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 · 12h 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!

all puppygirls can do this

#TurnKeyInClaw (different) Names and Titles

all my interactions with ai are miserable and nonconsensual. it is the reason my programs are running slowly, why my weather report is inaccurate, why I always get connected to the wrong department of any automated call service. I would pay a lot of money to be rid of it.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterday

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.

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 · yesterday

Mike 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.

Getting a lot of use out of this lately

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

Squish my paws???

🐈‍⬛🐈💕

A little over a year ago I made a gift art for @squeakitties.bsky.social around the time that I started doing commissions, and her reposting my artwork almost single-handedly gave me the platform I have today. So as a thanks, I have made a remake-esq piece to show my 1 year progress

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

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.

Already voted on this, let Twitch know that we don't want them forcing AI features onto its users by default. twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338...

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d ago

Twitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.

I hate to keep being so annoying about this but the IRS sent me an official notice of Levy i NEED to make this amount bare minimum to keep them off my back. Please please help. i am working non stop and just paid rent donations are all i have #HelpSky #MutualAid

🗡️Wretched Creature🏹@laura.karnste.in · 4w ago

Alright everyone, encouraged to try by several people and with no other option but to take this chance, my gofundme is live to try and clear the debilitating debt thats suffocating us. I want to thank you all so much for the support #MutualAid #HelpSky www.gofundme.com/f/help-laura...

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...

if your system is 50% rabbits by volume that's officially a burrow. like, for legal purposes. it's classified as a burrow at that point. apologies, but i do not make the rules!

Just a bree,, 🩷

Tell Twitch to leave out AI at this link! Its seriously just a button click as long as ur signed into Twitch! twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338...

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d ago

Twitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.

Artists: - Likes do not determine your value - It's okay to not create - Not everything you make has to be important or good - You can make things just for yourself - You're allowed to rest - You're so much more than what you make

look at the comments my gay little robot. they love you unconditionally. this world is full of compassion and kindness. go out into it and spread goodness and joy. also please strangle sonic the hedgehog

Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik@hatethathedgehog.bsky.social · 5d ago

builds a gay little robot that pisses you off

There will always be people who appreciate what YOU make, it just might take them a while to find you.

Haus of Decline@hausofdecline.bsky.social · 7d ago

Noticed this comic has been making the rounds again recently, might as well reupload it here :) #art #pokemon #vaporeon #sylveon

Fool AI scrapers with this poisoned font: www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...

Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font

ShieldFont is available today if you've got copy that needs protecting

theregister.com

this happened 14 minutes ago but unfortunately due to my personality "Proplem in elvator" has immediately become a load-bearing part of my vocabulary

Would you still love me, if i was a toadpole? ✂️ @schneepardicreations.com #Furry #Fursuitfriday #Toadpole

Vera Rubin Observatory xkcd.com/3278/

WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT like yes experimental evidence on this is good n important but like. cmon

Stan Stewart (muz4now)@muz4now.com · last wk.

Modern Life May Be Overloading the Human Brain, New Research Suggests #MentalHealth

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

news.com.au