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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

dumb nazi bitch lmao 😂

2025 was the year of ume! 2026? will also be the year of ume ❤️

I don't wish ill of JK Rowling I wish she fucking died ten years ago. Course it isn't too late now Joanne you can always climb the highest buttress of your castle and try to fly

12:50 ٠١١١ 86) 1. The Cardinal Directions 1. Safety First. We do not allow content that shows or promotes violence or harm-to adults, children, or animals. Do not violate anyone's privacy or share their personal information. 2. Respect Others. We do not allow content that promotes or that is hate speech, harassment, bullying, or discrimination. 3. Be Authentic. We do not allow content intended to misrepresent, defraud, trick, deceive, or mislead. 4. Follow the Rules. We do not allow content that is illegal. This includes content that is prohibited by laws about online content, intellectual property, copyright, trade, commerce, cybersecurity, data protection. Do not try to avoid our moderation controls, either. If you violate these Guidelines, we may hide, remove or label your content, or we may suspend or terminate your account, permanently ban you from the platform, or-in extreme cases make a report to the appropriate authorities. 2. Safety First 1. Do not glorify violence or harm. For example, do not post content that: 1. Depicts or Encourages Violence or Abuse: Includes violence or threats against others, intimate partner abuse, or harm to animals. 2. Promotes Self-Harm or Unsafe Behavior: 1. Shares methods or encouragement for self-harm, eating disorders, or dangerous stunts. 2. Interferes with others' recovery efforts.

2. Safety First 1. Do not glorify violence or harm. For example, do not post content that: 1. Depicts or Encourages Violence or Abuse: Includes violence or threats against others, intimate partner abuse, or harm to animals. 2. Promotes Self-Harm or Unsafe Behavior: 1. Shares methods or encouragement for self-harm, eating disorders, or dangerous stunts. 2. Interferes with others' recovery efforts. 3. Sexualizes or Exploits Minors: Depicts minors in a sexualized way or romanticizes inappropriate relationships with them. 2. Respect others' privacy. For example, do not post: 1. Private or Sensitive Personal Information: 1. Home addresses, contact info, financial or medical data, or government-issued IDs. 2. Information about someone's protected characteristicssuch as sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, caste, or immigration status-for the purpose of targeting them or discriminating against them. 2. Non-Consensual Sharing: 1. Private messages or communications you weren't authorized to share. 2. Information that could pose safety risks, such as real-time location data or identifying information about minors. 3. These rules do not prevent you from posting content that involves: 1. Journalism, Education, and Advocacy: 1. Factual reporting, academic research.

Be Authentic 1. Do not mislead or deceive others. For example, do not post or engage in: 1. Deceptive Identity Practices: 1. Pretending to be someone else or an official group in a way that could mislead others. 2. Role-playing involving fictional minors in sexual contexts. 3. Misrepresenting your age or helping others do so to bypass rules. 4. Identity churning (switching identities after gaining followers), handle-squatting, or using misleading names or bios. 5. Voter suppression or sharing false political information. 2. Abuse of Verification and Trust Features: 1. Falsifying documents to get verified, misrepresenting verification status, or trying to regain verification after denial or revocation. 2. Selling, transferring, or sharing verified accounts. 3. Spam and Malicious Activity: Spamming, phishing, or using manipulative tactics to exploit other users. 2. These rules do not prevent: 1. Clearly labeled parody, commentary, satire, or fan accounts (must say so in both display name and profile). 2. Accounts representing fictional characters, as long as it's obvious they're not real people. 3. Historical, educational, or artistic content that uses public figures or institutions with proper context.

The new community guidelines are highly censorious. You should be concerned about user drop off if these rules do apply. Can you please amend your community guidelines to allow role playing, creative/artistic expression and remove anything about “promoting unsafe behavior?” Intent is not obvious.

