lrt Breaking my silence to be a little annoying about this. I really don't expect people to leave en masse, but if you're not going to outright leave, I highly recommend at least *making* a Mastodon (unless you just plan on leaving social media) I'm at fgc.network/@joeriley121, fwiw

Remember when yall were saying you didnt wanna be on Mastodon because instance owners were petty assholes who acted like forum mods

Jay 🦋@jay.bsky.team · 12mo ago

You could try a poster’s strike. I hear that works

"healthy discourse project" > has been screaming "WAFFLES" at passersby for two or three days folks just go to mastodon. doesn't even matter which instance you use. this shit's only gonna get goofier the more Jay turns into a corncob.

Jay 🦋@jay.bsky.team · 12mo ago

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.

Trying to avoid using this site, but really need to boost this. Eight's a good friend of mine in an extremely awful situation. If you can help financially, it'd be appreciated, but especially if you live in the Houston area and have any way to help with housing, please reach out.

EightStarKaijin-Commissions 4 Sale!@eightstarkaijin.bsky.social · last yr.

things are rough financially and I've got to find a n ew place to live asap im reaching out to friends and people around who can help me find work be it through art or whatever and looking for a new place to live in my area as usual I can be sent commissions through ko-fi or sent money via paypal

Currently weighing a few things, but since I do already have an account, I'll be moving primarily over to Mastodon. fgc.network/@joeriley121 The rights of trans people are not negotiable, and I'm tired of sitting on this site hoping that the staff will stop capitulating to those who believe they are

I feel like I was saying "hey maybe cancel Disney+ since they capitulate to fascists" back when it turned out they were meddling with shows to take the queer bits out. I feel like now is another good time to remind people

Jesus Christ.

Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · last yr.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Hey, can y’all PLEASE donate, mentally I’m at the end of my rope here and trying to hold it together.

🇵🇸Vee (Black Lives Matter/Trans Rights Are Human Rights!)@veetheposs.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey y’all, I gotta be honest: I still really need help and I’m nowhere near my goal. Please, please help me. ko-fi.com/adeleinevee/... #mutualaid #helpsky

The Jimmy Kimmel firing, Colbert's show, what's happening at WaPo, CBS... legacy journalism is slowly but surely coming under state control. It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.

Remember, if you think paypro censorship won't ever affect you because you're "one of the good ones", yes it will.

"He's a leftist." "He's a groyper." "No, he's a centrist." "He's trans." "No one is trans." "No, the roommate's trans." The transphobia has been there this whole time. It doesn’t matter what the story is or what fascists believe. What matters is what we are going to do about it.

timeline cleanse: franky watches the garbage truck pick up the trash this morning

SIX people who helped organize the Ferguson protests were all murdered or died under mysterious circumstances Do not let the white folks fool you into putting your name on ANYTHING ahead of ANY protest www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Mysterious Deaths Leave Ferguson Activists 'On Pins and Needles'

Six men with connections to the protests following the shooting of Michael Brown have been found dead over the past four and a half years.

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Officially at the 'New Profile Pic' stage of brainrot. More details to come.

Hey all! I'd like to thank the world's media institutions, and of course the Bluesky mods, for being totally normal and proportional about a barely famous trans woman cracking wise about a Nazi's death.

Several people told me that going back to physical goods is the solution to getting art around paypros. It's well-meaning, but again, we can't loophole our way out of this. They're coming for everything. We have to stop running and stand and fight. Call your reps and demand protection. Call paypros.

The May 2025 POTM: Dick Gumshoe!! Hey pal...Willing to lend a hand~? 💚 The pack will be sent out to May Patreon pledgers on June 3rd!! linktr.ee/dreampipe

The July 2025 POTM: Beowulf!! Our champion is really giving us a show for this exhbitionist match folks~! ✨ The pack will be sent out to July Patreon pledgers on August 3rd!! linktr.ee/dreampipe

"If you decide to challenge him to a Famicom game, just fill the briefcase with your Famicom cartridges. Walk down the street with this case and you'll feel like a pro." For when you have a business trip in the Mushroom Kingdom - or a score to settle.

I was about to be like “Why is he offering it like it’s a multiplayer experience, is he just going to sit there and watch her play” and then mid-sentence I realized every single Xenoblade fan in the world would do that

Nintendeal@nintendeal.com · last yr.

In this scene from the long-running American soap opera Days of Our Lives (s61e008), Aaron uses playing Xenoblade as an excuse to invite Arianna into his dorm room.

[aitsf] little freaks

Brand new Spectrum game, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, by Kamil Blazěk. A text adventure based on the epic 90's point & click game. Download (english and czech): https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/44498/ZX-Spectrum/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Fate_of_Atlantis #zxspectrum #retrogaming

If you live in MI you have a genuine duty to ensure that this woman doesn’t sleep if she passes this “porn ban”

🏳️‍⚧️ Amy had a little pond 🔞@amypond.gay · last yr.

Michigan's porn ban specifically bans being openly transgender as being pornographic. Don't let this one slide. It is a ban on being publicly transgender on the Internet.

I like deco game

Game-Key cards are a shitshow, and it's not surprising they're not eligible by their very nature, but I do think this perfectly encapsulates the spit in the eye these things are to Game Preservation.

Japan’s national library says it won’t be preserving Switch 2 Game-Key Cards | VGC

The library requires a copy of all new publications by law, but says Switch 2 Game-Key Cards aren’t eligible…

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New art of Sonic and Pac-Man from the JP Bamco account This is forever my favourite video game friendship