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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2h

British.

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 1d

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 · 2d

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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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 2d

The message is simple:
❌ No more PFIs.
❌ No new PPPs.

With the Autumn Budget coming up, we need to show politicians the public won’t accept more privatisation.

✍️ Sign the EveryDoctor Charter today: bit.ly/SignEDNHSCha...

Image of Rachel Reeves in front of a blurred background of British banknotes. Text on the image reads, “With Rachel Reeves’ Autumn Budget coming up... We’re delivering a message to leaders. Sign your name.” The design uses red and white accents to emphasise the campaign’s call to action.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 4h

A special kind of audacity

4 frame comic. Someone with a mic is doing a voxpop in the street and approaches a man with a black shirt and a baseball cap. He asks him : sir! do you think kids
should have their whole
life destroyed because of
some silly posts they
made on social media?

The man replies :
I guess
it depends
who we're
talking
about.
are we talking about foreign
students having their visa
revoked for making a single post
citing literal quotes from the
president's favourite racist
and transphobic podcaster?
or are we talking about a
bunch of 24 to 35 year olds
holding positions of power
advocating for gas chambers
and praising german fascists
over a period of 6 months?
also, it takes a special kind of
audacity for a v.p. who advocated
for mass firings of people over
their posts about charlie kirk to
go on the charlie kirk show and
claim that adults who are practi-
cally the same age as him are
too young to face consequences
for their violent rhetoric.

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Mobius @enneadgames.com · 4h

#EGStuff

Quick Generator NPC Encounter Concepts 2 Sci-Fi

CEO...who just won the Ultra-lottery

legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5403...

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stellaluna 🔜 PAX Unplugged @stellaluna.tv · 4h

Starting this Saturday @ 3pm ET — Echoes of Living Curses have begun to ring through the realms, untamed and uncontrolled, so it is the Seekers that must answer the call to stop them.

Please join us for our 4-shot of CALL TO POWER, sponsored by @projecthedron.bsky.social on twitch.tv/stellaluna 🔥

Call To Power - a dark high fantasy game of strife and hope. Sponsored by Hedron. What came of dust will return to dust. Livestreaming saturdays from october 18th to november 8th @ 3pm ET. Please join our ascension at twitch.tv/stellaluna for our 4-shot. featuring as The Seekers: @BrandonRKim, @DomesticDan, @Drakoniques and @TheMandii. The Storyteller: @stellaluna.tv

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Keep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 7h

A new piece on our site, by Emet Sachin, exposes how
NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) is being undermined by ‘gainshare’ contracts, where private firms profit by cutting care for the most vulnerable.

This is not efficiency. It’s exploitation.

Read here 👇
keepournhspublic.com/profiting-fr...

Profiting from cutting people's vital healthcare

Sometimes we publish pieces submitted by KONP members or supporters on topics that we think are important to draw to the attention of campaigners. This one is by Emet Sachin, who has investigated the ...

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🌿Elaine Tipping🍃 @triaelf9.bsky.social · 1d

Teor is really making an impression wherever he goes, huh :P

#CriticalRole #CriticalRolefanart #CriticalRoleArt #CriticalRoleSpoilers

A colored three panel comic. Teor bathed in golden light healing the cart guy as Wicander comes up, having heard the bang. Panel 2 is Teor turning dramatically with his eyes glowing gold, sunlight all around him, hair like a shampoo commercial. Panel 3, both Wicander and Tyranny overwhelmed by Teor (in perhaps different ways..)

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12h

Please read my column today in conjunction with Aditya's. The government pretends to be delivering housing to those who need it, but is in fact just appeasing the big corporations. Then it blames nature protections, and rips those down at their behest as well.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty

Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 9h

The EHRC removed the "interim guidance" that has been devastating the lives of trans people for months from it's website.

We wonder why...👀

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 7h

Keir Starmer promised a government of service, but that doesn’t mean bowing the knee to corporations making money out of climate catastrophe.

It’s time for Starmer to stop cosying up to polluters and put people first.
https://bit.ly/46WajOt

UK ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows

Lobbyists attended 48% more meetings than Tories, as Labour accused of giving them ‘backstage pass’

www.theguardian.com

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Bri de Danann -> Gamehole Con Vendor @bridanann.bsky.social · 1d

More Goblin Magical Girl Commissions! Expanded universe edition!

Here are the 5th 4 results of my limited comms!

Dani Greenbottle ( @alistor419.bsky.social ), KillerHakblin ( @killerhaku.bsky.social ), RayDaSunny ( @raydasunny.bsky.social ) and a viewer's fursona!

#goblin #magicalgirl

A red haired halfling with a sun staff and green and gold adornments.

An purple eldritch being with tentacle hair and many eyes is dressed in the cutest puffy trousers and fancy sleeves! Their staff also has an eye in it

A white haired clown sports clothes reminiscent of the sun

An Australian Shepherd furry is holding a staff with the trans flag and has a sweatshirt saying under construction.

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David Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social · 1d

I'm 51 years of age, and for all my adult life, the one constant in politics is 'we need to talk about immigration'. Could we try just try shutting the fuck up about it, actually?

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Rob Watts (RobWords) @robwords.bsky.social · 1d

The NATO Phonetic Alphabet (ALFA, BRAVO, CHARLIE etc.) is neither a phonetic alphabet, nor a product of NATO.

I've sifted through loads of old documents to find its true origins and, OSCAR MIKE GOLF, is it fascinating.

Check out my video here (2 million people already have!): youtu.be/UAT-eOzeY4M

The genius logic of the NATO phonetic alphabet

YouTube video by RobWords

youtu.be

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Mobius @enneadgames.com · 1d

#EGStuff

Quick Generator NPC Encounter Concepts 2 Sci-Fi

Chef...is wandering around in a fugue state

legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5403...

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

The new edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social goes to the printers tomorrow.

And we go where others fear to tread…

Subscribe by tonight and you’ll get it delivered to your door

subscribe.bylinetimes.com/editions/

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 1d

Over 7,000 people have asked Virgin gyms to stop following transphobes, and follow the law.

Will you ask the gyms to stop their changing room and bathroom ban on trans people?

https://action.goodlawproject.org/virgin-active-stop-following-transphobes-follow-the-law

Tell Virgin Active: Stop following transphobes, follow the law

After a legal threat from GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry, Virgin Active turned their back on the trans community and enforced a changing room and bathroom ban on trans people across all their gym...

action.goodlawproject.org

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 1d

“The UK stands at a crossroads. Are we going to be a nation that respects its human rights obligations, or are we going to abandon them whenever the rightwing press demands it? First immigrants, then trans people – who next, Sir Keir?” – Jo Maugham (@goodlawproject.org)
https://goodlaw.social/icp3

European human rights chief warns against trans exclusion in the UK

Human rights commissioner calls on parliament to make sure guidance following the Supreme Court’s decision in April promotes inclusion.

goodlaw.social

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 2d

In the UK, Waterstones have a 25% off pre-order sale including some of my books, using the code OCTOBER25. The following are in the deal:
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Bee Speaker by Adrian Tchaikovsky | Waterstones

Buy Bee Speaker by Adrian Tchaikovsky from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3d

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Rags the Kobold @leasky2.bsky.social · 2d

Hello My Little Kobolds! Rags Will be streaming Gaia's Melody: Echoed Melodies where we are in a desert with Echo. So come and Watch www.twitch.tv/leasky2

LeaSky2 - Twitch

Hello My Little Kobolds! I am Rags the Kobold and I like streaming games for you. I am a happy upbeat kobold that just loves to give out hugs, with permission of course. I hope that you get enjoyment ...

www.twitch.tv

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kaitlin bruder 🍉 @bruderkaitlin.com · 2d

last night’s geoguessr is up on youtube!

clawing my way out of the elo hole | GeoGuessr

YouTube video by keebs

youtu.be

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 2d

"Are we going to abandon people whenever the rightwing press demands it?"

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Ivan Van Norman @lordvonbarron.bsky.social · 8d

Many years ago I did a show called Sagas of Sundry.

It was immersive horror, great storytelling, and reality show style skill challenges.

Now I want to bring it back, but call it Tales of Dread.

But I need your help. So I'm taking this project to Kickstarter.

Learn more at www.talesofdread.com

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Emily | Odds & Ents @oddsandents.bsky.social · 2d

Hey I'm Emily, a graphic layout designer for TTRPGs.

I've worked with MCDM, Hatchlings Games, Bright Bard Games, and am the Creative Director at @graftbound.bsky.social

💼: emilyentner.com
✉️: [email protected]

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