Random but if there was one thing I think every millennial should have by now (especially if you're Malaysian), it's a blood pressure monitor. So many of my friends only got diagnosed with hypertension when it was already quite severe. The basic ones are pretty cheap!

Tech companies, perhaps because they’re often manned by out of touch weirdos, consistently overplay their hand in trying to make their cute clever idea into the next step in human civilization. Y’all think you’re all inventing the next wheel? Please.

Genuinely powerful words to live by.

I was reading the manual for my fridge and it said to throw out the first 2-3 rounds of ice from the ice maker (about 30-40 cubes) and at first I was like, WHAT A WASTE, but then I bashed my nose against something and IT HURTS so I need to ice it a few times a day, so once again, serendipity.

Two drivers arrested after nine endangered animals found at checkpoint near Kachin-China border Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/resi...

My cat had a vet appointment today. She's been going to this vet for years, but I only just realised today that they have an old calendar on the shelf, featuring Hendrix, their resident cat. It even has a caption about how one should worship oneself because "you are a beautiful, unique creation."

To this day people believe Pillowfort are way stricter and less tolerant than they are, mostly through hearsay from their early days. I can't name an indie social media site that has remained this committed to their values for this long, other than Dreamwidth. www.pillowfort.social/posts/6120987

ff14 was truly a godsend for millennials who grew up in a climate where making mary sue ocs was the greatest sin and can now make the sexy perfect goddesses that they wanted to make when they were teenagers

I'm randomly re-watching old Iron Chef episodes (the American one) and ykw, what Mark Dacascos does is basically the best kind of acting gig. Just fun, a little unhinged, and just do it season after season.

As a porn artist I'm not asking the SFW crowd to be into the freaky shit we're onto. Everyone has boundaries. But an effort to understand this world would be appreciated. Talk to sex workers. ask them about their experiences in the industry. Work WITH us to create a safer internet.

I wanna be blunt, artists that use media for moral posturing will only capable of being in it for the money, not the art! Because censorship is inherently anti-art!

I'm being so real right now, learn how to engage in media as art and not a reflection of your own real life morals. consume things that make you uncomfortable and understand why it makes you uncomfortable. Don't just base yours and others morals standings on the media you consume.

"Gundam" nos ensinou que ou você é Brasil ou você é nazi.

Sorry I hate to say it but 2018/19 art twitter is never coming back no matter how many places we try and run to. The world has changed, the way people use social media has changed. Sure I'd love if that kind of thing still existed but it's never going to be exactly like that ever again.

Osamu was and is always going to be the better Miya for me. Mostly because there was this one onigiri shop that I loved that closed down and nothing like it ever appeared again, but also because Atsumu kinda gives me the vibe of the guys I knew in school who were casually misogynistic lol

when will ppl learn that a "safer" internet doesn't involve censorship, but instead giving us more filtering/flagging options. porn didn't go away on tumblr, they just removed the ability for ppl to opt out of seeing it

Fuck a bluesky blackout, we need a whiteout. Cum everywhere, a week of moderators being unable to escape The Cum.

Dude I'm not even a NSFW artist and I think it in all its forms should have a place here because there is no way in hell some mod or 3rd party auto solution is gonna ever get it "right". People can already curate their feeds and they have some moderation tools, who is all that stuff really harming

In that vein... Here's the feedback I submitted about a month ago. If anyone needs even more inspiration for what to write. bsky.app/profile/afte...

And before I forget, if you want to read the full scope of the changes you can see them here: Previous TOS: bsky.social/about/suppor... New TOS: bsky.social/about/suppor... 5/🧵

Lastly, these content restrictions are absolutely part of a larger push for censorship We HAVE to keep working to stop this If free speech is important to you, you can't just stop here Check out the site for more action you can take to support free speech! anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co 4/🧵

Here's the message I sent in You ABSOLUTELY are welcome to copy/paste or use it as a jumping off point Let them know we don't need this kind of "help"! 3/🧵

Do NOT believe the misinfo going around There absolutely have been MASSIVE TOS updates Most notably: 1) Specifying no FICTIONAL noncon 2) No "dangerous" kink 3) No DISCUSSING self harm, suicide, or substance abuse unless its "educational" So what can we DO about it? #SaveSpeech 1/🧵

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.

