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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 10h

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

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EponArts @eponarts.bsky.social · 23h

Watch out for ghostly hands this time of year :0

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2d

This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either.

Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 2d

Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games

www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...

r/UKPersonalFinance
3 hr. ago
Previous-Camera1641

I develop adult video games on Steam. I can't find a bank that will actually let me withdraw my money from Steam. Can I get some advice?
Game has sold quite well on Steam. I've got almost £90,000 ready to withdraw after Steam's cut + VAT taken off.

However, it's been 2 months now and I can't find ANY bank in the UK who will let me withdraw my money from Steam.

I've been banned/refused/unable to get a business account with:

Wise
Revolut
Monzo
Monese
Chase
Starling
Nationwide
Halifax
Barclays
Lloyds
RBS

It always comes down to, "Where did you get this money from?"

"It's coming from games I sell on Steam."

"Can we see the store page?"

"Sure."

"I'm sorry, we can't do business with you at this time."

It keeps coming down to a commercial decision purely because I make adult content.

What the hell am I supposed to do? I've pretty much exhausted the whole banking system. I just want to be able to be paid for products I've sold.

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 1d

The exact opposite of what the fascist authoritarian Trump regime had hoped to accomplish is happening. The entire country is falling in love with the antifa freedom frogs and their friends, who are humiliating Trump's Nazi ICE Gestapo EVERY FUCKING DAY. 😂🤣

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KodiTheBree @kodithebree.bsky.social · 2d

Near-miss. Nothing serious.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 6d

This is a great time to remind everyone that you should in fact, still be calling MasterCard, Visa, Stripe, and other payment processors to annoy the shit out of them.

Because I'll tell you right now, that shitheel? Not gonna have to worry about them accepting payment.

*Artists will.*

Phone Numbers
• Stripe (California): +1 888 926 2289 (Say you're based in California before continuing.)
• 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
All region numbers for Mastercard 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

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Aimer 🌼 @aimer-arts.bsky.social · 2d

I think it'd be funny if these two hung out
#pokemonmysterydungeon #PMD

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Mikapoofs @mikapoofs.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing worse than getting interrupted during personal time! Thankfully though it's someone who's eager to help~

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xXacidnekoXx @xxacidnekoxx.bsky.social · 5d

🦇BAT GLOWSTICKS🦇
🦇BAT GLOWSTICKS🦇

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Bertoni @thebertoni.bsky.social · Aug 24

Foto meme de um tipo de efeito dominó em que as peças ficam gradativamente maiores, um homem esta prestes a derrubar a peça menor onde o texto diz em inglês "learning to draw" (aprendendo a desenhar) e na peça maior no final da fileira o texto diz "everybody knowing what your fetishes are" (todo mundo descobrindo quais seus fetiches são).

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 3d

some

BODY

once BODY the some was gonna BODY
I ain't the sharpest some in the BO DY

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Jay @envinyon.bsky.social · 3d

In the digimon shows, digimon are always like fully aware of humans, but I think they should do the reverse

humans are aware of digimon and digimon are like what the fuck are you freaks

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Anen 🔞 @anentheotter.bsky.social · 3d

got my gay otter pose almost set up, a few things to touch up here and there, but I'm liking what's cooking right now

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 3d

My favorite part of the new Tron movie was when Jared Leto's character looks right into the camera and screams "I'm troning out ovah 'ere!" and then trons so hard

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Kanna Banana 🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇷 @kanna-banana.bsky.social · Feb 21

girls night out

a forest camera photo at night showing a coyote, a red fox and a gray wolf walking together in a line

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dBCoatl @ Screw Censorship! @decibelcoatl.bsky.social · 4d

Call your reps and tell them to OPPOSE this nightmarish bill NOW!

NOT tomorrow! NOT next week!

RIGHT. NOW!

There’s still a chance to beat this to the ground, so get going!

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 5d

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

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ΛTLΛS @atlasbun.bsky.social · 4d

Call your senator if you see them on this list and tell them no to KOSA.

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 5d

#SaveSpeech
Democrats that need to be reprimanded for cosponsoring KOSA:

J. Hickenlooper- CO
A. Klobuchar- MN
B. Lujan- NM
B. Schatz- HI
M. Hirono- HI
G. Peters- MI
J. Fetterman- PA
R. Blumenthal- CT
C. Schumer- NY
M. Hassan- NH
M. Kelly- AZ
P. Welch- VT

[more names + links continued below]

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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TheKoboldKing @thekoboldking.bsky.social · Feb 6

silly little things

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🌱Sita Art🌱 Comms open @sitaart.bsky.social · 5d

Chicken Adventurer

Illustration: A polish chicken in a patchwork quilt, happy and holding a leafy, gnarled wooden staff with a flower hanging from it.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 5d

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

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Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 5d

Young furries, do not buy this repulsive slop

Support actual furry artists if you want silly furry merch, they're out there and they're happy to oblige, and you won't be feeding a machine looking to capitalize on your subculture

Corporate shitposting needed to be smothered in the crib, istg

Spazzy 📎 @spazzy.bsky.social · 5d

Between this and the Spirit Halloween masks, it's amusing but also the nightmare of furry going mainstream. 💀

Gross furry shirts at Spencer's. s: @R0rek (X)

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Arrietty Lunaris @arrietty.itch.io · 4d

i love how fucked up gen 1s programming is. it is truly your sandbox.

Ada Basilisk, Haunted Doll VTuber @comfybasilisk.bsky.social · 4d

what the fuck do you MEAN you can evolve eevee into jolteon in gen 1 by getting into a trainer battle, levelling eevee up, switching to growlithe, and finishing the battle with growlithe, because growlithe's pokemon index is the same as thunder stone's item index. WHAT. WHATTT

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nic.tattoos @nicterhorst.com · 5d

This means if you're in the UK and haven't signed this yet, please do. At 100k signatures they have to discuss it again.

Literally the least you can do!!

GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 5d

UK Gouvernment: Payment Processors Can Ban NSFW Content
According to the UK treasury, payment processors are in the right and the gouvernment has no plans to step in. This puts it in direct contrast to what artists and the UK games industry have asked for.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 5d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

www.wilx.com

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