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Okay, fine. You van have some chicken. I can't say no to such a cute little face!
An idiot who loves technology but doesn't know how to use it very well. I like animals and nature. Will watch nature programs and anime in my spare time.
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Okay, fine. You van have some chicken. I can't say no to such a cute little face!
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
⏸️ Take a 40-second break with Ume, our 7-month-old Malayan tapir calf, as she enjoys a snack alongside her mom, Yuna. 💕 At 350 pounds, Ume still has lots of growing to do before she catches up to Yuna’s 774 pounds! These endangered herbivores are the largest of the tapir species. 📹: Keeper Katie
censorship is continuing to get worse 💔❤️🩹 we are tired but i know we're also determined!! if you took a break, or if you haven't started making calls and writing letters yet, now is a great time to jump in 🤝🧡
"Porn bans" ALWAYS lead to trans bans Michigan bill seeks to lock up trans people for posting selfies.
ANY TRANS PERSON WOULD BE FINED OR POSSIBLY JAILED JUST FOR POSTING A SELFIE This is also dangerous because as we know bad faith actors will call out ANYONE as being anything but CIS if you so much do not look like their ideal “standard”. And you can absolutely bet it will affect ALL minorities
Our veterinary team recently stepped in to help one of our shrimp residents after aquarists discovered a parasite hitching a ride. With delicate care, the parasite was safely removed, giving the shrimp a clean bill of health. Caring for even the smallest animals is an important part of our work! 🦐
Please celebrate with us!!! Today is Onyx's 4th Gotcha Day! I can't imagine life without my beautiful girl! She is purrfect in my eyes! 🥳🥳🥳
Did you know this? 🤔🧡🤎🖤 #WednesdayWisdom #CatPeople #Cats
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A cat not liking Churu?? That's something I never thought I'd see
Strongest? Gentleman? He’s both
I know it's hard to look at this right now and think we're making a difference, but we are. We ALL are. We are scaring them if they're trying to make the leash tighter. The whole point of this is to make sure we can't support each other, so WE STILL GOTTA FIGHT BACK.
Being asexual and sex positive and anti-censorship for the right to create freaky porn has nothing to do with how you feel about sex and everything to do with rejecting being told how you're "allowed" to feel about sex. Make no mistake: The same moral crusaders would say sex is an obligation.
Archive.org is being sued by record labels and they're asking people to sign this petition to help get the suit dropped. www.change.org/p/defend-the...
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Next they'll outlaw playing hopscotch. 🏳️🌈
Agreed! 🖤
If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.
I won’t pretend I influence, but as someone originally from Texas, please help prevent it from becoming more of a hell state than it already is. This shit will hit everything from Dress Up Darling to Dragon Ball and tons of queer media. They wont stop at Just Texas. Your freedoms are at stake. FIGHT
They're actively targeting creators who call in & banning them, making it even more important to call if you're a customer & not a creator Tell them they shouldn't be dictating how you get to spend the money you put your blood, sweat, and tears into earning
Riolu doesn't understand affection, but he likes it
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
Ring, ring! 🔔 Frank the 2-year-old puffin is having a blast with his bell enrichment. At just two, he’s full of playful energy and curiosity, perfect for testing out new toys! ✨ 📹: Keeper Kristyn
Call your Senators and let’s get this motherfucker impeached www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr...
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
Keep calling
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It not his fault. He just baby 🥺
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Someone successfully dividing by zero.
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He got bored and wanted to explore. 😅
People are shouting "LOOK HE'S THE BEST WE CAN DO" about the Governor of California, meanwhile the Governor of Illinois is out here talking like John Wick while *also* standing up for trans people.
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Aww, he's living the life! Happy Birthday!
When you open a bag of chips… #IsThatForUs #LifeWithCats #GingerNutz #cats #gingercats
Talk to a chatbot if you find yourself in mental crisis. No wait, call 911 & have the cops shoot you. No wait, call 988 & have a social worker lock you in the psych ward. The options are shit & if the culture didn’t hate the mad they wouldn’t be.
1. This is a very good sign that speaking out against KOSA is working! Dont assume it's dead though, continue calling your reps until further notice. 2. "Sammy's Law" is still in the draft stage but is worth keeping an eye on as imo i think trying to pass ANY kind of surveillance bill is bad
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I hope she finds a good loving home. You did a good job on making sure she got the support and care while she was with you.
Fuck censorship. They're coming after you next, whether you make porn or not. I have never sold NSFW services or artwork, yet here's my termination from Stripe! Fully SFW, innocent headshots of furries = adult content. This is what we've been trying to fucking tell y'all this whole month!
Former GOP congressman who voted against LGBT protections comes out as gay 2020 article www.cbsnews.com/news/former-...
