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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 5h

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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ahoguru🔞 | comms open @ahoguru.bsky.social · 1d

#Melnem from July poll! ♥️
#Hades2

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 9h

put trans women in your fiction. don’t be a fucking coward.

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megasoups.bsky.social @megasoups.bsky.social · 1d

KOSA just got a bunch of new cosponsors so, y'all, kindly tell them to knock it the fuck off.
Make this bill unpassable for the sake of keeping the open internet, enough of this censorship BS and "protect the children" excuses.

#savespeech #KOSA #stopkosa

www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Slashic Horror Press @slashichorrorpress.bsky.social · 19d

Lesser Hungers is getting inside people already... Will you satisfy your hunger?

Preorder Now.
Available everywhere November 15.

#BookSky

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

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Pointy Ears🔞 🏳️‍🌈 @pointyears.bsky.social · 1d

Melinoe

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

#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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tams @ MCM London @maezanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“This two-handed soldier’s sword was huge and aberrant and frankly malicious, and utterly your responsibility.”

A drawing of Harrowhark Nonagesimus from The Locked Tomb series, dressed in hospital clothes while hugging a glowing two handed sword and crying, her gaze a little lost.

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elka 🌾 commissions open! @saintsbeware.bsky.social · 3d

hello friends! I'm trying to raise money to help my partner step down from a position that's killing her to go back to her previous role and responsibilities.

anything helps, commissions or tips are greatly appreciated! 🖤🥀🍁
#booksky #artsky #ocsky #elfenjoyers

goal here: ko-fi.com/elkamarsden

elka 🌾 commissions open! @saintsbeware.bsky.social · 5d

hey there!✨ you can get a character illustration like these starting at 85 USD! please share and let your friends know that I have available commission slots for this month! 🖤🥀

vgen.co/saintsbeware
#artsky #booksky #commission

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

there have always been people who like to write, and people who like to say they have written, and the latter really love the idea of AI and the former can not understand why you'd let a computer do the fun part.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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la creatura 𓃗 franco-cantabrian cave art #1 fan @meirimerens.bsky.social · Aug 22

[nonsexual nudity]

MY completely original and not at all filing-the-serial-numbers-off mediterraninlandsteppe neolithironbronze ages eurasian societies mythical Amazons-inspired bullshit straight up infantry fighters & high priestess female characters.

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クリス 🏳️‍🌈 💖💜💙 @nerdvolutionkurisu.bsky.social · 2d

Cerberus
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#artober

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 2d

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 2d

You won’t find better lesbian books anywhere

Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 3d

It's International Lesbian Day! 🧡🤍💗

As a reminder, you can get so many literary lesbians from me at riengray.shop and they are all unabashedly attuned with their sexuality 🔥

My one trad pub release is also available here: www.amazon.com/Her-Wolf-Wil...

Covers for Rien Gray's lesbian romance books: Valerin the Fair, The Scales of Seduction, Her Wolf in the Wild, and Martis the Brazen.

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 3d

It's International Lesbian Day! 🧡🤍💗

As a reminder, you can get so many literary lesbians from me at riengray.shop and they are all unabashedly attuned with their sexuality 🔥

My one trad pub release is also available here: www.amazon.com/Her-Wolf-Wil...

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 3d

that kid is going places

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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 4d

This past month was so busy I’ve been neglecting my book promos, so how about a little sale?

🌸✨Name Her Holy ebook for $1✨🌸 only on my kofi from now through Friday!

Get yourself a slowburn sapphic space fantasy novel for your weekend read 🍂☕️

ko-fi.com/s/748ece637a

Cover for Name Her Holy by Aubrey Ennis, a crown of dusty mauve and earthy flowers surround a black swirling void. Behind the cover is a split image of a red haired woman in armor and a woman with dark short hair covering her face.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

keep calling and telling them to stand strong

the difference between last time (when they got yelled at incessantly for caving) and this time needs to be a chasm in terms of the feedback they're getting from constituents

we can get them to hold

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3d

Tina Smith says Democrats are digging in: “If anything, we’re feeling more strong.”

“I think we've tapped into something that's really important to Americans.”

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makana yamaghosto @makana-yama.bsky.social · 3d

I am always surprised by international lesbian day lol

I'm Makana! I'm a mixed race nonbinary lesbian who writes science fiction full of mixed race nonbinary lesbians! my debut cyberpunk space heist novel HAMMAJANG LUCK is out now, and it's standalone sequel THE OBAKE CODE will be out Feb 17th!

trope graphic for the obake code but oops it's all lesbians. the cover is in the center of the graphic, showing malia, a black woman in a white shirt, black pants, black boots, and her long hair in green dip-dyed locs. she is looking up at a futuristic sky, with skyscrapers with pink and purple windows and a flying car whizzing overhead. the cover is on a background of the lesbian flag in spattered paint. the arrows read "lesbians," "so many lesbians," "butch lesbians," "chapstick lesbians," "femme lesbians," "aro/ace lesbians," "lesbians of color," "indigenous lesbians," "black lesbians," "they/them lesbians," and "he/him lesbians."

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 3d

LEVERAGE X THE BLONDE IDENTITY

A closeted scientist has a breakthrough on true AI that makes her an assassination target. The bodyguard she hires to protect herself brings complex attraction to the surface - but they also might be a danger from her past in disguise.

#DVpit #LGBT #OWN #TV #A #F

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 3d

"[x] would kill the AI industry!"

fascinating how much they care more about an industry 'living' than, say, people (the artists they stole from who need to eat)

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Searyn 🔞 @searynnsfw.bsky.social · 3d

Kinktober Day 8 - Monster

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