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If you don’t read old stuff you’ll never discover that people in the olden days had the same thoughts and feelings and dreams and anxieties you do, sometimes articulated differently, sometimes exactly the same way. You are never truly alone in anything and old writings are a neon sign telling you so

work-in-progress of a new art piece: lineart and solid colors of a sparrow flying among magnolia blossoms

Drawing for fun? ME??

Unbelievable.
#wip

Oh this is BEAUTIFUL. Also this must be the art equivalent of every medievalist scholar/enthusiast has to name a white cat Pangur Ban.

Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally Discord is announcing enhanced teen safety features rolling out globally that reinforce its long-standing commitment to creating a safer and more inclusive experience for users over the age of 13.

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Beyond cancelling Nitro, contact your lawmakers. Everything they propose is beyond legally dubious, from possible ADA, CCPA, CALOPPA etc. violations to possible defiance of EU Privacy and digital ID laws.

"Don't worry about the Discord thing, it's only NSFW servers and channels that will require age verification! :)"

I could remove every speck of risque imagery/topics from my community and there's still a 50% chance we'd get flagged just because we're openly queer.

It's not actually about the kids.

I write to you today to STRONGLY OPPOSE House Bill 2112 (2026) and urge you to vote against this measure in your assembly. While I appreciate the impetus behind the Bill, it will not accomplish its goals and will only serve to criminalize speech which is protected by the United States Constitution. Firstly, and foremost, it is the responsibility of parents to police the actions of their children, to prevent them from accessing objectionable content online, and protect them from harm. This is a PARENTING PROBLEM and nearly every internet enabled hardware device comes with built-in content controls ("Parental Controls") designed to accomplish this level of content filtering and control. The legislature should not be imposing regulation on private individuals—the adults legally accessing the "objectionable content" defined in HB2112—to address a parenting problem. Encourage parents to be more involved and engaged in their children's lives, to employ the tools available to them, and to restrict access to devices and internet access inappropriate for their children. Secondly, imposing compliance with age verification software on all Internet sites that display images defined within the Bill is a fundamental invasion of privacy. While Section 2.2 states that identifying information may not be retained, that simply isn't practical and, if audited by the State, presents logistical challenges for said verifiers. The verification process would also create a "paper trail" through computer log data with which the State could potentially link verification queries with individuals and sites, building profiles on individuals, which is inappropriate and grotesque!

Thirdly, Section 1.7(c) of the Bill is ambiguous and subjective, without exception for amateur expression. Who is to say what works of art, by which artists, is of merit? Who will be the arbiter of "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value"? This is not a sufficient definition of acceptability. It's dangerous, McCarthy-esque language.  Look, I'm sure you're getting a lot of these messages right now, and I appreciate that your staff is busy and possibly overwhelmed with work. This is a bad bill that will not accomplish its objectives of making the internet safer for children. The reality is that the internet is not a safe place for children to spend time unsupervised and without content restrictions. Parents need to use the tools available to them—on their children's devices, laptops, home wifi routers, etc.—to make the content restrictions necessary to protect their children as they see fit. It is not the place of the Legislature to impose mass content restriction on everyone "for the children" when the solution is far simpler and already exists. I sincerely urge you to vote against this bill. Thank you for your service to your communities and the State of Washington.

Do you live in Washington State?

I need you to do two things:

1) Go here (app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...) & read HB 2112.
2) Go here (app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/2112) & leave a comment urging your representatives to vote AGAINST the bill.

This is SERIOUS shit. Please!

My comment in the BLUE images.

The indie Filipino short film "The Lovers" (Studio Heartbreak) is now complete, and will be released this summer on Youtube.
In the meantime, here's a nice official poster illustrated by Ami Thompson.
www.studioheartbreak.com
www.catsuka.com/news/2023-05...

a painting of Critical Role characters Essek Thelyss and Caleb Widogast, based on the Rider-Waite Tarot's The Devil. it is styled like a square painting on a vertically oriented tan canvas, with narrow unpainted strips above and below it. a looping leaning script reads "XV" above and "The Devil" below. Essek is a dark elf with gray-lavender skin and short white hair, dressed in elegant long dark robes and a silvery metal mantle piece, with the breastplate shaped like a beetle's back and long spikes curving off of his shoulders, radiating from his neck. Caleb is a light-skinned ginger human, with messy chin-length hair and a beard, wearing a gray tunic with a brown leather coat over it, a thick scarf wrapped around his shoulders. his spell book is just slightly visible at his side. the characters are facing each other, with Essek standing on the left and Caleb on the right. their right hands are raised between them, hovering under and over a floating hourglass that Essek is offering to Caleb; the violet sand in it is equally distributed between the top and the bottom halves and is not flowing down. Essek has his chin raised with a cool expression of confidence, while Caleb is looking at the hourglass with a deeply conflicted face, his eyebrows furrowed and eyes shining. Caleb's left arm down at his side is engulfed in orange flames. above them is the dodecahedron shape of a Beacon, pale gray and iridescent; the pentagonal plane facing the viewer is oriented with one of the corners pointing straight down. six silvery threads weave around it, intersecting at nine shining points, one thread each passing behind Essek's and Caleb's heads, and one each wrapping loosely around them. their figures, dark purple and brown, illuminated by the faint glow of the hourglass and the flame, are silhouetted against a much lighter gray and overcast light spilling from tall pointed arches behind them.

finally finished a painting i've been cooking in my mind for a few years! shadowgast as The Devil, one of my favorite tarot cards and one of the three cards i associate with their relationship

#CriticalRole #CriticalRoleFanArt #shadowgast

New (to me) scam for everyone to watch out for, pass it around gang :T

Traditional drawing in marker. A comfortable, curled up white cat with pale yellow star-shaped spots is sleeping on a dark blue background.

