Notices by Girl on the Net (girlonthenet@mastodon.social)

Three things in life are certain:
- death
- taxes
- if I tell Toyboy I'm having a tough time, he will always offer to send me donuts

(I never accept the donuts, but I always enjoy the offer)

If I’d read more tales like this when younger, not only would I have felt less alone when the same things happened to me, I’d have had the confidence to say ‘no’ a bit more often.

#ICYMI, yesterday's blog...

https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/talk-yourself-out-of-a-fuck/

#Dating #relationships #sex

Oh for fuck’s sake

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114004428801284512

A lot of people saying ‘ah but human erotica is better, so it will be OK!’ and I’m so sorry to say I don’t think it will be. Using computers to write porn (or any art) is never part of a noble quest to Make Better Art. It is a quest to make Passable Art That Generates Money. It will suck the money (and attention) from sites/books/videos created by people. The soul gets drowned out by the slop.

Top fantasies in 2025:
1. Threesome
2. Bondage
3. Someone pinning you down and entering you really slowly while whispering into your ear ‘hey, don’t worry, everything’s OK. It’s 1999 again.’ And as you reach powerful climax you realise actually yes they’re right. It’s 1999 again . The jeans on the bedroom floor are Criminal Damage ones, your boyfriend smells like Joop!, and everything’s gonna be OK.

I met a parrot today yay!

She did not like me one single bit lol!

Winter is the best time to learn this incredible trick to blow your partner's mind in bed.

Entirely non-sexual. Just magic.
https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/one-weird-trick-to-blow-their-mind-in-bed/

"I find it hard to tell men they’ve hurt me because saying it aloud makes me feel like a silly little girl."

This time in 2023, I started articulating a problem that I still haven't come even vaguely close to solving. lol.

https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/comedy-or-tragedy-fall-stranger/
https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/comedy-or-tragedy-fall-stranger/

@dalias please see this, by @dee https://social.treehouse.systems/@dee/113951197290994295

This is important, and you should pay attention if you enjoy any kind of erotic media whatsoever - including sex blogs (COUGH COUGH).

When Ofcom starts to enforce the Online Safety Act in the UK, the *quickest and easiest* way for most of us to comply is to geoblock UK IP addresses.

So come the summer, in the UK, if you wonder where all the porn has gone, the answer is it's still there you're just blocked from seeing it.

https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/113946328663502700

Everyone I’m drinking with was born in the nineties. They just ripped the piss out of me for using email. I hate the future.

I’m a feminist but... I let the guy in the DIY shop mansplain to me in the hope that he’d give me a discount.

(He did! £10 off! 🥳)

A man on BlueSky has kindly mansplained that the DIY guy probably meant well.

I find it fascinating when dudes do this - I'm the one they follow, so I'd assume they have some level of respect for me (or at the very least, believe that I can move about the world with a modicum of awareness and competence). AND YET! When I have an interaction with a stranger they do not know and will never meet, their instinct is to leap to the defence of that stranger.

Misogyny is assuming that any random man is more correct than any woman (even one you respect/like).

Reminder that you've got until end of January to do an annual Patreon sub at the max discount (and they've increased how much I can discount now so that's 20% off). Come join the team and get ad-free audio in your podcast feed plus a tonne of bonuses https://www.patreon.com/c/girlonthenet

If you ever get the chance, you should board the Thames Clipper heading Eastbound from central London. Get on the boat at Embankment or somewhere near there. Sit outside at the back, if the weather is right for it.

Point out landmarks (St Paul’s! The Globe! The Shard! HMS Belfast!) and sip cans of your favourite drink as you carve a path through the city that 99% of visitors (and residents) never think to take.

And then... 🧵

I think our industry (and my blog for sure) would be significantly poorer without the amazing and heroic @neil - I am always so blown away by how generous he is with his time and advice <3

(his opinion on Crossrail is highly questionable though, ofc)

Oh SORRY. Would it hurt your VPN BRAND if you were associated with EROTIC MATERIAL??

You have GOT to be SHITTING me.

Read this post, the first comment, and @Mollysdailykiss's BLISTERING reply.

I punched the air. GO MOLLY.

https://mollysdailykiss.com/2025/01/11/peri-menopause-nights/