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A comic sections where it says that Black and White pages are 100USD per page and color pages are 150 USD with the webtoon format having a 30USD per panel cost.

It mentiones that the prices includes 3 revisions for free but every aditional revision is 10USD for simple ones and 20USD for complex ones.

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 7h

Thank you Patricia & Polygon for covering this story when so many others have dropped it. Shout out also to TheGamer, RPS, PC Gamer, Automaton, 80 Level

www.polygon.com/steam-adult-...

As Steam cracks down on adult games, one dev urges taking back control

Game developers fear for the future of games with LGBTQ themes, which is leading some to pursue alternate (and way cooler) forms of distribution

www.polygon.com

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Despoina She/They [Commissions Open] @desdarkdesigns.bsky.social · 8h

Like a lot of things around conservative puritanism, one of the main pushes comes from anti science grifting, the same bs that creates health gurus selling you supplements online.

medium.com/@nicole.prau...

“Pornography addiction” is not a diagnosis

As research continues into the nature of the problem people experience with viewing pornography, one thing has become clear: anti-porn…

medium.com

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Despoina She/They [Commissions Open] @desdarkdesigns.bsky.social · 8h

As always the only way Puritans can make their talking points make sense is by inventing a world that does not fucking exist. The puritan crusade against sexuality will only cause harm and we know damn well what the type of culture puritanism create. Do not fall for it.

⟢ Avilone ‹𝟹 ₊˚.⋆ @faeriegasm.bsky.social · 10h

This is also a really good article about the heavily debunked yet frequently shared brain scan which anti porn groups often use to claim porn addiction is real !

medium.com/@nicole.prau...

The fake brain image being circulated by anti-pornography extremists

Public health misinformation is rife in pornography addiction, especially this mystery image which has been heavily circulated online.

medium.com

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Despoina She/They [Commissions Open] @desdarkdesigns.bsky.social · 8h

Anyone saying that porn addiction is either full of shit or ignorant as shit, do not let their puritan talking points stand as it doesn't has any bases on science.

∘⊰ Spooky the Orc ⊱∘ @roogytheorc.bsky.social · 12h

Whether you believe it's real and need to understand why it's not, or you already get it and need a link to arm yourself against misinformation, here ya go ♡

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wome...

An article from Psychology Today

Headline: Science Stopped Believing in Porn Addiction. You Should, Too

Subtitle: What does it mean that religion, not porn use, predicts porn-related problems?

David J. Ley, Ph.D

Updated April 4, 2025

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🔞OnyxNuva🔞 @onyxnuva.bsky.social · 18h

Hey EU Citizens.

Between #savespeech and #fightchatcontrol, the current EU wants to STILL push to "protect the kids" in their own invasive way.

For as long as it lasts, they will keep pushing till they get what they want: control of you

danish-presidency.consilium.europa.eu/en/news/eu-m...

EU ministers united: Minors must be protected better online

EU digital ministers have concluded two days of discussions on how to better protect minors online. The meeting resulted in a joint ministerial declaration on the need for further EU measures in the c...

danish-presidency.consilium.europa.eu

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🔞OnyxNuva🔞 @onyxnuva.bsky.social · 18h

What can you do to #savespeech?

- Call your MEPs. Every time they introduce any UKOSA law or Digital ID/ID AV law, tell them "NO" loudly and often: www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home
- Continue #fightchatcontrol and follow them for updates: fightchatcontrol.eu

Home | MEPs | European Parliament

Search for a Member per geographical map of the European Union

www.europarl.europa.eu

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🔞OnyxNuva🔞 @onyxnuva.bsky.social · 18h

- Suggest other, more positive legislation, such as curbing paypro censorship: stop-paypros.neocities.org
- Protest physically if they continue to push these bad bills.

This is a Marathon. It may seem daunting or taxing, but together? We can #savespeech and stop the Puritain Regime in its tracks.

Stop payment processors from censoring games!

stop-paypros.neocities.org

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2d

#SaveSpeech

I want to remind people that when there is a call to action to "contact your reps", it needs to be more than once

Going forward, contacting your reps needs to become part of your routine, at the very least during the work week.

Sustained pressure over time is what matters!

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Despoina She/They [Commissions Open] @desdarkdesigns.bsky.social · 2d

Another thing to do is to take this towards other parties, tell the greens you will support them if they take on the path against this.

Make it so the other parties start picking up the anti OSA, pro Paypros regulation, anti censorship route and if they do be loud about supporting them.

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2d

If youre in the UK and havent signed this petition, please do despite their response here. At 100k sigs they have to discuss it again

Petitions arent a silver bullet on their own, but they help communicate how many people do/dont support something. Its low commitment and worth doing!

GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 2d

UK Gouvernment: Payment Processors Can Ban NSFW Content
According to the UK treasury, payment processors are in the right and the gouvernment has no plans to step in. This puts it in direct contrast to what artists and the UK games industry have asked for.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2d

If youre in the UK and havent signed this petition, please do despite their response here. At 100k sigs they have to discuss it again

Petitions arent a silver bullet on their own, but they help communicate how many people do/dont support something. Its low commitment and worth doing!

GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 2d

UK Gouvernment: Payment Processors Can Ban NSFW Content
According to the UK treasury, payment processors are in the right and the gouvernment has no plans to step in. This puts it in direct contrast to what artists and the UK games industry have asked for.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

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Despoina She/They [Commissions Open] @desdarkdesigns.bsky.social · 2d

Canadian people, use the recent Discord leak to show how BAD of an idea this is. Age verification or any OSA putrid child needs to die before it becomes law, do not allow this and make sure to your rep that if they are for this law they will be taken out of power expeditiously.

