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Powerup Comics!!!!!! @powerupcomics.bsky.social · 1d

Shadow: We love to game here, but sometimes, you gotta get serious. A lot of gamers in America have lost SNAP benefits and are about to go hungry.
Chug: Non-gamers too.

Raven: Here at Powerup, we believe in being able to eat a damn sandwich.
Dorkwinkle: There’s nothing “dorky” about nutritious meals for everyone!

PS2: If the government’s not doing its job, it’s time for gamers to take over.
Jack Thompson: Even I, Jack Thompson, can’t argue with that.

FROM NOW UNTIL THE SNAP BENEFITS RESUME
DM us proof that you’ve made a donation to a food shelf, pantry, or other anti-hunger charity in the US in, any amount (along with your email address), and we’ll give you a six-month gift subscription to the Powerup Comics Patreon.
Get access to tons of comics that haven’t been released to the public yet by helping your fellow gamers and non-gamers.

Shadow and Chug are gaming. And smoking cigarettes too.
Shadow: And if you know someone who’s on SNAP, do them a favor and buy them some smokes too.
Chug: They should have some epic cigs.

Shadow: Powerup Comics believes in beating tobacco. But not like this. You shouldn’t have to quit because you can’t afford groceries.
Chug: Give them the dignity of quitting on their own terms, gamers!

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Ryan (Monsterdust) @monsterdust.bsky.social · 6d

Massive win and beginning of the end for generative ai

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 8d

I contacted my representatives today about KOSA, and you should too!

if their phones arent responding to calls, dont forget you can send them emails or letters!

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 20d

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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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✨trash✨ @dollarpbr.gay · 10d

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SpiffySmallSound @doublecollusion.bsky.social · 17d

Guys new scamming method on bluesky. Please share this around. Dont fall for this stuff

Block, move on.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 21d

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 · 21d

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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smelly wolf penis @gnarlyanimal.bsky.social · Sep 7

required reading

Do not let these milquetoast white men content creators convince you that we are doomed. They are selling fear and profiting off of it.

His health is failing. The cult has lost its momentum. The Epstein victims are actively making their case and trials will be happening, worldwide. The GOP is fighting amongst themselves about everything. Dems are winning their elections at federal and state levels. The military is being sent to cities to then stand around and get mocked. Judges have ruled it's illegal to be sent to blue cities in the first place. Alligator Alcatraz got shut down. They're desperate to hire people for ICE because people keep quitting. Protests are happening every week, everywhere.

We are in a very scary and very chaotic time. Project 2025 is terrifying. People are being emboldened to be violent, and people are being traumatized and harmed. The country has been divided and damaged, but not beyond repair and rebuild. We will get through this, we can't just give up and comply in advance. Don't let the bastards get you down.

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jess m. @jametc.bsky.social · Aug 11

oh my god, man, they're gonna train AI on fuckin everything there. I'm so damn tired. I'm so fucking tirrrrreddddddddddd.

guess I'll keep an eye out for the alternatives, fuck's sake

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Bottoms, Top, We must abolish cops @bratty-wife-happy.bsky.social · Aug 2

I wish we could finally get rid of the lie that porn is harmful. It's a dogwhistle to restrict free speech and oppress marginalized groups. I wish people would wake up to that already...

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Mr Peculiar 🔞 @mrpecu.bsky.social · Jul 31

"Stripe has indicated that they hope to be able to support adult content in the future."

Whether Stripe means it or not, getting an actual statement from them is pretty big! If anything, the pressure is working! Don't stop calling! #SaveSpeech

itch.io @itch.io · Jul 31

itch.io/t/5149036/re...

Reindexing adult NSFW content - Developer Updates

Today, we are re-indexing free adult NSFW content . We are still in ongoing discussions with payment processors and will be re-introducing paid content slowly to ensure we can confidently support the

itch.io

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Jul 31

Assume that Stripe is lying and continue to pressure them

however, it isnt a BAD idea to call your banks and complain about Stripe, Visa etc and ask about your own bank's policies

Henrick ♾️🌌 @henrick.thebull.app · Jul 31

I've been told by someone that works in Stripe's merchant support that they have zero plans to support adult content, and when pressed they indicate that they won't even open up dialogue with banks on adult content.

