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Official Derptiles

@derptiles.art

You can leave a comment opposing the proposal, the government must acknowledge these comments. If enough people are against it, they won’t be able to change the ESA.

Here’s a guide for how to write effective comments and links to each piece of the proposal

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The Trump Administration Is Rushing to Gut the Endangered Species Act — Here’s How to Fight Back | Wildlife for All

The Trump Administration has launched four rapid-fire rulemaking proposals to weaken the Endangered Species Act, with 30 days for public comment to fight back.

wildlifeforall.us

December 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM

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Palette Swap

@paletteswap.site

Tragedy unfolded in Delfino Plaza after a tourist unfamiliar with the area’s customs handed her baby to a local Chuckster.
paletteswap.site/dif...

October 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM

oneRyanOutta3️⃣7️⃣5️⃣

@oneryanoutta375.bsky.social

Decided to get back into learning how to draw (out of spite [see last repost]) and thought it might be good to share some of the process for others. Rather happy with this sketch page (my printer scanner, less so)
#art #sketch #learning

a sketch page of: practice circles, a buttonless Switch pro controller, most of a shaker cup, standing person, a rice cooker, calipers, a Super Pocket handheld, and terrible scissors.

September 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM

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GigerPunk

@gigerpunk.bsky.social

Fuck me this is bleak.
But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.

‘Children's book illustrator isn't a job anymore.’
I've been out of work for a while now. I made children's book illustrations, stock art, and took various art commissions.

Now I have several maxed out credit cards and use a donation bin for food. I haven't had a steady contract in over a year. two weeks ago, when a client who has switched to AI found out about this he gave me $50 out of "a sense of guilt." Basically pity for the fact that Illustrator, as a job, does not exist anymore.

It was my birthday recently and I sincerely considered not living anymore.
The worst part of all is that the parents who once supported me fully in being an artist sent me an AI generated picture of a caricature of themselves holding a birthday cake with my name spelled incorrectly.

September 18, 2025 at 9:14 AM

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Ethan Kocak

@ethankocak.com

Tell artists you like their work. It’s how they stay filled with life-giving art mucous.

September 25, 2024 at 7:18 PM

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🔞Keesh 🍁🏳️‍🌈

@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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emily moonlight

@threnody.bsky.social

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.🧵

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

SEC. 243. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce Executive Order 13988, entitled ‘‘Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation’’, published by the Executive Office of the President on January 25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7023).

SEC. 244. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for any social, psychological, behavioral,or medical intervention performed for the purposes of in16 tentionally changing the body of an individual (including
by disrupting the body’s development, inhibiting its natural functions, or modifying its appearance) to no longer correspond to the individual’s biological sex.

September 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM

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Michelle Keep

@jmkeep.bsky.social

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 6:01 PM

oneRyanOutta3️⃣7️⃣5️⃣

@oneryanoutta375.bsky.social

Anyone remember Spiral Knights? I made a Castle Crashers character out of my dude from back in the day.
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

Steam Workshop::SPIRAL GUNNER

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September 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM

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Dieselbrain

@dieselbrain.bsky.social

#SaveSpeech #CPBC

As we near closer to 4 weeks of sustained pressure, I made this infographic to help focus our targets and to suggest a daily goal that is feasible for most people

more info and phone numbers here:
stop-paypros.neocities.org
yellat.money

find reps
www.congress.gov/members/find...

August 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM

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sephirAmy

@sephiramy.bsky.social

the community guidelines in question here include issues pertaining to adult content and LGBT+ identity, so please do fill it out and give them a BIG piece of your mind!!

kick up a fuss! we're not about to be pushed out!

Bluesky @bsky.app · Aug 14

In the coming weeks, we're asking for feedback on our Community Guidelines. Your input will help ensure our Guidelines serve our users and are ready to support Bluesky's future.

To learn how to contribute, check out our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Updated Terms and Policies - Bluesky

We’re updating the language in our terms and policies to better explain our approach and provide more detail.

bsky.social

August 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM

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Void🔞 | VGen

@voiddebris.bsky.social

I know we're upset about itch, but they're not the only ones

Payment processors harassed companies bc of a 1,000 email hate campaign

But we can EASILY top 1,000!

I prewrote an email + got the contact info - you just have to send!

