"Russia’s internet regulator reportedly blocked access to Bluesky, the latest move in a widening crackdown on foreign online services.... Bluesky remains accessible in Russia through virtual private networks (VPNs), whose use the Kremlin has increasingly tried to restrict."

Could we get some of this energy here

The Trump Administration is launching a campaign to push age-verification in foreign countries: "The memo from the State Department directs diplomats to encourage their host countries to pursue policies that keep children safe from the dangers of online pornography and sexual abuse"

Hollywood's feverish version of what adult content creation is fueling the antiporn campaigns. I JUST WISH THEY WOULD BOTHER TO CONSULT A CREATOR.

Wow Swalwell and then Gonzales both running like somebody told them there’s a hole in the side of the girls’ locker room

Kissing Trump's ring wasn't just a political necessity, it was gratitude. Thanks to the vast assault on civil liberties, every organization I work with is stretched and resource starved. Meta says that gives it an opening to introduce surveillance tech that would normally face activist pushback.

Once, again: listen to sex workers. This issue was first flagged to me over a year ago by @sinnamonlove.blacksky.app who noted how surveillance tech would be used to stalk and out sex workers at industry shows like AVN. And that's on top of clients using them to secretly record sessions.

"Porn addiction" surfaced in the mainstream media around the time of the Josh Duggar case, but I'm not sure how far back it goes. It's used since to absolve everything from assault to queerness, but I don't know that anyone has fully covered it or the connection. Def needs a deeper dive.

don't tell me I don't know what Vietnam is like

“Bellesa Boutique said today that Instagram permanently deleted its account for using the word clitoris.”

It really is just a compliment machine, made by and for guys who weren't getting compliments anymore.

“We need to think very carefully about the ramifications of what that would mean for innovation on the internet and what that would mean for the openness and freedoms that we all enjoy.”

“This legislation would have kicked Greta Thuneberg off social media before she organized her first climate protest. How does that make kids safer?” www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04...

The new social media ban in Massachusetts is so sweeping in its definition of "social media" that it would require age-verification for Wikipedia. You don't protect kids by cutting off resources. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

if only someone could have warned us of exactly this

I know it's late, but I need you all to realize that as soon as we started paying attention to these races, Moms for Liberty & their ilk, started losing. They exploited a window of apathy & did a lot of damage, but they just cannot win when actually opposed. No unopposed elections anywhere.

Rex Heuermann-Gilgo Beach Killer-is pleading guilty to the murder of 7 women 15 yrs after the 1st body was found. He likely killed more. He was allowed to go on killing bec violence against sex workers is seen as their fault. I wrote abt it in @teenvogue.com in 2023 www.teenvogue.com/story/gilgo-...

I’ve reached the age that I’m buying a vibrator actually to massage my neck 😭

Has Congress yet called for better training for the President?

Drink some water Take a deep breath Make sure you eat today Take your meds Practice your self care routine Don't give in to panic Don't let despair win

If youre still on X, these are the things that seem to be triggering the suspensions: (Yes, this info is from Grok. No, I didnt make the query, this is screencapped from someone else so miss me w the moralizing) Direct mentions of money for services (even digital) are the main culprit: #femdom

"Enacted as regulations of any content "harmful to minors," these could be used against sex educators, sexual health organizations, reproductive freedom groups, sex worker rights advocates, transgender rights advocates, and queer creators of all sorts... It's an urgently needed inquiry."

"Governor Evers’ veto won’t stop the movement. But it provides a template for the argument that needs to be made more often and more loudly: that the Constitution doesn’t permit the government to build a checkpoint at the entrance to the internet, no matter how sympathetic the justification."

If you let them ban porn, they will call you pornographic when they ban you.

