🍂🍁Alyss🍁🍂

Yeah it's def not something you'd expect from a cat. After awhile I just found it hilarious haha

:O is this an RP event or just a for-fun OOC event?

I DI IT

Both my current cat and my late cat do/did this

While i hesitate to say this was OUR doing, as japanese adult sites have been fighting their own battles here for a while now, this IS proof that these big payment processors can be made to reverse course on adult content

They can bleed. We can do this.

Keep fucking yelling
Keep fucking calling

Oh my god, I love that the art of storytelling lives on in this man.

sfw artists gotta give a shit about weird porn too

Same during my call- the wording I used was “non-explicit, legal, non-adult LGBT content”, and I got back the response that “yes, stripe is blocking this. We’re a private company, we make our own rules about it.” Was hung up on when I asked why.

Feels like "payment processor Stripe admits to being an anti LGBTQ hate group" should be an actual headline somewhere.

Stripe crossed a line now.

Call up whatever local LGBT organizations exist in your area, gay activist groups, gay bars, pride organizing committees, folks who schedule drag shows, queer church groups, everyone.

Also libraries and bookstores.

Show up in person to talk to any business using Stripe.

We're not in theoretical "they could come after sfw queer content LATER" territory anymore. It is being used to come after sfw queer content NOW.

Spread this around, send the article to any and every news outlet/content creator you can think of. The alarms need to be sounded

And KEEP CALLING

Stripe shut down their headquarters phone. Close the main gate and the hordes can't get in, eh?

If you or a friend or relative works at Stripe, we need internal phone numbers and emails. Admin Assistants. Managers. VPs. Directors of Fraud. Audit Readiness.

It's siege tactics time.

Overall I thiiiink....

Tank: Dark knight (bringing new meaning to emotional damage)
Phys Melee: reaper go brrr
Ranged melee: pretty evenly matched tbh, I love the ranged classes
Casting: I CAST METEOOORRRRR (black mage)
Healer: blood for the blood lily (white mage)

twice today, when pressured, Stripe operators have said, plainly, that i cannot use stripe for the purchase of LGBTQ content. not just adult content, but explicitly LGBTQ.

Listen. If we get through this?

(And i do think we will get through this)

I hope a lot if you internalize how -easy- it is to just call your reps and give em a piece of your mind.

Theres more of US than there are those loudmouthed shitheads out there, we just gotta be loudmouths too.

I cannot express enough to you how much POWER your reposts have on Bluesky. Because Bluesky doesn't have an algorithm on your following page, every person who follows you will see anything and everything you repost. So even if you don't have a ton of followers, your reposts are still STRONG.

That sounds so weird. Like, good for her, but IT SOUNDS SO WEIRD TO ME

New what

fuckin' Coyote Hours over here

when the right say 'crime' they mean 'the presence of groups of people we're bigoted against,' they don't care about the actual stats

Illustration of G'raha Tia, Haurchefant, the two G'raha minions, and custom Warrior of Light (Raih'a) on the beach. Raih'a is pressing a cold can of soda to a flustered G'arha's cheek while Haurchefant is calling cheerfully to them from the shore.

I don't think that's helping him cool down very much when you're sitting so close... 🤔 #wolgraha #ffxivart #FF14イラスト

This canadian politician is trying to push the same draconic ID verification laws as the US and UK.

You canucks should let her know what you think about that

Bad human art is still a million times better and more meaningful than A.I. garbage and always will be.

Watch Out!

A-1/2 seems to look fine, far as I can tell (I didn't do *rigorous* testing, just basic idles for these lmao)
B-1/2 and C-1/2 have a few slight issues though, screenshotted and noted respectively below (tho I'm sure you noticed the wonky arm bend on B-1/2 yourself ldmfghk)

*in sing-song* TESTING TIIIIME~

VISA CAN'T HANG UP ON YOU UNTIL YOU STOP TALKING. YAPPERS, THIS IS YOUR TIME TO SHINE.

Talk in circles! Loop back to the same points! Take a minute to "remember" a word! Your goal isn't to change their minds, it's to keep talking for as long as possible to waste their money and clog call centers.

I freaked out over what turned out to be a vanilla bug dfghnkjdfh

Furry needs more, smaller events. Not just cons. Arts markets, one-off dance nights, pub nights, BBQs in the park and beach trips. Don't get too focused on the big giant conventions when there's a thriving community all around you! (And if there isn't, build one!)