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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

your fucking tax dollars and mine paid for a bunch of professional government trolls to have at least(!) one actual fucking meeting about how epic it would be to all join bluesky at the same time. people wrote fucking emails about this. from dot gov addresses

ceej @ceej.online · 1d

this shit is so embarrassing. the government used to have guys who like, built bridges. now it’s just a gaggle of bleary-eyed cave children jacking themselves off to porno deepfakes of AOC while posting “based meme edits” of reaper drone strikes on venezuelan children. quit gooning and fix a pothole

ceej @ceej.online · Jun 19

vance has got to be the most cucked vp of all time. absolutely no power, completely subservient to a sundowning blowhard and an unelected nazi sleaze, so bored of waiting around for grandpa to give him something to do that he’s organizing forum raids like goons dropping in on habbo hotel

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 1d

The Tame Impala falloff will be studied for generations

You’re a cinephile
I watch family guy

Real lyrics from
The new tame impala

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Josh McConnell @joshmcconnell.com · 2d

Chef's kiss.
cc: @thelouvreof.bsky.social

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 2d

spotify pays millions to transphobic anti-vaxxer Joe Rogan and so my production company pulled all our podcasts off the service years ago and never looked back

they “pay” fractions of pennies to every musician there too

consider finding a better service

shouldn’t be hard when the bar’s this low!

SFGATE @sfgate.com · 4d

Spotify responded that the ads do not violate its policies.

Spotify is running ICE hiring ads boasting wild signing bonuses

Spotify responded that the ads do not violate its policies.

bit.ly

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 2d

Oh my god. The scale models kept imploding so he's like "don't worry I have a new manufacturing method that will stop these implosions" and they're like "should we test a scale model built with this new method" and he's like "no no just try it on the real sub I'm sure it'll work"

vessel. OceanGate determined that wrinkles in the cylinder had likely caused the sub-scale models' failure and identified the co-bonding process as a way to potentially mitigate wrinkle-related failures. However, OceanGate did not build or test any new sub-scale models using the co-bonding process; the only article produced using the co-bonding process was the v2 full-scale cylinder ultimately used in the casualty dive.

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Rose Styla (Ehksidian) @ehksidian.bsky.social · 10d

the worst trend in female character design for anthropomorphic characters in media has to be the absolute refusal to give women snouts.

gacha games and fortnite are especially egregious with this. come on. just a bit of a snout. it's not hard, people. give the wolf girl a snout. and DON'T squish it

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 2d

I love the era of history where the idea of colour photography outpaced the technology, so you had to shoot the R, G and B channels separately, and there's always a guy who has chromatic aberration while nobody else in the picture does because he sneezed between the R and G exposures or something.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 5d

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: (3/5) @acvalens.net · 5d

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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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 7d

pilgrim guy finishes reading a big book, leans way back in his chair and loosens the belt on his hat

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 8d

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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Teo @teocee94.bsky.social · 7d

The last time Leto was good onscreen is when he briefly, sincerely thought he was about to actually be axe murdered by Christian Bale

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 7d

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 7d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Vero.Doodles @verodoodles.bsky.social · 8d

✨Oct 15th at 12pm PST✨

That’s when this beautiful original Sky Dancer unicorn wood burning (along with my other designs) will be available in my shop! 💙☁️✨

Set your reminders if you’d like a chance to own her! 🦄✨

#woodburning #unicorn #orginalart #pyrography #whimsical #shopsmall

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 8d

They're doing it in the most incompetent possible way, and I firmly believe that if we fight them we'll win. However, it really is a huge bummer that every Republican currently in power is openly trying to do Nazi Germany here

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Teo @teocee94.bsky.social · 8d

Pumpkin spice is usually just cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, ginger, and cloves anyway, a pretty bog standard baking spice mix--rarer is to find the ones that actually use pumpkin puree in the recipe! Welcome to the cozy side 🫡

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 9d

Every turn this takes is perfect. Every moment is mind ending. Every joke pristine. God bless the onion for this important journalism

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9d

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Dr Artyom Trakhanov - THERE COMES FOR YOU A DAY is out now! @vor-bokor.bsky.social · 12d

Show this to your local village snake flag cretin to make them mad

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 14d

And yet bigoted political campaigns are putting more and more trans people into danger. :(

Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 14d

About 125,000 transgender people are assaulted in the restroom every year.

No transgender woman has ever been convicted of assaulting a woman in a public restroom.

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Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.social · 14d

I saw commentators on TikTok call someone with a prosthetic arm ‘half-clanker,’ which is my one note here.

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 14d

fascinating that "no, the computer is not alive" and "yes, it's questionable to gleefully say anti-computer phrases modeled after racial slurs" are two thoughts people are struggling to reconcile

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

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Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedytcooper.bsky.social · 15d

I know that we said we wanted a twitter clone but a CEO who argues with the userbase and posts shitty memes was one of the things we were actually trying to leave behind

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 14d

Just on a practical note, it's a terrible idea for a CEO to personally wade into TOS violations and the banning or not banning of users because the minute they touch it, they own it. Everything that happens is no longer an amorphous "mods" issue, it's a CEO issue.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 14d

If I was the ceo of Bluesky a copycat website entirely defined by being built on the grave of yet another fallen social media empire, I would not be tweeting at individual users that if you don’t like the culture here you can just stop using it

You are playing with Friendster I mean with fire

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onion person @junlper.beer · 15d

i think the disconnect with the bluesky team and the userbase is that the userbase, the people who occupy this place, think of bluesky as purely a twitter alternative and the bluesky team thinks of it as purely a coding foundation for others build off of

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