The package of censorship and surveillance bills brought up in todays markup has been advanced Continue to contact your representatives and demand this legislation be opposed. Tell your family and friends, explain how these bills are not what they appear, and ask them to join us in opposition!

Keep saying "slop" in reference to AI. At every opportunity. The techbros are listening, and this word makes them so sad on the inside that they'll hoist themselves on their own Streisand Effect petard.

Personal character - Revan Kirae. Half-drow spymaster, warlock of Vhaeraun and low-key unfulfilled artist with a flair for dramatics 🫢

🍁Preliminary sketch for a finished spot illustration for one of RealmsBound’s upcoming books. The series opens the door onto the Forgotten Realms, exploring the world of Toril, with special focus on Faerûn and the Dalelands.🍁 #TTRPG #ttrpgart #forgottenrealms #rpg @realmsbound.bsky.social

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

Patreon is only bowing to apple and getting rid of our billing models because someone convinced them all members care more about having an ios app than supporting a creator. This is the reason they have given us over and over. Please correct them. support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/req...

Hey jumping off this, this is great due diligence to do on like, all media communication imo. Looking into an author and finding out if someone is trying to sell you something or shill their own position disguised as research or news is very helpful given the state of things!!

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hi Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good in my city yesterday and they don't want you to know his name is Jonathan Ross. so if you need to know who Jonathan Ross is, that's who Jonathan Ross is. the ICE agent who murdered that woman? yeah his name is Jonathan Ross. fuck you Bluesky.

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for pocky day this year 🥰 #scarts #vhaeraun and my oc

a winter-y #vhaeraun for @abracadavr.bsky.social 💖

These are the Democrats that are cosponsoring legislation to repeal Section 230: Dick Durbin, 81, retiring in 2026 Sheldon Whitehouse, 70, not up until 2030 Amy Klobuchar, 65, not up until 2030 Richard Blumenthal, 79, not up until 2028 Peter Welch, 78, not up until 2028

NEW: They kept saying they were gonna do it and now they've done it A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230. No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech. We can't let this happen. Share & take action www.badinternetbills.com

Full list of sponsors & cosponsors on the S230 repeal bill www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...

and speaking of "felyn's vhaeraun", here he is. i wanted to keep some of the kitschy-campy of his canon design but emphasize the fae and night sky aspects of him as a god descended from corellon and bring back the night sky cloak from his 2e depiction. lots of comet and moondog motifs!

i'm gonna try to remember to post art here in bits. so here's enclave's vhaeraun for @mystxmomo.bsky.social 's birthday earlier this year. he's definitely a different vibe than felyn's!

Patreon Policy Team emailed creators saying they'll host a livestream clarifying existing 18+ guidelines on DEC 11. If you're a creator please show up! You can submit issues you'd like them to cover in the rsvp form.

I run customer-facing teams and getting a deluge of complaint calls between Thanksgiving and NYE is literally a nightmare scenario that risks turning into a cascade (a couple people quit, more work for the rest, so a couple more quit, etc) we will NEVER have more leverage than now through NYE

Vile used images of real people in an adult game to make an artistic statement. Doesn't matter that these are images of the author, and that the context is "sexual violence is bad". Valve banned that game because their overarching principle is "do not make us do effort"

oh I work at an emergency vet. i know what the boss ordering pizza means. keep fighting!

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You can expect more of this from countries, even close US allies and trade partners going forward. Not many countries out there willing to let a growth sector of their economy be crippled by US payment processors deciding to fuck with international trade.

It's starting to feel like the US's soft power is kinda played out, which could be good, or, umm, really bad

Anime, VTubing, adult content, table top, and videos games. So basically, anything fun is "high fraud risk". Got a complaint? Here's a list of their numbers. And a couple helpful links to contact other paypros. #SaveSpeech #StopPayPros stop-paypros.neocities.org anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co

TODAY WE CALL AGAIN NOV 1ST RESURGENCE DAY STREAM @ 11AM EST TODAY WE READ THROUGH THIS INFOGRAPHIC, GO OVER CENSORSHIP NEWS SEE YOU SOON

Source familiar with MasterCard‘s internal workings: The company finds the censorship focus from consumers “profoundly irritating“ amid larger political issues — they want the controversy around paypros censorship to quietly disappear

idk about yall but I'm REALLY good at being annoying 🥰 can't wait to pull out a list of 1000 different games and anime and go through each one individually with the poor innocent call worker on the line to find out what's "illegal" according to MasterCard

🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on. You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com

I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse

he deserves the most stylish outfits #jarlaxle #forgottenrealms #legendofdrizzt #dnd

Northsky is a separate service running on the same protocol as Bluesky and Blacksky (the ATprotocol). This means open communication between our services, but different management! You can keep your likes, follows, lists, blocks, etc... if you migrate to our service. And still talk with Bsky users.

Conjured Ink is a community of creatives, developers, and supporters building software, support structures, and curated documentation to make it easy for people who make things to be able to share it or sell it independently, without relying exclusively on large platforms.

If you’re feeling particularly sad or dysfunctional right now and you’re an American, it’s important to remember that the wheels are kind of coming off our society and to be kind to yourself. Your struggle w/ depression or anxiety may reflect the reality of the world we live in and dealing with that

I don't use ao3 but I've still donated to them every year for several now. It seems it's becoming increasingly important. ime pillowfort gets no engagement and is quite dead, but they also accept credit card payments. I think the places that do are on borrowed time and popularity draws sauron's eye

In the wake of the last few days news and the blood and suppression the GOP is calling for, you would think democrats would be thinking twice about section 230 and the tools they would be handing over with KOSA

I'm considering having a meeting with one of my local reps, face to face, about this issue. I saw folks do it in Seattle, so why can't I do it here? I would love if my local rep yelled at these companies with me.

Concerning claim on r/Games www.reddit.com/r/Games/comm...

The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures. This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

I've been making a genuine effort to use the term "fanworks" instead of "content" I feel like it's important, with the rise of fandom fracturing into a "consumer demands" type of vibe instead of the old hobby enjoying and friendship vibe I am more used to

Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #nsfw #censorship #canpoli @acvalens.net