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Ellium! @woolymooly.bsky.social · 10h

What game are you using here? I really need to get started on my own map at some point.

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DOG of BLUD @dogblud.bsky.social · 18h

I see artists trade their patreon and ko-fi links all the time and it seems sometimes like it's only other artists and a handful of regular followers that pass those round.

It really does help. Previous clients saying on comm ads they had a good experience also helps a lot too.

Thomas N. Perkins IV @tnperkins4.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · 12h

So Alaska’s underwater, NOAA and FEMA are out of money, and the National Guard’s on standby,
but sure, let’s bail out Argentina with 40 billion, and spend $200M on a ballroom for the people who’ll never set foot in a flooded town.👇

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 16h

Core to playing this down is pretending that "Young Republicans" aren't 40 years old with top positions in both the party and government. One's a state senator.

Nathan Bernard @nathantbernard.bsky.social · 16h

the "kids" were mostly 30+ years old and said they love hitler

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13h

It's the worst thing watching resegregation happen in real time to please a bunch of white supremacist nazis in power.

www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 15h

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12h

North Carolina is the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please Trump after he called for red-state legislatures to “fix” congressional maps before 2026.
https://bit.ly/4qcoyWR

North Carolina Is Latest GOP-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander

Read more here.

bit.ly

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 13h

People are protesting because they love their country and want it to be better.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

No it isn’t stop complying in advance

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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That Gaudy Fox @dusklightdemon.bsky.social · 16h

Desperation bump, since rent's officially a day overdue and I'm still about $500 short of making this work for the month.

I'm really, really sorry for bumping this again, but with rent now officially being past due, I really need to push this as hard as I can before late fees kick in...

That Gaudy Fox @dusklightdemon.bsky.social · 8d

With the government shutdown being in effect, being unaware as to how that's going to slow down the process on my disability stuff and my next doctor's appointment a couple weeks out, I really need help making rent work for this month...

Paypal.me/DusklightFox

Pay Corey Haley using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/DusklightFox and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

Paypal.me

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🦎galileo🍉 @galileogb.bsky.social · 1d

Sonic saying, "Support your local, human, erotica creators. You need chatgpt to suck your e-dick for you? You absolutely fucking LOSER"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

Trump’s power depends on maintaining the illusion that he’s all-powerful, and that Americans adore him.

But that illusion is harder to maintain if millions of people are in the streets protesting.

This is why Republicans are trying to discredit No Kings Day rallies before they've even happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Thomas N. Perkins IV @tnperkins4.bsky.social · 1d

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 19h

Both Republican and Democratic elected officials lined up to send billions of our tax dollars to bomb children in Gaza, but ask “how will we pay for it” when we demand they make sure people here have food and housing.

They all gotta go!

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Ellium! @woolymooly.bsky.social · 19h

Gosh tom in such a chunky hunk. I’m glad he’s making Jamie so big and plump.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

the most unsurprising thing in the world is now every rightwinger, all yhe way up to JD vance, have explicitely defended this and the statements made by those in this group. and that’s by design, every single rightwinger is now an extremist nazi

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

these people know how extreme they are

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PizzaCake @pizzacakecomic.bsky.social · 23h

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 19h

We need rules in place to protect regular investors in crypto and private equity – not a shadowy system that lines the pockets of crypto billionaires and giant private equity firms.

A downturn in these markets could put our whole economy at risk.

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jen rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 21h

IF YOU PAY ATTENTION TO ANYTHING TODAY it should be the supreme court. they're hearing a case today that will decide if they *gut the federal law that blocks racial discrimination in voting.* i know that doesn't sound like real life but it is.

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Ellium! @woolymooly.bsky.social · 1d

The puritanism’s all just a cover. They hate people having agency.

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Ellium! @woolymooly.bsky.social · 1d

I’m beginning to think they hate artists and people in general being able to make their own things instead of consuming a product. They’d rather control everything and make it shotty than let us create and have a healthy community.

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 1d

Recently the voice actor for Dr Ratio in Honkai Star Rail came out in support of Charlie Kirk and his ideals, and when saying this he added in one of many posts that “many fellow VAs feel the same.”

Some actors have hand waved this statement as bullshit.

But I do think it’s important to examine.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 5d

#SaveSpeech
Democrats that need to be reprimanded for cosponsoring KOSA:

J. Hickenlooper- CO
A. Klobuchar- MN
B. Lujan- NM
B. Schatz- HI
M. Hirono- HI
G. Peters- MI
J. Fetterman- PA
R. Blumenthal- CT
C. Schumer- NY
M. Hassan- NH
M. Kelly- AZ
P. Welch- VT

[more names + links continued below]

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Iridium Wolf @iridiumwolf.bsky.social · 1d

so we should be adding this to our conversations with payment processors, right? MC and Visa will now stop processing payments to AI shills, right? It's the same shit they pull on individual creators, game makers, artists, sex workers. Unless it's just hypocrisy and puritanical bullshit (yes it is).

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

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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wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 1d

Hey folks! Ive gotten an astonishing amount of support on this and I've been able to pay off 46% of this debt so far! Sadly im still way in the red with the huge monthly payments rn and struggling to get by. I could still really use some help with this awful tax situation <3

gofund.me/a4053bb4b

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