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Mr Smith @amrsmith92.bsky.social · 3d

Oh congrats. I’ll drop my little maid trio in for your consideration so you can have your pick in case I win hahaha

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Houmi Art - Waitlist is Open @houmiart.bsky.social · 4d

✨ My First YCH is Live! 🎃🧹

my first ever Halloween Witch YCH on VGen — get your character in this spooky cute scene with 20% discount now 🕷🔮
Price: 60$
🔗 VGen: vgen.co/houmi_art

#ych #vgen #halloween #halloweenart

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🔞Cios (Commissions Open) - Inquire via Chat @ciosart.bsky.social · 5d

sketch comm today! Maid service!

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🔞Cios (Commissions Open) - Inquire via Chat @ciosart.bsky.social · 14d

even the lowest 5 dollar tier helps me out a lot right now. I'm going to be totally open and just say I'm trying to get out of a living situation with an addict and I need to get a certain threshold. Frankly if only half these slots were consistent I would qualify for some help. As is, I don't.

🔞Cios (Commissions Open) - Inquire via Chat @ciosart.bsky.social · Sep 3

Tier opening check.

1 Sketch slot on Ciosart Patreon (25 USD)

4 Full Color single character slot on subscribestar (100 USD)

1 multiple character slot on subscribestar (196 USD)

2 single or multiple character slot on Ciosart patreon (196 USD)

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Mr Smith @amrsmith92.bsky.social · 22d

Oh nice. Sort of reminds me of the fairy from Ferngully

Mr Smith @amrsmith92.bsky.social · 25d

Sam was always my favorite by a long shot haha

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Mr Smith @amrsmith92.bsky.social · Sep 11

Yeah she seems to be the overall favorite of my group even though she’s the newest lol

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Mr Smith @amrsmith92.bsky.social · Sep 11

Welp last but not least of my littlelittle trio is my punk rock maid Abby

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Sep 10

I simply cannot stress it enough.

You cannot sit this out.

They are coming for EVERYTHING. No media, no creators are safe under these policies. They want us poor, they want us criminalized, they want us disenfranchised.

Call paypros. Call your reps. Do SOMETHING.

DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · Sep 9

Woke up to quite the update on this. I had been in contact with Payment Cloud about getting their service and they waited until now to hit me with the image below. Again, stringing me along instead of being upfront. They had seen my website multiple times before this.

An image taken from an e-mail from Payment Cloud to me. They list prohibited adult work, one of which just includes "Fantasy" which is as wide as cat ears and fairies. We are so cooked.

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Mr Smith @amrsmith92.bsky.social · Sep 9

My Salamander combat patrol is coming along quite nicely. Only got one more guy to put together and then do some painting so. Slowly but surely its all coming together

Mr Smith @amrsmith92.bsky.social · Sep 9

Well since you asked, here’s my sweet bean nerd Marie

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Mr Smith @amrsmith92.bsky.social · Sep 9

Haha thanks a bunch. I’ve had her the longest of my three so she’s my go to character for most things

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Mr Smith @amrsmith92.bsky.social · Sep 9

Here's my head maid Sophia for you to appreciate haha

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🔞Cios (Commissions Open) - Inquire via Chat @ciosart.bsky.social · Sep 3

Tier opening check.

1 Sketch slot on Ciosart Patreon (25 USD)

4 Full Color single character slot on subscribestar (100 USD)

1 multiple character slot on subscribestar (196 USD)

2 single or multiple character slot on Ciosart patreon (196 USD)

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · Sep 1

Apple is sneaking AI into everything. Turn off enhanced visual search on your photos:

Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by Al

Settings -> Apps -> Photos -> Enhanced Visual
Search (all the way at the bottom)

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · Aug 27

AUTHORS! ASSEMBLE!

On Tuesday, US District Judge William Alsup confirmed that Anthropic and the authors "believe they have a settlement in principle" and will file a motion for preliminary approval of the settlement by September 5.

The settlement announcement comes after Alsup certified what AI industry advocates criticized as the largest copyright class action of all time. Although the lawsuit was raised by three authors—Andrea Bartz, Kirk Wallace Johnson, and Charles Graeber—Alsup allowed up to 7 million claimants to join based on the large number of books that Anthropic may have illegally downloaded to train its AI models.

If every author in the class filed a claim, industry advocates warned, it would "financially ruin" the entire AI industry.

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🔞Cios (Commissions Open) - Inquire via Chat @ciosart.bsky.social · Aug 23

new YCH auction up in the ciosart community server. Just a few of the options available. I guess if people wanted to bid here they could but yeeaaahh.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Aug 7

CONGRATS SOLDIER, we've hit 2 weeks of solid #SaveSpeech pressure! Youre doing a great job! Reward yourself!

And keep on calling/mailing!

stop-paypros.neocities.org
yellat.money

www.congress.gov/members/find...

SCREEN ACT:
-full age verification. (biometric scans, ID uploads, background checks)

-Deeply unsafe for personal and data privacy. Security/data breaches are rampant, and uploading so much sensitive data to every single we site is just asking for mass ID theft.

-id verification is much, much harder on small websites than larger ones, creating a chilling effect and stifling speech for anyone that isnt a massive corporation

-draw comparison to UK's OSA [online safety act] and the backlash it is receiving

KOSA:
-creates "duty of care,” meaning that tech companies and platform giants would be required to take steps to prevent potentially harmful encounters, such as posts about eating disorders and instances of online bullying, from impacting minors.

-who gets to decide what is or is not "unsafe for minors"? Especially under the current administration

-it will block access to important info minors could use to keep themselves safe or advocate for themselves. Ex: sex ed.

-the vague nature of the bill will almost certainly be used to target LGBT content under the guise of "protecting children"

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Maple 🍁 @maplemothwitch.bsky.social · Aug 9

Art Giveaway!!!

1 full body commission!

To Enter:
❤️ Like
🔄 Repost
➕ Follow
🧝‍♀️ Reply with your OC reference!

Winner drawn August 23rd @ 9:00pm EST

Rules listed below

Character credit: @jesterofthefae.bsky.social

Example of commission available: Drow with antlers, scythe, and frozen wings.

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Coffee cat @honeyedcoffee.bsky.social · Aug 6

I'm seeing less posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them, and losing them money.

Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · Aug 6

Spoke with an anon source who had an interesting insight into Visa policy. Per a convo with their bank on the Steam/itchio situation today, Visa put new restrictions into place due to a new "government policy." The exact phrase used by Visa. No specific country was listed as the source of the policy

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Houmi Art - Waitlist is Open @houmiart.bsky.social · Aug 6

" Campfire in the woods" dnd art commission that I drawn!

Please say hi to support a flop artist 🥹✋
#VGenComm #dndartist #fantasy #artmoot #art

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Maple 🍁 @maplemothwitch.bsky.social · Aug 4

400 Follower Celebration!!!

Like for DTIYS
Repost for a Raffle for a free commission (details tbd)!!!

Final count will be @ 9:00pm EST on August 8th 2025!

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Mr Smith @amrsmith92.bsky.social · Jul 31

It wasn’t, but I did have a tasty blueberry cake donut with my coffee so I’ll take a small win first thing in the morning.

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AJfantasy | comms open @ajfantasy.bsky.social · Jul 30

Fanart of the month for July is Yennefer from the Witcher 3 Wild Hunt on my Substar

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