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mob @emotionthread.bsky.social · 25d

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A drawing of Sonic the Hedgehog, trapped in a box.

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supervixen @arkivisto.bsky.social · Aug 25

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supervixen @arkivisto.bsky.social · Aug 27

paiso lilio

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mob @emotionthread.bsky.social · Aug 28

Yup i don't have my ipad anymore but i barely used this app on there cause it sucks so bad

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mob @emotionthread.bsky.social · Aug 27

wip i posted on tumblr yesterday

A close-up drawing of Madoka Kaname from Puella Magi Madoka Magica. The background is uncolored.

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spacedawg @spacedawgspace.bsky.social · Aug 21

everything that I can say is spoken for me.

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the haver of it🔞 @taylortitmouse.bsky.social · Aug 20

for those of you that have somehow made it this long without ever calling: you literally just have to list the bills. you don't have to give a reason. if you get a person, they won't ask you why. if you get a voicemail, just say your address at the beginning. it took me less than 5 minutes to call 3

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the haver of it🔞 @taylortitmouse.bsky.social · Aug 20

personally i go to 5calls because they make it really easy to see your reps' numbers, and yeah if you go to voicemail you can literally just say 'i'm a constituent at X and i'm going to list off a bunch of bills i want [rep] to oppose' and then you list it. you can do that if you get a person too

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · Aug 22

Raphael Lemkin, the man who coined the term genocide, originally included settler colonialism in his definition of the crime of genocide (as well as cultural genocide) but it was dropped by the UN members voting on the article. Lemkin himself and the field he created still include them.

Eric Owens @ericowens.bsky.social · Aug 22

At the heart of this thing is that people are equating "genocide" with their view of Israel as settler-colonialist.

Israel is genocidal, they say, *because* Israel is settler-colonialist. It's the same logic that makes the United States "genocidal" for our treatment of Native Americans.

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mob @emotionthread.bsky.social · Aug 21

#puellamagimadokamagica redraw

A digital redraw of Puella Magi Madoka Magica artwork. In the drawing Madoka Kaname, Homura Akemi, Mami Tomoe, and Sayaka Miki all look at the viewer. They are dressed in their magical girl attire.

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cherry✟ @aletiune.bsky.social · Jun 24

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cherry✟ @aletiune.bsky.social · May 24

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cherry✟ @aletiune.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · Aug 9

stop using chatgpt (etc), stop using it, there is no reason to use it

Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · Aug 9

Has your power bill gone up?

ChatGPT might be part of why.

apnews.com/article/elec...

As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act

Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers.

apnews.com

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Fatty's Den (MINORS DNI) @fattysden.bsky.social · Aug 9

The recent wave of restrictions of pornography (including kink / fetish stuff) in art, games, videos, etc. by payment processors and puritan groups runs to the political sphere at top. This recent censorship is a part of Project 2025, as it turns out. It's no conspiracy. THEY WANT TO CENSOR US!

A post on Twitter by the Gelbooru account that says:

Currently people are contacting Visa and Mastercard, en-masse, in an effort to get them to explain why they are banning legal content from being transacted through their systems. These arbitrary restrictions caused companies, such as Steam, Itch.io, and others to pull violent and adult video games from their platforms. They continue to remain silent on the reason WHY they enforced the restrictions on the companies. I surmise they are gagged from speaking through likely threat of regulatory pressure.

May I introduce, Russ Vought, a co-writer for Project 2025, Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget, AND Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/images/cfpb_headshot-russell-vought_DA8Ama7.original.png

This man has already publicly stated his desire to have pornographic content, violent video games, and other types of content "harmful to children", banned from the internet. This claim he makes is not based on unbiased scientific testing.

In a two minute clip posted on YouTube by The Intercept the following transcript, highlighted in yellow, shows his intended starting point (start with children), and then he cuts himself off from explaining the next part of the plan, of violent video games, etc, as that route had failed twice already in the past few decades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0noIS9lmR0Y
https://imgur.com/CxpcUOs
https://theintercept.com/2024/08/16/project-2025-russ-vought-porn-ban/

Now, as his position in the CFPB, he has ultimate authority over payment providers and banks, and he has likely been abusing this power to strong-arm changes in these privately owned businesses regarding content he specifically had shown his distaste and hatred towards previously. All clearly telegraphed before hand, many years ago.

Continuing the tweet by the Gelbooru account:

This was ALL done in the guise of protecting the children. Admittedly, it is a very solid tactic, at the core. But, if you use the mantra of protecting the children, it tends to mean that it's just a ploy, usually to further a specific agenda.

