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Brian Gray 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 2d

Again, no one is trying to *sell* anyone on the benefits of AI. They're just cramming it into everything we use, every site we visit and everywhere we go, and taking our continued use by way of... existing as consent.

Fucking sucks.

Michael Dashow @mdashow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Warning to anyone who has their art on Spreadshirt.com: They now have a feature where anyone can remix your art and it's impossible to opt out unless you just leave the site altogether.

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI

Spreadshirt is an online print-on-demand store. You can sell T-shirts and mugs and so on. My wife Arkady Rose is an artist as well as a musician, and had a pile of designs on Spreadshirt and Redbub…

pivot-to-ai.com

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spoopy stern 🎃 (still enjoying Lucanis) @sternentreue.bsky.social · 8d

I wish I could turn back time and experience that Solas is the Dread Wolf reveal for the first time again 😭

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 9d

people who built bsky:
-trans women (bsky protects jesse singal)
-Black users (bsky allows rampant antiBlack racism)
-SWers (bsky to implement hostile age verification in UK)
-organizers and activists (bsky autodeletes anyone in gaza with a pulse)
-artists (bsky dev says AI has rights lmao)

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Mogwaei @mogwaei.bsky.social · 11d

Wheeeee itsa my birthday!!🎂🎃✨
Mog arts and writings be upon thee!!

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 12d

Close your windows and put on your air purifiers IMMEDIATELY if you live in Southern California.

Ukraine War Brief Podcast @ukrainewarpod.bsky.social · 12d

Unfortunately, this isn’t Omsk. This is Los Angeles. 😭 The Chevron Refinery is on fire.

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🌿 silvain 🌿 is still lost in thedas 🐺⚔️ @awordforstrange.bsky.social · 14d

anya tabris the woman that you are 😍

screenshot of a custom female city elf in dragon age origins with red hair and light brown eyes

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🌿 silvain 🌿 is still lost in thedas 🐺⚔️ @awordforstrange.bsky.social · 14d

in light of recent ea-related news i will be returning to where it all began. i haven't played origins in like four years so i suppose it's time. anya baby we're going home.

screenshot of the dragon age origins home screen

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🌿 silvain 🌿 is still lost in thedas 🐺⚔️ @awordforstrange.bsky.social · 17d

I’m rereading all the dragon age novels and Fiona screaming “fuck the divine” in the middle of the white spire in dragon age asunder is just 🤌 go off queen 😌

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Kala Elizabeth 🐺 @kalaelizabeth.bsky.social · 18d

Saudi Arabia is about to invest in EA and censor the hell out of their games. These are the companies that worked to take over tiktok too. Yeahhh, this isn't good for EA and Mass Effect 5 is about to have straight romances only with no nudity. The age of censorship is just growing.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21d

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 21d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Sasha 🍂 @corvidkusnos.bsky.social · 21d

"I will see her avenged!"

#morrigan #elgar'nan #mythal #dragonage #veilguard #art #crowcreate

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Berry🍓🔞 @lemonberryconda.bsky.social · 22d

Autism is genetic, autism is becoming more common because we're not locking as many ppl up, killing them, or pushing them to the fringes of society, so they're finding each other, and F u cking.

Tylenol didn't give your kid autism, you let a man with 500k in vintage baseball cards hit it raw.

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Crispy Hanako @crispyhanako.bsky.social · 23d

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 23d

Bluesky is a wonderful place that has flourished in large part because of its artists and intolerance towards facists/Nazis. The Updated policy currently going into effect Oct 15 could fuck that up and we should be very vocal about it. Here are some specific things to mention in feedback (THREAD)

a man giving a thumbs up to a dog with the words do not blow this for us below him

ALT: a man giving a thumbs up to a dog with the words do not blow this for us below him

media.tenor.com

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Dastardly_Devil🔞 @dastardlydevil.bsky.social · Aug 15

I'm so tired of this puritanical bullshit.
Sex is healthy, sex fantasies are healthy, fiction is healthy.

I wish people would stop conflating BDSM and fiction with assault.
People have fantasies about power. That's normal!

