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Andaerz

@andaerz.bsky.social

Daily #1902- Baggy

December 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM

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Ironlily

@ironlily.bsky.social

Another another Minoan waifu, Moo!🐮

December 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM

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Ironlily

@ironlily.bsky.social

🎄Merry Christmas!🎄

It was known as a time of sanctioned chaos in Medieval times. And during the time, there's a role-playing game among Ordo Mediare sisters.

December 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM

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Andaerz

@andaerz.bsky.social

Daily #1889 - Squeak

December 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM

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Patrick Klepek

@patrickklepek.bsky.social

If you're living in Australia and have a child who's experiencing the newly enacted social media ban for anyone under 16, I'd like to hear how it's going, what they're feeling, how you're talking about it for @crossplayblog.bsky.social. Please drop me a DM and/or email me patrick@crossplay.news

December 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM

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Ana Valens | 🔞

@acvalens.com

Appreciate the s/o from @enbrown.bsky.social here re: U.K. strangulation ban in porn

reason.com/2025/11/12/m...

Of course, sexual choking and suffocation during sex can be dangerous if done incorrectly or taken too far. (And some, like dominatrix and writer Mistress Matisse, even suggest that there's no truly safe way to choke or strangle someone.)

But simply banning depictions of choking in porn movies does nothing to help people assess the risks or to engage in such activities as safely as possible. And since data shows that sexual strangulation is common and no longer taboo, "banning choking porn does nothing but make the practice seem more edgy, all while doing nothing to actually aid sex education resources on risk-aware breath play," as culture writer Ana Valens suggests.

Folks who are truly worried about protecting women would be better off raising awareness about potential physical dangers and how—if at all—to engage safely, rather than getting all Andrea Dworkin about it. Ranting about the "normalization" of violence against women, acting like this is some great conspiracy against them (rather than a thing many willingly partake in, and sometimes even enjoy), and suggesting we can end private sexual behavior through throwing people in jail will do nothing to make people's actual sexual lives safer.

November 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM

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Evil Bat Witch

@evilbatwitch.cryptoanarchy.network

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Rude
Rude or impolite, including crude language and disrespectful comments, without constructive purpose.
Highlighted Off, darkened Warn, and darkened Hide buttons.

November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM

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MOTORSLICE | Regular Studio

@regularstudio.bsky.social

MOTORSLICE demo available NOW

September 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM

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Suzanne ✨🌑

@tendermiasma.com

Death by a thousand cuts. These censorious paypros and bills in committee will eat away at our ability to provide for ourselves. This is a sure outcome if we give up, but if we keep yelling we give ourselves another possibility

Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · Aug 31

Adult games can no longer launch in Early Access on Steam. This is devastating for small projects (like my own!) because EA can be a much-needed lifeline while games are still in development

Ana Valens | 🔞 @acvalens.com · Aug 31

Heavy Hearts dev Dammitbird received the following notice from Steam, noting “your app has failed our review because we're unable to support the Early Access model of development for a game with mature themes”

This strikes me as overcompliance and censorious on Steam’s part

August 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball

@pandangit.com

I just want to point out that the first I heard about a lot of y'all's weird kinks, fetishes, perversions, etc was from the authoritarian gas-bags wasting my time saying "this exists and they have to stop shoving it in our faces"

It's YOU, Senator Chodepalmer; YOU'RE the one shoving it in my face.

August 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM

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Cara Cadaver <3

@dirtlord77.bsky.social

VILE: Exhumed may be banned for sale, but I refuse to let that stop people from playing the game.

It’s now available, for free, at WWW.VILEISBANNED.COM

Please share the site, share the game, and fuck anyone who tries to control storytelling and expression.

August 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM

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Andaerz

@andaerz.bsky.social

Daily #1754 - Scarfy doodle

August 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM

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Tom McH

@tommchenry.bsky.social

Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find.

They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.

INTRODUCTION

Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling.

You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse.

You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life.

TIPS

1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way

possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything.

2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought.

3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook.

6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes.

7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case.

8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes.

9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out.

10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.

March 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM

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günni

@n4chtsonn3.bsky.social

December 28, 2024 at 9:22 AM

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grimm 🥂🍾🎉

@mugrimm.bsky.social

Genuinely wild how many people keep saying "AI is useful you just need to check the results and walk through everything it does"

What kind of rinky dink ass work do these people do where verifying every single claim made by an LLM on a project is faster than just doing it correctly yourself lol