DorkyCuttlefish (they/them) 🔞
@dorkycuttlefish.bsky.social
30s queer, hypnokinky, and probably not posting here terribly often 18+ NSFW account, minors DNI 🔞
for those who celebrate: it is the 20th anniversary of a funny dog eat a pepsi.
SOME GOOD NEWS! continue to contact your reps re: KOSA and the KIDS Act, but also give yourself a pat on the back if you called! Your voice mattered!
Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · 9h agoSCREEN 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!
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 · 10h agoThe 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 the SCREEN Act passes, Patreon creators could lose everything. I have already been forced to submit my government ID and a photo of my face to Patreon last year to continue to make money on the platform. I can't count on every one of my patrons doing the same in order to continue supporting me.
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 · yesterdayMike 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.
"saudi arabia owns EA" is going to be the headline you see basically everywhere for this one but "jared kushner is about to use EA as a vehicle for trump administration bribes" is equally relevant imo
![The firm is fully owned by Jared Kushner and has a staff of approximately 20 people.[2][5] By 2024, the firm had returned no profits to its investors.[6] The firm has been controversial due to conflicts of interests arising from Kushner soliciting funds from Middle Eastern governments while also working as an envoy having direct and indirect dealings with those governments in his role in the second Trump administration.[7] According to reporting by Bloomberg News, investors in the firm do so with the expectation of influencing the Trump administration.[8]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2jjromh55tf7pp7s4hsvurf4/bafkreihebdzjog2hp37o2q3enjyrsi46btqktev76ogpneczsrrzl55fo4)
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · yesterdayEA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...
The disbelief my coworker gave me when I told them that Madden was going to largely be owned by the government of Saudi Arabia, but here we are!
Kotaku@kotaku.com · yesterdayWell, I guess Electronic Arts belongs to Saudi Arabia, private equity, and Jared Kushner now. https://kotaku.com/electronic-arts-officially-belongs-saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-now-2000721666
Have you made your calls today? And if you aren’t in the US: make sure you bug your US friends to do so!
Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · yesterday‼️ACTION ALERT: The Senate Commerce Committee is holding “kids safety” circus again, this time considering both KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act) & SCREEN Act, two of the most dangerous censorship & age verification bills on the table! CALL YOUR LAWMAKERS & TELL THEM TO OPPOSE 📲 248-331-8665
My birthday is TOMORROW! For the next week, you can get a month of my Patreon for 35% off. I do not run discounts there often, so now is a good time to check it out if you've been curious! There's been some GREAT articles lately too. Or, browse my other work at sleepingirl.info Thank you so much.
What can you do? CALL. WRITE. SCREAM. The bill is up for a vote THIS WEDNESDAY. Call your Senator. Dem. Republican. Whomever. Right now, it's a solid R bill, but they're looking for Dems to take it across the finish line. Let them know how badly it stinks. www.defendonlineprivacy.com/screen/
Defend Online Privacy: Stop the SCREEN Act!
The Senate Commerce Committee will vote on the SCREEN Act on August 5. ACT NOW to stop it!
defendonlineprivacy.com
I never wanted to be a "in my day things were better" old lady... but I need to categorically state that technology actually WAS better. You are currently in the peak of designed obsolence, enshittification, personal intrusion and forced acceptance by lack of choice. Sure, the underlying tech...
we go through this every i watch the simpsons but there's so many 10-15 second clips that fully inform my sense of humor
“Moment by moment, you’re going to find your mind slipping away.” Your eyelids rolled upwards as your thoughts began to slow down. “You’re going to feel your brain becoming emptier and emptier.” Your hypnotist’s words were so sweet, as they sucked your thoughts away.