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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 5d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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🪱🃏 𝕱𝖆𝖌𝖌ø𝖙 𝖎𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖁𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖓🦷🪳 @babettecirque.bsky.social · 18d

Apparently a lot of ppl needs to hear this

#bskycensorship

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 10d

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 10d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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M Kirby @marykirby.bsky.social · 12d

💜🖤💜
Sylvia and I are writing season two of the podcast right now, too.

Caitie @ghildirthalen.bsky.social · 12d

While we all rage on EA- North Mist is a new indie games studio that nabbed Mary Kirby (Varric) and Sylvia Feketekuty (Emmrich, Josie) as writers!

They have a world building podcast (also on yt! 🔗 below), with Mary writing the first season that just wrapped up, and Sylvia's first ep just dropped!

North Mist Studios @northmiststudios.bsky.social · Jul 1

We're live, people! The wait is over!
🍁HAPPY CANADA DAY!🍁

Episode 1 of The Concierge is available on all major podcast platforms! Can't think of a better day to meet our crew of Canadian Assassins!
shows.acast.com/the-concierg...

#theconcierge #northmiststudios #madeincanada #audiodrama

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Caitie @ghildirthalen.bsky.social · 12d

While we all rage on EA- North Mist is a new indie games studio that nabbed Mary Kirby (Varric) and Sylvia Feketekuty (Emmrich, Josie) as writers!

They have a world building podcast (also on yt! 🔗 below), with Mary writing the first season that just wrapped up, and Sylvia's first ep just dropped!

North Mist Studios @northmiststudios.bsky.social · Jul 1

We're live, people! The wait is over!
🍁HAPPY CANADA DAY!🍁

Episode 1 of The Concierge is available on all major podcast platforms! Can't think of a better day to meet our crew of Canadian Assassins!
shows.acast.com/the-concierg...

#theconcierge #northmiststudios #madeincanada #audiodrama

Post Mortem: Memories | The Concierge

shows.acast.com

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Kier @kiersart.bsky.social · 13d

On my KNEES for this woman!!

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reywolfe.art 🎃👻⚰️ @kr00bs.com · 13d

BlueSky deleting Palestinian accounts and sweeping queer issues under the rug/silencing us is the online equivalent of trying to shove all the impoverished people out of a city or neighborhood because the privileged get uncomfy and think it makes their spaces dirty, unsafe, and undesirable.

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Kier @kiersart.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you Seffie!! Lai would welcome you with open arm(s?)

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Kier @kiersart.bsky.social · 16d

Close ups 💜
#DragonAge #Solavellan

Close up of Lai Lavellan holding her anchor arm as it corrupts and cracks in green crystalline light. She is kneeling and looking up is anguish and pain, crying.

Close up of Solas with his back to the viewer. He is wearing his Trespasser armour and looking back over his shoulder with a sorrowful expression.

Close up of Lai and Solas' embrace. Solas has a hand on the back of Lai's neck as she tucks her head into his shoulder. Both have tears in their eyes

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Kier @kiersart.bsky.social · 16d

Miles late but I refuse to give up on my beloveds so I will be still working through the #SolavellanWeek2025 prompts
@solavellanweek.bsky.social
First on the block is 8 Years/Left behind
#DragonAge #Solavellan

To the lower left is Inquisitor Lavellan, kneeling holding her glowing anchor arm as she looks up in pain and despair as she has her back to the centre of the canvas. On the upper right is Solas in his Trespasser DLC armour with his back to the centre of the canvas as he walks away. He is looking back over his shoulder with a sorrowful expression and one hand behind his back. In the centre of the canvas is Solas and Lavellan as they have aged to the Veilguard timeline, embracing while surrounded with an orange glow. Lavellan is holding onto Solas' back and her head is tucked into his shoulder. In turn Solas has a hand on the back of Lavellans neck and his face half hidden behind her hair. Both have tears in their eyes.

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G.C. Houle 🔞 @gchoule.bsky.social · 16d

Yes! You either accept the kayfabe or you put the book down. Reading it and being upset at the lack of realism is not meeting the narrative where it is at, it's disingenuous. Don't go to a wrestling show and complain that it doesn't respect the rules of competitive sports wrestling.

FanAstraea @fanastraea.bsky.social · 19d

as a fan of noncon, dubcon and under/non-negotiated cnc this is honestly one of the most straightforward explanations of this i've ever read?

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Azurezero (NSFW) @azurezeroart.bsky.social · 17d

bluesky ain't been in operation long enough to alienate its lewd artists for profit

Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 17d

FEEDBACK FORM: Use this to demand bsky roll back its harmful adult content policies and ask for a better labeling system instead! #bskycensorship

Feedback form location on desktop: Feedback button located at the bottom of the right-hand column of the screen underneath the "trending" tab

Feedback form on mobile location: Feedback button located at the bottom of the left-hand hamburger menu

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Kier @kiersart.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!🥰

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Kier @kiersart.bsky.social · 18d

Always for you Pookie!!! You deserve all the nice things!! 🥰

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Kier @kiersart.bsky.social · 19d

@solass.bsky.social
I know I'm late but happy birthday Seffie!!
#DragonAge #Solavellan

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Eden 🔞 [bday Oct 11th 🎉] @cherryricecake.bsky.social · 20d

This is your friendly reminder coming from a German who grew up near Hitler's favourite city and having visited various local historical sites from that time, that censoring and silencing artists for depicting "depravity" is exactly what his regime did, too.

#BSKYcensorship

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Ponderosa | Kim Kuzuri @ponderosa121.bsky.social · 20d

the most annoying thing about the #bskycensorship is that the tools are already built to ensure youth are protected via confirming their accounts are 18+ to view adult material, and the equivalent of spoiler labels allow adults to toggle or click to consent to see artwork with sensitive topics

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pix | #1 solas robes stealer @pixdraws.bsky.social · 21d

more #solavellan doodles <3333

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 19d

New TOS censorship of fictional adult content is a massive overreach and makes this definitively not a free and open platform. It demonizes survivors and silences artists.

Everyone is telling you a much healthier way is to give us better tools, like more robust labels, to moderate ourselves

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 21d

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links
2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands
3. The whole app is open source

This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site.

We 💙 the open web.

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nic.tattoos @nicterhorst.com · 19d

If you're screaming about TOS changes and haven't screamed into the feedback form yet, you should do that!

Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 20d

FEEDBACK FORM:

Shouting publicly is an incredibly powerful tool, and in addition, we can give them a piece of our mind in the feedback form

Desktop and mobile locations:

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 19d

While I am generally not the target market for any sort of nonconsensual sexual content, there is absolutely no world in which you can trust to the discretion of moderators in judging this sort of thing. It will always end badly, and in a different place from where YOU thought the line was.

TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 21d

Romancelandia: even if you don't read dark romance, the new Bsky guidelines should concern you.

Disallowed: "Illustrated or animated" depictions of nonconsensual adult content.

Why ban fictional depictions of anything? And how will consent be determined from an illustration?

Community Guidelines - Bluesky

bsky.social

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Kier @kiersart.bsky.social · 22d

🥰🥰 Just a Lavellan polycule all giving each other smooches while their sad puppy husband sits in the timeout chair

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