Hey random Phoenix fact AFAIK im the only person who runs a continual December 17 list D17 is the international day to end violence against sex workers. And a lot of my job is making a list if sex workers who have died. So I mostly read about my colleagues being brutally murdered every day

PRIVACY RISK ALERT: Relevant to Venmo/Paypal users, sharing from a colleague: Venmo is owned by PayPal, and today, they unveiled a feature allowing you to send and receive money to and from PayPal accounts, not just Venmo accounts.

knaves, fools, and murderers there may be

Age verification is an enterprise including those on the right and left. That is very true. And I recognize that. But my recent piece for The Baffler is about these efforts being led, predominately, by the far-right in the United States. Just saying. thebaffler.com/latest/paper...

pretty sure the Times has a gif of an octopus glory hole on its front page www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

Feminist support for the Nordic Model is often rooted in clear, articulated goals: reducing violence, limiting exploitation, and challenging gendered power imbalances. These goals are not in dispute. The problem arises when alignment with those goals is treated as evidence that a policy works.

Phew. This has been a long torturous fight you have no idea

"The assumption the adult entertainment industry is 'recession-proof' is looking more dubious by the day. For digital sex workers, these issues are compounded... [Age-verification laws] are proving even more costly for the people who actually work in the online adult entertainment industry."

Thanks to @annaroseiovine.bsky.social at @mashable.com for continuing to report on the harms of age verification legislation and sharing our preliminary data on the impact of AV on sex educators. mashable.com/article/age-...

"Again and again, we were told this was only about keeping minors from accessing porn. Woodhull warned these vague and overly broad policies would also result in censorship, and the data bear this out. The current age-verification protocols are ripe for abuse, and educators are right to be scared."

“‘All I’m going to say is that I stand by my decision,’ she said… “Much of the audience at the board meeting broke into cheers and applause after her statement. Chants of ‘shame’ were heard as board members voted to fire her...” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

Exactly as we said it would happen. This isn’t the only thing at risk with these bad internet bills, too. It’s abortion services, gender studies, suicide prevention, topics on discrimination etc. Anything deemed “inappropriate” by your attorney general can be targeted.

"Attorney General Pam Bondi begged Donald Trump not to fire her in an explosive showdown at the White House after he accused her of an unforgivable offense." make this into one of those sexy AI fruit videos pls

As a reproductive health worker trained as a midwife, it’s already extremely difficult to get “approval” to teach sex-ed this is going to make it even harder. Oh by the way the largest women’s sexual health platform on Meta was banned from IG yesterday for using anatomical language, ie “clitoris”

And here we have it, tangible evidence that attacks on porn are also attacks on sex ed and sexual health:

facial recognition is dangerous when it works and dangerous when it doesn't work it should be banned in almost every use case

"Despite promises that age-verification laws would simply prevent minors from accessing adult sites, a majority of sexual health professionals say the laws are threatening sex education and other resources." www.woodhullfoundation.org/press-releas...

73% of sex educators are concerned that age-verification laws will impact their work, practice, or resources, according to preliminary results from our national survey of sex educators and other sexual health professionals released today.

Turns out another big tech company (OpenAI) was entirely funding another big “kids online safety” group, who could have predicted!!

Bimbofication isn't new and it isn't gender-limited. And there's a long history of right-wing obsession with it.

spasmodically dilating and contracting his spout-hole, with sharp, cracking, agonized respirations

“Compared to the 1990s — when studios had to worry mainly about theatrical, home video, cable and broadcast — the distribution model in 2026 seems much more confusing. A distributor summarized the situation as “chaotic.””

Censorship becomes just another grift. "Your state passes harmful legislation that removes and censors books, and then you have companies appear that then want to charge districts to review their collections”

Ohio's proposed drag ban would also ... ban sports bras. "Specifically, the bill changes Ohio’s pre-existing indecency statute to criminalize public exposure of a 'private area' − which includes a 'female breast below the top of the areola, whether nude or *covered by an undergarment*'"

"There is plenty of legitimate fodder for criticism in Kristi Noem's record. No one needs to go digging into her husband's sex life for fuel... The Noems have enough to answer for. Let's not let a pair of balloon tits distract us from that."