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Clippy # 18 @sackbag.bsky.social · 2d

The UK petition has already surpassed 10k signatures, no surprise the government has disregarded it. Let's get this petition to grow up to 100k to reach parliament debate. Regardless the outcome, we need to rise this to a global issue concerning all.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Ban payment processors stopping services based on objections to legal content

Government should legislate that payment processing companies may not place stipulations on use of their services regarding sales of otherwise legal content and, if they do so, must face legal penalti...

petition.parliament.uk

Clippy # 18 @sackbag.bsky.social · 2d

legiscan.com/AZ/text/HB21...

Arizona HB2112 | 2025 | Fifty-seventh Legislature 1st Regular

Bill Text (2025-05-13) Internet pornography; minors; age verification [Chapter 193]

legiscan.com

Clippy # 18 @sackbag.bsky.social · 2d

Arizonans, do not comply to Digital ID. Look back what happened to the Discord streaming site leaks, this will not limit to just adult sites nor streaming, it will expand to other sites such as social media & video sharing. Arizona fight back, contact your reps!
reclaimthenet.org/arizona-enac...

Arizona Enacts Law Mandating Biometric Digital ID Age Checks on Adult Sites

Upload your ID or log off. Arizona rewrites the rules of adult access.

reclaimthenet.org

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Clippy # 18 @sackbag.bsky.social · 2d

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1748/text

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Clippy # 18 @sackbag.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking News
United States America's (Kids) Online Safety Act (KOSA) has possibly passed in the Senate and is now advancing towards the House, according to TheCurlKing. I'm not sure if this is true or not, but contact your reps just in case. This is online censorship.
youtu.be/j_zXUnhi6is

The Online Safety Act Is HAPPENING — And It’s Worse Than Before

YouTube video by TheCurlKing

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GENC @genc.newgrounds.com · 7d

[ DAILY BOXCARTOBER #04/ UPDATE #199]
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💀\\Doctor GramBOO//💀 @doctorgrambo.bsky.social · 10d

I got to do the Halloween site and banner art for @newgrounds.com again! Hope everyone likes my surrealist sci-fi takes on all these wonderful characters.
Thank you again to @tomfulp.newgrounds.com and
HAPPY OCTOBER EVERYONE! 🧪👽

#horrorart #sci-fiart #Halloween2025 #pulp

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Zeurel @zeurel.bsky.social · 15d

MONKEY WRENCH EP 5 - INTERLOPER

Now available on Youtube! #monkeywrench #video #indieanimation

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2nZ...

Monkey Wrench Ep 5 - Interloper

YouTube video by MonkeyWrench

www.youtube.com

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Zeurel @zeurel.bsky.social · 13d

Boy, folks weren't kidding about how bad YouTube has gotten. 4 days out and we're barely above 200k views.

After all that effort and careful crafting it feels super underwhelming.

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Clippy # 18 @sackbag.bsky.social · 15d

On Sept 29, at UK liverpool quaker meeting house, L1 3BT, there will be a panel at the Labour Party conference focusing questions about digital ID consequences host by
@bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social
. This could help bring awareness to not only UK, but the whole world on digital ID abuse.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 15d

Theres a big difference between fictional characters with large fuckable breasts, and fictional characters MEANT for paizuri

Both categories make for good titfuck hentai of course but the latter will feel at home in such a context. Canon. "yeah, this character has had her tits fucked, no doubt"

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damien 🥖🐈‍⬛🧣 @damien.zone · 15d

as soon as I read these posts I knew what I had to do

The Calvin Dad Meme format:
1st panel, Dad: "Playing a record? I'll show you something interesting.".
2nd panel, Dad: "Theres a big difference between fictional characters with large fuckable breasts, and fictional characters MEANT for paizuri
Both categories make for good titfuck hentai of course but the latter will feel at home in such a context. Canon. "yeah, this character has had her tits fucked, no doubt"
Calvin: "Yeah..."
3rd panel, Dad: "Rouge the Bat? Paizuri coded.
Any overwatch girl? Normal tits.

