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Frag-Piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 4d

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 3d

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

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tom @jaxdaws.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly for me this was pretty tame, so it could be worse. It could be so much worse.

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tom @jaxdaws.bsky.social · 4d

Sort of a little of both! Like all three do have differences in personality, but they are all the same entity.

He's also cool with polyamory.

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tom @jaxdaws.bsky.social · 4d

If Failbetter keep letting me kiss the monsters I'm gonna keep kissing 'em

Not that this month's exceptional story involves a monster. He's just an extremely normal giant, three-headed rat prince who desires your hand in marriage most ardently.

(Still kissed him, though. And the rest.)

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MastaMilla @mastamilla.bsky.social · 15d

Kazuhira Miller pin up!
Join MSF today! ☺️

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 7d

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.

Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.

If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

Python Software Foundation @python.org · 7d

Please read our statement, share it with your networks, and support us if you can. www.python.org/sponsors/app... psfmember.org/civicrm/cont...

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 7d

I'd rather get past writer's block with a bullet to my own brain

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 7d

Love when a CEO undermines the work that their company produces www.theguardian.com/business/202...

AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief

Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal

www.theguardian.com

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風目艮彡 @kamikiririp.bsky.social · 7d

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 25d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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tom @jaxdaws.bsky.social · 25d

We gotta survive this, gang. The history books discussing this are gonna be a total riot. It’s going to be hilarious.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 25d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · Oct 3

"AI is sentient because it mimics our behavior" bro you are a bronze age peasant who thinks your shadow is a demon

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 27d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Failbetter Games - Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 27d

The Fallen London Arcana.

(Very) Soon.

A tarot card entitled The Chariot, depicting a large bat in silhouette, flying over a London skyline against teal water and a teal sky. It is balanced against a leatherbound book.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · Oct 5

absolutely breathtaking levels of “reframe punching up as punching down” are emerging in AI discourse. fighting back against AI is us against billion dollar tech companies, yet they are pulling out so many wild rhetorical tricks to make it seem like the anti-AI movement are the powerful bullies here

Fae’rynn (Festive Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · Oct 5

“don’t be bigoted towards AI.”

your AI data centers are poisoning Black communities as we speak, please get some fucking perspective. jesus christ

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tom @jaxdaws.bsky.social · 29d

Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · Oct 5

When I worked on social features for online games, my favorite test for whether we were taking player safety into account was the "Ex-boyfriend Test", as in:

If I was your ex-boyfriend, how would I use this feature to make your life miserable?

Lindsey B @lindsey.codes · Oct 5

Bad actors will SQL inject you, but they will also find ways to take your “good faith” features and abuse them: location services, community tagging, voting, auto-moderating with mass reporting.

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tom @jaxdaws.bsky.social · 29d

The fascinating thing to me is what they think will happen if they systematically remove every single avenue for peaceful protest one after the other.

Because history has a lot to say about what happens.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · Oct 5

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Plasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · Sep 25

Really looking forward to Mandrake. I am not horrified by this creature tho and could be convinced to give it any amount of food if it said "yolf" to me.

A screenshot from the unreleased game Mandrake showing a big fat fuzzy whatsit with horns, curly whiskers, a bushy tail, and wide eyes sitting in a tree. The dialogue window calls it "Horrifying Creature," but it mostly gives the impression of a formerly stray cat that has been well-fed and spoiled for many years but is still somewhat bewildered by its reversal of fortunes. It is holding an envelope of some kind. It says, "Yolf."

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tom @jaxdaws.bsky.social · Sep 21

I feel like I remember seeing protesters engaged in (admittedly fully clothed) face sitting on the front page of the Sun.

Which could just be Tuesday for the Sun I guess lmao

tom @jaxdaws.bsky.social · Sep 21

Hey as someone who remembers when the UK government did it, I’m pretty sure “realistic risk of death or serious injury” is going to cover shit like face sitting

And yes they did ban face sitting porn out of fears that people would do it unsafely irl and break someone’s neck. That actually happened.

Void🔞 | VGen @voiddebris.bsky.social · Sep 20

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

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · Sep 20

I don't think all nsfw content is default value neutral and I wish more people thought critically about what they got off to, just as I wish more people thought critically about everything they consume, but I'm still 100% against anything approaching censorship because I have pattern recognition.

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · Sep 20

it should go without saying but if you want users to voluntarily tag their art then you need to not threaten to ban them if they do. like, you can either have a well-regulated, easily-filtered art ecosystem or you can ban art you don’t like and see it come oozing back out of every crack and crevice

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tom @jaxdaws.bsky.social · Sep 20

Ultimately what you think of “non-con” art and writing fundamentally actually does not matter.

This is going to harm people who wanna opt out of seeing noncon art because now it will be posted untagged and labelled “this is consensual they wanna be here”

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🔞Good Girl Elliotte🔞 @elliotte-draws.bsky.social · Sep 20

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:

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tom @jaxdaws.bsky.social · Sep 20

Like deliberately vague generalisations like this are ALWAYS inevitably misused. Always.

We’re going back to obscenity laws here, where censorship was of “objectionable” material.

Which means anything you damn well want it to.

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