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Mister Thanatos 🔞 @misterthanatos.bsky.social · 4h

And time to flex the ol block button muscle, methinks....

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 19h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 22h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Despoina She/They [Commissions Open] @desdarkdesigns.bsky.social · 1d

If you live in these states make damn sure to not give a second of peace to them, make their phones ring and their mailboxes bloat daily.

KOSA must be pushed against with full force.

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 4d

#SaveSpeech
Democrats that need to be reprimanded for cosponsoring KOSA:

J. Hickenlooper- CO
A. Klobuchar- MN
B. Lujan- NM
B. Schatz- HI
M. Hirono- HI
G. Peters- MI
J. Fetterman- PA
R. Blumenthal- CT
C. Schumer- NY
M. Hassan- NH
M. Kelly- AZ
P. Welch- VT

[more names + links continued below]

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Horny Time Pixel Theatre @hornypixeltheatre.bsky.social · 1d

Dominate your holiday season by making lewd pixels for your fellow artists! Sign up while there's still slime! (sorry)
#pixelart #secretsanta #artexchange #coolpeople

discord.gg/2RXcdnwMRZ

Pixel art image of two girls, one pinning the other down. On bottom is a girl with white hair wearing only red ribbons, looking at the viewer with a mixture of embarrassment and excitement. On top is a girl with black hair wearing a Santa hat, tube top, and red stockings. She pulls at the other girl's ribbon with one hand and pulls at the ribbons covering her breasts with her mouth, smiling mischievously at the viewer. Art by PxlFrug

Hi res pixel art image of a purple slime girl. A hanging coin swings in her face to hypnotize her while a man has his dick in her face. Another man grips her hips harshly as he fucks her, filling her transparent slime with cum. Art by notagoblin

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sillylilguy @sluupen.bsky.social · 3d

:>

#shortstack #oc #nsfw #art

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 5d

This is a great time to remind everyone that you should in fact, still be calling MasterCard, Visa, Stripe, and other payment processors to annoy the shit out of them.

Because I'll tell you right now, that shitheel? Not gonna have to worry about them accepting payment.

*Artists will.*

Phone Numbers
• Stripe (California): +1 888 926 2289 (Say you're based in California before continuing.)
• Stripe (Headquarters): +1 (888) 963-8955
• Stripe (US): +1 (877) 887-7815
• Stripe (France): +33 805-11-19-67
Mastercard (Headquarters): +1 914-249-2000 • Mastercard (US): +1 (800)-627-8372
Mastercard (US): +1 (800)-307-7309
• Mastercard (Int.): +1 (636)-722-7111
• Mastercard (AUS): +61 1800 120 113
• Mastercard (UK): 0-800-96-4767
All region numbers for Mastercard Visa (Headquarters): +1 (650)-432-3200
• Visa (US+ Can): +1 (800)-847-2911
• Visa (AUS): +61 1800 125 440 All region numbers for Visa
• PayPal (US): +1 (888)-221-1161
• PayPal (UK): +44 (0203)-901-7000
PayPal Customer Service: +1 (877)-569-1116

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Mister Thanatos 🔞 @misterthanatos.bsky.social · 2d

Oh dang, she's cute!

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 4d

#SaveSpeech
Democrats that need to be reprimanded for cosponsoring KOSA:

J. Hickenlooper- CO
A. Klobuchar- MN
B. Lujan- NM
B. Schatz- HI
M. Hirono- HI
G. Peters- MI
J. Fetterman- PA
R. Blumenthal- CT
C. Schumer- NY
M. Hassan- NH
M. Kelly- AZ
P. Welch- VT

[more names + links continued below]

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Mister Thanatos 🔞 @misterthanatos.bsky.social · 4d

Heyo! Thank you for the art share!

I'm Thanatos; I do various styles of illustrations, animations, and recently gotten back into game dev! Plenty of goofy nsfw stuff!

Figured since it's spooky month I'll share some old Halloween art!