Power Girl? Paizuri coded
Samus Aran? Normal tits
Matsumoto Rangiku? Paizuri coded
R.Mika? Youd think paizuri coded but no, buttjob coded"

last panel, Calvin looking dumbfounded.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 15d

The legislator behind the new Ohio age-verification law doesn't even know what's in the bill. He claims that it excludes social media sites. No such language exists.

This is why you don't push something you couldn't get passed the normal way into an budget omnibus.

www.wkbn.com/news/ohio/ho...

Rep. Josh Williams (R-Sylvania Township), who co-sponsored The Innocence Act, has claimed the measure will not affect social media sites like X. However, the Free Speech Coalition, a nonprofit trade association for the adult entertainment industry, disagrees.

Director of Public Policy Mike Stabile argued that Ohio’s law is particularly vague compared with other states and therefore may result in a variety of platforms choosing to enact age verification measures to prevent legal issues.

“It affects not just porn sites, but any site that might have material that is defined as harmful to juveniles,” Stabile said. “Under the law, I think that sites like X and Reddit and Bluesky may have to begin age verifying. … As we’ve seen in other places, services like Spotify may decide to do it as well to avoid potentially triggering the law.”

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Clippy # 18 @sackbag.bsky.social · 17d

Michigan's HB 4938 bill act is another USA state censorship bill disguised as "protecting children/hate speech". There cannot be any excuse if the US starts mimicking the UK's OSA. Read the article & contact your reps, in the link below if you live in MI.
legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?O...

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Eerie Emilie, the spookiest gay in the village @eerieemilie.bsky.social · 23d

Michigan has introduced HB 4938, a bill that aims to “prohibit the distribution of certain material that corrupts the public morals” (i.e. ban porn) that specifically refers to literally any “depiction/portrayal” of trans people as pornography. Here are the sponsors.

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ACAB Rave @screw-reality.bsky.social · 26d

Michigan house bill HB 4938 - Anticorruption of Public Morals Act has been introduced. if you live in MI, find your Rep and tell them to vote No on this bill

#Michigan #MI #HB4938

Find MI Rep

This is a resource to inform and connect you with the people elected to represent you in the Michigan Capitol.

findmirep.com

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 26d

Michigan HB 4938, the proposed "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act," excerpted here, classifies any content depicting an openly trans person, regardless of context, as inherently pornographic and thus illegal to distribute to internet users in Michigan, with a maximum sentence of 20 to 25 years

🏳️‍⚧️ Amy had a little pond 🔞 ~ Kitt & Amy @amypond.gay · 26d

(X) Animated, virtual, or sexual activity generated by artificial intelligence.
(XI) Depictions of characters acting or resembling minors in sexual contexts.
(XII) Any other pornographic material.
(B) Is a depiction, description, or simulation, whether real, animated, digitally generated, written, or auditory, that includes a disconnection between biology and gender by an individual of 1 biological sex imitating, depicting, or representing himself or herself to be of the other biological sex by means of a combination of attire, cosmetology, or prosthetics, or as having a reproductive nature contrary to the individual's biological sex.
(ii) Prohibited material does not include any of the following:
(A) Material to be used for scientific and medical research or instruction.

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J.C. Parker @jcparker.bsky.social · 26d

MICHIGAN! As if KOSA wasn't bad enough, Michigan R House Reps introduced HB 4938, which prohibits the distribution of porn, with 20 years prison time. It explicitly targets transgender folks and is one of many attempts House Rs are taking against Trans rights. Call your Reps!

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 23d

"If bills like HB 4938 are the future of the conservative movement, then the true obscenity isn’t pornography—it’s the authoritarian urge to strip people of their rights under the guise of protecting morality: No one is protected; everyone is a criminal."

Michael McGrady Jr 🏳️‍🌈🫡 @mdmcjr.press · 24d

www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...

The Illiberal, Transphobic Pipe Dream Of Banning Porn Reaches Michigan Republicans

It appears that the illiberal, transphobic pipe dream of banning all pornography has reached an enterprising group of far-right Christian nationalist Republicans in Michigan who want to impose the …

www.techdirt.com

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Michigan Advance @michiganadvance.com · Jul 28

A petition announced Monday would help push back against censorship in Michigan libraries and calls for increased legislative support to statewide catalogs.

Story by @bensolis1.bsky.social

michiganadvance.com/briefs/state...

