Writing was never a blissful, easy endeavor and reading often entails a slog to find startling gems, but it was always worthwhile when it was part of human connection. For a lot of people who don't already read, I could see mining the slop for gems to not be worth the gems.

The burden of vigilance for readers is driving people to distrust anything they do read, or deter them from reading at all. It's discouraging people who have good ideas and want to write them because they're lost in the slop. And if you speak out against it, there's a lot of defeatism that answers.

Please.

Sex workers have more self-respect than spokespeople for pedophiles and bigots.

The "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act," intro'd by Rep. Schriver, is unlikely to go anywhere. But it does have 5 co-sponsors— a ludicrous bill is backed by 20% of Republicans in the MI House. That's not nothing.

Republicans are telling you what they would do if they could get away with it.

twice today, when pressured, Stripe operators have said, plainly, that i cannot use stripe for the purchase of LGBTQ content. not just adult content, but explicitly LGBTQ.

The first and most difficult BBEG is the calendar 😭

But they *are* nice dicks 👀...

Having been a gay kid in homophobic countries that the US is currently taking cues from, respectfully: you don't understand the scope of the problem. Plucky teenagers isn't going to change librarians being fired or LGBT authors being arrested. The content itself will be made criminal.