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Blibbles - DRAGON RAGE @blibbles.bsky.social · 6h

I... I know...

a girl with blue hair covering her face with her hands

Alt: Mio, exasperated from an ordeal.

media.tenor.com

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Blibbles - DRAGON RAGE @blibbles.bsky.social · 6h

Instructions: Pour dry ingredients into container, shake, then pour water and microwave.

Me: Pour water, pour dry ingredients into container, then sha-- OH GOD.

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Blibbles - DRAGON RAGE @blibbles.bsky.social · 9h

Do it.

Blibbles - DRAGON RAGE @blibbles.bsky.social · 9h

I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS. WHAT WOULD LUFFY DO?

The One Piece Podcast @onepiecepodcast.com · 17h

Protesters around the world are using the Straw Hat Pirate Jolly Roger as a symbol of freedom. We plan on doing a detailed report on this phenomenon in the coming weeks. In the meanwhile, here is an updating list of countries where the Jolly Roger has appeared:

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chelsea bridge 🏳️‍⚧️ @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 10d

cis people,

you have to show up. right now. we do not have the numbers, but you do.

we are talking about suicide. that's what this headline is.

taking away HRT will increase trans suicides. i and so many others are dead without it.

don't let us die without trying to keep us alive. call, please.

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Blibbles - DRAGON RAGE @blibbles.bsky.social · 20h

Please take all the time you need. This isn't something that you can just... Power through. I'm sorry.

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Blibbles - DRAGON RAGE @blibbles.bsky.social · 22h

What in the hell am I reading??

Blibbles - DRAGON RAGE @blibbles.bsky.social · 22h

Uaghh that's awful. Do you want me to bring anything over?

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 1d

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Gilbert #NewDeal4Animation @discord12395.bsky.social · 6d

This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros

And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

@Inker_comics: I JUST GOT FUCKED UP REAL BAD [shared a screenshot of his suspension from PayPal]

@MrQuessos: [quote tweeting @Inker_comics] If you are going to pay an artist via PayPal, please DO NOT include ANYTHING related to commission or nsfw in the payment description. Whether out of ignorance or innocence, you could screw up someone's job.

Mastercard

Phone (US): 1-800-627-8372
1-800-307-7309
US option selection: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1
Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111
Aus: +61 1800 120 113
UK: 0-800-96-4767
All region numbers here (and here )

Stripe

California: 888-926-2289
US: 877-887-7815
France: +33 805-11-19-67

Paypal

Phone (US): 1-888-221-1161
Phone (outside US): 1-402-935-2050
UK: +44 (0203)-901-7000

Visa

Phone (US): 1-800-847-2911
US option selection: 1, 1, 2 or 1, 1, 3
Headquarters: +1 (650)-432-3200
Aus: +61 1800 125 440
Phone (outside US): click here

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

Minimum demands from here on:
- Abolish ICE immediately
- Prosecute and jail all ICE leaders nationwide, and any ICE goon who can be proven to have violated the Constitution
- Prosecute and jail all Trump administration officials responsible, inc. Cabinet level
- Abolish Dept of Homeland Security

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2d

while Bundestag majority leader has come out against Chat Control here, there's no GUARANTEE that Ger will oppose

until the vote happens and we see it set in stone that opposition to chat control has won, assume that everything is in flux and CONTACT YOUR REPS

fightchatcontrol.eu#member-states

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

fightchatcontrol.eu

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Ryan @elfodder.bsky.social · 2d

Once again. Not the guy. Keep looking

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 2d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 2d

Look at what we could have. look at what our tax dollars could pay for. Instead we’re paying to have ICE pepper spray directly into the air hole of a guy in an inflatable frog costume

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Blibbles - DRAGON RAGE @blibbles.bsky.social · 2d

Sunleth Kittyscape

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Blibbles - DRAGON RAGE @blibbles.bsky.social · 2d

She DID. She really said, "you can't free the nipple if I take it."

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Blibbles - DRAGON RAGE @blibbles.bsky.social · 2d

Cat damage.

My chest with a long scratch from my cat.

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Blibbles - DRAGON RAGE @blibbles.bsky.social · 2d

They'd be dead. And I wouldn't want to be reminded of my last moments of them in some horrifying facsimile, concocted by something that would never even dare to know my past or theirs ever.

Fuck AI. And fuck the people who think it's okay to do this.

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Blibbles - DRAGON RAGE @blibbles.bsky.social · 2d

Does anyone doing this just... Not think that what they're doing is incredibly insensitive?

Like if my own parents died and someone showed me AI generated videos of them and told me "look, it's like they were never dead and I can remember them this way." I'd probably just punch them in the mouth.

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 3d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Blibbles - DRAGON RAGE @blibbles.bsky.social · 2d

I know mine was fairly recent from you, but I think... I just... Really wanted something from you and I cherish that.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 4d

The petition against digital ID cards has now reached 2.8 million. Keep sharing, it would be good to get this past 3 million by the middle of the week.

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 4d

IF YOU ARE GERMAN, YOU NEED TO CONTACT YOUR MEPs AND DEMAND THEY OPPOSE CHAT CONTROL

-RIGHT-
-NOW-

the link below contains individual emails and everything, PLEASE do not sleep on this!

Tuta @tuta.com · 6d

We are alarmed as well. If you are in Germany, write to your representatives. You'll find the email addresses here: 👉 tuta.com/blog/chat-co...

Signalapp on X: We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a
catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled
opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could
spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe.

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Blibbles - DRAGON RAGE @blibbles.bsky.social · 3d

lmfao eat shit.

Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 3d

OpenAI is backing off its Sora IP opt-out policy after a wave of backlash, promising new controls and dangling possible revenue sharing.
www.cartoonbrew.com/tech/openai-...

OpenAI Retreats From Controversial Sora IP Opt-Out Policy

OpenAI says it will give creators more control over how their characters appear in Sora and plans revenue sharing after backlash to its IP opt-out model.

www.cartoonbrew.com

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