You’ve been visited by eepy starry kitty.
Now all your naps will be super cozy ⭐️💫

#art #cuteart #caturday

I think some people don't understand what the point of calling these lines are.

Yes, it's to express displeasure at the specific censorship and that is important, but it's also to consume resources and time.

OK, but why does that matter?

Simple, if you do it enough, the normies will notice.

So apparently, the US Gov, in their most recent series of dog whistles, are pulling LOTR references and are outright saying that their fascist reign of terror is akin to protecting the Shire. Absolutely fucking not. The comparison is a straightforward dogwhistle, don't let them confuse you.

A digital illustration of a spotted ocelot cat reclined in a green, grassy place. The cat has rich, orange fur dappled with large dark spots and stripes. There are multicolored, Icelandic poppies sprouting from its shoulders and body.

A digital illustration of two kitties in a green place. One kitty is lying down and the other is sitting behind it. They both have flowers sprouting from their bodies in pink and purple tones. This artwork is 100% human made.

A commission info card with three crops of illustrations in the background. There is a cat, a dog and a red panda.

A digital illustration of a small, blue dragon wrapped around blue raspberries. The dragon’s tail is curled around the berry that it is sitting on and the dragon’s large blue eye is fixed on the viewer.

✨Good morning everyone! My December commission queue is OPEN for 3 slots only!✨
If you are interested please check out my TOS for pricing and contact info:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Shares and Reposts = 💚
[ #art #illustration #commissionsopen #supportartists #blueskynightmarket #commsopen ]

A digital illustration of three cats relaxing in a green and grassy place. The cats are cuddling together and they have orange and white flowers sprouting from their bodies. The left cat is a brown tabby, the middle cat is a black cat and the right most cat is a long haired orange tabby.

Floral Kitty Trio - Botanimal Pet Portrait 2024
[ #art #illustration #botanimals ]

Absolutely.

Something we have to understand is that evil never takes a break. Never takes a holiday. When those of us on the left breathe a sigh of relief cons seethe and scheme and pressure. And they do it constantly

That it takes constant pressure to move something as big as an institution.

Some Baldur's Gate 3 landscapes from last year

#art #baldursgate3

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FEEDBACK FORM: Use this to demand bsky roll back its harmful adult content policies and ask for a better labeling system instead! #bskycensorship

Art and writing are FICTIONAL. The people depicted are not real and cannot consent, but WE, real people trying to safely enjoy or share a craft with others, can consent to seeing properly flagged material like adults.

NO PORN TO POST?

Use the tag #bskycensorship to talk about why this matters and to demand change regardless!

Repost nsfw artist work in protest, uplift our voices, and tell others what's going on and why to care! Check the replies on the TOS post for ways to explain:

bsky.app/profile/bsky...

#bskycensorship

An elegant Black woman, draped in a cape of yellow birch leaves, dressed in a gown made of paper birch bark. She stands in a forest of birch trees holding a staff with a glowing white orb at the top, snow swirling from it.

Birch Queen, walker of Autumn, herald of Winter. Had a lot of fun with this one!

I cannot emphasize this enough:

The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent.

They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so.

Doomers are not realists.

Hey again. Coming out of my hiatus hole to bring you and updated script. It now includes H.R. 5300, the apparent "we will revoke your passport for political thought crimes" bill by Brian Mast and heralded by Marco Rubio.

Short Script. #savespeech

A lot of my followers and general sphere understands this but it's really important we recognize that even if we don't like some art for personal moral reasons, we need to defend its right to exist. We went from no rape to no cat ears in less than two months. Everyone who warned about this was right

Wynne (@kamikampi's oc) Demonify your OC commission in which she has become a corrupt druid demon. She uses twisted branches of wood that protrude from her body to form a bow from her own arm and grabs with her other hand an arrow that has been stuck in her chest, coming out of her back. She has holes in her torso revealing a green light coming from her heart. She stares at the viewer with a sinister green gaze from behind her twisted wooden mask and her hair, which has turned into dry autumn leaves.

Corrupt druid demon Wynne 🕸️🥀

Demonify your OC commission
for @kamikampi.bsky.social

#art #dndart #commission

Lastly, but not leastly, keep calling paypros and follow the people leading the movements/looking for solutions. They are the goats. #savespeech

@cereza.zone
@acvalens.net
@voiddebris.bsky.social
@dieselbrain.bsky.social
@conjured.ink

Be sure to use their websites too.

Tomorrow we all need to pound ALL of our reps about this. Demand consequences.

Theyre doing shit like this because they think they will face no meaningfup consequences, so we need to make a big fuss about this so it isnt further normalized

J18 Publishing 🔜 VeXpo E15 @J18Publishing This morning, we were banned the San Japan convention in San Antonio, Texas just before Day 2 of the show. The fine literature we serve up is too incisive for the masters of The Lone Star State these days, particularly ahead of the anti-anime SB20 law going into effect on Monday.

JAST @ VEXPO E15 @jastusa After a very successful Friday, we were banned from the San Japan convention in San Antonio, Texas this weekend. Our content is too provocative for the powerful of the Lone Star State, ahead of the anti-anime bill SB20 going into effect on Monday.

JAST & J18 Publishing are both out of San Antonio's San Japan due to SB 20 going into effect on Monday