Not sure who of my followers to tag, so go for it if you like!

The Artists' sona, Thanatos, but instead of a floating eyeball his head is an old CRT TV with horns, and his tentacles are varying degrees of cables. He's standing in front of a giant TV and being backlit by the static on screen.

A Halloween image of shortstack Midna in Imp form, wearing a pumpkin hat, jackolantern shirt that's showing her underboobs, and an orange thong with black and orange stockings. She's carrying a full bag of candy.

Pumpkin Demon named Tandy, lounging on a red and grey bit of furniture; she's wearing a spidery themed set of Halloween lingerie.

A slime gal named June, wearing a Halloween themed bit of lingerie; she's colored in orange, yellow, and white to mimic candy corn for the season.

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LoS Draws 🔞 @monsterfucker.bsky.social · 4d

Welcome to LoS's NSFW Saturday Artshare!

Guest art by @fuzzysenpai.bsky.social

👾Share with other creators!
👾Share your art or art you have commissioned (with proper credit) and a bit abot you!
👾Interact with these great artists!

NSFW encouraged, but not required!
NO NFTs/AI

FuzzySenpai's OC, Kyoko. Overlaid on top are the words "L:oS's NSFW Saturday Artshare"

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nic.tattoos @nicterhorst.com · 5d

This means if you're in the UK and haven't signed this yet, please do. At 100k signatures they have to discuss it again.

Literally the least you can do!!

GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 5d

UK Gouvernment: Payment Processors Can Ban NSFW Content
According to the UK treasury, payment processors are in the right and the gouvernment has no plans to step in. This puts it in direct contrast to what artists and the UK games industry have asked for.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

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Sith_art aka A’ine! 🏳️‍⚧️ @sith-art.bsky.social · 4d

Its almost like anti-porn laws are never actually about porn. 🤔

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 5d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

www.wilx.com

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Mister Thanatos 🔞 @misterthanatos.bsky.social · 4d

Got quite a few ideas for drawings for Halloween.

Biggest question is do I let em trickle out as I finish em, or save em all for one big weeklong spookfest at the end of the month...?

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🔞 Fuzzy Senpai 🔞Commissions OPEN! @fuzzysenpai.bsky.social · 7d

#TittyTuesday #artshare time! Hope everyone’s week started good :). Today show us your most recent or #wip boobies! Let them fly!!

🍑 Like, repost, follow me
🍑 Share your art or commissions
🍑 NSFW / SFW
🍑 Tag lovely artists and friends
🍑 Interact with each other
🍑 No AI or NFT

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Mister Thanatos 🔞 @misterthanatos.bsky.social · 4d

Making sure I'm in an appropriately good mood before heading to work; I appreciate it~

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Mister Thanatos 🔞 @misterthanatos.bsky.social · 5d

a close up of a cartoon character with the word tflix on the bottom left

Alt: Retsuko sweating heavily

media.tenor.com

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Iggy Bomb (Comms Open) @iggybomb.bsky.social · 5d

New adopt lot up

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 5d

Really hammer your reps about how catastrophic this is and how bad these laws are for peoples online safety

404 Media @404media.co · 5d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 12d

Paypros are still throwing their weight around. Now's a good time to pick up yelling at them again!

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 8d

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust.

When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.

Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where systemically marginalized users could feel safer, but…

plutopsyche.medium.com

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Mister Thanatos 🔞 @misterthanatos.bsky.social · 7d

It's like watching someone fall down an up escalator in slow motion. While someone at the bottom empties an endless bucket of thumbtacks onto the steps at the bottom.

It'd be impressive if it wasn't so avoidably horrifying.

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Mister Thanatos 🔞 @misterthanatos.bsky.social · 8d

Without downloading anything new, where are you at mentally?

A picture of a crow from a distance with the text "Do you know what time it is?" and below it a close up of the crow's face, wide eyed, with the text "TIME TO DIE" underneath it. This crow is up to something.

