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Katie Aki ✶ @katieaki.bsky.social · Jul 10

Wasteland Pony Express Trail Guide
✨Wanting to ride along with us but not sure where to start? There's a summary, some FAQ, and pages upon pages of post-apocalyptic lesbian cowgirl mailman fiction at the link below!
www.patreon.com/posts/pony-e...

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Katie Aki ✶ @katieaki.bsky.social · 1h

what a predicament!

Continued WIP of above. Most of the linework finished and some digital colored pencil added. Notably, her skin is cyan.

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Katie Aki ✶ @katieaki.bsky.social · 2h

doesn’t want to be a card shark bc she doesn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. still ends up w no friends

Katie Aki ✶ @katieaki.bsky.social · 2h

it hasn’t come up in text, but I feel that Lou, with her very very good memory honed from years of compensating for her illiteracy, could absolutely hustle cards but doesn’t want to for a reason she couldn’t understand or articulate (wants to be nice and not take undue advantage of anyone)

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Katie Aki ✶ @katieaki.bsky.social · 4h

incredible

Katie Aki ✶ @katieaki.bsky.social · 4h

🎶 you can hit a hundred boys with cars 🎶

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 9h

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 · 12h

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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Katie Aki ✶ @katieaki.bsky.social · 5h

I saw a playing card pinup and I had to give Louetta the same treatment

Wip of Lou, a skinny cowgirl in just her boots, socks, and bra, falling through an oversized playing card

meme that says “someone you know is gay/bi/trans” with pride flags, followed by “someone you know is a solitaire player” then “maybe even someone you love. Think before you speak hate.”

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 10h

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#SaveSpeech

If you're like me and you are struggling to contact your senators re: KOSA via their phone lines this week, I recommend attempting to send physical letters or emails in the meantime.

Here is a script you can use to contact your reps!

www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [LOCATION]
I'm messaging to demand [SENATOR] oppose S. 1748, the Kids Online Safety Act, also known as KOSA. This broad legislation does not protect anyone and instead will be used to block any speech that the Trump administration’s partisan FTC disagrees with. It pushes the “duty of care” onto websites and social media platforms to remove content that is “harmful to children”. It would lead to overcompliance, mass censorship, and remove access to crucial information re: everything from mental health, LGBT topics, substance abuse, eating disorders and more.
Additionally, while large, corporate platforms like X can shoulder the weight of “duty of care”, smaller websites cannot, leading to greater and greater concentrations of power online into giant corporate platforms rather than small and medium sized businesses.
KOSA will not make kids safer. It will make the internet more dangerous for anyone who relies on it to learn, connect, or speak freely. Lawmakers should reject it, and fast.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
IF SENATOR COSPONSORED KOSA: Additionally, I want to remark on [SENATOR]’s cosponsorship of this bill. I think it is shameful that [SENATOR] has backed a bill as transparently bad as KOSA. This will not keep kids safe, it is an excuse to censor the free and open internet. I will not be voting for nor donating to [SENATOR] in any future campaigns if they do not drop their co-sponsorship of this bill, and I will encourage everyone in my life to do the same.
Do the right thing.

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Katie Aki ✶ @katieaki.bsky.social · 6h

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