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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱

@susankayequinn.bsky.social

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

ABI Bouhmaida
@forgoodcode
Every Windows 11 PC is now an Al
PC with Copilot at the center of
it all.
Here's how to get rid of Copilot
completely from your computer
(1/3)

ABI Bouhmaida
@forgoodcode
1/ Settings App
> Personalization
> Taskbar
> Other System Tray Icons
> Switch "Microsoft 365 Copilot App" Off
This hides Copilot from your
taskbar

$(9) ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode 2/ Press Win + R > Type in ‘regedit’ > Navigate to "HKEY _CURRENT_USER\ Software \ Policie s\Microsoft\ Windows" > Right-click on the "Windows" Key > New > Key > Name the new key "WindowsCopilot’ > Right-click on the new key EY > DWORD (32-bit) Value$ @forgoodcode
3/
> Name the value
"TurnOffWindowsCopilot’
> Double-click the name of the value
> Set the "Value Data" to 1
> Restart your computer
Congrats! Copilot is now completely
gone from your computer.
Hope this helps

@forgoodcode
3/
> Name the value
"TurnOffWindowsCopilot’
> Double-click the name of the value
> Set the "Value Data" to 1
> Restart your computer
Congrats! Copilot is now completely
gone from your computer.
Hope this helps

November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM

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the kat from HOUSE (1977)

@dogunderwater.bsky.social

you know what's so rewarding? practicing and getting slightly better at something.

December 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM

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Euronews

@euronews.com

Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'

"Art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go f*ck itself!” Guillermo del Toro is a guest of honour at this year’s Lumière Film Festival. He presents his adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", which audiences got to see on the big screen before it streams on Netflix next month.

l.euronews.com

October 17, 2025 at 4:20 AM

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William Shakespeare

@shakespeare.lol

[Exit King.]

October 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM

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🪴Rae🪴

@pottedvybes.bsky.social

Getting my ass whooped again

September 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM

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🔥 eldritch smite 🔥COMMISSIONS OPEN - LOOKING FOR WORK!

@eldritchsmite.bsky.social

Homage to the classic Hulk Battles the Inhumans cover!

[ #art I #fanart I #hulk ]

September 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM

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George Takei

@georgetakei.bsky.social

This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.

The image is an X post by Acyn (@Acyn
) from 13 hours ago, quoting Pritzker: "He's saying that Chicago is a war zone. None of that is true. They're just making this up. And then what do they do? They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it's a war zone." The post includes a screenshot from CNN's "State of the Union" showing two individuals discussing, with a chyron indicating DHS officers fired at a driver who rammed their vehicle, later determined to be someone trying to storm the Presidential Palace, as the South Caucasus Coalition.

October 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM

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Chris Giddens

@chrisgiddens.bsky.social

And let 'em know why.

September 20, 2025 at 7:41 AM

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Andy

@andy.wrestlejoy.com

Hulu and Disney plus are now offering 70% off subscriptions, and in response I am offering Hulu and Disney plus 70% off deez nuts.

September 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM

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Buy Mass Effect The Board Game!

@ithayla.bsky.social

September 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM

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🔞BunnydewArt🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@bunnydewart.bsky.social

putting this on your timeline again

Text over a sparkly flowery background which reads: “WE SUPPORT SLUTS AND WHORES ON THIS PAGE”.

September 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM

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Dieselbrain

@dieselbrain.bsky.social

If youre aghast at how even the adult website paypros ban things as benign as "cat ears", this is what we mean when we say that puritan policies DO NOT care to stop at just the "nasty" stuff

When they say they target "beastiality", they mean up to and including an actual human being wearing catears

September 10, 2025 at 3:28 AM

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Jjinandtonic

@jjinandtonic.bsky.social

Who up stroking they sword while lamenting social realities

Engraved line of chinese poetry captioned
"Stroking the sword while
lamenting the social realities" (tE
剑伤世路），engravedbyShen
Qianqiu. Ming Dynasty (Fig. 14)

July 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM

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ALCA, Goddess of Lust 💜

@flailmorpho.bsky.social

werewolf cum? Oh you mean I Can't Believe It's Knot Butter

November 23, 2024 at 3:01 AM

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Spicymancer

@spicymancer.bsky.social

Oooh I do not love this.

July 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM

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EfraArt_Mix 🎁🎄❄️!!! Beetles are amazing

@efraartmix.bsky.social

Please spread this information people, don't let Pay Pal dox you.

January 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM

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Suzanne ✨🌑

@tendermiasma.com

A PayPal call center supervisor said they actually completely agree with me. They said that if enough people call PayPal they would be forced to take notice. I explained the Patreon/Itch/Steam situation and they said they're a creative themselves & that they hope the situation improves.

CALL THEM

July 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM

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Dieselbrain

@dieselbrain.bsky.social

the usual vagueness is present here that is usually a bad sign to come for adult content.

bluesky is taking feedback on the guidelines at this link below. Let them know these are not satisfactory

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

points that need addressing are: [cont]

August 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM

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Dieselbrain

@dieselbrain.bsky.social

Cheat Sheet v.2

nothing from the prior version is incorrect, but ive made it a little easier to read, plus included a bit more helpful information

imgur link: imgur.com/a/wWaLY2i

more comprehensive info can be found here:
stop-paypros.neocities.org
yellat.money

MAKE YOUR CALLS!!!

