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Dynamo @hyperdynamotv.bsky.social · 19d

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Urie @radiocative.bsky.social · 29d

Just screamed in genuine horror at daganronpa

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Urie @radiocative.bsky.social · 29d

Pay us 80 dollar to hurt your eyes, badly

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Urie @radiocative.bsky.social · 29d

Dude where are the games

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Fsyco @fsyco.bsky.social · Sep 6

Was reminded of this interaction i had with a commission scammer 2 years ago where they were pretending they could make custom 3D models

Me: "so what's the polycount?"
Scammer: "Do you elaborate plz"
Me: "you're a 3d animator and you don't know what 'polycount' means?"
Me: "how many polygons are on the model?"
Scammer: "three"

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🌈⭐KEKE⭐🌈 @kekematon.bsky.social · Aug 26

ms paint trackpad doodles

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Raze 🩷 ned low's malewife @raiderking.bsky.social · Aug 15

Sharing for visibility.

thewitchoftheweed posts:

We live in the dumbest, lamest cyberpunk dystopia possible.

So LA has been — and continues to — protest against ICE. These protests haven't gotten any smaller or lost any momentum, but social media wasn't reflecting it.

TikTok users, realizing that the platform/other social media are censoring/deleting/shadowbanning these protest videos, decided to find a workaround.

They're calling it the LA Music Festival. Ice detention centers and other protest locations are "stages." The hottest band is Rage Against the Machine. "Here's what gear you should be bringing to stay safe at the LA Music Festival."

And it fucking worked.

TikTok has become a proving ground for a lot of new music, meaning lots of labels and organizations have lucrative deals with TikTok to promote their new artists and music festivals. So they absolutely cannot censor the words "music festival" or train the algorithm to Ignore it, or they risk endangering that very important revenue.

So now protest videos are flooding feeds again, but it's the LA 24/7 Music Festival. Truly an incredible timeline we've landed in.

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · Aug 12

I know it’s distressing seeing people every day pleading for money not to starve especially if there’s little you can do to help. But at the very least stop with the assumptions that Gaza fundraisers are all scammers and stop labeling/reporting their accounts!! They’re real people trying to survive!

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Aug 12

alt text:

"Multiple cybersecurity experts that the ABC has spoken with say they have not yet seen any evidence to suggest Gaza-focused crowdfunding campaigns are being targeted by online scammers."

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · Aug 1

Deskilling is real.

This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.

Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · Jul 31

help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help

From r/chatGPTpro, 25 minutes ago: chatGPT blocked at work

Today my job decided to block the site. I use chatGPT to create SOPs (standard operating practices) and power points and polish my emails. What should I do now four question marks. It has 0 upvotes and 20 comments

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SmallBu Animation @smallbu.bsky.social · Aug 1

It's happening! It'll prolly take a few days so we don't get shadow banned! Thank you!!

Michael Scally @fizzvstheworld.bsky.social · Aug 1

BAMAN PIDERMAN ARE FINALLY BACK HOME UNDER @smallbu.bsky.social'S ROOF!

Truly a day of celebration for indie animators everywhere...
#FizzVsComics

BAMAN PIDERMAN - Episode 1 - Find Da Sandwich

YouTube video by SmallButera

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bsb @blackshirtboy.bsky.social · Jul 31

Let's Keep Calling!

An image of a huge jackboot crushing a comic artist and a bunch of comic pages. The boot is marked by the logos for MasterCard, Visa, Paypal, and Stripe. Below the image there is text which reads: Don't let Payment Processors tell YOU what you can buy! It is not a payment processor's role to decide what kind of content you can or cannot spend money on, so long as it is a legal transaction. Fight back against the unjust policies hurting artists and creators online!

https://yellat.money/
https://stop-paypros.neocities.org/

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fabric @fabricici.net · Jul 25

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Urie @radiocative.bsky.social · Jul 31

I need to do that since there's achievements for winning 29 races in a career

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · Jul 28

Keep up the pressure! #SaveSpeech

In the last two weeks, we have seen a wave of censorship sweep across online retailers, particularly Steam and Itch.io. This is because of demands from payment processors as well as sex-negative activist groups like Collective Shout (originally reported by journalist Ana Valens, and then censored by VICE’s parent company).

UVW affirms that sex and sexuality belong in games. Games are works of art, created by workers who should be free to express themselves. It's important to encourage a healthy and critical discourse about the media we consume. One vocal minority cannot have the power to categorically silence creative expression, just because some sexual themes make some people uncomfortable.

