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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 6d

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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Logan / Tachyon @tachyonart.bsky.social · 1d

Covert ops speciality frame. Web spinner, system blower.

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 1d

Are you tired of lesbians having to be nice? Do you want lesbian romance sci-fi where fictional women get to go... apeshit?

Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHMWK1L4
Itch: itch.io/c/5024026/gu...

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Lotus⚙️Workshop @lotusws.bsky.social · 22h

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Molly ΘΔ (• Digital Succubus, Servant of the Void •) @voidsyr3n.bsky.social · 1d

Hey I could really use a bit of help rn. It's been a rather rough fortnight and im gonna be rather in debt at this rate.
www.paypal.com/paypalme/A5tra

Pay Autumn A Palm using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/A5tra and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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stealthyqueer.bsky.social @stealthyqueer.bsky.social · 22h

Many, many people do know at least on some level, and hope that if they punch down enough they can be spared the cull.

Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 22h

I am subtweeting repeated expressions of shock from progressives a women supports a misogynistic movement, or a Muslim express anti-LGBT beliefs, or a person of color upholds imperialist politics, to name but a few headlines I've seen discussed.

"Don't they know The Right will come for them too?"

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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 · 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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Lotus⚙️Workshop @lotusws.bsky.social · 1d

#portfolioday

I'm a 3D animator, this is my most popular video on Tiktok

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Lotus⚙️Workshop @lotusws.bsky.social · 1d

I knows its back now but...

Meme of a bunch of WW2 soldiers reading newspapers with the headline "Hitler Dead"

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[LVL 35]Alsvid Wotansdottir🔵 @alsvid.bsky.social · 1d

"reddit is down"

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Jet \\ Comms Open! 3/3 SLOTS AVAILABLE! @warpedengine.bsky.social · 1d

[KnX-NS 001 “Premiere”]

#g_termina

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Tris~~ @trishusband.itch.io · 14d

After the death of her friend, independent detective Isadora tries to meet the demands of every powerful person in the city: don't ask questions. Unfortunately, her nature and fate have other plans.

A trans lesbian retelling of a classic crime noir.

Pre-order: trishusband.itch.io/keeping-the-...

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The first time I laid eyes on Akakios, child of Diodotos, xe was drunkenly trying to start a high-end turbobike outside the Draped Vine. Xe had a young-looking face, but xer hair was bone white and xer slight yet toned arms were covered in fading scars. I could tell by xer eyes that xe was wasted, but otherwise xe looked like every hard-working sailor I drank with in those days; it was a strange sight for a high-end establishment like the Vine.

Behind the sailor was a girl. Her hair and dress were a deep red—like blood oozing from a wound—and her disinterested smirk marked her as the kind of woman I would have let walk all over me. Her skin was nearly as pale as Akakios' hair. The elegance of that woman almost outmatched the elegance of the bike. Not quite.

A rather annoyed parking attendant stood next to the bike, one hand holding it steady as xe struggled with the controls. The man was the usual half-tough character in ostentatious white garb, with the name of the bar displayed on his crisp suit in dark purple. He was at the end of his rope.

"Look," he said, his voice as sharp as a knife, "you've got to move the bike. I can even turn it on for you if it gets you out of here faster." He reached for the controls but yelped when Akakios slapped his hand away.

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 1d

Go pre-order this, I'm 1/3 of the way through and it's excellent. Ever wanted a traditional crime noir but the PI is a trans lesbian? You want this.

Tris~~ @trishusband.itch.io · 14d

After the death of her friend, independent detective Isadora tries to meet the demands of every powerful person in the city: don't ask questions. Unfortunately, her nature and fate have other plans.

A trans lesbian retelling of a classic crime noir.

Pre-order: trishusband.itch.io/keeping-the-...

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Amber 🔆 @ambernymph.bsky.social · 1d

I've had Mada for 14 pages and if anything happened to her I'd kill everyone in Elysium and then myself

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Lotus⚙️Workshop @lotusws.bsky.social · 1d

I GOT SUMMER MARUZENSKY ON MY FIRST PULL

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Lady Aranea @ladyaranea.bsky.social · Nov 8

Additionally, I'm a trans woman working toward bottom surgery. I need about 3k to cover the costs associated with having it done. If you're interested in supporting me, I would appreciate it. Please follow the link: www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/... #twitch #monstergirl #mutualaid

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HLくん @pipu-012.bsky.social · Oct 18

OCG×🏍️
センチュリオンの部

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Lisa Severn @lisasevern.uk · 1d

"Trans rights are human rights" was never just a chant

metro.co.uk/2025/10/14/t...

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 3d

“In this environment that we’re in right now, it feels like an understatement to say that there’s misinformation being spread about this community. People really forget that we’re human beings.”

No One Was Helping Black Transgender Youth. So These Parents Stepped In.

A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

capitalbnews.org

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d

I am so weary of that class of extremely online leftists who think being a Serious Person™️ who only posts and does nothing else is superior to being a Fun Person™️ who physically shows up

Aaron Putnam @aaronputnam.bsky.social · 3d

I deleted a post of me in a frog suit with my 7-yr old daughter because a big account reposted, admonishing us for not being serious enough protestors (or something). I shouldn’t have included my daughter in the image, which was why I deleted it. But I was stunned by the condescension.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ruba. Ruba is 23 and has been studying to be a pharmacist. She has been living in tents with her family since this all began and her home was destroyed, this includes her niece Tulin, 8 her nephew, Mohammed, 4 and her father who is ill.

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 3d

God it's so gross hearing reporters talk about Israeli "hostages" but then refer to Palestinian "prisoners held without charge" like what's the material difference between these two categories?

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 3d

New at Lesbians With Teeth: a feminine apocalypse does it raw by @strigarosa.bsky.social. lesbianwithteeth.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/g...

Guest post: A Feminine Apocalypse Does It Raw

This post is a guest contribution from Lhuzie Fénix. One may recoil at defining something by what it is not, to think that is poor practice. However, that is just dishonest. Artistic movements are …

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 3d

Almost like they need to be abolished to live in a free society!

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 4d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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