"My Home" wall hanging quilt. Quote from Gender Queer: A Memoir by @redgoldsparks.bsky.social IT'S DONE!!! I am incredibly pleased with how this project turned out. 💚 It will be on display at the Tempe Queer Takeover at Rocket Space Gallery, opening tonight! Flyer posted below 👇

Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.

Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

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What happens if a creator streams your game and is opted in? Does Twitch think it has the right to feed a developer's game into its AI slop factory? This has deeper ramifications than it seems on the surface.

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 2mo ago

Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...

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Think of how many potential Nanamis we lose every season due to the current state of production. The industry needs to change. Do It For Her.

Dave@Not-Convention Recovery@sasuraiger.bsky.social · 2mo ago

been watching early utena. it's true: if TV anime seasons were longer today, they'd all have room for more nanami episodes. this would obviously be a positive

We've been in the ripping-the-copper-wiring-out-of-the-walls era of society for awhile now. There's no attempts to make anything better. There's no attempts to make anything people want. It's just syphoning gas out of cars and burying people in gambling debt from rigged betting markets.

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival@theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Why is everything so transparently evil now?

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 2mo ago

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

“Regulations” are protections. We should call them that.

pretty good i think

Honestly stunned — in a good way — by the level of support we're getting at TNN. If we can make our final fundraising goal that means we don't just keep the lights on, but launch fellowships for particularly marginalized trans journalists as well.

Trans News Network@transnews.network · 2mo ago

Thanks to your support we've hit $6,000 and are well on our way to $7,000. Every donation and share helps. Help independent, unrepentant trans journalism stay in the fight.

is your hobby even a real hobby if the community spaces for it aren’t currently clogged with guys trying to convince you to try the new app they “vibe coded” to introduce a completely pointless and broken digital workflow to your hobby?

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I shouldn’t have to enter a life-ruining amount of easily hackable personal information to visit a website, and neither should anyone else of ANY age.

🦨 John Brown Did Nothing Wrong 🦨@micah.pet · 3mo ago

We really should stop calling it "age verification." Because that is not what it is. Call it "forced doxxing" instead. Most people think the concept of age verification and protecting kids online is common sense. So we must rebrand it to reveal its true purpose, which is something they will fear.

They're just hanging out in my brain now.

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I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

Game failure? Layoffs Game success? Layoffs Game delayed? Layoffs Game delivered? Layoffs Game announced? Layoffs Game unannounced? Layoffs Game good? Layoffs Game bad? Layoffs Game AI? Layoffs Game no-AI? Layoffs Game hated? Layoffs Game beloved? Layoffs Money cares more for layoffs than games.

it's worse when that's the the direct appeal for those who use gAI gleefully. they say it in so many words, to the faces of writers, concept artists, QA people, etc. "you're obsolete" "can't wait for you to be homeless" "finally no one needs you" it's not implication or conjecture. it's explicit.

Aura/Moom@moomanibe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

if I seem militant about AI it's because a lot of my friends are writers, concept artists, QA people, etc, and they are the ones who are currently having their careers obliterated by that shit. not speculatively. happening right now. I don't see a need to be soft towards ppl who shrug at that

full body autonomy for all human beings including children. that includes gender, reproductive and abortion care. it does not include any fucking compromises

David Forbes@davidforbes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I am honestly disturbed by the swiftness with which "trans healthcare not available to anyone under 19" is going from being regarded, rightly, as collaboration with trans genocide and a fascist federal government to "the best we can expect" even among those who damn well know better...

There's a video game coming out which used generative AI to make assets but is also "protected by Denuvo" which is just such a perfect encapsulation of how intellectual property law works and who it is for

We have an incredible problem: too many donations for our mutual aid hub and not enough shelves! We’ve outgrown our current setup, and we need to adapt to keep up with need, especially as we help candidates across the country adopt this model.

RIP Marjane Satrapi (1969–2026), and thank you for Persepolis. ❤️‍🩹

Rest In Power

So much of the pandemic was us finding out life actually could be easier and better and more accessible, and then watching them peel every scrap of that back out of our hands & lives, often for incoherent reasons. (return to office!)

cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · 4mo ago

all else aside, I think this was the start of a shift for a lot of people- realizing their government was absolutely capable of helping them, but actively choosing not to