With the barrage of censorship campaigns lately, it’s extremely disappointing to see the lack of mutual support for NSFW creators and visibility on these issues from so many large SFW furry creators (my friends included) you could be using your platform for good! Buddy, they’re coming for all of us

PSA for anyone that uses a Samsung Galaxy phone. The latest update added a "Galaxy AI" menu to your settings. You have you go in and opt in to having your data pricessed exclusively on your device, or else samsung's gunna default to scooping it all up into their cloud

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

alright squad it's time to teach bsky a thing I learned off Twitter before it stopped being Twitter how to (somewhat) AI-proof your ao3, a thread by chief 🧵 (repost to save a fanfic author etc etc)

I refuse to kink shame, but I reserve the right to be kink bewildered

Currently there are 1.4k Bluesky reposts of this but only 776 public comments submitted. Please voice your opposition!

Putting this here for my fellow Android users.

the CDC is apparently removing every page (+ references to studies) on LGBT people (mostly targeting trans people but also stuff like HIV prevention) from their websites, potentially putting people in danger (if this is true it smells like book burning) so, i will just put this info out there:

PLEASE SHARE 🧪‼️ Since CDC websites and datasets are being taken down by the Administration… The ENTIRE archive of ALL CDC datasets uploaded BEFORE January 28th, 2025 can be found here: archive.org/details/2025...

‼️ The State Department has REMOVED TQIA+ on their page of recommendations for queer travelers. This page yesterday said "LGBTQIA+" and now just says "LGB". The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.

DC Children's Hospital has just contacted me to tell me my reporting is "inaccurate" that they have stopped providing gender affirming care. How is it inaccurate? They still provide "mental healthcare." Read my response.

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

If your child has lost care due to hospitals closing or stopping care, PLEASE contact Chase Strangio immediately. @chasestrangio.bsky.social

Hospital systems I can confirm: - Childrens DC - Denver Health - NYU Langone (new patients only) Hearing reports but no confirms yet: - UPMC - VCU

I am getting spotty reports of hospital systems in blue states cancelling gender affirming care appointments for those under 19 years of age. If true, this would be a major problem, as systems comply with illegal EOs in advance out of fear of DOJ weaponization. Please let me know if yours has.

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

The fact that Deepseek R1 was released three days /before/ Stargate means these guys stood in front of Trump and said they needed half a trillion dollars while they knew R1 was open source and trained for $5M. Beautiful.

A heads-up for any of you still on FB. I've been sending this to several of my friends there, but it reaches more people to share it here, I think. Take it from someone who works there, FB is *not* safe. Here's a link to their post: misskey.de/notes/a3ax4t...

Today and in the coming days, remember

The "controversy" is literally just that a trans woman is an RA. That's it. That's what's got Utah politicians up in arms. They want to make us unemployable and our existence next to (if not outright) illegal. www.hjnews.com/news/local/u...

Perry, the donkey who served as the Donkey model for Shrek, has passed away at the age of 30.

Would have been at Anthro Northwest vending and seeing folks in Seatle! However, I lost my invite + table after not giving the con my old/deadname. They said no exceptions. Don't feel safe putting it on a regular form for staff to see OR PHONE CALL and say it.. No joke. Been encouraged to open up

⚠️ PSA to anyone posting to YouTube ⚠️ Definitely go in and turn this off!! I don’t think it even needs explaining at this point!! Please let everyone know

Because what the Democratic Party needs is subverting one of the biggest up and coming stars of the party for a 74 year old shoehorned to take her place. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

always expect the unexpected ... - - - 🍜 #NoodlSoup 🌻 #furryart #myart #webcomic #comic

We are already tracking 116 Anti-LGBTQ+ bills across the USA for the 2025 legislative cycle! Worst Types: - 28 Gender Affirming Care Bans - 16 Bathroom Bans - 10 Ending Legal Recognition Worst States: - 39 in Texas - 23 in Missouri - 11 in South Carolina - 21 Federal Bills

BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers: Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users. That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...

Infuriating. Please note that this decision only applies to trans kids— cis kids going through precocious puberty still get to have them. Because they’re only experimental and dangerous when used for a purpose some people find icky

Thread to remind you about how awful private for-profit healthcare can be. It's almost like we shouldn't tolerate this!

Normal rooooads(ugh) Take me theeeere To a plaaaaace That exiiiiiiists, i guess, Just Virginiaaaaa Not the West one, Normal roooooads This sucks loooooads

Something *really* telling about open ai calling artists “abusers” for trying to set up boundaries to protect our work.

For reference, this bill could (and likely would) be used against the following things if passed: Trevor Project, Trans Lifeline, Furality, almost all furry cons, Planned Parenthood There is a tool on this website that allows you to one-click contact your representatives with an autogenerated msg.

Heads up, if you're on Linkedin you've been automatically opted in for generative ai training - on everything you have ever posted, including personal data! Opt out: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,222,117!

Meanwhile in AI land, the Game UI Database is effectively being ddosed as OpenAI steals their data and scrapes the front page hundreds of times per second.

Subway is owned by a private equity firm that raised the prices on their $5 footlongs up to $14. Now the price back down to $6.99. It was never about “inflation.” It was a private equity firm using inflation as an excuse to price gouge customers. Always expose corporate greed.

For years I was told ‘homosexuality is unnatural’ and they would point to the dearth of examples in nature. Now we know such examples were actively repressed. Happy #Pride. Be #gay, baby.

I just found out that Glad Day Books, Toronto's oldest queer book shop and a fixture of our queer landscape & community, is facing eviction. They're fundraising to stay in business. If you're able, please donate! Here's their donation site with more info. www.gladday.ca/savegladday

Okay you got me “Let’s posion the evil Machine stealing our jobs” is the kind of thing I’d hoped we’d get in the cyberpunk dystopia, good work everyone

Huge scoop by Erin Reed. Ohio and Michigan Republicans announced their intention to expand bans on gender affirming care to everyone. This isn't about protecting children, and never was. Bans on youth care were the first step of an attempt by the right to legislate trans people out of existence.

“Given the Republican Party’s authoritarianism, it’s worth remembering that one of the Nazis’ first major acts of political violence in Weimar Germany was ransacking pioneering sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for the Study of Sexuality and burning his research”

Thank you @cocorevolution.bsky.social for drawing and helping to design my new sona!

Happy New Year!

So weird how as soon as the pandemic started it became very immediately clear that things like socialized medicine and giving people money so children don’t starve actually work really well but now that it’s been a couple years we have to all pretend we didn’t notice that

As a disabled artist, I'm so fucking sick of hearing people say that being anti-AI is ableist. Art is one of the few careers open to disabled people, and now we have to compete with robots. When our jobs are eliminated, we can't just get a labor job to replace it.