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Gilbert #NewDeal4Animation @discord12395.bsky.social · 8d

This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros

And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

@Inker_comics: I JUST GOT FUCKED UP REAL BAD [shared a screenshot of his suspension from PayPal]

@MrQuessos: [quote tweeting @Inker_comics] If you are going to pay an artist via PayPal, please DO NOT include ANYTHING related to commission or nsfw in the payment description. Whether out of ignorance or innocence, you could screw up someone's job.

Mastercard

Phone (US): 1-800-627-8372
1-800-307-7309
US option selection: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1
Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111
Aus: +61 1800 120 113
UK: 0-800-96-4767
All region numbers here (and here )

Stripe

California: 888-926-2289
US: 877-887-7815
France: +33 805-11-19-67

Paypal

Phone (US): 1-888-221-1161
Phone (outside US): 1-402-935-2050
UK: +44 (0203)-901-7000

Visa

Phone (US): 1-800-847-2911
US option selection: 1, 1, 2 or 1, 1, 3
Headquarters: +1 (650)-432-3200
Aus: +61 1800 125 440
Phone (outside US): click here

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RudeJackArt @rudejackart.bsky.social · 28d

MARTYS BIG 40th MIXATPE DROPPING AT NOON EST - along with the Mini Uncle Plushies Pre-Orders - plushfoundry.com

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🔞Keesh 🍁🏳️‍🌈 @rakeeshsorrel.bsky.social · 29d

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.

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🎃 Andy but spooky @a-n-d-y.bsky.social · 29d

Clip Studio on sale, again. 60% off the best comic drawing app

CLIP STUDIO PAINT - More powerful drawing.

Your go-to art studio, fully packed with customizable brushes & tools. Available on Windows, macOS, iPad, iPhone, and Android.

www.clipstudio.net

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RTGame 👑 @rtgame.bsky.social · Sep 10

Bro no way, the Hollow Knight Silksong patch notes are crazy

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shadowforce.bsky.social @shadowforce.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happy 30th to the man himself, Rayman!

#rayman #ubisoft

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Kathren @kathrenishere.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy anniversary Rays!

#rayman #raymanfanart #rayman30thanniversary #fanart #raymanbirthday

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Aug 29

Quick Tip: Did you know you can hide posts by keywords? Under Settings → Moderation → Muted Words & Tags, set keywords you never want to see. Perfect for avoiding spoilers! 🙈

Screenshot of Moderation settings with an arrow pointing to “Muted words & tags”

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Kathren @kathrenishere.bsky.social · Aug 15

Meet Jane Buzzard! Older sibling and the first test Bradford approved to refine the cloning process (its such a messy situation with them lmao)

#ducktalesoc #ducktales #dt17 #dt17oc

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reywolfe.art 🎃👻⚰️ @kr00bs.com · Aug 14

If we care about our right to express ourselves freely on this (or any) platform, sexual or non-sexual, we have to put in the work, and make a scene. They have to know we aren’t fucking around.

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Aug 14

the usual vagueness is present here that is usually a bad sign to come for adult content.

bluesky is taking feedback on the guidelines at this link below. Let them know these are not satisfactory

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

points that need addressing are: [cont]

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Kathren @kathrenishere.bsky.social · Aug 11

D: damn that’s rough 🫂 understandable that you miss him, just hope you’re feeling better despite what you’ve gone through

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Kathren @kathrenishere.bsky.social · Aug 10

Skittered my way into the #RaymanAlive art challenge >:]

#rayman

Rayman from the Rayman Sparks of Hope universe surrounded by confetti

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Kathren @kathrenishere.bsky.social · Aug 3

Noooo 😭 my condolences/lh 😔

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bsb @blackshirtboy.bsky.social · Jul 31

Let's Keep Calling!

An image of a huge jackboot crushing a comic artist and a bunch of comic pages. The boot is marked by the logos for MasterCard, Visa, Paypal, and Stripe. Below the image there is text which reads: Don't let Payment Processors tell YOU what you can buy! It is not a payment processor's role to decide what kind of content you can or cannot spend money on, so long as it is a legal transaction. Fight back against the unjust policies hurting artists and creators online!

https://yellat.money/
https://stop-paypros.neocities.org/

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Shiro Sylvie @shiromisa.bsky.social · Jul 30

Some people just seem to want to eliminate all potential sources of discomfort, no matter how small or innocuous, from their lives. Fiction allows you to model experiencing big emotions in a safe controlled setting, and I just don't think any good comes of avoiding that to this degree

Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · Jul 29

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

[quoting a tweet from isabelunraveled in which she rails against depressing books that get branded as “great writing”]

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · Jul 28

t's amazing how this is from more than 20 years ago but very well could have been from today.

Cartoon with corporate media asking U.S. Government how it would like "Control of Internet Speech" wrapped: Anti-terrorism or protect kids

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Cham Clouder @flattodd.bsky.social · Jul 26

@drawfeeshow.com @julialepetit.bsky.social
#jacobhorse #allthebananas#Imissmywife #theessenceofahorse
Flat Jacon Horse XL has arrived. I ran out of bananas 🍌

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Kathren @kathrenishere.bsky.social · Jul 24

The birds I wanted to think about lately

#ducktales #ducktalesoc #oc #ocxcannon #bradfordbuzzard

Bradford Buzzard (left) from Ducktales Reboot 2017, and Cassidy Mayhem (right) standing behind Bradford

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temmie @tuyoki.bsky.social · Jul 23

tem make cookie for friends

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temmie @tuyoki.bsky.social · Jul 24

small

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Kathren @kathrenishere.bsky.social · Jul 22

I need to be insane about the ducks again oh my god

(Re-watched select episodes of DT17 for story research Im sooo so normal)

Kathren @kathrenishere.bsky.social · Jul 18

Comfty…

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Something_Tizz @tizz-something.bsky.social · Jul 9

artfight.net/~Something_T...
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#artfight #artfight2025 #artfightart #artfight2025crystalsvsfossils #artfightfossils #artgame #artifghtcrystals #woy #wanderoveryonder #woyoc #woyocs #wanderoveryonderoc #wanderoveryonderocs #ocs #alien #alienoc #alienocs #dnd #dndoc

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Kathren @kathrenishere.bsky.social · Jul 5

Who was gonna tell me I needed Plankton and Squidward interacting this evening 😭

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Timo🍒 Commissions Open @laserbean0.bsky.social · Jul 2

Ramon with a bunny #CaptainLaserhawk

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