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Bec || pianobelt 🐸✨ @pianobelt.bsky.social · 2d

for #wip wednesday, part of the print for the September rewards of my Sticky Frog Tier on platreon ✨

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Dom ★ comms open @domxto.bsky.social · 21d

(2024 zine) DK matchablossom 🌸🍵

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Knifedragon @telsonknife.bsky.social · 8d

スグアオ
Finally, it’s October! How about some vampire x werewolf action to start?

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Ari @ariart0.bsky.social · 10d

🔸those new yukatas~
🔸 #dkbk #bkdk #bkdkbk #dekubaku #bakudeku

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 11d

Trump is asking us to start choosing groups we're willing to abandon, and the only way to make him stop is to be clear we're not fucking abandoning ANYONE.

Call your reps. Call your fucking reps. Especially in red states. Use the @5calls.org app, it's easy and free.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 11d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Briggsy @briggsy.blacksky.app · 11d

$800 left!

Please please please, I’m almost out of this, just need a bit more. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Briggsy @briggsy.blacksky.app · 11d

I need to raise $850 today to keep my home. I’ve nowhere else to go and I’m just trying to stay housed.

I’m really scared, yall. Please help if you can. Spread the word and everything, I’m begging. It isn’t safe out there.

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the haver of it🔞 @taylortitmouse.bsky.social · 11d

if you have democrat rep/senators i recommend calling and reminding them you will never vote for them again if they bend the knee on this. shutting down the government is the correct choice. that is the exact phrasing in my 3 calls and it took 5 min total

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 11d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 11d

Trans rights are human rights and any politician not willing to defend human rights doesn't deserve the job.

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 11d

A script you can use if you’re not good at speaking on the spot.

I'm calling to demand that Senator Schumer not allow Donald Trump to take away access to transgender health care for anyone, let alone people with federal or state health insurance.
Trans healthcare is lifesaving medicine. It is not cosmetic or frivolous; it is miraculous and it is vital.
It is not something trans people can just go without.
[You can add a personal anecdote here-how it has helped you or someone you love, how long you've been receiving trans healthcare, etc.J Trans people are also over twice as likely to live in poverty, which means they are often receiving this care through government-funded programs. They simply cannot afford it otherwise. If this care is lost, trans American lives will be lost too. This is the truth.
If none of this stirs the Senator's compassion, please understand that trans people are, as a group, politically active, and they are rarely Republicans. The Senator should understand that if he caves and allows Trump to do this to us, it would be a betrayal of his constituents at an unforgivable level. If he caves, I will never vote for a Democrat again. I will not vote for a Democrat for president, for senator, for dogcatcher. This is a promise.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 11d

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 11d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

www.thepinknews.com

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🌊 Riptide Romance 🌊 Creation Period @bkdkbkmerzine.bsky.social · 16d

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Bec || pianobelt 🐸✨ @pianobelt.bsky.social · 18d

it me!! this was fun to do!

⭐️ Daydream Generation ⭐️ A YYH Zine ⭐️ Preorder now! @yuyuhakushozine.bsky.social · 20d

A big thank you to @pianobelt.bsky.social for drawing the cover for the sfw zine, Daydream Generation! Check out the store in the link below~

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⭐️ Daydream Generation ⭐️ A YYH Zine ⭐️ Preorder now! @yuyuhakushozine.bsky.social · 20d

A big thank you to @pianobelt.bsky.social for drawing the cover for the sfw zine, Daydream Generation! Check out the store in the link below~

yyhzine.bigcartel.com

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Bec || pianobelt 🐸✨ @pianobelt.bsky.social · 22d

WOOHOO! Daydream Generation is out! I did the cover art for the SFW pdf!

⭐️ Daydream Generation ⭐️ A YYH Zine ⭐️ Preorder now! @yuyuhakushozine.bsky.social · 25d

The store for the Yu Yu Hakusho Zine, Daydream Generation, is open!! Spread the word~

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · Sep 10

Hope you left a five star review at least

mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · Sep 10

Jezebel posted this two days ago. comments are locked now lol

we paid some Etsy witches to curse Charlie Kirk

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Kousen @kousenzephyr.bsky.social · Sep 10

Oh, hey.

Visa and Mastercard now say you can't pay for WoW. Magic the Gathering. FFXIV. DnD. Lord of the Rings. Because they're all "adult" content against their ToS just for being "fantasy".

Let that sink in.

Spread this like wildfire and have people in those circles call them. No quarter.

DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · Sep 9

Woke up to quite the update on this. I had been in contact with Payment Cloud about getting their service and they waited until now to hit me with the image below. Again, stringing me along instead of being upfront. They had seen my website multiple times before this.

An image taken from an e-mail from Payment Cloud to me. They list prohibited adult work, one of which just includes "Fantasy" which is as wide as cat ears and fairies. We are so cooked.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 9

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.

The system is broken.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · Sep 9

Their core new offerings are a reworked Feed page, Quips (the bulk of the conversation and questions revolved around this feature), Collaborative posts, and Creator and Patron profiles are now merged.

Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · Sep 9

Patreon is introducing a bunch of new features, and I'm sitting in on a Zoom webinar to see if any of the new tools will be at all helpful to 2D artists and comics people. I'll report back!

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Bec || pianobelt 🐸✨ @pianobelt.bsky.social · Sep 9

BOOKMAAAAAARKS FINALLYYYYYYYYYY

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bram | cody 🌱 @bramblebug.bsky.social · Aug 26

same for artists. no artist is burnt out because their workload would be less with AI or their project managing software could be assisted by AI.

we’re burnt out because our work is not respected enough. what we do is seen as disposable and replaceable, rather than valuable.