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Ataraxy Star @ataraxystar.bsky.social · Feb 1

Hey gang! Just wanted to let you all know I have a Patreon.
This is a great way to get free/really low price art from me, as well as to see posts that only my patrons get to see!

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Ataraxy Star @ataraxystar.bsky.social · 21d

Couple of August doodles!

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Zoe Stanley Arts @zoestanleyarts.bsky.social · 21d

Meryl Stryfe sketch.
#TRIGUNイラコン

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John A Dracula Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · Oct 3

An important PSA from Batman

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Ataraxy Star @ataraxystar.bsky.social · Aug 22

I've heard this is an ongoing issue specifically with Titanic content tbh.

Ataraxy Star @ataraxystar.bsky.social · Aug 21

why not plan to release it in november from the get go then?

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Elizabeth 🐂 🏳️‍⚧️ @elizabethbich.bsky.social · Aug 18

Mario would not fucking say that

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · Aug 18

Chris Pratt is defending his extended family member Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and tackling entrenched partisan political beliefs: "I’d hate to be so mired in hatred for the president that any success from his administration is something I’d be having an allergic reaction to" bit.ly/45Dy2RD

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Ataraxy Star @ataraxystar.bsky.social · Aug 18

Some bikini fun!

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JAQQQLNtern 🎃 (recovering from GRS) 🐇🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 🔞 @jaqqqln.gay · Aug 16

@bsky.app if you cannot stand up for trans people your app will die and you will deserve it.

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · Aug 15

honestly super weird how transphobes will assume that all trans women are white. I feel like this isn’t talked about enough, it’s an important part of the permission structure that allows otherwise “progressive” people to engage in transphobia (because their targets are all “really” white men)

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Ataraxy Star @ataraxystar.bsky.social · Aug 14

acceptance is the first step

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Cutie-Doodles @cutiedoodles.bsky.social · Aug 10

Keep calling. This issue can't die.

It starts with delisting games, but the likely goal is to enact a new morality police that can silence marginal groups and anyone who speaks out against the status quo.

The payment processors are feeling the squeeze! Let your voice be heard!

Fatty's Den (MINORS DNI) @fattysden.bsky.social · Aug 9

The recent wave of restrictions of pornography (including kink / fetish stuff) in art, games, videos, etc. by payment processors and puritan groups runs to the political sphere at top. This recent censorship is a part of Project 2025, as it turns out. It's no conspiracy. THEY WANT TO CENSOR US!

A post on Twitter by the Gelbooru account that says:

Currently people are contacting Visa and Mastercard, en-masse, in an effort to get them to explain why they are banning legal content from being transacted through their systems. These arbitrary restrictions caused companies, such as Steam, Itch.io, and others to pull violent and adult video games from their platforms. They continue to remain silent on the reason WHY they enforced the restrictions on the companies. I surmise they are gagged from speaking through likely threat of regulatory pressure.

May I introduce, Russ Vought, a co-writer for Project 2025, Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget, AND Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/images/cfpb_headshot-russell-vought_DA8Ama7.original.png

This man has already publicly stated his desire to have pornographic content, violent video games, and other types of content "harmful to children", banned from the internet. This claim he makes is not based on unbiased scientific testing.

In a two minute clip posted on YouTube by The Intercept the following transcript, highlighted in yellow, shows his intended starting point (start with children), and then he cuts himself off from explaining the next part of the plan, of violent video games, etc, as that route had failed twice already in the past few decades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0noIS9lmR0Y
https://imgur.com/CxpcUOs
https://theintercept.com/2024/08/16/project-2025-russ-vought-porn-ban/

Now, as his position in the CFPB, he has ultimate authority over payment providers and banks, and he has likely been abusing this power to strong-arm changes in these privately owned businesses regarding content he specifically had shown his distaste and hatred towards previously. All clearly telegraphed before hand, many years ago.

Continuing the tweet by the Gelbooru account:

This was ALL done in the guise of protecting the children. Admittedly, it is a very solid tactic, at the core. But, if you use the mantra of protecting the children, it tends to mean that it's just a ploy, usually to further a specific agenda.

