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I cannot impress upon you enough how important it is to MEMORIZE one of those numbers if you see it. Especially the funny ones like 555-866-POOP or 1-800-LAW-YURZ or whatever.

These people are BANKING on you getting into trouble with the law, having your phone confiscated as evidence, and being unable to remember your lawyers' name/department/phone number/extention when our police allow you your one phone call from jail.

If you can't remember your mom's / boyfriend's / Dealer's phone number off the top of your head, but you can still remember the stupid musical jingle and nursery rhyme for "if you get pulled over and you're in handcuffs call 555-MrDuffs" then there's a big chance that the law firm on the end of the line makes their money off defense law post arrests.

You might need one of those stupid numbers so if you see it on a billboard memorize it.

800

900

000000000000

It's just 3 numbers, eight-hundred, nine-hundred, and zeroes. 800. 900. 0000. You got this.

Even at your most confused, intoxicated, and stoopit, you got this. 800. 900. 0000.

And no, you don't gotta wait for a motor accident to call him. Just call, say "my name is [x] and the police arrested me and they are holding me at [x] and I would like you to represent me."

And then you shut the fuck up.

What's that? You never heard of the script for dealing with police? WELL IF YOU'RE COMING HERE YOU BETTER MEMORIZE IT! Because here, you don't owe anyone an explanation and you have the LEGAL RIGHT to make the police do all the work if they're gonna detain you. You do not have to help them by telling them about your life. You have the right to not tell them anything. But how you tell them that you're not gonna tell them anything is tricky, so these geniuses wrote a script. Here it is, courtesy of Pot Brothers Law. We affectionately call them "the STFU guys" or "The Shut The Fuck Up guys":

If you want to attempt to memorize the STFU guys number, it is (855) 927-7529

If you're typing it in on a dinosaur phone with the letters on the numberpads, dial 1 to start the call, and type out 855 WASS LAW.

More tips for Los Angeles below:

congrats! Now you have a motif! A recurring theme! A focus for your art! Something to haunt you!

Seventeen still lives of dandelions? Three hundred poems about grief? A sketchbook dedicated to your grandmother’s house? Two books trying to unravel the complexities of familial relationships?

An early exploration of the themes Hokusai would keep coming back to is Spring in Enoshima, done in 1793 when he was 33. The wave is small and there are no boats, but Mt Fuji is clear in the background, and Enoshima is in Kanagawa, so we are clearly beginning to work towards something here.

A second pass, eleven years later in 1803 when he was 44. The title of this one begins to get more familiar: The View of Honmoku Off Kanazawa. It has a towering wave over a smaller boat, but Mt Fuji is not present, and the boat is considerably larger and has a sail. But the feeling of danger in the wave and the smallness of the boat are here, and of course the general composition is definitely recognizable.

This is A View Of Express Delivery Boats, done in 1805, merely two years later at age 46. Here we find the wave and the boats almost exactly as we'll find them in The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, though Mt Fuji isn't present, and the location is uncertain. And it's a good picture! The wave is threatening, the boats are small -- but the feeling of "ocean" isn't really there yet, is it? It's unlikely this picture would have become a classic for the ages. But that's okay, there's still time.

And here we have it, a full 26 years later, done by Hokusai in 1831 at the age of 72. The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, one of the most recognizable pieces of art in the world. The boats are there, the mountain is there, the wave is there, and the FEELING is there. He did it! He reached the apex of his ongoing motif and theme!

Or did he? Because the whole point of a motif is not that you're striving to get to the perfect version of it, the one idealized image you carried in your head all along, and when it is done, you are also done. Hokusai is on record at the age of 73 saying he'd only just begun to feel like he was learning how to draw things properly, and that "if I keep up my efforts, I will have even a better understanding when I was 80 and by 90 will have penetrated to the heart of things. At 100, I may reach a level of divine understanding, and if I live decades beyond that, everything I paint — dot and line — will be alive." He had drawn The Great Wave, but he didn't believe he was finished -- he thought that he was still just beginning to get started.

And he wasn't finished with his ocean motif, either. Please check out his Mt Fuji At Sea, done in 1834 at the age of 75.

but I'm hearing there's a NSFW-friendly ko-fi alternative built on atproto that's actively in the works, and being vetted by lawyers right now. as torrent-princess (OP) says, you should be able to swap out payment processors while keeping your account intact. this matters since even if stripe removes support, you'll still have a shop and all of your links intact. (ATproto is an infrastructure that bsky is built on, but is far bigger than bsky with far more opportunities.)

additionally, the Free Speech Coalition is working on a credit union specifically for adult work (including kink art) - here's the link so you can add your interest & support. Since this will be built by sex workers, there'll be far less risk of being debanked for spurious and puritanical reasons.

on a domain TLD level, there's an initiative here for a .furry domain built from the ground up by seasoned furries; it's unclear whether they'll support NSFW, but it's yet another promising turn of events for a group that's been similarly affected by censorship.

This is why you can support @fujocoded on Patreon: we represent fandom at the protocol level (the part that determines what software can be built), and the work we do is directly responsible for making Apps like this—and way more!—viable in the Atmosphere.

This work can be puzzling and illegible (definitely not as shiny as ✨ a new platform! ✨) —but this is literally what I work on every day, because a better internet is possible, even if what brings it forward isn't always glamorous!

If you want to help: spread the word, and if you can, chip in so we can pay people to do the other advocacy and development work I can't do myself...including explaining to everyone what it means and why it matters!

but the funniest part of this is not that they were debating the exile of a man who has been dead for over 500 years.