Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/

This is something I should probably talk more about, because we have all seen people who try to write their parody of what consensual sex would look like and it's awkward people saying "do you consent to me putting my hand here" and that is what you get if you haven't thought deeply about consent.

Arachne 🏳️‍🌈@cayemarsh.bsky.social · 4w ago

💔 And when you write a character who is careful about consent (for all things, not just sex) they can seem so alien and absurd. It's genuinely not the way people act. Trying to depict it on page and make it feel natural and not false is...a trick. And that's kinda f-ed up.

Listen Threads is a hellscape, but when the horny wicker romance trailer drops and I have to find out about it from the group chat because bluesky is not collectively losing their shit... I do yearn for the days of a more consolidated Romancelandia. 😂 youtu.be/HP0BWBWn14I?...

WICKER | Official Trailer | Only In Theaters October

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This is who these shitty TERF Wizard brand deals are directly supporting btw. An evil lizard creature who is inciting sex crimes. Your shitty fantasy book for babies that you refuse to outgrow isn't worth it.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)@theserfstv.bsky.social · last wk.

They're coming for your children www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/jk-r...

Y'all, if you have ever wondered what it would like like for the federal government to tell you what you are/not allowed to read and thought "screw that," now is the time to say so. Sign this letter. Send a postcard. Call your senators. This is a nightmare scenario. Don't let it pass.

American Library Association@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: A federal book banning bill has been introduced in the Senate. It's time to make our voices heard. Tell your Senators to REJECT pro-censorship legislation like S. 4925 that would limit the freedom to read! We need every advocate to speak out against censorship: action.ala.org/campaign/S4925

Reminder: if your book has an AI cover, not only will I not touch it with a ten-foot dungeoneer's pole, but you'll get the block that goes with. PAY AN ARTIST. If you can't pay an artist, you can download free art (with credit) from a multitude of sites, and make your own, with Canva or similar.

This is the Amnesty International report on the anti-rights groups. These anti-rights groups have immediately engaged in lawfare to bury this report. *be a shame if people kept sharing it. drive.google.com/file/d/1UggI...

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 3w ago

Amnesty International has expressed its 'regret' over a report naming dozens of gender-critical campaign groups as 'anti-rights' organisations

A society with one trillionaire and millions of people in poverty is something to be deeply ashamed of, actually

I don't need to be "protected" from seeing porn, I need porn artists to be protected from being debanked, having their work stolen by AI, being abused for the content of their work, and going broke.

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Arte es Ética@arteesetica.bsky.social · 2mo ago

¡ATENCIÓN! 🚨 El 5 de Julio de 2026 entra en vigencia la actualización de los ToS de Linktree. Esto incluye el uso de IA generativa (Dall-E de OpenAI) con los textos, imágenes y links que el usuario suba a su cuenta. Incluso compartirán toda la info del usuario con otros proveedores externos de IA ⚠️

HAPPY PRIDE!! Let’s kick it off with a bundle of 38 queer books for just $40! Includes my novel, Lust and Found, about a non-binary human bartender who accidentally summons the Archdemon of Lust and stumbles libido-first into a world of magic and romance. 💙📚💜🌈 itch.io/b/3678/pride...

Bsky is apparently gonna start flagging whole accounts as nsfw soon so if you don't already know about your moderation settings, highly suggest switching nsfw from Hide to Warn; otherwise many creators will completely vanish from your timeline when they roll this out.

this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU

ACLU@aclu.org · 3mo ago

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just voted to require teachers to forcibly out transgender youth against their will. Censoring "gender ideology" does nothing to advance the basic promise that every child deserves the same opportunity to thrive, and that includes transgender students.

