pornography bans and censorships make no sense to me bc sexuality is quite literally part of being human.. suppressing that part or acting like it's gross is never going to be good, we've already been there, not even for teens who go through a lot of hormonal changes and should safely learn about it

unlike bluesky, we're actually going to listen to our community's feedback. because the whole point of this is to protect yall and make it possible to use social media to support your livings as independent creators! and to network together support and resources so we can survive genocide.

We are going to win simply because there are too many of us and too few of them. Their system requires violence to maintain, but our movement is based on justice and dignity. The more they degrade us, the more they constrict us, the more excited we become, until we combust and burn it all down.

Ignore #blueskyblackout2025, (but still call your reps, especially you people in Michigan) and instead let's blast them with #bskycensorship. Why? Because posts bringing attention to this and filling up the feedback with enough backlash that they'd have to close the link would show them this is bad

Y'know, methinks now might be a good time to re-release some of my old game overs on Bluesky. I think I'll do one a day (until I run out), barring days where I have new stuff. In fact, I think all NSFW artists should re-release their old stuff daily. Really flood Bsky and show why we use it.

Do this. This is what heroes do to fight against #bskycensor

Everyone should support the EFF and FFTF. Link to there sites www.eff.org www.fightforthefuture.org And Free Speech Coalition www.freespeechcoalition.com

ok I need to be serious for awhile. mutuals and friends, I need you to repost this because I don’t know how much time I have. I’m not doing this age verification shit. Fuck you discord. not giving my ID. #signalboosting #serious #discordapp #help #australia #mutualaid www.reddit.com/r/australia/...

tags keep these things in the light of day which helps expose people with negative intentions who have no choice but to conceal their actions. Force everyone into the dark together, and it becomes difficult for communities to self-regulate we WANT to self-regulate. but we need the tools to do so!

it should go without saying but if you want users to voluntarily tag their art then you need to not threaten to ban them if they do. like, you can either have a well-regulated, easily-filtered art ecosystem or you can ban art you don’t like and see it come oozing back out of every crack and crevice

Trans people are under attack by an administration looking for scapegoats. Besides this list of organizations, donate to individual trans folks asking for help and contact your reps to tell them you won't support anyone who doesn't support trans rights. www.them.us/story/orgs-f...

Freedom to post porn is also freedom to discuss and educate. If you want to talk about adult topics, you need pornography. Allowing some to be censored or chased out is keeping the door open for all of it to be censored and chased out.

Please call your fucking senators and representatives and tell them to oppose this. We need SOPA-style blackouts. This bill is fucking dangerous.

We Gotta call our reps about this and tell them no on this, no on the Internet bills, NO ON ALL THIS SHIT! We shouldn't pay for Kash Patel's inability to do his fucking job! We shouldn't lose our freedoms because parents don't know how to fucking parent their kids! Fuck this shit, man!

as my friend @fishqueen.bsky.social said keep an eye on it but this bill is in a state of limbo as in June sooo stay sharp and sign this petit by @eff.org act.eff.org/action/tell-...

Here's an updated semi-script, based on a more formal script, which I used while calling. (Repost because I accidentally posted it uncropped.)

This is why we need to do what we can to stop internet censorship one way or another. All reps, senators, mps, anything and tell them that this is unacceptable #savespeech

I just think that people should know what they're in for if they sign up

if people live in the undecided nations, please contact your MEPS and whatnot to oppose this shit, we need to make as much noise against this as much as possible, this won't protect children, it to control the people

HI CANADIANS ARE YOU ANGRY ABOUT CHARLIE KIRK’S FURNERAL ON CBC? Yeah, me too. The guy who’s helmed CBC during this pivot to the right is [email protected]. Complain to the CRTC, the government division responsible for overseeing the CRTC about what was ostensibly KKK rally: www.crtc.gc.ca

Stay safe. Take deep breaths. Eat well and drink plenty of water. Keep doing your best.

Furries literally helped make Bluesky. It’s no exaggeration to say the Bluesky is only as successful as it is because furries migrated to it en masse. Telegram is the same way. Without furries posting their porn here, Bluesky will go the way of Tumblr. This is a plain fact.

Locked comments on this but I also want to acknowledge that people have pointed out some of these guidelines about NSFW have existed for a long time on this site and haven't actually affected anyone, and while that gives me some reassurance, we should still fight to remove them while we're here.

Bluesky needs to ABANDON this new attempt at censorship against the art that is being allowed to be posted. It's COMPLETELY HYPOCRITICAL of what they are supposed to be about. NO CENSORSHIP FOR NSFW ARTISTS! #bskycensorship #artisticfreedom #freedomofexpressionfirst

When you talk to your… less educated American friends/coworkers/family about politics, frame your causes as they would affect theirs. They are empathetically illiterate, victims of a system that punish rational thought. Even if it means telling a slight white lie. Because then they’ll have to learn

Increasingly clear that we need an Ao3-like for art specifically. (Yes, you *can* post art on Ao3, but the interface is so not designed for that.)

the answer is there's no where to go. the websites you used for sharing your art were maintained by a guy or three who had the money and free time to run them, until they either had hardware failure or they were sold to techbros. if you want that space again someone has to maintain it actively

I guess my point is stay alert and stay angry, but don’t start panicking quite yet. The point of fascism is to beat you into submission via overwhelming you and making you afraid. It’s literally never able to pan out bc fascists NEVER plan long term bc everything they stand for is reactionary.

