I said it before in reply to a post by friend of mine, but I'm going to restate it here because it's relevant to these usage statistics: "AI generation is a novel toy at best.", and here we see it's true. The novelty's wearing off, the general public is getting bored with it and moving on.

Love the community note that got added on to the Democrats' tweet about their deranged and harmful efforts to dismantle Section 230.

This week Section 230 turned 30, and you'll see a bunch of posts on Techdirt today and the rest of the week about the importance of Section 230, but my first contribution this week is how the arguments against 230 are so contradictory that it should give everyone pause to consider why.

Sorry to vulnerablepost but I’m genuinely concerned about midterms. We’re unlikely to see any Dems run on protecting and upholding section 230, which is in immediate danger. Once section 230 is gone, it will not be replaced, and online freedom of speech & organizing will no longer exist.

If you live in the US, call your fucking representatives and tell them that repealing Section 230 is a horrible idea. If Section 230 is gone, you can kiss Bluesky goodbye.

Yeah, let what is happening to Discord radicalize you against the encroaching of puritan fascism we are seeing in laws world wide. The US, Canada and a good chunk of the EU like Spain are looking into making laws that will actively do the same for a more expansive area of the internet.

Just speaking as an Aussie who had this shit forced on us, the age presumption shit doesn't always work and you're just locked out without providing the scans/ID Don't take that "most people will be fine" shit Im fuckin middle aged

This bill is actually designed to disenfranchise almost everybody who does not vote for Trump Not only that Here’s a question for you Who is going to be the person that is going to judge your documentation when you take it down to the voting booth

Standing up against these laws, both in the USA and numerous other nations, is integral for a whole host of issues Gaza? Minnesota? Venezuela? If these and more matter to you, then you need to get active because these laws will handicap any online organizing for MANY causes

I do like how this emphasizes the kid themselves has nothing to do with it. They're an unwitting weapon of their own parents. Seperates this take from certain other comics ive seen that act like the kids are the villain.

My stance always has been and always will be that if no one os actually getting materially harmed, it's fine. You don't have to like it but people liking stuff you find gross isn't the end of the world. There's a reason horror movies are allowed while snuff films are illegal.

Reminder that "degenerate" was a term coined by Nazis to describe art they didn't like and labeled problematic. Unless you have proof of real world harm, leave people alone and let them draw fucknasty shit. You have block and mute features. Stop making your disgust everyone else's problem.

Now will I lie and say that defending graphic anatomically-correct All Dogs Go To Heaven porn is a comfy and easy stance to take? Hell no. But seeing as we have REPEATEDLY seen flimsy puritan morality be used as a cudgel against free expression by nazi pedophiles, I gotta have a spine. And a knot.

So people are correct in tying your porous logic to the same culture that has stifled and sanitized the internet. Artists have to solve 900 piece jigsaw puzzles to determine where they can post Balto porn but child rapists use GMAIL to send child abuse material to each other. Wake the FUCK up.

So while I am not arguing against the stance that animal abuse is bad, I'm concerned that you don't actually know what constitutes abuse. You have no logical or moral framework. You can't even solidly say if fucking a pokemon is bad or not. You're barely even a furry BY YOUR OWN WORDS.

The issue is always when you start asking these people very simple questions about their hardline stance it starts to break down like wet tissue paper. "I hate ALL quadrapedal feral its animal abuse" suddenly becomes "well idk idk idk maybe if its bigger than you?? idk im not an expert"

There is a stark maturity level difference in someone who gestures to vague ideas like "size-based power dynamics" to justify themselves and someone who understands the dangers inherent in using personal discomfort to regulate artistic expression.

Something to keep in mind when you see a grown ass "semi-furry" reheating anti-feral discourse: The freaks will always fight for your right to exist as an adult on the internet. The puritans would gladly support internet-destroying bills like KOSA if their favorite kinks got a carve out.

