🚨 KOSA UPDATE The added "duty of care" standard would force websites to identify minors to avoid legal risk, pushing the internet toward ID checks, facial scans, mass age-gating, excessive data collection and censorship FOR EVERYONE. Next comes a full Senate vote. Contact your senators NOW. (1/2)

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 13h ago

The Senate Commerce Committee just passed KOSA out of committee with zero debate & failed to move the SCREEN Act. punchbowl.news/article/tech...

Oho! Maybe I'm clawing my way out of the 5-6 cycle! (Like yeah this was a really lucky high roll, but is the first time I might reasonably stay in retention range for once.)

Leda 💜 #FireEmblem

80 & 81 songs packs are back on sale because we a) need money b) want you to have cool commercial use music for $20 itch.io/s/197592/161... (borrowed @chequered.ink's format but its ok cause I told them to post imgflip memes)

It's Mambo Monday! Omatsuri Mambo~✨

OmegaDoesThings@agentomega.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Now that Matikanetannhauser is out in global, I'm borrowing a page from @magicariot.com. It's Mambo Monday! Do the Omatsuri Mambo!

QTP with your favorite Fairy-type Pokémon! It was a tossup between Fluttermane, Iron Valiant, and Tinkaton for me. Gen 9 was pretty solid in terms of Pokémon design imo.

Flutter Mane Pokémon from Scarlet and Violet

Alt: A clip of Fluttermane in the Pokédex from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. It resembles a Misdreavus with a spikey red mohawk, flowing "hair" that ends in lavender feathers (theorised to be a reference to Chonchons), a red pearl-like necklace, and a fae Tinkerbell-esqe "dress" with the point at 10:30 being red instead of the dark teal the rest of the Pokémon is.

static.klipy.com

「 ✦ Jdog ✦ 」@jdogtoocool.bsky.social · 4d ago

QTP with your favorite Fairy-type pokemon ✨

"Don't financially support the New York Times" is no more a 'bad take' than "Don't financially support JK Rowling."

Heads up, artists 🚨 There’s a massive scam wave hitting DeviantArt right now DO NOT CLICK IT. If you have artist friends on DA, please boost this. I’d hate to see someone lose their account or payment info over something this stupid 🖤 { #DeviantArt #ArtistBeware #ScamAlert }

Y'all say you want Majel!Computer but you keep trying to make Forbin's Colossus.

I like the new Pokémon Sleep Rest Island functionality, but the one thing I don't like is that to get there, you have to pan over to the sign in the lower right of the main island every time.

just said this on another post but it bears repeating: the thing about continuing to give money to any jk rowling properties or the nyt is not that they’re shitty about trans people, which they are. it is that both of these entities MATERIALLY CONTRIBUTE to the legal challenges to trans rights

This is *EXACTLY* why what Ken said was dangerous. If he was some smol beans account it would still have been fucking disgusting but faded into obscurity But Ken’s a celebrity. And he provided ammunition for monsters and essentially doxxed a trans woman making her a subject of international news

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

JK Rowling funding her trans exterminationist campaigns by selling children's books to liberals 🤝 the NYT funding their trans exterminationist campaigns by selling puzzle games and recipes to liberals (and also for both, cis people will get really upset at trans people asking them not to)

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️@mady.cat · 6d ago

In other words, NYT is increasingly becoming a gaming and recipe company, with revenue from that business helping subsidize the higher costs of their journalism (which has been weaponized in favor of trans genocide). They depend on liberals not caring enough to boycott them.

If you're a Patreon creator, go to your Relationship Manager and use this filter to see if anyone's subscribed through the iOS app. If they are, you can send them a DM through the site asking them to switch to subscribing through a browser.

Part Time Yeen@parttimeyeen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Any of you using the ios version of Patreon to support me, switch to the browser version instead, cuz the apple fees have actually taken over 3000 usd from me in the course of a year

Confirmed I didn't mess up the 10 minute cycle on the background changer*! *There's probably some added overhead that makes it slightly longer than 10 minutes, but I don't know if I feel like getting the processing delta t per 15s cycle in order to make it exactly 10 minutes.

