The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art) Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...

From the late Jesse Hamm. My personal mantra for the past decade.

there is a cooking gas shortage in India now. My disabled father's household has one cylinder left. We're comfortable, and can manage somehow, but I can't stop thinking of the millions who don't have the money or privilege to find something, all because the US and Israel are their murderous selves

Not a lot of Indians on here to talk about this, but here's a petition opposing the Indian governments move 'to redefine the term “transgender person” & remove the principle of self-identified gender identity from the law [and reverse] the constitutional progress achieved in recent years.'

"Boys will boys" also applies to "what's a little molestation between the lads" with a side of "grin and bear it and some day you'll be able to do it to your lessers". Yeah, turns out that valuing and endorsing aggression, domination and violence leads to deeply maladaptive social norms.

As Talia says, SA is a normalized part of male homosociality. That doesn't make it not SA. It's made to be accepted as "just boys being boys" and then repeated and inherited by those most desiring power. bsky.app/profile/tali...

cw SA The replies to this post for the most part (with a few exceptions) indicate that rape culture is still largely accepted on the left. "Well, if it happened so many times, he probably wanted it." "He was clearly asking for it." The answer to his question is yes, even if he downplays it.

If I'm being totally honest, this is a perfect expression of a thing that's in my heart these days: anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I am a black person before being furry, queer, etc, so it does affect how I move around the world and life i will always speak up (along with my own experiences) about antiblackness and how pervasive it is both on online spaces, progressive spaces too, and irl.

Trying to skip to the "think about how sad all this imperial violence made us" bit that the US is so well known for, I see.

what if i said that the "matriarchy" myth is a colonial construction used to justify eurocolonial patriarchy ("agrarian matriarchies evolve into industrial patriarchies") and the egalitarian indigenous political formations that existed simply had a weak-to-irrelevant gendered division of labour

I was in tears earlier today as i fear this will most likely wipe me out financially. I know i should have made this post a month earlier. I was struggling so hard with asking for help. This is becoming dire, as the date of surgery is in about less than a month💜 I would appreciate a share!

I really wish this kind of analysis came from journalists and properly credited academics and not "ok_longbottom43", 2 week old reddit account who dumped his data on a brqnd new github profile 12 hours ago.

I can’t get over how Cultural Revolution the DOGE story is, these young people doing crimes they didn’t understand on behalf of a political leader

The untold loss of civilian and soldier lives is devastating—all for nothing. iran-cost-ticker.com

www.reddit.com/r/linux/s/jf... Mega thread on who is behind these age verification laws, spoiler alert it’s Meta.

in india, half the legislative work is about slowly ship of theseus-ing law into excluding as many members of a minority as possible social policies can keep "succeeding" if their definition of success is satisfying the 3 people out of 3 million who could jump through all the hoops they put up.

"provide precise definition" fuck OFF this is such a ridiculous way to launder what the fuck this bill's trying to do

So we’re all buying the hell out of this, right? It was already going to be a badass game anyway

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Someone should ask Mayor Mamdani at his press conference if he intends to direct H+H to absorb the trans youth patients from NYU Langone and other regional hospitals that illegally ended care, and if he plans to hold them accountable with NYC’s human rights ordinances. He still has no comment.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Great North Minneapolis aid opportunity

The current Canadian government is trying to fast track Bill C-9, "the Combatting Hate Act" through Parliament. This bill is an attempt to squash and silence people's legal right to protest and strike. Please take a moment to sign this petition opposing C-9. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

If you want to push back against platform censorship like what now happened with subscribestar, you need to call your reps and demand opposition to these bills/policies Get family and friends involved. Explain the stakes in clear terms.

Article starts right off with "proper women just don't like sex, and any woman who does has been brainwashed" puritanical fascist rhetoric. So you know where this came from and where it's headed.

This division has been essential to the concept of "pornography," which developed in the late 1700s. Pompeii's scandalous erotic were spirited away to the "il Gabinetto Segreto" — the Secret Cabinet — where they could be "studied" by scholars without accidentally corrupting poors or women.

