The O in Crocs stands for “Old Guard”

Wearing heels and a dress on stage at IML isn't subversive anymore, but wearing Birkenstocks with white socks definitely is, in case titleholders are looking for new ways to stand out.

I know that locally I don't have this issue because we don't do contests, but imagine if instead of your local titleholder pestering you to buy a raffle ticket "for the starving children", it was instead for all the gaping holes begging to be filled. They'd be a fucking hero.

*You have joined the group "Leather Leadership Discussion"* Me: I think it's infinitely more community-minded to fundraise to rent a warehouse space for a huge fisting party than to donate it to a 501c3 [Several people are typing...]

I've been frustratingly sick since Friday evening and aside from my everything being sore and having a constant headache and having no energy, the worst aspect has easily been how I'm simultaneously bored as hell but doing literally everything takes too much effort

One exciting aspect of our new web app going live next Sunday is that the design is heavily coupled to the content so I can just tell anybody who wants to add a section with lime green text and a leather grain background image that we simply don't have the technical capabilities to handle that

There was a rat trapped in the compost bin, but I freed it by knocking the bin over with a stick and screaming and running away. I am benevolent and also very butch.

If you're findomming a straight dude you have to call tributes "breeder bucks", these are the new rules passed down from the Council of Elders

Al D. Sowers was body modification artist and educator. He co-founded the Association of Professional Piercers and was a founding member of Seattle Men in Leather. Sowers served on the boards of Generic Leather Productions and Washington State Mr. Leather.

I like that everybody in the "talking about kink into a microphone" world knows of BLUF and talks about BLUF but doesn't actually know what the acronym stands for, so there's always this pregnant pause when they're like "Boots and Leather... Unified... Fetish"

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You can probably see My smile

Very much in a mood to gear up, stuff my hole with a plug, and go for a ride on the Harley

Thursday fun before a trip to the bar

We are so back

*Ian McKellan in the marching scene from Apt Pupil voice* Be careful boy, you play with fire

Sadists take note: If you ever want to hurt me emotionally, deeply to my core, you will become a photographer and pressure me to do a Charlies Angels pose for whatever event you're promoting

Dehumanize your friends

Kink influencer tips: Know your "brand". For example, my "brand" is extremely serious analysis of the Leather subculture and identity punctuated with shit like "I hung the sorting hat off of my erection as a joke without realizing that it's sentient. Anyway, it said I'm Ravenclaw"

While you're all excited about Bad Bunny performing at the super bowl, I'm sitting here watching figure skating hoping that somebody performs to Not Like Us or Euphoria

I bet the phrase "the purpose of a system is what it does" goes hard if you're in drone headspace

Real True Authentic Old Guard Leather is being able to identify whether somebody is staying at Hotel Riu, Hotel One, or Titanic based on their elevator selfies.

If anybody has a copy of Painfully Obvious, please reach out because it has been a good 15 years since I read it and it has all but disappeared

Decided to spend some time reading books on leather culture. Gimme your recommendations. Biggest influences on me from writers in the space have probably been Robert Davolt and Guy Baldwin

Now more than ever, our connections out hugely important. And us Doms need to ensure our subs never forget how important they are to us. It’s not just about the sex and the play.

Well now I've seen both of the things I was going to joke about on my timeline this morning so now I definitely can't make the joke

I had a really good joke this morning but I can't post it without making a bunch of people think I'm subtweeting about them even if I promise it isn't about anyone and is just a silly thought I had

I inquired about @reconnews.bsky.social's absence of the things that make recon worth using in the "pilot" version of their app. This is how they responded.

My guesstimate is that the "feed" is more technically demanding than anticipated and they are sunsetting anything that requires background jobs and isn't used extensively.

I can't imagine how something so lightweight as a daily job to temporarily change locations for accounts could possibly need to be sunsetted, unless the way it was being handled in the backend was really, really funny

Please RT/QT for visibility and reach. I'm curious what your local leather/sm club dues are, annually? And what do those dues get you? In Vancouver, VML's dues are $25 (plus processing fees of like $1.70) Members get exclusive events (BBQs, etc), retail discounts, advanced Rsvp'ing etc

@iml-imbb.bsky.social featuring its streaming establishments on social media means that IML Bingo might be going corporate in Vancouver next year (also we can't do it at my house again because I'll be at IMLBB)

The idea of someone doing this is one of those things that's a hilarious hypothetical until you find out that this has actually happened before and probably more than once.

The leather contest scene could use a badass/heel in it. A real Pete Weber type of character who has his own "Who do you think you are? I AM!" moment when he wins a title and his speeches are about how the other contestants are lousy at sex.

Responding with "oooh big stretch!" when a sub prostrates himself before me

Master @stiefelkopp.bsky.social and I redden his slave's ass. #paddling

Serious wondering if I would be able to write and publish a production-quality version of @reconnews.bsky.social's new web app before they do (they have it slated to be released in 2nd quarter of this year), and might actually try to during evenings/weekends as a fun challenge.

Everybody wanna to be an obedient service object but don't nobody wanna decorate the back of the bar for a community fundraiser

I'm told the gym I have been going to this weekend in PS is not good because it's not cruisy and the equipment is a few years old My usual gym is a community centre where the last upgrades were done before I'm born, the fact that there is a flat bench and an incline bench is a luxury to me

I wish I was a pro wrestler, not for the homoeroticism or the fame, but for the airline points I would accumulate

It only took 9 hours but I have prod running. 2-3 significant documented bugs to hammer out in staging, writing documentation so that I can safely *redacted* myself when somebody tells me they don't like the shade of blue I use, and then this can go live.

Today's comedy of errors is going to be setting up the production environment for the VML app.

Have you ever written a D/s-heavy text message to a play buddy and send it, then immediately hear a family member's phone ding in the other room and get worried that you accidentally told a relative you want to waterboard them with your morning piss? Or is that just something that happens to me?

Just saw a guy describe himself as a "dominate [sic] service top" and a "straight-leaning queer" and immediately started projectile vomiting

Most of my 2026 goals involve buying and wearing leather and uniforms.

I asked chatGPT to generate a file I can import into Anki and it responds with "Now you're starting to understand what it means to be a beginner language learner -- sentences are not just words put together, they are the essence of A1 German" Cool, great, I'm so glad 5 trees died to shit that out.

"This is quite an invention. What do you call it?" "The contrapti--- err, the fruit machine"

It may have been a human rights violation, but I still think it's funny that to try to keep gay men out of the RCMP, they basically invented the Avro Arrow of jacking off and strapped recruits into it

I can tell I'm in a foul/depressed mood because I want to post hot takes.