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
#SaveSpeech The FSC has a website for tracking online ID Bills. action.freespeechcoalition.com/age-verifica... These are all states with ID laws introduced (but not enacted) and the bill numbers tell your state reps to vote NO www.usa.gov/state-governor www.congress.gov/state-legisl...
To put it bluntly, this is a fucking disaster. For consumers, for small businesses and artists, for everybody. The US is cutting ourselves off from the rest of the world and for what?? Even if this gets sorted out or walked back, it’s going to cause a major disruption.
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So glad that mama is feeling better. Hope she continues to improve and the kittens will let her have a break at some point.
the usual vagueness is present here that is usually a bad sign to come for adult content. bluesky is taking feedback on the guidelines at this link below. Let them know these are not satisfactory docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... points that need addressing are: [cont]
It's happening. Please call your reps and yell about SCREEN, KOSA, and IODA
Clean up your links before you share them with others. It's a small and simple piece of operational security that anyone can integrate into their practice.
THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO STOP!! We are winning, but we have not won fully!!! Keep calling!! stop-paypros.neocities.org
This directly pertains to being LGBTQ+, making art, making LGBTQ+ art, and making adult content, and will affect your ability to do any of these on the internet. Go fill this out and tell them to clarify their guidelines and stand up to fascist censorship pressure. It takes five to ten minutes.
💯No exaggeration this is HANDS DOWN, the BEST, ABSOLUTE BEST talk/video/coverage of the censorship issue I HAVE EVER SEEN. 5 minutes in I knew it was going to be amazing, and EVERY point she made had me going 'YES, THIS EXACTLY!' Please watch this, share it everywhere, & send it to everyone you know
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It's like a dog with a hose!
Remember! Petitions are worth signing and sharing around! They communicate our numbers and big numbers scare corpos!
Action =/= attraction! Also please don't confuse sex negtive with sex repulsed! Or on the same scale, sex positive with sex favourable! Here's a neat image that explains it well. I'm asexual. I'm very sex positive but I'm also sex repulsed
Dear fellow EU residents, PLEASE go to the website and use it to write to your country's representatives to find the AI surveillance act! Repost and share with your friends and relatives! Act up!
CPBC Cards Paypros Banks CYOA 4 a day Choose from your menu AND KEEP CALLING
![#SaveSpeech #SaveSpeech #SaveSpeech #SaveSpeech #SaveSpeech C.P.B.G. 4 PHONE CALLS A DAY [If you're able to do more, you are encouraged to do so] WHO? WHY? HOW TO CONTACT WHAT TO DO Card MASTERCARD + VISA Visa and Mastercard have long histories with pressuring platforms that host and sell adult content. Most recently, they have pressured Steam and Itch.io, leading to dozens if not hundreds of games being delisted, and their TOS now updated with draconian content standards. MASTERCARD (US) +1 (800)-307-7309 phone tree nav: 1-1-2-2-2-1 (INTL) +1 (636)-722-7111 VISA (US + CAN) +1 (800)-847-2911 phone tree nav: 1-1-5. mash account #. Your goal is mostly to waste their time and therefore their money. Pose as a confused customer](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hknazlbtwv5thavb7uw52xjz/bafkreiey4bx2wudc2iezob3jabfslrl4emie4jj3b2e7eztasqrcvshfza@jpeg "Click to view full size")
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Because he's Uni. Everything he does is cute!
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Awww, he loves his scritchies and belly rubs 🥰
CALL STRIPE CALL PAYPAL CALL MASTERCARD CALL VISA DO NOT. STOP. CALLING! #rocktheboat stop-paypros.neocities.org
How bad is the Online Safety Act roll out going? UK officials have started spreading rumors that it's the internet's fault — accusing sites like Reddit and Twitter of purposely overcensoring to undermine the unpopular censorship law. That's Trump-firing-economist-for-reporting-bad-numbers bad.
US age-verification requirements are now going far beyond "porn." Two of the most recent states to enact legislation require face scans or other verification measures for *any* site with *any* amount of "material harmful to minors" — including Amazon, Reddit, Discord, Twitter and Netflix.
We're not in theoretical "they could come after sfw queer content LATER" territory anymore. It is being used to come after sfw queer content NOW. Spread this around, send the article to any and every news outlet/content creator you can think of. The alarms need to be sounded And KEEP CALLING
Meet Juno, our 13-year-old endangered American Red Wolf. With only an estimated 20-22 Red Wolves left in the wild in eastern North Carolina, we're working tirelessly to help restore this critically endangered species. #InternationalWolfDay
once you offload a type of cognitive/creative work to the junk food high you get from AI, the process is reduced to a mere means to an end, instead of something you evaluate or create yourself, with intent, skill, and vision
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A manager and his assistant manager 🥰
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I stopped watching the news when Covid started so I was actually unaware that a vaccine was available, I was going to wait until I got my flu shot to ask about it, but then I saw a vid & decided to just get it now rather than wait.