Statewide libraries petition calls for Whitmer, legislature to reject censorship • Michigan Advance

A petition announced Monday would help push back against censorship in Michigan libraries and calls for increased legislative support to statewide catalogs. The Michigan Library Association is behind ...

michiganadvance.com

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Valith 🔞 [SUBSTAR / PATREON YCH QUEUE: FULL ] @apraxvalith.bsky.social · Aug 6

Are you sick of censorship? Do you have a U.S. Senator on the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee? Then you have extra leverage to make a difference.

Call the Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121, speak the name of your rep, and tell them to oppose KOSA.

www.commerce.senate.gov/members

Call the Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121 and speak the name of your rep.

Majority Members
Ted Cruz, Texas (Chairman)

John Thune, South Dakota
Roger Wicker, Mississippi
Deb Fischer, Nebraska
Jerry Moran, Kansas
Dan Sullivan, Alaska
Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee
Todd Young, Indiana
Ted Budd, North Carolina
Eric Schmitt, Missouri
John Curtis, Utah
Bernie Moreno, Ohio
Tim Sheehy, Montana
Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia
Cynthia Lummis, Wyoming

Minority Members
Maria Cantwell, Washington (Ranking Member)
Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota
Brian Schatz, Hawaii
Ed Markey, Massachusetts
Gary Peters, Michigan
Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin
Tammy Duckworth, Illinois
Jacky Rosen, Nevada
Ben Ray Luján, New Mexico
John Hickenlooper, Colorado
John Fetterman, Pennsylvania
Andy Kim, New Jersey
Lisa Blunt Rochester, Delaware

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David Mariotte @davidmariotte.bsky.social · 20d

There is a direct, traceable path from major social media sites & wide use websites introducing (or being forced into) censorious anti-NSFW policies to larger scale state censorship, like Michigan attempting to label Trans existence as porn, and porn as criminal. Lives and livelihoods are at stake.

David Mariotte @davidmariotte.bsky.social · 25d

I made a few short, sharable info posts about the things that're going on (mostly here in the U.S.) that I think people need to be paying attention to and fighting for. Trans rights, fighting against censorship, fighting for a free Palestine, fighting against all the oppressive policies in place.

• Almost 1000 bills have been introduced in the U.S. at both the state and federal levels attacking the rights of Trans people in America.
• According to translegislation.com, which tracks those bills, 122 have passed, 225 are pending, and 677 have failed. As recently as 2021, only 153 bills were even considered (and only 18 of those passed).
• Some current big ones to be aware of:
• In Michigan, HB4938, the "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" would seek to imprison for 20 years, fine for $100K (or more), all "pornography", which includes in their definition, any trace of trans existence. It'd also target all actual porn, block usage of VPNs, and seek to force sites to comply to not host any sort of "adult" content, which again, includes trans people just existing.
• The FY2026 budget for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies would prohibit any federal tax dollars going to any gender-affirming care for trans people, and ban funding for any school that allows a trans kid to play sports. These are secs 243-46 and 311-12 respectively.
• Again, there are so many fucking more. 92 have just been introduced at the federal level this year.
• What you can do: If you live in Michigan, call your state reps to tell them to vote no. Also demand that the 5 Republican reps who introduced this bill resign in disgrace. If you live in the U.S. generally, call your reps and senators. And keep up to date on legislation in your state and in the country with translegislation.com to know what to fight against.

• In the comics and entertainment community, I also want to make sure you're up-to-date on what's been happening with trans creators.
• Last week, after the death of a noted transphobic white supremacist, Red Hood writer Gretchen Felker-Martin sent out a few posts on Bluesky. They referred to the man as what he was, a nazi, and didn't mince words about how he shouldn't be missed.
• Felker-Martin received both a week-long suspension from Bluesky and had Red Hood unceremoniously canceled within 24 hours of the first issue's release.
• Like, canceled canceled. Future issue orders canceled, the collection canceled, offering retailers refunds for sold issues canceled.
• It may also be worth noting that DC's parent company, Warner Brothers, has significant business dealings with noted transphobe and person Felker-Martin once killed in a work of fiction, JK Rowling.
• Trans folks and their allies have already been suggesting a boycott of WB in light of their continued Harry Potter push and funding Rowling's anti-trans crusades in the UK. Now, trans comic creators and allies are suggesting a boycott specifically of DC.
• This isn't the only instance of our trans peers being silenced and censored. Speaking specifically to comics, on itch.io, though this has largely been addressed, when they began their panicked response to their payment processors threatening transactions for having adult content on the site, a number of non-adult trans creators had their work restricted and delisted.
• It only benefits the people seeking trans genocide to silence trans people.

