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Foxes In Love

@foxes-in-love.bsky.social

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are walking somewhere, and Green is in a bad mood.
Green: I hate wind. How it pulls and pushes and tugs me. And I hate the cold. A draft straight to my bone marrow! The air's too dry! A bird is singing!

An unseen bird sings one clear, beautiful simple note, and Green turns to look up to it in anger. Blue looks at Green calmly.
Green: Shut up!
Blue: You need a soda.

Drinking a beverage with a straw, Green is immediately mollified.
Green: I'm sorry for getting on your nerves all day.
Blue: I've been fine the whole day.

January 26, 2026 at 2:44 PM

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Kashikahaya

@kashikahaya.bsky.social

Mitsuru🎂31

An illustration of Najimi holding Mitsuru up in her arms

January 23, 2026 at 12:11 PM

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Foxes In Love

@foxes-in-love.bsky.social

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green jump in fright as a withered, dried-up potted pointsettia approaches them through apparent natural means.
Blue: What are you?
Potted plant: I am cuetlaxōchitl, ghost of christmas flower past.

The foxes listen as the undead houseplant complains.
Potted plant: Not a month has passed since I was brought to this house, and already I've been neglected to death!
Green: Well, can you come back to haunt us next December, so you'll be more seasonal?

The foxes follow with their eyes as the potted plant moves past them, leaving the scene.
Potted plant: Fine. But I will return.

January 23, 2026 at 1:35 PM

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Dawn Chorus

@dawnchorusvn.bsky.social

Curious which Dawn Chorus character you'd be? Think you already know? Take this quiz and find out 👀✨

uquiz.com/quiz/7y1x4w/...

Which Dawn Chorus character are you?

Dawn Chorus is a wholesome, non-linear romance furry visual novel set above the Arctic Circle in the tundra of northern Norway. It follows our protagonist, Arvo, a first-year university student from F...

uquiz.com

January 18, 2026 at 1:40 PM

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Luck Like

@lucklike.bsky.social

Descending Remy 💙

January 17, 2026 at 8:15 PM

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I Love Raphtalia🔞

@iloveraphtalia.bsky.social

We're all ready for S2 of Frieren, right?

January 19, 2026 at 3:45 AM

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Foxes In Love

@foxes-in-love.bsky.social

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and green are sitting together, looking at each other, while Green casually eats a protein bar, unwrapping it as he goes along.
Blue: You keep your protein bars next to my desk so you don't eat them all in one day. And yet, you sneak one every time you get the chance. Why?
Green: I love the taste of crime.

January 16, 2026 at 2:55 PM

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In Otter News

@in-otter-news.bsky.social

Maybe you could listen to them a little bit less in 2026, Steve?

January 2, 2026 at 6:01 PM

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Yle News

@yle.naamio.social

As Finland marks 30 years of women in uniform, one of its highest-ranking female officers argues that the armed forces can no longer afford to think in terms of men and women.

Should Finland have a gender-neutral national service? Liutenant Colonel Annukka Ylivaara thinks so

As Finland marks 30 years of women in uniform, one of its highest-ranking female officers argues that the armed forces can no longer afford to think in terms of men and women.

yle.fi

December 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM

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Dawn Chorus

@dawnchorusvn.bsky.social

We want to wish you Happy Holidays, and all the cosiness and warmth you might want c:
Thank you for these 5+ years. All your support, fanart, all the good words. You've been nothing but marvellous. You're the best fans in the world!
Best wishes from the whole Dawn Chorus team!

Rune lying next to a Christmas tree wearing nothing but red jockstraps and santa hat; and the wishes HAPPY HOLIDAYS from Santa Rune and the Dawn Chorus Team

December 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM

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ChoPro (🔞)

@chordprogressions.itch.io

chordprogressions.itch.io/chord-progre...

Chord Progressions is RE-listed! (+ Updates)

Hey, Chordies! We're back on itch! A decision was made to allow NSFW content to be re-indexed on the site, but only if the game is listed as totally free. Normally, ChoPro is listed as

chordprogressions.itch.io

August 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM

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bsb

@blackshirtboy.bsky.social

Let's Keep Calling!

