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Moon @meltingmooon.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

It's good to check the advanced moderation settings once in a while I feel like sometimes they reset for me. Better to set things to "warn" than "hide" with how often the automod applies wrong labels!!

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I cannot stress enough: the AI bubble has already popped it is just being kept on life support by corporations trying to squeeze even a dollar more out of their shit investment, and tech bros doing the same before abandoning their shit company startups. keep hating on AI, you're winning

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

While the SCREEN Act failed in the committee, KOSA did move forward. Contact your senators immediately demanding it be opposed, and keep the pressure up until it comes to a vote in the Senate

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

SCREEN failed to pass out of committee, despite a 15-13 vote (in favor). Not enough members voting, but looks like a party line vote. Good work everyone! Keep up the pressure for after recess and beyond!

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Eromancer @eromancer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act. Use the official lookup tool at www.senate.gov/senators/sen... to find yours by state.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 30/07/2026

lmfao at this article But this is why it's so important that we put all our energy into making sure these laws don't pass, because the people who spend years trying to pass censorship laws would rather die than admit that they were wrong and will just keep digging the hole avn.com/news/legal/u...

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U.K. Lawmakers Ask Why Age Verification Isn't Working AVN

Members of the House of Lords, the upper house of the United Kingdom's bicameral Parliament, have opened an inquiry to seek feedback from the general public on the effectiveness of age-verificati...

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Lindsey Graham's death may paradoxically help kill KOSA / KIDS Act. Mark-up on the Senate child safety bills was originally scheduled for next week, but his funeral — and Mitch McConnell's "absence" — has pushed it out another week, right up against the recess deadline.

From Punchbowl News Tech.
The Senate Commerce
Committee is now targeting the week of Aug. 3 for a markup on kids digital bills and artificial intelligence matters, according to spokesperson Blair Taylor.
The panel had been aiming to hold the session next week, but Chair Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said on Wednesday it was "unclear" if that timeline was doable.
Cruz said there were "ongoing negotiations" over bills on the agenda.

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 21/07/2026

Hey @ala-booklist.bsky.social you say you support marginalized authors and seem to be aware of the dangerous censorship push but I haven't seen a post from you guys in the last 8 months (as far as I cared to scroll) talking about it or educating the public on how this harms authors and readers.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Hey, a good way to celebrate Lindsey Graham kicking the bucket is to contact your senators about KOSA and the KIDS Act. Graham was a big proponent of these kinds of laws, as well as of gutting section 230.

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Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In less than 12 hours, the European Parliament holds the final vote on reinstating Chat Control 1.0. A simple majority is no longer enough to reject it. Contact your MEPs NOW and demand they protect your right to privacy via fightchatcontrol.eu

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Daryl Surat @darylsurat.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Looks like the Sony PR team has begun its consent manufacturing operation among the media in the past 24 hours. I wonder how many other gaming outlets and influencers this week will also happen to put up posts/articles/videos declaring that eliminating physical media from consoles is good, actually?

Tweet from the official Gizmodo account posted 16 hours ago linking to an article with the headline “Game Discs Deserve to Die.” The accompanying photo is that of a hand with painted fingernails placing a silver-bottomed disc into a PlayStation 5.

Tweet from the official Polygon account posted 23 hours ago stating “I won’t mourn Playstation discs” with a link to a self-styled “spicy takes” op-ed column. The accompanying photo is of a PlayStation 4 ejecting a copy of 2013’s Killzone Shadow Fall, the first PS4 title to sell over one million copies whose servers were nevertheless shut down in 2022 such that all you can do with a copy these days is play its lackluster single player campaign.

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🐈‍⬛Lucky🍀 @enbyexmachina.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Before anyone begins doomposting: There are still two stops it has to pass before it gets into law. And the senate doesn't like the House version of KOSA so there's a chance it doesn't pass. But don't just assume.

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Eromancer @eromancer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

We have a little over 24 hours to save the internet. The vote for a package of internet-freedom destroying bills is being rushed to the US House floor on Monday the 29th. Spread this beyond Bluesky, ASAP. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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The KIDS Act Would Require Age Checks To Get Online

Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all users’ ages, require government-directed moderation policies for online speech, and even create new rules about p...

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Kane (Minkmoding) @kanexan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Do. Not. Use. Fucking. Sticker. Mule.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Reminder that there will be motion on KOSA and the KIDS ACT on monday Please contact your representatives literally right now of you can and demand censorship/surveillance legislation be opposed

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

There is going to be new movement on KOSA next week Contact your representatives and demand that they oppose KOSA and the KIDS Act www.congress.gov/members/find...

