just a creature 🔞

There's an app for every OS from what I can tell, you can functionally have the same thing like servers and channels. Why are we so obsessed with sucking Discord's dick?

Why doesn't anyone wanna move to Element/Matrix over Discord when it's actually encrypted and private? Especially for non discord and paypro approved content? What am I fucking missing here lmao 😭

what if i said that the "matriarchy" myth is a colonial construction used to justify eurocolonial patriarchy ("agrarian matriarchies evolve into industrial patriarchies") and the egalitarian indigenous political formations that existed simply had a weak-to-irrelevant gendered division of labour

They steal your work, they dumb you down, they make your electricity more expensive, they take your water and your livelihood.

But at least you’ll get opportunity of a lifetime: information that according to one BBC study is likely to be wrong 51% of the time!

Incredible“progress” 💀

No joke, I think this might be one of the most important roles for tech-savvy Millennials/Gen Xers.

We caught a glimpse of an amazing world, one that was almost entirely free of corporate or political influence because the suits hadn’t caught on yet. We could talk with ANYONE in an age of landlines

NSFW Artists being attacked on all fronts while the government actively protects pedos is fucking nuts and shouldn't be ignored.

I really wish this kind of analysis came from journalists and properly credited academics and not "ok_longbottom43", 2 week old reddit account who dumped his data on a brqnd new github profile 12 hours ago.

if you value a free and democratic society then you have to trust the vast majority of people have sound moral understanding, and respond penally only when they prove otherwise.

and if you can't do that then I beg that you go to therapy instead of becoming a fascist or a useful idiot to one.

in the same way they look at anything erotic and think that THEY can separate fantasy from real world impact but others can't. It's why you run into so many hypocrites who are into something like incest noncon smut but it's okay bc THEY know it's bad, unlike everyone else who actually wants it irl

moral policers have it in their heads they uniquely are able to infer moral understanding out of fiction but everyone else can't, like most don't come out of watching Saw traumatized or Grave of the Fireflies heartbroken, it must be because they like it the sick perverts.

these are not okay people

looking to a text for moral affirmation is the function of propaganda or religion, and that's what moral policers are trying to morph fiction into

art is not a holy bible nor is it a judicially approved social etiquette manual, it's inherently transgressive because YOU do the critical engagement

I feel like so many people who have never experienced the things they want to censor are the most vocal PRECISELY BECAUSE they have never experienced it, they are so fucking scared of it they dont even want to be reminded that it exists or that some people might enjoy it for Literally Any Reason

And yeah like. Shit's scary! It's reasonable to not want to interact with [insert squicky trope here]. But like. Some people are survivors who find community in portraying their struggle. And some of us like horror!!! Which sometimes will portray horrible things!!! Kind of the point!!!!!

lot of people on this site soaking themselves stupid making posts like "stop saying gross shit is ok" when people are very clearly saying "you are allowed to think something is absolutely vile but trusting the government/companies/paypros w the morality barometer is HISTORICALLY really dumb"

This is highly important for Americans. The Fed is highly independent and has teeth. This isn't just about art, either, but speech in general. Please comment if you can, and leave your information on your comment if you're willing. They are likely to listen if enough public support shows itself.

The infantilization of people like me never ceases and I'm never not angry about it. Fuck all of you who clung to your performative morality. I wish you the worst.

"Minor coded" logic being made into policy is so ridiculous. There are real life adults who have body proportions and features that others might label "commonly associated with minors". This policy, in an insidious effort to morally police people, casts such a wide net that it captures *adults*.

ALSO PARDON THE FUCK FUCK OUTTA ME, but I don't think the whole "porn addiction" and "gooner" discourse appearing at the same time as payment processors applying the squeeze is a fuckin COINCIDENCE.

Fun fact we've already crossed beyond BDSM because choking porn is illegal in britain which I imagine most people wouldn't even consider to be "true" BDSM, and anal is still considered sodomy and therefore illegal in a shockingly large amount of places too.

Hays Code was self enforced! So was Comics Code Authority! These weren’t laws and look what still lasted DECADES and destroyed careers/freedom of expression. US comics industry never recovered from it bc comics aimed at adults still aren’t a thing, that’s why manga filled the market gap.

tapping the sign again:
no, sanitizing queer spaces of “problematic art” was never going to discourage them from censoring & criminalizing us, their goal isn’t “acceptable” queer expression, it’s none at all.

wake the fuck up & stop projecting your discomfort onto others.

Reminder that the only time Mastercard has flinched is when outrage was directed at them. Attacking platforms like SubscribeStar for Visa/Mastercard's extralegal censorship is exactly the deflection they want.

Re: contacting your reps: don't overthink your method too much. Just contact. Express your concerns. And do it often. Once a week, if you can.

We need action now. No hesitation because you're worried "what is best" or "how you sound" -- these are things you'll get better at doing so just ACT.

im grabbing your hand to tell you. it’s not too late to start wearing a mask again. it’s better to wear a mask 1/4 of the time (or whatever your percent looks like) than not at all. there’s no shame in starting to be covid safe again even if you havent been for a long time. its okay

If you want to push back against platform censorship like what now happened with subscribestar, you need to call your reps and demand opposition to these bills/policies

Get family and friends involved. Explain the stakes in clear terms.

SubscribeStar.adult | Prohibited Content and Use

Its been brought to my attention that SubscribeStar has updated its content policies and is now much, much more strict wrt the kinds of content it will host

subscribestar.adult/prohibited_c...

From somebody who knew nothing of this to somebody who now calls daily, it took like 30 minutes to learn and takes like 10 minutes a day. Even though I'm barely online anymore due to having lotsa responsibilities, I make the time to do it.

Pick up your phone and start makin' trouble for the nazis.

Remember that with this administration you're probably going to get more traction if you couch it in terms like "I don't want big government deciding what I can spend my money on!" and "my First Amendment rights!" and "it's against the free market for banks to do this."

Federal Reserve Board - Proposal Details The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.

The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art)

Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money

www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...

mini vent?

I truly don't see how people can have the energy to surround themselves with a social circle that's nothing but drama, chaos and two-faced behavior?

Those kind of people are NOT good for anyone's wellbeing. Surround yourself with HEALTHY people who uplift you, not drain you.✌️