They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.) Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning

Every once in a while you can still find something good on Facebook

Here is fun and easy way to create new color palette for your illustration 🖍️🫶 If you try the tutorial, tag me and i will repost it ˖˚✩⊹

🔥🪥New brushes are available for free for Procreate! These brushes are a bit more niche as color varies widely with each brush stroke. Shares are immensely appreciated, thank you for looking! ko-fi.com/s/f3cefa5feb #brush #digitalart #procreate #procreatebrushes #freebrushes

For newer users of BlueSky, please alt-text your images. It helps people who use screen-readers or who have slow internet connections understand the image you've uploaded. Make the web accessible. I rarely reshare images without alt-text & I know others do the same. Alt-text your images for reach

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

A small victory! Chat Control has been tabled for now, but it can [and likely will] be brought up for vote again in December In the meantime, EU citizens will need to continue pressuring their respective govts to oppose chat control However, do so knowing that pressure WORKS.

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG is fucking incredible

Shout this from the fucking rooftops, people!! #fuckAI

“Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE, 404 Media has learned… Eyes Up, meanwhile, was more of an aggregation service pooling together information to preserve evidence in case the material is needed in the future in court.”

My alt text will suck, but this is going around now. Portland frog facing off ICE really has become a mascot here.

i think it is fair to request a statement from @jay.bsky.team on TRANS PEOPLE and where we fit in on @bsky.app. i think as a transgender journalist, it's acceptable and makes sense for me to ask this and so, the question, am i not a person as a trans girl and do i not deserve to feel safe here?

The Senate has just passed the military NDAA containing 2 anti-trans provisions: a surgery ban using federal funds (dependents too), and a sports ban on military academy spaces. This will be the STARTING point for negotiations with the House, which has even worse provisions. Only 20 Dems opposed.

1. Anti-trans outrage is losing its bite. Last week, Elon Musk led a mass boycott campaign to get trans characters removed from shows on the platform. Major conservatives joined in. Now, we have the result: the boycott was a fizzle, and Netflix stock is up. Subscribe to support my journalism.

I will gladly draw all of the frogs as a symbol for the movement, explicitly to take them back from the fuckers who co opted Pepe for their nazi shit.

People out here sucking Satan's cock and justifying it by saying their mouth is a decentralized network

The CEO of Bluesky is craven and evil. The only people that build these platforms are infected with the self-reproducing moral rot of capitalism. They have no sense of duty or stewardship. They see their monetary reward as a cleansing justification for their actions.

They brought the post back lol. Finish the job. Ban Singal. Rescue your platform.

"What can we do to increase usership. Add more functionality? Group chats? Spaces?" "Nah I think we need to actively court the most culturally noxious and unpleasant people to form our userbase"

Why would you remove it and Streisand Effect yourself like this? Baffling decisionmaking here.

Even in a ruthless capitalistic context this is weird behaviour. It really disincentivizes me from using the platform. I already get an equal amount of transphobic harassment on here. On Twitter it's Nazis and here it's liberal cryptonazis

Dawg the only reason your platform exists is because people like me who actually make good stuff were on it. Growth slowed and now you're sweating. This ain't the answer.

Bluesky deleted my post complaining about the CEO lol. I did not delete it myself! Full on Lowtaxing from Jay here.

I'm serious email your representatives and link this article RIGHT NOW tell them this shit sucks and is going to put everyone's ID/data at risk to hackers online. the proof is right here US- www.congress.gov/members/find... EU- www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home CA- www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

The sad thing about the owners' contempt towards the userbase is that Bluesky is genuinely a far better Twitter alternative, from a user experience the lack of an algorithm that only seemed to push conflict and suppress people I was following is a staggering difference. You got a good thing here!

This video was insanely insightful. Lot of fun, I learned a lot 🤯 My favorite part was learning that "quantum physics" is called that because it treats things in QUANTities. e.g. light being particles instead of waves, etc.

Yo just wanted to say given how everything is right now that I’m not gonna post my art here anymore You can find me on Cara and Tumblr with the same username as I have here (Shinystarbit) I’m not gonna delete this account so people who follow me can find me. Goodbye, good riddance, fuck TERFs

Hard to tell the real illegal militia from the fake illegal militia

Cool! Hey guys this is HOW I found out Earthspark is ON Netflix and now I think it's the best damn thing to happen today. I'll be smiling through my rewatch of the whole show! 😎 I highly recommend if you've got Netflix, check out Earthspark!!

It's being reported that USPS is seizing packages from Play Asia and marking them as "Counterfeit Postage" Recently, a couple new laws went into effect that allows USPS to trash any package believe to have counterfeit postage

Say whatever you will about Play-Asia as a company, this is fucking bleak regardless because nothing says it can't happen to packages from AmiAmi or other hobby sites you may order from instead I'm sorry to dip into the doomerade a bit, but I don't want people just going "lol owned" to this

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Remember when artists had an online community where we just posted art and didn't worry about current events unless they involved our favorite shows being cancelled and/or renewed? I miss that.

need to draw more sound systems tbh 🫶🎶 🦜 #art #lintuart #transformers #maccadam #jazterwave #soundwave #blaster #jazz

Ballerinas #furry #art #furryart

This is the funniest thing I've ever seen

Pumpkin Tart is ready for Halloween! #mlpg3

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Seeing gorgeous art with 100 likes and 20 reposts makes me sad. Please share art that you like, even if you think it won't make a difference. We need to be enjoying art public ally and vocally in these times.

Just found out that Crunchyroll is now using an Israeli subtitling software and this is an example of it's effects on AOT if you watch the subs:

Petition with nearly 3 million signatures: "don't do thing" Government: "no"