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Torrance Sené (Cassie Donoghue)

@torrancesene.bsky.social

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Rainy Studios (٭°̧̧̧ω°̧̧̧٭) – Art🎨, BL🌈 & 📝Queer Studies @samaburime.bsky.social · 9h

‼️Temps are dropping and federal funding is being cut! PLEASE begin donating to your local shelters! Homeless shelters, food shelves, they will need your help now more than ever! If you can't donate share their links, print & put up flyers, be that lifeline for someone struggling‼️

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Torrance Sené (Cassie Donoghue) @torrancesene.bsky.social · 6h

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Torrance Sené (Cassie Donoghue) @torrancesene.bsky.social · 22h

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Actually @governor.ca.gov has until Friday to sign the bills.

Call his office and demand he sign them.

(916) 445-2841

The hold times were long— they offer a VM option if you can't stay on. Let him know the political price he'll pay if he fails to stand up for a community under attack.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 23h

Mom For Liberty is morphing again, ditching adding "anti-American" content to their on-going campaign against "pornography" in schools.

"We are now seeing evidence that the results are harmful, not only to children, but to their families and society as a whole"

Tug of war over what books NC schoolchildren can read

Parent groups concerned by books in NC school libraries that may not fit their idea of US values. Academic experts seek more nuanced approach.

carolinapublicpress.org

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Torrance Sené (Cassie Donoghue) @torrancesene.bsky.social · 1d

thank youuuu <3

Torrance Sené (Cassie Donoghue) @torrancesene.bsky.social · 1d

I WAS FORETOLD 🙌🏻 lol thank youuu

Torrance Sené (Cassie Donoghue) @torrancesene.bsky.social · 1d

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Torrance Sené (Cassie Donoghue) @torrancesene.bsky.social · 1d

all hail meeeeeeeeee lol

elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire

Alt: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire

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Torrance Sené (Cassie Donoghue) @torrancesene.bsky.social · 1d

thank you <3

Torrance Sené (Cassie Donoghue) @torrancesene.bsky.social · 1d

It's my birthday. Praise me.

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Rainy Studios (٭°̧̧̧ω°̧̧̧٭) – Art🎨, BL🌈 & 📝Queer Studies @samaburime.bsky.social · 3d

"so you could run your own moderation"

Cool can your @bsky.app staff specify why the main core site has such awful ToS descriptions in relation to what fictional (FAKE) material is allowed? The way the ToS is phrased posting about Nosferatu 2024 or any dark erotica would be forbidden and "abuse".

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 5d

We’re system architects at core. We built a decentralized network so you could run your own moderation, but beyond that our upcoming healthy discourse project is taking some swings at the interaction model that drives these dynamics on Bluesky. Excited to start seeing it in action.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 4d

Want to know why age-verification isn't working? Nearly half of adults already use a VPN.

And a full 50% of Gen Z and millennials say they've already used a VPN to access a restricted website or app.

Which is why legislators are now trying to ban VPNs.

CNET Survey: 47% of Americans Use VPNs for Privacy. That Number Could Rise as State Internet Bans Increase

As more bans on internet content appear in the US, we reached out to users to see why and how they're adopting VPNs for a privacy fix.

www.cnet.com

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Rainy Studios (٭°̧̧̧ω°̧̧̧٭) – Art🎨, BL🌈 & 📝Queer Studies @samaburime.bsky.social · 4d

Kidnapping naked children and throwing them into vans is what you would do if you were a child sex trafficker, and unless proven otherwise, sure looks like ICE is doing that.

Let's be clear: there is no "gang" as criminal or as dangerous as ICE is.

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Rainy Studios (٭°̧̧̧ω°̧̧̧٭) – Art🎨, BL🌈 & 📝Queer Studies @samaburime.bsky.social · 4d

This is Nazi Germany. We are in it right now

"Armed federal agents busted down doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked" "and into U-Haul vans" "kids coming out naked separated from their mothers"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

#ICE #abuse

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 5d

Tell me what's "harmful to minors" again

Robert Morris, Texas megachurch pastor, pleads guilty to sexually abusing a child

Under a plea agreement, Morris was given a 10-year sentence, but he will serve only six months in an Oklahoma jail.

www.nbcnews.com

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Torrance Sené (Cassie Donoghue) @torrancesene.bsky.social · 5d

Time to start watching one seasonal movie a night! (or most nights) Tonight is my slasher boyfriend 🫠

a man with blood on his face is talking to a woman .

Alt: Billy Loomis from Scream saying "We all go a little mad sometimes."

media.tenor.com

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Torrance Sené (Cassie Donoghue) @torrancesene.bsky.social · 7d

I know Selena Gomez has inflection in her voice. I don't get whyyyyyyyyy Only Murders makes her flatten it out. It's lowkey annoying 😭😭😭

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 8d

Age-verification laws are making it difficult for adult sites to get indexed, since the crawlers can’t always bypass AV.

Which results in lower indexing.

Which results in lower traffic.

Which results in censorship.

Kriss Lowrance @krisslowrance.bsky.social · 8d

A fun thing about doing "age verification" on a region-by-region basis, which is the only way to successfully comply with any given state's AV law, is this: Bots, like the kind Google uses to make your site Googleable, also exist in physical space but, notably, don't have a face and cannot drive.

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New Shelves Books @newshelvesbooks.bsky.social · 22d

For the first time, Kindle Unlimited ebooks can now be distributed to libraries, without breaking exclusivity.

Read More: newshelves.com/kindle-unlim...

#KindleUnlimited #SelfPublishing #DigitalPublishing #BookMarketing #AuthorLife #Libraries #WritingCommunity #Bookstagram

Kindle Unlimited Authors Can Now Distribute eBooks to Libraries - New Shelves Books

Amazon has updated KDP Select: Kindle Unlimited authors can now distribute ebooks to libraries without breaking exclusivity.

newshelves.com

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 9d

Our new tagline is not very good. Grab our whole library and help TrueRef become less reliant on a growing aggressively anti-art atmosphere! For $15 you get:

- Two new packs monthly
- 18,000+ diverse pose references

Don't love a membership? We have single packs too!

trueref.io

TrueRef: Real references for real artists

TrueRef is here to serve up monthly figure references for illustrators and photo editors—always free from retouching and never AI-generated.

trueref.io

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Torrance Sené (Cassie Donoghue) @torrancesene.bsky.social · 9d

I'm behind in so much coursework. No one allow me to buy a new course/workshop before 2026 😭 I have a problem.