Call the numbers. Sign the petition.

• visa website
• mastercard website

for scrolling to the bottom and 'contacting' there, if email is more your thing.

Call script because phone calls are harder to ignore than emails:

"Hi, I'm calling to tell you that the reports you received of sexually abusive content on Steam and itch.io are fraudulent and were made by religious extremist groups.

As a [insert company] customer I'm expressing my discontent and requesting that you rescind your demands to these platforms."

I didn’t see this in the notes yet. So. If you crash cars with someone. You stop, you pull over to the side if you can, you don’t leave. If someone is hurt or crying, call 911 or your emergency number. Never hurts to get checked out. You write down the other person’s license plate and car make and model and colour, and get their driver’s license number. You write down what happened and how it happened. If you both can drive and no one is hurt you can go after exchanging information (don’t try to agree on what happened. Don’t make deals with the person.)

When you get home, call your car insurance provider. Describe the damage to your car and any injuries and how it happened. They’ll ask for the info I told you to get above.

You’ll probably have to take your car to a registered provider who can get an insurance approved quote for repairs.

See your doctor if you are still shaky after a couple of hours. Whiplash gets worse for the first few days so you might think you’re fine but when the adrenaline wears off, you’re not. Symptoms include headache dizziness nausea as well as neck and back pain.

If you see an accident happen, don’t leave. Be the one to call the emergency number if people are injured or not getting out of their car and walking around. Give your phone number and name to both people or to the emergency providers and expect a call from the insurance company. They’ll ask you to tell them what you saw. Be honest.

Drive safe out there, and be prepared. You can call your dad later and he’ll be so proud of you for handling it.

@i-add-sources oh god please no

This is true. Do note: executive orders are not laws

Hey so racism, transphobia,homophobia, ableism, and capitalism are all connected in the world's most evil circle.

Btw, everyone go watch Crutches and Spice on tik tok because Imani has been saying this for years, and not listening to disabled people is how we FUCKING GOT HERE!

But I just need everyone to understand what's going on here and what's about to happen.

First, what's obviously going to happen is a mass genocide of physically and mentally disabled people, people who cannot survive without the Medicaid funding that they just axed, and people who most care so little about that they try to moralize their existence.

They're disappearing and killing brown immigrants , so their going to force lower income people into the same cruel conditions and force them to essentially be slaves because there was a house bill announced yesterday that their trying to vote on to make work conditions even more lenient for employers. They made it legal to discriminate against people and removed DEI , so black people are going to be refused jobs and when our community rightfully gets upset and protests or tries to change to system , we're going to be arrested in mass, because they're attempting to criminalize protests and free speech.

Then if you are part of the lower class or even the lower middle class and your employers find out you've ever spoken against the government, or you're gay, or you're trans, or they think you're trans or you're a woman on birth control, or you have a queer relative...guess what, they can fire you.

STEM fields and Liberal Arts fields alike are being gutted and slashed, so the job market is going to be shit, and property taxes are getting hiked higher and higher thanks to the gentrification (oh so sorry 'big evil landlords') that black people have been warning y'all about for DECADES. And people are going to end up unhoused. Except now there's hostile architecture and shelters, are being shut down from Medicaid cuts. And with the establishment of things like ICE, now any random bozo can pick you up and arrest you, and if you are charged with the now CRIME of being homeless, they can forcefully institutionalize you and eventually imprison you and force you to work for free.

And if you somehow still think none of these scenarios will affect you, loitering is also a crime, if you're wearing something someone doesn't like or having a bad moment in public or having an argument with someone or having a phone call too loud, a business owner could mistake you for being homeless and loitering and unless you have a lawyer on speed dial, it's your word against their's.

Y'all have to listen to disabled people.

You have to listen to the minority groups you don't think about, or at least don't think about when it comes to legislation.

Because the second you think one group of people's struggles is too far away from yours to care about, is the second the government is going to find a way to use their suffering to press everyone.

politico article on this btw. i should've linked it in the original post