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AlinaX @litalinax.bsky.social · 4h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“It'll stop vibrating eventually..."

Pete Hannah @member389.bsky.social · 7h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“Interface incrementing errors..."

N.J. Gallegos @drspookyer.bsky.social · 9h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“It sure is quiet…”

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Jae Arden @jaearden.bsky.social · 13h

Great advice for writing as well and not only sexy time scenes, always try to include all five senses. A lot of writers focus on sight and sound but sometimes forget about including the other senses. Immerse your readers. What are your characters smelling? Touching? Eating, drinking...licking?

Cara Sutra @carasutra.bsky.social · 14h

Using All Five Senses During Sex

Are you using all five senses during sex? Discover how awareness of sight, sound, taste, touch & scent will lead to a MUCH better sex life.

buff.ly

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · Aug 13

We are not trivialising LLMs.

Copyright theft is not trivial.

Environmental damage is not trivial.

Unreliability is not trivial.

Risk to human cognition is not trivial.

Ignoring consent when shoving it into every fucking thing while making us pay our hard-earned money for it is not trivial.

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Nicholas Klacsanzky @haikuforlife.bsky.social · 1d

obscuring
the view of Kyiv . . .
strangers' fingerprints

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Last Train Home: an anthology of contemporary haiku, tanka, and rengay, 2021

#haiku #poetry #poem

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Conjured.Ink @conjured.ink · 2d

Conjured Ink is now accepting both one time and recurring donations!

Head to this link to learn more about our finances, or pledge your support:

opencollective.com/c...

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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 3d

Y’all this movie is SO GOOD, please see it in theaters if you can!

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 3d

You will soon stalk, hunt, and take down Prey in theaters:

reactormag.com/prey-predato...

Prey Is Finally Getting the Theatrical Release Director Dan Trachtenberg Says It Was Made For - Reactor

The 2022 film is showing as part of a Predator double feature.

reactormag.com

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Author J.A. Nolan @janolanwrites.bsky.social · 7d

If you can’t decide what happens next in your book, throw a party, murder a character, set something on fire, or make them kiss. Works every time. #PlotTwist #WritingTips #Booksky

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Susan (Morhar) Andrews @andrewssusanm.bsky.social · 14d

#HaikuSaturday #haiku
5/7/5:
a hummingbird zips
to a wilting blue salvia--
last sips of summer

short form:
wilting blue salvia--
a hummingbird's last sips
of summer

Please add a version if you feel like it.

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AlinaX @litalinax.bsky.social · 15d

In particular, story vs storey. My OED says story is a N. Amer. variant, and I'm always intrigued by that.

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AlinaX @litalinax.bsky.social · 15d

Are you in N. Amer.?
(Curious about spelling.)

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Haiku From Last Night @haikufromlastnight.bsky.social · 18d

every six seconds
someone out there falls for a
stat i just made up

#haiku

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Sabs @the-sabs.bsky.social · Feb 27

Femboy Mechanic changes your oil... 🚗🔧💦💜

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Mistress Monster 🏳️‍⚧️ @mistressmonster.bsky.social · 18d

I've created a Patreon, in case anyone wants to help a girl out: www.patreon.com/cw/MistressM...

#writing #Patreon #erotica #Literotica #NSFW

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 21d

DO NOT participate in #blueskyblackout2025

I'm nsfw artist and other nsfw artists are asking you to SHOUT! Bsky wants to censor us so the worst thing we can do is censor ourselves!

Publicly shame them, use the feedback button, and post about it using the tag #bskycensorship

Silence is compliance!

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🔞Good Girl Elliotte🔞 @elliotte-draws.bsky.social · 22d

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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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 22d

moon splintered
into a thousand feathers
and filled my pillow
with dreams
of you

#Photography Rene
@astrorene.bsky.social

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Mish Solomon 🔞 | journalist ✒️ | activist 💜 | gamer 🎮 @mishadventure.blog · 22d

My comment on BlueSky's idiotic proposed banning of fictional C/NC content and art.

I actually have a lot more to say about it, but considering this past week*, this is pretty much the extent of my patience for this kind of censorship idiocy right now.

I've had my intimate images posted on BlueSky without my consent multiple times now with the express purpose to harass me after I was doxxed as a sex worker. I couldn't get BlueSky to take the accounts down. That's actual sexual abuse and a crime happening in real time, and BlueSky did nothing about it.

It literally happened to me again last night, and to my knowledge, BlueSky has done nothing about it, despite countless reports from me and my followers on my accounts. I would prefer it if BlueSky invest resources into stopping actual crimes from occurring on its platform than come up with idiotic policies that will probably do the most harm to survivors themselves.

What's next? We can't talk about our real experiences of sexual assault just in case someone decides it's too graphic for them?

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 22d

Genuinely need someone to explain to me what the benefit to communities these data centers present. I’ve seen no indication that they require the kind of workforce that can really drive an economy. They consume a massively disproportionate amount of resources. And they’re getting tax breaks.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 23d

“There's this huge push to ramp up for the expectation that AI is going to be the new tech boom, and hopefully, not the new tech bubble… And that's not necessarily a great way to build your economy.”

www.wmra.org/2025-09-17/d...

Data centers: boom or bust for Albemarle County?

Data centers need a lot of power, big buildings, and cooling systems in order to process the big needs of AI and cloud storage. Proponents of the facilities in Albemarle County say they will diversify...

www.wmra.org

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AlinaX @litalinax.bsky.social · 22d

wrung
the cloth of humanity
no more tears

#haiku

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AlinaX @litalinax.bsky.social · 24d

I think the inflection point was passed long ago.

