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Okay, going to be fully transparent here, I initially didn't know how to format this sorta thing but I think it's better if I just... say it.

Long story short, we have bills and rent due + need to pay for the new store, since we've had to move places due to the constant robberies from old place, and I've been trying to keep this under wraps for a while now so that I wouldn't spam everyone's tls.

But it's caught up to me and now, I have to ask for some help again. I was thinking commissions, but the goal would be to keep how much I'm going to accept under a minimum as much as possible. But I do want to ask everyone for a bit of help as soon as possible to help reach the 1000$ goal we need.

If you're feeling generous and willing to help out a struggling artist in need, any amount will help, and be greatly appreciated.

The paypal I use is paypal.me/especterofficial. Please help,,, 🙏

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Get. Onto. Your. Representatives.

(And romance fans / writers? THIS MEANS YOU.)

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CHAT CONTROL TO BE VOTED ON THIS THURSDAY

Original tweet

I know americans are busy with fighting KOSA but I urge you to please help us by spreading the word about this, I can't say this enough, if chat control passes, citizen's private messages will be scanned via artifical intelligence,and they must comply,otherwise theyre not allwoed to send pictures,videos,or links anymore. We have a discord server made to organize against it,with emails scripts you can use when contacting your meps : https://discord.com/invite/e7FYdYnMkS

Find your meps and tell them to vote no on this :

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About the YouTube AI age verification thing in the US:

Here is a link for another post detailing a boycott plan on the 13th of August. And if you think that it's not gonna be that bad...

IT WILL AFFECT YOU, TOO.

If you watch:

Gameplays and gaming-related videos, for example Minecraft, Undertale/Deltarune, The Sims 4, GTA/Minecraft roleplaying videos, mod videos (even if the mod is 18+), Genshin Impact and other gachas, horror games no matter the rating

Unboxing of Pokémon/Magic The Gathering/any other type of playing cards

Table Top Games, including watching TTRPG campaigns

Slime tutorials, probably (yeah, both kinds)

Essays/Commentary/Theories about IP for children, like cartoons/anime - Gravity Falls, Winx Club, Monster High, Pokémon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, My Little Pony, Miraculous Ladybug, Spongebob Squarepants, and the like

Anything about Doll Customizing, including ball-jointed dolls, Blythe dolls, OOAK projects, and anything similar

Cosplay videos, probably

Videos about collectibles like Labubu, Funko Pop, plushies, and similar

Videos and YT podcasts about Anime, like Trash Taste and Mother's Basement

VTubing, most likely, given the nature of animated avatars

And maybe, Draw With Me/Art tutorials of all kinds

There is a chance that the AI will target your account, EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT FROM THE USA, and flag it as an underage account because of your watching habits. Therefore, requiring you to provide your identification or photo to YouTube in order to continue using their services normally and not have your account deleted.

And here is the kicker: IF YOU DON'T and continue to use the service disregarding your account's newly found underage classification, THEY WILL CONTROL WHAT YOU CAN WATCH EVEN MORE. They are banking on you being too tired to fight this, and just accepting it as the new normal.

This is a blatant ploy to monitor the people and gather massive amounts of data to sell to governments, plural. If it works without too much of a hiccup in the US (and in the UK as well, since over there it's affecting every online service), other countries will follow suit.

If you are in the US, you have to fight this.

They've already come for Steam and Itch as a way of controlling self-expression and speech. This is yet another tool of censorship. And it WILL affect all of us, globally, eventually, because the internet serves a lot more people than the US and the UK, and the rules are applied mostly equally.

Share the boycott plan. Tell your friends and family about it. It will affect them, too.

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(EDIT2: Since there is WAY too much going on at once, there's this site specifically designed to combat these kinda bills by sending the necessary emails to the US representatives:

https://www.badinternetbills.com/)

Original post goes here:

So, with KOSA apparently being reintroduced all over again, I once again urge my USAmerican followers - call your representatives and make sure that shit doesn't get voted in.

(EDIT: There is now an even worse act that got introduced in the form of the SCREEN act, S. 737 (not to be confused with the other SCREEN act, which is... Apparently for something else entirely.) - in a nutshell, it's UK's Online Safety Act on steroids, and if it passes, will be enforced by the FTC, who can and will go even after non-profits like AO3. Call your reps and tell them to vote no on it!)

UK followers - continue signing that one petition to repeal the Online Safety Act, contact your MPs, etc.

Canadian - apparently there is another bill they're trying to push through, S.209, so you know, take action against that as well.

EU Citizens - Apparently Denmark is trying to push through a similar bill of their own, known as the CSAM scanning bill, so you know, do something about that as well?

https://stopchatcontrol.eu/

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

Reminder - All of these laws are NOT about safety, but about control.

And no matter what else happens - do not obey in advance and try to keep a cool head about things. We can and SHOULD fight for our freedom, but remember that you shouldn't let them burn you out over it. Driving people to despair with fear is how they win.

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Hey btw don’t forget to boycott YouTube during August 13th. That’s when their stupid AI is gonna roll out. Delete the app, cancel any subscription.

The AI will look through your watch history and determine whether or not you are a minor. If it believe you are, you are then required to upload a photo of yourself/ or give out personal information.

This will be the end of internet anonymity if we do not fight for it.

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The script to oppose KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act) is now officially on https://5calls.org/. Call if you wanna kill KOSA again! It's a must if you don't want age verification in the US!

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YouTube is implementing an AI policy that tracks your watch history and determines your age with it. The only way to be able to continue watching the videos you want on YouTube if you've been falsley flagged as a minor by their AI is to give YouTube your government ID. This is being implemented in the US right now. It is essential to rage against this and put YouTube in the fucking ground if they continue with it—that may be the only way to make them backtrack. But damn isn't that hard to do when responding to this announcement with a polite but negative comment flags you for violating community guidelines and bans you from even posting it?

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my favorite genre of bearded vulture images is middle aged people cradling them like babies

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Hey btw don’t forget to boycott YouTube during August 13th. That’s when their stupid AI is gonna roll out. Delete the app, cancel any subscription.

The AI will look through your watch history and determine whether or not you are a minor. If it believe you are, you are then required to upload a photo of yourself/ or give out personal information.

This will be the end of internet anonymity if we do not fight for it.

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Hey btw don’t forget to boycott YouTube during August 13th. That’s when their stupid AI is gonna roll out. Delete the app, cancel any subscription.

The AI will look through your watch history and determine whether or not you are a minor. If it believe you are, you are then required to upload a photo of yourself/ or give out personal information.

This will be the end of internet anonymity if we do not fight for it.

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Who made the designs of the mascots??? I'm gonna assume either Leith or Stella probably came up with them.

Most of the designs for the mascots were made by different people! Toy designers!! Leith is the one that greenlights toys (he’s in the Head of Innovations!!)

But the older mascots were made by someone much more important lol

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Youtube is going to make you give up your government information to prove your age

Blow up YouTube's phone and email lines NOW before August 13th!

Well shit. It appears as though I have to do another post that isn't the one shot I wanted to write. So, in America, YouTube is going to try and use age verification AI to make sure you aren't underage.

What this means is that there will be an Artificial Intelligence looking over your watch history to judge if you are a child. So, if you naturally lean towards watching gaming videos primarily for children (or you just watch one too many of those), the AI will use that to say that you are obviously under 18.

If you are flagged as under 18, what will happen is that you will be cut off from anything that YouTube deems "mature", which, if you're even the slightest bit familiar with YouTube, that could mean anything.

If you have been falsely flagged, then guess what? You are going to have to: provide your driver's license, your social security number, your face, or your credit card to prove that you are in fact of age.

I will repeat that.

You will need to give this website your DRIVER'S LICENSE (YOUR ID), SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER, OR YOUR CREDIT CARD TO PROVE THAT YOU ARE NOT UNDER 18.

This is by nature extremely problematic, given how you're giving your government information to an incredibly insecure website, compared to one run by a government agency. Not only that, it will not stop children from entering adult spaces.

You can already see by how I'm describing it that this system is easy to trigger, and easy to cheat. The only purpose this serves is to compromise the security of millions. Make no mistake, that is explicitly the goal.

THE CRUELTY IS THE FUCKING POINT. THIS IS NOT SOME CUTE LITTLE MISTAKE.

Attempts to undermine anonymity and encryption by the UK, US, and Australian governments are specifically designed to make the internet unsafe by compromising the security of its users.

This not a mistake. It's not about protecting children, it's about control and fearmongering. And all the issues I've laid out makes it evident. It pushes children into spaces that make them vulnerable to predators. It forces victims of abuse to go silent online because their support group has been made inaccessible orthey're at risk of being witch hunted. And it's a dream for human traffickers.

Again,

Blow up YouTube's phone and email lines NOW before August 13th!

And if you are in a country legally requiring age verification to use websites, then you need to protest, protest, PROTEST and blow up the phone and email lines of government agencies until the law has been repealed.

Lives are stake here, this is not an exaggeration.

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If you are in the US, now is the time to buy paper copies of the Constitution.

The two sections of Article 1 missing from Constitution Annotated are Sections 9 and 10.

Article 1, Section 9, contains language that prohibits citizens from facing unlawful detention. The section states that habeas corpus cannot be suspended in cases of rebellion or invasion when public safety requires it.

Article 1, Section 10, limits the individual powers of states, reading that no state is allowed to enter into a treaty with a foreign nation.It also says that states are not allowed to pass bills of attainder.Section 10 also contains language that prohibits states, except with the approval of Congress, from collecting taxes on imports or exports, building an army or keeping warships during times of peace, or engaging in war unless invaded or in imminent danger.

Changes were made to the website in the past month, according to the Wayback Machine, which shows the full original text was still on Congress’s website as of July 17, TechCrunch reported.

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for anyone in the UK, needing to access discord and unable or unwilling to provide an ID:

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