Call for participants: Sex workers' perspective on deepfakes: > We are inviting sex workers who live and/or work in Europe (including the UK) and Central Asia to take part in a short online survey (approximately 15 minutes). > Deepfakes are growing rapidly, yet sex workers’ voices are often excluded from research and policymaking on these issues. by the European Sex Workers Rights Alliance :boosts_ok_gay: https://www.eswalliance.org/sw_on_deepfakes

while the Internet trembles under the pressure of capitalist puritanism (itch.io the latest victim of porn ban, logingating and increasing ID-gating on youtube and reddit, ID-gating in the UK etc.) and some people in my replies continue to insist that "Christofascists aren't anti-porn", the Project 2025 goal of criminalising all porn: > Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. ... now has one concrete bill by Mike Lee advanced to review stage:

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GOP senator's bill to make all porn a federal crime advances to committee

GOP Senator Mike Lee's bill to make all pornography a federal crime in the US has advanced to a committee for review.

anyone recommends a lawyer in Poland who 1) is friendly to antifascists and queer/transgender causes, and 2) takes appointments online in English? boosts welcome :boostsPorFavor:

living in the age of the the slippery slope fallacy fallacy

porn games kicked out of itch, non-porn queer games brought down together as collateral, karada house deleted from instagram… the capitalist puritanism keeps accelerating as christofascism comes out of the closet… being overtly sexual and kinky was always a political act and is now more than ever, the fascists don't really want to eliminate sexualness or sex work, they want it hidden, marginalised, easily abusable outside of public life… it is by horny on main that we build safety and justice. horny on main is an insurrectionary act.

the current Brazil news is that Trump is pressuring to punish us for the existence of Pix, Brazil's public universal free instant pay system. It is unfair because it deprives Visa, Mastercard, Venmo, WhatsApp Pay etc. of their precious mafia cuts, apparently

morning~

what a loud cricket!! :blobcataww: I don't think they're even in my balcony, it sounds like they're on the ground several floors below?? but still so high. can't begin to express what a relief it is to have some insect noise at night for a change in this cemetery of a country video for the sound 🔊

you were touching grass. I was digging deep into the moist earth and delicately penetrating it with my fingers as one would a lover, feeling my way through the crumbling soil aggregates to fish for the roots of linarias and horsemints and using my tactile sense to sense and protect plant roots and insect larvae and slimy invertebrates from the harsh shovel before I moved away dirt

oh dang what a nice shelf to be discarded, solid wood and everything... :thinknyan: