This is going around again and it is not true. Like every site on the internet, Bluesky uses machine learning to do a first-pass approximation of image classification to detect and label content. They have repeatedly confirmed outside services do not use Bluesky user data to train their models.

oh its the thing everyone said was going to happen when this got brought in and it immediately happened

This is an *excellent* piece about how systemic accessibility failures happen and what we can all do to stop them from happening as often, to which I would add:

I’ve updated my racism in cartoon and comics thread with a small dissertation on “ Mickey Mouse and An Education for Thursday” since some of y’all asked me about it. Fair warning, though the racism in this is through the freaking roof and that’s not an understatement.

Compare that to the opening scene of Spectre. Daniel Craig here is wearing Tom Ford, adjusted for him, no doubt, but still made according to the designer's vision, not Craig's body. Despite Craig doing less expressive movements, Craig's suit is fighting against him the entire time.

if you want to understand tailoring, you only need to watch mid-century movies, when actors were dressed by tailors, not brands. in the 1944 film cover girl, gene kelly's suit drapes beautifully, moving with him, not against him. collar stays on his neck, even as he dances.

Cubaris Isopods

Oh to be a little Tardigrade scratching its back on a bubble. 🫧🐻🧪

Earrings (Part 4) - Gator Days

i think often about this discussion between Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hideaki Anno. it's one of the funniest ways anyone has ever talked about restraint vs self indulgence in art.

Earrings (Part 2) - Gator Days

Earrings (Part 1) - Gator Days

Retro Difficulty - Gator Days

You cannot conservative politics your way out of problems caused by conservative politics, for broadly the same reasons why you can't shit your way out of having shit yourself.

Youth - Gator Days

I designed a critter 🐛 --------- #myart #art #artpost #bugs #caterpillar #anthro

Lake Pirates - Gator Days

the other wrinkle in all these "we're banning porn for UK users!" and "bluesky isn't available in mississippi" stories that no one seems to be talking about: geo-ip is inaccurate as shit, even before VPNs get involved. you can't just detect where people are with any kind of consistency

Martin almost certainly has it written into his will. I can't find where he talked about that directly at the moment, but his reaction to the "authorized" Amber prequels is worth reading. Screenshots are from the Google Groups archive of alt.books.roger-zelazny, dated Dec 15 & 16 2001

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Remember! Petitions are worth signing and sharing around! They communicate our numbers and big numbers scare corpos!

If anyone's calling Barclays/Barclaycard/Visa in the UK, it might be amusing to remind them they ran an ad campaign where they literally said that what you're buying is YOUR business, not anyone else's!

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The English government blocking "sensitive content" behind an ID wall to "protect children" whilst allowing kids to be actively exposed to aggressive, toxic platform capitalism which has been exploiting them for their labour for YEARS tells you how genuine their concern for kids truly is

This! EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US has so many stories about reporting some heinous shit and it never going anywhere!

The Hook - Gator Days

Daily bunny no.3047 is being swept of their feet

For many years I've noticed that the sham sanctuaries who turn out to be hoarders have no problem raising money for constant new intake drama, but the responsible ones have trouble fundraising for important "boring" stuff like this. Please reward "boring" sanctuaries who want to do things right!

They're using the logo of a real rescue in Ireland called My Lovely HORSE - you can actually see the name in the logo. Not "My Lovely HORSES", the name of this fraud account. Real rescue's website: www.mylovelyhorserescue.com

Adult games have *never* received so much mainstream press before, and it's reaching many players for the first time. We can come out of this healthier than ever, but we gotta work for it. Do your dailies!

There's a really persistent strain of thought that holds that men are ontologically evil and dangerous (whether it glorifies that danger, or deplores it) and it is fundamentally reactionary. It's the logic of the TERF and the manosphere grifter, and it is antithetical toward the idea of change

This video is the sweetest fucking thing in the world and you should watch it if you need an example of kindness, empathy, generosity, and acceptance

Fraudulent animal rescue! 🚨 Please report @mylovelyhorsesresc.bsky.social and if you would like to follow a REAL sanctuary that rescues horses, donkeys, goats, sheep, and lots of other animals check out @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social.

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Daily bunny no.3046 is being deputized

At some point it’s also worth asking why itchio wasn’t already considering contingency plans to work with eg adult payment processors like CCBill given the sheer volume of adult content on the site Like I’m sorry folks, but this isn’t just about paypros at this point

To nobody's surprise, non-sexual games with two girls kissing are being caught in the censorship together with all the "obscene" "non-artistic porn" Because it's gay. And I know I've repeated this for like 8 years at this point: To these people LGBTQIA = porn and porn = evil

#SaveSpeech Stripe's phone operators have been sounding much more aggressive the past few days, and every time i call they give me a different excuse for who the "real" reason theyre pressuring Itch etc. Some days they say its govt regulations (they wont say which) others they say Visa/MC

Daily bunny no.3045 is helping in any way they can

Do you ever feel like someone is always watching you while you're eating

🆕 Duelling Fate #swordscomic

Hello, I really like The Thing. Edition of 100, signed and numbered. www.sonnyross.com/shop/thething #thething #horror #johncarpenter

Yet another case of the Online Safety Act taking down harm-reduction and community support services -- in this case because the site hasn't been able to implement age verification yet (it's expensive as fuck!)

Polly and Olivia Make Dinner (Part 3) - Gator Days

Oh shit is that a heckin HD PRINT BY JUNI E PAY? available ONLY AT TFNATION? I'm tabling with @amnechan.bsky.social so just look for the really good art you can't miss us #maccadam #tfnation #tfn #transformers

Daily bunny no.3039 spills the tea

It is better to have a quick, awkward, & uncomfortable call than none at all If calling is hard for you (and it can be hard for me!) it’s okay. But if you want to push yourself? Know you’re putting in 30 seconds of your time that you can look back on and say “I pushed myself to do the right thing”

I used to work support in a call center for HP, and I can tell you from experience that call length was the ultimate driving cost factor. We were told/taught to do ANYTHING to get the customer off the call as soon as possible. The longer the call, the more money it cost HP. Stay on those calls.

NCOSE is an anti-porn, Christian morality group that used to be known as Morality in Media. They have campaigned against gay marriage and sex ed. They published an article called "Connecting the Dots: The Line Between Gay Marriage and Mass Murders". So yeah...anyway, KEEP CALLING PAYMENT PROCESSORS!