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The Crashout Barbies are in town My Nimble and @acolath.bsky.social's Calypso Spawned from a night of watching meme vids with friends

Sorry sorry but it's worth pointing out also that Ian Bogost crawled out of his bad take crypt to reheat stale and pointless arguments *in the interest of punching down on a game that's already getting screwed by storefronts*

LIBREWOLF

firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now (copy paste-able in the alt text)

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

tapping the sign

look guys they just violated the store's content guidelines, which are published nowhere, won't be elaborated on, and are enforced wildly inconsistently if somehow real ones do exist somewhere internally

the fact storefronts always completely clam up when they remove something and never respond to any requests by the developer on how to make their game compliant kind of gives away the entire game and it is dumb to pretend it doesn't

Begging for every dipshit corpo to fuck off with the end of year recaps

Wasn't feeling great today so I spent the day designing the hubby and I's pokesonas for some self therapy ~w~ Vappy belongs to my hubs @gumbaro.gg

deer furries be like:

Great opportunity to voice your concerns with the censorship I and other creators have experienced

This could be anything from mainstream publications, to local newspapers or relevant niche publications. Even youtubers/influencers/content creators are worth contacting if they speak on adjacent topics regularly basically anyone in the gaming space AT MINIMUM should be sounding the alarms

people like Ana and others are doing their best to get the news out on topics like paypros discrimination, censorship etc, but we have limitations as individuals and our own platforms arent infinite one way YOU can make a huge impact is by helping get the word out via contacting journalists!

i got laid off from my not-art, call center based, customer service job last year, in part because the company pivoted to handling most of the work through AI agents!

like, you can't write this off as a hypothetical anymore than you can write this off as some bohemian irresponsibility chicken coming home to roost-- people with a lot of power believe AI can replace labor, and it does not matter if it actually can or not!

quick update, to ease up people's worries: redd's received many donations since this post, which he's greatly appreciative of. it's not a permanent solution, but it does give him more time to find a way to bail himself out. thank you everyone.

as much as i didn't want it to come to this, ribbit 3.0 is on the brink of cancellation. here's the message.

while its scary that US politicians are trying to fast track so bogus "child online safety" bills at once, I think their behavior belies the fact that they are aware this is a fight they can lose but we have to fight them. get friends and family involved.

Online age verification is a tempting idea. I'm a dad, I get it, but what's being proposed isn't just an ID check, it's a list of your kid's faces and data. A list in the hands of increasingly totalitarian governments, tech companies, and dysfunctional AI. It's not protection, it's surveillance.

continuing to make calls. I called my reps and alongside demanding they oppose all of these bills (and explaining in detail why), I also advocated for putting these bills through MORE committee meetings in order to continue debating them, rather than fast track such dangerous legislation

Your regular reminder that when social media people say "Grok", they actually mean Musk's sycophantic chatbot, MechaHitler.

This is what they are being sued for? "Prause and Levy concluded NoFap, which promotes abstinence from masturbation and viewing pornography, is not an effective means of treatment. They also maintain that pornography is not addictive and shouldn't be presented as such in public health messaging"

Another great way to help re: the Fakku censorship (and other kink-art issues); writing emails / calling journalistic outlets that would have reason to cover this, and explaining the situation. Already sent a few emails, here.

this is the moral panic the idea that a story, painting, drawing, video game, or other creative work that depicts uncomfortable topics is the same thing as real life CSAM or violence against women is how we end up having to scan our faces to open Spotify no one is harmed by fiction or art

If you live in the EU, bully your fucking MEPs.

What would I give for a 7ft tall werewolf boyfriend to make me howl every night

I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being. Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.

2XKO watching all the FGC content creators say the Avatar TLA fighting game will "save the fgc"

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@roawayart.bsky.social doodle

Many wonder why games journalists really struggle to cover adult games censorship I think this games journalist posting on ResetEra about Horses really gives a pretty unprecedented look into how games journalists think about these things, including the incorrect read on the censorship angle

If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.

The "bedroom coders" everyone loves to romanticize were selling shareware. They were selling mail-order software. Victor Hugo wrote Les Mis as a serial for a newspaper and he got paid by the word, which is why it's so fucking long. Labor can only exist if society values its existence.

The fascists are counting on you finding erotica and porn too distasteful to support. Because they always start here. And even if they ended here, sexuality and erotism are integral components of queer expression. You can't support queer creators without supporting 'nsfw' content.

I wanted to replace my work chair today but I had to choose food instead... I need help.

So I got to the dreaded McKenzie NPC and just as I thought he was around for like, 30 minutes at most and now he only talks on a rare occasion on the radio or if you call him for advice on where to go next lmao people really were acting like a 2nd 9/11 happened over a complete nothingburger

a videogame has content in it that i personally dont like which of course mirrors what i see as objectively good and moral so it's a net good i think it was banned

#SaveSpeech With Black Friday/Cyber Monday done, its best to settle back into 'marathon' call routines rather than the 'sprint' we had for the weekend. if you did participate in calling Visa and MC this past weekend though, thank you! We have to keep going, but every call matters!

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It’s so sad how many people only care about censorship when it’s “art” and “not porn.” God forbid someone calls you a gooner. Porn is art dumbasses

There are far better ways to ensure safety and privacy on the internet than what's being posited. What people do not get is that certain generations are still here BECAUSE of community found online. Taking away that community will be dooming us all. Talk with @fightforthefuture.org at least.

if you want a quick and easy way to help take down KOSA, remember that 5Calls has a section for KOSA! 5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Naranjoso sabroso 🍊 @harufur.bsky.social

Sorry to repost... I have more stuff I have to pay for. I need to replace my work chair (60; broke a few days ago), gas lifts for the hatch of my car (30) so I can use my trunk again... there's more but yeah. I'm so tired. If you could help in any way, that would be amazing. Thank you. 💜🙏

is the gingerbread gamecube my magnum opus?