2. Safety First Do not glorify violence or harm. For example, do not post content that: Depicts or Encourages Violence or Abuse: Includes violence or threats against others, intimate partner abuse, or harm to animals.

skygods: no more punching nazis or throwing sandwiches

I have concerns over the possible restriction and banning of certain content depicting fictional characters. There is some language within the guidelines that either seems to indicate this will be the case or is ambiguous enough to be interpreted this way. As an example, guideline 2.C.ii. states that depictions of violence and sensitive topics in art and fiction are permissible unless they glorify harm. However, if the harm being depicted only affects fictional people, this is not something that should be restricted. A rule like this could be understood to mean that anything from artistic gore to fandom "whump" to discussion of popular violent action movies would violate these terms. There is similar unclear and concerning language in various places throughout the text. Guideline 5 is another prominent example, stating in 5.A.ii.d. that users must not share "real or SYNTHETIC intimate images or sexual content" (emphasis mine). This seems to imply that creative works containing sexual content are not allowed, even if they and the people depicted are entirely fictional. Guideline 5.B.i. further specifies that "consensual adult content" is allowed. Does it then follow that purely fictional art or creative writing that includes non-consensual sexual contact between imaginary characters would be in violation of the Community Guidelines? If this is the case, I strongly object to this kind of censorship and overreach, as it's neither illegal nor harmful to share this type of content when properly labeled, and I disagree with the need for Bluesky to restrict posts of this nature.

fwiw this is what I submitted, but please don't just take my word for it and see what you think of the guidelines for yourself

Bluesky Community Guidelines Feedback Form Thank you for reviewing the proposed Community Guidelines. Your feedback is essential to helping us ensure Bluesky remains safe and welcoming in the core rules we enforce on the app. Please review th...

If you'd like to send Bluesky feedback about this, you can fill out a feedback form at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

You can also email Bluesky's moderation team or ask them here, on Bluesky itself.

Does fatal vore art glorify violence/harm?

Does a slasher movie glorify violence/harm?

Does an action movie glorify violence/harm?

Does the video game Doom glorify violence/harm?

Does the video game Wolfenstein glorify violence/harm?

What's the actual standard here?

Screenshot from linked article: These rules do not prevent you from posting content that involves: Journalism, Education, and Advocacy: Factual reporting, academic research, or educational content about criminal acts, violence, mental health, online safety, youth risks, or public interest issues. Anti-violence advocacy, safety campaigns, or prevention resources. Content warning about dangerous viral challenges. Artistic, Fictional, and Historical Expression: Depictions of violence or sensitive topics in fiction, art, or historical documentation—if appropriately labeled and not glorifying harm. Internationally recognized art containing non-sexualized images of minors. Support, Recovery, and Mental Health: Personal experiences with recovery, therapy, or surviving violence, shared to raise awareness or foster support. Support group discussions and general mental health resource sharing. Animals and Nature: Content about animal welfare, veterinary education, responsible wildlife photography, or legitimate rescue operations. Transparency and Public Information: Publicly available information related to government transparency or public officials. Personal information you share about yourself that does not violate other rules.

Bluesky's new TOS includes a few new phrases that either weren't present in the original or that are rephrased.

Just to make 100% sure that I understand: if I share a video clip of John Wick, does that violate this policy by glorifying violence/harm?

bsky.social/about/suppor...

#SaveArt #Bluesky

Highest 2 Lowest movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert Lee isn’t setting out to copy what was great before. He is using the past as a starting point to launch what may be the final phase of his career.

My review of Spike Lee's HIGHEST 2 LOWEST is back on the homepage of @ebertvoices.bsky.social. I LOVED it out of Cannes.

Rough digital painting of some snowy hills. A person is standing in the foreground alongside their undefined animal companion. A small cabin is emerging from a pinewood.

f*ck summer 🫠

Headline: I pride myself on being a miserable middle-aged man Story by Nick Harding - 5mo - 6 minute read

every headline about men is "why it's okay to be horrible" and every headline about women is "you better fall in line or else."

I'm sure it's fine. It probably doesn't mean anything.

2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me. "Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines. We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes. It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.

Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation:

Name: Kurros Card Type: Personnel Affiliation: Non-Aligned Role: SCIENCE Lore: Humanoid leader of the Think Tank, an elite group that solves problems - for a price. Brilliant tactician. Often does the exact opposite of what an adversary expects. Card Text: SCIENCE SCIENCE Treachery x 2 Diplomacy Acquisition Leadership Int Rng: 3 Cun Wpn: 12 Str Shd: 5 Rarity: 165 R

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗸 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲
𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙉𝙖𝙢𝙚: 𝘒𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘴
𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙏𝙮𝙥𝙚: 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘭
𝘼𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣: 𝘕𝘰𝘯-𝘈𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘥
𝙍𝙤𝙡𝙚: 𝘚𝘊𝘐𝘌𝘕𝘊𝘌

𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲!
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Stylized illustration of a sandpiper dipping its beak into water. Heavily textured and framed in Art Nouveau filigree. Predominant colors are blues, golds, browns, and purples.

Got this done on my live artstream yesterday. It’s a little Sandpiper. I’m making it into a limited edition print and greeting cards.

Artist Links: coreyartusimageryinfo.carrd.co

#art #IndieArtist #Birds #Birdart #Sandpiper #BskyArt

a lizard and a rat clamber up some rocks

i should have been doing this all along

a lizard stands on a pile of bones and red hats waving a trans flag

when they're dead [we'll] stand on their graves

horse resting text IM RESTING! piss off!

how the email finds me

of exposed roots

Arachne
Digital painting

Baku wanted to say hello! 👋

At 11 years old and 760 pounds, Baku is our male Malayan tapir with a big personality, and dad to baby Ume!

📸: Keeper Katie

A detailed illustration of the inside of a potion shop. The owner is a young woman with long brown hair pulled back with cloth, some lavender nestled behind her ear. She is examining a vial in one hand with an ingredient list clutched in the other and is wearing brown dungarees with ingredients strapped to her belt The cauldron in front of her glows orange as it illuminates shelves full of bottles, ingredients and herbs behind her. There is a stack of books on the bottom left and to the right a tree has grown up through the center of the shop, butterflies swarm around it. There are flowers and hanging plants everywhere and through the window outside outside and around the tree, rain is falling

‘The Potion Shop’

An illustration where I redesigned my OC Reimi as a potion shop owner.

She inherited it from her parents before they passed and is doing what she can to keep it afloat! Even after a literal tree grew down the centre

#ocsky #art

Keith David sitting at a switch 2 display and smiling warmly at the camera like he's having a good time

Jason Alexander looking to camera like a cornered animal as he plays a display model Nintendo GameCube.

nice argument, unfortunately i have already depicted myself as Switch 2 Keith David and you as Gamecube Jason Alexander

thinking about my disabilities and chronic illnesses...the next time I hear

"If I couldn't have, or couldn't do ______ I'd die."

i'm just gonna reply with

"It's because your weak. You're too soft and inexperienced to be on my level."

done with people insinuating death it better than sugar

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

여름의 꽃 #능소화 🧡💚

바닥이 아니라 하늘을 봐야 하는 계절 중 하나죠😄
#illust #illustration

a mushroom fellow wearing a mossy cape and carrying a thorn as a sword holds up a glowing plant in a crumbling catacomb

daring delving down dangerously deep
#art

Photo from the Instructables article "Make a Cat Bed from a Computer Monitor." An orange cat is sitting inside an old CRT monitor that has been converted into a cat bed. It has a cat mural painted on the outside.

logging on

Illustration of an Osprey, perched on a branch. Behind the bird is a blue paper texture with gradients at the top and bottom, crosshatching, a bokeh lighting effect in gold, and a double halo of blue and white light.

Did this Osprey done on my livestream yesterday. A conservationist couple who tag Ospreys stopped by my booth and requested it. Hope they like it!

Here’s the speedpaint: makertube.net/w/fJHXmUxbN6...

Website: www.coreyartusimagery.com

#Birds #Birdart #Art #BskyArt #Osprey #IndieArtist