Paypros censorship 🧵 As you all know, I've faced significant stress this month from having various online accounts dinged in some shape or form. I discussed this on stream earlier this week, but would like to break down the full timeline in post form Video version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JXx...

I think Trump understands that Mamdani is a populist candidate, and Mamdani successfully found a way to placate him in their meeting — perhaps by saying “you and I are not so different.” During the CNN livestream Trump was claiming he snagged Bernie voters

Mamdani was probably coached to compliment Trump, and Trump fell for it

I have also chosen to license the article under CC BY 4.0. This means that anyone can translate it, adapt it, republish it, do just about anything with it as long as attribution is given. If we want to put a stop to these plans, we need to force a public promise out of Crunchyroll to do better.

Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed. I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.

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Everyone, remember when you could get less depressed watching stuff on Lexapro? Now instead most of their shows have gone to Poob. Yeah we have to switch to Poob now, doctor's orders

Weird question, but are there any good services online for anti-anxiety meds at a low cost? I’m applying for the NYC essential plan but presume I’m uninsured until then. I don’t wanna just refill my old Lexapro subscription, wanna try new options

LEXAPRO PRESCRIPTION

Absolument révoltant ! And proof again what happens when nobody listens to the most vulnerable people. What they're currently doing to little by little they're doing to a freaking judge. They can make anyone's life hell any time they want now and all our governments are complicit.

This reads to me as manyvids attempting to attract SFW creators so when they stab NSFW creators in the back they'll have their bottom line cushioned.

oh lol

“We’re protecting you… by hiding you behind clean, sanitised, corporate creators.” Yeah…. This really doesn’t feel like the right way, more like a platform taking advantage of Sex Workers to try to attract bigger names via virtue signalling. It just feels a bit gross. 1/2

Hey MrBeast, join ManyVids

Begging Doja to come to ManyVids is not realistic

STOP having "conversations" with ChatGPT and START talking to your stuffed animals like a normal person

I appreciate everyone who has been discussing this issue. I haven't been adding much more to the public convo as (1) there isn't much more to add yet, and (2) as I've mentioned, I'm exploring potential legal options. If I learn more I'll add more, but for now... this is the most thorough overview

Imagine your child has a medical emergency. You’re a sex worker. You are not making enough from online SW to pay medical costs from her illness so you have to do full-service for a month You get a charge for prostitution. Now your access to online SW is precarious thanks to policies like this

This is leading to a future where sex workers’ financial avenues are closed off if they’re hit with a charge (like prostitution) and are forced to turn to FSSW even if they don’t want to do it.

RT if you called mastercard / visa / a paypro over censorship today

I think the heart of what Kate strikes at here is that a reevaluation of what a transgender woman *can* actually do in Congress is in order. Making the president female doesn’t fix the office. Making the representative transgender doesn’t fix the federal government. These systems are busted

Kate also is doing something I mentioned earlier on my piece on newstubing and the risks of independent journalism. The goal of a journalist is not to make you happy, it is to make you think hard about important things. If we are doing opinion stories, you should not always agree with us

I will say I do ultimately have less sympathy for McBride, I believe she has essentially made decisions that are not to the benefit of the trans community, but I think it’s important to have one’s notions of her challenged by an expert on the Hill — even if your opinion stays the same

this!

Using my voice as a creator to put out a small PSA on how to disable the new feedback feature on our favorite overly-nosey payment processor. Reminder to never comm details on payment websites, and to never directly link your payment pages to your NSFW work.

My understanding is what you’re paying for is a holistic package — therapy, blood tests, general-affirming medical care, therapy, management of your transition, and all that. They give you the prescription but it’s unpaid. I’m not a Brit but I understand this option for people who have DIY concerns

HRT because of some underlying medical issues they were concerned about (and not the usual “maybe a blood clot risk might be raised” type stuff). People sometimes want a third option, I don’t think this automatically makes what’s offered predatory. Not from what I see so far

The impression I’m getting as well is that this covers a lot of the added costs you may normally come across with GenderGP for similar services, hence the added price. From what I can tell. Both are online of course

And has to be considered in the context of what’s currently (not) available in the UK. One of the big claims seems to be that they’re able to provide puberty blockers to u18s, which is getting very hard because mostly illegal.

I’m saving any opinion on F1NN’s gender clinic project until I actually fully look into what it’s offering, why, and all the membership options. I suggest other folks also dig into the website / info available to draw their own conclusions, esp bc early transition ppl we meet will be asking abt it

Cannot be stressed enough that Black trans women were immediately sidelined in the early 2020s. Just pushed out of the convo immediately, even though transmisogynoir has always been an emergency and Black trans women are disproportionately targeted

*targeted for violence & murder

Personally I believe any publication that did this should write a formal apology and pledge the full fee for the work to Trans Lifeline, in 2025 equivalent dollars

I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years

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Hi hi I'm a trans cartoonist and watercolorist. I draw a lot of nature and trans women roaming it.

Please continue making calls to Visa and Mastercard, because they are working alongside conservative legislators to crack down on free speech and expression! A dual pronged offense requires a dual pronged defense!

very important for the government of the USA to explain the difference between pedophilia and ephebophilia while visa and Mastercard must defend Western morality by blocking anyone from buying games with illustrated school uniforms in them

You got it!! 💖👍🏿 Talking about memes that are as effective as ever in our fight to overthrow Gen-AI (as well as to take down the paypros. that use said AI to rake all us 18+/adult/NSFW/smut artists over blazing red-scalding-hot coals with senseless bans and debankment, too!!), I happen to have mine:

If you've ever wanted to be kidnapped and crushed, emotionally & physically, by a girl who just generally doesn't like you or respect your humanity in any capacity I have good news; that's the entireity of the visual novel I'm releasing at the end of this week. subscribestar.adult/lunaticker

We really need people to start making more memes like this again. Peak 😩

Tag me if you make a meme like this and I’ll boost it

I think 99% of the problems would be solved if Bluesky detected that if you often have posts labeled, would ask in a prompt if your new post will need a label before letting you post it.

