An anonymous Japanese game studio is making applicants draw in front of them during interviews to prove they don't use generative AI 🎮 “Only human creators can produce compelling characters and graphics from scratch”

I keep seeing people trying to play down the payment processor situation, saying it's only the extreme NSFW accounts getting sacked. Well. One of the cutest SFW furry artist got banned from PayPal. What more proof do y'all need that we need to keep fighting the good fight? Also go support Nakufin.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

remember, Salvation Army is a big NOPE use your extra $$$ for mutual aid groups

i figured i should make a post about this since its kind of important and i wanted to get the word out

i'm sorry but ai images really make your product and business look like it's not any good and should probably be avoided. No exceptions. Sorry but it's not gonna change :(

Hey. This is the BEST POSSIBLE SEASON to badger Visa and Mastercard into fucking off about their shitty fake-moral-panic over LGBTQ+ spending habits and content on retail platforms. Fuck ALL THE WAY OFF, VISA and Mastercard. No one wants to hear jack shit from you. You're a fucking receipt printer.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Anyway I hadn't heard anyone talking about this, so I guess I'm gonna talk about it. Spread the word if you're thinking about doing an nsfw KS project, Stripe apparently might pull your funding at literally any step of the process, with zero warning!

If you want or need SNAP benefits, literally the only barrier should be...signing up. "But what about fraud?" My sibling in red, white, and blue, THE PENTAGON HASN'T PASSED AN AUDIT IN YEARS AND MONEY IS FAKE. I don't care if too many people have food assistance.

It’s so cool that there’s a big chunk of people to whom the term “capitalism” just means “trade” and if you try to explain any actual academic or historical definition of the term, even ones accepted amongst academics who think it’s a great system, they become furious and reject it.

We cannot run. There are not alternatives or tricks we can use to avoid what is coming We HAVE to fight. You need to call your reps and yell at them. Get your family to call. Get your friends to call. The only way out of this is by fighting

MONDAY. SPITE AS FUEL.

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Happy Rapture Day to all who celebrate 💋

Bsky's new TOS says it alone has the power to determine whether a fictional drawing shows consent Demand that they REPEAL this harmful and misguided rule and protect creative freedom instead! Post your porn with the tag #bskycensorship Unless you want everything I post to look like this

Hilarious. My bank can just do a stop payment at my request though. That's free. That takes 15 minutes on the phone. And it actively harms them because payment processors do NOT like when you get a stop payment order placed against you. What you do with this information is between you and God.

Testing a theory: reskeet if "every ICE agent will be unmasked and tried for their crimes" would get your vote

bluesky headquarters is in Seattle, at an address in Pioneer Square that is public because they are a corporation. if there's one place in the country you could get a significant number of protestors outside their office because of this shrouded anti-queer bullshit, it's Seattle.

when violating consent is done with impunity, constantly, but hard lines are drawn against describing, discussing, or depicting non consensual sexual acts in media, what power imbalance is being created and who does it benefit?

I can draw anything. I can make characters as abstract or grounded as I please. I can put them in peril or paradise at the flick of a wrist and the wisp of a whim. I can tear them to shreds and they'll be fine because I decide they're fine. Because it's all fake. You are trying to chain daydreams

You might see several artists mad about the bluesky policy update banning non-con, even artists who do not make that kind of material, and wonder why it's such a problem. If that's you, here is a quick breakdown: 🧵

taking a stance against simulated "non consent" in porn is idiotic and leads always to having some dipshit appointed to arbitrarily decide what acts between adults "can't be consented to," and therefore can't be depicted. I'll give you a hint: they will be gay.

our former weatherman here, the man knows what hes talking about

The impulse to say that erotica CAN'T say anything of value, that porn MUST be mindless indulgence, is an extension of this problem by the way. Sex and kink are just parts of life. Art that explores both primarily can touch on other subjects meaningfully as well. Stop trying to silo everything.

