If you could repost this, that would be great. We're trying to help a friend who is feeling overwhelmed and scared. #cats #catsofbluesky #lostcat #akron #ohio

Indie Diva 🇨🇦🧑‍🦽🕹️🏳️‍⚧️@indiedivattv.bsky.social · 4w ago

#Akron OHIO Posting for close friends: Any contacts with animal rescue groups serving Ohio. A friend in Akron had her cat escape on her the night of the 14th. The cat's been with her for 2 years, indoor only, after being rescued as a pregnant young stray, now fixed and chipped. #Akron

Ugh. Pop in here to find a whole lot of accounts following me offering AI services or other paid services or obviously hoping I will follow back and Join Their Righteous Crusade of Posting Memes Against Evil. I am probably going to end up deleting this account, at this rate.

@stoat.chat What is up with the enormous "Join the voice channel" box in the middle of the screen? It's blocking text and images, which is what I'm there for, and there's no way to get rid of it. I've stopped telling people to switch to Stoat because of it. It's a deal-breaker for my friends and I.

@support.bsky.team WTF? I'm in Canada! We don't (yet) have age verification laws for social media here. My roommate isn't getting this. So why can I not reach my DMs?

Well, no idea if I'm going to bother trying to re-engage with BlueSky* at this point, but figured I'd drop a reminder anyway. * (or, for that matter, with doing The Indy Author Thing instead of just writing for fun and mental health and sharing the results for free)

Steph Prysmcat Shangraw 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦@prysmcat.bsky.social · last yr.

Hi! I write fantasy. It's LGBTQIA+, often with trans/NB/fluid rep, + increasing disability & autism rep. Poly, kink, sex positive but not explicit. Some is urban, some isn't. No grimdark/horror. Free options for almost all. Find it all via prysmcat.com but see below for a quick list.

If you want funny feel-good inclusive fantasy, and a chance to get out of the real world into a brighter one, go read this! (Full disclosure: I got to offer some encouragement and a few thoughts early on. But I only did it because I loved it so hard!)

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong.bsky.social · last yr.

💙 📚 🪐 📚 🌈 #cozyfantasy #newrelease Who needs a romp? lynnstrong.com/books/haroun: Off the chain on Sept 13! 😎 Crimes of fashion 🧶 Weaponized fiber arts 😺 🤝 🐶 Cats & dogs living together ♿ A blind dogfolk & his seeing eye human 😱 50 pg bonus recipes! Game time: 1 repost = 1 backstage trivia 😁

Hey, Bluesky! You like banning people for wishing ill on JK Rowling? I wish on her exactly what she wishes for all trans people: a future of ostracism, isolation, dehumanization, silencing, unspeakable pain, death, and being remembered only as a misstep bad for humanity. I'm non-binary, btw!

How can a furry little carnivore fill so much of your life that it leaves an enormous aching void when the only loving thing left to do is let go?

What does Responsible AI mean to you? 🗣️️ @openmediaorg.bsky.social is gathering public input to help shape Canada’s AI laws. Make sure your voice is part of the conversation. #AIRegulation #ResponsibleAI! Share your thoughts by Aug 25. 🗓️️ openmedia.org/AI-survey-2025-bsky ✍️

Help shape Canada’s AI future!

What does Responsible AI mean to you? 🗣️ @OpenMediaOrg is gathering public input to help shape Canada’s AI laws. Make sure your voice is part of the conversation. #AIRegulation #ResponsibleAI! Share y...

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In all honesty, I suspect that many people’s sudden willingness to have LLMs think for them may in fact be a *very bad* attempt to cope with new brain fog and other cognitive issues from repeat COVID infection that most of society is sweeping under the rug. (In fact, I know a lot of people will

Hey, @charlieangus104.bsky.social There's more to Canada than tariffs & arms. This would not protect children. It would make them grow up in a world of censorship, repression, and ignorance. It would kill the arts. And it could easily be abused to persecute LGBTQIA folks. So maybe speak up?

Indie Diva 🇨🇦🧑‍🦽🕹️🏳️‍⚧️@indiedivattv.bsky.social · last yr.

Canada NOW has a UK/Australia style Internet ID Bill! Bill S209 - "An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to pornographic material" www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en... Who will DEFINE "pornographic"?? This bill defines it as nudity for a sexual purpose! Wikipedia? Sex Health? ...WTF? #CanPoli

Hey, all you folks who keep talking about #Canada like we're the greatest humanitarian human-rights-supporting nation ever, & I mean Canadians as well. You might want to pay attention. There is nothing in this that protects kids, who get to grow up without the right to express themselves or learn.

Indie Diva 🇨🇦🧑‍🦽🕹️🏳️‍⚧️@indiedivattv.bsky.social · last yr.

Canada NOW has a UK/Australia style Internet ID Bill! Bill S209 - "An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to pornographic material" www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en... Who will DEFINE "pornographic"?? This bill defines it as nudity for a sexual purpose! Wikipedia? Sex Health? ...WTF? #CanPoli

Itch and Steam got a bunch of us thinking; we need a catalogue where creative (esp. NSFW & Queer) works are less vulnerable to censorship. A storefront we won't be delisted from. One giving us the autonomy to sell our stuff our way. So we're making Conjured Ink. You can join us. https://conjured.ink

Deep history of how we got to this point, lots of sources, and what we're ultimately up against. (It won't surprise anyone paying attention.) *This is the references page to a YT vid, which is also there. www.lextorias.com/references/p...

Payment Censor

The Secret War To Censor The Internet Payment processors are censoring the internet, but that's only half the story. Watch On YouTube Watch On Patreon Music & Backgrounds Used

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Do petitions help? Eh. 🤷 But it's a way to scream. Almost 100K other people are. chng.it/BrQvtmYJbZ

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Tell MasterCard, Visa & Activist Groups: Stop Controlling What We Can Watch, Read, or Play

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Everyone has a skill they can contribute, so if you want to join this effort to make a truly safe home for queer and/also nsfw content, please consider joining!

Katerina Marchán 🐈@zkat.tech · last yr.

Wanna help? We're gathering together and comparing notes and sharing resources, as well as pooling engineering power to get this show on the road: discord.gg/NhhpW4ZeEa Details in the Discord. I think this'll work :)

Look, my two primary advice are: 1) Download what you bought now. Store it elsewhere than on itch 2) If you are a creator, initiate your payout now, just in case. I meant to work on a small guides about this today, lol, but the highlights are below:

In case anyone missed itch’s statement on this—yes it’s because of Collective Shout, who targeted the site because of ONE game that’s no longer available. Yes, itch handled this incredibly badly. Like, unbelievably so.

Matt Horton@matt.bsky.social · last yr.

itch.io/updates/upda...

I'm sorry yall but we might have to start being euphemistic in our language on the platforms themselves. I know that sucks but we still gotta eat.

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What the fuck, itch?

Newest science-based COVID news roundup from @violetblue.bsky.social! And if you can donate, even once, even a little, please do - Violet's got a very sick cat while struggling with other expenses, and losing a beloved pet while wading through all this stuff for us every day would be brutal!

Covid: June 19, 2025 | Threat Model

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Huh. 12 days mostly off Bsky, just ducking in briefly for specific purposes. I think I'm going to continue that past the end of June. I mean, that craving for the dopamine buzz of a ♥️ or reply is there, but it's just addiction. And it doesn't outweigh the rest. 1/

COVER REVEAL "Roots of Chaos" meets "The Locked Tomb" in this book abt saving what is precious (& lesbians). Thank you, @maybarros.com.br Preorder: dax.ink/shackles Prepare for the release by snagging earlier books in the series in the Queer Lights in the Darkness Bundle! itch.io/b/3065 🌈📚🪐🦄🧡📚

Dax, sapphic fantasy author@daxaeterna.ink · last yr.

The cover for SHACKLES AND SHARDS: SHATTERED will be revealed in less than 10 hours! It is book #3 in the Scions and Shadows series, and you can currently get books #0.5 and #1 as part of the Queer Lights in the Darkness Bundle! itch.io/b/3065 🌈📚💙📢📚🪐

@authorsmiller.bsky.social Hi - could you drop me from the SP1 starter pack? Seems like all the follows these days are only accounts looking for followers they can shove their alt-text-free genAI US-political memes at. Not worth it. Thanks!

Highly recommended - I had a sneak editor-ish peek, and this is an awesome read!

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong.bsky.social · last yr.

#booksky #cozyfantasy - anyone want an #ARCreader copy of Haroun? The LOL recap: Two Very Good Boys would like to Fight Crime, maybe? (If there has been a crime other than their fashion sense.) #Disability rep, Pratchett style hijinks, cats & dogs living together! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Free for 24 hours only for No Kings Day from @violetblue.bsky.social "the most essential personal and digital security advice for those attending protests, rallies, marches, or other events where there's an element of risk" Pay if you can.* Spread this around! STAY SAFE

Being me, when I decided to take a break and do fanfic, it's of a science podcast. Specifically, of @commondescentpod.bsky.social (joined one year by @paleolorax.bsky.social) playing with speculative evolution. www.scribblehub.com/series/16576... The first few are up! I'm adding more. 1/2

Spook-E Snips

Anyone like speculative evolution? The two paleontologists and science educators of the Common Descent Podcast have an annual tradition of doing 'Spookulative Evolution' (Spook-E) episodes in October...

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@commondescentpod.bsky.social Hi! Um, quick question. I've been re-listening to Spook-E episodes and got inspired, but I don't do art - I do words. Lots of them. I love worldbuilding and the interaction of nature and culture is a part of that. 1/3