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Baldur5 @baldur5.bsky.social · 8d

“The Prince in the Basement” is the latest graphic novel by @miraongchua.com, a complex, bittersweet story about a princess and a prince who share a face, both fighting for a place to belong.
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A Place to Belong: A Review of The Prince in the Basement, by Mira Ong Chua

Everyone desires a place to belong. It is as intrinsic to human nature as the need for connection, for community, for affection. We all desire a place where we feel comfort, like we fit…

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Baldur5 @baldur5.bsky.social · 19d

You got all that feedback and didn’t read any of it. More censorship is never the answer, especially in creative spaces. This is conservative fear mongering under a different name. Not too late to walk your censorship efforts back.

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Baldur5 @baldur5.bsky.social · 23d

"The Enchanted Greenhouse" is @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social's excellent follow-up to "The Spellshop." Set in the same world, but following different characters on a different island, "The Enchanted Greenhouse" is well worth the read.
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Radical Horticulture: A Review of The Enchanted Greenhouse, by Sarah Beth Durst

No two stories have the same shape. Some novels tell a single, encompassing story within their pages, while others require duologi…

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Baldur5 @baldur5.bsky.social · Aug 10

This mindset is psychotic. You have the money and power to help people, but you actively choose not to. Good people don’t need incentives to do the right thing.

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Saul T @sault.bsky.social · Aug 9

Here's the bill btw
Call your senators and tell them to shut it down

S.1671 - Interstate Obscenity Definition Act
Sponsor: Sen. Mike Lee
Commitees: Senate
Tracker: Introduced

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · Aug 2

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

$[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]$

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · Aug 1

A system that allows a convicted criminal rapist tyrannical traitor to gain full totalitarian control of the U.S. govt without so much as a guardrail in place to protect us from him and his deranged destructive immoral corrupt agenda is a highly flawed and broken system.

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Baldur5 @baldur5.bsky.social · Jul 27

Violet Evergarden is by far one of my favorite animes! I would recommend not watching the finale movie though since it really undercuts huge parts of the show. The first film, Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll, is great though

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Baldur5 @baldur5.bsky.social · Jul 25

We are. We’ve been going after visa and Mastercard since the news came out. However, Itch and companies that capitulate aren’t innocent in this. They had months to tell us what was happening, to take the lead. If they had tried and lost, that is far better than not trying at all.

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Baldur5 @baldur5.bsky.social · Jul 24

Correct, Itch is a company which makes money when creators sell games to their customers. I expect such a company to enable said creators to sell their product to customers, rather than actively work to prevent that from happening because of a handful of bigots.

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Baldur5 @baldur5.bsky.social · Jul 24

If that's your takeaway, you really need to work on your reading comprehension.

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Baldur5 @baldur5.bsky.social · Jul 24

If they de-list their games, nobody gets paid because you can no longer buy the games. This will affect creators as they can no longer sell their games on the platform. They may be a small company, but they have an active customer base with experience in direct action.

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Baldur5 @baldur5.bsky.social · Jul 24

This is a disingenuous take and you know it. The options for Itch were to do something and risk failing, or do nothing and definitely fail. They chose to do nothing. At this rate, they will still go out of business as their customer base and creators abandon the platform.

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💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social · Jul 24

Call them anyway.
Ignore their directive.

Email them as well.

Flood them.
They wouldn't even be trying to redirect all of these complaints if the pressure wasn't making them uncomfortable.

Bog Witch Girl @bogwitch-girl.bsky.social · Jul 24

after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to

[email protected]

they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.

Iantos @iantos.bsky.social · Jul 24

Maybe we could find out.

Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000

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funny worm land 2002 @bugsfromhell.bsky.social · Jul 24

DON'T STOP CALLING.

email them if you want, sure, but the fact that they are requesting people to *email them instead* (presumably because emails are much easier to ignore) means that the calls are WORKING, i.e. becoming a massive nuisance and interrupting workflow.

once again, DON'T STOP CALLING.

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · Jul 22

It is so, so important to learn to understand the difference between A Gross Thing That Freaks Me Out, versus A Thing Which Causes Actual Harm In The World

because as long as you can't navigate the difference, your disgust is a lever that can be used to manipulate you

Candle, Tomboy Trouble @candlekit.bsky.social · Jul 20

This remains evergreen.

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Baldur5 @baldur5.bsky.social · Jul 24

Exactly what people have taken the initiative to do now: go after Visa and MC directly. We're calling, we're emailing, we're not letting them know peace. Itch had the opportunity to take the lead on this, to rally support. Instead, they chose to do nothing and capitulate without warning.

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Baldur5 @baldur5.bsky.social · Jul 24

You are free to your opinion. However, you continue to be disingenuous in attacking everyone else without any alternatives of your own. What is your realistic plan for Itch to push back and resist the payment processors? Doing nothing is not an acceptable answer.

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Baldur5 @baldur5.bsky.social · Jul 24

Again, you are intentionally missing the point in order to demand others explain basic concepts to you and defend capitulation to fascism. The ways in which Itch could have pushed back and mobilized their user base over the last several months have been explained to you multiple times.

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Baldur5 @baldur5.bsky.social · Jul 24

You are intentionally missing the point. The pressure against Itch began in April. They have had months to try and resist, to tell us what's happening. Instead, they did nothing, then betrayed their users at the last second without warning. Trying and failing is better than doing nothing at all.

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Baldur5 @baldur5.bsky.social · Jul 24

Nobody is letting the company die. Itch decided to kill their company in order to appease fascists.

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Baldur5 @baldur5.bsky.social · Jul 24

They've already admitted the pressure began back in April. The correct course of action would have been to mobilize their audience and user base, many of whom have extensive experience with direct action, to apply pressure against the payment processors. Instead, itch.io chose inaction.

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Baldur5 @baldur5.bsky.social · Jul 24

This is such a horrifically bad decision and a massive overstep in response to bigotry and fascism. You should be stepping up to protect the games and developers who rely on your site, not bending the knee.

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Baldur5 @baldur5.bsky.social · Jul 11

"I Ran Away to Evil" is the first novel in the series of the same title by @mystineptune.bsky.social. Blending cozy fantasy and LitRPG, "I Ran Away to Evil" is a sweet, comforting romance with a dash of drama to keep things interesting.
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Dark and Cozy: A Review of I Ran Away to Evil, by Mystic Neptune

Over the last several years, the cozy fantasy has taken the literary world by storm. These are novels meant to make readers feel comfortable, prioritizing scenes of characters spending …

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · Jul 4

I always say I love my country the way Anthony Bourdain did, not as a benevolent state or one founded in innocence but as vast, beautiful place full of discrete people and cultures such as has rarely been attempted and worth fighting for.

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