fogease
fogease.bsky.social
fogease
@fogease.bsky.social
🔞 interaction, over 30
he/they 💚🩶demiro
IT assistant
interested in indie entertainment, social theory, design, powerusing
🥂economic democracy + geoism
🌱vegan ethical subjectivism
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Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position.

Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Please contact your senators about KOSA. This bill has amassed a lot of cosponsors.

We can beat this, but we need people to call, email and send letters en mass. Please try to contact your reps as often as you are able to and encourage people you know to join you!

#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...
October 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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If you were an admin or member of one of the Facebook groups that the DOJ jawboned Facebook into censoring, we want to talk to you!

Please shoot me a message,
October 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.
October 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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We are alarmed as well. If you are in Germany, write to your representatives. You'll find the email addresses here: 👉 tuta.com/blog/chat-co...
October 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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*cough*
October 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Another blow to chat control!

EU folks, contact your MEPs so we can block chat control! You have until the 14th of october!
🇸🇮 Slovenia OPPOSES Chat Control!

"Ministry of the Interior today announced today that it is committed to the right balance between the protection of children and the interference with fundamental rights, and cannot support the proposal [...] in its current form."

Source: n1info.si/novice/slove...
Slovenija vendarle sprejela odločitev o uredbi Chat Control
Notranje ministrstvo je danes sporočilo, da predloga evropske uredbe za boj proti spolnim zlorabam otrok (Chat control) v trenutni obliki ne podpira.
n1info.si
October 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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It is so deeply disappointing that the leadership team of Bluesky has continuously chosen to try and brush the Singal mess under the rug for months now. A man who has been identified as a bad actor and threat to trans lives in America by GLAAD and other leading trans organizations. And now this.
WAFFLES
October 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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KOSA is now in red alert priority.

Please contact your representatives, dem and gop alike, and demand they oppose KOSA

We need to turn out in numbers against this!
#SaveSpeech

Ive updated this infographic with additional bill info, issues, etc

Find your federal and state reps below and make your voices heard!

www.congress.gov/members/find...

www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
September 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism

on how the last weeks have shifted the threat model for open social networks: from fighting platform decay to the threat of authoritarianism

connectedplaces.online/blueskyism-p...
‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism
After Kirk's murder, calls for censorship and the crackdown on political places started to include Bluesky. Open social networks must now fight political suppression as well as platform monopolies.
connectedplaces.online
September 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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✅You can use my consent stickers freely to label your art as consensual. You can use them on art you paywall. You can also use them on illustration prints.

❌Please do not use them for physical merchandise such as apparel, stickers or charms though! Ask me before you do that~
September 22, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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If you were a webcomic artist trying to make the next Berserk, Watchmen, Sin City, Skydoll, Blacksad - basically any acclaimed adult comic you can think of - there are dwindlingly few places you can independently publish that online
September 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Update: Google will limit the number of installs your app can get if you don't pay — Even if you dont publish on Google Play.

starlightnet.work/posts/androi...
September 6, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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They have this button on the right hand column that in addition to public shaming, lets you shame them in other useful ways
September 20, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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In the wake of the last few days news and the blood and suppression the GOP is calling for, you would think democrats would be thinking twice about section 230 and the tools they would be handing over with KOSA
#SaveSpeech

US legislators are pushing harder to pass KOSA and repeal section 230.

Call your representatives ASAP and make your voice heard! Advocate for protecting section 230, and demand your reps oppose KOSA!
Bipartisan Push in Congress to Weaken Section 230, Expand Online Surveillance, and Increase Platform Liability
Calls for platform accountability came with few answers about who decides what speech is acceptable.
reclaimthenet.org
September 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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September 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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September 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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we need a label for UK politicians who endlessly "empathise" with fascist concerns - let's try a US one

my latest with @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?
A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
September 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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There's a growing independent press in games journalism, but unfortunately, it really feels like that press has abdicated coverage of this issue. Appreciate Rhiannon Bevan staying on top of this

www.thegamer.com/itch-io-cens...
Itch Is Blocking Developers Of NSFW Games From Being Seen In The UK
Adult content on Itch is now being affected by the Online Safety Act as well as pressure groups, as developer and author profiles are restricted.
www.thegamer.com
August 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Here’s my feature on Collective Shout, and their attempts to take down Steam and itch.io. I found a conversation where they spoke about exactly how they did it, and detailed their plans going forward, which sounds… very unrelenting.

youtu.be/rKD4fYc8xV4
The Censorship "Hit Squad" attacking Video Games.
YouTube video by Charalanahzard
youtu.be
August 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition.

Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:
August 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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i worked with our director RJ to put together a web page compiling phone numbers, emails, and petitions where you can make your voice heard - protect queer artists and sex workers and tell payment processing companies to end their awful policies harming safe spaces for creative art
July 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"

Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
July 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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the research showing Google AI Overview is stopping people from clicking links is a huge huge huge problem not just for websites but for people's brains which are about to be absolutely mangled www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.
www.404media.co
July 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Let’s change gears. Do some good

Sign this. Make it go viral. Protect sex workers. End payment processor discrimination

action.aclu.org/petition/mas...
Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy.
Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.
action.aclu.org
July 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM