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Pillowfort.social @pillowfort.social · 1d

With the help of Pillowfort users, we're on our way to our funding goal for October! Support a NSFW-friendly independent platform and help keep Pillowfort's lights on: pillowfort.social/donations

Image that reads: October Funding Update: $2,240 of $7,000 (32% of the way there!)

100% of funds raised go toward keeping Pillowfort's lights on. If 238 people donate $20 by October 31, we'll reach our goal!

Hi! We're Pillowfort, a user-funded, woman-owned indie blogging platform. We're pro-2SLGBTQIA+, pro-NSFW, anti-AI, and anti-fascist.

If you enjoy platforms like Bluesky, Dreamwidth, or Mastodon, we think you'll like Pillowfort too. We don't use marketing algorithms or sell user data, generative AI is banned from our platform, and our users will always be higher priority than corporate greed.

Donate here: pillowfort.social/donations

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spooky n spicy man @sweetspicymann.bsky.social · 4d

wednesday bette 🖤

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spooky n spicy man @sweetspicymann.bsky.social · 3d

thank the l0rds!
a new pic!

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spooky n spicy man @sweetspicymann.bsky.social · 4d

wednesday bette 🖤

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aetherclaw.bsky.social @aetherclaw.bsky.social · 8d

ONLINE ID CHECKS WILL RUIN THE INTERNET

www.stoponlineidchecks.org

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 9d

and hey on the topic of ID laws

do you really trust Bluesky, whose admin and c-suites physically cannot stop themselves from posting-through-it, to be able to hold onto your fucking govt ID and not leak it in a data breach like Discord?

these policies suck, they are dangerous, call your reps

Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app · 14d

In Ohio, starting on Monday 9/29, we'll be implementing an age assurance solution similar to what we're doing in South Dakota and Wyoming. Read more here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Our Approach to Age Assurance - Bluesky

We’re committed to keeping our community informed as we navigate new regional regulations.

bsky.social

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spooky n spicy man @sweetspicymann.bsky.social · 10d

keepin' it kodos 👽

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spooky n spicy man @sweetspicymann.bsky.social · 10d

That's the same name as that MNF gal XD
Still hawt though ^^

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spooky n spicy man @sweetspicymann.bsky.social · 14d

Every week of this summer, I get an idea for a drawing, only to get swarmed by all these ver1fication/ant1-nsfw doomer news.
So much ideas gone to waste cause ppl were too stoopid last year who v0t3d for all this!
I'm getting ideas for SpookyMonth and I GOTTA DRAW B00BIE PIZZA MAN!!!

homer simpson with his mouth open and his tongue out

ALT: homer simpson with his mouth open and his tongue out

media.tenor.com

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🪱🃏 𝕱𝖆𝖌𝖌ø𝖙 𝖎𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖁𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖓🦷🪳 @babettecirque.bsky.social · 19d

Apparently a lot of ppl needs to hear this

#bskycensorship

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spooky n spicy man @sweetspicymann.bsky.social · 18d

great pumpkins 🎃

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 22d

This is a BAD idea from a tactical pov

all this means is an issue that bsky mods do NOT want controversy around will have NO posting about it for a full week

a large number of people who come back from the "blackout" will likely not start up the complaints again

it hamstrings the cause

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TERROR BLOODLETTER (Taylor Ledbetter) @tlrledbetter.bsky.social · 22d

I don't care how problematic Bluesky is getting, I am not crawling back to Elon's hellhole.

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kaidzsu 🔜 BLFC 🎰🍸 @kaidzsu.com · 22d

"welp twitter might be a festering nazi shitpile ran by baby hitler but hey it allows noncon so I guess I have no choice but to go back" first of all, no balls lol. second, brother i have bad news about twitter's porn guidelines

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 22d

They have this button on the right hand column that in addition to public shaming, lets you shame them in other useful ways

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 24d

#SaveSpeech

US legislators are pushing harder to pass KOSA and repeal section 230.

Call your representatives ASAP and make your voice heard! Advocate for protecting section 230, and demand your reps oppose KOSA!

Bipartisan Push in Congress to Weaken Section 230, Expand Online Surveillance, and Increase Platform Liability

Calls for platform accountability came with few answers about who decides what speech is acceptable.

reclaimthenet.org

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Veronica Ripley 🏳️‍⚧️ @nikatine.com · 26d

"Porn bans" ALWAYS lead to trans bans

Michigan bill seeks to lock up trans people for posting selfies.

