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Adigun Azikiwe Polack || Digital & Pixel Artist/Visionary 👑🍉️👍🏿 @adigunpolack.bsky.social · 11h

And, get those phones & letters on FULL BLAST against those senators who want to ram KOSA through in the monumentally atrocious excuse of theirs of ‘tH1nK 0f tH3 cHiLdReN!1!!1’ when really, that fatally repugnant-ass bill overthrows & rips up our privacy forever.

And 𝑫𝑬𝑭𝑰𝑵𝑰𝑻𝑬𝑳𝒀 tell them this, too:

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.

www.theverge.com

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 15d

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#SaveSpeech

If you're like me and you are struggling to contact your senators re: KOSA via their phone lines this week, I recommend attempting to send physical letters or emails in the meantime.

Here is a script you can use to contact your reps!

www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [LOCATION]
I'm messaging to demand [SENATOR] oppose S. 1748, the Kids Online Safety Act, also known as KOSA. This broad legislation does not protect anyone and instead will be used to block any speech that the Trump administration’s partisan FTC disagrees with. It pushes the “duty of care” onto websites and social media platforms to remove content that is “harmful to children”. It would lead to overcompliance, mass censorship, and remove access to crucial information re: everything from mental health, LGBT topics, substance abuse, eating disorders and more.
Additionally, while large, corporate platforms like X can shoulder the weight of “duty of care”, smaller websites cannot, leading to greater and greater concentrations of power online into giant corporate platforms rather than small and medium sized businesses.
KOSA will not make kids safer. It will make the internet more dangerous for anyone who relies on it to learn, connect, or speak freely. Lawmakers should reject it, and fast.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
IF SENATOR COSPONSORED KOSA: Additionally, I want to remark on [SENATOR]’s cosponsorship of this bill. I think it is shameful that [SENATOR] has backed a bill as transparently bad as KOSA. This will not keep kids safe, it is an excuse to censor the free and open internet. I will not be voting for nor donating to [SENATOR] in any future campaigns if they do not drop their co-sponsorship of this bill, and I will encourage everyone in my life to do the same.
Do the right thing.

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Adigun Azikiwe Polack || Digital & Pixel Artist/Visionary 👑🍉️👍🏿 @adigunpolack.bsky.social · 1d

#NSFW #art
Halloween is *truly* upon us all. 🎃🍓

Here, I spin my classic 🔞 tale that involves a cunningly seductive witch-goddess of the Great Cane Sugar Desert, as she lures an exiled adult crown prince into her bottomless yielding “honey-trap” of quickmolasses...

Season of the #witch, indeed... ❤️‍🔥

Their Heavenly Just Deserts in the Treacle Morass
by Adigun Azikiwe Polack (@AdigunPolack)

©2012 Adigun Azikiwe Polack. All Rights Reserved.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · Jul 24

Kill the Hays Code in your head.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 4d

I wish they said explicitly that there's $5 billion in emergency reserves they're refusing to use instead they're happy to let people - mostly children, the disabled, and elderly, starve.

Reuters @reuters.com · 4d

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.

reut.rs

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 4d

Food is a human right regardless of who someone voted for and especially regardless of who their PARENTS voted for and a lot of y’all are scaring the shit out of me. I got a lot of the same when I said no one deserves measles, too, and the way this country thirsts for punishment is just very bad!

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 3d

I cannot believe I have to say this but anyone replying to this with any variation of “this is what they get” is getting blocked no questions asked. Kids are going hungry. Fix your hearts you fucking weird monsters.

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Bluu💙 @lilbluubird.bsky.social · 3d

Painting study of God Speed by Edmund Leighton but making it dnd OCs 🥰#dnd #dndoc #originalcharacter #artstudy

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Mu Art @muart242.bsky.social · 2d

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Noah Dao @noahdeaart.bsky.social · 3d

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mimi 🗡️ @heirakka.bsky.social · Sep 21

CW / 🔞 nsfw oc art —

well i guess i can show you my favorite thing i ever drew. ever.

Erotic art of Prince Mat wearing a corset and sitting in Knight Emil's lap as he rides him on the edge of his bed in his princely bedroom. Emil is wearing only half of his armor as he pleases Mat.

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alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · 4d

Backed by the Heritage Foundation and Big Tech, KOSA will force everyone to upload their ID to access the internet. In an age when Palantir has direct ties to ICE, where technofascists are in power and want to eliminate and censor everything, we CANNOT allow KOSA to pass.

It NEEDS mass pushback.

Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 6d

🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on.

You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com

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ZeldaTheSwordsman (After Dark) @ztsafterdark.bsky.social · 4d

We seriously need to get it through the moronic Democrat sponsors that when its advocates claim "kids are accessing porn" what they really mean is "kids are reading about queer people and about slavery and segregation being bad".

Also that online ID laws unfairly burden small businesses.

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alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · 4d

what we really need to also do is get these pro-KOSA self-declared "child protecting" orgs to back tf off this shitty bill

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | COMMS: (4/5) @acvalens.net · 1d

Guy who outsources all his higher thinking skills to ChatGPT: IM SUFFERING WITHOUT AI!!!!

doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 2d

the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever

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Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 2d

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.

Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning

Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when

academic.oup.com

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe the thing that gives me a pulse-pounding throbbing headache is when I think of how techbros sold ChatGPT to universities as ‘revolutionizing’ higher education and our institutions just forked over money without even asking for actual evidence

Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 2d

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.

Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning

Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when

academic.oup.com

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Jacq 🏳️‍🌈🍉 @jacqjohnsonart.bsky.social · 2d

Opaluela as The High Priestess 🌙✨

|| #art #digitalart #tarot #nightelf #elf #druid #warcraft #worldofwarcraft #elfenjoyers ||

A night elf sits depicted as the Rider Waite High Priestess card.

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hby's stuff @hby.bsky.social · 1d

Pixelween week 4 (with some revisions on week 3)
#pixelart #artpost

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zmeess ☂️ commissions open @zmeess.bsky.social · 1d

rushing to the other side

#CriticalRole #CriticalRoleSpoilers #CriticalRoleFanArt #CriticalRoleCampaign4

digital fan art of a scene from campaign 4 episode 4 of Critical Role, illustrating Aranessa and Thaisha running. Aranessa is depicted as a light-skinned thin human with long ginger hair in a disheveled updo, wearing a dark green dress. Thaisha is a much taller, more muscular and heavy-set green-skinned orc, with long kinky dark hair, dressed in a red sleeveless tunic and comfortable dark pants. both of them are rushing to the bridge that is just visible at the edge of the picture; Aranessa has picked up some of her skirts and kicked off her shoes, bare feet against cobblestone, reaching towards the invisible barrier between Estate Davinos and safety. Thaisha is a step behind her, Occtis's dead body slung over one of her shoulders. there is blood smeared across Aranessa's face, some flowing from her nose; Thaisha's shoulder is covered in Occtis's blood. they are illuminated by the light of the full moon peeking from behind dense clouds, casting an eerie teal glow over them.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 4d

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

Reuters @reuters.com · 4d

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.

reut.rs

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Shoot the Core-cast @shootthecorecast.bsky.social · 1d

Episode 086 is available now! MetalFRO and Addicted finish out Pacific Theater Summer with the black sheep of the 194X series, Capcom's 1944!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUHs...