MacroToast

there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort.

It aired in 1990.

"Well, it ain't gonna suck itself~"

🎨: @wetwasabi.bsky.social

Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host content considered harmful to children, and if so, these services must introduce age checks to prevent children from accessing such content. Online...

When politicians pass laws restricting "pornography," this is what they actually restrict:

video games
romantasy
drag
sex education
healthcare
LGBTQ+ sites
young adult novels
sexual assault resources
dating apps
contraception
social media
Wikipedia
wifi access

A box of pills: "Mecterivin, Worm dehorser. Removes horses from your worms in a single dose.

01: A girl labeled 'Artists' is holding a drawing tablet and pen under her arm. She is wearing round glasses and a blue sweatshirt. She has messy dark-brown hair and a brown skin-tone. She says "We don't really wanna MAKE A.I. art." 02: A guy labeled 'Art Enjoyers' holds his hand out while speaking. She is wearing a purple and yellow hawaiian shirt with a floral pattern over a white t-shirt, and has red hair and a light skin-tone. He says "We don't really wanna SEE A.I. art." 03: Behind them both, there is a cute girl in a business suit with a pink tie. She is blushing a bit and has pink eyeshadow, and looks upset. Her messy shoulder-length hair is parted in the middle, and held by two hairclips: one that looks like a red arrow pointing down, and one that looks like a green arrow pointing up. She says "Um ... I-Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?" She is labeled 'Shareholders'. 04: She puffs up her cheeks and pouts, a tear is on the verge of falling from one of her eyes. 'Artist Enjoyers' Guy is now in front of her yelling "AH!! SHAREHOLDERS-CHAN!!" while 'Artists' Girl is in front of her yelling "WE'RE SORRY WE HURT YOU!!!!"

HOLY SHIT I DID IT

LRT: I am tempted to grab my OG NG account and update it to match my current self, since its using an old handle from 2008/09. Newgrounds holds such an important time in my life and I want to start using it again

Support Newgrounds if you can.

Regardless of how you feel about their older, edgier content, they're like the only real creator place we got left.

Hey, VTubers! Did you know that you can force OBS to use your iGPU or a second dedicated graphics card to encode your streams more efficiently?

Heck yes, you can! 🎥

Less of a tutorial, more of a PSA! Want me to make a full video tutorial for how to do this? 👀

It’s never too late~

😳

Time has changed

Twitter is now 75% bot activity. The dead internet theory aint a theory anymore.

An image of a huge jackboot crushing a comic artist and a bunch of comic pages. The boot is marked by the logos for MasterCard, Visa, Paypal, and Stripe. Below the image there is text which reads: Don't let Payment Processors tell YOU what you can buy! It is not a payment processor's role to decide what kind of content you can or cannot spend money on, so long as it is a legal transaction. Fight back against the unjust policies hurting artists and creators online! https://yellat.money/ https://stop-paypros.neocities.org/

Let's Keep Calling!

There's a reason people don't want you to experience negative emotions through fiction and the reason is fascism, because then you'll realize how unfair your own condition is and you'll start questionning the World and ipso facto the system.
It's always about control, never about protecting

OSA is gonna make us lose access to fucking wikipedia

write to your MPs.

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones

Stupid barriers require dumb solutions

Colonel Codec GIF Alt: Colonel Campbell codec call

“Snake, the credit card companies are trying to control the flow of information. We need you to sneak into mastercard headquarters and take out the terrorist organization known as COLLECTIVE SHOUT”

Do you have somewhere I can sleep?

I thought I left hell but the government said nope

Screenshot of WIRED article. Headline: The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online. Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens to chill speech and ultimately harm children and adults alike.

Screenshot of Google Trends VPN interest for the last 30 days in the UK, showing a large spike in recent days

The UK introduced “robust” age checks for porn and other online content today

Also related: VPN interest massively up in the UK, according to Google Trends

Story with @lhn.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/the-ag...

don't forget to yellat.money in my opinion

UK users when the website asks them where they're posting from today.

hulk hogan didn’t handle the news well it seems

DON'T STOP CALLING.

email them if you want, sure, but the fact that they are requesting people to *email them instead* (presumably because emails are much easier to ignore) means that the calls are WORKING, i.e. becoming a massive nuisance and interrupting workflow.

once again, DON'T STOP CALLING.

VShojover