I know things can feel discouraging now. But there's no point in being discouraged. It gets us nowhere. Resist with optimism and confidence. We will fight for our democracy, and we will win.

Resist bills like these. Resist KOSA. Resist repealing section 230. Resist AV laws. Resist mass-surveillance laws. Demand legal protection of art. Save yo god damn internet.

Fuckin... I'm SO tired of packing up shop and moving to a new platform. Can we try and keep this one please? Bluesky doesn't seem happy about the change either since it basically goes completely antithetical to what they made the platform for. Someone's applying pressure, I'm sure of it.

Fellow internet Gremlins, Reminder that this will VERY LIKELY not stop at NSFW work. It will be very easy for them to start censoring non-suggestive nudity, queer stories, stories about the expierences of marginalized people that include the horrors those communities have faced. So do the things! ⬇️

Really wish the left would stop picking up their ball and going home every time they're unhappy with things!! Bluesky wants us to leave, dig your heels in!!!

Look, I don't draw NSFW artwork, and most NSFW art is indeed stuff I find to be very disgusting. But I do NOT condone mindless censorship that could be misused to silence expression!! You know what I condone? Utilizing the f*cking block button! Stand up for artists! Say NO to #bskycensorship

Censoring expression by algorithmically determining whether or not an NSFW artwork is consensual does NOT help anyone. This does NOT help real victims. You know who this HURTS? Artists who make their livings through commissions. Don't care? Think this won't hurt YOUR sfw art? Babe, it STARTS here.

Now that I know the tag; #bskycensorship is a goddamn insult to everyone that's made this platform fucking viable. Shut up, corpos, get your nose out from where it doesn't fucking belong. Resist this damn shit. This platform is ours goddamn it. And none of us will be quiet.

#bskycensorship No good has ever come from censoring fictional material. The only ones calling for this are credit companies and people the puritans would tell to loosen up. It was never about keeping children safe and never will be. They won't stop with these few things.

Do not let these changes happen. Be LOUD about it. Don't blackout. WRITE. TAG. COMPLAIN. Once the enshitification starts, it's so difficult to reverse it. We don't want a site for babies (literal and figurative). We're all big kids who can understand art isn't real, and Nazis don't deserve safety.

Yes! Let's get louder! I'm gonna leave my complaint here too, so other ppl can use it as a template if they want. I used @littleevil0ne.bsky.social's base and made my own observations of why this is ridiculous Pls ignore the typos, I fixed them before sending, but forgot to screenshot after it

#bskycensorship @support.bsky.team To the moderators of this site. Remember what happened to Tumblr when they tried to implement a porn ban, and how many users they lost? Don't go making that same mistake. Don't fuck with the people who put your platform on the map. Let adults be adults.

I cannot do much in this whole scenario except motivate others to get LOUD. Share your art, share other's art, uplift NSFW creators, and for the love of god, keep screaming into the void. Keep sending feedback to bsky, keep commenting, keep sharing resources! Stay determined! #bskycensorship

This is why we need to keep calling and pestering our paypros and politicians! We have the REAL power! And together, we CAN and WILL win this fight!

i want to stress: i firmly believe that we, just us normal people, can push back against this global wave of censorship. we CAN do this. there may be temporary setbacks, lost battles, but i do firmly believe that with sustained action, we can make our futures better for art and human expression.

See 'cause THIS is the better solution. This right here: the ability to label, tag and filter content so people can decide what they do or do not want to see.

Hey, trying to explain Online Censorship to people who arent in the nsfw scene or who arent as online as you are, and need some help? This video is actually a really great primer on the current situation, and why we have to develop an absolutist stance on free speech for EVERYONE's sake.

We're falling for age-old rhetorical traps by making the censorship of adult games and media about personal degrees of dis/comfort with certain kinks This is about financial discrimination. Everyone should have the right to make money how they see fit as defined by the laws of their province/state

#SaveSpeech Opposition to Chat Control within Denmark is growing. If you are a Danish citizen, please sign this petition: www.borgerforslag.dk/se-og-stoet-... At 50k sigs, it is submitted to the parliament and undergoes the standard leg process, including potential debates, review, and vote.

#bskycensorship #SaveSpeech Speaking of stuff you can do, ive been made aware of a change dot org petition aimed at Bluesky's policy. Alongside the more ongoing/direct action in the post below, give this a sign, itll only take a few seconds! chng.it/HtXXx9Bf66

Quick script I came up with for Michigan residents like myself. full text in the alt text Fucking hate living in current times in this country.