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The Hill Person@ofthehillpeople.bsky.social · 2h ago

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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 · 15h ago

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!

THIS IS WHY!!!! WE CALL!!! GREAT JOB EVERYONE 🩷 KOSA did pass the house but remember the senate has a conflicting version. Keep calling, it matters!

Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · 15h ago

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!

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On KOSA I'm still where I was before the markup: if we keep the pressure on we can kill it again. The House really hates the Senate's version ... and we're stronger now than we were in 2024, and we blocked it then. On the SCREEN Act, bsky.app/profile/then...

The Nexus of Privacy@thenexusofprivacy.net · 15h ago

It was very encouraging that no D's voted for the SCREEN Act. That matters, because it can't get through the Senate without D support.

We need to stop both KOSA and SCREEN Act, like I said, "We fight, riot, protest, boycott & war until it's officially over, and get our freedom back." stopkosa.com badinternetbills.com fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop-the-screen-act actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-the-screen-act?nowrapper=true

Stop KOSA

KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a free and open internet, tell your lawmakers to reject #KOSA!

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Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

None of us -want- to clog your timelines with this shit. I fucking HATE interrupting dumb horny boob posts with calls to action but like If action isnt taken the boobs will stop entirely like we -cant- ignore this shit, this isnt FUN

Hypno-Scream (Comms Open)❤️🩷💜@hypnoscream.bsky.social · last mo.

Saw a post saying "I don't want NSFW accounts to talk about voting, just let me jack off" Buddy, NSFW artists and sex workers are being constantly attacked by a government of nonces trying to distract from their own crimes by pinning the blame on porn. They have the right to speak up about this.

Rather than calling homophobes gay, call them paedophiles instead. Not only is paedophilia an actual issue, but homophobes are closet paedos 99% of the time.

Using hay as an insult doesn't become OK when the target is a homophobe. You're still implying that gayness is the issue.

I did my calls, please do yours!

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 2d ago

‼️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

literally any untrustworthy program you run on your PC can steal your discord login. not going in depth here for obv reasons but any app that can edit a file on your PC can edit your discord install to steal your login its the same for any virus; dont run untrusted apps ESPECIALLY VIBE CODED SHIT!!

Sharb 🏳️‍⚧️@firengames.com · 2d ago

The vibe coded recomps are scary to me because more and more people are spreading them around before they can be properly investigated. It's only a matter of time before malware is put into one of these disguising itself as a mario 3 recomp and making headlines.

lol YUP. One of the funniest 48 hours on Bluesky. They would try to bait all the big accounts, get the nuclear block, get added to a bunch of moderation lists, and then just be standing there like 

Ryan's Confused Stare (The Office)

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John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

I was around in the 70s and 80s, when we assumed legal gay marriage would NEVER happen. And we won. We won the culture on this, too. You can FIGHT BACK on fucking "wedge issues" and win for all of is that Tom would like to abandon.

hey if you live in a state with a republican majority you should double down on this. double up on calls and get all your friends in on it. they are the reason this passed the first time and were still dealing with it! let them know their constituency is NOT PLEASED

Eromancer@eromancer.bsky.social · 3d ago

This will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act. Use the official lookup tool at www.senate.gov/senators/sen... to find yours by state.

This will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act. Use the official lookup tool at www.senate.gov/senators/sen... to find yours by state.

The next Resident Evil games should be about Taylor Farms.

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...

"what can I do?" Call your reps and tell them to vote no on the Online Safety bill package because things will get worse the more censorship laws are allowed to pass. Tell your reps that payment processors must allow legal content. Go yell at youtube for their shitty TOS.

Heads up, artists 🚨 There’s a massive scam wave hitting DeviantArt right now DO NOT CLICK IT. If you have artist friends on DA, please boost this. I’d hate to see someone lose their account or payment info over something this stupid 🖤 { #DeviantArt #ArtistBeware #ScamAlert }

Yes, this is 100% about censorship in general, and the current anti-sexual weirdness that’s going on. But a paragraph near the end of the article is especially telling… ASMR is primarily created by women. Women doing anything will always be perceived by some as inherently sexual (excerpt in comms)

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...

Even if you do not live in California, you can submit public comment to NOAA. Please consider doing so! I spent my early childhood in this area. My grandmother lived in Capitola, and for my entire childhood, I was a member of the Monterey Bay Aquarium and spent summers there.

Monterey Bay Aquarium@montereybayaquarium.org · 6d ago

The Trump administration's plan for new offshore oil and gas drilling in federal waters is expected any day. If finalized, drilling could begin off the California coast next year. 📣 Take action! Contact your California representative and send your concerns to NOAA today: mbayaq.co/4fFiaV3

Actually, update since I read into this deeper. The issue isn't that the video content on YouTube was potentially sexual, no. It was that they had a website linked to them that WAS. This should be a massive red flag for any content creator that does NSFW off-site. This shit is not okay.

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...

This is the end result of "there are no sfw kinks" logic. Everything is a kink for someone. It doesn't matter how tame or innocuous it is; someone, somewhere, gets off to it. Amd there is no level of "toning it down" that will ever be acceptable to people whose goal is for you to not exist at all.

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...

More of this, please. I only want to see clout-chasing corporate cringe from real humans! If you can't spin breaking a nail into a 600-word novella on why you work 7 days a week for peanuts, are you even linked-in?

Edd Coates | Game UI Database@eddcoates.bsky.social · 7d ago

LinkedIn added an "AI slop" button. The U-Turn is happening, expect to see a lot more of this from other tech companies.

Just had another of these pop up, a fake CloudFlare page trying to talk me into running something. Watch out for "captcha pages" that try to make you jump through strange hoops. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-...

Fake Google and Cloudflare verification pages spread multiple malware families

We uncovered ClickFix attacks using fake Google and Cloudflare pages to deliver everything from infostealers to a newly discovered malware loader.

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If anyone uses Stripe to get payments, go to your Settings (Gear icon) > Plans and Fees > Radar (View plan details) > View Plans > Scroll to "More Options" and select "Lite" I want none of the money I earn to go to AI if I can help it.

💜 Noz 💜 Bust-up Commission Slots Open!@nozdraws.art · 7d ago

nice, now Stripe is auto-opting people into a nickel charge per transaction for "AI-enhanced" protection shit they never asked for you can change it back to their free "Lite" version, but the fact that it's opt-out by default is so fucking annoying

I’m not especially precious about things - I let my kids use the “good” art supplies because that’s what they’re there for - but this is…well it’s sad mostly. Imagine thinking about entire worlds like this. These are nothing people and they want the rest of us to join them in their nothing.

Shiro Sirius@shirosiri.us · last wk.

I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them

If you've got even an ounce of a soul in your body, you don't touch anything by ModRetro. It's too intrinsically linked to Palmer Luckey and his cohorts. I know the vast majority of you haven't and won't, but it's always worth a fresh reminder.

Bucket Mouse@mousebitelabs.bsky.social · last wk.

The chintzy-looking M64 clone console of the N64 by a company named ModRetro has been released, I think, I don't pay attention that closely to shit. But as the great @frankcifaldi.bsky.social posted before, it is our civic duty to push back against this company and shun ANYONE who doesn't.

Contact ya reps about KOSA and the NDAA (if it didn't pass already) now