↻💬♡ to boost

We CAN make a difference 💕

#itch #censorship

1/🧵

Digital graphic with the text "anti-censorship campaign" and screenshots of headlines about how multiple storefronts have removed NSFW content due to pressure from payment processors and Collective Shout.

July 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM

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Suzanne ✨🌑

@tendermiasma.com

A PayPal call center supervisor said they actually completely agree with me. They said that if enough people call PayPal they would be forced to take notice. I explained the Patreon/Itch/Steam situation and they said they're a creative themselves & that they hope the situation improves.

CALL THEM

July 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM

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Ana Valens | 🔞

@acvalens.com

It’s time for our own collective shout. Who are you calling?

Remember: Stress you’re a repeat caller on this issue and that you heard about this controversy on the news. With Visa, ask for a supervisor once you hit a dead end. Calls should always last longer than 30 seconds

yellat.money

Phone Numbers

Stripe (Headquarters): +1 (888) 963-8955
Stripe (US): +1 (877) 887-7815
Stripe (France): +33 805-11-19-67
Mastercard (Headquarters): +1 914-249-2000
Mastercard (US): +1 (800)-627-8372
Mastercard (US): +1 (800)-307-7309
Mastercard (Int.): +1 (636)-722-7111
Mastercard (AUS): +61 1800 120 113
Mastercard (UK): 0-800-96-4767
Visa (Headquarters): +1 (650)-432-3200
Visa (US + Can): +1 (800)-847-2911
Visa (AUS): +61 1800 125 440
All region numbers for Visa
PayPal (US): +1 (888)-221-1161
PayPal (UK): +44 (0203)-901-7000
PayPal Customer Service: +1 (877)-569-1116

July 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM

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docember

@docseuss.bsky.social

If you want to actually solve the problem, instead of punishing itch, start calling payment cos

Collective Shout, which is run by people who get published by Spinifex, a very terf-seeming organization, apparently needed 1,000 people to yell at visa to get this done.

We got more than 1000 people.

itch.io @itch.io · Jul 24

itch.io/updates/upda...

Update on NSFW content

We have “deindexed” all adult NSFW content from our browse and search pages. We understand this action is sudden and disruptive, and we are truly sorry for the frustration and confusion caused by...

itch.io

July 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM

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Iantos

@iantos.bsky.social

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

Mr Peculiar 🔞 @mrpecu.bsky.social · Jul 24

Collective Shout, the group that took credit for bullying Mastercard into recently censoring more platforms, stated that apparently it took them ~1000 phonecalls to convince them to give them what they wanted?

We got like way more people than that don't we?

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Jul 24

ok then. one angle of attack then needs to be actively bombarding Visa and Mastercard's phone numbers and emails.

are customer support phone numbers/emails the best avenue to start with or is there a better option?

July 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM

oneRyanOutta3️⃣7️⃣5️⃣

@oneryanoutta375.bsky.social

Finished just in time for a real Deathwatch Team: My Phobos KT

#warhammer40k #warhammerpainting #40k #minipainting

July 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM

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JoCat

@jocat.net

Games should give you the tools to continue to play them if/when they get shut down. You should keep access to the product you paid for

If any of my EU viewers agree, I urge you to sign the petition
Stop Killing Games
EU - eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...
UK - petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

June 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM

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Erin Reed

@erininthemorning.com

If anyone you know is 13-24, in the US, and is LGBTQ+, please have them complete the Trevor Project survey this year.

Their last survey has been integral to protecting LGBTQ+ rights globally.

I can't understate how big an impact it has. Multiple publications come from the data.

Share widely.

To proceed to the survey, please check off the box and click the button below.

trevorredcap.trvr.org

June 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM

oneRyanOutta3️⃣7️⃣5️⃣

@oneryanoutta375.bsky.social

Finally painted some of my Kastellans
#40k #admech #minipainting

May 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM

oneRyanOutta3️⃣7️⃣5️⃣

@oneryanoutta375.bsky.social

Finally built my first kitbash: A perfect normal technoarcheologist
#warhammer #40K #miniatures #there'sNoHeresyGoingOnHereInquisitor

April 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM

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AK

@akfamilyhome.com

Between all the "Switch games are $90" and "All Switch physical games don't have the game in the card!!" misinfo going around, I bet Nintendo is regretting not just upfront stating these things in the Direct lol

April 4, 2025 at 5:03 AM