📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

The state goons are powerless before the awesome might of someone in an inflatable frog costume, and you seriously expect me to believe the situation is hopeless?

There’s a lot of smarter people saying smarter things than I could about Bsky resenting their users. So I’ll stick with pointing out that Bsky posted SEVERAL memes welcoming the swarm of ex Twitter users. They loved it. They celebrated it. They encouraged it.

Thank you 🥹🩷 As long as you guys are here, I’ll be here I’m so tired of having to surrender the spaces I build. So tired.

PLAY BASTIONNNNNNN PLEASE

“I’m Mexican, I’ve tasted spicier” protect him at all costs, Portland 🥹

Toad Astrologer Animation for Drawtober ✨🔭🐸 Inspired by my recent trip to France.

Listen. If you didn't want to be seen as the Twitter escape pod, you shouldn't have deliberately fostered a community of people so united by their contempt for arbitrary authority and love of absolute free speech that they were willing to abandon a platform they'd been using for 15 years

1 k a applegate taught me that hawks say TSEEEEEEEEEEER 2 watching a raptor screech is so extremely funny to me look at that little man SCREAM

Listen, I really love being connected with everyone but it is starting to seem any social media out there just forgets that Nazis are bad and marginalized folks are culture as soon as they hit a dozen million users.

the hardest part of living in Portland is having your house burn down every single night and then having to rebuild it during the day. the amount of money i spend just in drywall is insane.

I know there's a lot happening right now but I wanted to mention that BlueSky and I guess Cara are basically it for me. I don't have it in me to start again on a new platform that will inevitably have problems. Despite the issues here, this has been the best social for me by a long shot.

@jay.bsky.team Remember when you and your team took advantage of our disdain for the other app to market Bluesky as a safe space for multiple groups, including marginalized ones? What happened to that? I’m curious to know since you’re now silencing people who call you out.

K-Pop Demon Hunters is legitimately the global cultural phenomenon of 2025 and honestly there are far worse things to be a cultural touchstone this year than a trio of young women fighting literal soul-sucking hegemony through the power of their art

don't compare yourself to other people or where you think you should be or where you wish you were or even to you before it happened. it's only useful to compare yourself to where you were when you were at your lowest imo. every episode is a hard reset on Everything, so don't beat yourself up 🤝

Black Mage Jax 🔮 I am in the FFTictacs 😤

hey I'm like 242nd or something for bluesky users with most engagement, can I use that clout to get y'all to act like grown ups, or?? like is that something I can do with that horrifying stat

hey bluesky if you need a ceo who isn't kinda terrible but don't want to deal with changing the account name, i'm currently looking for work

I think it's probably actually bad if you use the social media network you also run. kind of like how it would be really, really, really dumb, and, frankly, kind of creepy for me to be active in any fandom that arises around any of my comics

I get why TechCrunch would write it this way, but I largely disagree with this framing. The broad conversation here is about power, respect, control and whether the voices of the vulnerable are taken seriously. This is the story of a leader and a team showing that they don’t get that.

The funniest thing about this is how legit terrified ICE looks.

Show me how you draw armor! 🛡️

I have not really been following the Bluesky discourse closely, but my one takeaway is that I am shocked a social media company this large is not consulting with some sort of crisis communications professional. Take it from me, a comms professional: Crisis comms is hard. You cannot wing it!

if you care about comic book sales, then understand that you need to care about the public library before any other outlet

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drawtober - candlelit messenger

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050. Just the start. Common sense.

A better world is possible

chat, is saying you want to destroy a computer program the same as genocide?

istg everything about our culture and society right now is set up to make us the worst versions of ourselves. it takes so much energy to not be angry and upset and aggressive. they did this to us and they did it on purpose. we don't have to let them get away with that contrived version of humanity

here's my take: I think humans are really fucking good. inherently. I think we are amazingly kind and giving. and everything about the world we live in is an attempt to stop us from being that. I think our societies step in to stop us from being good. I think our culture punishes us. but we ARE good

No joke I might've signed over a thousand Flusterstorms at MagicCon Atlanta last weekend, you crazy nuts.

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Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years. This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

🌙Silent Artshare🌙 It's time to wind down and enjoy some art 💛 ⭐ Post your creative work quietly without a word. ⭐ Support others ⭐Optional - Retweet and share! Remember to take care of yourself and get plenty of rest for a new day 💛 📛No N/F/Ts, No AI 'Art'📛

Slam Dunk for the Sega Saturn is a third person shooter

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you cannot be out here arguing with the whole userbase even if you hate them and think you’re 100% in the right you cannot do this

one final note: you can try to attract a specific type of person with product decisions but at a certain point you have to deal with the userbase you have rather than the userbase you want

I think the current state of our industry is ruining me. Whenever I see new layoffs now, what was once just empathy is now also fear. More people now competing for the same few jobs. Will I still be enough? I hate it. I want to be able to uplift each other, not wonder if we all make it through this.

Abughazaleh: I think Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague. And if the response from ICE to people exercising their first amendment right is to drive vehicles through them, they should not be an agency in the US.

Currently at: — only buy tech too old to have AI built in — painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well — if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool — if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts — patiently wait for the crash

Frog hat line-up is here! Going to set them up with their name tags next The hats I ended up going with are a magnolia flower (that matches the biome warm frog spawns in) a wizard hat, and a lily pad + lotus [ #minecraft #texturepack #bewitchedx32 #blockbench #pixelart #lowpoly ]

ah, so that's why I like space so much

WE MADE BING BONG AND SCOUTS REAL form your very own scout troop with a couple @makeship.bsky.social plushies it's literally PEAK... BUY IT NOW OR ELSE

welcome to 💥CRASHOUT CREW💢 form a crew of up to 4 overworked friends and drift into a frantic co-op forklift experience where teamwork is key, disaster is inevitable and managing stress is all on you. DEMO drops Oct 13th as part of Steam Next Fest‼️ it's time to clock tf in.

I love a soft, buttery rendering style. A gloopy, velvety, warm and glowy approach, if you will. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Getting this look right is easier said than done. I created a little step-by-step explainer that shows you exactly how I create it! It's free - sign up here to get it: links.loish.net