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Charity vs. Solidarity
Charity asks, “How can I help them?”
Solidarity asks, “What do we need to build together?”
Charity is transactional - it’s about giving to feel good.
Solidarity is relational - it’s about investing in shared survival.
Charity asks, “How can I help them?”
Solidarity asks, “What do we need to build together?”
Charity is transactional - it’s about giving to feel good.
Solidarity is relational - it’s about investing in shared survival.
November 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Charity vs. Solidarity
Charity asks, “How can I help them?”
Solidarity asks, “What do we need to build together?”
Charity is transactional - it’s about giving to feel good.
Solidarity is relational - it’s about investing in shared survival.
Charity asks, “How can I help them?”
Solidarity asks, “What do we need to build together?”
Charity is transactional - it’s about giving to feel good.
Solidarity is relational - it’s about investing in shared survival.
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"Whenever you speak to anyone in the sex work space, whether they work for a sex toy company or are a porn star, these are the most educated, understanding, compassionate people you will ever meet. They know everything about safe sex. They know everything about navigating things consensually."
Adult content creator and educator slams the UK choking porn ban
Adult content creator and sex educator Max Hovey has blasted the government’s porn choking ban, warning it will do more harm than good and fails to protect or educate young people
www.dailystar.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"Whenever you speak to anyone in the sex work space, whether they work for a sex toy company or are a porn star, these are the most educated, understanding, compassionate people you will ever meet. They know everything about safe sex. They know everything about navigating things consensually."
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I love this response
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I love this response
When systems fail us it’s community that saves us.
Before there were corporate sponsorships there were friends passing envelopes under cell doors, commissary money pooled together, or a ride to a court date given without question.
That’s the heart of mutual aid: solidarity keeps our people alive.
Before there were corporate sponsorships there were friends passing envelopes under cell doors, commissary money pooled together, or a ride to a court date given without question.
That’s the heart of mutual aid: solidarity keeps our people alive.
November 7, 2025 at 1:53 AM
When systems fail us it’s community that saves us.
Before there were corporate sponsorships there were friends passing envelopes under cell doors, commissary money pooled together, or a ride to a court date given without question.
That’s the heart of mutual aid: solidarity keeps our people alive.
Before there were corporate sponsorships there were friends passing envelopes under cell doors, commissary money pooled together, or a ride to a court date given without question.
That’s the heart of mutual aid: solidarity keeps our people alive.
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I'd rather pay sex workers
When they mass produce the fuck-robots, will you* be fucking robots, or is human to human intimacy too important to you?
*economic circumstances aside
*economic circumstances aside
November 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I'd rather pay sex workers
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Sex workers want decriminalisation ✊ - also in Ireland
Solidarity & 💪 to
@swaidcollective.bsky.social
#SexWorkIsWork
#Decrim
gcn.ie/decriminalis...
Solidarity & 💪 to
@swaidcollective.bsky.social
#SexWorkIsWork
#Decrim
gcn.ie/decriminalis...
New bill to decriminalise sex work in Ireland launched
A new campaign and a bill to fully decriminalise sex work in Ireland were launched this weekend at the Red Umbrella Film Festival.
gcn.ie
November 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Sex workers want decriminalisation ✊ - also in Ireland
Solidarity & 💪 to
@swaidcollective.bsky.social
#SexWorkIsWork
#Decrim
gcn.ie/decriminalis...
Solidarity & 💪 to
@swaidcollective.bsky.social
#SexWorkIsWork
#Decrim
gcn.ie/decriminalis...
This is vile.
This week on the pod, we're diving straight into Meta Ray-Bans. We'll get into:
- How some people are abusing the glasses to film massage workers
- A $60 mod that disables the privacy-protecting recording light in the smart glasses
- The difference between a phone and a pair of smart glasses
🎧:
- How some people are abusing the glasses to film massage workers
- A $60 mod that disables the privacy-protecting recording light in the smart glasses
- The difference between a phone and a pair of smart glasses
🎧:
Podcast: People Are Modding Meta Ray-Bans to Spy On You
We talk all about our articles on Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, and AI-generated ads personalized just for you.