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DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 8d

Sent an e-mail to my reps about the Discord leak and I'll be sending out a letter about it soon too: complete with printed articles and other things. I hope y'all will consider doing the same! Takes about 5 minutes once you have the e-mails and you can just keep them in a notepad to use each week.

DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 8d

Gonna say it: if you have time to make fun of me for not wanting to accept censorship in America, you have time to e-mail your reps about the issue. Anytime you feel like dunking on someone because they don't wanna use crypto or a VPN, you should be using that energy to contact reps instead. Thanks!

DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 8d

Some assholes found some of my posts again, looks like. What a bummer! People truly are happy to just accept the censorship sweeping across America and they really think VPNs are going to go unchallenged forever, huh? Yikes.

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TheCongressman @thecongressman.bsky.social · 11d

bsky ceo's crashout shows they can not handle simple criticism, so keep doing it. bsky wants the marginalized people that built this site to shut up or leave, don't give them an easy way out

LeeTaeRyeo @leetaeryeo.com · 23d

BlueSky does not currently have advertising or any real monetization. Doing a boycott/blackout will have absolutely no impact on them due to this, other than users who would be impacted by the censoring doing the work for them.

The real way to impact would be to post more. Trend. Make them moderate

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 9d

This is genuinely some bullshit on bsky's part. A reaction meme of charlie kirk gets a Black person a permanent suspension, but people who actively doxx and spread hate against marginalized people not only get to stay, but het followed by mods?

We see you, bsky, and it's pretty fucking disgusting.

Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 9d

Unfortunate update: Link reached out to BlueSky and got email back now on reason.

His appeal is denied. He will remain permanently banned on BlueSky’s side.

Here are the screenshots he just sent me as of 8:22 AM EST(my time)

A screenshot of an email from the Bluesky Moderation Team with the subject line “Bluesky Account Behavior” sent at 22:15. The email states that a Bluesky account controlled by the recipient, with the handle @spacelawshitpost.me, posted a reply with an image where the alt text reads: Charlie Kirk sitting in a white T-shirt that says “Freedom.” A negative consequence follows. The email indicates this post violates Community Guidelines regarding violent or threatening speech, specifically listing threats of violence or physical harm against individuals, groups, institutions, or the general public, and incitement of self-harm or suicide.

A screenshot of an email continuation from the Bluesky Moderation Team displaying a bulleted list of Community Guidelines violations. The first bullet point describes threats of violence or physical harm as including threats or encouragement of violence against individuals, groups, institutions, or the general public. The second bullet point defines incitement of self-harm or suicide as content that encourages self-harm or suicide. The third bullet point explains wishes of harm as expressions of a desire for harm directed at a specific person or group. Below the bullets, a paragraph states that users may not use Bluesky to break the law or cause harm to others and that all users must be treated with respect. The next paragraph informs the recipient that as a result of these violations, your account has been taken down. A closing paragraph thanks the user for doing their part to keep Bluesky a welcoming and empowering place for all users and instructs them to email moderation@blueskyweb.xyz if they have questions or wish to appeal the decision. The email ends with the signature Bluesky Moderation Team.

A screenshot of an email from the Bluesky Moderation Team sent at 08:11 with the subject line Re: Bluesky Account Behavior addressed To: Hide My Email. The email reads:

Hi there,

Thank you for reaching out to appeal the takedown of your account on Bluesky. We have carefully reviewed your case, including the information you provided and the activity that led to the suspension of your account.

After investigating, we have determined that your account activity was in violation of our community guidelines, specifically promoting hateful content or being disruptive to other users. We take these guidelines seriously to ensure a safe and respectful environment for all our users.

As a result, we regret to inform you that your appeal has been denied, and your account will remain suspended. This decision is final and cannot be reversed. We understand that this may be disappointing news, but we must prioritize the well-being of our community and maintain a consistent enforcement of our policies. We encourage you to review our community guidelines to better understand the expectations we have for user behavior on our platform. Please do not create new accounts, since those will be taken down for ban evasion.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

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