While the SCREEN Act failed in the committee, KOSA did move forward. Contact your senators immediately demanding it be opposed, and keep the pressure up until it comes to a vote in the Senate

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 10h ago

The Senate Commerce Committee just passed KOSA out of committee with zero debate & failed to move the SCREEN Act. punchbowl.news/article/tech...

Well, our hotel stay has now been confirmed for 6 more days while they work on our AC. Trust me, working from the hotel with three dogs for a week is even less fun than it sounds.

Please repost! I'm just 25 awayyyyyyy 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Indie Book Spotlight@bookspotlight.bsky.social · yesterday

I'm so close to reaching 100!! Only 27 away!! If you like epic fantasy novellas, maybe check it out! 💞 [ #booksky ]

If you prompt a computer to generate something, you are NOT its creator. If stating that fact makes me a gatekeeper, then I will proudly keep that fucking gate for all the days of my life. 6/6

Can We Call It Fascism Yet? By me and @mikelawred.bsky.social Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry

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.

oh look its /another/ study showing that youth transition has the lowest regret rate of any form of healthcare, so excited to see how this changes the political debate about whether we get to exist in public and have access to healthcare

TACC@tacc.org.uk · 2d ago

"The majority (97.1%) of adolescents continued to identify with a gender not typically aligned with their birth sex. Only 2.9% reverted...None who initially identified as non-binary returned to binary gender aligned with birth sex. Discontinuation of gender-affirming hormones was rare."

And now they have to order a part for the AC, 3-7 days depending on it's in stock. We'd be mostly through if they had listened to us on Sunday.

Eating breakfast in the hotel and they have the TVs on but no volume. I think it's ESPN. There's a guy on here who looks like a ventriliquist's dummy of Ronald Reagan. 😂

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

This! Banks too, please. If I have a problem that requires a phone call, it requires a human to fix it. If your robot could help me, I’d have gotten what I needed from the website.

Indie Book Spotlight@bookspotlight.bsky.social · 3d ago

businesses can you please STOP with the automated phone robots that NEVER WORK. i ALWAYS want to talk to a real agent!

#AuGhost day 3: Wispy My first time playing with oil pastels! It was very messy. (Mug done in Prismacolor pencils)

Legion of Super-Heroes, launching in September! Written by me! Art by @cleanlined.bksy.social! and @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social! Letters by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou! Final Order Cut-Off for issue #1 is ONE WEEK from TODAY. Pre-order with your comic book store THIS WEEK!

I’m now just 34 sales away from 100!! This story’s been out a year and I’d love to finally hit this milestone! 🥰 If you like epic fantasy novellas with magic and romance, maybe check it out! I would really love to get this book into more hands 🫶 [ #booksky ]

Indie Book Spotlight@bookspotlight.bsky.social · 5d ago

🗡️ fantasy novella ⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals 🏹 gallant knights 👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom 🌲 enchanted plants and forests 🥀 romance and friendship 🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR 💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/a-light-for-... 📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... [ #booksky ]

AC still not fixed. Person on the phone literally asked why we were calling on if it was "down to 85." Um, because it's set to 78, and 85 is not 78?

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."

the next president has a duty to the country to prove that “tax immunity” is a completely made up thing that doesnt exist. they need to do this through intense prosecution to signal to future leaders what will happen if they try this

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

This is the play in every single industry at the moment. A massive bailout for mediocre white underachievers .

Jake_Vig@jakevig.bsky.social · 3d ago

After a middling WNBA career, blonde haired, blue eyed Sophie Cunningham has positioned herself for post-basketball success and riches as a conservative mouthpiece. This is the pattern that always works because conservatives are very very dumb and will latch onto anyone who promotes hate.

If Raimi's Spider-Man is pure uncut Ditko and Webb's Spider-Man is very Ultimate, the comic Watts's Spider-Man evokes more than anything is MARVEL TEAM-UP. This is a Spider-Man who's had a community from jump in both of his identities, and that difference was fascinating to watch play out.

Shouldn’t be shocked at any lie RFK Jr tells, but he whined to Dana Bash that businesses were shut down during the pandemic “with no just compensation.” There was an almost trillion dollar PPP loan program, and his organization got millions from it, none of it paid back, to make payroll.

Hey comics people, The Dark Horse union needs your support right now. Senior editors do more work than most of you can possibly imagine and they deserve to be apart of the union. Some of them have been waiting a long time for this. Stand with them! Please sign and share this petition!

Jimmy Presler 🐴@jimmypresler.bsky.social · 4d ago

Sign this petition to show your support for keeping Senior Editors in the Dark Horse Workers Union. actionnetwork.org/petitions/dh...

HALF OFF for #Indie August in my store only! I could really use the financial help right now, but all I've got to offer are signed science fiction books. The mission is to get a cadaver with a mysterious implant back to her home world, but will the reward be worth it? ko-fi.com/rebeccaevita...

I would love to get A Light for the Dead to Follow up to 100 sales at last (it's been out a year and I'm still at 62), so if you like epic fantasy novellas full of magic and romance, maybe check it out! 💫

Indie Book Spotlight@bookspotlight.bsky.social · 5d ago

🗡️ fantasy novella ⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals 🏹 gallant knights 👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom 🌲 enchanted plants and forests 🥀 romance and friendship 🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR 💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/a-light-for-... 📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... [ #booksky ]

Um, I have been married for 20 years, and my wife and I went on one date that never ended. I have no idea. 😂

Indie Book Spotlight@bookspotlight.bsky.social · 3d ago

Without downloading new pics, what is it like dating you?

To all the lgbt folks out there who say age verification doesn’t matter. Surprise surprise they intended to use it against us. Like this doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see. When they get to change the rules all of us are targets.

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · last wk.

The Missouri Attorney General is threatening librarians with arrest over an LGBTQ+ story hour for kids, suggesting that a picture book about gay dinosaur dads is "pornography." The Secretary of State says he'll pull funding if the event happens, citing the state's new age verification law.

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

This painting is now available for sale! And only $60, what a steal!

[ORIGINAL] Heading Into Summerween - Kathryn Reynolds's Ko-fi Shop

Original painting Gouache on 4" x 4" cotton paper Frame not included, for display purposes only

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Kathryn Reynolds 📚🎨@cozykathryn.com · 3d ago

It's SUMMERWEEN!! Kicking off the start of the spookiest time of year with a cute little ghost lighting the way. What should I paint a ghost doing next? Gouache on 4" x 4" cotton paper

Billy, the music loving dog is taken to the music hall filled with musicians practicing and listens for the sound that pleases him the most. It’s the cello. 🎻 He lays down basking in the waves of sounds he chose out of all the others. Music is the universal language. #DogsofBluesky #MusicSky

Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 6d ago

People still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives.

It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"