Me when I get sent to horny jail for failing to manually tag an image of a dragon fucking a car as "Sexually Suggestive (Cartoon)"

Don’t be shy. Pick up the phone and then RT. If you haven’t called in a hot minute, let this be your opportunity to get back on the wagon. We need you

the sheer ruthlessness of payment processors about this particular thing is getting really scary and equally overwhelming.

This is a really vulnerable time for paypro call centers. It's already been reported that Mastercard is stressed by our persistence I know we're all busy around this time too but let's fire the engines 🔥

Pick up the phone. It’s time to call MasterCard and Visa again youtu.be/Y658W4s8rpE?...

Call Mastercard and tell them how you really feel stop-paypros.neocities.org

Banning someone for a week over this is an insane idea when Bluesky literally has an automated system to flag and label porn anyway

Banning the user for a WEEK instead of improving the way images are automatically flagged? Band aid to a larger problem

I think Bluesky also has a fair amount of users who have weird hang ups about porn and that, if echoed and enabled in a bubble, can lead to some bad shit for this platform. Puritan v pervert civil war, pro v anti shipper all over again

I hope GNUTaler expands quickly as I believe it offers a proper solution that essentially cuts out the card networks altogether www.taler.net/en/features....

Got so fed up calling/writing Mastercard about censorship and payment regulation of (indie) adult material that I closed my account with them. And they'll still be getting my annoyed calls and letters. 💜

American payment processors like Visa and MasterCard have disturbly high level of control over what speech is allowed online, and their attempts to debank Ana are a prime example of their overreach. Don't let them get away with censoring people's free speech: stop-paypros.neocities.org#contactinfo

They're trying to use AI to run their banks and flag people who're trying to sell legal, unharmful goods as "high risk fraud". This should scare everyone, bc you know how cancerous censorship can be. Call them! #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros stop-paypros.neocities.org anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co

Your regular reminder that "NCoSE" is merely an alias for "Morality In Media", a pro-censorship organization which has been attacking television, movies, and books for 63 years. Among its greatest hits are a multi-decade campaign to get "Cosmopolitan" treated as porn.

I know someone who jumped from OpenAI to Gemini to Apple, all working on AI. Keep in mind that the same couple tech workers are bouncing around, all implementing this stuff and trying to make it work before the bubble breaks. They are desperate for PR wins ime

One of the best ways to fight AI is to trash it on social media, everyone working on this stuff REALLY wants to win the PR fight. And they know they’re losing

listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win

Good news, my Ko-fi was reinstated This is ONLY to support me as a journalist and is ONLY intended as such. I’ve even changed the PFP to my irl face ko-fi.com/acvalens

doctor said I’m in my heat cycle 😩

Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk. please donate if you can! fund.blender.org

Don't sleep on this. Your voice matters way more then whatever PayPal and all these companies are doing. Annoy the hell out of these fucks. Stop-paypros.neocities.org

People like Ana are often used to dilute the actions being taken because there is something the average citizen will find offensive about them, and so they must deserve this treatment. She doesn't, and it won't stop with her. It's already happening to other people, and it's going to come for us all

they're trying to kill Anne of Valleys Online

Patreon unsuspended my account on Nov. 12th after I removed the two offending audios as well as several other ones, as the site requested a review of my content bsky.app/profile/acva...

Ko-fi was restored on Nov. 18th, likely due to bugging the social media team on here. Ko-fi wanted my Ko-fi link separate from links to my NSFW ASMR content. Out of an abundance of caution I changed my account username on here b/c acvalens dot net is all adult ASMR content ( is new)

For the love of god DO NOT talk to pypl about me or anyone else you commission. Yes even sfw stuff because what's sfw to us might be too spicy for those asshats. No snitching 🫵

strem over meds made me too eepy shares goal one more time before i pass out gudnightr chat ko-fi.com/liz_akita

Your call counts more than ever Do it

Underrated thing that's been flying under the radar: ICE's hiring spree, by necessity since there are so few others willing and able, has been hiring away local cops, which infuriates the departments by causing manpower problems and is, ironically, removing the worst of the worst from their ranks.

we heard you were talking shit

Both decisions have their pros and cons, I do think VTubing can help motivate you to voice train, but know your transition will be more publicly documented as a result. I would assess your comfort level with people knowing you’re trans vs whether you wanna be stealth in VTubing

Not my thing *personally* although I get the appeal. I’d do RP of it with a partner or close friend just to make her happy

I used to throw parties a lot in college and would always get the cups. Was a cool look. Idk if I would do it today. I think today we’d just BYOB and hang. That’s what I did the last time I had half a dozen friends over

Yeah but I might get hungry so be careful!!!

i think some of the trans women who stuck around Twitter need, at the bare minimum, to hop off /tttt/ (post is about me in response to the t4c / c4t thing)

Made my calls. Paypros cannot get away with debanking adult creators without some degree of pain and cost to them. Please be part of the wave that tells paypros not to mess with our livelihoods.

Make some calls, folks 📞

Called mastercard about the Ana Valen thing. Since i dont have a mastercard i told them ill call them back when i get one but the “Ana Valens thing looks bad” since if mastercard is punishing Ana for her activism thats a real bad look.