@moderation.bsky.app These new policies directly harm the survivors you claim to protect. You’re promoting a dangerous lack of moderation and making it hard for survivors to consent to what they see here. This is serious. These policies are directly risking lives.

Key read. A lot of people are leaning that what is destroying us has been piloted and stress tested in SEA, S Asia, MENA, and our corresponding immigrant communities in U.S. cities.

The only reason I'm not a nsfw artist is because I'm a coward and I don't publish my stuff, but I wanna say LET P0RN ARTISTS BE FREAKS IN PEACE! Wanting art to be "sanitized" is, and always will be, fascism. Today they come for them, tomorrow they come FOR YOU.

Things that always work all of the time, with studies to prove it, boosting the economy and productivity, and increasing quality of life and public health, and that will never, ever be implemented within my lifetime: 1. UBI 2. 4-day working week

I think this is true AND that the bs around disability access, specifically the decision to be extra shitty to ND folks, really rubbed a LOT of ppl the wrong way. Disneyland in particular has a lot of disabled die-hards bc it’s uniquely accessible, and they’ve been fucking with them for a minute

I will day this, the Disney Adults have proven themselves much more ready to meet this moment than any Harry Potter Adult has.

This is not the "sis, get that bag!!!" vibe anyone who isn't a fascist wants

"Once you use ChatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore" So glad I've never, ever, so much as lookedat the fucking website The only thing I'm actually good at is thinking

Every time I draw cartoon characters punching each other’s lights out, I’m actually encouraging and also literally doing violence. If I draw the Baba Yaga eating a baby, I’m literally advocating cannibalism and also doing meal-planning. Were Bluesky’s guidelines written by twelve-year-olds?

and really, I do not believe that everyone needs to "get weirder now," or that everyone needs to "make more nsfw," etc. what I do believe, however, is that everyone should look to those already making that work and sit in dialogue with them. support their work, substantiate their humanity.

we should have never normalized filming strangers in public and posting them as content

Anyway I got myself a fridge for Bokurismas

They have this button on the right hand column that in addition to public shaming, lets you shame them in other useful ways

I make funnybooks for kids, and I find these guidelines so condescending and utterly useless. They’ve let the people who confuse discomfort with harm hijack their best practices.

Lord alive, they want fictional characters in fictional sexual situations to model consent for literal adults like a patronizing early 2020’s sitcom where the point of the writing is to convey that the writer’s been to therapy at some point

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Today is the birthday of my lord and saviour Bokuto Kōtarō so today is basically my Christmas

happy birthday bokuto, may you stay warm and cozy on your day 😭🫶

Restricting the expression of sexuality through fiction and art made by adults, for adults – including those you find personally disturbing or offputting – is conservative censorship, full stop. When that censorship disproportionately affects subgroups, that's also discrimination. For shame.

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I miss just being able to literally step away from the internet, because it used to be something that required effort, intention, and purpose to access; these days it feels like we all go online (and stay online) instinctively and reactively because it's not just easy, but often necessary.

I miss when the internet was a place you went to for fun rather than a place you are forced to reside in to survive.

I just searched "drug mule pigeon" because I was trying to remember where that incident with the pigeon being caught with a backpack full of pills happened, and apparently it wasn't a one-time thing? It's been happening for decades in multiple places??? Hatoful Boyfriend was right

For a while now I've wondered why strangers will always ask me for help, even if there are so many other people around (like when they want to find stuff in a supermarket). I don't look particularly friendly or competent. BUT TODAY! I have decided to just chalk it down to AUTISTIC RIZZ.

...and even Age of Ultron (Internet-poisoned AI threatens to annihilate the environment for lulz) 2015 really was THE pop-culture predictor year for 2025.