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so itchio has shadowbanned any games tagged with 'nsfw', 'adult', or 'erotic' so they don't show up in searches, and several devs have reported that their r18 games have been removed from the site with no warning

Group Behind Steam Censorship Policies Have Powerful Allies — And Targeted Popular Games With Outlandish Claims The organization behind Steam's latest payment processor censorship, Collective Shout, appears to tell some misleading tales.

The censorship of 80+ games on Steam this week was apparently the work of Australian antiporn group Collective Shout, which partnered with US evangelicals to pressure Visa and Mastercard.

They claimed, without evidence, that the games involved child abuse.

Great work by @acvalens.net for VICE.

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VICE's owner Savage Ventures has requested the removal of my Collective Shout articles. This is due to concerns about the controversial subject matter—not journalistic complaints

Effective immediately, I will no longer contribute to Waypoint. I suggest letting VICE's owner know if this upsets you

after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to

askvisa@visa.com

they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.

Happy Place

Ello 🙂

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

More pretty watercolours from the superb Deep Deep Light cooperative

#art #watercolours

A banner with the trans flag and 'Repost this is trans people are welcome and safe with you' written

Honestly, such grim news from UK Supreme Court. We're going the way of US & everyone should be concerned.

Just let people live their quiet lives - just like they did before Wicked Witch & her flying goblins got all exercised about things that don't concern them.

Thoughts & big hugs to all xx 🏳️‍⚧️

Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

Pancakes! What did you have with yours?!

#food #PancakeDay

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT?

Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

Some more digital arting, the mountains is another influenced by a James Julier tutorial, the other is from my own head.

#Art

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...

It's so incredibly beautiful Hailey!

Look at this gorgeous piece of art! Special edition cover of the amazing @haileyturner.bsky.social A Ferry of Bones and Gold, the first in her utterly brilliant Soulbound series

📚💙📚

Aww thanks, it's following a tutorial, so that makes it "easier" but it's also digital, which I'm only just learning having worked in traditional art mediums most of my life :D

M/M authors and readers. Help me test out our own community space :)
themmwire.circle.so/feed

#mmromance

This is beyond fucked up and as someone in the fifth decade of my life, I have to shake my head at how - while many things are so much better than in my teenage years - others are rapidly backpeddling those five decades.

Aww thanks gorgeous, means a lot from you! I'm absolutely loving the digital art process, I think watercolour will always be my favourite medium, but it's just so much easier with iPad and Apple Pro pencil 😁

image shows a digital drawing of a pale blue eye in close up, there is a signature on the bottom right hand side

Ello all the new peeps making their way here, I'm just as rubbish here at posting regularly as I am everywhere else 💗😁
Have an image of an eye (following a tutorial by James Julier on YouTube)

#Art

Oh dear (comfort cup of tea and biccies at the ready)

a venn diagram. the left circle is “people who understand that climate change is an existential threat” and the right circle is “people who use Al, but, like, not for real work! lol! i just needed a silly pic of a dog on a scooter and it's surprisingly hard to find good reference images”

waaaaay too many people in the middle imo

A list for newcomers to bluesky

Notes for newcomers from FB/threads about how things work. Welcome

You can find your people by looking for starter packs.

If you set up an account with an AI banner/avatar, have no bio and no posts

We will
We will
Block you!

The block facility here is well used.
Please add Alt text to posts.

While we’re banning books…

Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.

Be. Like. Finland.

This is the adjacent series yes, set on Kelewan

image shows an interpretation of a character from Baldur's Gate 3 called Astarion, he is a pale skinned vampire with white hair and deep red eyes.

image shows an interpretation of a character from Baldur's Gate 3 called Astarion, he is a pale skinned vampire with white hair and deep red eyes

Some #Art for today inspired by @larianstudios.bsky.social fabulous bratty vamp Astarion. Done with Procreate and yeah first time doing it digitally so be nice :D

Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, medical pioneer who received the world's first experimental rat penis transplant, announced today that the social media juggernaut would stop fact checking.

Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking

thehardtimes.net/culture/mark...

This is so NOT a you problem. That's not "diversity" that's GenAI garbage masquerading as a book.