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[Edited to include instructions for turning on email notifications]

Hi forest creatures,

I know most of you follow me on social media and today Bluesky announced that it has blocked access in Mississippi due to the state's new law requiring facial recognition to access it. I'm in Texas, another very conservative state, and I fear a law like this coming too, so make sure you can still keep up with me if I'm cut off from any of my social media platforms before it happens. Key word being "before".

I urge you to turn on emails from me if you've turned them off (it's on by default). I know not everyone likes emails, but I don't post excessively, and I want to avoid a situation where you're wondering where I've gone. Social media access directly affects my ability to bring money in and communicate my whereabouts with you unless you also receive my Patreon emails.

If you need to cancel your membership, you can do so and you'll still get emails.

It's not a fun time right now. We're fighting this as hard as we can by calling our reps and calling payment processors to put pressure on their own censorship attacks from the past month, but I have to plan.

Thank you so much! I can't express how grateful I am for your support.

To turn on email notifications:

Go to Settings on your sidebar and navigate to Email Notifications.

Find me in your subscriptions list and click the arrow next to my name.

Then turn on the toggle for New Posts. That's it!

You can also find me on these sites, although I encourage email notification because I could be cut off from any of these if Texas were to pass a law requiring facial recognition:

🌿 Instagram

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VirgoPixie

This is so scary. I live in another red state and I fear this happening. I have a VPN but I understand not everyone can afford those. But thank you for keeping us in the loop

Kelly Hitt

Texas here too. It sucks.

DrinkingGasoline

Stay strong man, we’ll follow you wherever you go :)

PenStrokes

Interesting. I'm in Missisippi and still have access to Bluesky. Will keep you updated.

lonely

This shit is so scary. It's been one thing after another in quick succession, week after week

HeloviAZ

I’m in Tennessee. They’ll probably pull that shit here, too. This is bonkers.

TheAnxiousPan

Texan here and I feel that terror with you s well. Thanks for the heads up and info!

Bard

SC for me - the ban hammer hit hard but about 50% of sites just shut off access a year or more in advance. This shit sucks so bad and I am so very sorry for you. I do read the emails though. All we can do is fight, even though it's exhausting. Stay safe out there <3

Lunasariel

What interesting times we live in. :P Just checking: when you say emails, you mean from Patreon, right? Just want to make sure you don’t have, like, a mailing list that I’m missing out on. 😁

Zalagath

It's amazingly awful how these last years have been evolving to this situation right now. I can't express properly enough how angry and sad this makes me feel. I for sure would love to read the emails in case censor law spreads! Hopefully it's not that case. You are doing an amazing job and big efforts fighting this, leading a big bunch of us to do the same. Thanks!

Ceridwen

Sending strength and solidarity to you and everyone in red states pulling this autocratic bs. I’m in WA, so relatively safe for now, and if there’s anything I can do from here to help just say the word! 🫡❤️

IsaakButler

How do we turn on emails for you

tendermiasma

Updated just now with instructions! If you never manually turned them off they will still be on 💚

tendermiasma

That means more than I can say, thank you so much 🩷

tendermiasma

It is scary. VPNs are a pretty unsafe bandaid on a spreading problem and I hope it doesn't come to that. It's important that we call reps and fight this. Thank you for being here 🩷

tendermiasma

You're so kind ;; I have plans to move to WA actually but it's increasingly felt less like moving and more like fleeing 😭 Thank you so much for your kind words!

tendermiasma

Thank you so much. It's a cruel and scary time for everyone and there will be nobody left unaffected. It's one of the most worthy fights we have right now and you pushing with us for a free and open internet has been crucial. 🩷

VirgoPixie

Oh no, for sure. I didn't mean to suggest it as a permanent alternative. Calling reps and fighting is always the first priority. But I've had a VPN for several years now and it's definitely come in handy. But they're not cheap if you want one that works and works well.

VirgoPixie

Oh and of course!!! 🫶🏻🩵💚💜 The ship may be sinking but we might as well band together to do what we can to lessen the impact 😭

tendermiasma

Oh I'm sorry I know you weren't saying that! I really appreciate it. I'm keeping on top of all my options.

VirgoPixie

Nooooo you're so good. 😭 I just wanted to clarify for others too. It's definitely a deeply stressful time right now. Crazy that the nation that calls itself the free nation and is known for being against censorship is now turning into a place of strict censorship. 🫂 You're so welcome though. And hopefully we can turn the tides before it's too late

PenStrokes

I'm in Mississippi and it fucking sucks. I hate our lawmakers so bad but it's almost impossible to vote them out because of gerrymandering. If enough of us show up to start scaring them, they just redistrict us before the vote. A federal judge just had to step in and tell them to stop putting all the black majority areas in one state-long district. I'm still on Bluesky right now with a Tennessee VPN but who knows how lkng that'll work for because now our officials are talking about making that illegal too.

Ceridwen

You are so welcome! WA is definitely one of the safer places to be right now for sure, especially in and around Seattle — I’ve lived here with my family for almost a decade here and absolutely love it. Please feel free to ping when/if you need pointers once your plans solidify! ❤️

tendermiasma

I don't want to jinx it too hard BUT Seattle is the goal. You're lucky to be there! I visited my friend in West Seattle last year and I fell in love. Patreon is the reason I'm allowed to think about moving so I'm incredibly grateful, for all of your help! I will definitely reach out! 🩷🤲

Haven

Sending hugs :(

Moorwiesen

What strange times we are in. I hope everything gets sorted out again soon. Your messages already end up in my inbox, I really hope you will be able to keep posting and getting some money your way :(