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Visa is now actively shutting down calls regarding their censorship and prohibition of the sale of legal product.

They clearly retrained their staff on how to deal with our calls. That doesn't happen unless there's critical mass.

KEEP IT UP. They are trying to turf the calls as fast as they can.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

I found a cool piece of Star Trek history while out at an antique store today 💕

I didn’t share this here yet but i made myself a diorama for my figure collection💕 #onesixthscale #onetenthscale

*Why is so much censorship bullshit happening all at once?"

Because this is The-Push. They've been tightening the screws for years now to the point the internet is now passively more censored than daytime tv from 30 years ago, and now they're trying to do one last push to snuff out free speech

Ana has excellent videos featuring real calls on how to effectively waste time with payment processors!

Got hung up by Visa. Called back. Got hung up on by Visa.

Attempted to (politely) get in a word edgewise and the tech started very loudly reading the script at me.

Also one of the techs immediately closed out my previous ticket on finding out what it was about.

So uh, keep it up. It's working.

Visa and Mastercard released their public statements on censorship!

Visa and Mastercard are pretending they don't make any judgments on legal purchases, but Collective Shout CLEARLY told us they successfully pressured payment processors.

KEEP CALLING! IT'S WORKING!

The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files The bureau’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted....

NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.”
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

So when you guys do you daily calls today you should ask mastercard what illegal adult content they found on these content creation platforms. Tell them to make names. When they give you the runaround say "but what have you found that's illegal".

They won't because there was never an investigation

I guess eugenics is the cool new advertising tactic for places like American Eagle and Dunkin Donuts.

Hey. Hey.

Please don’t wait for an indie book series to be finished before you pick up the books. Just buy them. Don’t wait.

So MANY indie series never get finished because the author gets zero sales on the opening volumes and gives up.

Give them a reason to keep going.

Buy the books.

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Indie comics ain't easy. Working very hard to make something as well as you possibly can that you know only a few people outside of yourself care about can be quite lonely, and often feels almost like a folly.

Please let indie creators know you enjoy their work, it really helps.

The Itch/Steam thing dropped off the trending tab.

Therefore it's time to remind you again to swamp the payment processors with more calls.

If the call volume dies down in under a week they aren't going to learn their lesson. Make them regret it.

These panels are so nice!!

A little girl hops over a creek and slips, then carries on hopping.

Careful, it's been raining

Crop from my personal work

Stop KOSA KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a free and open internet, tell your lawmakers to reject #KOSA!

Current call to actions include:
- EFF: act.eff.org/action/congr...
- www.stopkosa.com
- actionnetwork.org/petitions/ce...

The goal of this is to signal to lawmakers this bill is not popular and shouldn't be brought before Congress (should die in committee or elsewhere).

These links have scripts!

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Well, I'll be damned.

It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.

newatlas.com/infectious-d...

Yep. The 15$ precut fruit I get because I'm ADHD and need fruit sometimes is now 30$ 🤢

Wanted to play around with colors.

Can finally share this! It’s a Kylux piece done for a fandom calendar we made & mine was June!
#kylux #KyloRen #GeneralHux #art #illustration #fanart

First half of my first comic page <3 Realistically this wont be the constant detail of this #comic, but I want to at least make the first page or two eye popping. This is a personal project where I tell the origin story for #VincentValentine all the way up till he awakes with Avalanche!

So I watched the new Caped Crusader and it's really good! So I've been doodling Vincent Valentine in the Bruce Timm style ❤️ Still a work in progress but I'm having fun.

Garret Hedlund as Cloud Strife ❤️ #ffvii #ff7

Finally finished this Reno piece 💕 i got inspired by these heart shaped goggles.

In summary:

- This call campaign needs to last at least a month
- As many calls as possible, so bring your friends
- Make sure each call lasts as long as possible
- Each time you make a call, mention it's not the first time you've called about this

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Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Several people in suits reach towards a man with glasses sitting at a table, holding a microphone. The latter speaks into the microphone, while the former attempt to stop him.

Porn and art with sexual themes deserve to exist on their own merit, not because censoring them has knock-on effects for non-sexual content. Please stop expressing outrage by implying that censorship would be okay if it *just* affected sex workers and artists engaging with sexual themes.