Brackets
@brackets002.bsky.social
He/Him, 26 years old, bisexual, hobbyist writer. Not much else to say about me, tbh.
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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
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
CALL PAYPAL
CALL MASTERCARD
CALL VISA
DO NOT. STOP. CALLING!
#rocktheboat
stop-paypros.neocities.org
August 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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
Tell them they shouldn't be dictating how you get to spend the money you put your blood, sweat, and tears into earning
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If you're in the states, the Better Business Bureau is your friend
Oh my gosh, getting in touch with the BBB WORKED. PayPal is restoring my account and I should have access to my money again.
If you are in the US or deal with the US PayPal and your account is randomly, without warning, and without explanation closed down, file a complaint with the BBB!
If you are in the US or deal with the US PayPal and your account is randomly, without warning, and without explanation closed down, file a complaint with the BBB!
August 31, 2025 at 2:01 AM
If you're in the states, the Better Business Bureau is your friend
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If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
August 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
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Death by a thousand cuts. These censorious paypros and bills in committee will eat away at our ability to provide for ourselves. This is a sure outcome if we give up, but if we keep yelling we give ourselves another possibility
Adult games can no longer launch in Early Access on Steam. This is devastating for small projects (like my own!) because EA can be a much-needed lifeline while games are still in development
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
This strikes me as overcompliance and censorious on Steam’s part
August 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Death by a thousand cuts. These censorious paypros and bills in committee will eat away at our ability to provide for ourselves. This is a sure outcome if we give up, but if we keep yelling we give ourselves another possibility
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This is why you keep at these motherfuckers with your calls. Do. Not. Stop.
Fuck censorship. They're coming after you next, whether you make porn or not. I have never sold NSFW services or artwork, yet here's my termination from Stripe! Fully SFW, innocent headshots of furries = adult content. This is what we've been trying to fucking tell y'all this whole month!
August 20, 2025 at 5:19 AM
This is why you keep at these motherfuckers with your calls. Do. Not. Stop.
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apart from electing a black president nothing has driven more Americans irrevocably insane than the requirement that they participate in the collective good
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closest associates has told the Daily Beast.
Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’
A close associate of the HHS secretary claims the U.S. government will soon pull COVID-19 mRNA jabs from the market.
trib.al
August 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
apart from electing a black president nothing has driven more Americans irrevocably insane than the requirement that they participate in the collective good
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You gotta keep talking about the issue! Paypros havent reversed their policies on Itch or Steam yet! Keep talking about it, and keep contacting influencers, news outlets, and legislators about the issue! Keep it in the public consciousness!
Reading through hundreds of games journalism headlines from major outlets and revealing the gaming press has effectively stopped covering the paypro issue made me visibly mad on stream
August 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
You gotta keep talking about the issue! Paypros havent reversed their policies on Itch or Steam yet! Keep talking about it, and keep contacting influencers, news outlets, and legislators about the issue! Keep it in the public consciousness!
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And the era of digital prohibition begins. Politicians will censor the web “for the children” but won’t lift a finger to stop kids from being murdered in their own school.
August 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
And the era of digital prohibition begins. Politicians will censor the web “for the children” but won’t lift a finger to stop kids from being murdered in their own school.
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hey if youre sick of seeing all this shit about Payment processors and censorship ID laws etc
trust me, us folks talking about it are sick of having to post about it too. we wanna be posting about anything else right now but we are collectively at a point of no return
we HAVE to fight this. NOW.
trust me, us folks talking about it are sick of having to post about it too. we wanna be posting about anything else right now but we are collectively at a point of no return
we HAVE to fight this. NOW.
August 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
hey if youre sick of seeing all this shit about Payment processors and censorship ID laws etc
trust me, us folks talking about it are sick of having to post about it too. we wanna be posting about anything else right now but we are collectively at a point of no return
we HAVE to fight this. NOW.
trust me, us folks talking about it are sick of having to post about it too. we wanna be posting about anything else right now but we are collectively at a point of no return
we HAVE to fight this. NOW.
