So you have left-aligned sites that are effectively blocked for many people and right aligned sites that have easy access. To get on a site with legal content you have to agree to be surveilled and while Virtual Epstein Islands operate with impunity.
If I were a conspiratorial thinker ..
Right-wing politicians spent the past three years using age-verification to block access to legal adult sites that a) ban deepfakes b) require consent and c) verify performer age.
All while pushing AV exemptions for right-aligned platforms like 4chan and X.
“kinetics conflict” blow me from the back mark
imagining the parallel world where the Democratic Party kept Mondale as their leader and face of the party for 25 fuckin years
of course we can't even get half of Democrats to stop voting for his nominees and policies
soo
proof:
shout out to bluesky's lead programmer who dipped his mobile phone in his pool to 'cool it off' and then didn't understand why it broke
Joss Whedon doesn't like women enough to concieve of Aisha Clanclan because he's a fucking bastard
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
Do not forgive, do not forget, cancel your nitro
Literally pulling the "well we're just going to wait and hope people forget"
I think the biggest damage to the art community was the obsolescence of gallery sites (y!, deviantart, etc) and the rise of scroll-by social media, like twitter and even tumblr. Art is not ''content'', you shouldnt need to post art every day (or every month!) to be relevant. This mindset sucks.
#RE9
Commission
bit out of character for them to go after an entity with actual power as opposed to putting an emulator developer in jail for 400 years
*through gritted teeth so hard blood is coming out of my gums* … critical support to… Nintendos lawyers…
trump is taking political hits on iran is because he is now undermining his supporters' ability to win online arguments. you can just own them ruthlessly on the iran thing now for being dumdums. and this they cannot bear. they can tolerate any amount of murder and mayhem, but not being owned online
Golden Age Superman stands head to thigh alone in a panel black at the top and red on the bottom where Superman stands pointing at the reader as he says, "Be wary of unscrupulous operators of gambling games--they are always on the look out for unsuspecting victims."
Neoliberal economics had nearly fifty years to make a case for itself, and in that time, things have only ever become less stable and less equitable.
I think it's high time we Try Something Else.
this just makes me more excited for talarico
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Interesting interview in Playboy with transgender adult content creators. People often point to Pornhub stats showing trans content is more popular than ever as a contradiction, as if political and sexual objectification were ever mutually exclusive
notable also for being AFAIK the last known appearance in the wild of the feral catgirl before they became extinct and were replaced with the catgirl equivalent of Scottish folds
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Elected Democrat Thrilled He Doesn't Have To Do Anything
one xanax too many
Just in case this post gets deleted by big corp.
bsky.app/profile/zach... also this appears to be made up by Nazis so uhhh
