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Valery North

@valerynorth.bsky.social

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Maker of TTRPGs, videogames, stories, music and songs. Politically some kind of participatory far-left thing. Genderfluid, bi, kinky AF (🔞). Hae/Haem. "Uncle Iroh crossed with an overexcited puppy". https://valerynorth.itch.io/

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Valery North @valerynorth.bsky.social · Jan 22

Hello new followers!

I'm a far-left kinky nerdy genderfluid Xennial 🔞

I don't follow back unless I know you already, or I have a feel for who you are and why you're following me.

✅Porn/kink, TTRPGs, video games, horror movies, mutual aid requests, calls to action, joy
❌doom, hate, "misery-porn"

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 12h

If you're on SNAP and you need help, add your links below so I can boost them.

If you're not on SNAP, please share the replies and donate if you're able.

Link's not around so we do what we can, right?

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 12h

SNAP runs out in a couple of weeks

Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 12h

Everyone’s talking about Milpay, but reminder that USDA is currently using excess 25 funds to pay for WIC and School Lunch. They say they have like maybe a month of that left.

Red States are going to lose their fucking minds if they can’t draw those soon.

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Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 10h

Allie’s an incredibly hard worker and a genuine princess who’s treated like Cinderella by this capitalist hellscape so help a girl out if you can 💞

💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social · 10h

ko-fi.com/dreamingnoct...

Afternoon!
Just out here, trying to meet my goal~
Anything at all helps!
Thanks so much!

Support Jaye Allison Ashtear

ko-fi.com

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 11h

💸💕 SNAP runs out on Friday and these folks need help

Flare Sword @flaresword.bsky.social · 11h

gofund.me/8b07eac2

Donate to Help Sword and Their Housemates Overcome Hardship, organized by Brian Porbansky

My name is Brian. I don't like being referred to by that name, and o… Brian Porbansky needs your support for Help Sword and Their Housemates Overcome Hardship

gofund.me

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Blake (Pandora Blake) @pandorablake.bsky.social · 11h

Kinky is Beautiful is open, and you can join us from anywhere in the world for only $25:

Kinky is Beautiful

7 Days to Finally Understand How Your Desires Evolved, Stop Worrying About Your Fetish, and Embrace Your Taboo Turn-ons

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Blake (Pandora Blake) @pandorablake.bsky.social · 11h

Have you always wrestled with questions about the things that turn you on? Are you worried that your desires are messing with your relationships, your self-image, even your body? I'm ready to help you stop feeling "broken" and become the wholehearted kinkster you were born to be.

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EL BARTO ANTI-WORK @elbarto.bsky.social · 14h

One of the recurrent themes in Greta's testimony is soldiers stripping and photographing her, sexual humiliation being an out in the open policy of the IDF for years, particularly since Oct 7th. Israel torturing and sexially assaulting a bunch of foreigners should be the biggest story in the world.

Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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♿🏳️‍⚧️ Need Dental Funds ASAP! @wylder.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine yourselves having to do this every day to survive!

Half my mutuals KNOW- but that is NOT who I am begging to save me!

Im begging those of you who can get streaming services or still eat out - PLEASE, consider donating the amount of 1 payment or meal to help me stay alive!?
linktr.ee/wylder

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1000xRESIST | Available Now @sunsetvisitor.studio · 21h

You are a clone named Watcher, and you’ve made a grave mistake.

💠 Surface a 1,000-year-old lie from the cosmic shadows
💠 Discover the forbidden truths about your god
💠 Unravel a tapestry of familial pain, love and revolution

1000xRESIST is coming to PlayStation, Xbox, and Game Pass on November 4.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 13h

"I think we fight fascism today by sticking together with the people who show up to fight fascism, and I think we fight fascism by sticking up for people who are targeted by the right and the powers that be." - Princeton University historian Joseph Fronczak

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 17h

Many of us whose progressive values drive us to indie media wish we could give our stuff away.

