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Champ "The Champ" Champstice @champstice.bsky.social · Jan 19
Y'all know what to expect from me
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Image of Black Beet from Heavy Shell B-Fighter, with the translated subtitle line reading "Quite the trash fire we have here", the line in question coming from episode 27: Revival of the Bad-Haircut Spirit. The usage of this image is in reference to the fact that my bsky profile will probably be equally as much of a trash fire as my twitter profile was when I open my mouth. Your mileage may vary on whether or not either are equally as much of a trash fire as the situation referenced by the subtitle in-show: The second version of a self-destructing grenade-monster who can regenerate being possessed by haunted hair-clippers, and forgetting his mission to instead giving anybody with hair incredibly bad haircuts. This is genuinely and no-joke the plot of the episode.
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acvalens.net
Adult game dev Shame Games just abruptly lost its Patreon. No clear explanation why, and its staff cannot be paid. SG’s Aika literally has children to feed and is reliant on Patreon’s income to pay the bills

shame.games/blogs/trap-q...
Shame Games can suddenly not pay our staff. Not only is this devastating to Aika and their family's ability to pay their mortgage and bills (Aika has two small children if you didn't know, so thanks Patreon), but other people who relied on us are in similar positions with rent and so on. There can also be no new art drawn for the game until this is resolved. And by resolved, we mean that the vast majority of the nearly 1000 subscribers we just lost on Patreon rejoin us over on SubscribeStar. This is brutal. It's horrifying. It's causing panic attacks. But we will endure, and we will recover. But we desperately, desperately need to do so as soon as humanly possible, and so to that end, are experimenting with a new subscription incentive: Limited Edition Content.
October 31, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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blanksword.bsky.social
23 days left to back BLANKSWORD with a late pledge on Kickstarter!

Grab a personalized letter from your blorbo so I have something to do, yeah?
BLANKSWORD
An Angelic Roguelike RPG
www.kickstarter.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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acvalens.net
If you’re upset about this (as you should be), pick up the phone and call

stop-paypros.neocities.org
November 3, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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west-mansion.bsky.social
STOP THE PRESSES.

The ROM for the unreleased Famicom RPG Splatter World has been released (in a thread on 4chan, of all places). I've tried it myself, and it does seem to be genuine. If it's a fake, it's a damn good one.

Expect (more) coverage on West Mansion soon.

@hg101.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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sarracenian.bsky.social
A new COMIC!

BLACK SWAN ACE, a collection of short comics & art feat. occult detective duo dealing with esoteric cases, inspired by pulp Weird Fiction, Showa manga & Chinese horror stylings.

You can buy the pdf: sarracenian.itch.io/black-swan-ace
or read comics for free: tapas.io/series/Black...
Cover of Black Swan Ace, featuring the logo, with Luke and Lan walking in the city. #blackswanace
October 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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jorgpierre.bsky.social
Once again:
Microsoft is a corporation that turns 30% of it's new code is written by AI into (basic stuff breaking)
November 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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scandinavian101.bsky.social
Plateau pirates attack!!

A scene from a lil setting ive been thinking about for some time
Aerial battle scene with a white ground effect vehicle flying low over a desert landscape with two red and white fighter planes attacking from above. One fighter just finished its attack pass and is pulling up over the ekranoplan, while the second fighter fires and hits one of the four engines of the transport craft. I was sorta going for the air pirate vibes from the porco rosso movie
November 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
champstice.bsky.social
Very good article on the presentation of subtitles on CR (and touching on how sub presentation has kinda been disrespected for the longest time elsewhere)
Genuinely amazing that CR's current formatting is massively worse since the jank 2009 era of the site
daiz.moe Daiz @daiz.moe · 18d
New article on ★ daiz.moe ★

Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...

A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!

Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason | Daiz.moe
With the Fall 2025 anime season, Crunchyroll demonstrates zero respect for anime as a medium as the presentation quality of its subtitles reach an all-time low.
daiz.moe
October 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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daff.space
You can find some of Stripe's contact info here:
yellat.money
Protect Queer Creators and Sex Workers - Tell Payment Processors to STOP
TELL VISA, MASTERCARD, STRIPE, and PayPal to STOP
yellat.money
July 25, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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daiz.moe
If you're outside the US, remember that Visa and Mastercard are multinational companies. Search for "Visa/Mastercard [your country]" to find offices you can phone locally to complain about this. The more calls there are worldwide the higher the chances are of having an effect!
shonen413.itch.io Official Yoshi’s Island Liker™️ @shonen413.itch.io · Jul 24
Here’s a short script:
“Hello, my name is _____, and I would like to file a complaint. I find it troubling that Mastercard is blocking content on (the platforms you use) and making it difficult for me to make legal purchases. I am going to stop using Mastercard if this isn’t rescinded and fixed."
iantos.bsky.social Iantos @iantos.bsky.social · Jul 24
Maybe we could find out.

Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000
July 25, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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mud-seal.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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wired.com
Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online. Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens to chill speech and ultimately harm children and adults alike. www.wired.com/story/the-ag...
The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived
Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online. Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens to chill speech and ultimately harm children and adults alike.
www.wired.com
July 25, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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wib.bsky.social
I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.

But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
comicsbeat.bsky.social Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · Jul 24
SDCC ‘25: What to do if ICE crashes the con

If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.
SDCC ‘25: What to do if ICE crashes the con
If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.
www.comicsbeat.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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team-stardust.pmd.social
July 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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jwlicinio.bsky.social
the UK’s Internet age verification law has led to the effective censorship of all LGBT content on Reddit

what a shocking and unexpected turn of events!
Post on /r/transgenderUK entitled “Reddit now censors LGBTQ+ content under OFCOM’s new ‘Online Safety Act’” post text: “I honestly can't even think of words to describe how vile this is. Here's a screenshot of what I now see when I search "lgbt" with my VPN switched off. Occasionally a banner appears at the top of the screen saying something about needing to verify ID to access "mature content" but the button doesn't even work. The fact that we're now considered "mature content" makes me feel sick.” The screenshot referenced in the previous image, showing the results of a search on Reddit for the term LGBT. No results from LGBT-specific subreddits appear; instead, posts from /r/Conservative, /r/Islam, /r/JustUnsubbed, etc are highlighted.
July 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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duskdragonxiii.beyondtheend.gay
I can't believe this is relevant now
Teen comix no fear what if they made Simpson porn illegal? One fear.
July 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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spottedmenace.bsky.social
Boss. I'm tired boss. We been doing these experiments and studies since the 60s and 70s and the outcome has been the same in them all.

The pushback against these measures aren't because they don't work. It's because they DO work and they'll include peoples they wish to exclude from society.
jonmunitz.bsky.social Jon Munitz @jonmunitz.bsky.social · Jul 24
Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.

They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.

Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.

#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
July 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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devadasa.bsky.social
"It would only cost $1000 a month to keep me housed."

Government: "Actually, we are gonna charge taxpayers $5,000 a month to lock you up in a small concrete cell."

"But why?"

Government: "Because my friends own the building that has the cell."
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Jul 25
People act as though the only option for unhoused people is jail or remaining on the streets.

They claim it’s “compassionate” to jail or institutionalize them because it means they have food & a roof over their head.

“Compassion” would be safe affordable housing. Not jail.
July 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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July 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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dieselbrain.bsky.social
Dont stop contacting Visa/MC, but Itch needs Stripe specifically pressured right now.
July 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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stholeary.bsky.social
Add them to the boycott list. Which should be easy. I don't have Paramount+ and all the sports on CBS can be watched in other ways on Al Gore's Internet.
nhannahjones.bsky.social Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · Jul 25
“Turns out its easy to sell out your principles for purse profit.” As part of the deal, Paramount/CBS agreed to end all DEI. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
July 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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daff.space
Action for Australian folks
bsky.app/profile/did:...
daff.space daffodil 🇵🇸 @daff.space · Jul 25
Action for Australian folks:

register a concern about Collective Shout's wrongful listing as a charity, do so on the Australian Charity and Non-Profit Commission website

Collective shout's profile + ABN: www.acnc.gov.au/charity/char...

Raise a concern with the ACNC: www.acnc.gov.au/raise-concern
Message from a user called BBBen on discord: Collective Shout, who have been provoking this latest wave of trouble are registered as a charity in Australia, but their work seems to be purely as a political activist organisation generating moral panic. This is against the rules for registering as a charity. If any Australians (Aussies only, please! It's counter-productive for people from elsewhere to do this) want to register a concern about their wrongful listing as a charity, then you can do so on the Australian Charity and Non-Profit Commission website. Here's the relevant links. Collective shout's profile, including their ABN: https://www.acnc.gov.au/charity/charities/8f14b7df-39af-e811-a963-000d3ad24077/profile Raise a concern with the ACNC: https://www.acnc.gov.au/raise-concern You can also attach evidence, which would probably help, though any concern is a valid one to post. Just explain the situation and try to call attention to the fact that political lobbying is not charitable work. You can go into other relevant details if you wish. All of this only takes a minute.
July 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM