We'd much rather be drawing! But it depends on being vocal about this. Drawing porn has allowed me to contribute meaningfully and consistently to my retirement fund for the first time in my life. These censorship bills will take away futures. Help us fight them.

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.

Reposting.

Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins@ajcousins.bsky.social · 2h ago

The govt has fired *all* the immigration attorneys representing detained children and given a $150 million contract to a 26-employee law firm in Texas with ONE immigration attorney. @theyoungcenter.bsky.social's Child Advocates are now the last line of defense for kids in deportation hearings.

Where do you shop for neat, non-AI, XXL desk mats these days? I swear, everywhere I look it's just AI garbage :( I need to replace mine, it's run its course.

I found reel to reel tapes in my parent's things. I'd like to have them digitalized so I can hear them and share with family. However I don't want the data stolen/used for AI/used in unauthorized research. Can anyone recommend someone who can do that?

I need that jackass to shut all the way up and sit all the way down. Now. Get our peoples out of his mouth. He's wrong on every single damn thing, and he has the gall to try to use us this way? Colonialism at its most essential, right there.

Tiffany Morris@tiffmorris.bsky.social · 16h ago

So apparently that HWA pro-AI newsletter also uses Indigenous water rights issues as a prop, trivializing the activism by Indigenous peoples to protect our water including specific anti-data centre actions. I guess they figured why not alienate Indigenous horror writers while they’re at it?

Fucking Churchill During WWII, England poisoned sheep with anthrax on an idyllic Scottish island | Popular Science share.google/kvHOROwZWPVJ...

During WWII, England poisoned sheep with anthrax on an idyllic Scottish island

Gruinard Island remained toxic for nearly 50 years—until activists started delivering buckets of dirt.

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Money out of your pocket:

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 19h ago

Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

Look, we can talk about the genuine harms of the internet, but the fact that I, a semi-house bound multiply disabled person, get to talk to people and have friendships and occasionally be heard—that’s pretty important.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 17h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

💕 💸 #HelpSky #MutualAid #HelpFolksLive #MABoost #UrgentNeed #EmergencyMutualAid

Diana Nightbloom@diananightbloom.bsky.social · 4h ago

Thank you for this thread. Just aiming to raise $200 for this month. For toiletries, groceries, bills and etc. Currently working on a new adoptable, applying for jobs and selling on Ebay. 💕 💸 #HelpSky #MutualAid #HelpFolksLive #MABoost #MADBoost ko-fi.com/diana_nightb... cash.app/$ChibiDiana

The BABY is supervising CONSTRUCTION outside What would they do WITHOUT HER

Almost like there’s a REASON authoritarian personalities regardless of POLITICAL affiliation Target Black people in all levels of governance … And that racial taxonomy while INVENTED indicates a historical level of institutional knowledge that fascists HISTORICALLY constantly want erased ?!?

Not to bleak post but damn this week has felt like a month.

Gonna be blunt, the reason I complain about AI so much is because it's made so much extra work for me, as I'm inundated with AI slopware games that I have to sort through and filter out, if this garbage tech ceased to exist tomorrow, it would be an immediate ease of that workload.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 20h ago

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

Art museum staff: do you have ANY IDEA what an all-hands-on-deck, everybody out of the building NOW level emergency the climate control malfunction in the beginning of The Thomas Crown Affair would have been?

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 9h ago

sometimes there is absolutely nothing more fun than understanding works of art through people's varied professional perspectives

Please help out my good artistic friend with food and rent. On top of everything, I got to draw again with art supplies they gifted me awhile ago 💙😁 💕 💸 #HelpSky #MutualAid #HelpFolksLive #MABoost #UrgentNeed #EmergencyMutualAid

dj vulcan barbie@spacedaddy.bsky.social · yesterday

*pin* RENT/FOOD FUNDRAISER: hi everyone I need to pay rent. I had a cost of $200 to get my power and now I have no money for rent. I'm asking if you can to donate, share, or help us (conchita drew this) venmo.com/u/nellarosmarino paypal.me/aizykows ░️░️░️░️░️░️░️░️░️░️

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

thenerve.news

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

Getting increasingly frustrated at people around me who keep making excuses.

Operation Smolla Paula is go!!! Thank you, you heroes ❤️

Holly Brockwell@hollyqueenofspayeds.com · yesterday

Currently at 69% of our target (nice) -- we really need to book Mango & the wonky kittens in for scans & treatment ASAP. So here's our promise: if we hit the goal by the end of the week, we will keep wobbly dwarf kitten Chessie and name her Smolla Paula www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-...

$35 down! She needs only $306 now; 9 ppl; $35 each:

WingsNDNSilver@wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 13h ago

Tonight, it's Tiffany, alone with disabling pain, still trying to work full-time through it. At last report, still needs $341 for rent and phone: PAYPAL..... @redfeather630 CASHAPP.. $TJredfeather Chime....... $TiffaLove

Glad that all of this got resolved 100 years ago and none of these companies are alive to commit their horrors upon us in this modern age!

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · last yr.

Fun fact: the guy who invented leaded gasoline was Thomas Midgely Junior, in 1921. He *also* invented CFC's By 1923 he had symptoms of lead poisoning, by 1924 several factory employees has already died of lead poisoning. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_....

If you're seeing this, you deserve this cute duckling. You've earned it. Unless you're a robot feeding a large language model, then you deserve this osprey. 🪶 🐣

All right, tonight's local urgent needs. With so many in need of rent, I'm going to try to get one per night covered if we possibly can.

...i will never get tired of saying "Ronald Reagan is dead"

the youtube comments on this video are unhinged but every once in a while someone yells I HOPE JAMES CARVILLE IS HAVING A TERRIBLE NIGHT or something, and that is part of why I'm still awake.

this is yet another reason you need a group chat or two to crash out in. if it makes it to main something’s gone horribly wrong

On August 3, Michigan reported two deaths associated with its cyclosporiasis outbreak. The state didn't say how either person died, how old they were, or what conditions they had. It did say both had "significant underlying health conditions." That was almost the only detail. 🧵

Who Gets to Feel Relieved When Sick People Die? Michigan Reports Two Deaths in Its Cyclospora Outbreak | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

nb. CDC has added Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania to the list of Cyclospora outbreak states. I continue to urge caution, this o

shouldntneedtobealawyer.com

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"