I could really use a mud bath. Like a really *deep* mud bath. Like, not *exactly* quicksand, but yes, 100% quicksand swallowing me up like a good little bitch. That kind of mud bath.

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 · 16h 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!

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 · 16h 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.

Authenticity Problem Bonus timelapse: www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFanta... #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

And literally anything else, tbh, but especially this. Behind every account is a real person, who is allowed to use their space to express themselves however they want.

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.

Kay so- I can take a couple more of these if anyone would like? Alright doing them before getting into some larger colored comms😤 I still have butter if needed🥹

ǝuᴉɐƆ sᴉsǝuʎפ🔞@gynesisx.bsky.social · 2w ago

Been a bit since we've done any sketches, want some? Regular: $55(single character) Rendered: $90(additional char/details extra) Mud: $120(bg, other chars extra) Vore: $135(no internal) $180 with Three slots. Butter available upon request. Comment/message if interested! <:

I forgot to update my comm sheet here too, oopsies! Anyways, interested? Throw me a DM!

My calendar says August 2 is Bunny Day 🐰 #vore #B236art

I see people on the road who seem so mad at bike lanes and it blows my mind. It puts me at ease to know there’s room for cyclists to stay safely aside from my car. Win-win.

COINTREAUPRO@strings.bsky.social · 5d ago

So… they’re working

Oh no. Exactly what everyone who knows literally *anything* about it said would happen did in fact happen. Wow. So now all the other know nothings in other governments around the world who are planning on giving away everyone's privacy will stop and think for a single second, right? Right??

Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d ago

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

Klo in the deep jungle bog~ 🌴🪴 (Model and render by the amazing ShizumuVRC on X 💛)

Long thread, or there's a link to a non-threaded essay if you prefer, but this is very much worth your time.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 5d ago

Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/

Anyone else play PlateUp!? Recently completed 15 days of a turbo restaurant for the first time. Now I just did OT day 8. By the end of day I have a queue of hundreds of customers and it takes SO long. Saved a recording of the last 30 minutes of gameplay annnnd it didn't cover the whole day.

Today's my birthday~! Which also means it's Frost's birthday too~! And Mint said she'll let him do whateeeever he wants~... which is whatever she wants~! And he's so so happy about it~ 💚 #hypnosis

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 · 6d 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...

Selfcare is veeeery important~. Bri's getting that self care by being a very muddy bird~. #quicksand

always think of that one tweet about the generic guy in the 70s working at a gas station that could own a new cool car, had a house, extremely normal shit. hell, you don't even have to go back that far for it to be normal. life, liberty, the pursuit, all that

Ted Cruz called the FBI on me@weareronin.bsky.social · 5d ago

Eat the rich

First, this is fantastic. Second, it gives the lie to the idea that people need to “learn” how to use AI given that it’s become compulsory. What lurks behind the notion that people need tutorials in it is that AI “education” is just a how-to in avoiding its hazards. The real education is this ⬇️

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

The firestorm of age-verification laws have done almost nothing to prevent minors from accessing porn online. What they have done is give the state a powerful tool to harass speech they don't like by declaring it pornographic or "harmful to minors."

Streaming services are in a hell of their own design, because they've trained their audiences to never get invested in new shows because they'll just end up getting cancelled. I'm still mad Netflix cancelled that amazing Dark Crystal show, but it teaches you one thing; never get invested.

Dark Crystal: Deet & Hup's Amazing Moment

Alt: Dark Crystal: Deet & Hup's Amazing Moment

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Megan Fox@glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 6d ago

"Why isn't anyone watching our expensive new TV shows?!" because we think you'll cancel them and oh hey look at that, variety.com/2026/tv/news...

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

Filament Eruption Creates 'Canyon of Fire' on the Sun - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/gWrofJ

Co-worker brought me some flavour grenades from the farmer's market. Yesss... Ha ha ha... Yes!

This is so real. This is wisdom

max asher miller@maxashermiller.bsky.social · last wk.

The funniest thing is when I say something pro-porn or SW and SWERFs go, "Oh of course the gross man is defending porn because he gets off to it." Like yeah dude you should try it sometime. I am FAR more ashamed of shopping on Amazon than you could ever hope to make me of watching porn.

I don't know who needs to see this but. Your art matters. Imposter Syndrome is real, but so is the hard work you put into your art. It is work, it will always be effort. It will always be a struggle to find happiness with your work. But it matters to keep creating. It matters, and so do you.

The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ

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This is ... horrific

Lady Yapper (KJ Colt)@moistenedtart.bsky.social · last wk.

futurism.com/artificial-i... Excuse me while I go cry

one of the most frustrating things about what Rowling has turned into is how hard it is to explain to offline people that she’s not just another author who has turned out to have shitty views - her entire life and fortune is dedicated to destroying trans people

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last wk.

Projection so powerful, you could screen the Odyssey in 70MM IMAX from it.