Saw a couple of posts from US artists saying BSky is now asking them for age verification. Please follow the link in this repost. I’m the UK we’ve had this crap going on for over a year. The methods listed here work great, it’s what I use it (no way I’m providing personal info!)

Bl3iz-Du (OKAMI SEQUEL!!!!)@bl3iz-du.bsky.social · 12mo ago

UK folks: If UBlock is not working anymore for you to bypass the UK age restriction rules (no way I'm giving them personal info), please be aware that the codes to copy/paste into UBlock's filter rules have changed! gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e2...

The KIDS Act [containing KOSA] has passed the House This sucks, but its not the end. It still has to pass through the Senate committee and then be voted on by the Senate itself Please continue contactimg your Senators and demanding they oppose the KIDS Act & KOSA www.congress.gov/members/find...

I am so tired and trying so hard not to slide into hopelessness. Also I know part of the reason I feel this shitty is because my blood sugar is low. But ohhhhhh boy the urge to just slide into doomerism is so fucking strong.

The term "vegan felt" fills me with an intense amount of rage.

Last night I finished the RIDICULOUS hand embroidery portion of the back of my new vest. I feel so very accomplished.

This Day in Labor History: June 21, 1877. Ten alleged members of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society blamed for labor radicalism in the anthracite country of Pennsylvania, were executed. Let's talk about the Mollies, or at least what we know about this pretty secret organization!

It is causing me pain that I can't find a gif of Divine screaming "Who wants to die for art?" in Female Trouble to add to this.

nige 'dear ratboy'@niall.codes · 2mo ago

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

Movies Silently@moviessilently.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

So I've been tearing through @rachelharrison.bsky.social 's books the past few weeks and...does anyone else read Ilie from So Thirsty as sounding like Toki from Metalocalypse in their head? Or is that just me?

...for every one of those cool senior portraits of a girl in full goth makeup and accessories from the 90s/00s, there's gotta be at least one girl like me whose mother sent her to get professional makeup done to trick her out of being goth in the photos.

I've started selling on Poshmark, but I also very firmly believe that I have to donate at least some Good Stuff to the thrift store or else the gods of the thrift store won't bless me with more Good Stuff.

Valid. My kids’ school has been locked down just once because of a guy with a gun outside, and once by an attempted SWATting, but three times for stabbings (one of them fatal).

molly conger@socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 4mo ago

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

My entire Pinterest feed periodically gets completely taken over by IWTV memes, but I have not yet seen one about the fact that Daniel Molloy ordered a grasshopper in that gay bar in SF in the 70s.

Ugh I don't love doing this, but I'm selling a few things on eBay because I need the dollars. ebay.us/m/Xqzqs0

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H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

Just finished the Behind the Bastards episodes on the impact of Jeffrey Epstein. And like a takeway is that he started funding anti-trans research because he allegedly SA'd a trans girl (she was 16 at the time) who turned around and sued his ass for it and he was mad that she sued him.

As a fucking parent TALK TO YOUR FUCKING KIDS THEN. Worried they'll see porn? Talk to them about porn. Worried they'll see gore? Talk to them about gore. Worried they'll get groomed? Talk to them about red flags and cultivate trust with them so they won't feel they have to hide things from you.

sasha@2damntrans.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"As a parent, I am deeply concerned about what my child is accessing online. Albeit not enough to check or to install some very basic software that would prevent them from accessing dodgy material online. That's why the Online Safety Act is so important."

Love the community note that got added on to the Democrats' tweet about their deranged and harmful efforts to dismantle Section 230.

TN is considering a new bill that allows parents to sue large platforms that allow "material harmful to minors"— including sculpture, drawings, photos, music or video games— that describe or depict nudity, sex or "excessive violence" The censorship that started with "porn" is coming for everything.

I hear from people who are surprised I'm still talking about ICE, they thought they'd withdrawn from MN. No, they have not. In some respects they've escalated. Some asked why MN is a target. Are there are there a lot more illegals or criminals here? No, it's not about that. It's about a grudge.

The fact that Bad Bunny's halftime show made white bigots angry and feel excluded is A GOOD THING. It's one of the best things about it. It's not a problem to solve. It's a solution to pursue. Bigots *should* feel excluded. We should find *more* ways to celebrate the reality of USian diversity.

I am glad everyone is remembering Surya Bonaly and the outrageous way she was mistreated. I was a big fan as a kid during her too-brief career and the obviously biased judging was a major reason why I lost all interest in figure skating.

Yeah, and the investigation into why I bought 4 boxes of girl scout cookies yesterday revealed I wasn't depressed with poor impulse control

Why can't I just support myself by being really hot and really goth so I can spend my time making stuff?

party pooper reporting for duty again to remind you that hate-views are still views so no one better watch that other halftime show (even after the fact!!) just to make fun of it ty

book i'm reading rn ('No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk') makes this point in the prolog- a brief period of no cost education and housing resulted in working class students studying art, enriching both themselves and their communities

Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony@lackingceremony.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all. Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.

Victor Manuel Diaz died in ICE custody on January 14. His fundraiser sits at $5,138 the cost to bring him home for burial is $4,750. I imagine his family needs more breathing room to grieve. I’ll match the first $200 in donations. Leave receipts below 👇 www.facebook.com/story.php?st...

LA Star@lastar.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

BTW, if Senate Dems want technical reforms, here's one: amend 8 USC 1357 so DHS agents do not have power to arrest without a judicial warrant unless they are GS-1811, grade of GS-13 or higher. Real criminal investigations would be unaffected, but CBP & ICE goon squads would be severely limited.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Breaking per NBC News — CBP has shot and critically wounded another person, this time in Arizona. Very few details available at this time.