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Aether (Hiatus) @aethercaelum.bsky.social · 20d

#bskycensorship Bluesky team, get your act together challenge

Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 20d

Much more helpful than a blackout! Maybe get a tag trending on it? #bskycensorship

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 20d

Instead of a posting strike, I think we should all change our profile pictures to something that reflects our anger and outrage over the changes to the Bluesky community guidelines. A suggestion:

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 20d

#bskycensorship do better for the people who built your site or you won't have a site

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Replica004 | Sara Zeno Camponeschi @replica004.bsky.social · Mar 31

Happy #TransDayofVisibility friends! 🥹🏳️‍⚧️💙

illustration of jesus as a trans man, with a crown of thorns and top surgery scars. Celebrating his existence with a glass of champagne

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Void🔞 | VGen @voiddebris.bsky.social · 21d

Do NOT believe the misinfo going around

There absolutely have been MASSIVE TOS updates

Most notably:

1) Specifying no FICTIONAL noncon
2) No "dangerous" kink
3) No DISCUSSING self harm, suicide, or substance abuse unless its "educational"

So what can we DO about it?

#SaveSpeech

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Multiple cropped screenshots showing portions of the bsky TOS before and now. Before: "iv. Encouraging self-harm or suicide
v. Depictions of excessive violence, gore, torture, dismemberment, or non-consensual sexual activity". Now: "ii. We do not allow sexual content involving non-consensual activity including synthetic, simulated, illustrated, or animated versions. iv. Do not create, share, or promote sexual content involving realistic risk of death or serious injury. i. Do not share content, methods, instructions, or promotion of self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, and extreme dieting practices.
ii. Do not share methods, instructions, depictions, or promotion of dangerous stunts or abuse of dangerous or controlled substances. 5. Protected Expression
B. Support, Recovery, and Mental Health:
i. Personal recovery experiences or survivor stories shared to promote healing and community support rather than encouraging harmful behavior.
ii. Sharing verified mental health resources, crisis prevention".

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Buns @peakbuns.bsky.social · 20d

You are actively threatening artist's livelihoods in order to "protect" people from a "danger" that doesn't exist

Bluesky @bsky.app · 21d

Thank you to the 14,000+ people who shared feedback on our community guidelines! We’re updating our rules for clarity, strengthening enforcement, and introducing product changes for healthier conversations. New guidelines kick in Oct 15. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Building Healthier Social Media: Updated Guidelines and New Features - Bluesky

Public discourse on social media has grown toxic and divisive, but unlike other platforms, Bluesky is building a social web that empowers people instead of exploiting them.

bsky.social

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RayDay @rayday.bsky.social · 20d

Hey, I made a really stupid sticker for your BDSM art in 'honour' of #bskycensorship war week.

Graphic design is not my passion, so feel free to slap this goofy thing on your painplay, shibari and whatever if you want to give a🖕to T&S, I don't care because I'm not a fucking cop.

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Fanfiction FESTA 📌 Feedback Form @fanfictionfesta.bsky.social · 20d

Did you see the updated TOS? It will affect so many people, including our wonderful writers and readers. Yes, even those that read and create the fluffiest of fluff, so make sure to fill out that feedback form to help keep our communities together 💛

#bskycensorship

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Void🔞 | VGen @voiddebris.bsky.social · 21d

TELL bsky you have an issue with this!

1) KEEP talking about it - don't let this issue fade away

2) Submit feedback to bsky! TELL them its not okay!

On PC: on the right under "trending"

On mobile: on the left under "settings"

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Screenshot showing the "feedback" button for bsky under the "trending" section.

Screenshot showing the "feedback" button for bsky under the "settings" section.

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Athanors (Lin) @buttoven.bsky.social · Jun 26

Heavy is the hand that draws the porn comics.

A giant dildo floats above the porn artist as she looks up at the Dildo of Damocles

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Violette 🧝🏽‍♀️🧙🏻‍♂️ LADY FAY @violettenouvel.bsky.social · 21d

A parody of one of Kate Beaton's comic strip.
Panel 1, Character A : "Fictional character I have come to ravish you without your consent"
Panel 2, Character B, looking at Bluesky and Patreon stickpersons : "Not in the middle of the puritan apps, Other Fictional Character". Character A : "Fine."
Panel 3, Character A : "Then I, a thoughtless abstract concept, will sit here consumed with degenerate perversion for the rest of eternity"

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FEARne 👻 @almandines.bsky.social · Sep 10

anyway fuck censorship. we should all get weirder and worse

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 20d

NO PORN TO POST?

Use the tag #bskycensorship to talk about why this matters and to demand change regardless!

Repost nsfw artist work in protest, uplift our voices, and tell others what's going on and why to care! Check the replies on the TOS post for ways to explain:

bsky.app/profile/bsky...

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🔞teobutt💕 @smutteo.bsky.social · 21d

womp womp.

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Kaban (BangDacy) 🔞 @bangdacy.bsky.social · 21d

I'm just feeling numb

a girl is laying under a blanket looking at a cell phone .

ALT: a girl is laying under a blanket looking at a cell phone .

media.tenor.com

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🔞BunnydewArt🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ➡️ BLFC w/ MOOPA.INK B24 Tues. 10/14 @bunnydewart.bsky.social · 22d

putting this on your timeline again

Text over a sparkly flowery background which reads: “WE SUPPORT SLUTS AND WHORES ON THIS PAGE”.

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That Dirty Star Platinum Artist🔞 @creamiplatinum.is.sick.fyi · 21d

Anyway, here’s your form of consent, Bluesky.

Meme from Parks and Recreation of Ron handing a paper to an officer and saying “Not to worry. I have a permit.”

Followed by a closeup image of the paper being held by the officer, edited to read:

“Every fictional character I’ve drawn and will draw having sex, has consented to being drawn that way. They told me themselves.”

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Mama Raven @ravenemore.bsky.social · Aug 23

a reminder

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Mike Futter @futterish.fsquared.biz · Sep 4

We all need to take this seriously. Payment processors are serving as extrajudicial arbiters of speech. This cannot be allowed to continue.

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · Sep 3

www.polygon.com/steam-visa-m...

The censorship on Steam is coming for everyone on the internet

Game developers are being denied early access, while others are struggling to get paid in the saga involving Steam, Visa, Mastercard, and Paypal

www.polygon.com

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Ghostly Homos 👻 @hexhomos.bsky.social · Sep 3

‼️CAREFUL, AO3 PHISHING SITE DISCOVERED

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Pete🔞 @stuckinapit.bsky.social · Aug 21

🖐🥴🤚

Page of NSFW drawings of hands and cocks lovingly exploring transmasc bodies

#peteart #peteNSFW

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GhostPepper @spicerack.bsky.social · Aug 24

Also I would post this on the office discord but the fandom (...most fandoms really) is absolutely rabid if u have a different opinion.

So I'm sticking to my own sandbox.

GhostPepper @spicerack.bsky.social · Aug 24

Started out as art practice turned into my MC from Love and Deepspace. No prizes of guessing my main LI. 🐦‍⬛

Super low quality, watermarked to hell and back and with my main username cause my iPad is on my desk and I can't be assed standing up to get it.

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Gracu ✨🌈 @prismagic.bsky.social · Aug 12

I cannot express enough to you how much POWER your reposts have on Bluesky. Because Bluesky doesn't have an algorithm on your following page, every person who follows you will see anything and everything you repost. So even if you don't have a ton of followers, your reposts are still STRONG.

ashley | nyc artist @artbysmashley.bsky.social · Aug 12

✨ HOW TO: support artists for $0.00 ✨

- leave a like!
- repost their work - more eyes!!
- comment on their posts! (an emoji goes a long way!)

all of this means so much to artists and helps immensely!! just a reminder that support does NOT always have to be financial 🥰🤍✨

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Juju 🔞 @julairun.bsky.social · Aug 15

It sure would be a shame if that survey was available to anyone who wants to share their thoughts on the matter…

patreon.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Meredith McClaren at ROMICS Oct '25 @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · Aug 15

I don't know if it's being sent at random, but I got an email survey from Patreon. And I never miss an opportunity to yell.

It's all about AI.

They very much want to use AI.
They very much want to use your art to train AI.
They could not broadcast more clearly how much they want a piece of that AI

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John A Dracula Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · Nov 8

create

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bonus comics:
patreon.com/nhoj

4 panel comic

P1: a right hand draws a wavy stroke on a sketchbook page. A caption box up top reads "draw"

P2: the word "CREATE" dominates a panel with a black background, forming in the negative space. Various small shapes surround it.

P3: a lone simplified humanoid figure is on the bottom right of a another panel with a black background. A thought bubble forms above their head, the words "if not for others, then at least for yourself" within.

P4: The Earth dominates the bottom of the panel, with a sliver of space above it. Clouds swirl and boil across the Earth, which is the only element on the entire page coloured a pink-red. A caption box above reads "now, more than ever"

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