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ritasnep.bsky.social
heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community

go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!
December 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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witchofavalon.bsky.social
Apparently P*ypal now asks for customer opinions on accounts sending invoices.
If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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doublecollusion.bsky.social
Guys new scamming method on bluesky. Please share this around. Dont fall for this stuff

Block, move on.
October 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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dieselbrain.bsky.social
#SaveSpeech

Extremely happy to confirm that Europe's 'Chat Control' has successfully been BLOCKED.

While there is a good chance this proposal may be brought up again in the future, for now folks, celebrate this dub!

fightchatcontrol.eu#member-states
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
fightchatcontrol.eu
September 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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valyagalaktika.bsky.social
If we lose this place, after having just moved in, we'll likely need to move to Virginia. We'll lose all our government benefits, healthcare, SNAP, disability, for at least half a year if we have to leave the state, unless we get at least $1,100 in two days.
September 14, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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threnody.bsky.social
you can’t do shit about a police investigation or how big money will spin the news. but you know what you *can* do? help the actual people this will be/is being weaponized against.

tap into the thread. make a few calls so people close to power know this *also* isn’t the time to bail on trans folks.
threnody.bsky.social emily baby ❄️🎄 @threnody.bsky.social · Sep 9
hi, cis folks!

if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.

the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.

we need you to call senators: reps.fyi

more info & script downthread.🧵
ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · Sep 8
NEWS: House Appropriations Committee Republicans released their spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. The legislation would prohibit taxpayer dollars for any type of gender-affirming care for transgender people. This would include programs like Medicaid
September 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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rakeeshsorrel.bsky.social
The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures.

This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech!

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
e-6695 (Consumer protection) Keywords Censorship Credit cards Internet Pornography E-petition Initiated by Carmen Tam from Waterloo, Ontario Original language of petition: English Petition details Petition to the House of Commons Whereas: Mastercard, Visa, and other payment platforms have been leveraging their power over consumer ability to purchase legal content; In 2021, Mastercard changed its policies to regulate adult entertainment by preventing the use of its payment platform on numerous adult entertainment sites; As of July 2025, video game distribution service Steam now cites rule 15, that “adult only” content is not permitted on the platform if it goes against payment processor’s policies. Steam does not describe what content is defined as “adult only”; As of July 2025, video game distribution website Itch.io has “deindexed” all adult NSFW content from browse and search pages. Users that previously purchased legitimate video games cannot access games that have been removed; and This has set an unsettling precedent of corporate censorship, causing concern in video game development teams, including developers, voice actors, and artists in other creative fields as their livelihoods are in limbo. We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to 1. Stop financial discrimination by payment platforms against legal goods and services; 2. Ensure transparency to consumers about content restrictions and the rationale behind them; and 3. Protect creators' rights to make legal adult content and ensure a fair appeals process for any penalized media.
September 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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bickpixx.bsky.social
I got an email back from a Bluesky moderator in regards to the phishing scams that's been a problem lately. Here's some vital information to share to prevent others from falling for these scams.
•We only contact users via email addresses ending in @blueskyweb.xyz, @bsky.social, or @bsky.app •We do not provide support through Discord or other third-party chat apps •We will never ask for your password, login details, or payment for verification badge
September 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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bmoraccoon.bsky.social
My friend needs some big help after his car's transmission died on him over the weekend.

His car was absolutely vital to him and so he's trying to raise money on GoFundMe to buy a new used car.

Please share this post or help him out if you can. Thank you! ❤️🦝

www.gofundme.com/f/gjvfh5-hel...
Donate to Help Joe Get Back on the Road, organized by Joe Guerra
Hi everyone, my name is Joe, though many of you know me as Mordecai. I have been part of the … Joe Guerra needs your support for Help Joe Get Back on the Road
www.gofundme.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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dieselbrain.bsky.social
Think its stupid that VISA and Mastercard think something as innocent as Cat Ear accessories are a bannable offense?

Then heres something you can do about it. Complain to visa and MC, call your representatives.

