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onion person @junlper.beer · 6h

if you already didn’t have enough reasons to cancel spotify:

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 14h

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 16h

This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either.

Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 16h

Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games

www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...

r/UKPersonalFinance
3 hr. ago
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I develop adult video games on Steam. I can't find a bank that will actually let me withdraw my money from Steam. Can I get some advice?
Game has sold quite well on Steam. I've got almost £90,000 ready to withdraw after Steam's cut + VAT taken off.

However, it's been 2 months now and I can't find ANY bank in the UK who will let me withdraw my money from Steam.

I've been banned/refused/unable to get a business account with:

Wise
Revolut
Monzo
Monese
Chase
Starling
Nationwide
Halifax
Barclays
Lloyds
RBS

It always comes down to, "Where did you get this money from?"

"It's coming from games I sell on Steam."

"Can we see the store page?"

"Sure."

"I'm sorry, we can't do business with you at this time."

It keeps coming down to a commercial decision purely because I make adult content.

What the hell am I supposed to do? I've pretty much exhausted the whole banking system. I just want to be able to be paid for products I've sold.

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 8h

STOP adapting 80-year-old books into movies and TV series. Stop it. There are a million new novels published every year and 99% of their authors are broke. Stop giving dead people’s descendants money. Books were NOT better a century ago, they were WORSE. They were ALL
WORSE. Create in THIS century.

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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 10h

As a fiction consumer, my primary concern & motivation is the sheer volume of words I can consume. And the limiting factor is that publishers just aren’t pumping out slightly different combinations of words fast enough to sate my appetite. When will someone think of meee

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16h

boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)

r/SaaS
u/soasme
I deleted ALL AI features... and user growth went UP.

Everyone's busy adding Al to everything.
I did the same for indie10k.com but it didn't work.
I removed all of fancy Al stuff - Al coach, Al growth ideas, Al "personalized" advice - everything.
Guess what?
I see more registered users and higher retention.
That actually make me wonder why now i have one page with one button, without all that Al thingy, but it does better?
Here's my question:
Is Al feature actually helping SaaS grow?

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Catherine “Halloween meme participant” Winters @catherinewinters.com · 10h

This is just me, let alone with a hat.

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 20h

we all got that one sullen homie whose leitmotif shares a chord progression and instrumention with an enemy whose identity is yet revealed

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Catherine “Halloween meme participant” Winters @catherinewinters.com · 12h

I would pay extra to have some authors not involved in marketing their books.

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Catherine “Halloween meme participant” Winters @catherinewinters.com · 12h

I would pay extra to have some authors not involved in marketing their books.

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Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 13h

Publishers should be invested in promoting the books they publish.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

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

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Catherine “Halloween meme participant” Winters @catherinewinters.com · 12h

The government should mandate all cars be tall enough to accommodate hats.

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 12h

Tell me your most unhinged millinery opinion, as a treat

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 13h

a lot of what gets considered "literary" is actually just speculative fiction. like it or not, you're probably reading genre fic.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

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

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Lee Harveryscary @valleyguitarist.bsky.social · 13h

When Poochie isn't on the page, the other characters should be saying "Where's Poochie?"

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

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

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Catherine “Halloween meme participant” Winters @catherinewinters.com · 16h

I think there's a lot of straight parents out there who—regardless of how much they support LGBTQ+ people—are SUPER relieved to have the school teach their kids all the terminology and not have to talk about it at home in any way beyond "don't be...whatever that was you learned about in school".

Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 17h

Some good news! After all that, only O.03% of families opted out of LGBTQ+ Education in Maryland after the Supreme Court gave them the ability to do so. Not just a majority, not just most families, nearly all families want their kids to have access to this education. We are the majority

Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Catherine “Halloween meme participant” Winters @catherinewinters.com · 14h

Holy shit, this was maddening. Go fill it out, Canadians.

mcc @dryad.technology · 14h

If you are a Canadian citizen or resident, and you hate "AI"¹, please fill out this survey.

ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

The survey questions are *extremely* biased, so this will not be a fun experience, but I think it is worth it.

¹ (And if you like "AI"… how have I not blocked you yet?)

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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mcc @dryad.technology · 14h

If you are a Canadian citizen or resident, and you hate "AI"¹, please fill out this survey.

ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

The survey questions are *extremely* biased, so this will not be a fun experience, but I think it is worth it.

¹ (And if you like "AI"… how have I not blocked you yet?)

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Reena @reenamccarty.bsky.social · 15h

I have a tab group called "How to write books???" that contains every structure guide I've ever come across and every time I start a new project I open it and stare at them and cry because how does this work??? What???

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 1d

So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?

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Catherine “Halloween meme participant” Winters @catherinewinters.com · 16h

I think there's a lot of straight parents out there who—regardless of how much they support LGBTQ+ people—are SUPER relieved to have the school teach their kids all the terminology and not have to talk about it at home in any way beyond "don't be...whatever that was you learned about in school".

Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 17h

Some good news! After all that, only O.03% of families opted out of LGBTQ+ Education in Maryland after the Supreme Court gave them the ability to do so. Not just a majority, not just most families, nearly all families want their kids to have access to this education. We are the majority

Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Unexplainable Finomenon @filamena.bsky.social · 17h

It is normal to support your fellow persons. Hate and ignorance are weird and abnormal.

Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 17h

Some good news! After all that, only O.03% of families opted out of LGBTQ+ Education in Maryland after the Supreme Court gave them the ability to do so. Not just a majority, not just most families, nearly all families want their kids to have access to this education. We are the majority

Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Catherine “Halloween meme participant” Winters @catherinewinters.com · 17h

Doc's entire FPS series is amazing, and you should read it!

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 2d

GUESS WHO'S BACK

BACK AGAIN

DOC'S BACK

TELL A FRIEND

That's right. It's time for part 3 of the FPS series; this time, a lot of assorted thoughts on what makes for good enemy design. This one was fun as hell to write.

docseuss.medium.com/building-a-b...

building a better first person shooter part 3: enemy mine

So! First, we talked about a specific subgenre of first person shooter, loosely starting with Unreal and Half-Life and dying off around…

docseuss.medium.com

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 17h

Some books that get banned may see bumps in sales, yes

But the majority? This is what happens to them. Especially when books are being banned by the thousands

skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 2d

Fun fact: last week I got my royalty statement. It was for the last 6 months, and it was for my two books that have been banned.

Just so you know how rich we get off banned books, that check was a whopping $51.

No, not a badge of honor. No, not money-making. KIDS JUST LOSE ACCESS TO BOOKS.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18h

After a tense 30 minutes with HR, I have been reminded that it is not considered polite to use this term to refer to management.

Catherine “Halloween meme participant” Winters @catherinewinters.com · 18h

Vampires? They're probably not real. Probably. #WritingPrompt

“You didn’t go in!?” Nia blurted, spying Luca and the doll hovering outside the back door.

“We weren’t invited,” Luca protested. “I knocked, but I don’t think Matteo’s home.”

“I gave you the key!”

“I don’t need keys,” the lockbreaker reminded her. “But you didn’t actually say—”

“Are you a lifedrinker?” Caz sputtered. “You don’t have to be invited!”

“Okay, come in,” Nia said, snatching the key back and ushering them inside. “But we have to be quiet.”

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Catherine “Halloween meme participant” Winters @catherinewinters.com · 18h

Vampires? They're probably not real. Probably. #WritingPrompt

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, okay, Sam, you go ahead and try to write a good book or complete a reference interview that actually answers the question the user means to pose.

Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 19h

“at OpenAI’s DevDay conference on Wednesday, Altman floated the idea that the work you do today, which might imminently be transformed or eliminated by AI, isn’t “real work.”

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

futurism.com

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

This really fucking sucks!!! I’m not even paid to be here by an outlet, so doing this is just fucking me personally!

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