i wish to become a gender-stealing magpie

Your wrong

It’s just a fact, that your wrong

The KIDS act didn’t pass with flying colors, it barley passed with a whole lot of NO’s

It’s NOT hopeless, it’s NOT useless, thinking there’s no point is the real reason why they have a chance of passing these laws

Spreading the idea of giving up will allow them to win, they want you to give up

Don’t allow others to give up, remind them that there is still hope, call your representatives and tell everyone that this can be stopped

So don’t allow these hopeless thoughts consume you

Fight well

Fight!

go to discord support ( https://support.discord.com )

sign in or sign up (you do not, and imo should not, use the name and email you use for discord proper. this is a different account; if you've got Firefox, you can use an email relay mask very easily, and the email will end up in your inbox but the site won't know your email from it)

"Submit a request" (at the top)

fill all the dropdowns (I did "Help & Support" -> "Technical Support" -> "Account Settings" -> "[OS type"). it won't let you proceed until you do

Subject line: something about age verification

description box: keep it civil, but be clear. you don't like this, you're not participating, and you're not giving them your money anymore (whether you had nitro or not is irrelevant, remember that you didn't use your actual discord login to get here and they have no way to verify).

some reasons possibly worth mentioning: the insecurity of databases (Discord's had multiple leaks; databases being hacked isn't possible to prevent afaik, it's a matter of mitigation), the dangers of putting one's govt id on such a database, the technical problems people are already experiencing where it's already been established, how it will disrupt communities

be very clear that this is going to cost them money. "I won't use your service anymore" is a common threat ("I'm never shopping here again!") - you need to make them feel that they are losing money just by considering it, and it will get much worse if it's implemented.

Happy Juneteenth everyone! I made this illustration for the Seattle Art Museum's Juneteenth celebration! It was such on honor to work on this project!

When it comes to stuff like racism, sexism, homophobia, etc, I’ve found it’s usually way better to think to yourself ‘I don’t want to be’ than ‘I’m not’.

So if you're reading this and you're like me and your first instinct is "well, I'm not directly in danger," that instinct is taken as permission by Visa.

And if you've read the announcement that Kickstarter has made, you know that it is full of ambiguities that would allow anyone with a malicious interpretation of the policy to have any project they like sabotaged mid or post fundraise, with the money it raised held indefinitely by the payment processor.

Also it's kind of a comical policy on just a pure language level. You can't say DILF on Kickstarter anymore. What are we doing here.

With the push to eradicate objectionable content, the goal is not and has never been to eradicate *harmful* content. It is to ban anything that would make the worst person you have ever met upset. The kindest gentlest softest story you've ever read is somebody else's objectionable content and the forest fire is not going to stop in front of your house to ask your permission if it should burn any further.

It sucks to live in the 2020s where all problems are global and nothing feels like you can ever do anything about it at the individual level. But you can, actually. Just the same way as you'd eat an elephant. Bite by bite.

Giving Kickstarter a piece of your mind lets them know this decision sucks.

Calling your credit card company and lodging an objection against censoring storefronts ties up their phones and costs them money, a thing that will factor into their aggression in stuff like this.

And being a little less afraid. Signal boosting creators when you don't have to. It's all something.