Advocate for porn, whole heartedly.
September 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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jaqqqln.gay
The paypros and fake "banks" all seem to be getting pretty vindictive & retaliatory atp. This was inevitable. They want to discourage & demoralize us, but they're only pissing us off.

Let them know how pissed off you are.
acvalens.com Ana Valens | 🔞 @acvalens.com · Aug 13
CALL STRIPE
CALL PAYPAL
CALL MASTERCARD
CALL VISA

DO NOT. STOP. CALLING!
#rocktheboat

stop-paypros.neocities.org
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
August 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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dungeonchill.bsky.social
I despise how hard YouTube actively fucks over its users and creators at every turn.

Be sure to check your devices (Yes, plural DEVICE(S), because they’ve made it per device not just account), and make sure this setting is OFF!

It’s potentially hiding thousands of videos from you.
September 8, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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discord12395.bsky.social
Right now there's a petition in Australia to establish a law that would prevent organizations like "Collective Shout" from forming harassment campaigns. This is only for Australians to sign, but it's also encouraged for others to share the petition. #SaveSpeech

Link: www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
Petition Reason We ask for this due to rising concern that non-profit organisations, or otherwise, have been and have successfully pressured Australian and global companies into refusing service to certain groups of people, including people of sexual identity, LGBTQ+ groups. They should not be allowed to use harassment techniques to force their personal ideas and beliefs on Australian adults and others around the world who use the internet Petition Request We therefore ask the House to investigate, regulate, restrict or shut down and outlaw organisations such as "Collective Shout"; these organisation,s like the one named here, hide behind the disguise of protecting the vulnerable; however, their predatory behaviour has caused people to lose jobs and livelihood as well as people to feel unsafe in their own skin So we ask the House to look into these non-profits and expose the true harm they do behind closed doors
September 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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seagamesforgood.bsky.social
Incredibly grateful to @pcgamer.com for sharing about our Games for Palestine charity bundle. Thank you so much for the coverage!! ❤️

www.pcgamer.com/games/you-ca...
September 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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efraartmix.bsky.social
Please spread this information people, don't let Pay Pal dox you.
January 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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beetlebuggyboy.bsky.social
Speaking on this; there's a tumblr post that PERFECTLY explains why TERFs have 'so much reach', and folk need to see it.

Stop engaging with TERFS, block them, and get them offline. Likewise, report *their* harmful comments.

