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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 34m

This is good accountability reporting and an important question, and also a very funny headline to read out of context

Patrick Klepek @patrickklepek.bsky.social · 36m

Teenagers are key to the future of Roblox, a bridge between influential children and more discerning adults. That's why the company established a "Teen Council" to provide feedback last year. One year later, it's not clear what the "Teen Council" is really doing. www.crossplay.news/p/roblox-tee...

One Year Later, What Has Roblox's Teen Council Accomplished?

It makes sense to chat with one of Roblox's biggest player groups, but it's just not clear what's actually changing.

www.crossplay.news

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Raius (Commissions Open) @raius.bsky.social · 16h

Finished character design commission of a sickly-but-cheerful mechanic
#krita

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NIWindustries.bsky.social @niwindustries.bsky.social · 20h

🎧Practice Makes Perfect🎯

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 20h

A private investigator attempts to convince sideshow bob to install windows 11
"Come on! install Windows 11"
"I'll be your friend"

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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 22h

Remember, you can’t judge children based on what they say in group chats. The Congressman with the swastika is only 55 years old.

Politico @politico.com · 23h

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Pay people you like on the internet folks, it’s going to be rough out there

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 1d

"Make sure we debug this!"

The "Chao World... Now Loading" mission load screen from Sonic Adventure 2. Unlike the normal Chao World screen, it has a mission start text, which reads "1st Mission: Make sure we debug this!"

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🌸 𝕡𝕒𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕜𝕒 • ♥︎ @paprikalady.bsky.social · 7d

One thing I've learned from using real pics as reference:
Proper anatomy can still look weird depending on the angle.
As you can see, her entire left arm looks odd from this angle and pose.
That's why sometimes we need to "break" the anatomy a bit to make it look more interesting in art.

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🌸 𝕡𝕒𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕜𝕒 • ♥︎ @paprikalady.bsky.social · 5d

Draw your OC in this 👇🔽🍔

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 2d

queen of olympus

Fanart of Hera from Hades 2, wearing lingerie and some sort of loose robe showing her shoulder
She has somewhat shorter hair than original design, with peacock tattoo on the left arm and lotus flowers tattoo on left thigh
Lots of gold jewelry, including a big choker necklace

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 1d

This could seriously be one of the 2 or 3 biggest Presidential scandals in US history

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 2d

Hey #PortfolioDay!

I'm Zoe Tunnell. Written for BOOM, Marvel, IDW, Dark Horse and Tiny Onion on originals like BLADE MAIDENS as well as licensed properties like GODZILLA, POWER RANGERS, BLACK CAT and more! I've got projects set for 2026 but am still open for work!

Zoetunnellwrites @ Gmail dot com

The game art variant to Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind

Lucas Werneck's cover for Marvel United: A Pride Special

Dani Pendergast's cover for Godzilla Valentine’s Day Special

Valentine M. Smith's cover for Blade Maidens

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The bones of Natasha 🏴🌻 @alterici.bsky.social · 1d

Starting to think they are specifically going after porn/erotica/nudey doodles because that's competition. Like walmart driving little mom and pop shops out of business.

"Well, there's no porn in my neighborhood, so I guess I have to drive all the way over to chaptgpt just to get one off." 🙄

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

ChatGPT will soon allow sexting with verified adults

• Erotica and 'mature conversations' will be permitted

• Change arrives in December alongside new age verification tools

(via Sama | TW)

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 1d

Would it surprise you that the owner of Scientific American's parent company, Stefan von Holtzbrinck, invested $37 million in Inkitt, an AI firm?

What a SHOCK

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 1d

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Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm an illustrator and 2D artist working in the ttrpg and indie game space.

💌[email protected]
🔗 emilylorange.com

🥃 www.tumblr.com/emilylorange
🖼️ cara.app/emilylorange
🐘 mastodon.art/@emilylorange
🖨️ www.inprnt.com/gallery/emil...
🪙 www.patreon.com/c/emilylorange

A digital illustration showing a floating landmass, grassy with evergreen trees. It appears thin, maybe six feet deep, and underneath it can be seen a starry night sky. a race track passes through the sky and travels through the forest. the sky above is ocher, with puffy white clouds.

a collection of painted 'swords' organized into four rows, oriented with hilt in the bottom left, and tip on the top right, on a neutral, dark grey background. each sword is a strange and fantastical interpretation of a word written in grey text below them. some of the words included are: 'void' (sword resembles a black hole), 'storm' (sword resembles lightning emanating from a cloud), 'mountain' (sword resembles a mountain peak), 'spicy' (sword resembles a smoking chili), 'star' (sword resembles an image of the sun with a solar flare), 'Flowers' (sword resembles a thistle), 'fossil' (sword resembles a trilobite), 'forest' (sword resembles three trees in autumn), 'arachnid' (sword resembles a spiders web in a branch), 'molten' (sword resembles blown glass that has not yet cooled)

a digital painting of an anthropomorphic duck, sitting in a beach chair. the sun is blocked by a large blue umbrella that casts a blue tone on her, and she lounges in a bikini, looking off in the distance. the colors are mainly oranges and blues.

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 2d

It's been a few months now so I feel okay sharing my favorite pages from RITA'S REWIND. @tiredsai.bsky.social absolutely crushed these, as did @adamguzowski.bsky.social and @eduke.bsky.social. Minh was the heart of our story and nailing this scene was SO important, I'm so happy we got to do this.

A splash page of Rita's Rewind showing Trini meeting Minh in the 90s

A page showing Minh being told she has to get her mother out of there

A page of Minh and Trini bonding and saying farewell

Minh with sick power daggers she borrowed from her mom

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

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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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 2d

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are indigenous people's day and pronounced ayheeyahee ahneeyuhwee eegah

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

Please share this as widely as possible. ICE kidnapped a 7th grader in Everett, Massachusetts and sent him to Virginia. Help bring him home now!

Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 2d

here is the family's gofundme: www.gofundme.com/f/mim-ajuda-...

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Diedoki 🎲 💖 🏳️‍🌈 @diedoki.bsky.social · 2d

Oc plans

Digital art meme with a lesbian couple labeled “awesome lesbian couple” (my ocs Red Hammer and and Urania), and a gay male couple labeled “evil and intimidating gay couple” (my ocs Baphomet and Grievance)

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 2d

Sesame Street honors Indigenous Peoples Day as Zach McClarnon discusses his family culture and traditions.

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Dr.Rabbit (comms 1/3) @drrabbit.bsky.social · 3d

Bulls!! 💪💕💕🔥

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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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