As more places around the world—including U.S. states—pass laws requiring age checks around the internet, we're continuing to see a slew of unintended (but entirely predictable) consequences. reason.com/2025/09/03/m...

A personalist dictatorship can have no settled policy except the will of the leader. No facts matter, no principles other than the leadership principle (Fuhrerprinzip)

Civil holidays, retirement, and plum pie: maggiemcneill.com/2025/09/02/d...

It's so weird how Greenwald and Nate Silver and the like—who aren't even here—keep insisting that Bluesky is pro-DNC, when I've yet to see anyone here ever say anything nice about the DNC at all. Also, evaporating? Lol. Bluesky now sends WAY more traffic to @techdirt.com than Twitter *ever* did.

"U.S. manufacturing contracted for a sixth straight month in August as factories dealt with the fallout from the Trump administration's import tariffs, with some manufacturers describing the current business environment as "much worse than the Great Recession." www.reuters.com/business/us-...

Surprise, surprise. AV providers are disclosing personal information. "An age verification provider is potentially leaking information about people visiting porn sites... AgeGO receives requests disclosing the site being visited as well as a link to the exact video the person is trying to access"

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Words are magic

fascinating to see the same people who are sad about kids spending less time outside and more time on screens *also* arguing that you need to warn your kids not to play ding ding ditch because you might get shot and unfortunately that's just the world we live in. Why would they want to go outside?

A law like this in the US would prohibit someone from selling your mugshot without your permission.

They're using the word "grok" to mean MechaHitler. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

This morning's view over town and sea.💫

Do It !

idk which branch of Christianity this is, but if there’s a pamphlet or something, you have my interest

Too real. 😠

Pretty good one!

I'll be in San Antonio next month to present our documentary on the decriminalization of sex work.

This is Macy. She is auditioning for the role of Water Bud, which is the sequel to Air Bud but they master a new element. 14/10 (TT: macyalbright & tylerstryit)

"The police in China have detained dozens of young women authors in a genre of gay erotica widely known in Asia as “boys’ love” during a nationwide crackdown on online pornography, lawyers and activists familiar with the cases say."

Because it's not the 1800's and it's supposedly not a shithole country.

Voters are being shamed for not choosing this highly electable progressive dynamo.

Because they're part of the problem.

hanger = clothes hangar = airplanes Hanksar = Where Tom Hanks parks his airplane

The Klan masks so they can go to work the next day as cops & pastors.

We want ICE out of our Hospitals.

ICE be gone forever!

Actually, he makes every room dumber just by slouching into it. I mean, LOOK at this cretin:

A man attacked a sex worker while out on bail for assaulting another worker. How exactly did the law protect either of these women? Under the 2017 legislation, sex workers have faced ever greater physical threats due to increased stigma and isolation. www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/man-...

Texas Rep. Nate Schatzline, sponsor of the bill that effectively bans the public display of LGBTQ+ books — or any books that reference sex — in order to protect children from "harmful materials" ... has voted against a bill to ban child marriages.

VOCAL-NY Leader, Noam Cohen, sharing his experience living in a shelter. In 2024, encampment sweeps led to less than 4% being placed in shelters. And those who got into permanent housing: ZERO.

NYC showing up! We need real solutions to homelessness, like housing and healthcare. Encampment sweeps, involuntary commitments, & shelter sanctions policy DON'T WORK. The NYPD's new "Quality of Life" division won't help if there's no resources or housing for people. Enough with the half measures!

It's an absolutely bizarre bill only criminalizes porn if you purchase it from a creator themselves. Studio content and pre-recorded content are exempted. As with all "Nordic model" legislation, it actually takes away independence and agency and requires sex workers to work through third-parties.

Ah, the age-old feminist tradition of taking money from a woman and putting it back into the hands of men.

Sex workers consensually fuck for fair amounts of money. Politicians non-consensually fuck people OVER for ruinous amounts of money.

Sweden just expanded the Nordic Model, or "End Demand," to the internet. But we already know criminalization, including criminalizing buyers, is harmful policy www.404media.co/sweden-sex-w...

If this bill becomes law, ICE will become the best-resourced law enforcement agency in the history of the country, with more funding for detention than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons.

Tbh I'm not sure why it's controversial to say that sex workers are the canaries in the coal mine Unless your goal is to create division

Brief respite ✨️

Remember when people used to say I was wrong and crazy for saying both US "parties" were just two wings of one Fascist party? Good times.

He gets first-class treatment while he denied medical treatment for others while in office. Fuck him and fuck you.

“Don’t call us the Gestapo”, say the guys in masks without ID who are disappearing people to camps.

A good ruling in that Massachusetts case where the state was trying to bring sex trafficking charges against people who answered a fake sex worker ad reason.com/2025/05/19/m...