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qdot @buttplug.engineer · 11h

Mulch like chatGPT, I too have fixed my problems with mental health in an objectively verifiable way and am therefore ready for sex

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Quarantegan @quarantegan.bsky.social · 12h

📣 Today's #ThreatModelCybersecurity: 🩸bath @ CISA, DEF CON as film role prep, creepy PW questions, & more 👩‍💻

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 13h

Oh! And if you're a $3 and up subscriber, it's free to download: www.patreon.com/posts/131427...

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 22h

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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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 14h

If you're protesting this weekend: Prep a burner phone, learn to move in crowds and what to do if things get violent, understand how you'll be surveilled, and find resources for storing media and remotely locking or erasing your phone: www.digitapub.com/collections/...

How To Be A Digital Revolutionary Mini Zine Vol. 1

This mini 'zine is a 7-page collection of the most essential personal and digital security advice for those attending protests, rallies, marches, or other events where there's an element of risk. Lock...

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 14h

Serving sci-fi drag tx from #SpaceStation1 + the cat chronicles of #cuddleUnit6, alongside static bursts of queer technicolor, native module headaches, and the occasional protocol glitch.
My book The Cat Operator’s Manual (cuddleunit5.com), fragments from the AT future & federated feelings.

The Cat Operator's Manual - Get the Most from Your New Cuddle Unit

A fresh and quirky guide to understanding your cat, complete with technical information, warnings, insights into all of your Cuddle Unit 5™'s features and modes, and a bonus sticker sheet.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 18h

Activism and community building online may be critical, but it's also increasingly subject to surveillance. Trans and queer activists are looking toward new models, with degrees of visibility that balance safety with surveillance, just as sex workers have learned to do.

The return of the trans underground

The internet once helped trans people connect and organize. Now it’s a dangerous liability. What comes next?

www.theverge.com

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 17h

Good news at the follow-up! Mystery swelling is gone, inflammation almost gone. Taking him off the medication today (so glad because it was starting to make him, er, explosive 😩)

Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 7d

Guess who is doing medical mystery shenanigans again! Thought Sam had something stuck in his nose. Instead we find a swollen spot in his mouth and mild ear inflammation... Meds and a revisit next week.

Selfie of a white woman with black hair and green eyes wearing an orange pastel sweater and black vest, with a black respirator mask. In a veterinary office with a gray cat backpack and a gray and white tabby cat looking out the backpack's bubble window.

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you! I got to work with some amazing people (and pay them well for it) 🥰

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 18h

I don't think people realize what an immediate impact this is going to have on outbreak response and containment.

Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social · 19h

According to a state epidemiologist, "CDC personnel who normally share information with state officials during outbreaks have been eliminated."

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1d

“One veteran researcher who still has his job (and, like other public-health workers I spoke with for this story, requested anonymity for fear of losing it) told me he believes that Kennedy’s ultimate goal is to “silence the scientific voice of career CDC scientists.””

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Punished “Venom” Asphodel @asphodelles.bsky.social · 23h

Hi #PortfolioDay, I do concept art and illustration for games/comics. Previous clients include Riot Games, Inverge Studios, and Webtoon.
You can find more of my work on my site asphodelles.carrd.co or email [email protected] for work inquiries.

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 19h

They stole over 30 of my books, primarily *most* of my (award-winning) erotica collections.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 22h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 1d

I would never have guessed this, wow!

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 1d

I had the same vibes from the bath attendant title!

Please report back 🤣

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 1d

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone thought I was a Fish-bender while I ran around as a Beef twister, missing my old life as a Sampler of drugs and aspired to be an Examiner of underclothing, but the truth is that I spent Fifty-two years as an imbecile (classically trained as an Emasculator). Ah, the dreams of a Cow-banger...

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 3d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 1d

20 MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE #maxheadroom

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 1d

If you're a writer, it's more important to keep books you hate around than books you love. Books you love have already taught you what they can teach you. Keeping books you hate nearby will teach you what to avoid and can bolster your confidence. "If this crap can get published then so can I."

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Annalise Ophelian @dr-ophelian.bsky.social · 1d

We're all traveling a path Miss Major paved for us. She touched so many lives, and left her mark across 50 years of organizing, fighting, and loving. I miss her deeply. But I know she’s going to persist as the most hands-on ancestor we’ve got. Rest in Power 🖤👠 www.them.us/story/miss-m...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Stonewall Veteran and Legendary Trans Activist, Has Died at 78

Miss Major continued fighting for trans rights even after two strokes and other health concerns.

www.them.us

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Annalise Ophelian @dr-ophelian.bsky.social · 1d

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand

The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 4d

Watch out everyone... we're doubling the rewards we almost never pay

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 5d

Apple announces a "major evolution" of its Security Bounty program, doubling the top award to $2M for exploit chains that could be abused for spyware attacks (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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The Cat Hive @thecathive.bsky.social · 1d

The Criminal

Doodle of an orange cat with a piece of crumpled plastic in his mouth. He is running away quickly, wide-eyed. There is text from someone shouting "WHO IS EATING PLASTIC!!!"

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 1d

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.

Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.

3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.

You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 3d

So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 1d

if you want to support a nanticoke who makes little magazines this indigenous peoples day, here are the little magazines i make

www.ANMLY.org — intl art & lit that's never boring
www.beestungmag.com — non-binary, two-spirit, & genderqueer writing
www.ALOCASIA.org — a journal of queer planty writing

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