New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social

Happy Banned Books Week! 🗃️ For more information on Book Bans, check out this recent report from @penamerica.bsky.social pen.org/report/the-n...

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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

"I love my career" is a lot easier when your career is literally your childhood fantasy, but for the 99.9999999% of people who didn't actually grow up to be astronauts, it's kind of hard to get enthusiastic about driving uber between shifts at walmart.

With light of recent events, evergreen.

These companies selling A! Images masquerading as human-made art are so common now. Note the carefully worded statement (chatgpt generated of course) and generated photo designed to be misleading. It's awful that this sort of false marketing is legal.

On October 3rd, he asked me what day it was.

If only someone had told us this would happen

Love that the lack of safety for trans people on here is a fucking punchline to Jay

bsky is making this so hard when their leadership is this miserable and reactionary and petty and intent on stamping out any bit of goodwill left for them, for an "own"

also users of a site ARE a type of stakeholder. like i saw her telling people they should just fuck off to their own sites if they don't like how things are here?? why are you telling your customers to stop using your product?

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

They're just killing access to art

WOAHHH did you know that I could be ur vtuber mama!!!! yes that's right MY COMS ARE BACK OPENNN ^0^ -Live2D models -Pngtubers -Illustrations -Character sheets and starting next week I'll be selling adoptables+their model counterparts 🔗🔗🔗⬇️ #vtuber #VGenComm #Live2D

new recession indicator just dropped

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

Didn't we agreed to stop romanticing Inktober a couple of years ago bc the guy running It was terrible and the trend glorifies art as content, or what happened

Art is a marathon, not a sprint. If you go at your own pace, you’ll do more in the long run. Breaks are good actually.

Mass walkout at the UN General Assembly during war criminal Netanyahu’s speech.

Morning walk

I remember firmly during Helene that Amazon still wanted my wife to commute all the way to Charlotte to work even though all the roads adjacent to us were OBLITERATED, and the dam just above our house at the time was threatening to fail.

We could be so great together 💕💕💕💕💕 #fuckcensorship #nsfw #bskycensorship #istandwithnsfw #bsky

He may play a CREEP but Mark Duplass is a stand-up guy, as Duplass Brothers Productions is teaming up with the Transgender Film Center to launch the Found Footage Fund for trans filmmakers.

cant make this shit up baby

Happy Bi Visibility day, I'm bringing this back

i love matthew lillard so much

Study: Pretending Everything's Okay Works https://theonion.com/study-pretending-everythings-okay-works-1819573735/

reminder that Disney+ has still been on the Palestinian BDS boycott list for over a year. You should continue the pressure and continue withholding your money from them.

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.

remember to share the post!!! layla is really close to 9k

Bluesky is a wonderful place that has flourished in large part because of its artists and intolerance towards facists/Nazis. The Updated policy currently going into effect Oct 15 could fuck that up and we should be very vocal about it. Here are some specific things to mention in feedback (THREAD)

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

and he didn’t even burst into flames. it’s that easy

Hey, I made a really stupid sticker for your BDSM art in 'honour' of #bskycensorship war week. Graphic design is not my passion, so feel free to slap this goofy thing on your painplay, shibari and whatever if you want to give a🖕to T&S, I don't care because I'm not a fucking cop.

why are ppl saying this take is insensitive to triggers, thats what tags are for? The idea every nsfw image needs to demonstrate consent between fictional participants is patently absurd. This is so clearly a panicked attempt at ass covering now that Scared Americans are really feeling themselves

for those of you out of the loop, it was a heist for the ages

Incidentally after voicing my displeasure, I was added to a “drama” moderation list by someone the CEO is following, just feels kiiinda’ weird. 😅

An absolute mess. You have no reason to make consensual nonconsent a punishable offense. You're not protecting creative freedom, you're censoring it.

Bsky, we can't lean into a future where regulating social media means blanket rules that enforce unwanted censorship. The responsibility needs to be on the creator to label, and on the consumer to filter out the unwanted based on it. Not on gradually eliminating more and more content altogether.

now gavin,

Some vent art The news lately has been honestly terrifying and I dont want to say anything in my anger to avoid being a target I will say I'll be out and proud no matter what, even if hope is slim we have spite and rage If youre an ally, please be loud for us, we need your advocacy more than ever