And it's worth fighting for.

You're so welcome! Hope is a muscle, gotta keep working it 😊

I often think about how useful my EDI work is for maintaining my faith in humanity. I've trained over 1000 people at this point, and I can count the number of people who've been actively hostile about it on one hand - which you wouldn't expect from looking at our news media.

a logo image that says - conjured ink. following the logo, the graphic says anti-censorship, pro-weird, seller shop software.

the same text as in the post is on this graphic, followed by a cartoon of a canadian witch girl flying on a hockeystick broom

Itch and Steam got a bunch of us thinking; we need a catalogue where creative (esp. NSFW & Queer) works are less vulnerable to censorship. A storefront we won't be delisted from. One giving us the autonomy to sell our stuff our way. So we're making Conjured Ink. You can join us. https://conjured.ink

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.

Visa employees clearly told to deescalate ASAP
MasterCard employees more than familiar with the issue
Stripe feeling the pressure
ACLU put out a statement
CBC covered all this

What you are doing is WORKING
You are getting RESULTS
KEEP CALLING
KEEP WRITING
WE ARE GOING TO WIN!!

I think that people forget that hope & creativity are skills / muscles. You have to choose to practice them and challenge yourself to keep at it when shit gets hard.

I believe that is part of what AI does is that it atrophies those muscles which exacerbates existing stressors & existential crises.

Title: Gender Census 2025. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

a tweet from me that says "israel has been working to engineer a famine in gaza, with the aim of killing its population, and every political ally of israel knows this is the case"

i posted this more than a year ago because it was obvious by then that israel was trying to starve gaza, & i knew there would come a time in the future when a bunch of people who know better would pretend to suddenly find out about it

if you call and they hang up on you, call back and immediately say you want to escalate to a supervisor because you were just hung up on. you don't even need to say any other details, just that you were hung up on and need to escalate

Awwww 😊 Thank you, that's genuinely encouraging!

Recently planned out a new writing project 😊 Knowing me, none of you will see it for like two years, but it is nice to do something creative that's entirely mine again.

In the face of what's happening, anything less than breaking Israel's illegal blockade with shipping backed by the military is pathetic time wasting

Holding important meetings, lamenting bad things, urging people to do good things. The same routine for 20 months. And all the while the arms exports continue, the surveillance flights continue, trade and investment continues, normal diplomatic relations continue. Complicity in genocide continues.

we are going to need to keep up this 'yelling at payment processors' energy for more than just today

Ideally, we will need to keep up this pressure over a span of a few weeks

As many people as possible, each making 2-4 calls a day, for a few weeks, is going to make the biggest impact

after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to

askvisa@visa.com

they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.

I phoned PayPal on +44203 901 7000. The advisor hadn't heard of the itch.io case. We discussed the best ways to have a complaint go up the hierarchy. I was also advised to email EuropeanServices@PayPal.com

I'd advise phoning ASAP, insist the advisor escalate the complaint, and email as well.

Write to David Lammy: Gaza is starving to death

palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/demandsancti...

Fellow UK people: let's overwhelm Lammy with signatures to this.

We are really at the stage of gov officials saying that racism is legitimate its fucking disgusting

HELLO COMRADES

Could anyone affected by Itch removing items please send any evidence they may have to myself? I am filing a report with the Australian Consumer Commission, as I have reason to believe that Itch removing access may be a violation of Australian Consumers rights!

Drop em below or DM!!

UK opinion on Gaza war (YouGov, July 2025)

18% support Israel’s actions in Gaza, 55% oppose
81% of those who oppose say it’s a genocide

Large margins in favour of:
- trade embargoes (48% to 20%)
- financial sanctions on individuals (52% to 19%)
- suspending arms exports to Israel (57% to 18%)

📢 ISO of Devs Affected by Itch 📢

If your game got:
• Deindexed
• Removed
• Payouts turned off

Especially if you make Adult &/or LGBTQ+ #IndieGame or #VisualNovel, I want to talk to you.

🗣️ Please reply below with how you were affected. This is for a #Journalism piece.

🔁 RTs Appreciated 🔁

Here’s a short script:
“Hello, my name is _____, and I would like to file a complaint. I find it troubling that Mastercard is blocking content on (the platforms you use) and making it difficult for me to make legal purchases. I am going to stop using Mastercard if this isn’t rescinded and fixed."

hey guys, the UK online safety act is kicking in, so just a reminder that UK people can NOT use DMs without confirming their ID! please make sure to have other avenues for contact for commissions and such, thank you :)

Maybe we could find out.

Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000

The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

Eee! Thank you pal 😀

🥺Thank you so much, Graham! That means a lot.

Helen Gould Need a sensitivity consultant?

If anyone's looking for sensitivity consultation or TTRPG writing work, my schedule is looking pretty free from August onwards! 😊 As always, my website is here: hgwriting.co.uk

Our hardship fund has 2 days remaining! All funds will support the 10 employees made redundant when the director closed our workplace in response to us unionising - and help support us as we form a workers co-op to reopen!

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-th...

Now approaching 10k emails to Ofcom - let's remind Murdoch that his hate also has consequences for him.