Good Morning! Today we are announcing the official opening of cutiecove.games! A hub where all the contributors of Cutie Collective can share their work in one place including: @aircrystal.bsky.social, @froey.bsky.social, @tangledvirus.itch.io, and @rozenymph.bsky.social.

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

Those We Keep Close - Part 1. A visual novel written and developed by me. Alongside with others in @cutiecove.gay including: @suchapple.bsky.social @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social @rozenymph.bsky.social @tangledvirus.itch.io @aircrystal.bsky.social @mollynoise.bsky.social 2026.

Conjured Ink is a community of creatives, developers, and supporters building software, support structures, and curated documentation to make it easy for people who make things to be able to share it or sell it independently, without relying exclusively on large platforms.

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💥📣

Weird how this *remains relevant*

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

Yes, it's terrifying, but it's terrifying in an extremely obvious, easy-to-understand way that affects even the most normy friend you know. In terms of narrative? Paypal is handing us an early Christmas present. Use it.

This is absolutely something we should be fucking *nailing* them with. If this dies down and we don't another round of coverage over this from mainstream reporters, we have thrown away an amazing opportunity. Paypal doing this shit makes the issue so much more real, this can be a PR *nightmare*.

This is scary as hell, but for news coverage? This is a GIFT. "You can be banned for *buying* Game of Thrones." Send emails to journalists and news sites and communities you're a part of and talk about the dangers here. People are going to care about this a lot more when it's not just creators.

Also a reminder that when FDOT claims street murals need to be removed for "safety," they are lying and they know they are lying, because they have research that shows street art makes streets SAFER

If you needed any more reasons not to use Duolingo to learn Japanese or other languages, they're now catering to transphobes.

Duolingo doesn't work and is increasingly filled with AI slop. Here's how to learn Japanese instead. buff.ly/ihVuoa1

Hey! Are YOU someone who struggles to make phone calls like I do, but also lack the time or physical ability to mail letters? Still want to contribute to #stoppaypros? I just learned you can mail letters remotely with a digital service like Letterstream! Here's how: savespeech-letter-pack.carrd.co

someone I used to organize with got disappeared by ice. she was a us citizen.

good shit by @collectivesh0ut.bsky.social

More seriously: You cannot reckon with the current attacks on science without reckoning with the recent history of attacks on gender-affirming medicine. Conservatives were validated by the New York Times in a vibes-based overthrow of good science, emboldening them to move on to all areas of science.

LMAO hey look, the NYT just published the playbook for opponents of gender-affirming care for young people.

Do your calls, send mail! Pressure and constant annoyance are the only things these companies will understand! Don't let them decide what you can or not spend your money on! Nor let them decide how you can or not make a living! We need to fight them now or they'll try to control more and more!

A new report from TransActual shows that trans and cisgender people face job loss, violence, vigilantism and wholesale exclusion following the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC guidance. Read the report at: tinyurl.com/trans-segreg... #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #EqualityAct #EHRC #TransRights

🏃💨 We've passed $56,000 for queer artists! Get over 600 games and projects for $60 (or $10+), less than the price of one AAA game . . . even adjusted for inflation from 1985. itch.io/b/3062

Bluesky has enough moderation tools to curate our feed in case we don't want to see nsfw stuff and the new rules are too vague about adult content. Please speak up! A lot of us depend on social media to make a living and they're making a hell to promote fictional adult works 😩

Hey all. Just a reminder that despite some of my games being delisted you still can play them on itch page! Lots of free games and paid games, both SFW and NSFW! There's yuri, cyberpunk, urban fantasy and slice of life games! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #vndev #yuri tangledvirus.itch.io

as I said earlier, there is likely not a policy on file written in big red letters that says "fuck them gays". This does not mean Stripe's policy re: Adult Content wont/doesnt effect queer creators disproportionately. It does. The goal remains the same. Pressure their Adult Content policies.

It would be *extremely* useful to get a public recording of this and get a few journalists covering it. For as bad as the political climate is in the US right now, this would be an extremely easy opening to start contacting most Democratic representatives about hearings with Stripe.

Btw you don't have to be in the US to yell at Stripe about this. One of their HQs is in the EU (Dublin), and they do business in 51 countries. Odds are very good you can give them hell about how they're potentially breaking your country's laws. That's dozens of lawyers they would need to consult.

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.

“She was not the only developer who reported the company singling out yuri content.” Games journalists really dropped the ball on itchio targeting yuri content, both SFW and NSFW The censorship of Toxic Yuri Game Jam hasn’t gotten any coverage from the games press

Which is why I'm asking you all that if can, support me on either Patreon or SubscribeStar For 5USD a month you'll have acess to my library of games, art, posts about upcoming games and EXCLUSIVE access to my games at least 1 month before they are avaliable to the public!

Hey folks! I'm going to be a bit real here. I want to be able to make games full time but for that I'll need an income from them. As of right now I only make 37USD a month from my patreon. So y'know, this isn't a lot. I would need at least 250 a month to be able survive while making games. --

In the face of the mass censoring of adult content happening around gaming storefronts, the community run bundle @queergamesbundle.bsky.social is a reminder of how to take some of that lost autonomy back. Here’s a trailer I made for this year's edition. Support it here: itch.io/b/3062/queer...

i just remembered that if you're monetized on youtube, you can block certain ads to specific URLs so I have gone ahead and blocked ICE ads. but if you see a smaller channel with these ads, just no they didn't choose it and have no control.

yellat.money Also, have the site with the bundle of resources I use to do calls and waste their time.

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.

Woah. Vintage Story’s Anego Studios has “paused the sale of Vintage Story on itchio until further notice.” Founder Tyron Madlener claims “the itch corp has not paid us in over 3 months, despite multiple requests from our side.”

There has never been a better argument for physical media

he hasn't stopped calling~ have you? 🫵 how to call: stop-paypros.neocities.org info and resources on pay discrimination: cartoonist.coop/censorship-p...

VILE: Exhumed, which was banned very shortly before its scheduled Steam release, has been released for free online, including on Github and the Internet Archive. Cara's statement, per the IA page:

In order to comply with itch's rules for re-indexing my game I am going to be removing the HFTGOOM - BONUS PACK download and steam keys for it from the English HFTGOOM page. Please read the next post below for more information. TLDR: You have until August 6th Midnight EST to claim Bonus Pack Keys.

MasterCard CLAIMS they are fine with any legal game being sold, but they are secretly forcing censorship of legal games through intermediaries. If MasterCard wants to pretend they aren't for censorship, they need to change rule 5.12.7. (Source: GameDeveloper.com)

With itch.io's recent decision on delisting the works of some of our contributors. We will be looking to publish more on our website to help give these works the attention they deserve. We encourage everyone to follow the collective and members to keep up to date. Follow us at: cutiecove.gay