I don't think age verification internet enshittification supporters understand just how many people would rather leave the internet than give up their ID to access certain websites. And how many more will just VPN their asses.
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Mega thread on who is behind these age verification laws, spoiler alert it’s Meta.
defending art's right to exist, especially nsfw art, inherenetly involves you having to allow art you don't like or even think is abhorrent or reprehensible to exist. you do not have to pretend to like it or engage with it, but you need to let it exist. you give fascists an inch they take a mile.
took me like two minutes total. don’t have to talk to anybody, don’t have to make a phone call, just have to write what you can about how payment processors shouldn’t control what consumers can buy and hit send. that’s it
all hands on deck yall, this could make a huge difference
Spread the word, an ACTUAL replacement for Flash is on the horizon! Go support this project NOW!!!!!!!!
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The angry part of Bluesky remembered KOSA (now under the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, or H.R. 7757) exists but rather yell at you I'll say:
If you have REALLY bad anxiety (like me!), you can call your reps after hours! Voicemail counts! The site 5Calls give you a script to read off of:
I'm tired of pretending I'm okay. We're behind on rent. I'm in a financial hole I cannot crawl out of without physically hurting myself, and I'm already running off of ibuprofen and hope every day. We can't even go grocery shopping.
Anything helps
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•No more art.
•No more expression of one's self.
•No more income from your regulars.
•No more online publishings
•No more community.
Just you handing your information over to a large surveillance network who will find you, arrest you, and possibly kill you.
This is the thought police they want.
You better wake the fuck up now. If we don't make their lives ABSOLUTELY FUCKING MISERABLE, we're going be the ones who get shafted. And HARD.
You best believe that everything about the Internet we know is going to die and everything we know and love with it.
I've made my calls today. You need to.
The package of censorship and surveillance bills brought up in todays markup has been advanced
Continue to contact your representatives and demand this legislation be opposed. Tell your family and friends, explain how these bills are not what they appear, and ask them to join us in opposition!
Use the links below to get in contact with your reps. Prioritize house reps for the markup but contact senators as well!
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Let's be real, Discord only really did these stupid verification things cause of the laws that caused it.
Cancelling Nitro is good, but if truly want to solve the problem forever it must be stopped at the source (the governments in various countries that passed these stupid laws to begin with)
Just a reminder while this is a victory, it's not over yet until Discord completely gives up on the age verification nonsense. Don't resubcribe to Nitro immediately.
heads up to people like me that have art files and silly things they have kept for years
"Ah, yes. Let's be the most annoying people in the known universe and make a forced meme out of two ordinary numbers and make lewd gestures, that totally won't get old fast right guys?"
We genuinely need to follow through on that meme reset at this point...
PSA for Discord's new age verification!
If you get hit by it and refuse to give them any ID or face scans as you should, here's a way to just... bypass it.
Go to Settings - Family Centre and then just enter a date of birth that's 18+
It's really that simple. Give them nothing.
Often headlines are sensationalist. But if you read the article, it's even worse than the headline suggests.
If you're a furry who still uses tiktok, you are actively hurting other furries. Get off of tiktok. Now.
We gotta be so loud and annoying about this I swear to god
As a blue hedgehog myself, I can confirm this is canon.
Also have a goofy ahh Valoo WIP while I was testing dumb stuff modding Odyssey
Standing up against these laws, both in the USA and numerous other nations, is integral for a whole host of issues
Gaza? Minnesota? Venezuela? If these and more matter to you, then you need to get active because these laws will handicap any online organizing for MANY causes
Pressure VRchat now, they also use Persona.
Vrchat uses persona.
Vrchat uses persona.
Persona is backed by Peter Thiel.
Peter Thiel is pushing for a surveillance state in the US and appears in the Epstein files hundreds of times.
This deviates from the main rig if anything, since it makes the arms on Mario's 64 outfit way too short compared to how they look on the main rig
Armature comparison with the mesh visible, Forearms are too small.
Armature comparison with the mesh visible, Forearms were fixed here.
Armature comparison without the mesh, highlighted armature is Mario64.
Armature comparison without the mesh, forearms resized to match.
So I found out (one of many reasons) why Mario's 64 outfit in Super Mario Odyssey looked off:
Mario's forearms got deliberately shrunken down some point during the creation of this outfit, making them unusually short.
For comparison, these are photos of the armature differences between 64 and Normal
BLUESKY, DISCORD AND ITS ALTERNATIVES, YOUR ART SITES, YOUR ADULT SITES, FANFICTION
ALL OF IT DIES WITHOUT SECTION 230 GET CALLING
#savespeech #stopcensorship #section230 #defendsection230 #defends230
The answer to this should be 'don't care' and to keep hammering them until they cease this shit entirely.
In the wake of a massive confirmation that the tech industry’s run by deranged pedophiles, not a single tech platform should have the balls to start demanding ID and enacting invasive policies.
Yet they continue. They’re the ones being outed as dangerous and we’re the ones being regulated.
Soon! gonna update him with them and some options for the quills + texture alts
Y'all in south Carolina need to call!
#SaveSpeech