Man 2xko can't catch a break
I already told it, I'll tell it again If one of your closed ones develop an addiction to chatgpt/ character ai or stuff like this and rely on it for mental health issues I beg you to not cut them off / not shame them Be there for them, guide them to better choices It's so important
LinktheMink (@l1nkthem1nk.bsky.social) reply parent
I have a bunch of cat toys, what do you want to play with first?
Here's the bill btw Call your senators and tell them to shut it down
Keep calling. This issue can't die. It starts with delisting games, but the likely goal is to enact a new morality police that can silence marginal groups and anyone who speaks out against the status quo. The payment processors are feeling the squeeze! Let your voice be heard!
If an individual offering consensual nudes of themself on OnlyFans is considered “illicit” but a program generating nudes of women without their consent is fine, the powers that be have made their priorities clear. And they’re the same as they ever were.
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Poor mom. She looks like she's being swarmed.
#SaveSpeech Updated list of major US bills ya'll need to yell at your congressmen about, w/ talking points. Tell em to say NO to: SCREEN ACT KOSA IODA www.congress.gov/members/find... CALL EM. MAIL EM. EMAIL EM. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD.
A tortie tongue out Tuesday! 😍😜
Nothing to see here... ...just Teddy inside of a candy corn tunnel. #catsofbluesky #catsky #cat
Marm thought every day was CAT DAY?! 🌎😺 How do you spoil your cats? #InternationalCatDay #CatDay #Cats
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I remember seeing one of his Covid paper fetching videos. It motivated me to get off my but and get vaccinated. Thank you for sharing your videos with us.
Hey Americans, if this passes you'll be uploading your ID to every social media and website to access it.
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He floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee!
Uni can only sleep peacefully with 1t of chicken
#SaveSpeech Remember, if youre american, contact your reps and urge them not to support KOSA and the SCREEN act! Unlike Pay-pros, you dont need to waste time. All they NEED is to know is that you dont support it. Heres some talking points if desired tho: www.congress.gov/members/find...
![SCREEN ACT: -full age verification. (biometric scans, ID uploads, background checks) -Deeply unsafe for personal and data privacy. Security/data breaches are rampant, and uploading so much sensitive data to every single we site is just asking for mass ID theft. -id verification is much, much harder on small websites than larger ones, creating a chilling effect and stifling speech for anyone that isnt a massive corporation -draw comparison to UK's OSA [online safety act] and the backlash it is receiving](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xawhcpoqu6pdxpp72fd43wuf/bafkreief25czuj2rgcjc4nckpa7fdhn7d42427c4znmr5btinjnmvouwsq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
I called my rep (Blue district). Mentioned the KOSA and the SCREEN act, how it's censorious and even a National Security threat, citing Social Security leaks He said that they've gotten hundreds of calls about KOSA (nice) but they didn't hear about the SCREEN act since it's "not bi-partisan." 🤔
So when you guys do you daily calls today you should ask mastercard what illegal adult content they found on these content creation platforms. Tell them to make names. When they give you the runaround say "but what have you found that's illegal". They won't because there was never an investigation
Visa employees clearly told to deescalate ASAP MasterCard employees more than familiar with the issue Stripe feeling the pressure ACLU put out a statement CBC covered all this What you are doing is WORKING You are getting RESULTS KEEP CALLING KEEP WRITING WE ARE GOING TO WIN!!
The most problematic ship? Censorship
The script to oppose KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act) AKA The Big Bullshit Censorship Bill is now up on @5calls.org We’ve already seen the results of this over the last few days in the U.K. with their Online Safety Act (OSA). Let’s make sure it dies off again. Call your reps ☎️
DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.
If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.
![[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihjvnz2ttxl7z4a2b3a4kylubobgvqxmjhwz6yuetuztzoc4g2s4y@jpeg "Click to view full size")
A rare opportunity to see Harpo make his choices and walk away from the camera. #CatsOfBluesky
All three Canadians out here with me, don't let them win a fucking inch of ground.
Hey, everyone who is calling Mastercard and Visa about the age verification BS. I think you should start aiming at YouTube as well.
Both of our Agave lophantas are in spectacular full bloom right now! Their towering flower stalks are drawing in a flurry of pollinators. Our talented horticulture team are hand-pollinating the blooms, and check out plenty of honeybees gathering the pollen and sipping nectar from the blossoms.
This is why media literacy is important
Ontario court strikes down Ford government's plan to remove Toronto bike lanes
Happy #whiskerswednesday furiends - busy today “helping” catdad do a stocktake 😹💕🐈⬛
The Cartoonist Co-op stands against the censorship and pay discrimination of 18+, erotic, and NSFW artists. Check the link below for our official statement, ways to take action, and resources. cartoonist.coop/censorship-p... Art by @greedygulo.bsky.social
BIG NEWS: For the first time in six years, Britain's rarest breeding bird has successfully nested in the UK! A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.