With what's going on with Subscribestar, it's a good moment to remind you all of something:
Free speech also includes speech you don't agree with, and freedom of artistic expression also includes art you find horrible or disgusting.
And if you go: "Yeah I agree! However-"
Then you don't agree!
"I'm glad they finally censored thing I don't like haha"
Guess what, thing you like comes next.
Subscribe star be speedrunning they demise.
A series of infographics featuring the Cartoonist Cooperative's mascots Inkling (an inkwell) and Nibford (a dip pen) as they share information about what a phone or email zap is. Image one shows Inkling on the phone, reading from a script. Text reads, "What is a phone or email zap? A phone (or email) zap is a coordinated campaign where many people contact a target (such as a company, agency, or representative) to apply pressure and demand action on one issue." The Co-op logo and website appear at the bottom of all three images: https://cartoonist.coop/.
Nibford sits at a desk, calling someone on the phone while looking at their computer screen. Text reads, "How can I organize one? Agree on a target and an issue to collectively press for. Gather scripts ahead of time. Coordinate a time when everyone is available to call/email. Hang out IRL or in a voice call together! Log any feedback and share updates with your fellow zappers! Keep it up until demands are met! This is a marathon, not a race."
Inkling and Nibford jump for joy with confetti raining down around them. Text reads, "And most importantly... celebrate your wins!"
Members, the Coop is calling on you to participate in our upcoming zap sessions to take collective action regarding censorship & pay discrimination for 18+, erotic, and NSFW artists.
Look out on Discord for more info about when and how to join, coming soon.
Art by @itsnero.com
Honestly knew that this was going to happen, as long as we have these payments processors doing what they want without fighting back, everything will get banned all together
Not only did they fuck over their user base but they fucked over themselves included lmfao. What’s the point in using them if they’re just patreon 2.0? The main reason people were using them was cause they allowed stuff patreon didn’t..
What’s that? The bans on fictional content didn’t just stop at the “gross icky kinks” and now substar has effectively banned everything that isn’t two realistically proportioned humans having vanilla sex with big smiles on their faces?
Interesting.
3.10.2026
Subscribestar.(adult) changes TOS; now bans previously allowed legal (fictional) works such as incest, most furry depictions, lolisho, noncon, most BDSM, and more.
subscribestar.adult/prohibited_c...
Hey, alongside contacting your representatives, this seems like another thing worth putting a bit of your time into and sharing around. If we could get "reputational risk" taken off the table, even in this current climate, that could create a chilling effect on these kinds of policies
Let this also be a lesson that when you give ground for the icky stuff you dont like to be banned, you also get stupid shit like “human knees only” that has sweeping affects on the things you actually like!
Its one step away from “one character must be feminine, the other must be masculine.”
The Substar TOS looks extremely similar to Patreon's now. Call your reps or we will lose everything
Tell them to stop the payment processor power grab, tell them to vote no on child online safety bills/ID verification. We need everyone
The state of the internet is a bunch of people who are on record as having raped children telling you that artistic expression is immoral.
"go independent" except not only is there no funding in independent media, the active hostility toward creating art outside the system due to degeneracy TOS makes that even harder
the targeting of any art that is "obscene" (terms of obscenity always to be decided at a whim) is fascistic yes but also how the only kinds of art that tends to be penalized is the individual/independent creators isn't lost on me. a patreon TOS would reject anything that can be streamed on netflix.
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You need to call your reps and demand that they OPPOSE:
-the KIDS Act
-KOSA
-the Screen Act
-Sammy's Law
-the App Store Accountability Act
And additionally, oppose:
-reforming/sunsetting Section 230
-online age verification/ID laws
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The SAVE Act is a major attack on voting rights. It is not a genuine voter ID reform, but rather an attempt to suppress turnout in future elections.
call your reps. This package was pushed through the house.
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I want to reassure my followers that even though Bluesky has a new CEO, I still remain 100% committed to my mission of making your experience of using this website as unpleasant as possible
I've done a lot of lobbying and a lot of activism. It seems stupid, it seems pointless, it seems ineffectual, but phone calls are one of the few things that legislative offices really pay attention to as a barometer for public opinion.
Call early and call often.
A screenshot of YouTube showing the song Dark Red by Steve Lacy
A screenshot of YouTube showing the song What you won’t do for love By Bobby Caldwell
First two
Hi I’m gonna share some songs I been listening to lately..
I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power
If KOSA passes it will fundamentally change how we are able to interact and use the Internet.
KOSA must not pass.
don’t let anyone let you believe you aren’t worth fighting for. no matter what your issues, addictions, attractions, madness, etc may illicit from the societal pecking order.
No matter what.
No matter how many fall away.
You are worth fighting for.
If a draft happens, we need to agree to help soldiers avoid it. We need to help them dodge/hide them. Poor kids who just wanted a college education, access to a career or structure after a turbulent childhood should not have to die in an Apocalypse Now clusterfuck that absolutely nobody wants.
i am asking yet again how it is legal for a company to send me a letter saying "sorry somebody stole all your personal information from us and now they have all of your personal information. sucks to be you! bye!" and then they receive no consequences and it happens again a week later