An image of a huge jackboot crushing a comic artist and a bunch of comic pages. The boot is marked by the logos for MasterCard, Visa, Paypal, and Stripe. Below the image there is text which reads: Don't let Payment Processors tell YOU what you can buy! It is not a payment processor's role to decide what kind of content you can or cannot spend money on, so long as it is a legal transaction. Fight back against the unjust policies hurting artists and creators online!

https://yellat.money/
https://stop-paypros.neocities.org/

July 31, 2025 at 12:12 AM

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ChoPro (🔞)

@chordprogressions.itch.io

I've updated my devlog addressing the ongoing de-listing issue with itch.

TLDR: The best way we can get the outcome we're looking for is putting pressure on the payment processors themselves. yellat.money is a good resource to help you get started.

chordprogressions.itch.io/chord-progre...

Itch has unlisted Chord Progressions

UPDATE 4: The best thing you can do right now to help is reach out to payment processing companies and annoy them about this problem. One of the best resources to find phone numbers, scripts, and othe...

chordprogressions.itch.io

July 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker

@robmacwolf.thevoice.dog

@itch.io Hey, there was more than one month, over the last year, when books sales over your platform were the difference between my family being housed and unhoused.

Books you've just shadowbanned.

July 24, 2025 at 3:14 AM

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Iantos

@iantos.bsky.social

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

Mr Peculiar 🔞 @mrpecu.bsky.social · Jul 24

Collective Shout, the group that took credit for bullying Mastercard into recently censoring more platforms, stated that apparently it took them ~1000 phonecalls to convince them to give them what they wanted?

We got like way more people than that don't we?

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Jul 24

ok then. one angle of attack then needs to be actively bombarding Visa and Mastercard's phone numbers and emails.

are customer support phone numbers/emails the best avenue to start with or is there a better option?

July 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM

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ChoPro (🔞)

@chordprogressions.itch.io

@itch.io EXPLAIN. NOW.

July 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM

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KWierso

@kwierso.com

Ha, so what's the point of this setting?

Screenshot of a portion of the Settings page of itch.io

Content - How content on itch.io is shown to you

[checkbox] Show content marked as adult in search & browse

July 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM

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eva (^_^)/

@eva.computer

@itch.io isn’t driving this, send letters to mastercard and visa

SJ Klapecki (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · Jul 24

sent an email to [email protected], strongly suggest other writers, artists, game devs, etc. who give a shit do similarly

Email to support@itch.io, subject line "De-indexing of NSFW and adult work." Email content is too long for alt text, so slightly edited for character limit:

Given recent rumours of the delisting and deindexing of adult work across all of itch.io, I wish to ask if these rumours are true (and a binary yes/no answer would be preferred to the question 'Is concealing NSFW and adult work from search and indexes now a policy of itch.io?') and voice my strong opposition to this for a multitude of reasons if it is.

1) "Adult" and "NSFW" are often used to discuss queerness, as queerness almost inherently brushes against topics of sexuality, bodies, and human desire. There are ways to create content about queerness which ARE 'safe for work,' however--

2) There are ongoing campaigns to cast all forms of queer life as sexualized and perverse, not fit for consumption by decent people, and so on. Itch.io risks legitimizing these attitudes by suddenly deplatforming immense amounts of queer art, and thus

3) the de-indexing of adult work will inevitably disproportionately impact already precarious queer artists and writers and game-developers who have trusted itch.io and promoted it as a safe, accepting, place for art that the mainstream may reject. This is a betrayal of thousands of members of your artistic community who have put faith in your website and organization that will inevitably crater the reputation and user base of itch.io.

If this is not the new policy, then I hope whatever technical error occured is resolved. If this is the new policy, I hope you will backtrack. If you will not backtrack, then I will be joining the exodus of writers, artists, game devs, and other creatives who once trusted you as we search for a place where queer art may be, for a time, safe.

July 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM

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The Transfeminine Review

@thetransfemininereview.com

Trans authors on itch.io, if this is affecting you, please share in the replies.

ebi @ebihimes.bsky.social · Jul 24

so itchio has shadowbanned any games tagged with 'nsfw', 'adult', or 'erotic' so they don't show up in searches, and several devs have reported that their r18 games have been removed from the site with no warning

July 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉

@scumbelievable.bsky.social

@itch.io fuck this

Lin Codega @lincodega.com · Jul 24

SO YEAH. @itch.io has just enacted a massive search shadowban on adult content. I tagged my old game "Who will you save? / Who will you serve?" as "adult" and immediately got removed from search results.