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Taylor Lorenz

@taylorlorenz.bsky.social

It’s crucial to note that the DEMOCRATS are the ones leading these efforts. Trump sucks, but Dems are the ones pushing these Heritage Foundation-backed laws through & making them more extreme

Go to BadInternetBills.com for scripts to call your representatives, background info on the laws, and more

Bad Internet Bills

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

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January 5, 2026 at 1:16 AM

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derek guy

@dieworkwear.bsky.social

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why."

Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!"

First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"

Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization."

Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces.

Proud to be an American today!

USA 🇺🇸"

Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster."

Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."

Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars

If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position"

Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"

January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM

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✦ kresendoe ✦🔜 FC

@kresendoe.bsky.social

huh? its november?? who said that

November 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM

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💥Alex.W💪🏾💥

@jokeb0i.bsky.social

A summary basically #Frankenstein

Captain Robert Walton forlornly writes to his sister: “Dear sweet sister, it has been many a fortnight Since I ve felt the touch of another man, if only god would send an intellectual equal to share this misery with”

He immediately spots victor Frankenstein doing the family guy death pose on a floating block of ice

November 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM

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The Daily Show

@thedailyshow.com

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM

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JB_AU

@jbau.bsky.social

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

September 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM

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lucien

@mynqzo.bsky.social

i want to draw my girl but i have work

September 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM

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PizzaCake

@pizzacakecomic.bsky.social

September 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM

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Tiger99 🔞

@thatguytiger99.bsky.social

Don't get complacent just because Canada, Australia, and the UK has petitions going around right now (look at my feed for the link) we in the US need to do our part and keep the pressure on them and our own reps both to kill the bills currently in Congress we can do it! #SaveSpeech

September 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM

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🔞Keesh 🍁🏳️‍🌈

@rakeeshsorrel.bsky.social

The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures.

This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech!

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

e-6695 (Consumer protection)

Keywords
Censorship Credit cards Internet Pornography

E-petition
Initiated by Carmen Tam from Waterloo, Ontario

Original language of petition: English
Petition details
Petition to the House of Commons
Whereas:

Mastercard, Visa, and other payment platforms have been leveraging their power over consumer ability to purchase legal content;
In 2021, Mastercard changed its policies to regulate adult entertainment by preventing the use of its payment platform on numerous adult entertainment sites;
As of July 2025, video game distribution service Steam now cites rule 15, that “adult only” content is not permitted on the platform if it goes against payment processor’s policies. Steam does not describe what content is defined as “adult only”;
As of July 2025, video game distribution website Itch.io has “deindexed” all adult NSFW content from browse and search pages. Users that previously purchased legitimate video games cannot access games that have been removed; and
This has set an unsettling precedent of corporate censorship, causing concern in video game development teams, including developers, voice actors, and artists in other creative fields as their livelihoods are in limbo.

We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to
1. Stop financial discrimination by payment platforms against legal goods and services;
2. Ensure transparency to consumers about content restrictions and the rationale behind them; and
3. Protect creators' rights to make legal adult content and ensure a fair appeals process for any penalized media.

September 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM

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Suzanne ✨🌑

@tendermiasma.com

I got my job working on Castlevania by drawing a comic that would be banned under bsky's new sexual content rules. If it was up to these ghouls I wouldn't have had my career

Use the feedback form to tell bsky to roll back these harmful policies and let us have creative freedom with a tagging system

September 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM

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Muepin

@muepin.art

The bad news keep coming

These go into effect Oct 15th

D. Adult Content: We provide a safe space for consensual adult expression by requiring clear consent and stopping abuse.

i. We allow consensual adult sexual content, including fictional depictions, when appropriately labeled and subject to appropriate age restrictions.

ii. We do not allow sexual content involving non- consensual activity including synthetic, simulated, illustrated, or animated versions.

September 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM

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Erin Bow

@erinbowbooks.bsky.social

We are not guessing about this. There are a metric ton of studies of pilot program and they all show the same thing.

Jon Munitz @jonmunitz.bsky.social · Sep 24

Universal Basic Income doesn’t make people stop working.
It makes people stop panicking.

Panicking about rent.
Panicking about bills.
Panicking about choosing between medicine and food.

Imagine what America could build if survival wasn’t our full-time job. #UBI

September 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM

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VƎX Werewolf

@vexwerewolf.bsky.social

Genuinely don't think I've seen a better metaphor for modern-day Christianity than this.

Self-aggrandizing, plutocratic, white-supremacist, popularity-obsessed, putting oneself on the same level as the savior but unwilling to shoulder the same burden. It's art, just not in the way they intended.

An old man drags a Christian cross in the style of Jesus in front of a massive stadium crowd. The cross has dolly wheels that touch the floor, meaning he's not having to shoulder much of the weight or put serious effort into dragging it.

September 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM

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Tired Art

@tired247.bsky.social

DPxDC Bleak Brothers AU
Everyone has seen the fics of Danny and Damian being brothers, now I must introduce Klarion to the mix because he is my favorite little guy
#dannyphantom #dpxdc #dc