@AnthonyJK "Drink more spit!1! The solution to pollution is dilution! We sell everything at a loss and make it up on volume! Now get out there and vote for team spit!"
@AnthonyJK Every time I ask "Why are the people who say they are my people offering me nothing but stale spit to drink?" the only answer that comes back to me is "Drink the spit, you fool, or you'll get battery acid!"
@polotek "It is the primary way to start *new* conversation that is an offshoot of an existing conversation rather than a direct response. I'm finding it hard to do that on here."
So much this. I feel it in my bones. Conversation X is fascinating, I want to "Yes, and that makes me think..." in a way that could be derailing or creepy as a reply, so I just don't say anything and the conversation I want to have just... never happens.
Many things have happened so far in the 2020s that I didn't expect, and the decade remains young. But among the most unexpected for me: watching social media and web publishing platforms sort themselves out onto different sides of a "nazis welcome"/"nazis unwelcome" dividing line, like cable TV channels.
Saw someone on here lamenting that their insurance options for a home in Florida doubled and tripled in price over the last five years. It would be cruel to inflict the dunks on them by saying "that's because houses in Florida don't have much of a future" but in truth...
We live in a time of climate calamity. None of us (to a couple decimal points) can afford insurance against climate risk. It's not ever going to get better, only worse. #ClimateChange#Climate#ClimateRisk#ClimateApocalypse
Any time you hear that a certain thing is not pornography, it is art, know that the speaker has lost the plot.
Anything can be #porn. A watercolor painting of an elbow. It doesn't matter. ANYTHING.
The important thing is that there's nothing wrong with porn. People who are trying to finely parse the definition instead of defending porn with their whole chest are still lost in the idea of trying to bargain with prudish #pornocalypse social media rules and algorithms.
People on a porn webmaster forum I frequent are freaking out about another MAGA presidency, fearing the redhats will throw porn industry peeps into the culturewar deathcamps they want so bad.
And they totally WOULD, if they needed to shore up support from the churched-up crazies. But they DON'T need that. The church-fascists aren't going anywhere.
Meanwhile neoliberals are no friends of porn either. I don't fear a Kamala Harris deathcamp but she's more likely than MAGA to make porn felonious.
@ryanhoulihan Had this exact conversation with a loved one just the other day. "I understand the logic of that, but it just doesn't feel true and correct to me, so I'm not going to do it."
I'm so confused! There's a place in my bio to set "featured hashtags" and the docs say "Once featured, a link to the hashtag will be shown on your profile, with the date of the last time it was used in a status, as well as the total number of statuses in which it was used."
But WHERE on my profile? I can't find a profile view in the web interface that shows these links. Can somebody share a screenshot? Am I just blind?
Present mood: amused by the little blonde girl on TikTok who opines with some merit that if your lady won't do #anal "because it will hurt too much" but she has #tattoos, she's just playing you -- doesn't wanna let YOU specifically up in her aft business AND doesn't wanna be straight with you about it.
Everyone is entitled to have limits and boundaries without owing explanations to anyone. But if she offers you a reason that's patently bogus? Possible red flag...
@renegadejade That post is hella awkward to look at now, but at least the slur (the status of which as such was still under some debate in 2007) is in scare quotes.
@renegadejade I'm the world's most boring white cishet male-gaze pornographer and I... just don't see how that's still possible in 2023. I mean, have they *LOOKED* at any transwomen?
That said, go back far enough and I hadn't either. Because I've been blogging about porn more or less daily for 20 years, I have the luxury of being able to point with some precision to the first time I saw/noticed/understood transwomen as women: http://www.erosblog.com/2007/09/19/definitely-about-the-sex/
@girlonthenet So well do I know the pain of harboring my own idiosyncratic SEO goals that are achievable in theory (because nobody else wants them) that I could not resist doing my part to further yours: http://www.erosblog.com/2023/09/07/popsicles-no/
@girlonthenet I finally looked at the SERPs for your target phrase and found you showing at #8 for me in a guest window where Google doesn't know who I am. Unfortunately six of the other seven results are such pious condescending old-school journalistic preachy tripe that I now FULLY understand and endorse your goal. Ideally all those press orgs will also be forced to relocate onto a stinky-bilged pirate radio boat anchored in the Channel with stopped-up toilets after you have bested them.
@girlonthenet uses a comforting phrase in that post ("kisses at the speed of consent") reminding me of a disturbing meatspace convo about consent I had recently with a couple of boomer-minded relatives.
They both think it's fine to infer consent from "she went there, wearing that, and didn't say no".
He brutally mocked explicit consent, especially if it's reconfirmed as a hookup progresses, as "too much". So I blew their minds by arguing for enthusiastic consent instead. They were NOT keen.