Unfortunately, the LGBTQIA+ high spice paranormal and scifi romance I write is often viewed as "taboo" or "pornographic" simply for being queer and trans lit.

Talk is cheap. LGBTQIA+ genre works, especially high spice ones, are often rejected by platforms as the books are seen as "pornographic" while cishet high spice works face fewer problems being distributed. I'll judge you by your actions and share that information with my author friends.

As an author of LGBTQIA+ paranormal and sci-fi high spice romance, I'd like a clarification as to whether my work is welcome. I've read the Kobo TOS. I don't write that content, though the reference to pornography isn't clear. Too many people/platforms classify queer/trans lit as pornography.

I think she's a few strawberries shy of a strawberry shortcake. The more of her videos I watch, the more brain cells I feel screaming for mercy. Great video. I look forward to watching more of them.

The downside to higher digital ISOs is that without a high-performance CMOS sensor and image processor unit, image-degrading digital noise quickly presents itself.

I'm surprised they didn't use both cameras to take the same photo for comparison.

The Betrayal in Conservatism “How ’ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm, after they’ve seen Paree?”

We've crossed several rivers on our way to the Rubicon: books pulled from grade schools, Plato censored at Texas A&M, CBS silencing a Texas senator on Colbert, and the federal government blocking states from accessing evidence in ICE killings. The Epstein files.

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These individuals are convinced they are performing God's will by removing those who create "filthy" and "abominable" NSFW art. The children are not their concern; they focus on shaming and criticizing those who refuse to obey the hypocritical authorities. They don't want us to exist.

The irony is on display, yet adult creators who create NSFW visual, audio, and written art are punished both for creating it and trying to comply with ever changing laws and policies that do nothing to protect children, rather marginalize and criminalize NSFW artists and their work.

That would require parents to be responsible for their childen's upbringing. Granted, some parents work two, three, or more jobs now just to make ends meet and run out of time and energy to be fully engaged. Other parents act as if someone else should raise their kids, like school teachers.

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I haven't posted for a while as I've been working on my LGBTQIA+ small town fantasy spicy romance. It's getting closer to the finish line each day.

I'll post some snippets soon so you can have a taste of what I'm writing. I hope you'll enjoy them.

If we're lucky they'll get frostbite and hypothermia for their troubles. Keep them spread thin outside their vehicles as much as possible.

May they get frostbite and hypothermia. They are Gestapo and earned the karma they receive. We need to keep them run ragged and spread thin until they never know rest.

We need to keep them spread so thin that their agents are run ragged and pursued by residents so that they can't do their violence. Keep them bogged down and hampered by creative means, refuse to provide lodging and food, no aid or comfort for the enemy of the people.

Have a whistleblower release the data on every DHS and ICE agent and distribute it to the American public. Name them so that their friends, family, and neighbors know who they are. Make sure that they will have no peaceful place to live and will never know another moment of tranquility.

They want their sycophants to be shot, don't they? In my state, we have Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground. People roaming around, assaulting people, would be target practice. If they open carry and assault in groups, they're fair game to protect against.

May the weather be the karma they've earned. Not that I'd wish it on residents of Maine, but a nice heavy snowfall with below zero temperatures and high winds would slow them down quite well.

If the police won't arrest the US Gestapo agent for grand theft auto, then the PD are useless. That leaves citizens few other options than to do the work the police refuse to do.

You still have to provide a drivers license as part of the sales process. Mask or no mask, they'd have to out themselves to complete the transaction. Unless they're issuing fake drivers licenses to the agents.

Some phones allow for 6-digit unlock PINs, or someone might use the draw a pattern screen lock, though I don't know if there's a legal precedent stating that the owner can't be compelled to draw the pattern.

If the machine used is anything like the ones where I live, you have to insert your drivers license for it to be scanned as part of the sales process. If the ICE agent was that much of an idiot to sell stolen property, maybe he was dumb enough to use his DL and thus ID himself for easy prosecution.

ICE has no empathy
ICE has no ethics
ICE has no morality
ICE has no place in our society
ICE must be held accountable and receive the ultimate punishment via Nuremberg trials V2.0

Most likely ICE would shoot local police officers that tried to arrest them. As it is, none of the local police are doing anything to confront ICE short of arresting them or acting as a barrier between citizens and the federal agents. It seems the police are passively complicit.

Renee Good didn't use her car as a weapon. An out-of-control, shoot-first, ask-no-questions-later ICE agent w/PTSD unalived her in an extrajudicial execution. Multiple videos recorded this. None of the ICE agents rendered aid as per regulations. The killer said she was a "fucking bitch" & drove away

Watching ICE go door to door in Minneapolis, local and state authorities permitting it...it's impossible not to think of Kristallnacht. The Great Removal of the 5 SE Tribes. 1942, when Japanese-Americans were forced into camps.

What we do in response to this moment of great shame matters.

The 1% of the population that's the most vulnerable in society aren't alone in their fight. They have friends everywhere willing and able to stand with them.

And it's true. History shows that the elites rarely win wars against people with nothing to lose.

Despite all the laws and rhetoric and violence, the number of people who identify as trans still continues to increase across the country, every year.

Their attacks are escalating precisely because they are afraid and desperate they have failed so far.

"Oppression is the mask of fear."

The NYT