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Just a periodic reminder that it's a good idea to bookmark your favorite artists' sites, sign up for their newsletters, and follow them everywhere you can. (My links are in my profile & pinned post!). Because of the current climate of censorship you never know where we'll get kicked off of next.
August 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Just a periodic reminder that it's a good idea to bookmark your favorite artists' sites, sign up for their newsletters, and follow them everywhere you can. (My links are in my profile & pinned post!). Because of the current climate of censorship you never know where we'll get kicked off of next.
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updated, should work for mississippi block as well
August 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
updated, should work for mississippi block as well
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When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
August 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
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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
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
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?
We got like way more people than that don't we?
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?
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
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
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
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FOR THE UNION MAKES US STRONG
The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.
All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory
The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip.
bit.ly
August 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
FOR THE UNION MAKES US STRONG
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Hey, everyone who is calling Mastercard and Visa about the age verification BS. I think you should start aiming at YouTube as well.
July 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Hey, everyone who is calling Mastercard and Visa about the age verification BS. I think you should start aiming at YouTube as well.
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There must be zero compliance with this. Patient confidentiality is the heart and soul of care. Care without confidentiality isn’t care at all. No “but our hands are tied, we need federal funding.” There must be a brick wall. Confidentiality is a no-compromise zone.
HIPPA only exists in name only. Plus the original Nazis used government data on trans people to hunt them down, this is doing the same thing indirectly.
July 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
There must be zero compliance with this. Patient confidentiality is the heart and soul of care. Care without confidentiality isn’t care at all. No “but our hands are tied, we need federal funding.” There must be a brick wall. Confidentiality is a no-compromise zone.
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My doctor changed my diagnosis to "Endocrine Disorder" in November without me asking--because he saw the writing on the wall.
Ask your doctors to do the same--Just to protect your access to life-saving medication.
Ask your doctors to do the same--Just to protect your access to life-saving medication.
May 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
My doctor changed my diagnosis to "Endocrine Disorder" in November without me asking--because he saw the writing on the wall.
Ask your doctors to do the same--Just to protect your access to life-saving medication.
Ask your doctors to do the same--Just to protect your access to life-saving medication.
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The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.
May 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.
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We are democratizing art. No longer will you have to pay someone who owns a data center just to generate pictures. With a pencil and notepad that costs less than a dollar, you too can create Artisanal Imagery.
The word around town is that the next big thing is Artisanal Imagery, hand-made visuals that you simply have to own if you don't want to be left behind
May 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We are democratizing art. No longer will you have to pay someone who owns a data center just to generate pictures. With a pencil and notepad that costs less than a dollar, you too can create Artisanal Imagery.
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People think we live in a democracy and not a dictatorship of capital cause they don’t want to contend with what you have to do to get out of a dictatorship of the ruling class
There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to SNAP, the federal program that provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans.
May 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
People think we live in a democracy and not a dictatorship of capital cause they don’t want to contend with what you have to do to get out of a dictatorship of the ruling class
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Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
May 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
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trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app
April 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app
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Ok but that other 29% is hanging there like ripe fruit
April 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Ok but that other 29% is hanging there like ripe fruit
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Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death
April 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death
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The reason billionaires like McMahon are obsessed with student debt is that creating financial precarity makes people more stressed about losing their job. If you’re worried about your job you’re less likely to quit and find work elsewhere. You’re less likely to ask for a raise. It’s pure class war.
McMahon: "The plan is very simple. We have announced that beginning May 5, you must start to repay your loan. This is not to in any way to try to cause hardship. There are several different payment plans ... but they need to get on it. Because there isn't going to be any loan forgiveness program."
April 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The reason billionaires like McMahon are obsessed with student debt is that creating financial precarity makes people more stressed about losing their job. If you’re worried about your job you’re less likely to quit and find work elsewhere. You’re less likely to ask for a raise. It’s pure class war.