It's a small thing but if you're like me and unthinkingly default to the google search bar remember that you can change the default search engine on new tabs in Firefox etc Fuck Google's AI enshittification of everything

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 3mo ago

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

(I was the original creator of this)

Kickstarter officially banning adult content now. Knew this was coming, but it still sucks to have yet another part of the internet that I've been explicitly evicted from. Digital gentrification is exhausting.

finding this shit on my Mac was a pain in the ass, btw I guess recent OSes hide the library folder? anyway, here's how I finally located the weights.bin file open finder > command + shift + G search for "~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default"

Lady Talia@djtalia.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

the romanticism of the starving artist is invoked not by artists but by people who aren't. it's misery/inspiration porn functioning as propaganda for people to feel like it's a worthwhile sacrifice for artists to die in misery instead of horrific, because they can take the art for themselves.

Bwillett Comics, Monster Boyfriend Specialist@bwillettcomics.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I am very tired of people who create the cool stuff everyone loves dying prematurely and/or in poverty while every publisher under the sun is seemingly tripping over its own dick to figure out how to pay even *less* for the creations that pay for their yachts and country clubs

The two truths: 1) There is nothing wrong with porn, let people safely make it, let people safely enjoy it. 2) If you let people define porn as bad, authoritarians will ALWAYS expand the definition until their hands are around your neck.

Dr ShinyGoth@ghostingdani.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you let them ban porn, they will call you pornographic when they ban you.

April is Autism Acceptance Month, and we have a collection of 40 SFF indie and self-published books written by autistic authors! Take a look and show your support: www.readindiefantasy.com/books-for-au...

Hello BlueSky. Do you like lesbians? Of course you do. You're on BlueSky. You can get 94 sapphic and lesbian books for just $40 all week next week. It includes Kotov Syndrome and Woodpusher, as well as many books more famous than mine. I am very excited to get it. itch.io/b/3635/lesbi...

The Free Speech Coalition is serious about starting an adult industry credit union. Part of this is being able to show regulators that enough people would use it, so please fill out this form if you're interested! (Yes, credit unions can issue credit cards!) www.freespeechcoalition.com/survey

Hey fyi way too many, even leftists who should know better, effusively praising the papacy is making it way, way more difficult to organize against this. This trans healthcare ban is literally going to cost trans people's lives but yeah, woke pope made a statement or whatever.

Trans News Network@transnews.network · 5mo ago

Crossing state borders for HRT. Insurance denials. Missed surgeries. U.S. Catholic bishops imposed a ban on all trans healthcare throughout the church's massive networks. That's left working class trans people struggling even more. Our latest, by @davidforbes.bsky.social are some of their stories:

Once upon a time @totallydonna.kitrocha.com & I wrote a trilogy about book nerds in a dystopian future who just wanted to build a library but the tech bros wouldn't stop being evil so they did community organizing & crimes. They are ON SALE this month for $2.99! www.kitrocha.com/series/merce...

💡 AUTISTIC FICTION BUNDLE ⁠💡⁠ ⁠ To kick off Autistic People's Month, check out this bundle of 34 fiction books by autistic authors with autistic characters!⁠ This bundle has sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romance, and more.⁠ Each book costs < $1.⁠ Get the bundle through April 14th!⁠ itch.io/b/3598

Like even if gAI wasn't destroying the planet (it is), even if it wasn't built on theft (it is), even if it wasn't making people less intelligent and inducing breaks from reality (it is), it was still built by fascists wanting to create technofeudalism and destroy the power of workers worldwide.

Visibility feels very not needed. I'd rather make trans books visible, especially if they have a trans main character(s)! So drop us your trans book recs! If you're a trans author & or have a trans MC; give us a description, link & graphic of your own books! 🌈📚💙🏳️‍⚧️ Boosts appreciated!

I read through the article and through the letters sent to these paypros and you guys should too (like please actually read them, don't rely on me). It specifically cites religious and political views but the language is wide open. This is good

Eromancer@eromancer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The FTC has sent a warning to PayPal, Stripe, Visa, and Mastercard over debanking lawful businesses. ︀︀ ︀︀Lawful adult businesses have been financially targeted for years under the guise of "reputation risk." ︀︀ ︀︀If that is finally getting scrutiny, that’s good news. www.xbiz.com/news/297090/...

Why read outdated TERF-funding wizard school books when you could read the indie smut series Sex Wizards by a non-binary author? @aletheafaust.bsky.social books2read.com/sexwizards