Miguel Ortiz

www.tntechoracle.com/2025/10/07/o...

My latest piece in The Oracle is an Op-Ed on how this current administration doesn't understand me, as someone with #Autism. It's available both physical and digital. #SupportStudentJournalism

If I don't see multiple ~media reporters~ columns about the extraordinarily irresponsible Wall Street Journal report from yesterday morning — and their extensive promotion of that inflammatory report — you all should just pack up and go home.

www.tntechoracle.com/2025/09/09/a...

In honor of #AdultSwim 's 24th Anniversary I put together a retrospective piece for my university newspaper. Unfortunately it got bumped off, but it was able to be put up on the website. Hope y'all enjoy!

UPDATED Stripe A Stripe is currently a major priority, as they have the ability to deny itch.io's eligibility to their services according to itch.io's owner. • 354 Oyster Point Blvd. South San Francisco, CA 94080 US (United States HQ) • 10 BOULEVARD HAUSSMANN, 75009 PARIS (France HQ) • Grand Canal Street Lower, The One Building, Dublin D02 HD59 (Ireland HQ) (yes, it's called The One Building) • +1 888 926 2289 - State you are from California when calling this number • 1(888) 963-8955 (San Franeisco HQ) • 353 1 903 8449 (Ireland HQ) • (877) 887-7815 (Customer Support/Complaints) • UPDATED +33-805-11-19-67 (France-HQ) Seems like the line was disconnect due to our calls. • complaints@stripe.com • Complaints Form

PayPal ! Unfortunately, PayPal doesn't seem to have any e-mail address, as it uses its website's customer support. You will need to log in to your PayPal account if you wish to access Customer Support lines or messages. Here's a few lines we found so far : • 2211 N 1st St. San Jose, CA 95131 US • 1-402-935-2050 (US + Canada) • 1800 931 678 (Australia) • Customer Complaints Form (Australia) • enquiry@paypal.com thank you sassinthedark.bsky.social for the info!

UPDAIED MasterCard • 2000 Purchase St. Purchase, NY 10577 US UPDATED +1 914 249 2000 • CEO of MasterCard: 0 -> 6432224# →> 1 • President of Mastercard: 0 - 54757287425# →> 3 • Play the roulette: 0 -> Any numbers until you get connected to someone 1 800 307 7309 (US) - Options for operator : 1-1-2-2-2-1 List of toll-free numbers by region 1 636 722 6100 (St. Louis Office) • 914.249.2000 (Global Headquarters, US) • 636.722.6100 (Operaction Center, US) • 971.4.391.4200 (Dubai HQ) • 305.539.2300 (Latin America HQ) • 914.249.6518 (North America HQ) • 1-800-627-8372 (US Only) • 1800-120-113 (Australia) • +1-636-722-7111 (International) • customer_support@mastercard.com List of executives' Linkedin profiles

UPDATED Visa ! 900 Metro Center Bivd, Foster City, CA 94404 NEW +1 650 432 3200 (Headquarters, US) • Ryan McInerney (CEO) - 4 -> 6246376397926# • Paul Fabara (Chief Risk Officer) - 4 - > 3222727285# • Kelley Tullier (Chief People and Corp. Affairs Officer) - 4 -> 885543753559# • Source • Thank you profbadvibes.bsky.social for these finds! 1-800-847-2911 (US + Canada) - US Option Selection for Operator: 1-1-2 / 1-1-3 • List of phone numbers by region • 1-888-289-9322 (Confidential Compliance Hotline) • askvisa@visa.com

CALL STRIPE
CALL PAYPAL
CALL MASTERCARD
CALL VISA

DO NOT. STOP. CALLING!
#rocktheboat

stop-paypros.neocities.org

About to watch the recent Twister movie with my school colleagues. Should be a fun time.

aaaaaaand work is slashing my hours because they made us all part time.

Fuck this capitalistic hellscape I want to get off....

And of course things have go go from suck to suck this go around. As I'm trying to get my class paid for with the help of my mom I get a notification that the gastric bypass I had almost a year ago has been billed to me in the form of over $1000...of which I don't have.

From the LinusTechTips community on Reddit: Mastercard is trying to silence criticism of them forcing steam censorship Explore this post and more from the LinusTechTips community

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A wild @acvalens.net spotted in /r/LinusTechTips. Looks like some people want LTT to cover the whole fiasco with Mastercard on The WAN show.

Stripe says it’s accepting payments for LGBTQ content
JVA site starts working with Visa again
Mastercard reportedly panicking and making Riot moderate messages

The tide is turning
We are going to win this
Keep calling
Keep writing
Keep fighting

You can do this

if you were holding off on calling payment processors like y'all do about your representatives because "it doesn't affect anything, i'm just one person in a sea, i'll never be the tipping point":

it's tipping.
keep calling. or join in now if you haven't!

OH MY GOD WE ARE WINNING YALL

KEEP CALLING DO NOT STOP

DO NOT STOP CALLING LOOK AT WHAT WE ARE DOING!!!

This is just one step. It means what we're doing is working!

THEY'RE STARTING TO CRACK.

KEEP THE CALLS UP!!

DON'T STOP

It's working y'all, don't stop calling and help protect your rights!

Pressure from callers? Did they work out a deal? Visa bending the knee as the Japanese public & politicians become aware of the situation?

Regardless, keep calling. This is a very positive sign

VISA credit card payment (smartphone, PC) is now available. Thank you for your patience. VISA credit card payment (smartphone, PC) is now available. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. Thank you for your continued support of XCREAM.

For further context: XCREAM is a site that has an R18+ section hosting JAV material. Visa cards were pulled in June, per a July announcement: en.xcream.net/pages/202507...

On Aug. 8th, XCREAM announced Visa cards are accepted again
en.xcream.net/pages/202508...

What caused the change?

kind reminder: Just because they are backtracking that doesn't mean y'all should stop now.
Keep calling and pestering them.

Walk-backs have been happening. Keep pushing! Keep calling! Keep telling these fuckers what's good!

From the visualnovels community on Reddit: Visa backtracks on shutting down payments for JAV site. Explore this post and more from the visualnovels community

Paging @acvalens.net from the /r/VisualNovels Subreddit.

www.reddit.com/r/visualnove...

Screen shot of one account's bluesky followers, with the similar account names suggesting they're bots

Look, I'm not particularly tech savvy, but this level of bot activity on here seems...not great..? Wish it was clearer that Bluesky was taking steps to deal with this in some way

Not soon enough

An afternoon with #CafeBustelo on ice. Good shit.

The worst and most mediocre people in this country won't go away and somehow wield so much power.

Had a panic attack myself. It's gotten to a point where my mom offered to help pay for my class, and I don't want her to go broke just because of me. She insisted so I accepted, but still.

Fuck this fraud of a financial aid system and fuck these for-profit universities.

Our profit-based education system is an absolute shitshow, and I hate it.