I regret every joke I’ve made about how our elected officials were so old they didn’t know how to use a computer. I would give anything for another administration that doesn’t know how to use a computer

Remember your favorite creator possibly might be struggling with imposter syndrome and doubt and this timeline sucks.. so if you find yourself thinking “wow I really relate to this persons work” or that persons work gives you joy, you should probably tell them. It’s a hard time to be a creative.

Let's keep up our calls guys! #SaveSpeech #StopKOSA

If you can, also consider buying some shares in Visa/Mastercard and contacting their investor relations teams, ask why they are pressuring platforms to turn away legal business, affecting your returns.

#hourly #yote https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/yotes/8315246545_c6804002b0_c.jpg

*but encouraging

not just discussing the issue by encouraging people to direct their anger toward activist ventures with possible outcomes… MC is buckling under pressure, there’s no real way to call the White House to stop an initiative that may or may not even be happening right now

I do think it’s extremely likely Trump 2.0 is pulling some levers behind the scenes, Project 2025 and in particular OMB’s Russ Vought (P25 alum) are MASSIVELY anti-porn. I’m just cautious against overstating the point publicly without any smoking gun to focus on, as a key part of my work rn is

This guy

Please keep putting pressure on PayPal. Stories like this are becoming more and more common. Artists don’t deserve to lose their source of income over payment processors being puritanical/anti-small business.

People need to keep pushing until payment processors fuck off on the puritanical BS. It is sickening how they would rather lose a huge chunk of their userbase over something harmless. These people depend on Paypal for their careers, Paypal is actively fucking over everyone for, literally, no reason.

It's like, other companies certainly do the same thing, but Mastercard and Visa made the blueprint for the behavior. If they backtrack, it makes it alot easier for everyone else to follow suit.

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY CALL TODAY BE RESILIENT BUT KIND REMEMBER, THE PERSON YOU’RE TALKING TO MAY BE ON YOUR SIDE IF THEY DIRECT YOU TO YOUR BANK, TELL EM YOUR BANK SENT YOU TO MC / VISA

Their call centers are getting really stressed to their breaking points. Remember to be kind when calling, but persistent and insistent. Do not give them any rest. They're reaching their limits but it's still a marathon! Not a sprint! Keep up the pressure!

Always remember when you're lodging your displeasure: The people you talk to are powerless to make changes, they can only pass your concerns up the chain. Don't blame them for what their bosses do. (also a good rule of thumb when complaining to your local representative politician)

I’ve heard you can literally, physically see the strain on these call center workers between shifts while they’re out and about. Cannot stress enough that this call campaign is way more effective than some people realize. Please be kind when you call. (3)

Agents need these jobs for medical insurance. A lot of them are sympathetic to your concerns. MC global (upper level of corporate, above regional corporate) is hounding bosses to end this and bosses are snapping at workers as a result. Please be kind when you call, they’re getting slammed (2)

Morale at paypros call centers is in the toilet right now. It’s not just normal Black Friday stress, they’re being pounded. Corporate is pressuring bosses to end the paypros call campaigns. Source familiar w/ internals at MC stressed that folks should stand their ground but be kind to agents (1)

We are actually doing something. DON'T STOP CALLING.

Don't forget paypros are still censoring LEGAL content and hurting artists! If you haven't gotten involved before, or fell off in your actions, now is the PERFECT time to start again Give the gift of FREE SPEECH this year! #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co/

Keep calling! We have a few more days that need heavy pressure! Keep calm, stay polite with the call center employees, but be firm!

always remember the elites don't object to perversion and sex, they use it in advertising all the time. They object to the fact the underclasses have a source of joy and freedom they don't explicitly control and doesn't always result in new consumers and soldiers.

Please keep it up folks, I am confident I'm not the only artist that wants to be able to make a living again! This move by paypros was a shallow profit-driven attempt to replace real content creators with controllable llms and it cannot be allowed to stand. anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co

I called both VISA and Mastercard. MC was quick to hang up on me. More interestingly though, the VISA agent explicitly said "yes" when I asked them if VISA is actively trying to censor online content. I'll call them back today about this

DONT FORGET TO CALL

TODAY IS BLACK FRIDAY PICK UP THE PHONE AND CALL DO YOUR PART! TODAY MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY ❤️

Today is black friday! If you have ONE day to do calls, make it today! Otherwise, keep up the energy all weekend!!

Today is the day! Make some phone calls to Visa and Mastercard if you're able to and keep it going as much as you can muster until monday!

Tell your lawmakers to oppose the Kids Online Safety Act- there are better ways to protect kids online without throwing other vulnerable people under the bus. www.stopkosa.com

Reporters asking me about the new KOSA text, here is my official statement: "Fight for the Future's organizational policy is to oppose any piece of legislation that is unveiled on the eve of a major Federal holiday, regardless of what it says. We feel this is the most principled position."

In seriousness, though, we're analyzing the new text but this package looks like a mess. The new KOSA text is confusing... the removal of the unworkable Duty of Care is positive, but other changes are just ... weird? Other bills in the package would mandate age verification and look disastrous.

As always: the best way to protect kids online is to pass strong legislation that protects EVERYONE from Big Tech's surveillance capitalist business model & breaks their monopolies so that people can have social media and tech tools that serve community needs. Nothing in this package looks like that

I keep seeing people trying to play down the payment processor situation, saying it's only the extreme NSFW accounts getting sacked. Well. One of the cutest SFW furry artist got banned from PayPal. What more proof do y'all need that we need to keep fighting the good fight? Also go support Nakufin.

Extremely cute and inoffensive SFW furry art account gets nuked by paypros. Come on, this is insane. Get to those phones. Don't let them rest.

If Mastercard says there are no restrictions and to contact your bank, I recommend telling them that your bank redirected you to Mastercard / your bank was of no help

Mastercard is REALLY trying to pass the buck off onto banks (who, granted, ARE part of the problem but its still mostly MC and Visa) do as Ana says here and tell them your bank told you to contact THEM. easy way to tack on more time in the call stop-paypros.neocities.org

This is DEFINITELY a time where it's more important to have MORE people calling than just a few super long ones. So even just getting a call to be dropped looks really bad for them, so give it a call and do what you can!

keep making calls to Visa and Mastercard! keep up the energy until we've gummed up both black friday and cyber monday for them!

they may not be actively cancelling transactions, but they ARE getting in the way of people being able to use THEIR MONEY to buy and sell LEGAL content. stress how this is hurting your opinion of these brands, and making you consider dropping them/ getting a different card

Both Visa and Mastercard are really going to push the idea that "they dont restrict any legal transactions" when you call you need to call out how paypros restrictions arent on the transaction, but on the way they are pressuring platforms to drop/censor content that they have decided is verboten

Thankful to my Bluesky feed for giving me these two posts from @mamavitelli.bsky.social and @baronduki.bsky.social back to back

#savespeech #privacyisahumanright #stopKOSA Did some homework last night and found a map tool to show the expanse of age verification laws as of sunday. www.mapchart.net/world.html Its not encouraging, but we MUST keep calling reps to fight against it. This wont be permanent. But its gonna hurt.

This is a really good article on why AV laws won't magically fix everything. www.manushyafoundation.org/manushya-s-s... #savespeech

#savespeech #StopSocialMediaBans #DONOTCOMPLY Australians, as the world enters a Global Prohibition, lets not forget those who will fight to oppose it. To be clear: no minor should see porn easily. But banning social media wont help. www.rte.ie/news/2025/11... www.digitalfreedomproject.org.au