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N.A. Pearson 🇵🇸🚩 @napearson.bsky.social · 1m

Currently seated for Perfect Blue.

N.A. Pearson 🇵🇸🚩 @napearson.bsky.social · 1h

This is like if Nick Land took estrogen rather than becoming a fascist

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N.A. Pearson 🇵🇸🚩 @napearson.bsky.social · 1h

the worst part is that it's going to be like, the most vanilla shit in the world and it's also not going to work lol. they're trying to recreate ERP, but the actual people that do LLM ERP are like, training them off of voluntarily sourced community logs

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 5h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 6h

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

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N.A. Pearson 🇵🇸🚩 @napearson.bsky.social · 5h

reading "F-List" aged me by 30 years

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N.A. Pearson 🇵🇸🚩 @napearson.bsky.social · 5h

*one good use

also like, content restrictions are probably gonna be bad along with the fact that it's gonna be like, trained on general-purpose stuff rather than ERP logs like hobbyists use

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N.A. Pearson 🇵🇸🚩 @napearson.bsky.social · 5h

the one good US of AI and it requires you to show your government-given ID to Saltman

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N.A. Pearson 🇵🇸🚩 @napearson.bsky.social · 5h

this is, and I am not joking, probably the best application of LLM text generators. if you do age verification you're getting your wallet inspected though.

The Verge @theverge.com · 5h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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N.A. Pearson 🇵🇸🚩 @napearson.bsky.social · 5h

all of the moralizing about Twitter here is a circlejerk. if your solutions about a bourgeois business being owned by bourgeoisie and making decisions that reflect that, you're not going to get it by transferring to another bourgeois business run by bourgeoisie.

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 6h

you folks don't even know what a world where bottom surgery was just totally normalized would actually look like & who its most avid participants would be. you haven't met the amount of cis women who have been like "damn i wish i could experience what having both parts is like" unprompted

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N.A. Pearson 🇵🇸🚩 @napearson.bsky.social · 8h

even One Battle After Another, although I think that movie is doing a lot

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N.A. Pearson 🇵🇸🚩 @napearson.bsky.social · 8h

you signed NAFTA, how did you not see this coming lol

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 21h

This concentration of wealth has progressed with every US presidency. And then people ask

“How did we get here?”

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either.

Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 1d

Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games

www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...

r/UKPersonalFinance
3 hr. ago
Previous-Camera1641

I develop adult video games on Steam. I can't find a bank that will actually let me withdraw my money from Steam. Can I get some advice?
Game has sold quite well on Steam. I've got almost £90,000 ready to withdraw after Steam's cut + VAT taken off.

However, it's been 2 months now and I can't find ANY bank in the UK who will let me withdraw my money from Steam.

I've been banned/refused/unable to get a business account with:

Wise
Revolut
Monzo
Monese
Chase
Starling
Nationwide
Halifax
Barclays
Lloyds
RBS

It always comes down to, "Where did you get this money from?"

"It's coming from games I sell on Steam."

"Can we see the store page?"

"Sure."

"I'm sorry, we can't do business with you at this time."

It keeps coming down to a commercial decision purely because I make adult content.

What the hell am I supposed to do? I've pretty much exhausted the whole banking system. I just want to be able to be paid for products I've sold.

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 10h

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 21h

We should teach Shakespeare to high schoolers by highlighting the dirty jokes.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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N.A. Pearson 🇵🇸🚩 @napearson.bsky.social · 20h

james somerton is the rule, not the exception

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HELL WIZARD @pyramidmaster.bsky.social · 20h

this is in large part because a clearly experience/reading-grounded thought that forwards curiosity about a work/artist/etc even if it’s a bit faulty is infinitely forgivable!!

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HELL WIZARD @pyramidmaster.bsky.social · 20h

I can’t stress enough that video essays make you stupid. like straight up a moron. anyone who knows a field can tell Video Essay Thoughts super fast, and likewise “I’m paraphrasing a post I saw” thoughts. you actually need to read, to think, and to synthesize

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N.A. Pearson 🇵🇸🚩 @napearson.bsky.social · 20h

Spooktober #4: VHS Halloween. More misses than hits. The Spanish segment and the final one were really the only ones I actually enjoyed rather than tolerating. Fun Size was just downright awful.

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🔫Scott Martian Invaders🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 23h

“That’s right! We’re the Squad 2.0! We’ll fix the Democratic party!”

Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown

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N.A. Pearson 🇵🇸🚩 @napearson.bsky.social · 23h

this largely tracks with what I understand about sexual abuser--the sexual repression and dissociation from their sexuality collapses into them finding the most extreme thing possible to get off with

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 23h

It's weird that the guy who made the spyware app that Mike Johnson uses to spy on his son's porn-watching, and vice versa, was found to have a stash of CSAM and that just blipped right out of the news.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson predicts the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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krad @kradeelav.com · 1d

There's a UK adult games creator on reddit who's been rejected from 36(!) and counting UK banks and unable to process the earned £90,000. Debanking for adult creators continues to be a real threat.

reddit.com/r/UKPersonalFinance/comments/1o5nw74/i_develop_adult_video_games_on_steam_i_cant_find/

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Explore this post and more from the UKPersonalFinance community

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N.A. Pearson 🇵🇸🚩 @napearson.bsky.social · 1d

From my analysis: A non-party pressure group is needed to prevent cases like mine, where I got thrown out of my DSA chapter because I mentioned lolishota in writings about desire and feminism. If you can't defeat moralism within the Left, you can't create a revolutionary party apparatus.

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 1d

some context is important. Hasan defended sabrina carpenter‘s album cover and some of his chat started screaming at him. left content creators are held captive by a puritan element. the call is coming from inside the house on this stuff. some of the people who worsened this problem hang out on here

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

I keep bringing up to some creators and so far I've seen basically none of the ones I've done so even come near the topic... rather disheartening.

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 1d

some context is important. Hasan defended sabrina carpenter‘s album cover and some of his chat started screaming at him. left content creators are held captive by a puritan element. the call is coming from inside the house on this stuff. some of the people who worsened this problem hang out on here

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

I keep bringing up to some creators and so far I've seen basically none of the ones I've done so even come near the topic... rather disheartening.

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