Exploring feeling via stories is what humans do!

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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 25d

Restricting the expression of sexuality through fiction and art made by adults, for adults – including those you find personally disturbing or offputting – is conservative censorship, full stop. When that censorship disproportionately affects subgroups, that's also discrimination. For shame.

Muepin 🍂👻 @muepin.art · 25d

The bad news keep coming

These go into effect Oct 15th

D. Adult Content: We provide a safe space for consensual adult expression by requiring clear consent and stopping abuse.

i. We allow consensual adult sexual content, including fictional depictions, when appropriately labeled and subject to appropriate age restrictions.

ii. We do not allow sexual content involving non- consensual activity including synthetic, simulated, illustrated, or animated versions.

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Maijeliisa @maijeliisa.bsky.social · 24d

I painted sad egg🥺 I love this pathetic elf man🥺 #Solas #dragonage #fenharel #dreadwolf

Portrait of Solas from Dragon Age. His face is cast in blue-green light. He has some bruises and cuts from fighting. His head is surrounded by a halo of dark-ish green hues. Background is very dark, with hues of purple and red.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 24d

Out of curiosity how do you get consent from a drawing. Like maybe you should worry less about whether or not a cartoon has rights and more about whether real life trans and Palestinian people do

& Bluesky
D. Adult Content: We provide a safe space for consensual adult expression by requiring clear consent and stopping abuse.
i. We allow consensual adult sexual content, including fictional depictions, when appropriately labeled and subject to appropriate age restrictions.
ii. We do not allow sexual content involving non-consensual activity including synthetic, simulated, illustrated, or animated versions.
Ili. Do not share, threaten to share, or promote tools to create intimate images or sexual content of any individual without their express consent, including synthetic or digitally altered content.
iv. Do not create, share, or promote sexual content involving realistic risk of death or serious injury.
v. Do not engage in technology-facilitated abuse, harassment, or unwanted advances.
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🌿 silvain 🌿 is still lost in thedas 🐺⚔️ @awordforstrange.bsky.social · 24d

GUYS I GOT TO SEE SLEEP TOKEN LAST NIGHT AND THEY WERE AMAZING!!! My sister & i are already planning on seeing them again next time they tour here. She got better pictures than me but there’s vessel from our spot way back in the crowd (super zoomed in). THEY WERE SO GOOD 😭

Vessel from sleep token on stage at louder than life music festival in Kentucky. The background is very pink because of the lighting.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25d

Censorship is here and it’s come in the form of corporations censoring themselves in order to win favor with the regime.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 25d

This is the cost of casual legitimization of genai. The blood of this kind of suffering is on the hands of everyone who uses it for all the kind of stuff Giger has pointed out. Because you've been told for at least two years now what the cost of it is and to stop doing it.

GigerPunk @gigerpunk.bsky.social · 27d

Fuck me this is bleak.
But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.

‘Children's book illustrator isn't a job anymore.’
I've been out of work for a while now. I made children's book illustrations, stock art, and took various art commissions.

Now I have several maxed out credit cards and use a donation bin for food. I haven't had a steady contract in over a year. two weeks ago, when a client who has switched to AI found out about this he gave me $50 out of "a sense of guilt." Basically pity for the fact that Illustrator, as a job, does not exist anymore.

It was my birthday recently and I sincerely considered not living anymore.
The worst part of all is that the parents who once supported me fully in being an artist sent me an AI generated picture of a caricature of themselves holding a birthday cake with my name spelled incorrectly.

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 26d

FUCK THE FASH
TRANS RIGHTS FOREVER

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

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Mogwaei @mogwaei.bsky.social · 27d

Pride / Wisdom

#dragonage #solas

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🌿 Lana @lanaluuart.bsky.social · Sep 13

Road to Happiness 💍
#DragonAge #DragonAgeArt
#DorianWeek #DorianWeek2025

Dragon Age universe. Inquisitor Arlen riding on the back of a dracolisk and Dorian horseback, running through Ventus beaches to gether, dressed formally for their wedding.

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