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Mattnh @mattnh.bsky.social · 2d

Een oudje maar ik gooi hem er nog even in.

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I LIVE. I've been MIA for some time due to a lot of health complications that have come up BUT I can finally post this. Here are the wonderful Halloween designs that I was more than honored to design for @malakailazuli.bsky.social and @qumimi.bsky.social. Thank you guys for the fun commission!

On the left is Q, a dark skinned young man with large green crystalline horns, a crown of three vertical electric eyes, hair slicked back, and posing with a sly smile on his lips. Clothes consist of a crop mesh undershirt, bishop sleeve blouse with a furry collar connected by chains, which are attached to flowers. Falling from his back are two shiny tail coats and his twin tails.

To the right is Kai with loose crystalline hair, more kintsugi cracks around his body, a broken malachite horn, and poised with confidence and a smug smile. His outfit consists of a vest with gold attachments simulating a ribcage, a short navy and purple cape with golden shoulder epaulets, and navy trousers that lead down to shoes with golden soles. Trailing behind him is his demonic tail with gold and malachite segments, ending with curls of the same crystalline hair.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 7d

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Reuters @reuters.com · 7d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Q🥤🌱・AMIAS💤🐇 | S4NCTUM @qumimi.bsky.social · 18d

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3NITY worked really hard on this! everything is in house so i hope you enjoy :)

【MV】怪獣の花唄 | Kaiju no Hanauta Song Cover by 3NITY | Vtubers for Hope

YouTube video by FizzyQpop to Qu_Mimi

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Q🥤🌱・AMIAS💤🐇 | S4NCTUM @qumimi.bsky.social · 18d

3NITY has a new cover out thanks to the Vtuber's for Hope Concert
@tiffanywitcher.bsky.social
put together!

While you listen to out cover of Kaiju no Hanauta and if it's viable for you please donate to the F*ck Cancer foundation at the tiltify in the YT bio! (🔗below) 💚❤️🩷

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Q🥤🌱・AMIAS💤🐇 | S4NCTUM @qumimi.bsky.social · 27d

Only I can make corruption look so good~💎

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David Mariotte @davidmariotte.bsky.social · 26d

There is a direct, traceable path from major social media sites & wide use websites introducing (or being forced into) censorious anti-NSFW policies to larger scale state censorship, like Michigan attempting to label Trans existence as porn, and porn as criminal. Lives and livelihoods are at stake.

David Mariotte @davidmariotte.bsky.social · Sep 17

I made a few short, sharable info posts about the things that're going on (mostly here in the U.S.) that I think people need to be paying attention to and fighting for. Trans rights, fighting against censorship, fighting for a free Palestine, fighting against all the oppressive policies in place.

• Almost 1000 bills have been introduced in the U.S. at both the state and federal levels attacking the rights of Trans people in America.
• According to translegislation.com, which tracks those bills, 122 have passed, 225 are pending, and 677 have failed. As recently as 2021, only 153 bills were even considered (and only 18 of those passed).
• Some current big ones to be aware of:
• In Michigan, HB4938, the "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" would seek to imprison for 20 years, fine for $100K (or more), all "pornography", which includes in their definition, any trace of trans existence. It'd also target all actual porn, block usage of VPNs, and seek to force sites to comply to not host any sort of "adult" content, which again, includes trans people just existing.
• The FY2026 budget for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies would prohibit any federal tax dollars going to any gender-affirming care for trans people, and ban funding for any school that allows a trans kid to play sports. These are secs 243-46 and 311-12 respectively.
• Again, there are so many fucking more. 92 have just been introduced at the federal level this year.
• What you can do: If you live in Michigan, call your state reps to tell them to vote no. Also demand that the 5 Republican reps who introduced this bill resign in disgrace. If you live in the U.S. generally, call your reps and senators. And keep up to date on legislation in your state and in the country with translegislation.com to know what to fight against.

• In the comics and entertainment community, I also want to make sure you're up-to-date on what's been happening with trans creators.
• Last week, after the death of a noted transphobic white supremacist, Red Hood writer Gretchen Felker-Martin sent out a few posts on Bluesky. They referred to the man as what he was, a nazi, and didn't mince words about how he shouldn't be missed.
• Felker-Martin received both a week-long suspension from Bluesky and had Red Hood unceremoniously canceled within 24 hours of the first issue's release.
• Like, canceled canceled. Future issue orders canceled, the collection canceled, offering retailers refunds for sold issues canceled.
• It may also be worth noting that DC's parent company, Warner Brothers, has significant business dealings with noted transphobe and person Felker-Martin once killed in a work of fiction, JK Rowling.
• Trans folks and their allies have already been suggesting a boycott of WB in light of their continued Harry Potter push and funding Rowling's anti-trans crusades in the UK. Now, trans comic creators and allies are suggesting a boycott specifically of DC.
• This isn't the only instance of our trans peers being silenced and censored. Speaking specifically to comics, on itch.io, though this has largely been addressed, when they began their panicked response to their payment processors threatening transactions for having adult content on the site, a number of non-adult trans creators had their work restricted and delisted.
• It only benefits the people seeking trans genocide to silence trans people.

• Closely related, including Michigan's HB4938, are numerous bills seeking to codify first amendment violating censorship.
• At the Senate level, there's S.1748 the Kid's Online Safety Act (or KOSA), which has never actually been significantly revised from when KOSA co-author, sen. Marsha Blackburn, said that the bill was specifically for "protecting minor children from the transgender in this culture" (a statement she "walked back", but we know the intent). It is also backed by known radicialist group, the Heritage Foundation. The bill is incredibly overbroad in what topics must be censored online as "harmful to children", including the existence of queer people, information about mental health or women's reproductive rights, and of course porn.
• There's also the s.1671, the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act, that seeks to create a new definition of Obscenity (and therefore non-protected speech). It's essentially HB4938 on a national level.
• There's s.737 the SCREEN Act, which is national age verification online, similar to the UK's Online Safety Act, especially in tandem with KOSA. The ability to punish sites for including age verification--particularly sites like Wikipedia where it isn't posting porn, but has information about sexuality--is another attempt at censorship. It also requires an unreasonable burden on most sites that don't have the capacity to safely capture users identification data (which CONSTANTLY leaks even when "securely captured"). States are also implementing these kinds of age verification policies in law (and in Missouri, the Attorney General just decided it herself), which has driven sites like PornHub to stop operating in those states. It is dangerous for online privacy and through limiting sites that can comply, acts as de facto censorship.

• Other states that're specifically going for age verification laws right now include Minnesota (SF2015/HF1434, HF1875), Hawaii (HB1212, HB1198), Michigan (SB284/HB4429, SB191), New Jersey (S4455,A4146), Pennsylvania (HB1513, SB603), South Caroline (H3405), Tennessee (Ht B222/SB466), Iowa (SF207/433, HF864), and Wisconsin (AB105/SB130).
• Additionally, Texas, home of so many censorious bills and bills seeking to regulate trans folks out of existence, recently passed SB-20, which is incredibly overbroad in its language to prevent "child pornography" to include any depiction of children's anatomy, causing a comic shop to stop selling Dragon Ball.
• Beyond that, there're bills like FADPA (HR791), which while as a creator I am concerned about infringement of my copyrighted work online, has very few checks in their ability to regulate sites that may include copyright violating material (or copyright dubious material) out of existence. Fan sites, for example, could easily be destroyed by this bill.
• Outside of state and federal bills looking to create censorship, there is also campaigns going against payment processors, credit card companies, and banks (like Stripe, PayPal, Visa, and Mastercard, to name a few), over their policies that're significantly targeting and restricting the sales of legal, adult content.
• In speaking with representatives of Stripe, for example, I've both been told that the Song of Fire and Ice series would be exempt from their restrictions, and yet also, an art book with nude Greek statues would not. Therefore, it's a bad policy. Stripe also doesn't penalize accounts that're violating their policies around intellectual property or not promoting harm, given that they're involved with Substack, Amazon, Anthropic, and OpenAI.

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Tealful Eyes @tealfuleyes.bsky.social · 25d

Whether you're novice, experienced, SFW, NSFW, a hobbyist, or a professional; You are an artist. Keep doing your best and enjoy the journey, wherever that might take you.

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✨🔹🦋⟣ NEO ⟢🦋🔹✨ @TIRED @tokyozilla.bsky.social · Sep 14

YOU KNOW WHAT.. its been 2 FUCKING YEARS SINCE IVE UPDATED MY MODEL.
i am treating myself to an update.

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | COMMS: (3/5) @acvalens.net · Sep 11

On my mind: If it was you or me instead of him, Charlie Kirk would have called ours a justified death or even laughed and made fun of our demise. I think if someone demonstrates in life that they lack empathy for others, it’s more than reasonable to hold minimal compassion for them in their death

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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · Sep 11

It turns out this is just a lie that the WSJ ran without so much as a courtesy check; a lie that endangers an already targeted population.

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Q🥤🌱・AMIAS💤🐇 | S4NCTUM @qumimi.bsky.social · Sep 8

Oh boy, who could that quirky trio be? 3NITY will be performing at Tiffany’s and FCancerNow’s Charity concert on the 27th! I hope to see you there! 💚💜

Tiffany Witcher - The Charity Witch on Twitch. @tiffanywitcher.bsky.social · Sep 8

I am very proud to present this year Vtuber for Hope event with F*ck Cancer to being you all a concert of so much talent. 20+ Vtubers will be singing their hearts out for charity and raising money for Cancer Awareness! So please join my on my channel 9/27 at 6PM EST!

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Q🥤🌱・AMIAS💤🐇 | S4NCTUM @qumimi.bsky.social · Sep 11

A spoiled grin~ 🥀

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Ailanthium @ailanthium.bsky.social · Sep 11

Gorgon's Gaze #art #artfight #artfight2025

Kōgōmi Martyn belongs to @minataur.bsky.social

Kōgōmi Martyn, pilot of Medusa, stands in front of her mech in an iconic pose inspired by "Gunbuster." Stars form galaxies in the background.

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · Sep 10

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · Sep 10

Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.

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Tiffany Witcher - The Charity Witch on Twitch. @tiffanywitcher.bsky.social · Sep 8

I am very proud to present this year Vtuber for Hope event with F*ck Cancer to being you all a concert of so much talent. 20+ Vtubers will be singing their hearts out for charity and raising money for Cancer Awareness! So please join my on my channel 9/27 at 6PM EST!

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Sep 6

Am I the only person who thinks this is INSANE?

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | COMMS: (3/5) @acvalens.net · Sep 6

Not just is this an important point but it’s also something that needs to enter the larger movement against paypro. There’s a huge focus around art but not so much about sex work

walking mirage @wolf.observer · Sep 6

when y'all are done getting payment processors to support adult video games, can you do something about the fact that sex workers who get flagged for "illegal activities" get banned from essentially the entire US financial system

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · Sep 5

If you can't even make a meme without the use of AI then you are the most useless and creatively bankrupt shitbiscuiting fuckweasel to have ever existed.

✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · Sep 5

UGH that otter is AI generated I HATE EVERYTHING