The number of anti-feral furries that had xenomorph* nsfw on their timelines was quite surprising. *(a creature that would NOT pass a harkness test in most circumstances) anti-kink often makes me think of this

If you like those things and you’re not harming anyone, by the way, more power to you. I just don’t get throwing stones at other kinks from the balcony of your glass house.

I’ve noticed that so much of the anti-kink discourse from furries who just don’t get it comes from people who have absolutely the most horrifying kinks out there. I’ve had multiple candy-gore and hard-vore artists come at me saying that people who draw Sonic porn are child abusers.

you'll be begging for mercy (both of my sonic oc's have a ref sheet now!!) #SonicTheHedgehog #FanCharacter

"in the future" gosh i wish it werent a time weve already long-since reached

Disgust is an emotion most easily exploited by fascists, because it convinces someone that they're not *actually* hateful, they just don't want things to be *dirty*. After all, who would argue in favour of filth?

If you care about pixel art as a medium and want to learn more about how to detect if it is genuine or AI-generated, please refer to this writeup that I created with the help of the community. Read, download, share and support real creators.

Literally we have an actual cabal of powerful pedophiles in our society we don't need to have this discussion about the ethics of fucking riolu every month

A lot of people will hear "kill the cop in your brain" and then be like "but I've never had a cop in my brain" i swear

if you cant handle two queer adults calling themselves siblings in the bed behind closed doors you are not only a fool but in the future some fed will be able to very easily manipulate you in regards to these topics

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

In the wake of a massive confirmation that the tech industry’s run by deranged pedophiles, not a single tech platform should have the balls to start demanding ID and enacting invasive policies. Yet they continue. They’re the ones being outed as dangerous and we’re the ones being regulated.

Jeffrey Epstein’s friends want to “keep kids safe online” by enacting mass AI surveillance

So, You’ve Hit An Age Gate. What Now? EFF is against age gating and age verification mandates, and we hope we’ll win in getting existing ones overturned and new ones prevented. But mandates are already in effect, and every day many people are asked to verify their age across the web, despite…

Youve gotta bother the shit out if your representatives about the issue of online ID laws, its not a discord only problem nor is it limited to nsfw content Please get involved

Even if your area already has ID laws enacted! You can push back against them! Please do not be complacent!

It's so stupid that companies keep pushing the massively unsafe verification methods of AI based age estimation and ID verification that they totally sell the data for instead of 'deleting it instantly' like they claim, which is an obvious lie considering the data leaks in 2025 #FuckYouDiscord

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

"guys we swear we're making sure your id is safe"

If you ever doubt who is in the moral right on the pornography debate just remember that the community wiki for the hardcore smut franchise about sexy ninjas who get monsterfucked didn't hesitate to call out child abusing billionaires but the "think of the children" crowd consistently deflect.

"Does it pass the harkness test?" Brother, ISABELLE doesn't pass the harkness test, they're pixels on a screen, they can't consent because they don't exist without your input. Every fantasy you've ever had has been without the subject's consent. Stop being weird with fictional characters.

I will forever not care what people draw in their free time, especially if it’s fictional. I may not want to see it, but if there is no ill intent behind it, then have fun. There is far too much censorship, and I’m so done with it affecting everything. Parents; watch your kids. Puritans…Pls STFU.

your focus should not be on people who made 2 questionable tweets 10 years ago it should be on people who continuously act terrible towards other people, support trump and co, etc even if you're grossed out by the art people post you have to remember that it doesn't truly affect anybody negatively

As someone who got called out and lost friends and artist spaces because of it - without them even listening to my viewpoint - I really wish all puritans a very shut the fuck up and die I wish you people to get better, because you're very sick.

KINK AND FETISH ARE NOT INDICATIVE OF PERSONAL MORALITY OR REAL LIFE ACTIVITY TO ANY DEGREE It also took me a long time to understand and accept this, it's not easy to grasp when you've been raised in such an overtly puritanical culture, but one's ideological and cultural chains can be broken.

This is genuinely how the internet feels nowadays

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

Just to save you.