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Franktonius @franktonius.bsky.social · 46m

When she sees your below-average WILLPOWER stat.

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 10h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 13h

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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Free Speech Coalition @fsc.bsky.social · 7h

California just became the latest state to require device-level age verification. Under AB 1043, users must verify their age when setting up a phone or downloading apps, forcing Apple & Google to build age-check systems into devices.
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California Governor Adopts Device-Level Age Verification Law AVN

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed into law Assembly Bill (AB) 1043 on Monday, implementing an age verification regime that requires users' ages to be verified at the device operating…

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Franktonius @franktonius.bsky.social · 7h

I do have a price list but there's no reason to have it posted when I'm not open for comms lol.

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Franktonius @franktonius.bsky.social · 8h

a shot at clarifying, since I have always taken almost all work from DMs and actually discuss the idea.
I don't understand what me not opening comms regularly has to do with the original post lmao. Most comms I do take nowadays are from people shooting their shot and asking personally.

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Franktonius @franktonius.bsky.social · 8h

I was referring to a comm batch from years ago lol.
The complaints from this were entirely levied at the fact I said I COULD refuse to take on work at all, not that what I wouldn't do was unclear.
It's pretty obvious I am open to do work of anything I regularly draw, and anything else is worth a-

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Franktonius @franktonius.bsky.social · 9h

The WEIGHT holee 🙏

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Franktonius @franktonius.bsky.social · 9h

The most important step:
Have the same weird fetish as me, the artist.

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Franktonius @franktonius.bsky.social · 9h

I don't fully understand what you're saying, but the context was that I set my clear boundaries, frame 1, when I was opening a comm batch.
The reaction was a fundamental misunderstanding of comms. That I have to _agree_ to the work and you cannot just throw money at me to make me draw whatever.

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Franktonius @franktonius.bsky.social · 9h

Truly.

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Franktonius @franktonius.bsky.social · 9h

I legitimately can only assume they were children (or mental children) because it was a collection of people that just didn't seem to... fundamentally understand what a commission is.

Franktonius @franktonius.bsky.social · 9h

I should legally be allowed to perform an intricate and painful Aztec skin-flaying ritual when anyone goes "I put your art into Grok".

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Franktonius @franktonius.bsky.social · 9h

I still remember doing a comm opening post on deviantart and me saying I have a right to refuse any commission was enough to result in every comment only being complaining that I apparently couldn't be forced to draw anything lmao?

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Franktonius @franktonius.bsky.social · 9h

I truly hate that site lmao.

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Franktonius @franktonius.bsky.social · 9h

>Checks deviantart notifs for the first time in a while.
Ah. Insane combo. (same account)

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 5d

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.*

Phone Numbers
• Stripe (California): +1 888 926 2289 (Say you're based in California before continuing.)
• Stripe (Headquarters): +1 (888) 963-8955
• Stripe (US): +1 (877) 887-7815
• Stripe (France): +33 805-11-19-67
Mastercard (Headquarters): +1 914-249-2000 • Mastercard (US): +1 (800)-627-8372
Mastercard (US): +1 (800)-307-7309
• Mastercard (Int.): +1 (636)-722-7111
• Mastercard (AUS): +61 1800 120 113
• Mastercard (UK): 0-800-96-4767
All region numbers for Mastercard Visa (Headquarters): +1 (650)-432-3200
• Visa (US+ Can): +1 (800)-847-2911
• Visa (AUS): +61 1800 125 440 All region numbers for Visa
• PayPal (US): +1 (888)-221-1161
• PayPal (UK): +44 (0203)-901-7000
PayPal Customer Service: +1 (877)-569-1116

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Franktonius @franktonius.bsky.social · 9h

Mayhaps deserves a follow up image of her appraising at some point lol.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 13h

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