the way to understand their complaints about the party being too woke is that it’s a bunch of half-dead octogenarians who can’t live with the reality of their complete and utter failure as stewards of the state and so have instead decided to blame their own voting base. i can’t wait for them to die

when I say things like “this is downstream of Dems not believing in anything” people jump into my replies and say Dems believe in abortion, fighting racism, and LGBT rights, and the answer to that is: not according to the scoreboard

"this character is gooner-bait!!!" ... you mean sex-appeal? I think we really need to stop calling anti-porn folks that, and just point out what they hate is women... They want to make it wrong for women to be quirky, peppy, sexy or just anything that isn't submissive and obedient

Reminding you all again and again and again that KOSA, repealing section 230, etc will all destroy your freedom of expression, privacy, and basic rights online. Censorship and mass-surveillance is not acceptable no matter how kid-friendly you color it, for fuck's sake. #privacy #savespeech

The introductory points on this one really do just rip away the whole facade You can surmise that the ENTIRE reason a/i has been left unchecked is because it could be used as a boogeyman to go after ALL adult content (scroll down past all the struckout sections) www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...

Don't listen to Blumenthal. OpenAI's endorsement of KOSA is an example of why people should call their rep & senators to oppose KOSA.

No but seriously I am fucking sick of people going "oh they're gonna come for other queer stuff next". One, they already are. You're fucking blind. Two, why the fuck do you not think porn is both something inherently worth defending and intrinsically linked to queer culture for decades?

it's actually so cool that the entire global creative ecosystem is basically held hostage by freak reactionary american companies.

go yell at them. you don't need an account help.kickstarter.com/hc/en-us/req...

as someone who worked on bg3, I fully agree - it's so utterly hypocritical how these platforms treat sex and eroticism - they want to make bank off big releases (and payment processors conveniently look the other way when this happens!) but strangle entire swathes of content from indies

"100% of intolerant labels were manually applied" oh okay so that post about "trans women show that womanhood is something worth having" WAS manually labelled as intolerance by staff

it is true, buckaroos genuinely want their erotica to be made by humans because erotica is art and art is about genuine connection. many 'bizzaro' writers immediately switched to ai covers or writing and it revealed to the world WHY they write. this has and will backfire on them. nobody wants that

The Tommyknockers by Stephen King (1987)

Be smart, be careful, be safe, and most of all, remember that if you're trans, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming, I love you and we ARE going to get through this together. I promise you.

talking online about how proud you are to be trans, for example, is entirely legal and not actionable. But - and this is the key - DO NOT SAY ANYTHING ONLINE THAT CAN BE CONSTRUED AS A CRIME OR A THREAT, EVEN IN JEST, unless you are doing so with full knowledge that it can be weaponized against you.

if there's no money for his strategy, he's limited in what he can do. So keep that in mind. Shutting down DHS to stop ICE *also* literally saves trans people. Turns out all our struggles are connected. Second, a lot of what he's planning CAN BE FOUGHT.

I know a lot of them, including a lot of Democrats, will balk, especially because they don't want the attack ads. But here's the thing: funding Trump's counterterrorism priorities is funding a genocide against trans people. If they don't believe you, read the document to them.

And the fact that he's laying this out so clearly ahead of time is giving us a sort of final warning about what is coming. So how can we get this train off the tracks? First, call your member of Congress and tell them to vote against any measure that funds Trump's counterterrorism priorities.

THREAD. There's been a lot of attention paid to the new 2026 United States Counterterrorism Strategy released by the Trump administration released this week, and understandably so. I've linked it here so you can review it for yourself.

I didn't choose to be trans. I just am. But here's the thing: whether or not being trans is innate is *completely irrelevant* because bodily autonomy is a human right. Abortion is a human right because everyone has the right to decide what to do with their own body. Same with gender affirming care.

I think it's unhealthy for one's greatest ideological aspirations to be hoping the bad things happen quietly and politely enough that you can tune them out for a couple years. Trump isn't a freak aberration, he's a direct result of every administration since at least Nixon.

Let me make this as clear as fucking crystal. If you are cis, and are not ready to stand up for the lives of your trans friends and family? You are a coward, hiding in the majority to avoid responsibility. This is our fight too. We all have a duty to protect the people we love. You can't run away.

> No account is suspended or removed without human oversight. there you have it. every trans woman banned by staff was manual and not automated. someone on the team decided that a woman complaining about being harassed for her rape was worth being banned for and sent that out as an email

This is especially insulting post Epstein files like we know who these fuckers are but we're gonna give a now-former royal effectively a slap on the wrist, because the REAL danger is some trans girl vtuber like fuuuuck oooooooff

really don't think it is that hard to connect "it's dangerous to allow gov't bans on expression on only the basis of personal disgust" with "right now the people who make the decisions on what is disgusting are the horribly bigoted reactionaries who are disgusted if a woman wears pants"

i need everyone to realize that many of bluesky's "safety" decisions are just thinly-veiled transphobia.

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apropos of nothing in particular, it sucks that we still have no consumer protection laws against always-on DRM. if i buy a physical item, the store i bought it from can't come and check the receipt all the time forever. why should a software company be able to do the same shit to me lol

When it comes to shit people are into, the way it breaks down for me is pretty clean. You don't gotta associate with everyone or like everyone. You don't have to approve of something and you can be disgusted by it. Legally speaking, art isn't something you should be able to prosecute as a harm.

"Not into loli but this censorship stuff is ridiculous and has definitely gone too far and like I don't support loli but even I think this is too much I mean just to be clear I'm not into loli I think it's gross but censorship is worse but like man I really hate loli don't get it twisted"

you have to be anti-censorship even of things you think are gross

With AI generated content in Arc Raiders and Neverness to Everness, we're beginning to see who is serious about boycotting AI usage and whose resolve only lasts until a shiny new game they're interested in uses it. Keep this in mind when browsing Twitch or YouTube.

the comment period for this ends tomorrow. It may feel like a long shot but if you have something to say re: debanking, you should take the time to say it here

Bullying the bluesky staff rules, it has all the fun parts of bullying elon but without the disgusting part where you have to content with the fact he has real political power

The Free Speech Coalition is serious about starting an adult industry credit union. Part of this is being able to show regulators that enough people would use it, so please fill out this form if you're interested! (Yes, credit unions can issue credit cards!) www.freespeechcoalition.com/survey

A quick heads up; The UK government is currently holding a consultation on the Online Safety Act. The consultation lasts until the end of next month. Please fill it out if you live in the UK and/or share it around to get more eyes on it. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Hey seriously, literally in the bills it says they'll also use identifying information, such as your age data for "other purposes". That means your data goes into a government surveillance database. This would be for ANY *OS*, which is the thing your fucking PC runs off of. Call your reps NOW.

Reminder that Little Runmo is a masterpiece by @gooseworx.bsky.social and way more of you should go watch it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErQH...

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

Everyone who’d complained about the mediocre half-effort AAA industry pushouts should be cheering for this and the chance to put something new into the field. The same enthusiasm that went towards Markiplier making Iron Lung a smash success “against all Hollywood odds” should be happening here too!

We didn't deserve this day.

The two truths: 1) There is nothing wrong with porn, let people safely make it, let people safely enjoy it. 2) If you let people define porn as bad, authoritarians will ALWAYS expand the definition until their hands are around your neck.

i remember when the potential inaccuracy of wikipedia was a huge point of concern for academic use and we cautioned against it for years, the machine that cannot be prevented from lying is required to use though this reeks of schools being paid to make this happen by the companies selling this shit

I wrk in mental health and my hottake is that the vast majority of people need to learn the difference between behavior that makes them uncomfortable and behavior that is potentially unsafe. People literally get people institutionalized, abused, or killed over not understanding the difference.

difficulty squaring: on one hand, i enjoy endlessly build & theorycrafting in games w/ functionally limitless combinations (right-hand path) on the other, i firmly believe limitations create fun & think "you play 1 of these n# of specific things" is an underutilized game structure (left-hand path)

i like how every one of these is just, like, "illiterate people encounter normal punctuation while in a heightened state of paranoia, lash out". "i know it's aigen if it's above a 2nd grade reading level" is telling on yourself so hard i don't even know where to start.

YEAH FUCK THIS MY FUCKING GRAMMAR IS TRASH AND EVEN I DO THE OXFORD COMMA, I WILL NOT BACK DOWN.

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

Vibe coding? Heh. AI is inevitable. Yall are just afraid of the future *smirk* 😏