Philip
shadowmage1299.bsky.social
Philip
@shadowmage1299.bsky.social
Video game fan since birth
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Putting aside how the UK government usually responds to these petitions by simply saying 'no', seeing this hit a million signatures in like a day kinda shows how much people REALLY do not want this.

So yeah, keep signing it. Let's see how high this can go!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
petition.parliament.uk
September 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I'm late to this one because I specifically wanted to avoid the ~internet drama~ surrounding it, but I asked 20 game devs what they thought about Stop Killing Games. Some of these answers were genuinely fascinating - huge thanks to all the devs who helped out!

youtu.be/ZtHPFvQ1Puw?...
I asked 20 game developers about Stop Killing Games.
YouTube video by Charalanahzard
youtu.be
September 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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As a low profile 20+ year dev, I feel this is an excellent summary of developer's perspective on "Stop Killing Games".

TLDR: "This initiative is an important conversation that needs to be had. But it complicated..."

My own thoughts below...
I'm late to this one because I specifically wanted to avoid the ~internet drama~ surrounding it, but I asked 20 game devs what they thought about Stop Killing Games. Some of these answers were genuinely fascinating - huge thanks to all the devs who helped out!

youtu.be/ZtHPFvQ1Puw?...
I asked 20 game developers about Stop Killing Games.
YouTube video by Charalanahzard
youtu.be
September 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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all I will say about the discourse today is food provides a really great way to talk about nuanced things and a really great metaphor for how to navigate their complexity, especially if you have an open heart and good intent because most of us fucken love food, no matter how misanthropic we may be
September 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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They're actively targeting creators who call in & banning them, making it even more important to call if you're a customer & not a creator

Tell them they shouldn't be dictating how you get to spend the money you put your blood, sweat, and tears into earning
CALL STRIPE
CALL PAYPAL
CALL MASTERCARD
CALL VISA

DO NOT. STOP. CALLING!
#rocktheboat

stop-paypros.neocities.org
August 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Happy 30th, Limbless Wonder 💜
#rayman
September 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games
September 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
September 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Marvel wasn't seeing a dime from me outside of Ultimates, and it seems that will continue to be the case. "I know this is dangerous, but look how quirky this is 🤪" is a piss poor take from one of your lead editors and shows zero commitment to defend the artists you're working with. Shame and ugly.
September 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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With the awful news from the last couple hours, this post from the political optimism subreddit helped to break through a bit of the despair fog. Repubs know this is political suicide, ICE's support is crumbling despite the budget increase, and there's a myriad of ways to fight back. Keep strong.
July 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Please sign!!! Credit card companies should not be policing content. The effect is the criminalization of LGBTQ+ voices.
July 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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I mean this in the most earnest way possible. If your points of reference for storytelling all come from cartoons I BEG you to read more books. There’s so much more variety out there, so much that hasn’t been distilled through 80 different hands & a single corporation’s S+P department.
July 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Cheat Sheet v.2

nothing from the prior version is incorrect, but ive made it a little easier to read, plus included a bit more helpful information

imgur link: imgur.com/a/wWaLY2i

more comprehensive info can be found here:
stop-paypros.neocities.org
yellat.money

MAKE YOUR CALLS!!!
July 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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the thing about moral panics is they aren't about moral panics. it's about community control and rampant bigotry. censorship is a tool of fascists, those who purity police are fascists, and if your disgust agrees with their mission more than the right for fiction to gross you out, you are a fascist
July 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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"The Art of Rise of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is coming.
256 pages of concept art, designs, backgrounds & commentary about the animated series.
Pre-orders >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...
July 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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This link is an excellent resource for all the ways we can contact payment providers to complain about the removal of queer and adult games, comics, books and media from all our platforms. Tell these companies to stop censoring queer and adult content. It makes no sense! Enough is enough!
credit cards shouldn't tell you what to buy. you're supposed to tell the credit card what to buy. thats the point i think
yellat.money
July 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Visa says they're still drowning today! Payment processors think that we're not organized enough to keep this up but it's we either prove them wrong or submit to global censorship so it's. not much of a contest. Keep calling all 4!!
July 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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On the one hand, you almost have to admire Trump's cleverness, finding a reward that doesn't involve a pardon (yet).

On every other hand, this is a perversion of justice of the highest order -- corruption, as with everything with this administration -- hiding in plain sight. With zero opposition.
August 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Awwww yeaaaaah

The kids ain't ready
BAMAN PIDERMAN ARE FINALLY BACK HOME UNDER @smallbu.bsky.social'S ROOF!

Truly a day of celebration for indie animators everywhere...
#FizzVsComics
BAMAN PIDERMAN - Episode 1 - Find Da Sandwich
YouTube video by SmallButera
youtu.be
August 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

cpb.org/pressroom/Co...
August 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Uhh gonna upload old stuff here because Eu Twitter guys say they can't see this

(1/2)
July 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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“Please send us emails instead” means “we can put key words from your script on our corporate spam filter and ignore you, but calls shut down our entire contact infrastructure”

Keep fucking calling.
LMAO I called Visa’s customer support service - the guy on the other line was like “are you ALSO calling about the video game payment processing? Please send us emails instead.”

Keep up the calls, folks, we’re definitely gumming up their works
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

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July 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Call call call. Visa is literally begging us to stop calling and send emails. Calls cost them way more money and they can't use key words to filter them out
Welcome to the weekend! You made it sailor. Which censorious payment processor would you like to call first? Thanks to my moot @dieselbrain.bsky.social for the Stripe number, can confirm it works

stop-paypros.neocities.org
July 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Also my hubs works with receiving calls too and when I asked him what it’d be like if he started getting a lot of unrelated calls for over a week it’d be a nightmare to get his work done. Keep up the calls 👏👏👏
July 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM