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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 17h

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 · 19h

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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kugelfisch @kugelfische.bsky.social · Sep 12

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{ #art #spirk #startrek #fanart #spock }

A single comic page regarding Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home. The text in the page is a poem read by Leonard Nimoy. It starts at the top of the page:
"The whales turn and glisten.
Plunge and rise again
Hanging over subtly darkening deeps
Flowing like breathing planets
In the sparkling whorls of living light "

The first panel is referenced from spock swimming with grace in the film, his hand is below her eye. On the left of this pannel there is an orange, with its peel coming off in a corkscrew shape.
The panel below this is another shot of Spock swimming with Grace the whale. His head is beside her eye. On the right of this pannel there are two whales, one breeching and the other swimming. These are George and Gracie (The whales).

Below one of the whales there is a small panel of Spock standing in water wearing his robes. The water before him ripples.

To the bottom left there is kirk and spock, they are only outlines highlighted by the colours inside. In the outline there is a heart and an IDIC symbol, in their heads there is a line connecting the two's brains or thoughts. They are surrounded by orange trees with oranges on them.

At the very end, there is smaller drawing of spock and kirk walking together, the bridge in the background. There are clouds and a sun.

The entire piece has a somewhat monotone effect, with emphasis being placed upon ornages, reds and greens. Blue is used for the whales. At the bottom of the page the blues turn into purples.

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Benjamin Dewey @benjamindewey.bsky.social · 21h

The great Drew Struzan has passed away. His work was seen and loved by millions of people over decades of making poster art for some of the most classic films ever and went on to inspire countless more creators (myself included) who struggled to capture even a little of his magic for ourselves.

Drew Struzan sitting on a bench in front of framed originals for a few of the many astoundingly good movie posters he made.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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DIO @danielirizarri.bsky.social · 5d

I think what's impressive about TRON is that, visually, it's still so much more interesting than any of it's sequels. It's crazy that they tried update this digital world by making it as 'realistically rendered' as possible. It's a complete misunderstanding of the original's charm.

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HYEROPHANT @ 💥🦴💪🩻 @explodinghye.bsky.social · 1d

you might see a certain little fruit running the stall 🕴️

Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 1d

In the UK Sat/Sun November 15th and 16th???

(What if we visited Iron Circus Churches in the Thought Bubble Comixology Hall at D9?) 👀💭
www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/tickets

Thought Bubble Festival @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social · 2d

WHO LIKES MAPS?!

Here are the full maps for all four halls of Thought Bubble Comic Convention 2025, including the full listings of all exhibitors, publishers, guests and more!

Take a look: www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/maps

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss's CBS cant even spell Mamdanis name right in the headline jfc

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 2d

This is gender because

1. most of the guys who try to dunk on him are men
2. most of their reasoning for why they're smarter than him is "fashion is femme coded"

🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing dudes try to step to the menswear guy makes me understand better the mentality of the regular Street Punks who keep hassling Kiryu in Act 3 of every Yakuza game when hes got all the abilities unlocked

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 2d

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 3d

Mamdani promises to deploy *hundreds* if lawyers to fight for trans rights, create a new office of LGBTQ affairs, and allocate millions of dollars to fund housing and healthcare for trans kids and adults

This is what fighting back looks like--elevating activists to materually support trans people.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 3d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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HYEROPHANT @ 💥🦴💪🩻 @explodinghye.bsky.social · 4d

I DON’T GO TO BASEBALL AND EVEN I’M SO THRILLED I COULD EAT A SEATTLE DOG RIGHT NOW !!!!!!!

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lilith kills u @deathcarpets.sisc.one · 4d

SEATTLE GODDAMN MARINERS

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Zalmon ザモン @zalmon.bsky.social · Feb 6

Psychics need their brains calibrated regularly (1/n)

Circular laboratory. In the middle, a glass cylinderical chamber with two patients, with thick cables attached to their bodies. Beside them, two nurses. Outside, a doctor with a conical-shaped device surrounding her entire head, reading documentation; and another person looking at computer screens.

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 5d

Aileen Pringle as Zara in the silent movie, “The Mystic” (1925), directed by Tod Browning. Costume by Erté.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 6d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 5d

Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

lostcoastoutpost.com

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 5d

ill keep saying it and theyll keep doing it: podcaster occupied government

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 5d

Justice Department lawyers reposted President Trump’s statements and may have inadvertently endangered their prosecution of Luigi Mangione, violating the judge’s explicit orders that DOJ employees refrain from public comment about the case. trib.al/b9U7CY1

DOJ in Trouble After Lawyers Reposted Trump Rants on Luigi Mangione

The Justice Department’s case against Luigi Mangione just hit a major obstacle.

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lanyardigan @lanyardigan.bsky.social · 7d

Sealing myself in a large envelope. Might get mailed. Might just go on a shelf

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 7d

23-year-old journalist Plestia Alaqad, like many Gazans, lost her home in the first days after October 7. unable to reenter her homeland, stuck watching the horror continue, she’s publishing her diaries from reporting on the ground.

full interview @teenvogue.com www.teenvogue.com/story/plesti...

Pic of Plestia Alaqad overlaid with text from interview: Plestia Alaqad: I can't believe that it's almost — [she pauses] no, it's not almost, it's actually two years. Okay, I can't believe that it's been two years of this ongoing genocide. When I was reporting in Gaza for 45 days, these 45 days felt like 45 years. And now it's 200 days feeling like 200 years for the people who are actually still on the ground facing bombing, displacement and starvation, which is being used as a method by Israel. Israel is literally ethnically cleansing people in Gaza, and we're watching a genocide unfold live on TV.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 8d

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 7d

Local news is *crucial*

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 7d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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HYEROPHANT @ 💥🦴💪🩻 @explodinghye.bsky.social · 7d

i understand why they softened him overtime because character development/growth is indeed a thing but i miss it when he was fucking MEAN sometimes in S1/S2

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HYEROPHANT @ 💥🦴💪🩻 @explodinghye.bsky.social · 7d

this would definitely raise my interest for academy for many reasons if not because i NEED to see a return to bitchy stamets, and what better way to do that than make him the "grouchy ass teacher who'll decimate your GPA but has had a wild as fuck life story and is a dad figure with a heart of gold"

TrekMovie.com @trekmovie.bsky.social · 7d

Anthony Rapp Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Cast Expected Season 6; Could See Stamets Teaching For ‘Academy’
##startrek #starfleetacademy #startrekdiscovery
https://bit.ly/rappdiscos6stnj25

Anthony Rapp Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Cast Expected Season 6; Could See Stamets Teaching For ‘Academy’

At STNJ, the actor (and Broadway star) talking about missing out on being able to do a musical episode.

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