• Closely related, including Michigan's HB4938, are numerous bills seeking to codify first amendment violating censorship.
• At the Senate level, there's S.1748 the Kid's Online Safety Act (or KOSA), which has never actually been significantly revised from when KOSA co-author, sen. Marsha Blackburn, said that the bill was specifically for "protecting minor children from the transgender in this culture" (a statement she "walked back", but we know the intent). It is also backed by known radicialist group, the Heritage Foundation. The bill is incredibly overbroad in what topics must be censored online as "harmful to children", including the existence of queer people, information about mental health or women's reproductive rights, and of course porn.
• There's also the s.1671, the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act, that seeks to create a new definition of Obscenity (and therefore non-protected speech). It's essentially HB4938 on a national level.
• There's s.737 the SCREEN Act, which is national age verification online, similar to the UK's Online Safety Act, especially in tandem with KOSA. The ability to punish sites for including age verification--particularly sites like Wikipedia where it isn't posting porn, but has information about sexuality--is another attempt at censorship. It also requires an unreasonable burden on most sites that don't have the capacity to safely capture users identification data (which CONSTANTLY leaks even when "securely captured"). States are also implementing these kinds of age verification policies in law (and in Missouri, the Attorney General just decided it herself), which has driven sites like PornHub to stop operating in those states. It is dangerous for online privacy and through limiting sites that can comply, acts as de facto censorship.

• Other states that're specifically going for age verification laws right now include Minnesota (SF2015/HF1434, HF1875), Hawaii (HB1212, HB1198), Michigan (SB284/HB4429, SB191), New Jersey (S4455,A4146), Pennsylvania (HB1513, SB603), South Caroline (H3405), Tennessee (Ht B222/SB466), Iowa (SF207/433, HF864), and Wisconsin (AB105/SB130).
• Additionally, Texas, home of so many censorious bills and bills seeking to regulate trans folks out of existence, recently passed SB-20, which is incredibly overbroad in its language to prevent "child pornography" to include any depiction of children's anatomy, causing a comic shop to stop selling Dragon Ball.
• Beyond that, there're bills like FADPA (HR791), which while as a creator I am concerned about infringement of my copyrighted work online, has very few checks in their ability to regulate sites that may include copyright violating material (or copyright dubious material) out of existence. Fan sites, for example, could easily be destroyed by this bill.
• Outside of state and federal bills looking to create censorship, there is also campaigns going against payment processors, credit card companies, and banks (like Stripe, PayPal, Visa, and Mastercard, to name a few), over their policies that're significantly targeting and restricting the sales of legal, adult content.
• In speaking with representatives of Stripe, for example, I've both been told that the Song of Fire and Ice series would be exempt from their restrictions, and yet also, an art book with nude Greek statues would not. Therefore, it's a bad policy. Stripe also doesn't penalize accounts that're violating their policies around intellectual property or not promoting harm, given that they're involved with Substack, Amazon, Anthropic, and OpenAI.

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David Mariotte @davidmariotte.bsky.social · 25d

I made a few short, sharable info posts about the things that're going on (mostly here in the U.S.) that I think people need to be paying attention to and fighting for. Trans rights, fighting against censorship, fighting for a free Palestine, fighting against all the oppressive policies in place.

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lucien @mynqzo.bsky.social · 21d

#bskycensorship awful to see yet another website cave its back in on censorship because it cannot handle art where characters dont look at the viewer and explicitly say ‘I Consent’ before fuckin

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🔞Dalyourpal🏳️‍🌈 @dalyourpal.bsky.social · 20d

STAND UP AGAINST #bskycensorship!
SILENCE IS COMPLIANCE!

CNC warning ⚠️

Doberman & 🎬: @drboumboom32.bsky.social

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