now is a good time to call your 🇺🇸reps about the age verification data leak on discord: www.theverge.com/news/792032/... and payment processors on censorship and overreach: screenrant.com/manga-planet... linking new developments so that you have something recent to bring up in your calls💥📣

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Another day, another company... What is going on with the retro community as of late?

here's a reminder that discord has adopted a new arbitration policy, which means you have under 30 days to opt out of it

IF YOU ARE GERMAN, YOU NEED TO CONTACT YOUR MEPs AND DEMAND THEY OPPOSE CHAT CONTROL -RIGHT- -NOW- the link below contains individual emails and everything, PLEASE do not sleep on this!

There goes RetroAchievements. I'm glad I jumped ship from that website early because I found the community toxic overall. But this is a whole other level. I'm not going back at all after this.

Reminder that Duolingo laid off most of their staff, including their localization teams, so that they could invest heavily into AI. Don't support Duolingo. Disable drops for a few days.

Paypros are still throwing their weight around. Now's a good time to pick up yelling at them again!

Every time I see news about unethical AI, I always hope it's one of those joke articles from Hard Drive. But nope, it's always real.

For the people who still haven't spoken out, this is another example that this will come to you too. Payment processors cannot be given the message that they and banks can economically exclude people from society. There can't be compromise. We have to push back! anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co

Pumpkin season is upon us.

❗ Quick reminder that age verification on Bluesky is fully client side! Meaning you can easily get around it! More on it here! gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e2... #bluesky #age #verification #bypass 👇 Repost so people who need it will find this post! 👇

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#SaveSpeech This thread contains a LOT of different resources relating to online censorship, and theres stuff for just anout everyone no matter your jurisdiction! If you wanna help the cause but feel lost, this is a great thread to check out!

Great. Legit love that for the cause Can y'all use that same energy towards protecting trans and queer folks, protecting our voting rights, abolishing those tariffs and *checks notes* holy shit...everything else. There's so much going on, I know. This was a huge push that is still needed elsewhere

Tag your porn. I'm serious, not tagging it is not defiance of the bad changes bsky wants to implement. I'm tired of seeing full blown NSFW threw on my face. I have the deepest respect for you so have some respect for me too

Canadians! Some action you can take is signing petitions actually going before the Canadian House of Commons. Here's a petition aimed at closing the arms export loophole: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... Petition for immigration reform for Gaza refugees: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

3 countries have moved to UNDECIDED on Chat Control, meaning we're now down to only 8 countries opposing. I know it's exhausting, but please keep calling, mailing and spreading the word. Maybe even make posts like this calling for action in your native tongue? fightchatcontrol.eu

I encourage you to read through this if you'd like, I especially find it important for anyone that isn't very informed about the current state of affairs in the US. We are currently in a dangerous place where ... 🧵 1/8

As a survivor of sexual assault, the feeling is not mutual. Your actions directly harm those of us who spend our time creating in order to understand the things we've been through. Your choices are explicitly anti-survivor, and will lead to us being banned or otherwise forced out.

Y'all, please call, email, and/or write your representatives, then share WIDELY what this administration is doing to scapegoat, oppress, and violently erase trans folks. We need EVERYONE in on this.

Instead of a posting strike, I think we should all change our profile pictures to something that reflects our anger and outrage over the changes to the Bluesky community guidelines. A suggestion:

A lot of my followers and general sphere understands this but it's really important we recognize that even if we don't like some art for personal moral reasons, we need to defend its right to exist. We went from no rape to no cat ears in less than two months. Everyone who warned about this was right

We are incredibly pleased to reach $100,000 for the Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle. With just 2 days left to go, please RT and support the bundle, and let's push it as high as we can go!!! Thank you for the support!! Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

You might see several artists mad about the bluesky policy update banning non-con, even artists who do not make that kind of material, and wonder why it's such a problem. If that's you, here is a quick breakdown: 🧵

Keep the pressure going! This is what we need to see! Keep calling, writing letters, sending emails, anything that'll get their attention and can't ignore. Freedom of art is part of how we all speak daily, and I'd rather keep loving the things I love without awful people trying to control it all!

