This is a great time to remind everyone that you should in fact, still be calling MasterCard, Visa, Stripe, and other payment processors to annoy the shit out of them.

Because I'll tell you right now, that shitheel? Not gonna have to worry about them accepting payment.

*Artists will.*

Ghost of Yotei got me thinking about this one

IF YOU ARE GERMAN, YOU NEED TO CONTACT YOUR MEPs AND DEMAND THEY OPPOSE CHAT CONTROL

-RIGHT-
-NOW-

the link below contains individual emails and everything, PLEASE do not sleep on this!

and hey on the topic of ID laws

do you really trust Bluesky, whose admin and c-suites physically cannot stop themselves from posting-through-it, to be able to hold onto your fucking govt ID and not leak it in a data breach like Discord?

these policies suck, they are dangerous, call your reps

I found more joy in life this way.

I'm serious email your representatives and link this article RIGHT NOW

tell them this shit sucks and is going to put everyone's ID/data at risk to hackers online. the proof is right here

US- www.congress.gov/members/find...
EU- www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home
CA- www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

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The deadline for this petition is october 28th, so we only have a few more weeks to pump those numbers
If youre canadian, sign this petition amd share it around! Get friends and family to sign!

The deadline for the australian petition is coming up [oct 3rd]! So aussies, get on that!

Additionally, canadians, the deadline for your petition is ovtober 25th so you only have a few more weeks to push this!

The Gist: A Free Speech The Online Safety Code to bring age verification to Internet platforms is heading towards implementation with a fatal flaw.

#SaveSpeech

Ireland has its own Online Safety Code currently under deliberation, however, as with all the other online ID verification bills going around right now, this one is vague and full of dangerous assumptions.

read about it below and contact your representatives about it!

STOP CSAM Act of 2025 (S. 1829) A bill to combat the sexual exploitation of children by supporting victims and promoting accountability and transparency by the tech industry.

The 'Stop CSAM Act of 2025' has had its govtrack likelihood t
[to be enacted] drop from from 56% down to 46%!

Keep calling your representatives in both the house and senate and hammer how this is a surveillance/anti-encryption bill under the guise of "protecting children". Tell them to OPPOSE!

KEEP IT GOING!

If you're not an artist but you followed a nsfw artist over to bsky, use that feedback form to tell bsky that. Remind them they're opening a traffic and funding sinkhole that extends well beyond the "icky" creators they want to get rid of

You NEED to call your reps and tell them this shit fucking sucks! They literally want to big-brother style waych you at all times, zero privacy, to "protect children"

I left a 1 star review on the app store explaining how disappointed i was with their updated adult content policy.

I highly recommend doing so yourself too!

App reviews of 1 star over mass censorship issues feels like a very proportional response. The dream of these people is to make a “sellable” product out of Bluesky, and if you want to reduce that potential value, mass app reviews with filled out critical comments is the way to go.

I saw a few illustrations with this cute silly speech bubble added in, so for anyone else who would want to know, this artist is the one who drew it/has been using it in her own works before All This started up (the link is for a real sticker from her shop!)

Bluesky doesn't lose anything from you leaving it for a week

you know who might?

the affected pornographers and sex workers who can more than ever use eyes and shares on their work, as well as all of us giving mass feedback about why the new ToS sucks

please stop "taking action" by doing nothing

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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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!

Dude I'm not even a NSFW artist and I think it in all its forms should have a place here because there is no way in hell some mod or 3rd party auto solution is gonna ever get it "right".

People can already curate their feeds and they have some moderation tools, who is all that stuff really harming

Making a new post after acquiring new info.

DO NOT JOIN THE BLUESKY BLACKOUT

Blackouts have never accomplished anything, and with Bluesky having no ads or monetization, mods would not lose anything from a lack of activity. If anything, it gives them what they want: silence.

#blueskyblackout2025

See 'cause THIS is the better solution. This right here: the ability to label, tag and filter content so people can decide what they do or do not want to see.

so... they want us silenced, so you are asking everyone to be silent? good job

Being quiet in response to rules intended to squelch self-expression is *giving in to their demands.* It's compliance in advance.

You're actually suggesting that users roll over and take it by not posting adult media, which will simply tell platform leadership that the new rules are just fine.

Begone puritan

They have this button on the right hand column that in addition to public shaming, lets you shame them in other useful ways