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: 🧵

re: "i use A.I. bc i'm broke" check your energy bills. A.I. data centers are sucking down more energy than whole cities, and it's going on our tab. you're paying for A.I. use anyway, and you're forcing the rest of us (and our environment, and abused workers, and artists) to pay for it too.

You are not safe from the mage

the fact that the entire world must deal with the United States having a temper tantrum over smut is ridiculous

Interesting tool in use in Indonesia and spreading in other asian countries, its a way that bypasses VISA/Mastercard networks which seems to be scaring them hence why Murica is trying to attack it. If it implemented in more countries, it ll be quite huge. dartpublicus.substack.com/p/qris-the-q...

Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.

Porn and art with sexual themes deserve to exist on their own merit, not because censoring them has knock-on effects for non-sexual content. Please stop expressing outrage by implying that censorship would be okay if it *just* affected sex workers and artists engaging with sexual themes.

Fucking crazy how much shit has happened in ten years www.youtube.com/watch?v=feR1...

"no sex scenes unless it serves the plot" the plot is I want to see them fuck nasty and that's actually legal

The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures. This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Oh, hey. Visa and Mastercard now say you can't pay for WoW. Magic the Gathering. FFXIV. DnD. Lord of the Rings. Because they're all "adult" content against their ToS just for being "fantasy". Let that sink in. Spread this like wildfire and have people in those circles call them. No quarter.

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Rest in peace, Haru Urara. The only horse to get past my equinophobia.

Every single part of the entire music industry is a scam. And the people being scammed are artists. The world just fucking hates creative people. So so much. www.youtube.com/watch?v=plle...

Opaque algorithms are killing discourse when it matters most. Keep talking about these things and don’t let the algorithm bully you into avoiding things.

"I loved it with an intensity of love that was a kind of nostalgia reversed... I always knew it would go - and it did." This is a quote from Tolkien about his rustic childhood home, which was predictably swallowed by the expansion of Birmingham as an industrial city.

Any moots have a daith piercing? If you do, what’s the consensus on the headache thing? Does it work or is it just a bunch of bunkum? Asking for me, I’m running out of options 🥲

Stressing someone out who is eating at the time should be punishable with 8 years in exile

"If you don't want your art to be scraped and used by AI, just don't post it online" Ok, if you don't want your face to get punched, just don't go outside then, loser. Consent is a foreign concept to these people.

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

Make sure if you sign this! Do the email verification! Thats the only way your signature counts!

Happy Labor Day! Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work... Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?

There's just no way to use AI and not be a cringe loser

It is 14c out and the veranda door is open. It is a hard life being surrounded by snow elves.

If she calls you daddy, call her kiddo. Or sport. See how she likes it.

omg please, comments are such a shot in the arm of encouragement, no matter if it's my fan fic or my scripts 💗💗💗

The fact that they're calling this an "unexpected consequence" speaks volumes about their utter inability to inhabit the modern world. What could possibly have been more obvious than that this would happen.

The end isn’t the part that matters most.

Anyway, don't put a link anywhere on your paypal account to anywhere they can find your 18+ content, and don't link to your paypal from sites that host your content. They can, have and will find it that way, and terminate your account. They can tell where people are linked from. It's not safe.

DON'T stop calling but DO stop listing what the payment is for, if that was a thing you're doing *wearily* don't ask don't tell is back, and it's for everything now

oh yeah, don't sleep on the BBB yall. I used em to fight amazon in the past 👍🏻

Porn is art! Don't let anyone tell you otherwise!

They're actively targeting creators who call in & banning them, making it even more important to call if you're a customer & not a creator Tell them they shouldn't be dictating how you get to spend the money you put your blood, sweat, and tears into earning

I hate crypto. Like all you hear about it is fuckass stupid scams and mlm shit, but with how much paypal and mastercard are trying to tell you what to do with your money it just seems more and more like the only remaining alternative.

VTuber Milky: "PayPal recently out of no where terminated my account perm, mostly due to my PATREON that is 18+"

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

PayPal are thieves and they will rob you blind, pass it on

Begone puritan

there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort. It aired in 1990.

He returns!!

Just a reminder, banning porn doesn't just mean going after OnlyFans or Pornhub. It also means banning written erotica. Smutty voice audios. Video games with sexual content. Your favorite romantasy novels. Fetish photography. Erotic art. It's never just about pornographic films.

Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.

i was really nervous about seeing anything too adult as a 31-year-young female internet user, but luckily mastercard is there to the rescue to censor all the futanari hentai doujinshi on the internet ^w^

Mildly upsetting that Mint OS' logo is green but not mint green

It is weirder and more perverse and more of a violation of one's consent to have some stuffed shirt legislator or corpo fucker say "you cant jack off/you cant use your body like this/you cant talk about this" than whatever fictional sexual fantasy you think is disgusting

Bun him stretch him little legs

You have to defend the right for art and media to be "sexually gratifying" You have to defend "gratification" You have to defend the right for people to get off nasty style You need to be more disgusted with people who want to say what people can do with their own time and money than x or y kink