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 14/06/2026

Please call your reps, this thing is so evil

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corrin @lavenderandrue.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This is powered by Stripe, one of the major drivers of debanking of NSFW creators. The service also has no 2FA. What happens if writers use Ellipsus to share NSFW work and Stripe finds that work objectionable? What about if images are embedded in the work? What if Ellipsus gets subpoenad?

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 04/06/2026

Sex workers have been banging the drum that moral panics around porn are a fascist project for years and years and people on this website still go "but it's ickyyyyy it's probably baaad for socieeetyyy"

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 06/06/2026

Remember when I said this stuff led to fascism

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Lucky_Bun @luckybun.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I don't need to be "protected" from seeing porn, I need porn artists to be protected from being debanked, having their work stolen by AI, being abused for the content of their work, and going broke.

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SOL ☀ @1tb.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

it makes me sad seeing people happy about the online censorship changes to hide adult media because even if you are averse to nudity or pornographic content it's really crucial to acknowledge that this form of censorship can and will branch into censoring LGBT content and marginalized identities

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

it is in absolutely everybody’s best interests to develop some hobbies aside from Phone

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 02/06/2026

Repeating this here but, Can you please stop shooting yourself in the foot and actually ask what your users want? It is EXHAUSTING having to mount this kind of pushback every other month just to keep you from making terrible decisions.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Labeling entire accounts “adult” and hiding them, no matter what they are posting, will inevitably suppress vast amounts non-explicit political speech around sex work and censorship. The accounts most likely to speak out about over moderation are the ones first to experience it — the whistleblowers

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

if it isn't clear, I'm with the 18+ artists. don't think because the majority of my art is market friendly that it means I am. fuck censorship, fuck fascism, fuck puritanism. people should have the choice to decide what they want to see, not have the choice made for them.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 31/05/2026

PSA: Bluesky's new auto-tagging moderation stuff is a disaster. Disable it. Go into Settings on the Bluesky site and enable adult content and set everything to Warn at most, which makes posts opt-in. Hide just vanishes posts. Then go into Advanced/Bluesky Mod Service and do the same on everything.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This. The closet was nearly my casket. We express ourselves with writing, and many of us don't choose to write about queerness; it comes out in the work. To strangle that is to strangle the art, and then what is the fucking point? To lube up bookshelves with frictionless tripe? To hell with that.

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AKA Michelle Jones @aleshakills.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Once again, sex workers and porn artista were among the first early adopters of bsky. They built the platform up and brought their audiences with them. Now that they have enough mainstream appeal, they want to exile the very people who made their site worth being on. A tale as old as time.

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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Anti-porn, anti-sex worker, and anti-sex censorship directly corresponds to a tilt downward into a more ideologically conservative and oppressive society. Regardless of your personal comfort with nsfw content on the internet, it's absolutely critical to support it right now.

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🍊 tsu @tsurudraws.art · 30/05/2026

bsky too quiet? missing comments? not seeing posts from spicy artists? check your moderation settings and your bsky filters if you haven't configured these before, many of these will be set to hide as defaults

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 30/05/2026

If you have nsfw set to "hide" I implore you to set it to "warn". You still won't see anything except for a blurred post Otherwise once they roll out account-wide adult content labeling a whole lot of people including me are going to disappear from your timelines, even our sfw text posts

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 30/05/2026

And there it is, staff's new favorite silencing tool

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 29/05/2026

Can't believe we have to fucking do this again please go tell staff how you feel in the post that chocomingo is quoting

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 29/05/2026

Staff being able to apply an adult content label to an entire acct overrides the label function and is not a good thing. Do you know how many newcomers don't know that their default moderation settings hide us from view completely and they just assume we don't exist? This is shoving us out of sight

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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 27/05/2026

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email donate@wikimedia.org to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

medium.com

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

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Ruin Jane @laurenjane.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Porn includes shit like Paleolithic art and is "bad for (this) society" because a bunch of dogmatic fascist assholes use it as a thin edge of the wedge on oppression of all marginalized groups and so. many. leftists. fall for it because they have too much internalized shame send fucking tweet

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🔞OnyxNuva || PLUS 🔞 @onyxnuvaplus.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

#savespeech #stopKOSA So that "being against KOSA means you are a corporate shill" argument holds no water now. Call your reps. Tell them to vote NO on KOSA. badinternetbills.com

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Bad Internet Bills

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 22/05/2026

Remember we have their ear right now. They're already requesting public comments on debankment practices. Go file.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Way to instantly kill any theoretical credibility you might've had. The author, Steven Rosenbaum, tries to downplay this but the details make it clear this is a massive and disgusting error.

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Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.

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fearne @almandines.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Get more opposed to censorship right fucking now.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Please contact your reps and demand they oppose the GUARD Act www.congress.gov/members/find...

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