The thing is, we need to eat and we need resources to do the work. Somebody’s gotta pay for it.

The Flytrap gives away one free post a month. My newsletter, The Bugbear Dispatch, goes every other post.

Kaitlyn Arford — Freelance Writer @kmarford.bsky.social · 1d

1. If you want indie journalism, you gotta pay for it.

2. Paywalls work. I resisted using a paywall for a long time until I realized I had to if I wanted to pay my bills.

3. Journalism is a public good that doesn't exist without public support. Keep it out of billionaire hands with a paid sub.

The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

We do have a paywall, and that's because journalism has a cost. We pay all our contributors 0.50c a word & the founders haven't been compensated for the year, so we do ask for people to pay for our content. We still haven't made a profit this year, so we are unapologetic about that.

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nic.tattoos @nicterhorst.com · 5d

This means if you're in the UK and haven't signed this yet, please do. At 100k signatures they have to discuss it again.

Literally the least you can do!!

GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 6d

UK Gouvernment: Payment Processors Can Ban NSFW Content
According to the UK treasury, payment processors are in the right and the gouvernment has no plans to step in. This puts it in direct contrast to what artists and the UK games industry have asked for.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

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Oh Joy Sex Toy @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social · 15h

New kinks, old crushes, testosterone changes, and play fighting are just SOME of the comics and posts that await you in this recap! Join us on Patreon ✨for free✨ to see this post (Patreon forces us to hide it from non-members because it's got Sexy Stuff in it)
www.patreon.com/posts/septem...

Five vertical panels showing a preview of OhJoySexToy.com comics that went up in September 2025

1) Person energetically yields a paddle amongst bright pop colors.
Text: New Kink Unlocked by Inam and Mon

2) A naked person looks startled as somebody pulls them by the wrist.
Text: Who Knew It Could Be Like This? by Hien Pham

3) A person shouts in frustration.
Text: Set In Stone by Jey Pawlik

4) Two people tussle.
Text: Primal Urges by Dastardly Devil

5) Two hands are bound at the wrist.
Text: Exploring Kink by Tessa Luicart

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Oh Joy Sex Toy @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social · 15h

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Oh Joy Sex Toy @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social · 15d

Before getting in their first relationship, Tessa Luicart had plenty of time to dream up the wildest and kinkiest scenarios in their fantasies. But, of course, they had to start at the basics with their first partner!
www.ohjoysextoy.com/exploring-ki...

Exploring Kink by Tessa Luicart, published 9/30/2025 on ohjoysextoy.com
Tessa Luicart illustrates in a bold, cartoony style with a color palette primarily in sage greens, browns, and pale yellow. During intimate or intense moments, passionate reddy-pinks and blacks are added to the palette.

A younger Tessa lays on her side, tucked into bed. With big chunky headphones on, they are furtively glued to the phone in their hand, which illuminates their face in the dark. They are a white, nonbinary person with fluffy brown hair who normally wears big round glasses when they're not secretly watching videos in bed.

Narration: I was watching porn before I was in any serious relationships.

Modern Day Tessa appears, explaining with some good natured embarrassment, "It led to a pretty... skewed picture of my future sex life."

Narration: I had all these fantasies of what my first time would be like, wild and kinky.

Beneath the narration, Tessa closes their eyes and dreamily envisions scenes of hot queers going to town on each other with ropes and bondage and handcuffs and ball gags and all kinds of unrestrained joy.

Waking from their revery, Tessa waves away their fantasy, explaining, "And obviously, no, it was not like that." Their daydream disappears in a fluffy POOF. "(Not that my first time was bad, let's be clear.)" They quickly follow up.

A banner reading "Read the rest on OhJoySextoy.com" partially obscures the bottom of the image.

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Oh Joy Sex Toy @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social · 15h

Plus one BONUS behind-the-scenes post from @hiencomics.com.au juuuuuust for our paying patrons who keep OJST funded 😘
www.patreon.com/posts/sneak-...

