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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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内田清輝・グ弍 @picassotrigger8.bsky.social · 1d

🎹（╹◡╹）✨

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Sir Phobos (The Zoids Guy) 🏴‍☠️ 🩷💜💙 @sir-phobos.bsky.social · 1d

Zaber Fang
#ゾイド #ZOIDS

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Sir Phobos (The Zoids Guy) 🏴‍☠️ 🩷💜💙 @sir-phobos.bsky.social · 1d

Berserk Fury hangar
#ゾイド #ZOIDS

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bmcarthur17 @bmcarthur17.bsky.social · 1d

A day late, but still an important message. Columbus Day shouldn't be recognized at all.

WATCH:

#Resist

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Nyx The Bat @nyxthebat.vtubers.social · 4d

"kill them with kindness" wrong. bat attack
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Thought Slime @slimemildred.bsky.social · 2d

The far right rose to prominence on the back of Pepe, but now the left has discovered the power of frog magic and given itself a fighting chance.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 2d

Sigh. Guess it's that one day a year we have to utter that assholes name.

For Immediate Release
Italian-American Trade Unionists of America Condemn Columbus on Columbus Day

The ltalian-American Trade Unionists of America (IATUOA) has once again reaffirmed its condemnation of Christopher Columbus on Columbus Day.
"We only mention the son of a bitch's name once a year and it's when we announce that he's a son of a bitch on his name day," the IATUOA Executive Committee announced from a dark, smoke-filled room in the Italian-American Club of Shamokin, PA.

The IATUOA, founded on the principles of cultural solidarity through bargaining, mutual aid, shared dining experiences, and anti-imperialism, believes Columbus represents the antithesis of these core values. Based on his writing and contemporary accounts, Columbus was a greedy, self-indulgent strunz, a jerk-off that gleefully engaged in the enslavement and genocide of indigenous people for personal gain and fame.

Further, this fucking guy, supposedly Genoese, rarely spoke or wrote in Ligurian or any Italic language. What kind of "Italian" does that?

Italian-Americans deserve recognition and a holiday in the United States, but also deserve a figure worthy of their name. "If you're gonna name the fuckin' day Columbus Day, you might as well go-all in and make the fucking holiday Columbus/Mussolini Day to piss on a few more graves,"' the IATOUA Executive Committee further scoffed

As of this time,the IATUOA DaVinci Genealogy Caucus still questions the authenticity of Columbus' Italian ancestry. Based on this, and the organization's position that Columbus is "a piece of shit" the organization maintains its position that Italian-Americans (as well as indigenous people) deserve a holiday that truly recognizes our heritage and not one that celebrates a jackass.

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Amphurious @amphurious.bsky.social · 2d

Dennis WIP #originalcharacter #OC #nsfw #nsfwart #bigdick #bigcock #lineart

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Amphurious @amphurious.bsky.social · 3d

Spaz WIP #originalcharacter #sketch #lineart #OC #selfie #alternativegirl

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Etherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social · 4d

Our feature artist/tutorial today is this INCREDIBLY USEFUL page on drawing different SNOUT TYPES, by the talented @goldmousestudio! Seeing all these variants side by side is a fantastic way to learn the DIFFERENCES IN SPECIES! #gamdev #animatindev #anine #furry #furries #anthro

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 4d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 4d

If you listen to "Gender Critical" folk, apparently no women can ever be predatory, violent, or harmful.

They're a safeguarding nightmare tbh... And their rhetoric puts so many (especially children) in danger.

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Clord TC, Comics Guy @clordtc.bsky.social · 5d

weird to see frogs being reclaimed in US politics

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 4d

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 5d

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

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Amphurious @amphurious.bsky.social · 4d

Teep!

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NPR @npr.org · 6d

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr

Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 5d

donning the armor of god to face the forces of hell

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The REAL naomi H @naomihofficial.bsky.social · May 26

Many of you

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Amphurious @amphurious.bsky.social · 4d

"It's just a little _____, it's still good, it's still good!" when I drop food or eat something that's a bit overcooked or slightly past its expiration date.

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 14d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 5d

sherman, for the love of god!

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