Organise and be smart.
Screenshot of a tumblr post by user khazrablood. It shows another screenshot from twitter/X by @advocate.com, stating; "Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targetted for mild criticisms of anti-trans billionaire." Beneath the quote, a hyperlink pop up of an informative article appears, with two images; the first is Bluesky's logo, and the second is of Joanne Rowling. Under the two portrait images, the header reads; "Bluesky silenced trans voices over J. K Rowling, here's why" The sub-header of the hyperlink further reads; "Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targetted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire." Underneath the screenshot of the Twitter/X post, khazrablood writes; "wannabe twitter already bending the knee to terfs." Following the previous tumblr post by khazrablood, fourohfourlifenotfound, a different user, has reblogged the post and added; If we are ever going to stop this, then you guys need to start learning why this happens. And it's not always because some executive made a decision to favor a TERF. It's because the technology is broken in a way TERFs have learned to use to their advantage. So content moderation is a HUGE task. It is incredibly inefficient to manually monitor all user reports-- when you "flag" something as spam or inappropriate or 'inciting harm' (what Blueskye is saying the banned users had in their posts). So what actually happens is that the bulk of it is reviewed by machine. The precise "how" is a bit of a black box (if you say exactly, it makes it more vulnerable to being bypasses), but we generally know it's a bit of machine learning ("ai", but not he chatgpt kind) and a bit of automation. Generically this gets referred to as an "algorithm" (which is a meaningless word I don't have time to unpack here). a continuation of khazrablood's tumblr post, reblogged and added to by fourohfourlifenotfound; The TERFs have a formula. A battle plan, if you will. I've been watching them use it for almost a decade. And they play social media sites like a fiddle every single time. The way it works is that they coordinate attacks on targets they dislike. (Usually trans people, but ace discourse is a notable example of targets not necessarily fitting that demographic.) They send links to each other of posts to report. They'll flag it for whatever the nearest thing they can is. The blueskye users were wishing ill to JK Rowling, so "inciting harm" was the excuse selected. "Inappropriate or sexually explicit content" is a common selection for other trans content. Then what happens is the content moderation "algorithm" sees a huge influx of reports for a certain post or user. And instead of making a human manually review all of that, it automatically initiates a ban or takedown. And if the "algorithm" has word censorship built in, it will begin to auto-flag for things containing words in posts frequently flagged, so it begins to auto-flag the word trans itself. The end of tumblr user fourohfourlifenotfound addition to khazrablood's original tumblr post; This has been happening for almost a decade. There was a trans youtuber who proved TERF hater group chats flagged his videos so much that it started auto-demonitizing identical videos with the word trans in the title, but leaving ones without the word alone. I strongly suspect this is why we see huge amounts of trans women banned for no reason on tumblr. And this is clearly what is happening now. How do we fix it? There's no easy solution. All the things about the "algorithm" that make moderation easier for the social media platforms are the exact reasons it's so difficult to defeat. It's hard to teach a machine what's a genuine flag and a malicious one. Again, it's been almost a decade since the issue was raised with youtube, and there has yet to be a solution for rooting out malicious coordinated flagging. But here's one thing that can help: get TERFs off of social media. Stop letting them bait you into petty fights. Learn how to identify them. Block and report them.
September 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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tammdraws.bsky.social
This isn't like the average online petition btw, this is one of those things where if it gets enough signatures, the HOC absolutely must bring it to the floor for discussion. Incredibly important to get on this if you're Canadian.
jmkeep.bsky.social Michelle Keep @jmkeep.bsky.social · Sep 3
Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

#nsfw #censorship #canpoli

@acvalens.net
Petition e-6695 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
September 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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sojirosuisei.bsky.social
This is why I keep reminding everyone to keep calling. They're not backing down, they're doubling down. I know you're tired of seeing it, I am too, but we can't afford to stop. They can't be allowed to get away with it.

Don't stop calling.
acvalens.com Ana Valens | 🔞 @acvalens.com · Aug 31
Heavy Hearts dev Dammitbird received the following notice from Steam, noting “your app has failed our review because we're unable to support the Early Access model of development for a game with mature themes”

This strikes me as overcompliance and censorious on Steam’s part
Dammitbird @GalewindG X.com According to steam, early access is no longer an option for games with "mature themes" The culling of adult games continues. @ChibiReviews @Pirat_Nation Message from The Steam Team on Aug 30 @ 7:31am | 15 hours ago Thank you for your patience during this additional review. Please resubmit your app for review when you're ready. Failure: Your app has failed our review because we're unable to support the Early Access model of development for a game with mature themes. Please resubmit when your app is ready to launch without Early Access. Message from The Steam Team on Aug 30 @ 7:31am | 15 hours ago Thank you for your patience during this additional review. Please resubmit your app for review when you're ready. Failure: Your app has failed our review because we're unable to support the Early Access model of development for a game with mature themes. Please resubmit when your app is ready to launch without Early Access.
September 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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twist.dog
hey guys, i didn't want to have to do this, but i really need some help.
August 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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cowcollar.bsky.social
hate hate hate asking for donations again, but i'm not really sure what else i can do.
if you can spare any change my way-
www.patreon.com/c/cowcollar
subscribestar.adult/cowcollar
www.paypal.com/paypalme/ugl...
account.venmo.com/u/cowdragons
September 1, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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dieselbrain.bsky.social
#SaveSpeech

Continue calling your representatives about these federal bills. All of these are some flavor of bad-for-the-internet.

additionally, try to emphasize how much you want to see legislation passed to stop paypros from censoring/debanking legal work!

www.congress.gov/members/find...
August 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM