I’m sure many of these businesses will realise that the simplest way to adhere to the guidance (assuming it goes through) will be to just remove gendered spaces altogether and make them all unisex. Don’t think that’s what the GCers wanted.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Was just catching up on the whole Your Party membership portal debacle - I'm definitely sympathetic to Sultana's motives, but also, like, what exactly did she think would happen? Why did she need to drag members of the public into it instead of just making a statement or something?

I work in adult retail and I needed a quick way to at least capture customer attention while they buy lube. So, with deep thanks to everyone who's already done the work, I've made a very bare bones flyer designed to be printed and handed out.

Just been trying to do something on a website with an AI help bot and wasted like two hours as it talked me through how to do something that it turns out the site can’t actually do.

Honestly I don’t understand how anyone who’s had any interaction with LLMs can think they’re in any way intelligent

This is so gross considering the numbers of women experiencing financial discrimination under the very policies they’ve weaponised. But apparently it’s fine that women living in poverty are having their bank accounts shut down and getting lifelong bans from PayPal cos people can’t play a porn game.

It’s interesting to see the general population realising things that sex workers have been dealing with for decades

People think it’s still the 80s and porn is made with a 20 person crew and a budget for special effects… in reality, for the vast majority of us it’s a huge luxury if we just have someone else there who isn’t performing to hold the camera

Most of the sites I use have just asked me to do a facial scan to guess my age, which apparently is against the guidance

Kinda terrifying that Reform UK is the only political party speaking out against the massively unpopular online safety act

Ironic that people’s objection to it as government overreach is probably gonna bring full on fascism to the UK

Can’t help wondering whether that was the point all along

I was educated entirely under section 28 and I’ve only realised in the last few years exactly how much it fucked me up

Though the good news is that laws like this are a desperate attempt to hold back the inevitable change in public opinion - if our acceptance wasn’t growing they wouldn’t need it

The wildest reason I see people give for objecting to sex work being considered work is that if you’re on Jobseeker’s Allowance in the UK you have to accept any job you’re offered or they cut your benefits, so if we considered SW work people could be forced into it by the state…

It's bizarre how ChatGPT wouldn't convert my copy/pasted JustForFans feed into a CSV file cos it's explicit content but was fine with creating equality explicit tag lines based on the exact same text... Presumably this is just a glitch and not on purpose?

It's not designed to know factual information, it's designed to create text that reads like it was written by a human based on its training data. It's definitely not designed to be used as a search engine.

Wow I’ve never been so grateful to see an overcast sky! It’s nice to actually be able to function again

Hey Bluesky! I'm an FTM/trans man sex worker, and I wanted to create a profile where I can be open about it that isn't client facing. Expect some combo of moaning, advocacy, art history, crochet updates and general shit posting