Too many people are forgetting these things too quickly:
-SESTA/FOSTA passed. Despite the many, many warnings of sex workers.
-A bunch of apps started their censorship policies because Apple directly threatened their revenue if they didn’t promise to cut down on the amount of porn on their sites
-MasterCard and VISA tried to outright stop processing OnlyFans work SPECIFICALLY because of the association with sex work, and no other feasible financial reason.
There is not a sudden regressive movement among individual people. Free The Nipple didn’t fade into obscurity because people didn’t care. It was stopped. By policies. By laws. By arrests. By censorship. These things have been purposefully put in place by companies and politicians. They saw the work we were trying to do wrt bodily autonomy, sexual liberation, and sexual freedom, and they forcibly put a stop to it.
I see US tech jounalists on Mastodon, once again, charging against the EU for “damaging european users” by forcing companies to deliver “a subpar experience”. So let me paste something I wrote over there a few weeks ago:
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I keep seeing very important US tech journalist here talking about how Threads not launching in the EU is: - somehow shameful and a sign of how “you can’t innovate in the EU” - a problem for the EU, which will led us to creative interpretations of the GDPR to finally allow Meta to launch here.
And I think folks from the US tech scene really, really don’t understand several things:
1) how incredibly hostile the EU (and a good chunk of the European political parties) are to “big tech”. 2) how surprisingly immune to lobbying the EU Parliament appears to be. 3) how actually popular it’s that the politicians take a hard stance against macrocorps. Every time the European Commission has gone against big tech most the press and the people have cheered them as our champions against evil.
And I can’t even start describing how IMPORTANT for the future could be that people started being able to turn off YouTube algorithmic recommendations. I think YouTube shares with meta, pretty much 50/50, the responsibility for the global resurgence of fascism we have seen in the last decade.
the discord server with a friend group i run decided theyd like to add an NSFW channel which so far has been terrible. for them. theyve found out new things about the world and about themselves ever since we added it and im entirely to blame
none of it is my fault since they asked for the channel and opened the flood gates when one of them outed me as being into vore. like oh you think youre funny for that. im gonna be hilarious then
I can’t believe a humble security guard saved our planet from the aliens.
This is PROBABLY one of those times where they hired a professional dancer to dress up as a security guard for the bit, but I don’t even care because the man SOLD IT
@theriu His name is Willis Harris, and he really was working as a security guard.
ever since my gf and i moved in together a couple years ago i’ve been semi-regularly executing something i call a “prank night.” this is something you want to do frequently enough that it’s not a special occasion, but spontaneously enough to make it a prank. the set-up for a prank night is simple
listen to your partner and take note of a couple things she’s putting off doing, as well as a couple things she’s been wanting
wait for a day when your partner is out of the house for work or errands
tell them that you’ll be playing videogames/hanging out with the guys/doing very little all day. this way her guard will be down
now you can execute the four core aspects of the prank night
act of service. complete a chore or task that you know she’s been dreading. doing the dishes/cleaning the living room/making an appointment/doing the groceries, etc.
lil gift. flowers, chocolate, anything that you know she wants but hasn’t felt justified in getting for herself
sustenance. a charcuterie board, a homecooked meal, her favorite snack, or a fancy cocktail can all work
fourth, final, most important, when she gets home you sit her down and eat her out like she’s your last meal on death row
The Look On The Girlfriend’s Face Will Be Awesome!