Things like seemingly harmless NYT consumption are big deals to trans people because transphobia, despite being intense and escalating these days, is an oppression often rendered invisible. Trans people are used to being abandoned by cis people, so even small abandonments have an impact.

Me: That would make the part with Circe even funnier. *Checks the quotes* Me: Yeah we got a buncha Circe knowers up in here!

Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!@standplaatskrk.pl · 6d ago

Y'know I just realized 9 days ago I said on discord "Ken Jennings seems cool, sure hope he doesn't turn into a milkshake duck anytime soon" and I must apologize for manifesting current events and/or potentially missing red flags.

OmegaDoesThings@agentomega.bsky.social · 7d ago

Y'know I think the thing about "trans people aren't a monolith" is that it's not explicitly permission to go and do whatever controversial thing you were thinking of doing, or, at the very least, you should be smart and realize that the rest of the "not a monolith" will hate it.

Timeline rest stop! Or, perhaps, pawse? (I'll show myself out, enjoy kittens.)

Cagle Cats@caglecats.bsky.social · 6d ago

The babies have discovered the joy of sleeping on Tall Pillow

The Senate Commerce Committee will vote on the SCREEN Act on August 5, 2026. Take action now to oppose nationwide age verification in the US This bill would force every adult in the country to hand over identifying information just to use the internet. www.defendonlineprivacy.com/screen/

Breaking my mental health hiatus to let yall know that an AI slop farm wants to know authors' opinions on AI. Do with this what you will. I will see you all next month. 💜 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Future Fiction Academy — AI & Authorship Survey

Thanks for helping us understand how authors are really using AI. This survey should take about 5–7 minutes. Your individual answers will not be shared. We will only publish results in aggregate, so n...

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Please leave a comment telling the government that you DO NOT want Medicaid tied to a work requirement and why that is unfair, especially for disabled people. Begging you all to take 2 minutes to do this please.

Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)@autisticadvocacy.org · 3w ago

The new work requirements rule may take health care away from millions of disabled people. Check out our plain language explainer to learn all about this new rule and how you can take action to protect health care by writing a public comment! autisticadvocacy.org/2026/07/medi...

when i say the NYTimes deserves neither your money nor your respect, i also mean NYTimes cooking, NYTimes puzzles, crosswords, connections, and wordle, the wirecutter, the athletic, and all their podcasts.

Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm reading the "environmentalists are wrong about data centers" piece from the NYT and ohmygoditssofuckingbad. Apparently, so long as you're punching left, they'll just let you say any goddamn thing you please... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...

Y'know I think the thing about "trans people aren't a monolith" is that it's not explicitly permission to go and do whatever controversial thing you were thinking of doing, or, at the very least, you should be smart and realize that the rest of the "not a monolith" will hate it.

Stayed up late messing with my script, and I still have to double check I haven't broken the 10 minute cycle by introducing new frequency/polling logic, but I can confirm that the "switch to my copyright-safe hexgrid while OBS is open, and back to the image shuffle when it closes" absolutely works!

So I decided to test the new environment out by running the Hardiboiled quests, and it occurred to me to pull up OBS and do a test record. Dunno if it's the switch to Proton 11 or something else changed, but I'm not seeing the graphical issue, which is a real motivation boost for a planned vid!

OmegaDoesThings@agentomega.bsky.social · last wk.

(Ok yes I'm using Windows as a crutch for the initial setup; I'm not so confident that I can start from the exe installer. But I'm also doing this on the shared drive because I've previously had graphical issues when recording on Linux and want it shared if I spontaneously decide to stream.)

I did it! Needed to do some stuff with protontricks to get the right d3dcompiler for Reshade, and I was originally stuck on how to get screenshots into Dropbox while being OS agnostic...

OmegaDoesThings@agentomega.bsky.social · last wk.

But like, if I got FFXI Windower working without Lutris, I can probably get standalone FFXIV running in Proton without Lutris/XIVLauncher, what have you. Let's call it the next step toward maintaining my own wineprefixes (for stuff like Clip Studio Paint, etc.)

For a while I've been relying on the FFXIV free trial version to easily play on Linux with ProtonGE 10-34, but I'm a bit more confident about how steam commands and wineprefixes work, so I'm gonna attempt installing the standalone version and running that on Valve Proton 11.

This is dumb. Why did I make this?