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Honestly “Republicans are shutting down the government to hide the Epstein files” is pretty good messaging.

I'm so tired of being told to run away

I really need you guys to internalize this. Government and corporations ripped Kimmel off the air for lightly badmouthing their behavior. Coordinated pushback by us is what forced them to cave in and put Kimmel back on air. Again. The fascists caved in *due to coordinated pushback.*

Knights of Guinevere would usually be a step outside of what I'm into (gore isn't for me 🤷) but as someone who was laid off by the mouse while their trans show was butchered (on two separate occasions) this shit is like delicious candy to me 💖

🚨UPDATE: In response to the boycott that erupted over the weekend, Disney decided to update the cancellation process on their website, making it MORE DIFFICULT FOR THEIR SUBSCRIBERS TO STOP GIVING THEM MONEY. This underhanded strategy hasn’t retained customers as they hoped.

People are sharing a lot of resources on how to make your own website so I've updated the website-building section of my site with a link to some of the best I've found. PLEASE make your own website, it is fun (sometimes)! Fast (sometimes)!! Free (sometimes)!!! 💻 evegwood.com/links#resour...

it should go without saying but if you want users to voluntarily tag their art then you need to not threaten to ban them if they do. like, you can either have a well-regulated, easily-filtered art ecosystem or you can ban art you don’t like and see it come oozing back out of every crack and crevice

DO NOT participate in #blueskyblackout2025 I'm nsfw artist and other nsfw artists are asking you to SHOUT! Bsky wants to censor us so the worst thing we can do is censor ourselves! Publicly shame them, use the feedback button, and post about it using the tag #bskycensorship Silence is compliance!

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

And remember YOU can take action against Disney; cancel your Hulu, D+, Disney tickets, and if you can, show up in person for protests in front of Disney. Free speech and protest WILL win out over fascism, we won't let these studios and companies live down their capitulations to a would-be dictator.

“With a single post or video, we can influence thousands of guests to try a food, drink, or experience in the parks,” she says. “I couldn’t, in good conscience, keep giving them free publicity knowing they don’t support free speech and are willing to bow to fascism."

I can’t nail down two things enough: 1) treat it like a job, don’t overwork yourself if there’s people down the line who are doing the EXACT same thing. 2) this industry is based on TRUST. You trust that the person next to you, behind you and in front of you knows their job.

i'm against the new TOS because no matter how uncomfortable you are with certain subjects, it's very easy to see how bad-faith interpretations of art could be weaponized, especially against marginalized artists, who are more likely to be targeted for harassment #bskycensorship

Chiitan loves all transgender people. I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives. Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like. love you all 🤍 ↓ www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point

Goodnight.

Next they'll outlaw playing hopscotch. 🏳️‍🌈

Your reminder that 99.99% of the artists you interact with are sustained by a second job or spouse/family, and followers do not actually translate directly to dollars

if my entire argument for banning trans women in sports was that cis men are pretending to be trans women to win against cis women and I tried to make a documentary about it but could not find any cis men willing to do the thing i said cis men do i would simply never show my face in public again

Just an FYI the article above HAS been updated as of September 5th! So be sure to check for your state and plan accordingly!

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

no wormies

“Folks say “I don’t like kids,” as casually as they’d say they prefer Pepsi to Coke. When people say things like “kids are okay, but I just don’t want them around me,” we don’t generally question that. I think we should.”

IM SICK OF CALLING MY REPS TO TELL THEM FASCISM IS BAD. IM TIRED OF IT. I JUST WANT THESE PEOPLE TO DO THE RIGHT THING BECAUSE THEY SHOULD AND IT'S OBVIOUS. AND THEY DONT EVEN LISTEN TO US ANYWAY SO WHY ARE WE EVEN DOING THIS. FUCK.

"It’s important that we Americans be given false little wars to fight every few days, else we start to forget who’s who and what’s what, or we start to think about our actual wars, which makes us sad or guilty or frustrated, and we start talking about how complicated everything is."

Today's newsletter: From Cracker Barrel to Sydney Sweeney's jeans: How right-wing influencers manufacture controversies, then cite them as proof that "wokeness" destroys companies. www.readtpa.com/p/the-right-...

Enough about Gavin Nuisance, get behind this guy.

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

Asked some questions on the Reddit AMA, ACLU & Fight for the Future gave some great responses. Link in the comment below bsky.app/profile/acva...

Pls note that it also has a representative from a Palestinian digital rights org. (I am just so tired when people here on Bluesky go like "Palestinians have no solidarity with other minority groups, esp. queer/trans people" bc that fits their stereotypes and ignore everything like this.)

Hey Cali peeps! Check out LONG AWAY at the Long Beach QFilm Fest on Sept 6 ⤵️

As someone who is 30 or 40 years old and has been on the internet for decades now, I need you to internalise this advice: we should all know less about each other. Stop telling strangers on the internet every single thing about you

Just make it exist first. You can make it worse with each new pass while getting increasingly frustrated later.

Add FADPA, ACPA and BlockBEARD to your list of bills youre telling your federal representatives to oppose alongside KOSA, IODA and the SCREEN Act Remember you can just tell them "oppose these bills!". No need to say more unless you want to! Keep it simple! www.congress.gov/members/find...

Just sent my survey. Does anyone seriously think that people will pay for "AI content"? Lol, no, those who love AI - love free stuff, they will use AI themselves, and a lot of true creators will leave the platform. The whole site with AI slop under paywall. Who the hell needs it.

SPEAK UP!!! WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER FRICKIN SOCIAL TO NUKE NSFW CONTENT ONCE THEY GOT ENOUGH USERS! CENSORSHIP ALWAYS LEAD TO BANNING QUEER, BPOC, DISABLED PPL IMPORTANT CONTENT NEXT!

Romance writers? You are not going to be exempt from this. GOP senator's bill to make all porn a federal crime advances to committee www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/12/s...

Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act. TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets! Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

VISA and MASTERCARD are now refusing all calls related to their policy changes. So call up as a concerned shareholder, prepared to short-sell their shares to reduce financial harm and loss to their portfolios. They're trying to ignore us. Don't let them. Evangelical Censorship is death to progress

Keep up the pressure! #SaveSpeech

No one should ever have the power to autonomously cancel hundreds of millions of dollars for scientific research based on some lies they saw on YouTube.

God I would give anything to never have to hear about any of these assholes ever again

Harry Potter needs to be left in the past. Full stop. It’s not even all that good. This revival is unneeded. The franchise has no value today as anything, and its rotbrain creator uses its success to oppress trans people. Find other, far superior fantasy stories, please.

City of Ghosts is still on Netflix, if y’all need something to watch to remind you the power we have to bring light into the world (it’s about Los Angeles and history and ghosts but not in a scary way). Probably will make you cry, but I’ve been told it’s healthy/ happy tears.

Ive been trying harder not to fall into to doomerism but I still can't help but get depressed over the distinct lack of counter-action. A handful of entertainment stars donating their spare funds to PBS could legit do wonders on its own, I am just saying.