the thing about moral panics is they aren't about moral panics. it's about community control and rampant bigotry. censorship is a tool of fascists, those who purity police are fascists, and if your disgust agrees with their mission more than the right for fiction to gross you out, you are a fascist

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Arte es Ética@arteesetica.bsky.social · 2mo ago

¡ATENCIÓN! 🚨 El 5 de Julio de 2026 entra en vigencia la actualización de los ToS de Linktree. Esto incluye el uso de IA generativa (Dall-E de OpenAI) con los textos, imágenes y links que el usuario suba a su cuenta. Incluso compartirán toda la info del usuario con otros proveedores externos de IA ⚠️

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

Any time a creative turns to this tech, they are saying "I do not respect the people who do this thing. I do not value their creative contribution to my vision. I think they are so worthless, they can be replaced by the machine that ate their work." It's not surprising this is seen as hostile.

Cartoon Brew@cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/3 - Gutierrez got back to us to explain more clearly his involvement with the project, and how he plans to use the tech: "It’s a big experiment for me, and I will be as cautious as possible with AI. Artists driving tech, and not the other way around, is my goal..."

free-to-download poster for printing sajan.itch.io/wizard-poster

onion person@junlper.beer · last yr.

if you care about trans people, do not watch the new jk rowling show. don’t even hate watch it or you will be funding this new intentionally transphobic organization. we cannot allow hateful people take away more of our rights

If you’ve ever complained about shipping prices, please take that energy and direct it to your elected representatives. Tell them to fight for more funding of the postal service! If we lose the USPS it’s absolutely inevitable that shipping rates will increase with all carriers. 😤

NPR@npr.org · 5mo ago

The U.S. Postal Service's leader says it is set to run out of money in less than a year and may have to stop deliveries because of declining mail volume and what USPS sees as burdensome requirements. n.pr/4bu15df

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gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 5mo ago

remember when the IRS put out a a free online tax filing system where you could just do your taxes through the IRS and it was actually well made and was pretty well recieved and then the tax filing industry and Republicans killed it and now you have to use TurboTax again

people keep asking for Odile in the jordans and I am here to give the people what they want Please Vote for Odile Now - - - #instarsandtime #instarsandtimefanart #isat #art

AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal. The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright. (Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)

I open blender, but I hope the spirit still counts 🐀 #art #3d

nige 'dear ratboy'@niall.codes · 5mo ago

If you see this you MUST open blender and make a low-poly rat. I just did it and it made me happy

So I often do freelance work for Viacom doing concept poses for style guides or merch and the like. I got permission to share some what I did from 2021-2023 Thread below... starting with some Avatar/Korra (1) Full batch: www.jaydaitkaci.com/blog/style-g...

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

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!

IT HASN'T EVEN BEEN A WEEK!

Malwarebytes@malwarebytes.com · 6mo ago

Researchers discovered a publicly exposed frontend on a government-authorized server, containing 2,456 accessible files from the age verification vendor used by Discord.

Every billionaire in the Epstein files could drop dead tomorrow and the world would not only be fine, it would actually improve. The quality of our media would improve. Our environment. Our food. Our health care. Our technology.

Brandon Williams@stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

hi guys I know I haven't been very active lately, and I don't talk about where I'm from often, but the government made some really scary announcements today so I thought I'd share to let everyone know what's happening. here are some posts from twt for context

and there it basically is. This is one of the reasons they are trying to force putting your IDs on the internet.

Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“DHS is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose ICE by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

stop being silly in front of me #art

Back up your chats, flood discord with support tickets, harass them on social media, make sure friends have your other socials, look up alternatives. Cancel your Nitro. Most importantly, don't despair. We've moved before, we can move again. Show Discord they're expendable. WE own THEM.

The Verge@theverge.com · 6mo ago

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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motherfucker I never forget what you did. block block block. show him he's unwelcomed.

Lot of bigots showing up. Remember, don't interact. Just report and block block block.

One of the hardest things to explain to people who aren’t here is the very real feeling that we are in a war against the federal government. Not only are we occupied by unaccountable armed, masked paramilitaries, but we are constantly aware our neighbors might be abducted in the blink of an eye.

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Was he actually approaching Minnesota as a regime change

the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system

Brad Heath@bradheath.bsky.social · 6mo ago

President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs." Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

nytimes.com

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

Today is a day of protest! Keep 🧊 out of our communities! NO WORK, NO SCHOOL, NO SHOPPING! CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES!

don’t underestimate how important this strike is, if you have the ability to participate *please* do- don’t be deluded into thinking the midterms are gonna save us, action is needed NOW