This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either. Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳 It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

You need to be signed into a Microsoft account to get the free Windows 10 security updates in the EU??? Guess I'll be scrambling to install Linux this weekend, because I did not know this before www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...

the Rock Band 4 Rivals Expansion has been delisted on the Xbox store it is still available to claim (for free) on PlayStation, both SIEA and SIEE - *claim it* if you have any intention of playing, it's required for online play, the Rivals Hub as well as the Rockudrama campaign

*to the tune of Super Sonic Racing* everybody's running in the 90s / it's a new way that I like to be / when you're running in the 90s / come on baby run to me

just a reminder that bandcamp friday is tomorrow & streaming services are interrupting music streams with ai generated shit, flooding the database with artists that don't exist in any way other than profiting the platform owners so instead of paying a monthly fee, buy an album or two each month ok

Rock Band 4 will delist on October 5, 2025 - "the original licenses for the core soundtrack are expiring" DLC are delisting too www.resetera.com/threads/rock... Rock Band 4 Rivals Bundle is $9.99: US PSN store.playstation.com/en-us/produc... Xbox www.xbox.com/en-us/games/...

In today's payment processor news: Digital manga service Manga Planet is shutting down, citing "various circumstances" with "recent restrictions from payment processors" being the only explicitly mentioned cause. Besides regular manga, MP also hosts 18+ BL content under its Futekiya brand. #paypro

Chrome's adblock dying has really just shown how bad ads have gotten now huh This appeared and fullscreened my window, hid my cursor, for clicking on a youtube download link lol old people are just not built to handle this

A quick way of checking if a floating-point number is normal: 1. Shift the bits left by one 2. Use a CLS (count leading sign bits) instruction 3. If the result is greater than or equal to the number of exponent bits, the number is non-normal (zero, denormal, NaN or infinity)

Paypros censorship is already limiting what kind of art can be made. Customers want to buy it, and developers want to make it, but Mastercard and Visa say NO to adult art made for an adult audience

it's an absolute miracle that GameFAQs is allowed to look like this in 2025 and hasn't been shitted up by a ton of graphics or annoying sidebars. keep in mind: this is with no adblock!

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: 🧵

social media saves the life of so many trans kids; I do think these websites are bad, they need to be regulated, but I also think any regulations like these in the current regimes, UK and US, are designed to strengthen the idea that kids are not independent actors but the property of their parents

I only ever see cis people talking about this 🙃

the fact that the entire world must deal with the United States having a temper tantrum over smut is ridiculous

The police will call you about photos you post to private chats. They will do this almost immediately, it seems www.kenklippenstein.com/p/charlie-ki...

(1080 Snowboarding if it took place in 2017) likes are now florps. likes are only now florps. homosexuality

Sega Accused Of Using Police To Recover Nintendo Dev Kits It Had "Negligently Disposed Of".

Until this week, it's been impossible to play the games of the 1993 Pioneer LaserActive without one of the vanishingly rare, disintegrating consoles. Here's the story of the guy who's been trying to fix that for years -- and all the hardware and software he had to build to make it possible.

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.

This is a big threat to the touchHLE project and all emulators and software preservation projects on Android more generally. Please do what you can to push back against this, while you still can.

So do you lot want another horror story from the six-year road to the Online Safety Act and how much *worse* it could have been? Here's one from way back in 2019. 🧵

friendly reminder that if you bought hogwarts legacy you directly contributed to the legal fund that created this ruling

In Missouri prisons, people can purchase some Nintendo Game Boy Advance titles on their Securus tablets. Last year, Byron wrote about how Harvest Moon took over his facility: "About a week after the game was made available, it was the only thing you heard many prisoners here talking about."

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:

The "Damage the Brand" clause was specifically what Visa used against MelonBooks back in December, and Toranoana in August 2024, to justify cutting them off, which basically doomed international sales for both retailers.

NEW: Earlier today, Mastercard denied playing a roll in the Steam and itch.io purging NSFW games. But Valve now says Mastercard communicated concerns indirectly through payment processors and banks. kotaku.com/mastercard-d...

A) Good on itch for continuing to try B) Lmfao fuck Stripe

Don't overlook the online processors - even more than Visa and Mastercard they are the ones pressuring online retailers. PayPal is the one that's been pressuring Patreon over the last year or so.

I think Visa and Mastercard may be getting a lot of calls about their adult content policies, but I just called in to PayPal and not only was there no wait, the customer service rep I got had never had one of these calls before (they were very nice about it.)

The fact that itchio is looking into alternate payment options and talking about all this like an ongoing situation instead of being like "these are the new rules and always will be, fuck off" says a lot about how much they care about this. I know you want to yell at them but they're working hard

really good write-up of this whole situation with payment processors enabling right-wing censorship of adult games www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Israel claimed Hamas was stealing aid but actually armed the gangs that were stealing it to “combat Hamas” and then blamed Hamas and the UN. The UN says it can’t deliver aid because between Israeli attacks and those of the Israeli-armed gangs, it’s too unsafe. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

this is worth repeating honestly. if you are in Australia and would like to look more into it, you can do so here: www.acnc.gov.au/raise-concern

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!!

thought id repost this here! stay safe uk oomfs

Yeah, I worked in customer support and, if it's a 'peak' of one day, they will not care. They'll wipe their hands and say "ok, volumes are back to normal, it's fixed" If after a week they are still receiving pressure... Then they'll begin to get nervous

jast usa confirmed that it’s open to any visual novel (sfw and nsfw) that is affected by censorship: x.com/jastusa/stat...

DON'T STOP CALLING. email them if you want, sure, but the fact that they are requesting people to *email them instead* (presumably because emails are much easier to ignore) means that the calls are WORKING, i.e. becoming a massive nuisance and interrupting workflow. once again, DON'T STOP CALLING.

hey. if you want to do me and every queer artist you know the biggest solid possible today, this is it. please call (on the phone!) these companies and register a complaint. shame them for bowing to pressure from hate groups over sales of legal content and threaten to take your business elsewhere

A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell. In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know? www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

We have not denied any payouts to creators as part of yesterday's review. If there are any creators in which we are unable to process a payout for then we'll contact them directly. We do understand that the eligibility message is confusing given the context so we're updating the text on the notices

awesome news. Congratulations @archive.org on being designated an FDLP library!! www.kqed.org/news/1204942...

Corp accountant here, Investor Relations is the team that is legally obligated to handle investor concerns. If you have a fund with MC or Visa in it, I suggest calling and demanding to know what your compensation will be for the reduction in Earnings Per Share caused by cutting off income streams (:

I would focus on the people holding the gun rather than the head it’s pointed at for no other reason that they’ve come for storefront after storefront and they are not going to stop unless there is real collective pushback.

The fact that itch is *naming* the pressure group and namedropping “compliance” is about as clear a “we did NOT want to do this” as it gets, if you can’t decipher that kind of language