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Choco Spice @chocotaurnsfw.bsky.social · 17h

I had my little theory that the war on porn games/art/writing was, in part, to try to make AI scraping easier, but now I can add "it was astroturfing to take out the ethical, artisanal, actually artistic competition."

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 20h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 21h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Matías Bergara @matiasbergara.bsky.social · 15h

Kiki's Delivery Service

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ciciluna.bsky.social @ciciluna.bsky.social · 14h

Oscar is under the table

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Lutra (WIP) @lutraluna.bsky.social · 17h

I'm playing more Slime Rancher 2 today! Join me for some chill slime time~
www.twitch.tv/lutraluna

LutraLuna - Twitch

when the ranch be slime-ing

www.twitch.tv

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 18h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 21h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Marīa @solusandra.bsky.social · 1d

Reading Shakespeare's plays is 10000 times less funny & witty than seeing them performed. English teachers should at least have students read the plays aloud & teachers should tell their students how many dick jokes there are!!! Don't leave out the innuendo, ffs!

(Read the sonnets, see the plays!)

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Kaciart @kaciart.bsky.social · 1d

Whumptober Day 12 - Finger under chin
#whumptober2025
For Ellay

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

it is more important to read books you actually enjoy reading than books that are Literature

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

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ciciluna.bsky.social @ciciluna.bsky.social · 1d

Overcooked has me running to collect a pizza from the oven and then the oven moves to the other side of the map, thus burning my pizza while my wife cries in despair

I love it

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 1d

It infuriates me that as human-made porn is being increasingly censored across the board, AI porn is not only allowed, but celebrated. And AI porn exists because of stolen content from non-consenting, unpaid human pornographers. It's maddening.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 6d

“I still can’t believe how unhinged the last update was. Not only the nudity but the motions, boobs bounces more realistically, it’s incredible.”

Elon Musk's xAI seems to have relaxed filters on Grok's video generation, allowing users to create and share explicit AI pornography.

Musk's AI Is Being Used to Make Hardcore Porn: 'Grok Is Learning Genitalia Really Fast!'

bit.ly

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 2d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Lobotomy Princess (lizzy) @straybimboroadk1ll.bsky.social · 2d

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wuffen @wuffen.bsky.social · Feb 29

leap day #sheith

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 2d

"what did you actually do other than have money and serendipitous timing and why does that mean we should listen to you on what counts as a good idea" -- something I wish journalists would ask more

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MAF @ MCM London M-14 @velnna.bsky.social · 3d

There's something so rotten about seeing this shit be perpetuated not just by the usual suspects but by people in creative spaces and kids teehee haha-ing their fuckass OCs it makes me feel insane

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Lutra (WIP) @lutraluna.bsky.social · 4d

Sup fam! I'm live with @ciciluna.bsky.social playing through FFXV. We're finally doing Chapter 3 plot!
www.twitch.tv/lutraluna?sr=a

LutraLuna - Twitch

FFXV Replay: Chapter 3 (cont)| Many spoilers, 100% completion

www.twitch.tv

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Cait 🦇 @gendercoffin.bsky.social · 5d

Nobody could have imagined the future world that would find this funny and why

A boy running alongside a train with a bindle on a stick. A word balloon reads “I’m through with school- it’s only for sissies anyway. I’ll run away and- and make money with my FEET”

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Bex Glendining @lgions.bsky.social · 4d

night sea

digital illustration of the sea at night. it’s in shades of blue except for the yellow moon and stars reflected in the water.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 9d

calling fiction 'escapism' has never felt more disconnected as I'm marathoning a game about a privileged few slowly going crazy casually genociding the world over class and money when I live in a reality with a privileged few slowly going crazy casually genociding the world over class and money #FFT

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 5d

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 6d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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ciciluna.bsky.social @ciciluna.bsky.social · 5d

me but with school ;3;

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voiceofobrien.bsky.social @voiceofobrien.bsky.social · 5d

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