Well this is bullshit, the Bluesky moderation team is now telling me that they’re permanently banning my main account for “violent or threatening speech” while still providing no evidence of what I did. They’ve just arbitrarily decided that my account activity was violent and banned me. Unacceptable

If bluesky bans me again I want you to know this: @jay.bsky.team and @aaron.bsky.team collaborate with fascists on twitter in order to choose specific accounts to ban. They work with nazis directly because they despise the leftist audience they've unwillingly acquired and they want us gone.

I simply cannot stress it enough. You cannot sit this out. They are coming for EVERYTHING. No media, no creators are safe under these policies. They want us poor, they want us criminalized, they want us disenfranchised. Call paypros. Call your reps. Do SOMETHING.

Those who force pregnant women to look at pictures of fetuses before they're allowed to have an abortion should force anti-vaxxers to look at videos of children suffering and dying of preventable diseases and provide a written explanation why they don't mind their own children suffering or dying.

There is no more excuses to not call anymore. Too much is at stake to just sit by and let things happen. CALL NOW. If you don't you're helping to doom our future into an unrecoverable reality. They need to be pressured, bullied, yelled at as often as possible. The pressure works if we all do it.

artists aren’t the fucking bourgeois or “elite”. every artist i know can barely make rent. every artist i know is one severe enough hospital bill away from being homeless. we’re not all banksy or andy warhol. sick of this idea being passed around as we deal with companies exploiting us constantly.

If it’s run for profit, then it’s profiting off of … us. When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Australians, spread this petition far and wide. Demands Parliament “open anti-trust investigations and penalize the unregulated monopoly of a key part of everyday infrastructure,” as “payment processors are not there to regulate what legal content people consume.” www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

They were never going to stop at what was "legal" or not. They didnt to begin with! All art/media is on the chopping block. You have to fight this NOW. keep calling, contact your reps. Make some noise!

This is scary as hell, but for news coverage? This is a GIFT. "You can be banned for *buying* Game of Thrones." Send emails to journalists and news sites and communities you're a part of and talk about the dangers here. People are going to care about this a lot more when it's not just creators.

This is why I keep reminding everyone to keep calling. They're not backing down, they're doubling down. I know you're tired of seeing it, I am too, but we can't afford to stop. They can't be allowed to get away with it. Don't stop calling.

Keep fucking calling, keep making noise people, this keeps happening and has been happening for years. You cannot give up on this.

YO WE GOTTA START CALLING PAYMENT PROCESSORS AGAIN, HOLY FUCK!

Oh, oh I -like- this. If you want to switch gears on hassling the Payment Processors, take a page out of the (American) insurance industry by being a 'diligent customer' and calling the company ahead of time to confirm Prior Authorization. Be polite, but very confused when they insist you stop. 😇

This. I’ve been pushing so hard because it’s NOW. It’s real. It’s coming. Be alarmed, be upset, don’t lose yourself- but understand our position in this fight right now. Don’t wait until the fire is in your front lawn to finally pick up the hose. Dig in. Uplift. We gotta lock in.

anyone wanna help me make some calls before I can't see this website anymore?

You gotta keep talking about the issue! Paypros havent reversed their policies on Itch or Steam yet! Keep talking about it, keep contacting influencers, news outlets and legislators about the issue! Keep it in the public consciousness!

Fuck censorship. They're coming after you next, whether you make porn or not. I have never sold NSFW services or artwork, yet here's my termination from Stripe! Fully SFW, innocent headshots of furries = adult content. This is what we've been trying to fucking tell y'all this whole month!

"For selected products only, there's Mastercard."

Listen. If we get through this? (And i do think we will get through this) I hope a lot if you internalize how -easy- it is to just call your reps and give em a piece of your mind. Theres more of US than there are those loudmouthed shitheads out there, we just gotta be loudmouths too.

Holy shit Keep calling We’re going to win

"But I don't share porn or look at porn or make anything pornographic so it won't affect me" Until they decide something you DO make or consume is "obscene" and they go after that too. Namely literally ANY queer content... also, looking at you Entire Furry Fandom. We should ALL be angry about this