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학랑 @hagrang.bsky.social · Oct 30

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Dominique Ramsey 𓃥 @dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social · 8h

The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return

Marker, colored pencil, and ink pen.
11 x 14in

Illustration of a green deer hugging a hare, with the hare is hugging a mouse. All three animals hugging form the silhouette outline of the deer.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12h

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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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 12h

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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Illusn @illusn.bsky.social · 9h

Weird to try and dodge this when "no, it is very biased" is an easy as hell response.
And have you tried not talking down to trans people from your place of ignorance? Start by reading: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban

This paper presents an analysis of data from trans children and young people and their parents following the imposition of a UK-wide ban on puberty blockers for this group. The consequences of this...

www.tandfonline.com

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Mossforatu @dinolich.bsky.social · 10h

Finally got one of his good high fives on camera

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The Onion @theonion.com · 9h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Illusn @illusn.bsky.social · 9h

Ban Jesse Singal and free Link. Posting through it won't make people forget your vile, hateful conduct

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Illusn @illusn.bsky.social · 9h

Out of curiosity, do you think the internationally discredited and psuedoscientific Cass Review, the basis for the PB ban that is directly causing severe harm to trans youths, is unbiased?

Illusn @illusn.bsky.social · 9h

Ad hominem. It's an article about a FoI request. But you can't be arsed to listen to trans people in the slightest, so naturally you tuned out when you saw it was an article written by a trans person who opposes transphobia.

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Jeremy Anninos @anninosart.bsky.social · 11h

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Illusn @illusn.bsky.social · 9h

Further reading: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban

This paper presents an analysis of data from trans children and young people and their parents following the imposition of a UK-wide ban on puberty blockers for this group. The consequences of this...

www.tandfonline.com

Illusn @illusn.bsky.social · 9h

While there may not be an "official policy", intentionally denying care with the full knowledge that it *will* cause severe harm and potentially suicides to trans youth is very clearly malicious. The function of a system is what it does.

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Illusn @illusn.bsky.social · 10h

Then why are trans kids being subjected to conversion therapy on the NHS, with the full knowledge that it will cause suicides?

terfwatchbrighton.substack.com/p/update-nhs...

Update: NHS Sussex acknowledge “increased risk of suicidal ideation” and “negative impact” on patient experience due to WellBN investigation

Following a Freedom of Information request by TERF Watch, NHS Sussex ICB has published the Equality and Health Inequality Impact Assessment (EHIA) and Quality Impact Assessment (QIA) for the investiga...

terfwatchbrighton.substack.com

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Illusn @illusn.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, you will continue lying and acting as though you know better than trans people what is going on. You have no clue what it's like to be denied medical care for being trans. The government and NHS knew full well that banning trans healthcare would kill trans youth and did it regardless.

Illusn @illusn.bsky.social · 10h

The wait for treatment is the core reason for why so many trans youth are suffering. If they had treatment they could live their lives without so much dysphoria. Instead they are being intentionally denied it. It is, in fact, murder to intentionally deny someone life-saving medical treatment.

Illusn @illusn.bsky.social · 10h

Deeply unsurprising that you'd want to lie and downplay violence against trans people given your policing of leftists for not mourning a dead Nazi.

Illusn @illusn.bsky.social · 10h

Intentionally denying people life-saving healthcare with the knowledge and intent that it will lead to deaths - that's murder.
Intentionally causing severe physical and mental harm to a specific marginalised group on the basis of and with intent to eradicate that shared identity - that's genocide.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 15h

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 15h

Someone left a rack full of inflatable costumes near the ICE building in Portland.

I love this town.

This is a wonderful thread that explains how & why Portland is Like This.
bsky.app/profile/ceau...

A clothing rack on a sidewalk, full of colorful inflatable costumes, with a sign that says free.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 13h

If I shared this as a shitpost version of what Trump said at the Netanyahu celebration people would chuckle and say "you've done it again, Sooz" but it's just what he literally said.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 13h

2. “…Bibi would call me so many times—“Can you get me this weapon? That weapon? That weapon?” Some of them I never even heard of. But we’d get them there, wouldn’t we? And they are the best. They are the best…and you obviously used them very well.”

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Illusn @illusn.bsky.social · 12h

Yep

transsafety.network/posts/bell-v...

Questionable expertise at Bell v Tavistock

Questions have been raised about the influence in Bell v Tavistock of expert witnesses with no expertise in transgender issues

transsafety.network

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 12h

ADF was basically behind the Keira Bell case and trans reporters were trying to note similarities between that case and how the group uses lawfare in the U.S. to attack trans rights.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 18h

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 20h

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · 19h

Chital, star-deer.

#berensart2025

stylized drawing of a chital deer floating in space with stars around it. the spotted pattern and the stars are gold. the deer have a big star between his antlers

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