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kuvira: fuck korra asami: oh yeah fuck korra kuvira: are we...talking about the same thing? asami:maybe? i dont think so... Korra: you could be though

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No it is left wing politics to be fighting for these things and there is nothing wrong with it being left wing politics or far left politics.

Arguing it's not "far left" takes away the fact that left and far left people are pushing for it. Its takes credit away from them.

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"this place is politics free!"

Has been the death of the Internet.

I'm looking at you reddit porn pages.

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"i give $100 a month to the poor , struggling and desperate"

"patreon subscriptions don't count"

"........"

".....are you sure?"

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I hate to go through this all over again. Last night, Itch.io, one of the most popular platforms for hosting queer and adult independent media, went through a large-scale crackdown on adult content.

This was primarily aimed at games, but novels and comics were hit in the process. Most adult content has been de-listed from the site's search, but some creators were banned without warning, and any funds they have not been paid are currently being withheld by Itch.io.

This crackdown was done, as it always is, because of payment processors like Mastercard and Visa threatening to pull their services.

The payment processors caved to an influence campaign by Australian extremist anti-pornography group Collective Shout, who have been inundating Visa and Mastercard with calls to force video game platforms to stop hosting adult content - which, of course, includes anything queer.

Collective Shout claim to have sent in 1000 emails to get this result, but there are a WAY more than a thousand of us. We need as many people as possible to make as much noise as we can!

Below the cut are numbers and scripts, all you need to do is follow the step by step guide!

Info compiled by voiddebris on Bluesky, also available collected in a handy document:

Paypal:

Phone (US): 1-888-221-1161

Phone (outside US): 1-402-935-2050

Hours: 6am - 6pm PT

Mastercard:

Phone (US): 1-800-627-8372

Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111

Online form

Visa:

Phone (US): 1-800-847-2911

Non-US numbers

Online form

Script:

Customer Complaint Dept, This message is to lodge an official complaint about the ongoing rampant restrictions your company has placed on legal sales made by legitimate businesses. These restrictions are not only counter to the concept of freedom of speech and expression, but they harm consumers, businesses, and they harm your company’s bottom line. The following actions are absolutely necessary to protect the freedoms of your client base and the sustainability of legitimate business practices: 1. Remove from your Terms of Service any mention barring the use of your service for sale and purchase of legal products. 2. Contact Steam (Valve), Itch.io, and any other company you have previously put pressure on to retract your content restrictions. Put in place protections to prevent such restrictions from being put in place in the future without ample warning and time to contest them. If these changes aren't made then I, along with many others will be forced to seek other options for processing payments. Sincerely, A Concerned Customer

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OTHER THINGS YOU CAN DO

Sign this petition from the ACLU:

Americans - contact your representatives about payment processors acting as censors! You can find their contact information on 5calls.org.

Script, from here:

Hello Representative/Senator [LAST NAME], -or- Hello office of Representative/Senator [LAST NAME], My name is [YOUR FIRST NAME/SCREEN NAME] and I am one of your constituents. I am calling today to express my concerns with technological censorship. Legal and legitimate adult entertainment is being banned in this country. These bans are not by legislators, but by payment processors like Mastercard and Visa. Mastercard and Visa are improperly creating legislation online through their user and merchant policies. They are banning creator and user access to content that is legal and legitimate. They are inciting fear and panic to encourage censorship. Please take a stand against this impermissible censorship. This is a direct attack on an adult's right to legal content. No one but the legislative branch should be allowed to create legislation. Please support the Federal Trade Commission in their stand against technological censorship to protect the first amendment. Thank you for taking the time to listen today.

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Taste of the moon.

Full here (alt Pillowfort)

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yue: can i come with you?

azula: to battle? no!

yue: but you look so hot when you fight!

azula:...maybe

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Commission done for @ahallister! ^^

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The model

No I did not look at a sexy minitour miniature and the first thing was damn that that's sexy and put them on my shelf.

Im not sure why you would ask.

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A lil doodle,, idea of smthn happenning forcing them to be on the run, buddy cop style lol

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No I did not look at a sexy minitour miniature and the first thing was damn that that's sexy and put them on my shelf.

Im not sure why you would ask.

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Ai sounds like it should have rights. Except it's not AI. It's a program created by a company to do a purpose. Thy call it ai beacuse it's a investment buzzword to bring in cash. Computers have been doing things they now say 'ai' is doing for years.

The matrix scene is a great trans allegory. But scfi criticizes the present . It doesn't predict the future.

The machines right now are primarily used as surveillance by the state or large companies to harvest your data. Robot police dogs are made to be cute to get fake symboothies.

There is also what we see in self driving cars. Who is responsible when they run into things? The designer? Driver? We balk at the notion that cooperations getting human rights. But the robot made by the corporation to spy on me gets rights? No.

The comparison to slavery almost works.

The difference we know that poc enslaved where people who deserve rights.

There is still a harsh debate about whether a computer can gain a level of consciousness.

A more apt comparison is with livestock or pets. Animals have rights. Not always enough. But they do and there is a legal structure around it. A lot of that structure treats them as property that you can only be so mean to.

I keep thinking about the Matrix as a trans allegory, and this scene from the Animatrix always hauts me. This machine is protesting in the "million machine march" for the right to be treated with dignity and the very recognition of her humanity. In response, she is viciously assaulted and murdered, called a "skinjob" for daring to look like a woman. Her last words as she is being maimed are

"I'm real!"

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Just wanted to draw Karlach's burn scars in a little more detail than I usually do, because they are important but posing and fidelity means they can get kinda lost.

Tav and Karlach are just flopping around the tent between a bath and whatever other activities they're gonna pursue next for the evening. Sometimes you just need to be touched gently though, and Tav is glad to oblige.

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Katara, watching Azula be creepy: Ugh. I can't believe I'm gonna sleep with her.

Sokka: ... You don't have too.

Katara: No, I'm gonna.

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Azula: here I made this for you.

Mai: no you didn't.

Azula: fine I bought it for you.

Mai: no you didn't.

Azula: fine a servant bought it for you. But I picked it out.

Mai: no you didn't.

Azula: ok! I asked Tylee, she picked it out and I had a servant buy it for you.

Mai: aw babe that's so sweet.