Rape is the central pillar of the right-wing agenda, the right to terrorize other people in the most intimate way possible.

Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterday

Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2

The way the creative industries treat people like a disposable afterthought is just mind blowing. Not saying anything new here but I just got served 2 "creative team laid off, exec gets a bonus" posts in a row and the injustice of it makes me want to rip someone apart with my bare teeth

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Alt: person holding a struggling feral creature with big teeth

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i think, now, more than ever its really important to interact with people who like your art and vice versa, and cultivate more community and trust among artists and commissioners and followers in general. its not a perfect system by any means but i think building trust between everyone will help

Fuzzikayu@fuzzikayu.bsky.social · 23h ago

This is what people mean by AI is theft. Someone I know later found out an artist (16k followers) they got a commision from uses AI and now they don't have funds to commish me or another artist they like. Not only does the slop machine steal art, these scammers directly steal work from real artists

“It’s time to make oil giants pay up to repair the climate breakdown they’re driving. Think how many fire and flood defences we could build, or how many solar panels we could install, if big oil paid their fair share in taxes.” www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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Tons of bangers in this one, like:

Charlie Kirchoff@charliekirchoff.com · 18h ago

this FUCKING GODDAMNED SHIT AGAIN GODDAMNIT we making more phone calls tomorrow right?

404 Media@404media.co · yesterday

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul Pix11 NYC therapist Remington Yhap, 47, who specialized in LGBTQ+ mental health and sex issues, is accused of raping a 17-year-old trans boy during a session in his Manhattan office in June, sources and prosecutors said Tuesday. pix11.com/news/local-n...

NYC therapist accused of raping transgender teen during session: DA

NEW YORK (PIX11) — A therapist is accused of raping a 17-year-old transgender boy during a session in his Manhattan office in June, sources and prosecutors said Tuesday. Remington Yhap, 47, a…

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please make your voice heard and speak up against KOSA & SCREEN Act TODAY being considered in Congress (again), even if you aren't in the US you can still email. I'd like to still use the internet as a marginalized person in Texas. CALL AND EMAIL YOUR SENATORS, THIS SITE MAKES IT EASY FOR YOU!!!

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All of the bad internet bills. One website.

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The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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this has stalled at $61/$440, please i really need this met. i wouldn’t be asking if i had any other options, and i’ve been screwed over and over again in this infernal move to escape another hell. had to beat many demons to ask for help so PLEASE share, quote, engage, and donate if you’re able to.

alyssum says #ProtectJho and #FreeLink@permanentalien.blacksky.app · 6d ago

the first half is to cover two bills due tomorrow (€35.38) and the 2nd (€63) totaling €98.38 + the cheapest washing machine i’ve found €260 (includes installation). so €358.38 or $440 (to cover fees) needed asap C - $permanentalien V - $permanentalien PP - @AlyssumBorges gofund.me/982b699b

The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

"may be able" is crazy. 😭 This dystopia is really here, huh? Before long, we'll be sitting here, wondering if the person we're watching is AI or not. ugh. hate this.

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d ago

Twitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.

ain't it funny how my threads talking about how ppl failed disabled folks by refusing to mask don't get shared nearly as much as other sociopolitical commentary i make? ain't that weird? it's almost like there's a group everyone has decided it's okay to abandon bc "boohoo masking hard."

This can apply to folks using Ko-Fi, VGen Payments, etc - not just using Stripe directly. Please check your "plans" under "settings" 💀

Kirynn ⚙️ Live2D@kirynn.bsky.social · 6d ago

⚠️ STRIPE users ⚠️ Stripe is automatically enrolling free users of their fraud protection program into a paid tier. Free users have to manually go into their accounts and change to a "true free" version.

On the upside I get to look at my partner while he sleeps And I get to hear the local magpies bicker with each other I might sleep on the way back home lmao

Could not sleep, too warm. Ughhghh

Support physical media, kids. These motherfuckers are nefarious.

Sheady Omahrt@sheadyomahrt.bsky.social · last wk.

It’s easy to rewrite history when you destroy all the original records.

raise your commission prices, sweetpeas

"finally, we have created Fahrenheit 451 from the cautionary tale,"

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

All the video game studios that refuse to use generative AI aftermath.site/video-games-no...

need to start using the dutch word for "party animal"

>be American >protest genocide >get arrested >touch peeling paint in shitty monument >get arrested >show support for fellow community member engaged in nonviolent political action >get arrested

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

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I come back to this tumblr post again and again

Hillary Monahan@hillarymonahan.bsky.social · last wk.

Nobody wants predictive data models to stop working for the people in medicine. Or translating ancient Pompeii texts. Or the other ways we were already using it. We want it to stop replacing workers, killing the environment, and stealing from artists. Hope that clarifies.

so i have one week to come up with rent & car payment, & i need help. my partner's new job pays once a month, so we have a light at the end of the tunnel that will allow me to catch up on owed commissions, but we have to get there without being evicted first. anything at all is helpful.

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Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.

Brian Lyman@brianlyman.bsky.social · last wk.

A lot of what-the-hell moments in this story, but building a data center in a floodplain in Louisiana is inviting the wrath of Poseidon.

Honderden Franse boeren uit het hele land zijn met tractoren en sproeiwagens naar de Medoc gereden om te helpen de natuurbranden te bestrijden. Hun Nederlandse collega's ondertussen:

De Stentor@destentor.bsky.social · last wk.

Boeren blokkeren rotonde in Nunspeet en zetten bomen op middeneiland in brand

Health insurance took money and i have €148 Need €490 for rent

🐴 Jam 🌞 Comms open!@wyrdlittleguy.bsky.social · 2w ago

🐴 As always, my commission menu is here! 🎨 trello.com/b/qA3XgQ6U/c...

Update on this situation from our incredible PD Jake who is more qualified to speak on this than I. This is the last time I will be posting about this- thanks everyone for supporting our artists.

Kat Tsai@chuwenjie.bsky.social · 2w ago

I have no clue why it was on that slide or who put it there, and every member of the crew I worked with is 100% against AI. Every aspect of the animation is handcrafted by real artists and I hope that people don’t use this slide as a reason to detract from how much love and labor went into the film.