load bearing alleys for villain and hero origin stories alike

I think it's important to fund journalism that is just "made me and my friends laugh a little" tbh

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto SAN FRANCISCO—Following reports that a 20-year-old man had been arrested for throwing a Moltov cocktail at Sam Altman’s home, the suspect stated Monday that he only initiated the attack because he was...

“I’ve been using ChatGPT to help with cooking for a while now, so I didn’t think too much of it when the ingredients list included a bottle filled with gasoline and a cloth wick,” said the alleged attacker

"save us from saviors" pin

"no bad whores" banner

"blowjobs are better than no jobs" poster

Only club I'm going to in Berlin is the sex workers union clubhouse for the AA / NA recovery meeting!!! Can't help feeling like I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be in life lately

Instagram reportedly deletes Bellesa account with 700K followers The account had 700,000 followers before it disappeared from Instagram.

“Bellesa Boutique said today that Instagram permanently deleted its account for using the word clitoris.”

description of my talk "navigating censorship & digital exclusion: what we can learn from adult content creators"

Selfie of me in the Berlin sunshine

My talk went so well and I feel so proud!! And all these other talks are so rad it all just fits together and we're all pulling on different threads and we're going to win, it's inevitable. 💪🏽

"what I'd we burned down the data centers" sticker

"daddy issues tech bros the alt-right and masculinity" zines in English and German

Tech won't save us -- organize! Banner

FCK AMZN flag

We out here!!! 650ish comrades organizing against Big Tech gathered to build power in Berlin this weekend!! @techworkerscoalition.org

a flyer for my upcoming conferences talks in Germany on sex/tech/censorship

borders don't matter online, we're all living under silicon valley imperialism. come for my workshops, stay for the radical future we're co-creating. see u soon germany 🇩🇪

Age-verification is hurting sex educators, study suggests These laws aren't working to keep minors off adult sites, but they are hitting creators' incomes.

Thanks to @annaroseiovine.bsky.social at @mashable.com for continuing to report on the harms of age verification legislation and sharing our preliminary data on the impact of AV on sex educators.

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The two truths:
1) There is nothing wrong with porn, let people safely make it, let people safely enjoy it.
2) If you let people define porn as bad, authoritarians will ALWAYS expand the definition until their hands are around your neck.

This is kind of making me insane as I think about it.

this is emotionally significant to me

Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed The vast majority of data centers scheduled for completion over the next few years have yet to even break ground.

It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money

I really don't think this is whiny! I don't have sensory issues generally but giant stores with their fluorescent lights and noise really make me feel rough too like it's really a physical exhaustion

My entertainment for today was just searching the words "17 hours" on bsky

but 8 days is....slower....than 2 days??

Support a committee to study decriminalizing sex work in Massachusetts A bill that would create a committee to study decriminalizing sex work in Massachusetts, H4610: An Act to Study the Decriminalization of Sex Work, just passed out of the House Judiciary Committee! It'...

HEY MASSACHUSETTS!!

Do you know about the sex worker led activist group @bostonswac.bsky.social? Now you do! We're pushing for full decriminalization of sex work in MA and they current step is getting a bill pushed through to the MA House for a vote!

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It’s that time of the month where I ask my fans, friends, and community to help with rent 🥺💕

Every dollar goes a long way and helps me focus on building out my new career! One day soon we won’t have to worry about rent 🙏😭💖

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oh this is..... 😳

This is a top tier friend intimacy activity

rich bc i never have to wonder if the stripper loves me back (bc that's my bestie up there!!)

A picture of some cutoff text from a French children's book. Goose is named "Foigra"

French children's book where the goose is named foie gras 😭😭😭😭

honestly i do feel this way looking back through my ✨suggestive✨ pics that Instagram buries. It's art for my eyes i guess!!

but you know!!!! you always know!! I can't explain it

no one talks about how cringe it feels when u first say you're shadowbanned when maybe your post is just flopping

She Made $1 Million in 3 Hours on OnlyFans. Then, the Headaches. Despite popular belief, OnlyFans isn't a path to quick cash. Adult creators take us inside the hard work of running their business.

For Playboy, I spoke to adult content creators about the hours of labor their subscribers *don’t* see.

“The amount of times I have people in my comments being like, ‘Get a real job!’ and like, I probably pay way more to the IRS than you do!” - @siridahl.bsky.social

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1. The commodification of subreddits for marketing is not in any way limited to sex work.

2. If sex workers weren’t pushed out of traditional marketing channels, there’d be less need for guerilla marketing.

3. Sex workers also have nice faces worthy of praise and attention.

Hey Ethical Capital Partners, maybe y’all wanna step in and buy OnlyFans too, before it gets snatched up by like, Larry Ellison or Mr. Beast and all the sex workers who depend on the platform get thrown in the trash

Creators have become the main casualties in the War on Porn, as age-verification laws, censorship and financial discrimination have kneecapped creators incomes over the past year.

"The idea was that these things are removing friction, so let's add some friction back in," said Lavigne, using the engineering term frequently used by tech bros to describe inefficiencies in a system. He argues that LLM chatbots have taken this idea of "friction" to an extreme, presenting any unpleasantness or difficulty we encounter as something that should be outsourced to Silicon Valley's thinking machines—even if overcoming that difficulty is part of what makes human creativity meaningful and worthwhile. "Anything that removes the friction of something that's difficult, it makes you not learn, and it removes the learning you've already achieved."

this is such a good point — Silicon Valley’s entire concept of viewing all human struggle and unpleasantness as “friction” to be iterated out is deeply anti-social. we‘re so obsessed with instant gratification that tech bros now want us to forget that this is how human beings grow and learn.