Sexual art is art, sex work is work. Any attempt to suppress sexual art is an attempt to suppress all art. Any attempt to deny sex workers their dignity is an attempt to deny all workers their dignity.

Workers rely on platforms like Steam and itch.io to distribute their games, and it is workers who are suffering at the behest of this vocal minority. We call on the payment processors Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, and any other companies demanding compliance with this unjust action to reverse their policies and stand with the workers who have lined their pockets for years with their labor. We call on Valve and the Itch.io leadership to reverse their policies and stand with game developers.

We encourage our members and the general games community to use the resources in the quoted post to contact these payment processors directly and express how strongly we object to their actions.

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nyoomfist.bsky.social @nyoomfist.bsky.social · Jul 27

It was never about child safety. It never is.

UK people, contact your MPs. Do not do the typical British thing and let this go without a fuss.

Clord TC, Comics Guy @clordtc.bsky.social · Jul 26

OSA is gonna make us lose access to fucking wikipedia

write to your MPs.

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Ruby Ko-BOO-ld 🌹🎃 @fluffyscales.bsky.social · Jul 25

LMAO I called Visa’s customer support service - the guy on the other line was like “are you ALSO calling about the video game payment processing? Please send us emails instead.”

Keep up the calls, folks, we’re definitely gumming up their works

Void🔞 | VGen @voiddebris.bsky.social · Jul 24

I know we're upset about itch, but they're not the only ones

Payment processors harassed companies bc of a 1,000 email hate campaign

But we can EASILY top 1,000!

I prewrote an email + got the contact info - you just have to send!

↻💬♡ to boost

We CAN make a difference 💕

#itch #censorship

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Digital graphic with the text "anti-censorship campaign" and screenshots of headlines about how multiple storefronts have removed NSFW content due to pressure from payment processors and Collective Shout.

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Urie @radiocative.bsky.social · Jul 24

i feel like all those featured accounts on the front page are the easiest to attack and they probably have it the best. why not like give everyone that sort of chance and put random members on the front page... more visibility for everyone

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Urie @radiocative.bsky.social · Jul 24

i HAVE been busy this month and like the spirit of the game is to do what you want but.. i wana draw... but cant... bc not motivated

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Urie @radiocative.bsky.social · Jul 24

its so hard to be motivated for art fight when you get no attacks. idt ive gotten anything for like weeks ... no cool characters to draw .... no revenges of my attacks either .. it can get pretty draining -_-

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · Jul 18

Hey uh so in a US region you can be AN ADULT and not have rights to your care. THIS. IS. THE. LINE. THIS is the hill on which WE MUST FIGHT. NEXT THING YOU KNOW IT WILL BE STATESIDE.

onion person @junlper.beer · Jul 18

this is getting next to no media attention and it’s horrifying. transphobes weren’t going to stop at bathrooms, no hormones for minors, they are going to keep pushing until it’s entirely illegal and no one is standing up for us other than trans people

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Cherry @thattscherry.bsky.social · Jul 16

attack for Fristo on Art Fight !!

https://artfight.net/attack/11310047.diogenes drawing of Fristo's character Diogenes doing stand-up comedy, in the background is Pointy's character Ohungi cheering him on

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pistolewe.bsky.social @pistolewe.bsky.social · Jun 21

#deltarune

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Yadana @yadanathreefour.bsky.social · Jul 4

i read the citations like the fx when opening a dark fountain

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · Jun 25

This is an image maga is posting to stoke fear of Mamdani. A list of things that sound awesome

Fox News screen showing Mamdani’s platform, next to a photo of him
HOUSING
AFFORDABILITY
• FREEZE THE RENT
• BUILDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING
CREATING CITY-OWNED GROCERY STORES
• FARE FREE BUSES
LGBTQIA + PROTECTIONS
LABOR
• EXPANDING AND PROTECTING
GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE CITYWIDE
• MAKING NYC AN LGBTGIA+
SANCTUARY CITY
RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE TO $30 BY 2030
TRUMP-PROOFING NYC
END ICE
COOPERATION
ZOHRAN FOR NEW YORK CITY

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · Jun 21

very rare that an update from Gaza is good to hear — but WCK’s tenacious commitment to its kitchens there is that rarity

I just donated again to support their work and hope you can & will too

World Central Kitchen @wck.org · Jun 21

WCK resumed cooking in Gaza after our first aid delivery in 12 weeks. With new ingredients on hand, we’re preparing warm, carb-rich meals like pasta and hearty potato stews. The WCK team cooked nearly 10,000 meals on day one of resumed operations. #ChefsForGaza (1/2)

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