WHY?
On July 2025, Steam, a popular storefront to purchase games on PC, and itch.io, a storefront that sells
games, comics, tools, resources and much more, have recently delisted several NSFW games, after the
group Collective Shout published an open letter to payment processors such as Visa, MasterCard, PayPal,
and more. As a result of this letter, payment processors have strongarmed Valve and itch.io into enforcing
restrictive new TOS policies on what kind of content their platforms can host and sell.

Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Paypal have been censoring free speech and legal business on the internet for TOO LONG. Their most recent targets are Steam and Itch.io, but they have also been pressuring websites like Pixiv, Patreon, Fansly, Onlyfans and MORE for years, applying draconian standards for what kind of adult/pornographic content platiorms and their users can host and sell.

If we as consumers and creators want to regain ground on this issue, we have to make our voice heard.

HOW?
BOMBARD THEM WITH PHONE CALLS
Collective Shout, the organization that lobbied to have Steam and Itch.io change their TOS, did so with only around 1000 phone calls. Visa and MC have backed down from pressuring Onlyians to remove adult content entirely due to public backlash. Clogging their phone lines for an extended perlou, over a mont at the absolute least, will almost gudrantee that these compantes will at least have to pay attention to the backlash. this list is not exhaustive. but some contact points for the 4 targets are:

1. VISA:
(US + Can): +1 [8001-847-2911
US option selection for operator: 1-1-2 or 1-1-3

2. MASTERCARD:
(US): +1 (8001-307-7309
US option selection for operator: 1-1-2-2-2-1
Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111

3. STRIPE:
(Headquarters): +118881 963-8955
(France): +33 805-11-19-67
Stripe: complaints@stripe.com

4. PAYPAL:
(US): +1 (888)-221-1161
(outside US): 1-402-935-2050
Customer Service: +1 (877)-569-1116

July 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM

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Foxyfloof

@foxyfloof.bsky.social

VISA and MASTERCARD are now refusing all calls related to their policy changes. So call up as a concerned shareholder, prepared to short-sell their shares to reduce financial harm and loss to their portfolios.

They're trying to ignore us. Don't let them.

Evangelical Censorship is death to progress

Bologna Amputation @bolognaamputation.bsky.social · Aug 7

"As a shareholder, I am gravely concerned with the financial irresponsibility of cutting off a legal stream of revenue based on the actions of one small group of activists. If action is not taken to remedy this, I may be forced to sell my shares while they still have value."

August 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM

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Dieselbrain

@dieselbrain.bsky.social

Call your representatives and urge them to oppose KOSA, IODA and the SCREEN act.

Mention what is happening in mississippi

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Aug 14

NEWS: SCOTUS allows Mississippi to enforce a restrictive internet-access law without explanation. Kavanaugh writes to say it is likely unconstitutional but he is voting to allow it, only repeating the legal rule for his reasoning.

No one else wrote a word.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 25A97
NETCHOICE, LLC v. LYNN FITCH, ATTORNEY
GENERAL OF MISSISSIPPI
ON APPLICATION TO VACATE STAY
[August 14, 2025]
The application to vacate stay presented to JUSTICE ALITO and by him referred to the Court is denied.
JUSTICE KAVANAUGH, concurring in the denial of the application to vacate stay.
I concur in the Court's denial of NetChoice's application for interim relief because NetChoice has not sufficiently demonstrated that the balance of harms and equities favors it at this time. See Response in Opposition 37-39.
To be clear, NetChoice has, in my view, demonstrated that it is likely to succeed on the merits-namely, that enforcement of the Mississippi law would likely violate its members' First Amendment rights under this Court's precedents. See Moody v. NetChoice, LLC, 603 U. S. 707
(2024); Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn., 564 U. S. 786 (2011); cf. Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton, 606 U.S. _ (2025). Given those precedents, it is no surprise that the District Court in this case enjoined enforcement of the Mississippi law and that seven other Federal District Courts have likewise enjoined enforcement of similar state laws.
See No. 1:24-cv-170 (SD Miss., June 18, 2025);
NetChoice, LLC v. Yost, 716 F. Supp. 3d 539 (SD Ohio
2024); Computer & Communications Industry Assn. v.
Paxton, 747 F. Supp. 3d 1011 (WD Tex. 2024); NetChoice, LLC v. Reyes, 748 F. Supp. 3d 1105 (Utah 2024); NetChoice, LLC v. Bonta, 770 F. Supp. 3d 1164 (ND Cal. 2025);

NETCHOICE, LLC v. FITCH
KAVANAUGH, J., concurring
NetChoice, LLC v. Griffin, No. 5:23-cv-5105 (WD Ark., Mar. 31, 2025); Computer & Communications Industry Assn. v. Uthmeier, _ F. Supp. 3d _ No. 4:21-Cv-438 (ND Fla., June 3, 2025); Net Choice v. Carr, _
F. Supp. 3d
— No. 1:25-cv-2422 (ND Ga., June 26, 2025).
In short, under this Court's case law as it currently stands, the Mississippi law is likely unconstitutional.
Nonetheless, because NetChoice has not sufficiently demonstrated that the balance of harms and equities favors it at this time, I concur in the Court's denial of the application for interim relief.

August 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM

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Ensign Ro(wan)

@rowanchurch.bsky.social

When these fuckers talk about porn they also mean that sweet conversation about polyamory in your story, the cute flirting between two gay characters in your story, the mere existence of transness in your story. Your story will not be exempt. Be aware now. Be ready to push back now.

August 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM