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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 3h

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 · 6h

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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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 2h

Any male coded manual labor job gets labelled a 'technician' and pays more than the female coded manual labor jobs

Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 3h

We massively overrate male coded stuff and massively underrate female coded stuff.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 2h

I felt really bad when I learned that Hugh Hefner arranged to be buried next to Marilyn Monroe; even in death, she couldn't just be a person, free of creep-ass sex pests projecting their weird shit onto her. Anyway-

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 6h

Padres manager Mike Shildt said he retired in part because of death threats from sports bettors:

Mike Shildt says decision to retire was his own, but Padres questions remain

www.nytimes.com

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✨CHELLE D☯GGO✨(she/they) @chelledoggo.bsky.social · 6h

FINALLY

AFTER A MONTH OF BULLSHIT FROM THE POSTAL SERVICE

DISAPPEARING GUY

HAS APPEARED

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Pyro Bob @seraphoffire.bsky.social · 2h

Hey you got Soviet Kinger too!

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Vita Breva🇻🇦🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦🇦🇲🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @vitabreva.bsky.social · 6h

Trump, like many old men, is facing his mortality and worried about “what dreams may come,” yet his heart, like Pharaoh’s, is hardened. True repentance would mean him admitting all his crimes and submitting to punishment, but he loves his sins too much. We’re seeing a man choose damnation publicly.

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 7h

I'm sorry to the Christians here but I don't totally get why the Trump "there is nothing that would get me into heaven" line aroused such interest among you.

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✨CHELLE D☯GGO✨(she/they) @chelledoggo.bsky.social · 4h

i gave him a face :D

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✨CHELLE D☯GGO✨(she/they) @chelledoggo.bsky.social · 3h

i am severely judging anyone who would be willing to pay nearly 2 grand for a tiny femboy rabbit

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 7h

Well now, would you look at that?

A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

I really wouldn’t be shining lasers at helicopters if I were you. It’s illegal and could cause an aircraft to crash - and that could kill a LOT of people, in the air and on the ground.

And the ICE goons appear to be *salivating* at the chance to claim people that they arrest were doing this:

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · Aug 1

What is love? What is free love?
What is love? Love is free, free
Understand, understand the concept of love
Understand, understand the concept of love 🎶

📺: Jet Set Radio Future, Smilebit, 2002 (Xbox)

A CRT TV screenshot of Jet Set Radio Future's intro with one of the skaters seen from behind and skating along a colourful city road.

An action shot of another skater in a blue top and with yellow skates sailing through the air against a backdrop of a metropolis and highway

Another screenie of a skater grinding along a rail alongside a street with lamposts and roof supports. A red bus can be seen at he end of the road.

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✨CHELLE D☯GGO✨(she/they) @chelledoggo.bsky.social · 1d

all Trump has to do is repent for his years of crime, greed, hate, lust, apathy, wrath, bigotry, and deception, and then use his position of power to right as many wrongs as he possibly can with the time he has left.

but he won't.

because he's too prideful, lazy, and selfish.

and he KNOWS this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Rie Sonomura - Redebut Q4 2025? @riesonomura.bsky.social · 1d

Yuri KFC implies the existence of Yaoi Pizza Hut

I will not elaborate

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Pyro Bob @seraphoffire.bsky.social · 1d

You're a master at baiting, Swift

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Pyro Bob @seraphoffire.bsky.social · 1d

You just being there improves things

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · Oct 30

i love all the lyrics to the sunday night football song

APE FIGHT
LAUNDRY NIGHT
TRACTOR BEAM

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 1d

It's surprising how much more attractive people of the past were

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

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That Sarah Clancy @imsarahnow.bsky.social · 1d

driving this gender respectfully except on closed roads and tracks where I can be irresponsible with it

june 🧛‍♀️ @juneever.green · 1d

driving this gender like it’s going to be repoed by the feds any minute

mortal juniperil 🏳️‍⚧️ @blahaj.rodeo · 18d

driving this gender like i stole it

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 2d

there is not a Jewish food website celebrating “classic Israeli poutine”, or Texas toast as “classic Israeli bread”, or custard tarts as a “classic Israeli dessert” or “classic Israeli gumbo. you’d think screenshots featuring countless different foods with nearly identical text would clue you in.

Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 3d

these are not real! they are a meme that people have made involving a bunch of different types of food! you are all expressing anger and outrage about something that *did not actually happen*

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

if “you could kill a bunch of people and go to jail for approximately forever” isn’t a good enough reason not to shine lasers at aircraft, may I also note that it’ll be trivially easy to catch you doing it

James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 2d

There's also the fact that, assuming its night time, you are putting up a giant laser arrow to your exact location. No one interested in protesting this crap is going to be stupid enough to do this, I hope. More likely they're baiting people into trouble

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neccomimi.bsky.social @neccomimi.bsky.social · 2d

I think you guys should stop posting literal /pol/ memes about those scheming, thieving, rootless cosmopolitans who only know how to steal rather than create, to be frank. Juniper I am unsurprised by: she after all found the Bucha massacre hiLARious. The Serfs I thought were more thoughtful.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 3d

Israeli food: poutine. Israelis have developed and continue to enjoy a delicious cuisine rooted in the uniqueness of Israeli society itself

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Andrew S(poooky) 👻🎃 @shoutingboy.bsky.social · 2d

If I chose to invest in speculative bubbles I would simply sell before the bubble burst, maybe I’m built different

warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 2d

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Pyro Bob @seraphoffire.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so sorry *hugs*

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