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Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Feeling like there's a lot of dead canaries of late.

Good to know from a (former) Nintendo lawyer that fan-art is reason to mobilze the troops at a moment's notice, but a fascist regeime using directly stolen Pokemon assets to recruit for the nu-Gestapo is something the company would (likely) let slide.

My decision to not buy Nintendo, validated.

Cool, my art will get even less visibility than usual, I won't make any money from commissions, and my bank account will shrink. All while giving bsky exactly what it wants: No resistance. Great idea. Anyway, please support me so I can survive.

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the thing about this coverage is that, while it's bad that charlie kirk was murdered, it is good that he's dead. and the number of people who agree with me on that (or disagree, but only with the first half) scares the living shit out of the rest of them

You are an adult. You can handle seeing boobs on the Internet and if you can’t then unfollow the people who post them.

Yeah, holy shit.

I just checked, mine and @shaxbert.bsky.social 's comments calling them out- which have 2.6k and 1.6k likes respectively, are just fucking GONE. Can't even find them by scrolling down anymore, they straight up 'hid' them.

Fucking cowards.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

A blackout will be seen as stepping down. Taking this as they give it.

Do. Not. Be. Silent.

Even before I started doing the work I do, I was always a supporter and advocate for NSFW content and its creators.

Do not take this lying down, do not do a blackout as it will be seen as rolling over.

Drawing of a 3 panel comic. The first panel shows a black uniformed handler saying "Unit D4 has been in the field for over a week straight. Give it a full cleaning and line it up for servicing." The second panel shows a closeup of a tag with the label "D4 -Combat Unit" The third panel shows the pilot, D4, kneeling down as she blows a faceless soldier in the barracks, her hands zip-tied behind her. A sticker from @Yeougui plastered over the image says "I consent!" in english and japanese.

Bluesky's TOS says that only they can define when a fictional drawing shows consent.

This assumption is clearly wrong and misguided and needs to be repealed immediately.

#bskycensorship

DO NOT participate in #blueskyblackout2025

I'm nsfw artist and other nsfw artists are asking you to SHOUT! Bsky wants to censor us so the worst thing we can do is censor ourselves!

Publicly shame them, use the feedback button, and post about it using the tag #bskycensorship

Silence is compliance!

Doodles of Chikorita messily eating a cup of whip cream.

ordering a pup cup for my chikorita in lumiose

Because I don't think I've posted this here yet: #Darkstalkers

super interesting that bsky has suspended the accounts of two prominent trans women this week, both of whom were critical of known transphobes and used fairly tame language.

it's probably nothing.

We are COOKED

And do you know why Grok was suspended? Because it called out the genocide in Gaza

i think this says a lot about society 😔😔😔

"In case you forgot, I'm Vegeta, son of Vegeta, grandson of Vegeta.

Welcome to the heavyweight bout, Cell.

This is a two man race. You look tired already. It's just the second round."

I think describing to Woolie how you have to eat all your sides on your plate before you get to your steak because it's the good part only to end up not finishing it because it's kind of cold really summed up the situation. Actually now that I think of it I wonder if this attitude started with food

YOU THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE YOUR SONS FIRST ROLE MODEL PAT, BUT IT WAS ME, DIO

This was always the goal of bathroom bans, to fully push trans people from any semblance of public life, and it won't end there either, the "gender critical" project is currently trying to exert pressure over businesses that hire trans people in the UK, so that trans people are unemployable...

mister rogers says to become enraged and this is not a joke

bright noa with an overlaid facebook screenshot that reads "it's so hard being a single mom when you have no kids and are a male teenager"

guy who is 19

WE COULD'VE LOST HOGAN AND VINCE ON THE SAME DAY!?

absolutely nails it. the work of language in the age of mechanical reproduction I guess

"There are three kinds of magic," said Wizzler, handing us each a balloon. "You can control tigers, you can shoot tornadoes from your fingers, or you can fly by holding your breath. The color of confetti inside your balloon will reveal which kind of power you have." I felt the panic rising in me. What if my confetti turned yellow, indicating that I was a Tiger-Talker? My family, a long line of proud Tornado-Fingers, would disown me. Could I ever return home, bearing such shame? I tried to calm myself as I readied the ceremonial safety pin. Green, I thought, willing my hopes into reality. Please be green. I popped the balloon, involuntarily shutting my eyes. When I opened them, would I see the green I hoped for? The yellow I feared? What if, gods forbid, the confetti were blue? I opened my eyes, seeing shock on the faces of my classmates. Wizzler himself stared at me, wide-eye. Looking down, I saw myself covered in confetti... purple confetti.

“I don’t understand,” I growled, my body trembling with pain. “I combined eighty percent Earth-elemental mana with twenty percent Fire-elemental mana (Type B), focused through a twenty-four-sided icositetragon made of yellow topaz. This, in conjunction with my blood type, star sign, sense of humor, and nickname, should have produced a blazing column of lightning to vaporize my enemies. Instead, it made a big bubble that smells like fresh laundry. Why?” Skullgrumbler began to laugh. “You fool! You don’t even realize…” he squealed. “You’re facing east!”

“It’s whatever you want,” explained Magemaster Grampledog. “Magic is just whatever you want.” I knew he was speaking in riddles, but I couldn’t grasp his hidden meaning. “So the rules are…” Grampledog lit a sliver of smokereed. “No rules. You say some words and you wave a stick and whatever you want just happens. You don’t even need the stick.” His wisdom still eluded me. I stared into his face, trying to decipher what he was really saying. “No, listen.” Grampledog snapped his fingers and his desk turned into a pile of chicken nuggets. “I didn’t even know that would happen.” His hat then came alive and began to yodel. “It’s pandemonium,” he explained. “It’s complete nonsense.”

In my experience there are three kinds of fantasy magic novels:

The point of calling credit card companies isn't to make John Visa have moment of introspection and go "aw shucks I was wrong!" it's to grind business to a halt for such an extended period of time that all the higher ups who are real people with names and addresses decide that this isn't worth it

Post on /r/transgenderUK entitled “Reddit now censors LGBTQ+ content under OFCOM’s new ‘Online Safety Act’”

post text: “I honestly can't even think of words to describe how vile this is. Here's a screenshot of what I now see when I search "lgbt" with my VPN switched off. Occasionally a banner appears at the top of the screen saying something about needing to verify ID to access "mature content" but the button doesn't even work. The fact that we're now considered "mature content" makes me feel sick.”

The screenshot referenced in the previous image, showing the results of a search on Reddit for the term LGBT. No results from LGBT-specific subreddits appear; instead, posts from /r/Conservative, /r/Islam, /r/JustUnsubbed, etc are highlighted.

the UK’s Internet age verification law has led to the effective censorship of all LGBT content on Reddit

what a shocking and unexpected turn of events!