"Legal Nevada sex workers have experienced a massive and unprecedented wave of suspensions on X... When legal Nevada sex workers lose their accounts, their voices disappear from public debate. Nevada sex workers know what dangers their livelihood faces when they are kept out of the discussion."

THEY DID THE MEME THEY DID THE FUCKIN MEME

2025 was a tough year, but it’s important to celebrate some victories. So here are just a few of ours! 👊We mobilized queer communities, parents & youth to combat dangerous online censorship bills like KOSA. We even launched a flagship campaign to influence power at the state level. fftf.link/2026

Did you know we used to use exercise bras for this? Did you know that there's no law about selling exercise bras? Did you know most shop back-ends let you quickly edit consumer facing product titles without changing the backend you use for tracking? Anyways just sharing random neat facts

American Academy of Pediatrics Opposes New HHS Rules Restricting Access to Care for Families www.aap.org/en/news-... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Freedom for everybody Autonomy for everybody Health care for everybody Transgender for everybody

"Because nothing says 21st Century Florida like going after elderly queers for furtively exposing themselves amid the sunlit shrubbery". www.fox13news.com/news/florida...

Consent laws now protect sex workers against non-paying clients www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

"Man engages in actually-dangerous behavior after being harassed and pursued by law enforcement agents for not-actually-dangerous sexual behavior". www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow...

Officials in Tennessee aren't just banning books, they're now demanding information on who checked out contested (largely LGBTQ+) books, including names, addresses, and "household composition." A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.

These are the kind of laws and actions SWs such as myself have been seeking for decades. More than ten abusive individuals I have had personal contact with could have been prosecuted & made to pay for their actions this way. My piece on one of them will drop soon. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

What this means after intense lobbying by German car makers is that due to economies of scale they’ll produce only high end internal combustion cars which means rich people get to carry on polluting, so that’s nice www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Shielding people seen as weak only makes them weaker, and when they reach some "magical" age, prone to the same manipulations the shielding was meant to protect them against. OTOH, teaching critical thinking to young people makes them stronger. But it's hard and takes dedication from educators.

the "Ds would be a right wing european party" line has always been silly, but when applies to labour UK it's really moving into being actively harmful. Labour UK these days is defined by its transphobia and hatred of immigrants. they're a nightmare.

“From a linguistic lens, there are so few pieces of language that are in and of themselves harmful. It all depends on context.” — Zora Rush Hear more in this week’s Beyond the Filter: -> https://c4osl.org/beyond-the-filter-drawing-the-line-watchlist/

keeping kids from "explicit imagery" is literally always a cover for something foul. I don't think we should just grant that point to them. what, exactly is "explicit imagery" and how is it harmful?

The latest patch for the disastrous Online Safety Act? A "nudity blocker" installed on all UK devices. The OSA was supposed to protect kids online, but was so vaguely defined and unenforceable that the UK keeps inventing new, ever more invasive tools, like "nudity filters" and VPN bans as cover.

Myself, via Medium. medium.com/@waltonde/si...