Who told you this was going to happen? Sex workers told you this was going to happen.

“I’m calling the Coast Guard.”

Pen Names have a very important place in publishing, especially for marginalized people. Security is an important thing in an industry that, if your security does get breached, often does little to fix it. Please prioritize your career safety & comfort over calls for transparency

To add to this, in New Zealand where sex work is decriminalised, a brothel worker took her boss to an employment tribunal for sexual harassment and won. When sex workers have workers’ rights, we are able to fight back against bad and exploitative bosses.

“I want my misguided belief to be specially protected and also demand that everyone else must abide by it.”

Also seems a bit odd that in their lament of destroyed architecture, they didn’t mention Trump’s demolition of the Bonwit-Teller friezes.

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constans Aldous Huxley

Fun Fact: 2024 Zuckerberg has a more restrictive definition of modesty than the 18th century Church:

this podcast is a STUNNING history of how adult advertisements supported alt media for decades until ads moved online & into the feds’ crosshairs

sex workers, allies, journalists, free-speech activists, media scholars, anyone still mourning the village voice—don’t sleep on this!

Trump is lying about leaving abortion up to the states and if you repeat his lie you are enabling him.

Philip Seymour Hoffman was absolute perfection in this. The way he blasts into the scene as the larger-than-life embodiment of privileged decadence, you can immediately sense that he will not only recognize that Ripley doesn’t belong, but eviscerate him for it.

BREAKING: The Biden administration has restored rules to protect imperiled plants and animals that had been rolled back under former President Donald Trump. apnews.com/article/biden-…

Really underappreciated that Trump's core economic policy proposal is an across-the-board 10% tax on every imported product in America.

Love this extendable 1566 medicine chest, up to a metre long, with 126 bottles & pots for drugs ~ some with their original contents ~ including rhubarb powder, anti-worms ointment, juniper water & mustard oil. Made for Genoese governor of Aegean island of Chios (Wellcome Trust)

Here are some ways that these age verification court cases are going to potentially fuck every one of us reading this:

-having to upload your ID to 25%/33%+ sites means that you will have to put your ID info into 3rd party data collectors to access Twitter, Reddit, Google, etc.

Andrew Wyeth. 'Wind from the Sea,' 1947.

Heads up: This is the strategy. They don't need to win Congress. They just need to win the presidency and then the new DOJ can prioritize the enforcement of the Comstock Act (a law that was enacted in 1873 and has been unenforced, tho still on the books, for much of our lives).