An item on my Throne wishlist just got fully funded: Shinano (for VRChat). Thank you! https://throne.com/acvalens #Throne

I just received a contribution towards Shinano (for VRChat) from theredseraph via Throne. Thank you! https://throne.com/acvalens #Throne

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im bored so im playing games where i can be a giantess live now twitch.tv/acvalens

All this is proving is how useful AI is at deplatforming innocent people for the most absurd reasons. Meanwhile bigots thrive because they're shielded by those in charge.

VTuber Twitter has the craziest shit. Someone harassed a VTuber agency over a Minecraft roleplay, got heavily called out over it, pretended to go to the hospital — but stole and posted a pic online of *someone else* in the hospital

I know all this shit is tied up in AI techbro nonsense so when that Bubble bursts I'm going to have one hell of a packwatch

Free speech is REALLY under attack

For any journalists who follow me and work tech or security beats... This is a big deal. This is a big, honking, glaring signal.

"Companies will always prioritize their needs and safety over yours, and that uploading sensitive information to the internet will always come with risks and vulnerabilities, no matter how safe these companies claim your data is in their hands."

Hey, I know you guys are strictly SFW tabletop, card and board games, but I wonder if your problems have to do with the recent move by Visa/Mastercard to mark businesses having to do with games, anime, vtubing and other 'nerd' hobbies as 'high risk' bsky.app/profile/acva...

I got through to someone! The rep started out dismissing the "allegations" as untrue, but then I mentioned how it was affecting people I knew personally and concerns about what was happening to a journalist I follow and the tone turned sympathetic. They filed a formal complaint on my behalf :)

PROMISU AVTuber Euryale Drift is dealing with YouTube falsely flagging one of her videos as adult content, and the site’s age-verification system thinks she’s a child. She is a whole ass adult working for an agency specializing in adult content

This is y'all's chance to work on a webapp where the whole point of using Rust isn't to scale up—it's to scale DOWN. 6k reqs/s on a sub-US$30 machine is no joke. And it's a hard copyleft ecosystem that we're going to protect for the folks who rely on us! Let's do open source right.

Bluesky Support has suspended this furry congressional candidate's account for no apparent reason. They want to limit his reach and kill his campaign, presumably for not being whatever they consider "advertiser friendly". We really need to get loud about this, and not let them get away with it

Let's keep making those calls! #SaveSpeech

I remember years ago reading about an image recognition test where they tried to get a bot to distinguish dog breeds in pictures It kept seeing huskies in pictures even without dogs in them Turned out its training images always had huskies in the snow Its pattern recognition thought snow = huskies

YouTube age-restricted a VTuber’s video for… hands. Luckily she won her appeal

Ana has been going through it the last few weeks as payment processors have pretty transparently been retaliating for the spotlight she's given them. If you can spare anything, please send something her way - we genuinely don't know when/if things might get dicey for her again.

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Yo, the paypros are threatening to genuinely debank our friend Ana for the content they make. Imagine if we got debanked for making Ultra Postal because it's "offensive". This could starve or kill people. Lives are at stake because of puritanism. Make those calls. I'm not asking. I'm demanding.

GUESS WHOS UNEMPLOYED AFTER NO WORD FROM WORK FOR 2 MONTHS SUPPORTING ME WOULD BE VERY APPRECIATED IM TRULY SORRY I CAN NOT GIVE MUCH BACK WITH MY SHIT HEALTH❣️

Phenn's review of "Full Bloom" in here is fantastic. It gets to exactly what I was going for with the book and the series. Thank you so much @phenn.gay for this! I loved hearing your thoughts!

America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI' Remember that. Remember her.

I cannot stress enough that your calls — and your social media posts — on this issue DO matter and WILL impact things long-term But you have to call

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

Just to be clear, I haven’t lost a bank account yet nor have I had a payment processing account closed yet My biggest concern is that I am locked in to path where that will start to occur

Itch is back up, go get these toxic lesbians and help us get to our next goal! itch.io/b/3364/poiso...

What I hate about this the most is that the paypros use "high fraud rates" as an excuse to debank people they don't agree with, thus creating a self-fulfilling prophecy that scammers can abuse.

Please watch, (not only because I'm the one who does the upload and thumbnails) but Ana is a wonderful person and this shit sucks. This should not be allowed to happen to anyone and its shitty it is. Also please consider supporting her as she has been on top of this issue for a very long time.

Send Ana a couple bucks. She's been banging on the paypro censorship drum for longer than most

Good news, my Ko-fi was reinstated This is ONLY to support me as a journalist and is ONLY intended as such. I’ve even changed the PFP to my irl face ko-fi.com/acvalens

#SaveSpeech starting Nov 1st we're entering the holiday season, which is a big stress point for big businesses like Mastercard and Visa. These Paypros havent stopped cracking down on Adult Content, so we need to jump back into calling them in full force again! stop-paypros.neocities.org

i hope the Nuzzi revelations produce more investigations into the many DC political reporters who have relations with officials and staff they cover instead of just being a ceremonial scarlet letter moment directed at one woman

It's actually really nice that Bluesky is notifying Alex of the subpoena. A lot of tech companies simply comply and don't notify the targets

Despite thier best attempt, the editing mines only delayed Muttday #15 Last week was a real mixed bag, like 3 stories about the catholic church, Gaming History, Epstein files, Ana Valens flagged by financial AIs and a few really great lesbian books phenn.gay/muttday-morn...

Good news, my Ko-fi was reinstated This is ONLY to support me as a journalist and is ONLY intended as such. I’ve even changed the PFP to my irl face ko-fi.com/acvalens

What's happening to Ana Valens is a frankly disturbing assault on speech.

To simply add my own experience of why I am full of so much fear over these things, last year or so I had a Kofi that got suddenly removed because of links on nsfw pages, sucked but whatever, hostile ToS bullshit. However, recently, I fully intended to do sfw commission work again (cont.)

Yall, if you can spare anything to help out Ana, please do. What's happening to her is terrible, and she's being targeted for sex work. They'll do this to anyone who's queer, trans, or just challenges the system enough.

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I'm unhappy to have contributed to the reciept pile of consumer purchases being 'suspicious' that went vaguely unexplained by my bank, for video games that weren't even adult 🫡 Remind me to transcribe how the support chat went

This isn't gonna stop at smut, or with Ana. Do not let these payment processors determine where you can and cannot spend your money. That YOU earned. You are being robbed of choice in place of 'Correct, Appropriate Purchases'. Keep making noise. Keep talking about it or they will take Everything.

I don’t think it’s a mass report situation for three reasons (1) Throne fraud ding (2) Second source revealing paypro blacklisting (3) I would be getting dinged on Twitch, Twitter, maybe lose my PornHub account in its entirety or so

never let anyone tell you everyone was united in support of the Iraq War. I saw a guy on the news, on 9/11, on the street in NYC as the WTC burned behind him, telling the reporter "I just hope Bush doesn't start a war over this". We have literally always been here don't let people tell you otherwise

Why do journalists have no apparent solidarity whatsoever? This rancid POS jabs his finger in a woman reporter's face and calls her "piggy" and none of the other journalists there says a word?

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The fact a woman can have her financial access essentially blocked for making and talking about adult content while the president of the country gets exposed for child sex trafficking and the response is "whom amongt us hasn't done a little human trafficking?" shows puritanism is just a way to keep-