It is always *other* weaker-brained people who are subject to porn's magical powers, never the author or the powerful. "I used to think that people could consent privately, but now I think they shouldn't be trusted"

Historically, the idea was that poor and working class (largely non-white) people can not be trusted with pornography, or that they were unduly influenced by it. Only wealthy, white, male elites could be trusted with such sensitive concepts. This same thinking is mirrored today:

"Make Porn Expensive Again" is part of a long tradition — from the Catholic Church to Jeffrey Epstein — of separate sexual ethics for the elite. Stunning, though I guess not shocking, to see it rise again.

Remember they're going to eventually designate THIS as pornographic if we don't speak up about it

More and more, people will ask, "Hey, why did this artist stop drawing as much BDSM with very domineering tops? Why can't I find as much new content of this ship? Why did my favorite VTuber stop doing my favorite fetish? Why does she create only vanilla content now, Mommy Domme stuff dropped off?"

I don't think a lot of people understand what's about to happen Imagine there being a huge drop off in diversity of adult content on the internet. Artists, voice actors, animators, they can no longer host and create certain kinds of 18+ material online safely, so more and more of it disappears

this is already happening, yeah - Like Yeogui is redesigning her characters (twins no longer twins, making them older-looking, no more beast-girls etc.) and no more tears or pained faces. Because it's her actual job, not just a side-hustle, she can't afford risking getting shut down!

People will not realize the impact the SubStar bans and so on will have until it starts hitting their own personal tastes and interests, but increasingly what's happening is the narrowing of new pornographic content into a more vanilla direction. And then even that will narrow further.

You'll not see a lot of reporting from game press about adult content and the bans. For several reasons (read @acvalens.com for some), one among them that indie sites rely on the same payment processors that are demanding these content restrictions. To be blunt: Reporting is financially dangerous.

On twitter, someone was doing this nonsense and I said 'that's just the noble savage trope', and they went 'savage you just called me a savage', then spent some time shrieking that I was racist.

No one is being brainwashed by fetish art into doing things in real life Peddling harmful conservative rhetoric in the guise of "protecting victims"? That's the same as KOSA, SCREEN, and KIDS acts that keep being pushed into law That IS harmful and affects people's thoughts

On my livestream this week, two of the leading stories concerned KOSA and Ticketmaster. At first, I thought this selection was just obvious for me. I’m a tech policy geek, a music geek, and a live performer. However, there’s a more chilling connection…. Full story: ronplacone.substack.com

#savespeech #stopKOSA #notodigitalID "We are certainly looking to move forward with KOSA and COPPA 2.0 and KOSMA altogether." www.politico.com/live-updates... While he may not side on repealing Section 230, he STILL wants mass surveillance bills. Call your reps: www.congress.gov/members/find...

Keep calling your reps and call Cruz and the CST Committee to oppose KOSA, KOSMA, and other censorship bills

I'm sorry but "we went too far in fighting racism" is not a take I consider serious from absolutely anyone who considers themselves on the left so long as mass incarceration, the eviction crisis, the school to prison pipeline, educational segregation, lead water pipes, and the economic draft exist.

Hell, we are currently fighting a LITERAL WAR motivated by racism. "You're not being nice enough to white people" or "you call too many things racist" are a fucking joke. We don't call nearly enough things racist to be honest.

"Bhatt does important work here by showing us how these misguided, prejudicial critiques are still baked into discourses that bind us to inaction today." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-radi...

Censorship of queer lives is rising - from algorithms burying stories to AI-driven misinformation 🏳️‍🌈 That’s why we’ve pledged to improve access to LGBTQIA+ journalism - but we can’t do it alone. 🚨 And right now, your donation is doubled thanks to matchfunding! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/queeraf202...

Hi, please contact your representatives to tell them to veto KOSA, the SCREEN ACT, KIDS ACT, and the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act. It is all a bunch of censorship and government surveillance. www.stopkosa.com #StopKOSA

I know calling reps is very nerve racking. You're not sure what's the right thing to say, and tbh having a script thrown at me makes things just as nerve racking. I called today, and I figured I'd write up a transcript of how my call went down. Hopefully it helps demystify the process

You should hammer all these reps who voted yes on the KIDS Act. Additionally, keep contacting your other reps as well

KOSA: government censorship and age verification crap Screen Act: age verification crap and government surveillance KIDS ACT: government surveillance Interstate Obscenity Definition Act: this bullshit bill will ban all porn even if the people in it are over 18