Especially since a lot of performers are filmingtheir own content these days. That means you're not stealing from an evil corporation, but the performers themselves. If you're jerking it to someone you don't know, you probably owe them money.

Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles)@jordanshiveley.bsky.social · 5h ago

if you’re a big proponent of artists and writers getting paid for their work and being against piracy. You should extend that same ethic to the porn you watch/read etc. Weird puritanical dichotomy not to

angel witha shirt that says "my eyes are up here" and thwres arrows in every direction

Something so weirdly offensive about crashing your trash into the moon. Like, that's our moon. If it belongs to anyone, it belongs to all of us.

My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”

Not all heroes wear capes and in fact some heroes should remain completely unidentified.

Goldstein@goldstein.latinsky.app · 7h ago

They stole ALL the Flock cameras in Winona.

Here's something cool that doesn't suck. Researchers have used polymers made from shrimp and seaweed to make a fuzzy mesh that can harvest microplastics from water. Pretty neat. (short 🧵) news.ncsu.edu/2026/08/tang...

Tangled Seaweed Inspires One-Size-Fits-All Cleaners for Ocean Microplastics

The superadhesive meshes can capture large and small microplastic particles, and are made from sustainable biopolymers.

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🚨 KOSA UPDATE The added "duty of care" standard would force websites to identify minors to avoid legal risk, pushing the internet toward ID checks, facial scans, mass age-gating, excessive data collection and censorship FOR EVERYONE. Next comes a full Senate vote. Contact your senators NOW. (1/2)

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 13h ago

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

This is the highest-resolution view of the surface of the Sun. Ever. Taken by the NSF's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, features as small as 19 km across can be resolved. The wispy things are magnetic field boundaries formed by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. The island of Ireland for scale.

goth style tip:

Welcome to Night Vale@nightvaleradio.bsky.social · 14h ago

Dress for the job you want (Victorian ghost child), not the job you have (common zombie).

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 · 13h ago

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

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rare genetic variants confer a high risk of ADHD and implicate neuronal biology - Nature

An analysis of rare genetic variants identifies three genes—MAP1A, ANO8 and ANK2—that have a role in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and investigates the potential underlying biologica...

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Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 3d ago

Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD

It is the circumstances' turn to improve

aaand the water's out with zero notice for the next four hours

In 1986, contracting HIV meant you were going to die, usually slowly, painfully, and alone. Now it's a chronic illness like hypertension. In 1986, gay and lesbian couples couldn't have their relationships legally recognized and had to adopt elaborate legal workarounds.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · yesterday

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

omg I found the picture ❤️

ECP@ecppdx.bsky.social · yesterday

Years ago I coined the milleneuve, which is a unit to measure how horrible the sky color is based on Villeneuve films. Blade Runner 2049 is around 900mn. Today is around 250 I'd say. (It's a very scientific scale.)

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.

Hey, StokerCon & HWA friends: You OK with this? 

Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · yesterday

There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.

Clearly I have been falling down on the job - y’all haven’t gotten a dose of ENCHIRITO EAR WIGGLES. Sorry about the camera shake, hard to film one-handed

god fuck i hate looking at new apartment shit even when money is less of a problem than it's ever been for us, it's like 'no you don't need normal wall space for furniture like bookshelves. also we can tell through our Smart System™ who is home at sll times!! 👁️👄👁️'

Bay Area friends: would you consider opening your home to these two cuddly cats? A friend found them behind a gas station. Their sibling, a black cat, got adopted, but it appears no one likes orange cats. They are being kept in a bathroom for the time being and need a home.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4w ago

A friend of mine found these three kittens behind a Bay Area gas station. They are tame, vaccinated, and incredibly affectionate. Unfortunately, she's unable to keep them and I'm trying to find them a home. They are at risk of going to a shelter. Bay Area people, are you open to adopting?

the cameras are known to just disappear like that at times, ya know

There is a Senate Commerce Committee vote on the SCREEN ACT at 10 am tomorrow, Wednesday, August 5th. List of Commerce Committee members to call:

David Forbes@davidforbes.bsky.social · 2d ago

Thread.

I'm just gonna say: it somewhat baffles me that people who are understandably skeptical of opaque LLMs as legitimate sources of information will suddenly go full on "the computer KNOWS" when they are using opaque tools to "detect" AI. The computer does not know.

Susanna Kearsley@susannakearsley.bsky.social · 2d ago

❤️ Gillian Green, publisher at Tor Bramble, told The Bookseller: “HM Wolfe has confirmed that Daggermouth was written entirely without AI. We stand behind our author, and we do not recognise third-party AI detection tools as a fair or reliable measure of authenticity when used on their own.”

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈So far it's evading notice on all the MOST ANTICIPATED HORROR OF THE FALL lists, but we assure you: there's a cosmic storm brewing that you'll want on your radar. The successor to the beloved YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY has entered local airspace. PERSISTENT HORRORS DEMAND PERSISTENT REBELLION⬇️

The SCREEN Act is not just another age-verification bill — it goes much further than anything passed at the state-level or in other countries. 1. The bill doesn't just target porn sites. It goes after *any* site that allows material "harmful" to minors. You'd have to scan your face to use Google.

Pontificating, grumpily, about the inexorable march of slopfic into original fiction spaces. derekdesanges.wordpress.com/2026/08/04/d...

Derek vs the Machines: Why I’m less popular than slop

This has been on my mind for a little while, stewing. Before that little while, there was a small drama in the world of small press and magazines, in which some editors inadvertently accepted a cou…

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It would also very much be a shame if people learned that Rust-Oleum Specialty Reflective Finish (SKU 214944) makes it harder for Flock cameras to collect all information seen on license plates. #WCBS

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2d ago

chat can anyone verify that every single Flock camera has about 2-3 Ibs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold

and we're unstuck though it shouldn't be as hard as it is to find ref of a person holding a clipboard like a normal person holds a fucking clipboard, instead of demonstrating it's clipboard-ness in some unknowable way

a hybrid signal@unknown.garden · 3d ago

this got unexpectedly important to me while i wasn't paying attention (esp for a thing i started as an excuse to make a book of existing art that somehow sprouted a narrative?) so obviously it's time for my brain to scream at me to stuff it in a hole & only ever think about what could have been

In her house at R'lyeh, dead Morton Salt Girl waits dreaming

Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.

wait shit how did i miss this

Daily Grail@dailygrail.com · 2d ago

Kickstarter for @grantmorrison.bsky.social's Magick, Symbol, and the Transcendence of Language. (3 days left) www.kickstarter.com/projects/cen...