FREE ASSETS Pride Bricks by Lotusenta Ever wanted to throw a brick at a fascist? Well, here's some (digital) bricks for you. Use them as emotes, throwables, stream badges, whatever. ko-fi.com/s/3db2b15272 [ #art #vsky #assets #pride ]

Jesus Christ. Apparently in the new Scary Movie, the Black non-binary character is stabbed to death on a train after saying “my pronouns are they/them” and a crowd stab them saying “fuck your pronouns!” Legit a hate crime against the most vulnerable minority in real life for fucking “comedy”.

Give some love to transmasc pika :3

Bird song

Fyi to those unfamiliar with the history: “your sex life makes you too vulnerable to blackmail and so we must ban you from government work” is what we did to queer people in America throughout most of the 20th century

I always say that my reason for making this cartoon was to have a story with a "comic relief villain main character" but the other reason is to do this archetype but as a trans man lol

Their goal as always is to slowly boil the frog without people noticing, it's the same playbook they did with trans people and they are ding now with gay marriage.

Make no mistake, this is the far right testing the waters after seeing their first attempts at porn bans recieving backlash, they want to propagandize people to be anti porn.

BREAKING: the Massachusetts House just passed one of the best data privacy bills in the country. It includes a total ban on the sale of precise location data and includes a private right of action allowing people to sue Big Tech over data abuses. HUGE WIN! But there’s more work to do 🧵

More laws like these, less age verification world wide, that is what we need.

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Artists, post some art you made from before BlueSky! From 2022, based on a tumblr text post I think I’ve posted this one before but it was in an OC share or something?? Idk #art #OldArt #ArtSky #OCSky #comic

Y'all. Please remember the artists that drew these things when sending around memes. I feel for these artists who NEVER get credited for these (and some, nowadays, are even being accused of being AI!) Here's a few common ones I see (feel free to add others, I want this to be a living thread): 🧵

if you, as a queer person, are scared to have your very basic human rights taken away, think about those people who already are denied their basic human rights to begin with, not only from their own government, but also us, their queer siblings, who should stand in solidarity.

this pride month, I think we should reach out especially to all the queers of colour and try to help them survive during the ongoing genocides and desasters around the world. "they deserve to die because the culture is hostile towards queer people" is a stance I've seen way too often. okay nazi.

Reposting for pride month.

Latest update: Bricks and Minifigs is now going after Reckless Ben's Patreon in an attempt to get his funding pulled so he stops with the investigation against them, and in a rare but massive W for Patreon, they are siding with the creator and not the huge corporation www.youtube.com/watch?v=36jx...

happy pride month by the way

Feel as though people will truly never understand his death. He was killed for being an Indigenous Queer Man with a Transgender Partner. Every single one of those signifiers on axis/intersections/marginalizations is extremely important, but it is in tandem all at once not just because he “Gay”.

If it wasn't clear then; it should be VERY CLEARER NOW: Do not, I repeat DO NOT stay on twitter Especially if you call yourself an advocate, an ally, and a member of inclusive & marginalized spaces that Twitter is highly oppose to

Andy Merrill (Brak) is an Amazon delivery driver. Carey Means (Frylock) got CHF from/exacerbated by COVID & was recently working as a restaurant dishwasher. C. Martin Croker (Zorak) died of sepsis from an infected tooth he couldn't afford to get treated. Capitalism destroys both art & artist.

Happy Pride month, and let’s all remember that making Pride revolutionary and being a big gay unapologetic pervert go hand in hand. A de-sexed Pride is a defanged one, just as a corporate Pride is.

Pro-Tip: during Pride month if you give a queer person $100, they get $100, it really works, try it!

Celebrate pride by sending money to trans people in need. We’re one of the poorest demographics facing some of the highest employment discrimination and public life is increasingly being placed out of reach for many of us.

We lost Jonathan Joss exactly One Year ago today. A neighbor burned his house, killed his dogs and shot him in the street for being Gay. Never forget Jonathan Joss. #KingOfTheHill #JohnRedcorn

Happy Pride 🌈💖 #art #bunnies #cottagecore

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I highly recommend everyone send an email to Bluesky Moderation to reconsider rolling out this label out or at the very least tweaking it to add the two suggestions I provided above. @henrick.thebull.app has an example of what he sent to them on his account moderation@/blueskyweb.xyz

i don’t do nsfw (and i never will), but this is something that you should do rather than just quitting the site entirely if you hate the latest update on @bsky.app, then i suggest you contact the team and tell how uncomfortable this update is.

I'll say what Bluesky fails to address in v1.122 They've rolled out a new "adult content" tag applied on an entire account, hiding all their posts from users, including text posts, even if they may be SFW This update, while well-intentioned, defeats the whole purpose of the content filters system

ITS PRIDE MONTH BABYYY !!!!!

Happy Pride, fuck the police, prisons shouldn’t exist, borders are stupid, wars are even stupider, resisting colonial violence with violence is resistance. Queer people are the most revolutionary out of all peoples. #pride #illustration #art #queer

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

I am sick of this platform. Fucking hate how the devs treat artists here.

Bluesky says this label will leave in 22 days, so this seems like a punishment for some undisclosed bad behavior.

Good job on your account-level censorship, Bluesky. I don't want this at all, but you didn't even get your reason right. #Bluesky #censorship

This sucks dude. Labeling a whole account for several weeks effectively feels like punishment for "posting out of line"

This site sucks. Genuinely why do I bother posting anything at this point

we really need to standardize crediting artists. especially in an era where so much ai slop is being put out there if your promo art isn't ai? prove it. give the damn artist some credit. easy fix it even saves the company some small amount of face if it's the artist who used ai. everyone benefits.

every time

Queer woman posts something stupid online 10 years ago: Unforgivable, she must never be allowed to forget this Straight man says some dumb shit yesterday: Don’t be so hard on him, he’s really trying to learn

To this day queer women creators are still getting harassed and lied on by weirdos who will analyze their every move and aren’t allowed to make mistakes. Straight male creators can do dumb shit like make AI slop, donate to transphobic causes, etc and not get crucified.

if you would like to read the absurdly long treatise i sent in as well, here's the public version of it. i'd like to someday exorcise the art fight part of this and turn it into a video essay people can use to break dingdongs of their goofy tracing prejudices

it's nice to finally see some clarification on what Art Fight staff was thinking re: 3D model tracing but as i expected, they were somehow... like... overcomplicating and oversimplifying at the same time. heres one of the responses i gave. form link: forms.gle/BUk9DYJwYUz5...

it is the last day to tell Art Fight not to ban me (a disabled artist) from using my tools (licensed 3D models i paid for that are 100% harmless for me to use and do not provide any quantifiable 'unfair advantages')

General reminder to check your moderation settings so you can see posts (if you want to see them!) from artists that might do everything from simple nudity to more explicit stuff. Bsky has a tendency to mislabel things under these mods that don't belong, so you might be missing out on posts

Bluesky folks will say something like "just tag your NSFW stuff, it's not hard ^_^" and then the increasingly stringent moderation policies force your posts (and now your entire account) into ever-shrinking gated boxes to choke you out in favour of their preferred clientele: liberal reply guys

This was drawn bec I’m sick and tired of seeing people in the wider trans community on tumblr fighting and slandering other people, especially in the transmasc community, which I am a part of, for how we identify and present ourselves. Our genders are not your propaganda! #art #Transgender

Please set your adult content moderation to warn. The auto mod frequently misidentified adult content, appeals are often ignored or denied. If my entire account is labeled adult because I post artistic nudity and your moderation is set to hide you will not be able to see anything from my account