A bill introduced by Michigan lawmakers last week would ban porn, ASMR, depictions of trans people, and VPNs for anyone using them in the state.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 27d

News orgs HAVE to stop calling these porn bans. Yes, #HB4938, does also criminalize porn — also terrible — it goes far beyond that.

LGBTQ+ sites, social media sites, community forums, Shakespeare, drag, a review of Mrs. Doubtfire, all punishable by jail $500K fine and twenty years in jail.

(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

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ThirtyHelens🔞 @thirtyhelens.bsky.social · 27d

like I think even with how the supreme court is looking right now, it's unlikely that they'd uphold something like this without uprooting decades and decades of precedent on protected speech but YOU JUST NEVER FUCKING KNOW so don't let it even reach that point.

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ThirtyHelens🔞 @thirtyhelens.bsky.social · 27d

Unlikely as it is to pass, I think maybe it'd be good to scream at your representative that you don't want people who view pornography to be on a sex offenders registry

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 27d

Michigan lawmakers are proposing a total porn ban

The "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" H.B 4938 would prohibit the distribution of "real, animated, digitally generated, written, or auditory" depictions of sexual acts.

www.michiganvotes.org/legislators
www.congress.gov/members/find...

Total porn ban proposed by Michigan lawmakers

Some states have moved to require age verification to ensure only adults are watching porn, but no states have outright banned the viewing of pornographic material.

www.fox2detroit.com

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · May 8

so, this is that. KOSA, SCREEN, internet obscenity definition act—whatever you call it—this is where trans people are declared inherently obscene.

can they do that? trans troops were just kicked out of the armed forces for being inherently deceitful & dishonorable, so probably! unless people fight.

Stop Project 2025 comic with the following speech bubbles:

HI. I'M LUCY. THAT'S NOT MY REAL NAME, AND THIS ISN'T WHAT I LOOK LIKE. BUT THAT'S FINE, BECAUSE WHILE THIS IS MY STORY...

IT'S ONE THAT THOUSANDS OF OTHER TRANS PEOPLE HAVE LIVED THROUGH, AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT. IT'S OUR STORY TOO.

I'M HERE TO TELL YOU HOW NIGHTMARISH PROJECT 2025 WILL BE FOR TRANS LIVES. BEFORE WE GET TO THE MAIN EVENT, LET ME SET THE STAGE.

I'VE BEEN OUT AND MEDICALLY TRANSITIONING AS A TRANS WOMAN FOR SEVERAL YEARS. IT COSTS ME THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN MEDICAL EXPENSES EACH YEAR.

I ALSO HAD TO FLEE MY HOME STATE DUE TO BIGOTED LAWS AND FACED DISCRIMINATION EVERYWHERE FROM MY OWN FAMILY TO MY JOB.

IT'S PRETTY BAD. AND IF TRUMP GETS REELECTED AND PROJECT 2025 IS BROUGHT INTO ACTION, IT'S ONLY GOING TO GET MUCH WORSE. "TRANSGENDER," "GENDER
IDENTITY" AND "BIOLOGICAL SEX" ARE USED OVER THIRTY TIMES IN THIS PHONE BOOK OF HATE, SO I'M GOING TO KEEP IT SIMPLE.

THREE POLICIES. JUST THREE. THAT'S ALL THEY NEED.

LET'S START AT THE TOP. PAGE FIVE. "PORNOGRAPHY, MANIFESTED TODAY IN THE OMNIPRESENT PROPAGATION OF TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY." ANY TRANS PERSON'S STORY WOULD BE LABELED AS PORNOGRAPHY, OUR LIVES. OUR EXPERIENCES. EVERY PART OF US.

IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED BY, "PORNOGRAPHY SHOULD BE OUTLAWED. THE PEOPLE WHO PRODUCE AND DISTRIBUTE IT SHOULD BE IMPRISONED."

I THINK YOU CAN SEE WHERE THIS IS GOING...

Stop Project 2025 Comic with the following speech bubbles:

THAT MEANS THAT ANY TRANS PERSON TALKING ABOUT THEIR TRANSITION COULD BE IMPRISONED. EVERY STATEMENT ABOUT OUR LIVES, A POTENTIAL OFFENSE.