Calling paypros and bugging your reps about paypros is still worth doing. Continue making your calls!

We have a duty to fight against this. Trans people are gonna need our help.

or if you wanna help a little indie studio continue to make queer games and pay rent you could buy the kitsune games bundle (which helps us out a ton) store.steampowered.com/bundle/15673...

Hey puzzle game and VN lovers! Spirit Swap is on sale to celebrate GDoC Expo! We poured our heart and souls into this game AND two of us are trans and trying to escape the US so if this looks like your jam… Please grab it and hopefully give us some runway for a very expensive move. 💕🙏🏼📢 Thank you!

The government won't tell you that they are fascists, but they will tell you that anti-fascists are their enemies.

This petition has been struggling to get as many signatures as the anti-paypros one, and its hovering around 3.9k atm If you signed the anti-paypros petition as a canadian, i implore you, please sign this one too! C-2 is bad news!

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These laws DO NOTHING to stop abuse or CSAM, but DO end up harming EVERYONE including kids. You are giving away your most sensitive data to tech giants, criminals and governments (both your and foreign nations) It was never about kids online safety. It's about taking away your rights and safety.

drink some water, take a deep breath, and check in on a loved one. this has been a heavy week for many of us, please give yourself some space to simply exist.

Because yt was less than detailed in the email: Visual guide to turn off "automatic dubbing" as an uploader: 1 Go to your yt studio 2 Go to "setting" (gear icon in bottom left) 3 Upload defaults 4 Advanced settings 5 Scroll down to see "automatic dubbing Finally: Uncheck the box! jfc 🤦‍♂️

How many game key cards will there be this time?

A not-so-gentle reminder that throwing the trans community into the grinder does not protect the rest of us. It just warms the machine up for our turn. And we WILL have a turn. If you need another reason: the language in the bill lays the foundation to ban birth control. You need to push back NOW.

I simply cannot stress it enough. You cannot sit this out. They are coming for EVERYTHING. No media, no creators are safe under these policies. They want us poor, they want us criminalized, they want us disenfranchised. Call paypros. Call your reps. Do SOMETHING.

Visa and Mastercard reportedly coming for FAIRIES and CAT EARS Get on the phone and ask them wtf is up because this even made me double take bsky.app/profile/dark...

Check your YouTube for "Restricted Mode" gang! Almost half of my most recent uploads are being blocked by it for seemingly no reason 🙂👍

I saw all our videos bomb and could not find out why despite a LOT of searching and contemplation. Turns out, YouTube threw a killswitch on ALL OF YOUTUBE called Restricted Mode, and it keeps you from seeing the VAST MAJORITY OF VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE. Check your YT account & turn off Restricted Mode!!

CANADA, UK, AUSTRALIA!! y'all all have official petitions targetting paypros censorship! IF YOU LIVE IN THESE COUNTRIES, SHARE THESE AROUND AND SIGN THEM ASAP. And verify by email! CAN www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... UK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... AUS www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

U.K. residents, could this be your chance to stop paypro censorship in the country? Please sign this petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Attention fellow AUSTRALIANS! 🇦🇺 We now have an official petition to parliament to STOP MASTERCARD and VISA from its campaign of censorship, restricting what legal products we can buy. Please sign it now, and if you're not an Aussie, spread the word! www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

ICYMI: This is one petition Canadians do NOT want to miss. This is not your average Change-dot-org petition. This is the kind that could lead to serious changes against paypro censorship www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

#SaveSpeech 🚨If you're in Europe, remember to contact your EU representatives to tell them you are OPPOSED to chat control.🚨 Even if your country's already against this, contact them anyway! Contact your reps: fightchatcontrol.eu Help stop Chat Control: www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/cha...

Haven't done one of these in a while.