HolyandSublime

Nobody asked for a revival of Vine, but don’t use the revival, since it’s going to be scraped for AI training.

The “No AI on diVine” rule is just there to ensure it’s fed real content and not more AI slop.

I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Something to keep in mind: payment processors "capitulate" to anti-porn activists so easily because they too have a lot of puritans in charge. Which is why it's important to keep up the pressure with calls - because only by making it clear that it'll cost them more to censor than not will they budge

Visa employees clearly told to deescalate ASAP
MasterCard employees more than familiar with the issue
Stripe feeling the pressure
ACLU put out a statement
CBC covered all this

What you are doing is WORKING
You are getting RESULTS
KEEP CALLING
KEEP WRITING
WE ARE GOING TO WIN!!

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

Steam's fight against Visa, Mastercard, and censorship is only getting messier Gamers and developers are pushing the anti-censorship cause

More coverage from the ‘gon

www.polygon.com/visa-masterc...

DuckDuckGo is my primary search engine for precisely this reason. Plus, while they have the same useless ai offerings as other search sites, they have one simple off toggle that’s easy to find and use

looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out

Not someone with call center experience but some customer service experience and: I say this is very likely to be a descalation attempt. Not only because it contradicts what other reps are saying, but because you generally don't give so many unprompted details about the inner workings to a customer

Some people just seem to want to eliminate all potential sources of discomfort, no matter how small or innocuous, from their lives. Fiction allows you to model experiencing big emotions in a safe controlled setting, and I just don't think any good comes of avoiding that to this degree

I can’t take anybody seriously who thinks reading/watching/playing media that involves morally bad characters means you condone that behavior and/or want to perpetrate it yourself in real life. Y’all sound so ridiculous. It’s fiction. 🤦🏼

We must wage a Protracted Call-in War on the Payment Processors

Yeah, I worked in customer support and, if it's a 'peak' of one day, they will not care. They'll wipe their hands and say "ok, volumes are back to normal, it's fixed"
If after a week they are still receiving pressure... Then they'll begin to get nervous

And for those of you wondering how this may apply to you: If you create media for adults, or do any sort of work for the queer community, this could potentially affect you as well. You might not consider yourself a sex worker, but a lot of religionists sure think you are. Please, sign this petition.

The Mines of Moria by Louise Zingarelli and Ed Hirth (1978) #LOTR

This remains evergreen.

AI could never in a million years give us something as good as Minmo

Can I hear some commotion for my bizarrely-involved Into the Woods fanart

YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator

I am thinking about this today.

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Two Democratic politicians and their spouses were shot in Minnesota.

Representative Hortman and her husband have died. Senator Hoffman and his wife are out of surgery, and Governor Waltz said they are “cautiously optimistic” about their prognosis.

1) You can’t make a bigot money and still call yourself and ally.

2) The fact that WB is cranking out these “this actor is cool! Separate the art from the artist” weekly PR pieces means that Rowling funding the assault on trans rights is hurting their bottom line.

A rock with a skull and a rusty short sword on it. Buried under the rock is a bag of gold coins.

Don't worry the stash is protected

Dawn and dusk in perpetual embrace. Dawn is comprised of the colours of the pan pride flag, and dusk is in the colours of the bi pride flag. A personal piece.

Happy pride ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Phenomena fan art circa 1985 from Hobby Japan magazine.

I didn't expect to fall so hard in love with this series, but Two Moons has stolen my mind and heart ❤️‍🔥

Got a great haul at our local used book sale, but I'm ESPECIALLY excited about this #ElfQuest anthology I picked up!!

Puddupp yer dukes

Fun fact, JK—who is English—single-handedly funded the Scotland remain movement during the referendum, and called separatists “bigots”.

She’s the reason there’s no independent Scotland. She throws her money and clout around like she’s fucking Nigel Farage. She’s a billionaire corrupting politics.

concealed uncertainties