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Apparently P*ypal now asks for customer opinions on accounts sending invoices.
If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.

My fellow Europeans, I'm once again asking you to write or call your EU representatives and tell them this is unacceptable. They're essentially selling our sensitive data to companies, effectively destroying our privacy and risking our digital well-being.

Check the site!

fightchatcontrol.eu

Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

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All of these are fantastic but the Badtober Lorem Ipsum orange has a special place in my heart. 🍊

Hands Off My Post Office!

Cancelling home delivery is counter-intuitive when a huge portion of our population are at and beyond retirement age. Canada Post must remain a Crown corporation. No privatization. No deregulation. Selling out helps no one but the buyer. #HandsOff social.cupw-sttp.org/s/pIb7Fv3r

Great, now we can half-watch slop that no human hands made and leave comments that no human hands typed! More interactions! More number go up! Who cares what's on the screen, just click! Numbers! Automated interactions! The internet is a dead chorus of bots singing for bots!

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation. "Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies. Text and image generation Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

Between this and the Mouthwashing Nendos I learned exist today we have some intense competition

seems like a good day to remind people that Microsoft is still on the BDS boycott list and also not to buy games consoles without disc drives while that's still an option

a boy and a girl are standing next to each other with the words campers group hug written below them ALT: a boy and a girl are standing next to each other with the words campers group hug written below them

"no negative attitudes allowed!" rule cements the already annoying trend of only being supportive of mental health issues/disorders/nd when we're cute and quirky, not difficult, and haven't reached the point of being an inspirational gimmick. This is toxic positivity and ableist in itself.

to share, and so on. It puts everyone in charge of regulating and coddling the comfort and feelings of everyone else.

Nothing against a general "don't be dicks to each other, let's build a supportive, positive platform" but this focus on mental health stories and experiences, specifically this

I repeat, this is not a mental health platform. It puts expectations on the platform and the communities that don't belong here, and an absolutely inappropriate expectation of responsibility of its users, how we present ourselves, interact with each other, or not interact, what we share, or refuse

limits the struggles and injustice, real or fictional, to feel-good stories. Theoretically, I could not tell a story of my life as an autistic person that ends with, say, cutting a toxic, ableist relative of and not feeling teeh-hee happy-go-lucky-the-end about it.
3. This is social media and not

In addition to the glaring art/nsfw issue, I really do not approve of the implications and expectations that come with "Stories about mental health, but ONLY if it's about healing and positive nicey-nice experiences."
1. It sanitises mental health issues, disorders, and neurodivergency.
2. It

Also relevant:

bsky.app/profile/litt...

Adding this in here too!

Super quick and easy and another great way to let them know this isn't okay!

bsky.app/profile/void...

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Adding on to here a great thread on why EVEN IF you don't like noncon/dubcon or dangerous kinks you should still be worried about this

bsky.app/profile/elli...

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Community Guidelines (Deprecated) - Bluesky

And before I forget, if you want to read the full scope of the changes you can see them here:

Previous TOS: bsky.social/about/suppor...

New TOS: bsky.social/about/suppor...

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Anti Censorship Campaign Collective action against payment processors unjustly restricting our purchases.

Lastly, these content restrictions are absolutely part of a larger push for censorship

We HAVE to keep working to stop this

If free speech is important to you, you can't just stop here

Check out the site for more action you can take to support free speech!

anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co

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Screenshot of a feedback form with the text: I'm writing about the upcoming change to the Bluesky TOS. Bluesky put out a feedback request and despite many people voicing concerns about the changes, very concerning updates have been maintained. Bluesky has MANY moderation tools that users can utilize themselves to restrict content that they don't want to see without needing to prevent the content from being published on the site as a whole. Aside from content labels, there are user-run moderation lists and feeds so that anyone can curate their content easily. Despite this, you have chosen to move forward with some incredibly harmful policies that restrict free speech. I implore you to remove the following policies: 1) The restriction of FICTIONAL kink content. Non-con, dub-con, and “dangerous” kink content that is FICTIONAL does not harm anyone. 2) The restriction of content depicting or discussing self harm, suicide, and substance abuse. Requiring content about these subjects to only be “educational” is extremely harmful to those dealing with these issues. Stigma only serves to further endanger people in crisis. If these policy changes are not removed then I, among many others, will have to look for a different platform to use.

Here's the message I sent in

You ABSOLUTELY are welcome to copy/paste or use it as a jumping off point

Let them know we don't need this kind of "help"!

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Screenshot showing the "feedback" button for bsky under the "trending" section.

Screenshot showing the "feedback" button for bsky under the "settings" section.

TELL bsky you have an issue with this!

1) KEEP talking about it - don't let this issue fade away

2) Submit feedback to bsky! TELL them its not okay!

On PC: on the right under "trending"

On mobile: on the left under "settings"

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Do NOT believe the misinfo going around

There absolutely have been MASSIVE TOS updates

Most notably:

1) Specifying no FICTIONAL noncon
2) No "dangerous" kink
3) No DISCUSSING self harm, suicide, or substance abuse unless its "educational"

So what can we DO about it?

#SaveSpeech

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DO NOT participate in #blueskyblackout2025

I'm nsfw artist and other nsfw artists are asking you to SHOUT! Bsky wants to censor us so the worst thing we can do is censor ourselves!

Publicly shame them, use the feedback button, and post about it using the tag #bskycensorship

Silence is compliance!

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it:

Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

Illustration of an amorphous black blob with yellow eyes and small arms, surrounded by arms of grey people. The text says "And so, the Men in Grey harnessed the ancient magic of Greed and Envy, and with them they created a new monster."

Illustration of the same blob grown as a snake-like creature with a mouth full of teeth, wih the text "They disguised it as Technology and let it loose amongst humans, and they watched as the monster stole old nightmares with unreadable letters, inhuman glances and unreachable hands. It named them Art, and when people found nothingness where their souls should be it roared back, naming that nothingness Progress. "

Illustration with the black snake growing larger, with a row of grey men in suits looking at it. The text says "The monster grew larger and larger, and the Men in Grey rejoiced in cold and silent glee, as it consumed everything and in return gave nothing."

A short story inspired by AI.

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tl:dr firefox users:

type/paste about:config into the address bar, hit yes if it gives prompt

paste and to false:

browser.ml.chat.enabled

extensions.ml.enabled

I personally disabled everything under "browser.ml.chat"

the usual vagueness is present here that is usually a bad sign to come for adult content.

bluesky is taking feedback on the guidelines at this link below. Let them know these are not satisfactory

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

points that need addressing are: [cont]