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fun fact, a lot of us in the UK, AU & and even in mainland europe are ineligible for a credit card even if we wanted one! they can deny based on arbitrary criteria like being a non-earning spouse, on a zero-hours contract, & the biggest kicker of them all, having a disability.

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Nint - Sophiane Enjoyer @sophiane-enjoyer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

fucking valve I can't add both the credit card steam wants for verification, and the card I actually use to spend my money. I don't want a credit card. I don't need a credit card. I will not *use* a credit card. I am an adult and I will dictate how I spend my money.

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NTF @nopetoofast.hasa.gripe · 12/10/2026

imagine your birthday being on the 12th of october lmaooo now you have to wait a whole-ass year for your next one 💀

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NTF @nopetoofast.hasa.gripe · 12/10/2026

i think it would be extremely funny if @valvesoftware.com continuing to stay quiet on their dogshit credit-card only age verification despite the outrage of affected UK & AU consumers draws the ire of the australian government ...like i've kinda been screaming about for the past few months or so

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I Warned You - Soldier Boy's Threat

Alt: I Warned You - Soldier Boy's Threat

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NTF @nopetoofast.hasa.gripe · 11/10/2026

new competition where streamers make burner accounts with the express purpose of being the first to get hit with a copyright-related suspension

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NTF @nopetoofast.hasa.gripe · 11/10/2026

imagine your birthday being on the 11th of october lmaooo now you have to wait a whole-ass year for your next one 💀

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Blake Patterson @blakespot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I did not anticipate, in visiting the UK here in 2026, that by _far_ the internet content I would be seeing most is every website asking for cookie consent and photos of my govt ID at _every_ turn. It's nuts. Such extreme overreach. #onlinesafetyact #overreach #internet #www #UK #online #privacy

An example of the pervasive age verification prompts on UK websites, this from Flickr photo sharing website

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NTF @nopetoofast.hasa.gripe · 11/10/2026

finally some good fucking news

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NTF @nopetoofast.hasa.gripe · 10/10/2026

walk into a bank and ask to speak to the "manager of money."

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NTF @nopetoofast.hasa.gripe · 10/10/2026

imagine your birthday being on the 10th of october lmaooo now you have to wait a whole-ass year for your next one ...wait a minute?

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NTF @nopetoofast.hasa.gripe · 09/10/2026

imagine your birthday being on the 9th of october lmaooo now you have to wait a whole-ass year for your next one 💀

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NTF @nopetoofast.hasa.gripe · 08/10/2026

she's making fucking mac n' cheese and nobody can stop her

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NTF @nopetoofast.hasa.gripe · 08/10/2026

imagine your birthday being on the 8th of october lmaooo now you have to wait a whole-ass year for your next one 💀

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NTF @nopetoofast.hasa.gripe · 08/10/2026

i'm also inventing the word ahbove because fuck it nothing makes sense anymore, you can do anything and nothing

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NTF @nopetoofast.hasa.gripe · 08/10/2026

this is now an age verification doomsday clock account, with midnight representing the moment the age verification regime comes to our houses and kills us all for not owning credit cards/being queer/being disabled/any mix of the ahbove we are now 5 minutes past midnight

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jae 🍧💫 @peachikook.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

nevermind apparently they’re giving me 10 days to do it or my account is permanently restricted and i can’t buy tickets anymore 🙃 mind you i’ve done absolutely nothing out of the ordinary

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NTF @nopetoofast.hasa.gripe · 08/10/2026

credit card for various reasons, such as being a non-earning partner, on a zero-hours contract or most importantly, if you're disabled. which means that a service that only allows credit cards to age verify de facto excludes the disabled wholesale. same applies here in the UK & for europe too

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NTF @nopetoofast.hasa.gripe · 08/10/2026

based on the hubbub i'm seeing about steam's age verification rollout in australia (steam only allows credit cards for age verification), credit cards are not ubiquitous in australia, and generally people only have debit cards - most pertinent is the fact that people can be ineligible to get a

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jae 🍧💫 @peachikook.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

oh my god bro FUCK ticketmaster

Dumbass fucking “security check” on Ticketmaster forcing me to upload my ID

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NTF @nopetoofast.hasa.gripe · 08/10/2026

the year is 2147483647. at some point in the past, a day became a unit of measurement equalling 2.4 hours. it took until now to realise that this was in error. no-one knows how to fix it.

