SCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!

Alison Boden@alisonboden.bsky.social · 6h ago

The SCREEN Act just failed to pass in the Senate Commerce Committee! 🎉 Enormous thanks to the thousands (!!) of you who told your Senators to vote no! Your voice matters and you should feel good that you made a difference. Obviously, the fight isn't over, but this was an important victory.

If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.

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.

David Talaski's cover to Batgirl #22

A monstrous waste of money.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 15h ago

Unfathomable

When u like her but she’s bad at makeup…. #miku #teto

It’s funny because we do this thing where Black voters are pathologized, literally, every election cycle.

brent sewer socialist🚰🌹@therealbrent.bsky.social · 17h ago

So El-Sayed is doing better with Black voters and worse with white voters than most people imagined? That’ll be fun for The Discourse.

nobody talks about how character creation is the hardest part of vtubing

"Ready Player Two movie is officially in the works"

花魁風サーナイト 柄はめんどくさかったので無地 #art #イラスト #illustration #サーナイト #ポケモン #gardevoir #pokemon

I think this exact thing will happen in 20 years when a kid whose favorite game series is garten of ban ban makes one of the greatest horror films of the century

Raven Lyn Clemens@ravenlynclemens.bsky.social · 17h ago

i think about this all the time

i think about this all the time

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

🥄Out now on @dropout.tv - The Don Hertzfeldt Collection!

Good morning pretzel pizza m.youtube.com/watch?v=PuG7...

A little somber Jill (they cut her power) #va11halla

we see it

ルーラーシップ初描き描き👍 #ウマ娘

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

anybody ever notice how much pointless cruelty is engrained in our society? haha, oh boy, i sure hope these violent delights have normal ends!

They make me understand how the religious feel when someone defiles an altar. You are in the house of art! Stop shitting on the floor and fingerpainting with it!

If you scrubbed Nerdist and Screenrant from the Internet, media literacy would jump an easy twelve or thirteen percent

@wooliewoolz.bsky.social sketching out Jo Guns #woolievsart

Well, actually, kinda, yeah, close to what happened. It's not for nothing that Jack Dorsey, who started the place and was on its board, basically ran away when the trans folks and furries scared off all the crypto bros he assumed would be the natural demographic here (they went to Nostr instead).

jack@jackalltogether.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bluesky often seems like a project run by tech people who place great value on its architectural differences from Twitter, which nobody cares about, while not understanding how they walked ass-backwards into having a userbase (whomst they fear and despise)

i started this train of thought as a joke but now i do think there's something to the idea that the way to sell the green revolution to the US public is that we're being denied Good Deals on cheap chinese cars and solar panels and there's nothing more unamerican than saying we can't have a good deal

i'm so tired of trying to use an app or a website like a normal person and then the ceo will be like "i don't see enough racists on my app and that means it's a total failure. i need everyone who uses my app to get super fucking racist right now, or i'm going to kill myself in front of you"

xavier renegade angel dialogue

so democratic socialism is good

Democrats@democrats.org · 2d ago

HUGE: Under Mayor Mamdani, New York City just recorded its safest first 7 months of a year in history—and its safest July ever. In July: Major crime dropped 13% Murder dropped 32% Robberies dropped 15% Vehicle thefts dropped 25% Democratic mayors are putting public safety first.

(Well, there is a hot MILF in this area.)