Ash McAllan

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This bill would criminalize pornography by legally redefining what it means to be obscene.

Period. Full stop. No more porn legally. If you post porn whether free pics or paid vids. this affects you!

But the solution to that is the one we're yelling about anyway. Tax the rich, universal basic income, worker owned collective businesses.

I think the "ttrpgs are too expensive now" crowd are wrong to point their finger at ttrpgs, as we can see in the quote, but I think it is fair to say "I'm struggling to afford things as a worker" because the difference in cost of living has nuked a lot of folks' discretionary spending budgets.

To echo others: that MasterCard is proactively reaching out to its advertising partners to try and blunt the impact of the pressure campaign is one of the surest signs the pressure campaign is having an effect (and after just two weeks, too!) Don't let up! Call/mail their asses!! #SaveSpeech

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

A screenshot of CGE’s instagram page: “With the above in mind, and after many heartfelt and vital discussions both internally and with members of the affected community, we have decided to donate 100% of the profit from this game to appropriate charitable organizations. We will ensure that an amount equal to our greater than the fee paid to license this product will go directly to organizations that provide support for the trans community. We evaluate profits and make charitable-giving decisions each December, and we will continue using this annual process to direct the games profits. We will listen to recommendations from the community to help guide our choices of organizations that provide support for the trans community. Or goal is to select those that offer direct, practical help to people in need — for example, services similar to the emergency hotline that was recently discontinued.”

I’m doing victory laps in my kitchen right now!!!! 💃🏼

CGE just announced they are going to be giving away 100% of the profit from their Harry Potter game to pro-trans charities!!

www.instagram.com/p/DNG48n-IVP...

Keep calling. Keep going.

Just gotta be pedantic, like you'd expect from someone who uses mastodon, that bluesky is not in fact "the only social media site that doesn't suppress link posts"

Mastodon and the rest of the fediverse exists, whether you like it or not, and it does not suppress links

One of the few things I'm absolutely sure of is that there's nothing wrong with being trans. We're just a type of person. We deserve equality because all people deserve equality.

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.

Holy shit this is dope. Easily one of the greatest games of all time imo

Huh that's weird. I feel like I've heard something like that before.

This is what I think of when someone says a post has "broken containment"

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

Stop payment processors from censoring games!

Hey, it would mean so much to me if y'all kept up the pressure with phone calls to payment processors to show to them how much people care and that they can't just ignore it—my livelihood depends on adult games not being censored!

You can find info and phone scripts here: stop-paypros.neocities.org

if you are interested in having a deep relationship with art of any kind, you owe it to yourself to start engaging with it the way Stacey describes here, you will have a much better time with every piece you come across and learn a ton in the process

Remember if you're calling, a good way to 'refresh' the bit is to act like you just heard about this issue from this article.

We Contain Solitudes by Seven Crows Games A 2 player TTRPG about troubled souls trapped in a time loop that plays out in prose and soliloquies.

I've got a new game called We Contain Solitudes that I am putting out today!
You can get it here: sevencrowsgames.itch.io/we-contain-s...
It's a 2 player ttrpg about troubled souls stuck in a time loop that plays out in prose and soliloquy.

#SaveSpeech

its been a week, and while we cannot let up pressure on making phone calls, we need to start applying pressure elsewhere now as well!

PHASE 2: START MAILING PHYSICAL LETTERS

imgur: imgur.com/a/3pVupWQ

more comprehensive info can be found here:
stop-paypros.neocities.org
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Seems like after twenty something reposts on here is the point for me RN where people start quoting or replying and completely missing the point and I have to start blocking for lack of media literacy.

The -only- thing these kinds of age verification requirements do is prevent small new small businesses and community groups from getting started online. Which is presumably the point.

"This system will prevent minors from accessing inappropriate content because it requires verification of a government issued ID document" is the kind of thing that you only say if you're an absolute dweeb who never stole anything out of your parents' wallet as a kid. Fuckin rubes.

"Our technology can verify the age of a current user by scanning their webcam and feeding it into our age detection models. Our next product lets you create a fake person of any age or background and generate a live photorealistic video feed of that person straight into your webcam."

Damn you mean itch didn’t actually just abandon these creators but has been working hard with its limited resources to figure out how to continue supporting them? How surprising

Oh, yeah. That's a problem. I once accidentally napped through a seven hour uni day in 10-30 minute blocks. One of the amazing things about having found the right antidepressant for me is it's the first time in my life I'm not constantly battling fatigue

That's not a weakness, that's a superpower

A blue box to the left with four sillhouette-style humans, each notably wearing wizard-like robes from the Harry Potter universe. The box says Codenames and Back to Hogwarts on it, with Harry Potter in golden letters at the bottom. To the right, a cartoon astronaut head in a Harry Potter scarf winks, a variation of the logo of board game publisher Czech Games Edition.

Reviewers including No Pun Included and Shut Up & Sit Down are boycotting Codenames publisher CGE for releasing a new Harry Potter-themed game while ignoring JK Rowling’s anti-trans rhetoric:

boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

I took the "confused and asking questions" route on the phone with Visa today and in my initial questions, I didn't mention video games at all and the person on the phone said "Visa doesn't block payments to video game sites" so I KNOW they're floundering under these calls.