Think its stupid that VISA and Mastercard think something as innocent as Cat Ear accessories are a bannable offense?
Then heres something you can do about it. Complain to visa and MC, call your representatives.
Advocate for porn, whole heartedly.
four small illustrations of various fuckcreatures. top left features three slimes of various colors. top right is a mass of tentacles. bottom left is three mimics. bottom right is weird fleshy fuck flowers
introducing the taylor titmouse guide to fuckcreatures. i present to you the four major categories of fuckcreature:
-slimes
-tentacles
-mimics
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People keep telling me they are excited for my future releases but these laws are all moving so fast that it is possible many people will just never be able to buy them, even if they want to. This shit is fucking awful. Please, God, contact your reps.
and even that has no guarantee of a return. but it's at least putting off the heartbreak of writing and illustrating a work i can't sell anywhere by the time it's finished
also one way to look at this: This bill is comparable to a US version of europe's Chat Control proposal
so it needs to be taken seriously
STRIP FOR STRIPE (and all the rest) Find phone numbers at yellat.money! Comment below with your experience calling a payment processor, earn points with each call you've made today! 1 point Visa, Mastercard, Your Bank, Representative/Senator/MP 2 points Strip, Paypal 3 points Physical Letter (Anywhere) SECOND GOAL 100 POINTS FROCK Eveline stands in a thin shift, blushing
DAY 2 of STRIP FOR STRIPE!
(and all the rest)
Comment below with your experience calling! Each call earns points, and they must be NEW calls! If I liked the reply, it's been counted and can't be used again!
Here's a clickable link to yellat.money, check there for numbers, information, and scripts!
Threads like this make me think that we have at most five years before the AI Evangelists start crowing about the "tyranny of thought."
For folks looking for a plan of attack, here's what I advise:
EVERY SINGLE DAY:
MasterCard
Visa
PayPal
Stripe
Call at least 1x per day, more if you have time
IF YOU HAVE TIME:
Your bank
The ACLU, national + local branch
Your representatives
Call 1x per day
Adult businesses and sex workers reporting loss to financial accounts. PayPal: 51%. Stripe, 23%. CashApp 16%. Venmo 15%. Square 14%. Chase 11%. Google 9%. Wells Fargo 8%. Banke of America 8%. Apple Pay 8%
Given the new itchio update, a quick 🧵
Per an FSC report from 2023, financial discrimination against sex workers and adult business members is particularly prominent. PayPal & Stripe are the biggest offenders, however, many banks are known to shut down sex workers' accounts. For example, (1)
In matter of days, anger and a push from otg queer and trans people has put major companies on the defensive. When we fight we can win.
call ur banks but also still call on stripe. you cannot take their statement 100% at face value when they've previously told people calling that they specifically won't support it themselves. that pressure should not go away
This doesn’t mean to stop calling by the way. The execs in those meetings are shifting the levers back ever so slightly so they can see where it is we’ll stop calling.
Don’t stop calling.
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!!
#SaveSpeech
its been a week, and while we cannot let up pressure on making phone calls, we need to start applying pressure elsewhere now as well!
PHASE 2: START MAILING PHYSICAL LETTERS
imgur: imgur.com/a/3pVupWQ
more comprehensive info can be found here:
stop-paypros.neocities.org
yellat.money
Not someone with call center experience but some customer service experience and: I say this is very likely to be a descalation attempt. Not only because it contradicts what other reps are saying, but because you generally don't give so many unprompted details about the inner workings to a customer
I think this will be fun 😊
After doing some research, I was able to find that Fifth-Third and Evolve Bank are likely the biggest players. I was able to dig up a few numbers. On top of calling Stripe at either +1-877-887-7815 (voicemail) or at +1-888-926-2289 (say you're from California, live agent), call these numbers.
go.bsky.app/Fkos7Kg
#Yaoiday
a female sea monkey rides the cock of a troll on the beach. he's held down by another male
coastal communities of trolls tend to have good relationships with the local populations of seafolk, be it the mermaids or serpents. sea monkeys are.... more difficult to get any sort of mutual agreement out of.
at least they brought him to a beach!
It exists and it was published in 2003.
Hey so if you're looking to support some queer authors affected by this recent itchio stuff, might i suggest starting here?
go.bsky.app/LtrwERi
I got through to Mastercard and the supervisor I spoke to said they're actually aware of this, they've received multiple calls and it's been escalated to their global HQ and they're awaiting a response. KEEP CALLING!!
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This is a good explanation. “Payment processor” has basically taken on a colloquial meaning of “PayPal and your credit card company,” when it’s more accurate to say a processor is PayPal / Stripe. Even Collective Shout calls Visa/MC a payment processor even though it’s not really true
I think Fansly, Steam, Patreon, pretty much everyone uses the term “payment processor” to avoid placing blame on a specific party (or parties) within the chain responsible for the guideline changes. But it’s important to have a precise understanding of how payment processing actually works
A lot of times it’s ultimately still the card that is making the call on content policies
thehill.com/policy/techn...
Hey, guys. In light of itchio's shadowbanning of adult and LGBT content, my short stories "His Sacred Heart" and "Warm Comforts" can now be downloaded from my site, morgandante.com.
Comic text: What if instead of subsidizing corn and soy We subsidized native prairie plants I’m just a rookie in this field But I think we could do it (Get at me, congress!)
f a monoculture