They are a threat against the United States, nay, the entire world. They are a threat against our democracy, a threat against free speech, and a threat against gamers, a threat against media in general.

These are the same people who believe violent video games cause violent things. An entire generation of individuals have been playing Grand Theft Auto, playing Doom, Quake, and other games, but we are not currently, nor will we face a worldwide pandemic of armed car robberies, driving on sidewalks for the fun of it, or people running around with sawed off shotguns killing demons, or raping people, because a video game was made exploring the content.

Those in power have been eroding free speech in the law. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) provides immunity to online platforms from liability for content posted by their users. They are actively attempting to kill this protection to further their goals outlined in Project 2025, by passing liabilities of their userbase onto the operators via financial regulation threats and pressure, thus killing speech directly, while still keeping in the shadows publicly.

"He filmed the crimes and posted monetized rape videos on P*rnhub, earning revenue for him and the site owners."

https://x.com/BillAckman/status/1898747162306937184

This is their attempt to kill section 230 immunity.

You should not be frightened that they MAY come into power, they are ALREADY IN POWER. They are exercising it spectacularly, taking baby steps to erode away your speech, and we've all been asleep at the wheel.

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waheyyy @w4hey.bsky.social · Aug 3

fallen star

#pixelart #art #sonicthehedgehog

Shadow the Hedgehog falling to earth like in the final cutscene of sonic adventure 2. Super Sonic is in the top right corner with stars representing his tears with the text "Sayonara Shadow the Hedgehog" at the center of the image

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mob @emotionthread.bsky.social · Aug 6

the second of my downpour paintings is COMPLETE here it is #rainworld

A digital painting of a screenshot from Rain World: Downpour. In the painting, the artificer holds their newly obtained scavenger chieftain mask to their face.

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SoDaft Potato @sodaft-potato.bsky.social · Aug 5

A reminder that comms are open. Things are really dire. My family is going through hard times, I've got a lot of student loans to pay off. Any amount helps. Please share this around if you can. I also have a ko-fi, if you would like to tip a little there.
ko-fi.com/sodaftpotato

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · Aug 5

hey. have you been sitting out on calling payment processors? i get it. phone calls are annoying and difficult for a lot of people. maybe you’ve been putting it off until now. well, i have good news: now is actually a PERFECT time for you to START calling. you are Wave 2!

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Rook 🎀 comms open @funfettikatz.bsky.social · Aug 4

#artfight attack for @emotionthread.bsky.social !

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ul8lume @ul8lume.bsky.social · Apr 1

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茶 CamoXD 茶 @camoxd.bsky.social · Mar 13

THE REAL SONIC ! !

#metalsonic #metalsonicfanart #sonicthehedgehog #art #brart

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LEO @hellspawnmotel.bsky.social · Jul 13

laura palmer type shit

a comic of asriel and dess from deltarune, lying on a carpet together and having a conversation, which is dialogue taken from twin peaks: fire walk with me.

panel 1: asriel, staring into space, asks “Do you think that if you were falling in space, that you would slow down after a while, or go faster and faster?”
panel 2: dess, more zoomed in, answers “Faster and faster. And for a long time you wouldn’t feel anything. And then you’d burst into fire.”
panel 3: asriel looks over at dess as she continues. “Forever.”
panel 4: dess, her eyes watery, says “And the angels wouldn’t help you. Because they’ve all gone away.”

a drawing of dess casually giving a peace sign to the viewer and smiling. behind her is a rough silhouette of the roaring knight. in the upper left corner are the words “DID YOU MISS ME?” behind that is black text that reads “DID YOU KNOW ME?”

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Oku ΘΔ @oku.mow.haus · Jul 25

“Please send us emails instead” means “we can put key words from your script on our corporate spam filter and ignore you, but calls shut down our entire contact infrastructure”

Keep fucking calling.

Ruby Ko-BOO-ld 🌹🎃 @fluffyscales.bsky.social · Jul 25

LMAO I called Visa’s customer support service - the guy on the other line was like “are you ALSO calling about the video game payment processing? Please send us emails instead.”

Keep up the calls, folks, we’re definitely gumming up their works

Void🔞 | VGen @voiddebris.bsky.social · Jul 24

I know we're upset about itch, but they're not the only ones

Payment processors harassed companies bc of a 1,000 email hate campaign

But we can EASILY top 1,000!

I prewrote an email + got the contact info - you just have to send!

↻💬♡ to boost

We CAN make a difference 💕

#itch #censorship

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