They are a threat against the United States, nay, the entire world. They are a threat against our democracy, a threat against free speech, and a threat against gamers, a threat against media in general.

These are the same people who believe violent video games cause violent things. An entire generation of individuals have been playing Grand Theft Auto, playing Doom, Quake, and other games, but we are not currently, nor will we face a worldwide pandemic of armed car robberies, driving on sidewalks for the fun of it, or people running around with sawed off shotguns killing demons, or raping people, because a video game was made exploring the content.

Those in power have been eroding free speech in the law. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) provides immunity to online platforms from liability for content posted by their users. They are actively attempting to kill this protection to further their goals outlined in Project 2025, by passing liabilities of their userbase onto the operators via financial regulation threats and pressure, thus killing speech directly, while still keeping in the shadows publicly.

"He filmed the crimes and posted monetized rape videos on P*rnhub, earning revenue for him and the site owners."

https://x.com/BillAckman/status/1898747162306937184

This is their attempt to kill section 230 immunity.

You should not be frightened that they MAY come into power, they are ALREADY IN POWER. They are exercising it spectacularly, taking baby steps to erode away your speech, and we've all been asleep at the wheel.

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SleeZEROZERO @slee00.bsky.social · Aug 14

Ghost my autistic beloved character I love you my precious little freak OC my amazing original character my beloved mess of a human my favorite character ever made ever

Bluesky more like fartsky
#owned

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NIWindustries.bsky.social @niwindustries.bsky.social · Aug 12

🔫BANG👓

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sleepr @sleeprhit.bsky.social · Aug 12

If you tried to "fit in" by hating everything the internet told you to hate, you would end up forgetting how to enjoy anything. Maybe you'll finally fit in, only to find you're surrounded by those as miserable as you.

Life is too short. If it isn't actually hurting anyone, enjoy what you like.

piss king @dedusmulntxt.bsky.social · Jul 19

"retroslop" "sillyslop" "goonerbait"

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Ataraxy Star @ataraxystar.bsky.social · Aug 13

The porn addict did THAT?!?! oh my god, is the porn addict in the room with us?!

Ataraxy Star @ataraxystar.bsky.social · Aug 8

"You shouldn't cosplay this problematic character, it's wrong to like them" oh so you want the story-lines that character is involved with removed? no? oh so you like them too. You like them being a part of the story. You appreciate them as a character even if they're horrible and bad.

Ataraxy Star @ataraxystar.bsky.social · Aug 8

Just read the first volume of Crossed! that might be too much for me tbh lmao

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · Aug 8

Haha you guys sure showed that AI sucks by using AI to show AI sucks. We’re all laughing about how much AI sucks thanks to you using the AI service and wasting energy and polluting low income communities and stealing from artists and writers to show AI sucks. Too funny!

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valaeryan @valaeryan.bsky.social · Aug 8

"If generative AI could REALLY make the next GTA in 6 months with 10 staff, or write the next bestseller, or produce 10 blockbusters a day? They wouldn't be trying to sell it to YOU. They would keep it for themselves and guard it from you ferociously."

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Ataraxy Star @ataraxystar.bsky.social · Aug 8

he lost it when he took a nike deal.

Ataraxy Star @ataraxystar.bsky.social · Aug 7

Dabberlocks being cute in a bikini fit, voted on by my Patreons!

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JAQQQLNtern 🎃 (recovering from GRS) 🐇🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 🔞 @jaqqqln.gay · Aug 2

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Jon Artuckle is talking to his bunny Jaqqqln who is perched on the table

JON ARBUCKLE: Happy birthday Jaqqqln!

(Holding out a rubber mousey) I got you a rubber mousey.

(smash cut to after Jaq puts it in her mouth) (chewing) (thinks to herself) could've used a little salt.

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Ataraxy Star @ataraxystar.bsky.social · Aug 2

If they didn't do that I don't think nearly half as many people who are religious would be tbh. They really shouldn't do it, but they're going to keep on doing it.

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Chris Shehan_Comic Art @chrisshehanart.bsky.social · Aug 2

“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.”

Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?

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Ataraxy Star @ataraxystar.bsky.social · Aug 2

very scary and confusing