Sora, surviving on the internet

A photograph of a red bulbous animal on the muddy ground. Most prominently, an yellow eye-like protrusion grows on its back. On the other side of its body, it has a small frog-like face. Several large pores open in its body, releasing a black fog that dissipates into the surrounding air.

Hyakki Yagyo Emaki, author unkown, ca. 15th Century. A scroll depicting a series of yōkai. Among them, a red bulbous creature stands out. It has a single eye and two legs. Another yōkai is hitting it with a hammer.

This may be the first photograph of the mysterious Okka. In Japan it is known as a yōkai, with only a few old scrolls alluding to it.
The reason for its elusiveness is the deadly poison it sprays around it. Those who have been close enough to see it, such as this photographer, have quickly perished.

Literalmente no sé cómo voy a seguir con mi vida. Estoy harto de sobrevivir, de tratar de mirar para adelante y que me pateen la espalda

Encima sé que vamos a seguir con la pindonga de la boleta porque "ay, ahora hago más rápido".

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Chau derechos laborales
Chau jubilaciones
Chau educación pública
Chau salud pública
Chau recursos naturales
Chau soberanía

Todo eso se votó hoy

Esto es una sentencia de muerte. Ya no importa quien gane las próximas elecciones, el país que supimos construir murió para siempre. No va a quedar absolutamente nada.

Solo aparezco acá para no sentirme solo

🫂

if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

My country's sovereignty is still being sold to pieces and it'll probably be used to keep fueling genAI bullshit so

Yeah, I don't think I'll go back to being active on social media any time soon. I loathe these times and I hope they end soon.

Scaretober 2025 - Day 18: Blight

Do you know what a group of frogs is called?

AN ARMY

They call this tactical frivolity.

It is -not- pointless and dumb. It's intentional and planned out.

They're poisoning potential propaganda with silly, harmless antics that people love. This makes it much harder for the government to lie about what's happening on the streets. ✌️

#nokings
Portland frog brigade

sometimes people challenge me like to suggest that my disability isn't at risk compared to intellectual or physical conditions and I always feel compelled to point out that of 6 major groups of disability targeted by the Nazis as "unworthy of life", people with schizophrenia and bipolar were a third

way too many people in the comments saying stuff like I'm worried about the healthcare but moreso about the fascism. sentencing disabled and low income people to death IS the fascism babe. the fact we haven't figured that out yet is how they keep getting away with it

Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).

You all know about the state of nsfw comics bc you follow me but I just wanna say:

The future of platforms that sell the comics I make is unknown right now, so SBCF is a great way to support me financially while you can! Also when you read it can you leave a comment on one of my posts here? 🥺👉👈

For those that have never had to deal with bluesky mod: A lot of my art features nudity that's not at all sexual but celebrates bodies. Every single time it gets marked by auto mod as Pornographic. Sometimes they're not even nude. I have to appeal the label wait sometimes WEEKS to maybe get it fixed

This platforms moderation is currently unable to tell the difference between artistic/non-sexual nudity and explicit pornography How do you expect them to be able to differentiate between consensual and non-consensual?

This is absolutely BRILLIANT

They didn't listen to our feedback, now we need to ESCALATE

Bsky is at 3.4⭐ - let's see how quick we can tank that!

Don't know what to write?

Copy/paste mine or use it as a starting point!

#SaveSpeech #BskyCensorship

Community Guidelines (Deprecated) - Bluesky

And before I forget, if you want to read the full scope of the changes you can see them here:

Previous TOS: bsky.social/about/suppor...

New TOS: bsky.social/about/suppor...

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Anti Censorship Campaign Collective action against payment processors unjustly restricting our purchases.

Lastly, these content restrictions are absolutely part of a larger push for censorship

We HAVE to keep working to stop this

If free speech is important to you, you can't just stop here

Check out the site for more action you can take to support free speech!

anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co

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Screenshot of a feedback form with the text: I'm writing about the upcoming change to the Bluesky TOS. Bluesky put out a feedback request and despite many people voicing concerns about the changes, very concerning updates have been maintained. Bluesky has MANY moderation tools that users can utilize themselves to restrict content that they don't want to see without needing to prevent the content from being published on the site as a whole. Aside from content labels, there are user-run moderation lists and feeds so that anyone can curate their content easily. Despite this, you have chosen to move forward with some incredibly harmful policies that restrict free speech. I implore you to remove the following policies: 1) The restriction of FICTIONAL kink content. Non-con, dub-con, and “dangerous” kink content that is FICTIONAL does not harm anyone. 2) The restriction of content depicting or discussing self harm, suicide, and substance abuse. Requiring content about these subjects to only be “educational” is extremely harmful to those dealing with these issues. Stigma only serves to further endanger people in crisis. If these policy changes are not removed then I, among many others, will have to look for a different platform to use.

Here's the message I sent in

You ABSOLUTELY are welcome to copy/paste or use it as a jumping off point

Let them know we don't need this kind of "help"!

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Screenshot showing the "feedback" button for bsky under the "trending" section.

Screenshot showing the "feedback" button for bsky under the "settings" section.

TELL bsky you have an issue with this!

1) KEEP talking about it - don't let this issue fade away

2) Submit feedback to bsky! TELL them its not okay!

On PC: on the right under "trending"

On mobile: on the left under "settings"

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Do NOT believe the misinfo going around

There absolutely have been MASSIVE TOS updates

Most notably:

1) Specifying no FICTIONAL noncon
2) No "dangerous" kink
3) No DISCUSSING self harm, suicide, or substance abuse unless its "educational"

So what can we DO about it?

#SaveSpeech

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No, i’m not a princess

#slaytheprincess #noimnotahuman

cartoonists handing the same 5 dollar bill around the Small Press Expo but it's the entire economy somehow

Me uno activamente a la iniciativa 👇

Hilarious.

My bank can just do a stop payment at my request though. That's free. That takes 15 minutes on the phone. And it actively harms them because payment processors do NOT like when you get a stop payment order placed against you.

What you do with this information is between you and God.

This. Vaccines and paracetamol do not cause autism, but also autism is not something that should be eliminated, any more than queerness or lefthandedness or any other harmless minority characteristic.