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"will you be my mistress" is a family trait it seems

Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws | KQED Requiring internet users to verify their ages before accessing mature content may sound reasonable. Shouldn’t we be doing a better job protecting kids from online vulgarities? But free speech advocate...

I talked to @morgansung.bsky.social about sex work, surveillance, & censorship for close all tabs from kqed!

www.kqed.org/news/12075321

AI Is Detaining Sex Workers at the Border—and You’re Next Facial ID is being used to detain and ban sex workers from entering the country—and it’s a harbinger of a rapidly encroaching surveillance state fueled by artificial intelligence.

in my first for @thedailybeast.bsky.social, I wrote about sex workers’ getting detained by border patrol & how the idea of “artificial intelligence” gets weaponized to obscure & even justify the sexual harassment, stalking, & racism endemic throughout the tech industry

Today is International Sex Workers’ Rights Day, a time to support and uplift sex workers everywhere—and a particularly good day to throw some money to the United Brothel Workers in Nevada who were illegally terminated after their historic union drive with CWA went public! ☂️

One-Night Stands as Mindfulness Practice Situationship culture is grief unhealed. My body is here, today; it’s not a hostage to negotiate for a promise of tomorrow.

Latest musings: One-Night Stands as Mindfulness Practice
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Don't normally do this, but today I have a gastro and feel like death and this really cheered me up. So re-posting some praise for the Talking France podcast . . .

Listened for the first time today and I'm delighted and wish I'd discovered y'all 6 months ago when I first moved to Paris! You guys have perfected the exact coverage and info an expat and French-learner looks for

stuck in my usual platform migration paralysis so I'm now on both goodreads AND storygraph 🤷🏾‍♀️ go bookstalk me and let me bookstalk u

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me in a bikini thing on set

photographer setting up shoot. red high heels on set

behind the scenes

While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.

www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

Two years ago today.
RIP Aaron Bushnell.

Omg I read all 4 parts so quick!!!

Do More: Supporting Black Sex Workers (For Real) This Black History Month I'm serious. Ya'll can do better.

Just came across this excellent piece by @ellishendrix.bsky.social about we all can do better at supporting black SWers!

ellishendrix.substack.com/p/do-more-su...

This is also a story about caste! Hindutva apologists are far more likely to buy into this kind of MAGA-adjacent eugenicist horseshit if they are also caste supremacists! (Special fuck you to Gavin Newsom for vetoing the bill that would have banned caste discrimination in California.)

this was funny enough I really needed to engage more than a like

Sooo glad to hear that you & @projectenso.games turned the itch nonsense into a chance to go even bigger and cooler than ever! Wishlisted :)

The main capsule image for the game Our Wonderland showcasing all five characters along with a "Wish now on Steam" icon in the middle.

Thanks to the incredible kindness of @projectenso.games, my queer horror game Our Wonderland is coming to Steam! It'll be the remastered version packed with new art and goodies!

This is a second chance for the game after the itch deindexing. Wishlist it now!

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It's ALWAYS sex workers on the front lines. They're not just protecting themselves, they're setting a precedent for all the worker exploitation coming down the AI pipeline.

Nevada brothel workers are unionizing to protect their digital rights Management's new contract demands “everything”—and could hand their likenesses over to AI porn and sex bots.

“Their motivation is to get ahold of our videos and the ability to create AI likenesses.”

Your regular reminder that Palantir started out as a way to expose sex workers to police violence, then expanded to allow cops to spy on anyone they pointed at while barfing out the word "gang".

Fascists *created* Palantir, but useful idiots approved of everything done to grow it.

this is the lore!!!!!

if reading horny fanfic based on horny tv shows based on horny book was a job, I'd be done working for the year. #bridgerton #heatedrivalry

so true so true 😌

Life is good!!!

mirror selfie in bodysuit

I kissed so many people tonight

I'll be speaking at @techworkerscoalition.org's conference in Berlin in April! Get your early bird tickets asap if you want to catch my workshop on: 'Navigating censorship & digital exclusion: what we can learn from adult content creators' 💕

the heated rivalry actors were olympic torchbearers we are truly living in unprecedented yaoi times

Please help us reach our next stretch goal! Only €130 needed before we will add the People’s Court story arc to All Will Rise!

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There's more than one eiffel tower in Paris y'know