perform, and are keeping it hidden from the public" is the real story here like what are we doing at this point
It never ends with the porn. Never.
Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place. As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.