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Neil Blevins @artofsoulburn.bsky.social · 24d

A new written tutorial that discusses shadows, combining century old traditional 2d practices with a few thoughts on how this applies to modern digital 3d. Will be using this for my upcoming classes. www.neilblevins.com/art_lessons/... #arttip #lighting #shadows

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Sin the #smut peddler 🔞 | Comms open! 🎧💗 @sinmademanifest.com · 25d

Either you believe me or you don't.

I won't keep reliving this trauma by being forced to explain and defend myself in the face of these lies over and over again.

The mods of #GoneWildAudio investigated and heard my side. They found in my favour. That's where this ends.

#NSFWaudio #NSFW #NSFWsky

I just obtained a document proving the mods of r/TheRealmofEroticAudio not only doxxed me in their server, but sent this document around the Reddit audio community & doxxed me beyond that.

I never had actual proof before, I just know what happened.

Now I do.

This is the document the Trea moderators sent around, which includes the false accusations and slanderous documents about me, my personal Twitter accounts, a photo of my face (which has subsequently been scratched up to hide my face, but is nonetheless STILL searchable via a reverse Google Image search).

It also literally includes "trauma dumping" as a capital offence worthy of having me be smeared, harassed, abused and isolated from the audio community.

They sent this document around to other community leaders to convince them this is why they should ban me, too.

If anyone ever doubted I was telling the truth that they doxxed me, here's your proof that they did so.

They shared all this information about me with members of the audio community, beyond even the Trea server alone, without my consent.
In so doing, they not only doxxed me, but continued the abusive harassment and smear campaign I've been dealing with and suffering from since February 2024.

I'm locking comments here, as I need to take some time to think this through. I knew already that this is what happened, but this is the first time I've seen their vitriol and the proof for myself.

Love you all very much, I'll be fine. I just need time to myself.

Edited to add:
As a reminder, I responded to those slanderous lies in those documents more than a year ago already, and proved how the authors of those documents lied. And I'm not the only one who has done so, because I'm not their only victim. A user who went by the username "Lorroakan" compiled the documents on me, and has personally harassed, abused and stalked me since at least March 2024, and I'm not the only one—he's targetted numerous other survivors and queer people, as well as people of colour.

I'm also fairly certain he is the creator of the "revenge porn" account dedicated in my honour that was created in April this year, but I have no proof of that. It just fits a pattern of behaviour where he has made multiple accounts with which he tagged me and abused me directly in my mentions, as you can see here.

The moderators of Trea not only NEVER asked me for my side regarding this before they doxxed me, they never published a single one of my many responses in my defence—all of which were publicly available both on Twitter and BlueSky on the very accounts of mine that they doxxed. All they ever heard were the lies of my abusers, and they took that and ran with it and proceeded to doxx me to my abusers, on BlueSky, and to other members of the audio community beyond the Trea Discord server. They sent their own little document (linked above) to other audio community leaders who are NOT members of Trea for their own little cancel campaign, and didn't ONCE ask me for my side of the story.

The moderators of GWA, by contrast, actually spoke not only to me but I suspect also Lorroakan himself and/or others from the group abusing me for the last 19 months. The GWA mods investigated over the course of a full month.

And they found in my favour, and found there wasn't evidence to justify banning me from GWA—never mind outright doxxing me. So whether you go down this rabbit hole or not, that matters. In every instance where people actually asked for my side and spoke to me directly, they found in my favour. Because I do not and have never lied about what's happened here, and I can prove it.

But genuinely and sincerely, I can't keep doing this. I can't keep re-explaining and defending myself against slanderous lies I disproved LITERALLY A YEAR AGO ALREADY. I can't keep living like this, wondering when I'm going to lose people I love because they decided to believe these lies. I can't.

So I'm putting my foot down. Either you believe me, or you don't. Either you believe the GWA mods investigated to their best ability and found in my favour, knowing the full trust of the story, or you don't. Either you believe that the person I've shared with you here has shown you her fullest, most vulnerable self, or you don't. I cannot keep re-living this trauma in perpetuity. I will never heal and never move on otherwise—and that's exactly what Lorroakan et al want. I refuse to give them that. I want to move on with my life and find joy and happiness again, and for fuck's sake I deserve that, after everything I've been through in my life, I deserve peace and happiness.

So either you believe me, or you don't.
But I won't be answering questions on this anymore—I want to move on and I want and deserve peace and happiness.

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Kayana @kayana.bsky.social · 26d

7,977/10,000 signatures!

Come on UK folks, let's get this to the next stage

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

U.K. residents, could this be your chance to stop paypro censorship in the country? Please sign this petition

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition
Ban payment processors stopping services based on objections to legal content
Government should legislate that payment processing companies may not place stipulations on use of their services regarding sales of otherwise legal content and, if they do so, must face legal penalties and must remunerate platforms and individuals for lost income until service is restored.
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AlinaX @litalinax.bsky.social · 26d

The counter-rotating sections is clever but also feels a little risky from a gyro dynamics perspective.

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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 26d

Can this get a little more exposure, please peeps?

#blender #scicomm #scifi

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 28d

My latest animation is live on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYiF...

Thanks for Jan S. Gephaldt or Weird Sisters Publishing (@artdog.bsky.social) for for commissioning me to build this.

#blender #animation #spaceart #sciart

Rana Space Station Composite Animation

YouTube video by Mark A. Garlick

www.youtube.com

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