HELL, THE STORY YOU'RE READING RIGHT NOW WOULD QUALIFY.

NEXT. "RESCIND REGULATIONS PROHIBITING DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF L...J GENDER IDENTITY, TRANSGENDER STATUS, AND SEX CHARACTERISTICS." PAGE 584. PAIRED WITH PAGE 495, "A GENERAL STATEMENT OF POLICY SPECIFYING THAT IT WILL NOT ENFORCE ANY PROHIBITION ON L...] GENDER IDENTITY DISCRIMINATION" IT PAINTS A PICTURE. DISCRIMINATION TOWARDS TRANS PEOPLE AT PLACES LIKE THEIR JOBS WILL BE FULLY LEGAL, LEAVING US OPEN TO UNMITIGATED HARASSMENT AND HATE.

PAGE 485. "WITHDRAW ALL GUIDANCE ENCOURAGING RYAN WHITE HIV/AIDS PROGRAM SERVICE PROVIDERS TO PROVIDE CONTROVERSIAL 'GENDER TRANSITION' PROCEDURES OR 'GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE'." PAGE 462. "FUND STUDIES INTO THE SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF CROSS-SEX INTERVENTIONS, INCLUDING 'AFFIRMATION,' PUBERTY BLOCKERS, CROSS-SEX HORMONES AND SURGERIES." PAGE... TAKE YOUR PICK. THERE'S A DOZEN MORE.

BY CUTTING FEDERAL FUNDING FROM ANY MEDICAL FACILITY THAT OFFERS TRANS HEALTHCARE, AND STANDING AGAINST IT AS OFFICIAL POLICY...

HORMONES AND GENDER CARE WILL BECOME ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND. FOR THOSE OF US WHO ARE ALREADY ON THEM. IT'LL WREAK HAVOC.
OUR MENTAL HEALTH. OUR BODIES. DAMAGE THAT WILL RUIN LIVES. AND FOR TRANS FOLKS WHO CAN NO LONGER PRODUCE A SAFE LEVEL OF HORMONES...

IT COULD KILL THEM.

I KNOW THERE'S A LOT TO KEEP TRACK OF. I HAVEN'T EVEN COVERED ALL THE ANTI-TRANS PROPOSALS IN PROJECT 2025. IF YOU TAKE NOTHING ELSE FROM HERE TAKE THIS: FOR TRANSGENDER PEOPLE ACROSS AMERICA, DEFEATING TRUMP AND PROJECT 2025 ISN'T JUST A POLITICAL RACE. IT'S A FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL. AND WE NEED ALL OF YOU FIGHTING WITH US.

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 28d

Don't let them get away with this without a fight, guys. This is a gross abuse of power and I know every red state is looking at shit like this and salivating

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 28d

Deeply disturbing. Missouri is implementing age verification for 18+ sites through its AG. No vote, no legislation, just the Attorney General implementing the policy and forcing AV on its residents

www.komu.com/news/state/n...

New Missouri AG announces age verification requirement for explicit sites

Missouri will require pornographic websites to verify users' ages to prevent minors from accessing explicit content.

www.komu.com

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spooky n spicy man @sweetspicymann.bsky.social · 28d

I really REALLY don't wanna go on a 1 1/2 to 3 year hiatus cause of idi0ts and eggpric3s!
Haven't reach there yet but still wanna get something out for c0pe.

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 28d

Deeply disturbing. Missouri is implementing age verification for 18+ sites through its AG. No vote, no legislation, just the Attorney General implementing the policy and forcing AV on its residents

www.komu.com/news/state/n...

New Missouri AG announces age verification requirement for explicit sites

Missouri will require pornographic websites to verify users' ages to prevent minors from accessing explicit content.

www.komu.com

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · Sep 11

Call your reps, Ohio people

The sickness is spreading

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Sep 10

Starting later this month, companies like X, Discord and Netflix will be legally required to use a face scan or other method to verify Ohioans age and/or identity before allowing them to go online

They passed it by claiming it was just about porn.

Ohio's porn ID, age verification law takes effect soon. What to know about the change

Starting Sept. 30, pornography websites will be required to verify the ages of their customers under a new Ohio law. Here's how sites will verify age.

www.cantonrep.com

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