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2d

#SaveSpeech

Canadians! The UK is attempting to push their own version of the Online Safety Act onto Canada via the bill S-209!

You need to contact your representatives in parliament and explain how this policy is catastrophically bad! Mention the discord data breach!

youtu.be/Qx_zi1hNTCI?...

UK Pushing Online Safety Act to OTHER Countries

YouTube video by CYBER WAFFLE

youtu.be

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Despoina She/They [Commissions Open] @desdarkdesigns.bsky.social · 2d

Do not let KOSA slip through your radar people, make damn sure to be vocal about your opposition to such dogshit bills.

Bombard your reps with calls and letters about being against this.

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2d

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

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Despoina She/They [Commissions Open] @desdarkdesigns.bsky.social · 4d

This is the best anmunition against age verification if you ever wanted one.... sad that it had to come out of making people vulnerable.

Age Verification Pushers are ghouls that don't care how many they hurt as long as they can use AV as PR for their useless Think of the Children outrage.

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 4d

vx-underground: Discord Zendesk breach is 1.5TBs of age verification photos. 2.1 +million photos

Spent this morning try to cross-verify, as news about the breach is going viral on Twitter

vx-underground &
@vxunderground
X.com
Chat, we are cooked Discord is being extorted by the people who
compromised their Zendesk instance They've got 1.5TB of age verification related
photos. 2,185,151 photos tl;dr 2.1m Discord users drivers license and /or passport might be leaked. Unknown number of
e-mails
4:04 AM • 10/8/25 • 245K Views

Discord Previews
@DiscordPreviews
Follow Update: We have become aware that the perpetrators of this attack claim to have obtained 1.5 TB of age-verification photos totalling 2,185,151 images, which they are now
using to extort Discord.
Size:
1.50 TB (1,653,569,999,674 bytes)
Size on disk:
1.50 TB (1,658, 159,304,704 bytes)
Contains:
2,185,151 Files, 0 Folders

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🔞OnyxNuva🔞 @onyxnuva.bsky.social · 14d

One last thing before I take a day off: apparently there's a push for age verification in the EU as well via specific apps.

Call your MEPs and tell them NO TO INTERNET AGE VERIFICATION APPS. It is unsafe and will lead to mass data breaches.

#savespeech #bskycensorship

megasoups.bsky.social @megasoups.bsky.social · 14d

I got a brief scattering of articles I could find about it just now:

edri.org/our-work/age...

www.eunews.it/en/2025/07/1...

www.thelocal.dk/20250715/den...

As well as the EU's own page on said app digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/...

Age verification gains traction: the EU risks failing to address the root causes of online harm - European Digital Rights (EDRi)

Narratives around age verification and restriction of access for minors are gaining traction in the EU. This blog analyses different EU policy files and warns that relying on age-gating risks undermin...

edri.org

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Despoina She/They [Commissions Open] @desdarkdesigns.bsky.social · 22d

I want this to make it to latam so bad.... Ideally while allowing international payments for stuff like steam and itch.

IT would be so fucking useful to give paypros a middle finger.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWJc...

QRIS transforming Indonesia's digital payment system, but US deems it a trade barrier

YouTube video by CNA

www.youtube.com

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 27d

#SaveSpeech

I'm going to be updating this infographic as soon as i can, but in the meantime, please add the following issues to your list of issues to call about. These all suck! demand action from your legislators!

www.congress.gov/members/find...
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

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Despoina She/They [Commissions Open] @desdarkdesigns.bsky.social · Sep 6

Australian peeps, if you believe in stopping Puritan right wing conservatives like Collective Shout from having the power to use Payment processors to deplatforms legal stuff in the guise of "protective children"

Here's is something to sign
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

e-petitions

www.aph.gov.au

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Sep 4

dont forget canadians! this petition is a big deal, sign it and verify the signature via email!

Michelle Keep @jmkeep.bsky.social · Sep 3

Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

#nsfw #censorship #canpoli

@acvalens.net

Petition e-6695 - Petitions

www.ourcommons.ca

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Despoina She/They [Commissions Open] @desdarkdesigns.bsky.social · Aug 31

Found this by someone sharing it on discord, I think it might provide some information that might come in handy for some people while we are dealing with the shitshow of this puritan moral panic.
hbeatsart.com/the-threats-...

The Threats to Your NSFW Freedoms Online - HBeats Art

Learn more about the recent threats to your online NSFW freedoms and overall censorship, and what you can do to make your voice be heard.

hbeatsart.com

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · Aug 27

Excited to see @katelynburns.com chat with @siridahl.com

youtu.be/lwRGW0Jb9TI?...

Inside the Secret Conservative Plan to Censor the Internet (ft Siri Dahl)

YouTube video by Cancel Me, Daddy - Media & Politics Podcast

youtu.be

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🔞OnyxNuva🔞 @onyxnuva.bsky.social · Aug 22

The dominoes have fallen. The train of facism is running faster. Wake up. Its time to act. No more complacency. If you are tired, rest, but don't forget to fight. Even just a little.

#censorship #stoppaypros

- stop-paypros.neocities.org
- yellat.money
- anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co

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Despoina She/They [Commissions Open] @desdarkdesigns.bsky.social · Aug 12

Comic Fury is one of the few very cool and free open comic hosting sites out there.
Any support you can send their way helps artist, also you can go read comics there too!
ko-fi.com/comicfury

Support ComicFury

ko-fi.com

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Aug 17

#SaveSpeech #CPBC

As we near closer to 4 weeks of sustained pressure, I made this infographic to help focus our targets and to suggest a daily goal that is feasible for most people

more info and phone numbers here:
stop-paypros.neocities.org
yellat.money

find reps
www.congress.gov/members/find...

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