Text: Hien Pham's Secret Project
Image: Black and white sketches of dudes in various states of undress

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · Dec 17

Now, more than ever, you have to be a weird little pervert who makes art of questionable quality. You need to be driven crazy by the flesh. Because, as we all learned from Cronenberg's The Fly, the computers are not made crazy by the flesh. They can't do it like us.

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Louise Ting @neuro-observant.bsky.social · 17h

Most autistic people I meet *like* being autistic. It’s core to who they are & comes with many strengths

What’s hard is surviving in a society that rarely accommodates, respects or tries to understand us

There’s a BIG difference between being autistic & being unsupported

Let’s not confuse the two

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Onion 🧅 @badonionartz.bsky.social · 1d

Kinktober Day 14: Bondage/Shibari

I can’t explain why I just feel like they’d be into it. Also I’m indecisive so here’s 2 flavors

(List by @scaredprince.bsky.social )

#art #nsfw #nsfwart #oc #ocnsfw #kinktober #kinktober2025 #dndoc #dnd

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 18h

Do you use F5? Zero trust with comms to or from F5's is the name of the game. Threat actors have stolen source code and undisclosed vulnerabilities in F5 BIG-IP.
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code

U.S. cybersecurity company F5 disclosed that nation-state hackers breached its systems and stole undisclosed BIG-IP security vulnerabilities and source code.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

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NPR @npr.org · 17h

It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to take a stand against fascism on film. n.pr/4n4s82s

How Charlie Chaplin used his uncanny resemblance to Hitler to fight fascism

It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to take a stand against fascism on film.

n.pr

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Bsky Fairy @krissywrites.bsky.social · Mar 26

I wrote & made a thing
📝✨

your words steeped in violence have the power to end my life, my words questioning yours have the power to make you feel a wittle bit bad. //

An image of a poem. The left side of the image is a collage of newspaper headlines from the last three months, each one attacking a minority and lacking all humanity.

The poem:

simple sentences steeped in violence because you are privileged enough to remain ignorant to the power held behind your words

There's no harm in asking questions!
Oh come on, it's just a joke! You say.

A funny little observation.

Used to justify that tiny little niggle in your gut, the one letting you know you may have made a mistake.

A mistake you don't realise you were
conditioned to make.

Thats not an excuse, you see.

History has taught us it's okay. we're not like them. The bad guys.
We're on the right side of change. How dare they say otherwise?

There is no harm in asking questions! Oh come on! It was just a joke! you say.

But you don't get to tell me you're not a bad guy, when if we try to show you your power
YOU decide
YOU are right.
we are wrong.

Your words steeped in violence have the power to end my life, my words questioning yours have the power to make you feel a wittle bit bad.

Oh come on. There is no harm in asking questions
unless
your pride won't let you learn.

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Blake (Pandora Blake) @pandorablake.bsky.social · 17h

CNs: interrogation, homophobia, an authoritarian government, bondage, and punishment on the bare bottom with a leather strap - dreamsofspanking.com... 🪢

Acquiescence: A Bad Dream - Dreams of Spanking

we’ve dragged it out into the light - light that our struggling detainee is desperately looking forward to seeing again if she can wake from this bad dream...

dreamsofspanking.com

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Nimue Allen @nimueallen.bsky.social · 17h

Trust in BDSM must be earned and nurtured. How do you build and maintain trust in your dynamics?

#femdom #bbw #domme

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Rob Leblanc - BrokenOptics @brokenoptics.bsky.social · 17h

I’ve been quiet

Work in progress on a horror themed design for a wrestler based on old EC comics

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Ampersamples @ampersandd20.bsky.social · 18h

What awaits our criminals at their award show. Check us out tonight at 7:30BST along with @arandomelle.bsky.social @feyearth.bsky.social @cleettrpg.bsky.social @thelastomnitect.bsky.social & @mossyent.bsky.social with

BLADES IN THE DARK.

Only on the AmpersandD20 Twitch channel.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 20h

weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!

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