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i think it's good actually that a videogame prominently featuring AI voice acting is finding success while my VA friends haven't found steady work in years and have their rates forcibly ground into dust over the few reliable gigs left

but hey the game is really fun right!!!!!!!

This shit makes me so mad because people don't understand how much power we have over these companies and the only thing we need to do is not give them money. The only thing we need to do is to not do anything. It's the easiest shit!

*wearily* collective action does work, it really does

Aka "don't sign protest sheets" and be smart about things. Stay inn groups, bring protective gear, know your "supposed" rights and don't incriminate yourselves by posting shit online or talking about shit with people who "don't need to know"

Be careful does not mean be a coward. It means be smart.

i want the entire professional world of entertainment to know that they shouldn't care, they should be able to unify with NSFW/kink creators. The government is censoring all of us, and divided we will be taken out. Start vying for unifcation. Start making connections. Start building a community.

the trans pride flag

Here is some non-satire for you:

Trans rights forever.

Cis Americans please, please call your reps. Tell them this will kill. That human lives are non-negotiable. That they need to oppose this bill with their whole hearts, to save our sisters', brothers' and siblings' lives. I am fucking scared for them.

Oh, hey.

Visa and Mastercard now say you can't pay for WoW. Magic the Gathering. FFXIV. DnD. Lord of the Rings. Because they're all "adult" content against their ToS just for being "fantasy".

Let that sink in.

Spread this like wildfire and have people in those circles call them. No quarter.

If I can't buy magic cards or fucking books, I'm going on a fucking rampage

HOW IS THIS ALLOWED?!?!

This is obsurd.
A self professed Christian Nationalist in charge of our military forcing our troops, built on diversity, to pray for a man who openly fed into the oppression of POC, women, LGBTQ+, “other” religions and pushed white supremacy beliefs is insane.

Adding progesterone to gender-affirming hormone therapy improves breast growth for transgender people The addition of the hormone progesterone to gender-affirming hormone therapy leads to increased breast growth for transgender people following feminising hormone therapy.

a study showing the efficacy of progesterone for breast growth has finally come out perhaps some people can stop falsely accusing the rest of us of spreading medical misinformation just because they downplay the value of anecdotal evidence in the absence of such studies

Please keep calling your Senators and Reps and tell them to OPPOSE all of these bills! Strike them down before they get a chance to show up!

They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.

Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.

It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices Plans to abolish Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act could have dire consequences for games.

Not shocked at all.

A reminder that everything is political; if you think that politics won't affect you, think again.

Sports Illustrated is covering it now.

Time to pretend to be a normie shareholder who wants to know why the brand is damaging its own reputation.

If you have ever wanted to yell directly at a Mastercard CEO: do it!! do it NOW

To my critics who say that my position urging Democratic governors to redrawing maps is simply a race to the bottom, I say this:

The only thing Donald Trump understand is overwhelming force. We shouldn't bring knives to a gun fight, we should be missiles. Unilateral disarmament is not an option.

Of note: NCOSE is what they started calling themselves after a rebrand. Before that they were the openly evangelical Christian watchdog group Morality in Media. They've intentionally branded themselves in a way that seems, at a glance, more professional and less extreme.

Finally, a united nation.

This is Texas Rep. Todd Hunter who submitted the proposed redistricting map to rig the 2026 midterms. His phone numbers are: 512-463-0672 and 361-949-4603. His office address is: 15217 South Padre Island Dr. Suite. 201, Corpus Christi, TX 78418. CALL TO ACTION/ORGANIZING

Protest movements that stop as soon as they start seeing results fail.

Protest movements that keep going until your whole squad is across the finish line win.

dunno the source for this but this is neat

I feel we need to remind everyone that this all started just a few days ago, we haven't even been calling for a week and they're already at the "Hanging up because they can't take it anymore" stage.
Keep calling

This closing statement from TheOtherFrost on Stop Killing Games really stuck with me.

Because it doesn't just apply to the initiative.
This is Politics in a nutshell.

Make sure you make some calls today! Visa, mastercard and stripe!

I see that Hulk Hogan has died. Who will Peter Thiel manipulate now to seek revenge against any media outlet that writes truth that discomforts him?

"If steam bans porn, then they'll ban queer content and that'll be bad!"
No it's bad if they ban porn. Period. End of.
Payment processers deciding what people are allowed to sell and what you are allowed to buy with your own damn money -based solely on their puritanical views- is fucking atrocious.

Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy. Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.

Once again, there is an ACLU petition specifically made to stop Mastercard from unlawfully policing adult content. It’s getting pretty grim for us out there. Please sign and/or spread the word.
action.aclu.org/petition/mas...