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Ianus J. Wolf @ianusjwolf.bsky.social · 20h

The entire Trump admin and Project 2025 plan is to just keep blatantly violating the Constitution with their full chest, violate individuals' basic human rights, wait for a judge to stop them, then try and get it up to their corrupt SCOTUS to eventually set unconstitutional precedent in their favor.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Department of State v
@StateDept
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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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Ianus J. Wolf @ianusjwolf.bsky.social · 21h

Wondering why the AI defenders sound so off the rails, nonsensical, and completely back-ass-wards in the points they try to make and...

*forehead slap*

Of course. They're not even thinking of these things. They have to ask GenAI to write them a defense of AI; that's why it all makes no sense.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

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

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 2d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Ianus J. Wolf @ianusjwolf.bsky.social · 1d

Techbros and gullible MBA investors about to make The Great Depression look like The Mild Inconvenience.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Ianus J. Wolf @ianusjwolf.bsky.social · 1d

I know this feeling. General horror has been a comfort for me for a long time, partially because it's a genre I love, which is always going to give the happy chemicals. But also a factor where I half-jokingly say my own problems seem a lot less when compared to characters in genuine horror.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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
Previous-Camera1641

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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Ianus J. Wolf @ianusjwolf.bsky.social · 1d

AI-colytes love to twist their selfishness, laziness, and second-hand plagiarism into some kind of stand they're taking against corporatism by ... using a corporate genAI to steal from actual artists. 🤨
Using a known fascist tool, then saying "Nuh-uh, you're a fascist for trying to own your work!"

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Ianus J. Wolf @ianusjwolf.bsky.social · 2d

I /love/ how a decade ago, society should have gone, "Hey, people shouldn't have to beg in a popularity contest for medical care, and we absolutely must fix this!" but instead our society decided to put people in power that would set up "begging in a popularity contest to be able to eat, too."

TAT360 💕💚 @tat360.bsky.social · 2d

finance.yahoo.com/news/gofundm...

GoFundMe CEO says economy is so challenged people are raising money to buy food

GoFundThis: Some surprising items have begun to make the list for crowdfunding lately, according to this CEO.

finance.yahoo.com

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Ianus J. Wolf @ianusjwolf.bsky.social · 2d

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly, it needs to go further than this.

We need to confront the fact that democracy and wealth hoarding cannot coexist. Allowing people to amass the resources of a small state/country allows them to act as such, which is inimical to a shared society of “one person, one vote.”

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 2d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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Ianus J. Wolf @ianusjwolf.bsky.social · 2d

Nope. You used PlagiarismBot to steal the product of other people's labor via a third party, which then cobbled it together based on some specifications you cooked up in a couple seconds. You don't get to claim you "made" something that's just an algorithmic collage of other people's hard work.

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 5d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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⟢ Avilone ‹𝟹 ₊˚.⋆ @faeriegasm.bsky.social · 2d

This will be the hill I die on, “porn addiction” is not real, that phrase specifically is used as a dog whistle and is backed only by pseudoscience which has been created by right wing fascist organisations with the intention to demonise minorities. It is not real, actual science proves it isn’t.

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Ianus J. Wolf @ianusjwolf.bsky.social · 2d

I do not understand Leto continuing to get work. It's baffling.
There are SO MANY other actors out there that are better performers who simply act, create a perfect character, then drop it when the scene ends and be a person with the other cast and crew.
His version of "method" is toxic pretense.

Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 2d

Finding out that Jared Leto kept doing his method acting shit and insisted on staying in character on the set of Tron Ares and would only answer to the name of Ares is so funny, like making a big ass douche of yourself for the third Tron movie where you play “computer program that gains feelings”

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∘⊰ Spooky the Orc ⊱∘ @roogytheorc.bsky.social · 3d

Whether you believe it's real and need to understand why it's not, or you already get it and need a link to arm yourself against misinformation, here ya go ♡

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wome...

An article from Psychology Today

Headline: Science Stopped Believing in Porn Addiction. You Should, Too

Subtitle: What does it mean that religion, not porn use, predicts porn-related problems?

David J. Ley, Ph.D

Updated April 4, 2025

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Ianus J. Wolf @ianusjwolf.bsky.social · 2d

In light of these dangers, maybe people should worry less that their kid might feel the extreme need to alphabetize their bookshelf while being really good at math and having a rich fantasy life.

Oh and more to the point understand that VACCINES HAVE NO CONNECTION TO THE AUTISM SPECTRUM!

Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 2d

Your reminder—or maybe no one ever told you—that complications from a measles infection include immune amnesia (where you lose immunity to everything), vision and hearing loss, brain damage, and a fatal brain disease called Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis that can show up years later.

Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 4d

Hundreds of children in multiple states are in quarantine and on remote learning due to measles outbreaks.

The decline in MMR vaccinations has resulted in the US experiencing an increase of measles cases with 1563 total cases & 3 deaths since January.

#Pinks

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Ianus J. Wolf @ianusjwolf.bsky.social · 2d

"The Autosave was off"

Some of you know this is very event-specific.

Radiant G🌈✨ @radiantg.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of October, what’s a 4-word horror story only someone in your profession would get?

“Add a Battle Pass”

Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 3d

You mean, like GTA?

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Ianus J. Wolf @ianusjwolf.bsky.social · 2d

Well, yeah, when he signed that contract in blood with the dark, hooded figure whose voice sounded like the buzzing of angry wasps in order to gain the power of a dark cult, he should have understood that's generally how that works.

Also, there's the whole "being an evil pedo Nazi" thing.

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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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 4d

Their goal is revenge against every scientist who told them something they didn't want to hear or made them feel inferior by knowing more than they do.

Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 4d

WTF is their goal? Small government means every man for themselves when the next catastrophe hits? What is the point? Government isn’t a business, it’s a service for the people. You’re saving minimal money with these cuts and only hurting literally everyone

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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megasoups.bsky.social @megasoups.bsky.social · 5d

KOSA just got a bunch of new cosponsors so, y'all, kindly tell them to knock it the fuck off.
Make this bill unpassable for the sake of keeping the open internet, enough of this censorship BS and "protect the children" excuses.

#savespeech #KOSA #stopkosa

www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...

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Ianus J. Wolf @ianusjwolf.bsky.social · 5d

Flipping through streaming while getting out decorations.

Partner: "Put on the first Nightmare Before Elm Street, that's good for decorating."
Me: "... The one where Jack Skellington and Freddy Krueger battle for who owns Halloween? ... Yeah, I'd watch that movie if it was made."

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Isobel_Starling @isobelstarling.bsky.social · 7d

Shout this from the fucking rooftops, people!! #fuckAI

A meme that says 'petition to add this button to literally every app right now: Exclude AI
meme by @FLScience

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Ianus J. Wolf @ianusjwolf.bsky.social · 6d

It's so weird that the Harvard library apparently has absolutely no History section for the people running Harvard to check on this subject.
They're just sure that with psychotic authoritarians, you can capitulate once with terms and they'll never trouble you again, with no examples to the contrary.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 6d

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Ianus J. Wolf @ianusjwolf.bsky.social · 6d

Ditch everything related to the Potter IP.

I don't care if you grew up on it, or your 20's were completely influenced by determining what house you'd be in or whatever. It is NEVER too late to dump a toxic story set and find a few of the MILLIONS of possible fictional universes that are better.

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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