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SprintingOwlDesigns @sprintingowl.bsky.social · Jul 30

50 minute call, supervisor reached, ticket filed.

The quick formula:
-be understanding
-be a little confused (is Visa going to tell my grocery they can't sell cereal?)
-be patient
-if they can't help you, you want the supervisor
-supervisor can you file a ticket?
-get ticket number
-call back w/ it

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SprintingOwlDesigns @sprintingowl.bsky.social · Jul 30

More important than any of this, just call in. Especially if you're not the kind of person who does. Every person who doesn't normally call about anything (I don't) moves the needle a lot more.

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Lucca (🏳️‍⚧️Aunt Tifa👊) @spookalucca.games · Jul 27

KOSA is back. This is the internet censorship bill!

And it's not just coming for SWers, it'll be coming for all LGBTQ content, because the people in charge view LGBTQ people as inherently pornagraphic!

We must push back even harder than we did last time we killed this bill 🔥

GRINN‼️ @grinn3r.bsky.social · Jul 27

THEYRE AT IT AGAIN
CALL YOUR REPS, WE HAVE ANOTHER BILL TO KILL

time.com/7288539/kids...

What to Know About the Kids Online Safety Act

What to know about the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act, which has been reintroduced and has a second chance.

time.com

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helapup.bsky.social @helapup.bsky.social · Jul 27

Y'know how Zebras and Donkeys are close enough to being the same animal that they're able to produce offspring (albeit sterile)?

I think Gritty and Mr Bobby are related in that kind of way. Directly adjacent branches on the tree of life so to speak.

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helapup.bsky.social @helapup.bsky.social · May 15

disboard.org/server/13589...

Updated link to my Rapscallion games server. Hopefully the link for this won't go dead like the other one. Share this around, if you'd like!

disboard.org

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · Jul 8

The richest person on the planet is programming his robot alter ego to advocate a second Holocaust against an imaginary Jewish person, so shit's going really well I think?

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · Jul 8

Even more crucially, "Cindy Steinberg", the woman that Grok spent the morning committing hate crimes against, *doesn't exist*.

It was a sock puppet account used for right-wing bait. The profile photo is ripped off from an Onlyfans model. All it took was a troll post for Grok to go Full Hitler.

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one dozen rats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · Jul 4

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

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Keith Stack @keithstack.com · Jul 2

phil spencer saying, "good news xbox nation- we're making even fewer video games!"

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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · Jun 20

Miss Alphys’s Class

A sketch of Kris and their classmates from Deltarune - Susie, Tenmie, Snowy, Catti, Jockington, Noelle, Berdly, and Monster Kid

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Grinda Goat🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @grindagoat.bsky.social · Jun 19

wow. what great and uplifting news.

If you wanna help a broke transwoman out, I've got a donation link here
donate.stripe.com/eVa5n03pk8Hi...

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helapup.bsky.social @helapup.bsky.social · Jun 10

5-12 of what? I'm kinda curious to hear more

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JENN! ✨ @thekeythief.bsky.social · Jun 9

SHIELD • YOUR • NEIGHBORS

Here in #LosAngeles, we protect our neighbors at all costs.

A family of 3, outlined in green, hide behind a roaring bear, as large foreboding black shadows with nightsticks and helmets lurk behind it. A green star outstretched at their feet as they try to hide from view. Text at the bottom reads in call caps: "SHIELD YOUR NEIGHBORS"

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Trashiest Possum @seracrocsune.bsky.social · Jun 6

I know they have absolutely zero power, but the strange amount of "leftists" who spend all their time screaming about minorities while talking about how cool the *modern russian federation* is drives me up a wall, like shut up and admit you only care about white people!

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