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The TigerBear @tigerbears.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Before anyone asks though, yes I agree Discord's forced age verification still sucks, especially seeing as we now know the motivation was fucking gambling ads. I just care about getting "the facts" right.

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The TigerBear @tigerbears.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To people who don't know, this isn't Discord. This is an unofficial third party discord app, that was already sketchy as heck, and facilitated doxxing by exposing potential alt accounts. Moral of the story: Don't send your personal information to a shady as fuck third party app.

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Discord Alts Can Be Tracked Now...

YouTube video by No Text To Speech

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NTF @nopetoofast.hasa.gripe · 07/10/2026

why is there no basic image collager that just tiles images in a configurable grid why do all the ones i can find have to be fancy and shit has no-one thought of this or

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🎃 Adam but spooky 🎃🔞 @shslphantomthief.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Should be noted that this was not Discord itself that was hacked, but a third-party security bot. This also has nothing to do with age verification. Passwords have also not been leaked, but you should probably go ahead and change that anyway just to be on the safe side.

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NTF @nopetoofast.hasa.gripe · 07/10/2026

imagine your birthday being on the 7th of october lmaooo now you have to wait a whole-ass year for your next one 💀

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Marceyna @marceyna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also, can someone please tell steam I am WELL over 18.... Jfc, I'm not getting a credit card just to prove my age. YOU go into debt for some arbitrary age verification bs. I'm probably friggin' older than the person who implemented the restriction. Same thing with getting carded at the bottlo....

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Honeydew @essbee3.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So my college locked me out of my account risking failure in my classes as finals for my fasttrack classes are this week; because, of "security concerns", they just wanted my face and ID through stupid AI age verification.

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NTF @nopetoofast.hasa.gripe · 07/10/2026

social media simulator that's also a traditional soulslike where the number of enemies currently following you is directly proportional to the amount of followers you have in the social media simulator

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Don Marti @dmarti.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

protip: You don't have to deliver an essay on your objections to a customer service AI or age verification service (unless you pitched it to an editor and got an assignment letter, in which case go you) You can just say you are having some trouble with it

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NTF @nopetoofast.hasa.gripe · 06/10/2026

imagine your birthday being on the 6th of october lmaooo now you have to wait a whole-ass year for your next one 💀

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 04/10/2026

Steam looks like it is conducting age assurance checks on all gifts for any child in the UK, no matter the age rating on the gift itself. Tried to gift my son copies of Portal 1 & 2 (PEGI rating of 7 & 12) and son met with "Mature sexual content is not allowed in your country for users under 18".

Steam gift of Portal 1 & 2, with a message showing "Mature sexual content is not allowed in your country for users under 18. To accept this gift, you must first add a valid credit card to your account."

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NTF @nopetoofast.hasa.gripe · 06/10/2026

can we go back to 2007 when life was just "mah boi, this peace is what all true warriors strive for!" and not whatever this is

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Lutea (commissions open) @lutea-arts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’ve been on discord since 2017, and they JUST stuck me on teen status while asking me for my id/credicard/ urine sample. Not gonna lie, kinda peeved right now. Discord already had a data leak with these se things . Im 32, I went to college almost 8 years. Why am I dealing with this?

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Suspect Device @sootyjared.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Emailed the UK government telling them that age verification is both the same as someone installing a spy camera, and forcing it on social media is no different to a creep following a woman at night. I won’t get a response but it’s nice to tell a politician they are evil freaks.

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NTF @nopetoofast.hasa.gripe · 05/10/2026

"protecting kids online" is a very misleading way to put it, given that all that's going to happen of this is more third party vendors collecting personally identifying info of both kids and adults alike and then being breached - which would constitute endangerment, not protection

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NTF @nopetoofast.hasa.gripe · 05/10/2026

imagine your birthday being on the 5th of october lmaooo now you have to wait a whole-ass year for your next one 💀

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Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Big companies get to act with absolute impunity while small artists get ground into the dirt by payment processors, age verification, AI content detection, platform moderation It's not even about who gets to decide what counts as art but rather who is allowed to make it.

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Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's just how arbitrarily applied it all is, you know? If enough money is on the line all the hand-wringing about adult content goes straight out the window. Rules that get suspended when there's a big payout to be made aren't about "protecting kids" and never were.

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