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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 6h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 6h

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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Jay 🌲➡️ Howloween 2025 @telekitnetic.bsky.social · Jun 21

Let's get an Indigenous art share going too!! If you're an Indigenous/First Nations artist, vendor, beader, etc, share your work and links below!!

#IndigenousPeoplesDay ❤️💛🤍🖤

A picture of various formline stickers piled on top of each other. In bold red gradient text reads "Indigenous People's Day Art Share".

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2d

Chat control's vote has been shelved for now, but the EU is still very intent on driving through this kind of legislation in the future if they can

If youre an EU resident, you need to contact your MPs and MEPs regularly and demand this be OPPOSED

🔞OnyxNuva🔞 @onyxnuva.bsky.social · 2d

Hey EU Citizens.

Between #savespeech and #fightchatcontrol, the current EU wants to STILL push to "protect the kids" in their own invasive way.

For as long as it lasts, they will keep pushing till they get what they want: control of you

danish-presidency.consilium.europa.eu/en/news/eu-m...

EU ministers united: Minors must be protected better online

EU digital ministers have concluded two days of discussions on how to better protect minors online. The meeting resulted in a joint ministerial declaration on the need for further EU measures in the c...

danish-presidency.consilium.europa.eu

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Llyl ☘️ @llyl.bsky.social · May 30

I put some color on my inktober illustration from last year!

【 #art #oc 】

Colored version of the illustration from the quote post.
A ghostly female figure stands in from of a stormy see at night, holding a lantern as the light of a far away dark lighthouse.
The overall colorscheme is green and moody with a yellow light from the lantern and a few touches of bright pink highlights

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inthestardust @inthestardust.bsky.social · 13d

The mornings are becoming shorter and colder with each passing day, but even during this time, the light of the Dawn Star still appears for a few brief moments in the mist.

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Alex @dirtbagboyfriend.bsky.social · 13d

If you’d prefer a known journalistic source, here‘s Al-Jazeera’s live update feed on the flotilla. its delayed in comparison but keeps you in the loop:
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Sumud flotilla live tracker: Organisers expect Israeli interception shortly

Global Sumud Flotilla reports Israeli vessels nearby as mission to break blockade nears Gaza.

www.aljazeera.com

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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thanks for hosting 💙

Here’s a bit of my blue surface pattern design work - some of it client work

#patterndesign #artistforhire

Swatch card of my Forest Floor Repeat Pattern. Repeat pattern of the greenery crushed into a forest floor. tan leaf branches and grey slate branches with bright red and dark green large berries also small branches of tan leaves with red berries and slate grey branches with tan leaves on a dark navy blue background

Swatch card of my cicada ohio themed repeat pattern for horror author Carter Keane. White rectangle swatch card with the text "Babe&Oak cicada repeat pattern for author Carter Keane" with my arch stamp at the bottom right. Inside the swatch card is part of the pattern. The swatch card sits on top of a finer scale print of the pattern as a background. The whole thing is in tans and light blues.

Swatch card of Repeat pattern of mystical orange branches in winter colour-way. Orange branches alternate directions each in an S curve with blue green leaves and two large oranges in a painterly style with small light blue celestial orbits and stars winding around them on a dark blue black background.

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🍊 tsu @tsurudraws.art · 13d

✨happy witchtober
😳who's your fave?

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 15d

a spider can fly on a current of air

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Anni K. Comics @annikcomics.bsky.social · Feb 20

Some thoughts on my a(ego)romantic experience for the #Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week. Probably pretty messy because it's still very fresh for me but here we go! Sorry for any typos!
(PART 1/2)
#aspec

Page 1 of 5 of a digital comic titled "Thoughts on My A(ego)romantic Experience".

Intro: "I had established a while ago that I am very likely asexual, and I'd been pondering if I'm aromantic as well.

Panel 1: "But whenever I came across posts like "Signs you might be aromantic" the points were like" (3 bulletpoints on a laptop screen:) "You've never had a crush. You've never had romantic feelings or you don't understand romantic feelings."

Panel 2: (Anni pouting) "I've had a crush!"

Panel 3: (Inner Anni thinking) "Sure, that was like 15 + years ago... but still!"

Panel 4: (Anni spreading her arms) "I DO get romance, and I've thought of myself as a romantic person."

Panel 5: (Anni's hand pointing at her characters smooching) "Hell, I've done a vampire romance BL webcomic for almost 15 years!"

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debs 🏴‍☠️🩸 @edstede.bsky.social · 17d

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Loui Stonehill @louistonehill.bsky.social · 17d

We can't go around attacking others in our own communities for not living up to rules we've invented in our own heads about what is the Truth. We can't punish each other for living and speaking and sharing, just because the other said something we didn't expect to hear
That's what religion does.

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ばったん @battan8.bsky.social · 17d

表紙の元絵

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Llyl ☘️ @llyl.bsky.social · 17d

Truly

Steb from Arcane but drawn as a funny looking fish

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Lauren Walsh @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 17d

If people don’t communicate their needs, issues, or triggers and hide things from you only to unleash them like a deluge that’s toxic as hell. You deserve people around you that will have those hard conversations, communicate clearly, and foster actual community. True friends grow together.

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Llyl ☘️ @llyl.bsky.social · 17d

My underrayed boi 🥹

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 20d

If you're not an artist but you followed a nsfw artist over to bsky, use that feedback form to tell bsky that. Remind them they're opening a traffic and funding sinkhole that extends well beyond the "icky" creators they want to get rid of

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Betty Jiang @bettyjiang.bsky.social · 21d

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Llyl ☘️ @llyl.bsky.social · 21d

Preview for my @inalltimelineszine.bsky.social piece :3c

Preview of my illustration for the In All Timelines Zine, it features Steb in a dress suit with arcane distorsion motifs

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sarah webb! @sarahwebb.bsky.social · 22d

one page comics from previous autumn equinoxes 🍂

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · Jun 21

No one is making you be a writer if you can’t do it and also don’t enjoy doing it. If you’re larping a job for clout I’d probably pick surgeon or Nobel prize winning diplomat, stealing valor for from isolated weirdos at their laptops is like shoplifting from the landfill.

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Mr Peculiar 🔞 @mrpecu.bsky.social · 23d

As a porn artist I'm not asking the SFW crowd to be into the freaky shit we're onto. Everyone has boundaries. But an effort to understand this world would be appreciated. Talk to sex workers. ask them about their experiences in the industry. Work WITH us to create a safer internet.

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Dana Terrace @danaterrace.bsky.social · 25d

Knights of Guinevere PILOT

youtu.be/MCAdbUaMlAE

KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE: PILOT

YouTube video by GLITCH

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Llyl ☘️ @llyl.bsky.social · 26d

Some #Silksong sketches!
Hornet, I would give my life for you

Gijinkas of Hollow Knight Silksong Hornet and Lace

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That Guy James (But Spooky) @jroberts.bsky.social · 23d

You look at every culture that's ever existed and the running theme is everyone pretty much just wants to play/dance to music, make art, eat stewed meat wrapped in flat bread, and tell stories about the shapes we find in the stars. Somehow we turned that into wars and overtime and profit margins.

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 23d

My problem with everything is that I know For A Fact that the purpose of life is frivolity. It is to fool around & pursue joy.

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