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🚨🚨🚨 Indie website itch.io has just rolled out a major shadow ban of NSFW content. This drastic escalation in censorship already seems to affecting trans authors.

TRANS AUTHORS ON ITCH: Please check you pages.

I am going to report on this TONIGHT. To those affrcted, DM me with any info.

hey remember when the ex-twitter Bsky head of T&S vindictively banned the author of a (perfectly legal and non offending) bot that embarrassed him, instantly rejected their appeal and how they were reinstated with no comment or apology after the userbase rioted?

Manga character: I love beans so this is perfect for me

BAMPFA loses federal grant to conserve its prized African American quilt collection Amid the Trump administration’s war on “woke,” about $230,000 in federal grant money for BAMPFA has been revoked.

This makes me sad.

@replsimon.bsky.social @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov

www.berkeleyside.org/2025/04/28/b...

S.F. supervisors, nonprofits sound alarm on Mayor Lurie’s cuts to free civil legal aid To close an $818 million budget deficit, San Francisco has put free civil legal aid on the chopping block. And more cuts are coming.

San Francisco supervisors & nonprofits sounded the alarm this week over Mayor Lurie's proposed cuts to free civil legal aid.

Programs helping w/"informal evictions," wage theft, & more are on the chopping block. But advocates say that's short-sighted.

missionlocal.org/2025/04/sf-b...

SF Pride reportedly denies request to name deported gay makeup artist honorary grand marshal The San Francisco Pride organization has reportedly denied a request from two longtime LGBTQ leaders asking that a gay makeup artist whisked to an infamous Salvadorian prison by the Trump administrati...

The San Francisco Pride organization has reportedly denied a request from two longtime LGBTQ leaders asking that a gay makeup artist whisked to an infamous Salvadorian prison by the Trump administration be made an honorary grand marshal....
www.ebar.com/story/154076...

Two small shoulder bags. The one on the right is black, with a half-width velcro panel to which are attached two patches. One patch has a statue on it and says "Disease of Men" (Lingua Ignota merch). The other has a parody of a gadsden snake that says "throw bread on me" with various baked goods hurled at the snake. The one on the left has a full-width patch panel with more patches. One is a small skull, next to it a "bye" speech bubble. One says "art is dumb in multiple pastel colors. One has a cartoon bomb that says "I identify as a problem." One has "gender? no thanks" in cursive. One depicts a newspaper labeled "earth times" with a headline "suffering continues" and subhead "seems to be getting worse." Last has a guillotine labeled “don’t threaten me with a good time”

new bag day. Greenroom136 Quickdraw "By Your Command" version with a laundry list of mostly ill-advised community request features. Original version on right.

Yeah, and that's one of my favorite tropes. (See: The Good Wife)

In discord discussing who I would actually have cast as murderbot given the choice and my best guesses are Ess Hödlmoser and Hoon Lee

I feel like the part I was most excited about was seeing Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon clips

YouTube video by Apple TV Murderbot — Official Trailer | Apple TV+

how are we feeling about the murderbot trailer?

youtu.be/vEioDeOiqEs

TIL for-profit developers don't actually want to bring rents down
www.berkeleyside.org/2025/04/04/b...

I think they should go further. I would like to purchase flatware that promotes fun interaction between good friends.

Photo of ICE contractor Triple Canopy by their SUVs in Oakland preparing to grab a gardener.

Looking through a chain-link fence, this is a closeup of a white SUV door with a Triple Canopy logo. There is pink blossom in the foreground, upper left corner.

ICE in Oakland NOW!!

Their contractor, Triple Canopy, was parked in front of my house yesterday, scoping out a family across the street.

My wife spotted them on her way to work this morning.

Pls get the word out! You can warn people when you see them lurking. Record them. Contact authorities!

A box of cutlery from Oneida. It says “ONEIDA. YOUR FRIEND AT THE TABLE.”

I recently ran out of forks so I ordered some new ones and does FATT legal know about this lol @amtebbel.bsky.social

Please don't vote for this guy Oakland

Cultist Plushie CAW! CAAAW!!Perfect for cozying up with or for performing sacred rites in worship of the crow god Mazaleth with, no nest is complete without a Cultist plush in your flock! Ritual Dagger not included.F...

@captnarrr.bsky.social @sporks.bsky.social

caw

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FFXIV Hello Warriors of Light! NovelKeys is proud to partner with Square Enix on a premium FINAL FANTASY XIV-themed CLASSIC-TKL keyboard, keycap set, and deskpad!

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three bullets that say "unsubscribe, block, report"

Cillian Murphy yelling on the sun in the movie Sunshine: "It's daylight saving time"

seasons greetings

I wanted to go to GDC for years.
13 years in game dev.
Not one trip to San Francisco.

I’ve lost all interest in GDC.

“Luigi appreciates the photos that are sent and kindly asks that people send no more than five photos at a time.” — man’s drowning in nudes

Advocates rally to keep progressive S.F. police commissioner marked for removal by Mayor Lurie On the steps of City Hall, they condemned Mayor Daniel Lurie’s motion to oust San Francisco Police Commissioner Max Carter-Oberstone.

Advocates rallied outside San Francisco City Hall today, pushing supervisors to defy Mayor Lurie's wish to remove a progressive police commissioner.

Max Carter-Oberstone, a reform advocate, was known for clashing w/Mayor London Breed, who appointed him.

missionlocal.org/2025/02/advo...

One of the first things they did was create a DEI website with Black peoples faces. And it got lost in the sauce

they are now escalating

Fantastic use of lenticular imagery at a protest at San Francisco Tesla today. #savedemocracy #standupfightback #indivisible

Note the sleight-of-hand here: those defending the status quo CHOOSE to focus on the protesters and the validity of their tactics, then cry "See? People are talking about the protesters, not the issues."

YOU are talking about the protesters. That is a choice.

Sme America gmeat again

A quote skeet from user grisgris4me reads "tRump will be 82 y/o at the end of his current term. He would be 86 at the end of an illegal 4 year Reign. Yep. It's definitely a cult." The quoted skeet reads "tried to write x-men but swipe thought i was spelling smegma"

what the fuck is happening

Post from NLRB Union: Yesterday, the NLRB’s Buffalo office (Region 3) received word from its landlord that GSA—acting on behalf of DOGE—had unilaterally cancelled the Region’s five-year lease, without any prior notice to the Agency. The Region has been given 90 days to vacate the building.

In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant.

Today:

anime screencap of a bunch of WWII-era figher planes. "Sales team, light up their infrastructure to teach them a lesson!"