Reminder that the stock exchanges are changing their IPO rules specifically to benefit this one IPO so they can make themselves and Elon richer off of various retirement funds. Specifically the rules about being profitable.

If a website (like bsky) says they are concerned about minors seeing NSFW content, they mean investors. They mean whatever company they're hoping buys them out probably doesn't like the porn or the queers, or will pay less for the queer porn website, and they want them gone.

Y'all. Please remember the artists that drew these things when sending around memes. I feel for these artists who NEVER get credited for these (and some, nowadays, are even being accused of being AI!) Here's a few common ones I see (feel free to add others, I want this to be a living thread): 🧵

So after openly deadnaming all our trans folks last week, leadership apologized, but then did not update employee's names for the vote today. This means our trans employees are being forced to openly deadname themselves in order to vote in today's union election. This is deeply fucked.

Hasbro is truly evil. solidarity to all the Wizards Of The Coast workers dealing with this transphobic nonsense.

Frankel to Rubio: "It is crazy that you want to let people in from South Africa because they can assimilate, while you're throwing out hundreds of thousands of people who have already assimilated and that are important parts of our economy and family life."

“Government stats say incomes after adjusting for inflation are now declining YoY. What do you say to that?” “Well, it’s true, but/and partly because we have reduced incomes for people by cutting their social programs.” Not a mystery why Trump’s approval on the economy is -50

I just backed Neon Odyssey: Space Opera in D&D by Legends of Avantris on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/leg... I was debating on backing it but after watching the first episode of Waltz for Eternity by @avantris.bsky.social I then was like oh yeah. Time to do some mecha destruction.

Be certain, as is always the case with things such as this, that ANYTHING can be considered sexual and can end in a blanket account shadowban under this. It is easily weaponized it is determined by an AI moderation system. There is no accountability or recourse. you probly can't read this.

BURGUM: The celebration of the 250 is a nonpartisan event BASH: But Trump called it a 'Make America Great Again rally,' which is the name of his political organization BURGUM: Well, it is, but that's something I think we all can certainly understand

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Even if you willfully ignore the blatant racism driving modern immigration enforcement and the major privacy concerns here, the sheer amount of money being poured into ICE cannot be helping our sinking economy

And one element of specifically female tech literacy is being very well aware that when new software fails to deliver what's been promised to senior management happy to swallow the hype, women will be immediately blamed for 'operator error' far more than men.

bsky too quiet? missing comments? not seeing posts from spicy artists? check your moderation settings and your bsky filters if you haven't configured these before, many of these will be set to hide as defaults

If you have nsfw set to "hide" I implore you to set it to "warn". You still won't see anything except for a blurred post Otherwise once they roll out account-wide adult content labeling a whole lot of people including me are going to disappear from your timelines, even our sfw text posts

"I just don't think unionizing the games industry will work" Okay so why is it working then 👀

If unionizing wouldn't work why do companies spend so much time and money to try to stop people from doing it?

The US wanted to be a leader in global technology and software and then pursued policies that made other countries go “Actually, we’re good. There’s the door. Buh-bye.”

Reporters don't talk enough about how Republicans do not consider Democratic voters to be fully American.

“Is trump racist” is an actual debate people have

Mihoyo Fans are like what everyone acts like ALL Nintendo fans are

Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.

Israel Just committed another massacre in Gaza minutes ago in the evening of our holydays. While Im still trying to make a game about the massacres since 1948, When this will stop. I don't now to to handle this, I cant translate that feeling

A statement from a member of the party that just banned trans people from using appropriate bathrooms across the UK, including in private businesses. According to her, living with dignity involves being sent out back tto the gender neutral porta potty, just like in South Carolina.

For two weeks, arena folks have been getting *daily* anti-union emails from the company fearmongering about how scary unions are. Now, they're sending letters to our homes. The union isn't a third party, WE ARE THE UNION. This doesn't scare me. I am voting YES for #uwotc-cwa! #wotcstaff

Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.

UMBERT ACTUALLY! EP 3!!! VFX artists are overworked and underpaid! #UmbertActually #UnionYaoi #MistermanGuyfella #Jellybox #IndieAnimation

If you're looking for ways to support creatives, writing positive reviews of their work is 1. Free 2. Full of compliments that encourages them 3. Marketing they can reshare to promote their work 4. Just a decent thing to do, thank you!

Make no mistake, if adult comics are banned today, queer comics are banned tomorrow.

Him admitting this to a gathering of *law enforcement officials* really lays bare how much law and justice are nothing more than a mirage in this country

These two things are completely unrelated, so don’t even think of trying to make a connection between them

Slightly increase a band Visualize Dragons

Yes! May this go well for everyone at DF! This feels like a no brainer for a company as lovely and as loved as DF! A wonderful collaboration between management and workers that could work wonders for all involved! May it go smoothly, and hope Microsoft abides by its neutrality agreement! 😌

Characters with VAs that haven't consent just straight up don't have voices anymore.

They suspended @cara.city for this!!! Dogshit website run by absolute babies. It is a Serious Violation to point out that the head of trust and safety’s pants fell down and everyone saw his little red ass and laughed

It occasionally bears repeating that under a Dem admin this would be a world historical scandal. With Trump, journalists more or less ignore it, or accept plainly nonsensical explanations (he's shaking hands so much he had to use his off hand I guess)

As Madame Terfington's bigotry-encrusted wizard game once more becomes available """for free""" I'd like to reiterate: Do *NOT.* Even if you don't "pay" for the damn thing, those free copy are still netting that hack her licensing fees AND add toward metrics that get more projects greenlit.

Rubio: "You've got friends who have been shot in the head because they're out protesting, and it's heartbreaking to him to see these people are abused in this way and have no measures to take against their own government as a result of it. This is a vicious regime."

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & yet this man is still in office acting like a Mad King & getting away with it 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

I'm super proud of the fact that my website has no tracking, no cookies*, no registration/sign-up and no ads. It's rare in today's internet, and that's a shame. (*there's 3 necessary cookies on the frontpage due to the mailing list provider, SendFox, and its captcha)

Everybody should be screaming from the rooftops that it’s super fucked up that he brags about taking these cognitive function tests all the time. It’s super fucked up! Why does society not erupt at how fucked up it is???

Gender should literally just be a common thing that people *should* examine in order to have a fullness of life, even if nothing massively changes. It should be as common as developing a fashion style or a music taste. Deconstruction of societal imprint, no matter how “far” you go, is freedom.

The way profit maxxing corpo culture has invaded every form of art through algorithms pushing people into daily posting is really weighing on me lately. Efficiency and regularity of making "content" being prized above all else feels so grim, man.

Balint: "If President Biden or President Obama had said anything remotely like this, it would be nonstop coverage on every single channel and everyone on the other side of the aisle would be howling about it and demanding that they step down."

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Mind you bluesky was shading X on X about adding AI tools 5 months ago

"The industry has the means to accommodate EVERYONE. they just don't want to" That deserves to play on repeat 24/7/365. The industry officially ran out of manufactured excuses during COVID. We all saw it.