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
This is vile.
"The most common causes of strokes in young women are pregnancy, post-partum, birth control, and migraine-related. The most common modifiable factors across gender (what strangulation would be considered) are smoking and hypertension"
Thank you for debunking this @nicolerprause.bsky.social!
Thank you for debunking this @nicolerprause.bsky.social!
I got tired of reading this fake statistic that strangulation during sex was the "second leading cause of stroke in young women".
It's not.
medium.com/@nicole.prau...
It's not.
medium.com/@nicole.prau...
Is “strangulation” really the second cause of stroke in young women?
Here we go again
medium.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"The most common causes of strokes in young women are pregnancy, post-partum, birth control, and migraine-related. The most common modifiable factors across gender (what strangulation would be considered) are smoking and hypertension"
Thank you for debunking this @nicolerprause.bsky.social!
Thank you for debunking this @nicolerprause.bsky.social!
When sex is exchanged for money, it collides with two deeply entrenched cultural beliefs: that sex should be private, moralized, and tied to love, and that women’s labor should be undervalued or unpaid.
Selling sex disrupts both of those norms at once, which invites judgment and distortion.
Selling sex disrupts both of those norms at once, which invites judgment and distortion.
November 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
When sex is exchanged for money, it collides with two deeply entrenched cultural beliefs: that sex should be private, moralized, and tied to love, and that women’s labor should be undervalued or unpaid.
Selling sex disrupts both of those norms at once, which invites judgment and distortion.
Selling sex disrupts both of those norms at once, which invites judgment and distortion.
"Oklahoma lawmakers are suggesting that a new state law aimed at "adult performances" means municipalities must predict what sorts of events might become obscene and preemptively prohibit them. It's a clear recipe for chilling protected speech—especially drag performances"
Bizarre how sure Oklahoma lawmakers seemed that they banned drag performers with a law banning obscene performances ... Now that they found out that, no, it doesn't work like that, they're trying to convince local governments that they have to pretend it does reason.com/2025/11/03/o...
Oklahoma's obscenity bait and switch could ban pride parades and public drag shows
These lawmakers expect local authorities to ban "obscenity" before it happens—a recipe for chilling a wide variety of legal speech.
reason.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"Oklahoma lawmakers are suggesting that a new state law aimed at "adult performances" means municipalities must predict what sorts of events might become obscene and preemptively prohibit them. It's a clear recipe for chilling protected speech—especially drag performances"
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British MPs rolled out details on their ill-defined "strangulation" censorship law, saying that mere *possession* of consensually produced content, even a private video made with your partner, would carry a two year prison sentence.
Government outlines punishments people will face for breaking new porn ban
The UK government is banning strangulation and suffocation as part of a crackdown on violent porn, which is leading to a rise in violence against women
www.ladbible.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
British MPs rolled out details on their ill-defined "strangulation" censorship law, saying that mere *possession* of consensually produced content, even a private video made with your partner, would carry a two year prison sentence.
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“Facial recognition is unlike any other form of surveillance. It enables automated and ubiquitous monitoring of an entire population, and it is nearly impossible to avoid. If we don’t stop it, it will be used not to keep us safe, but to control and oppress us.”
If you believe in building a future beyond the dystopian surveillance hellscape that facial recognition tech is steeped in, learn more and take action at www.banfacialrecognition.com
Ban Facial Recognition
www.banfacialrecognition.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“Facial recognition is unlike any other form of surveillance. It enables automated and ubiquitous monitoring of an entire population, and it is nearly impossible to avoid. If we don’t stop it, it will be used not to keep us safe, but to control and oppress us.”
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"I recently reviewed Even Realities G1 smart glasses (they're very cool) and the first real-world thing I used them for was scamming someone."
This is terrifying, actually
This is terrifying, actually
Cool how one of the most prevalent tech stories now is “here’s how to be a creep and/or convincing fraud.”
How I Used Smart Glasses to Trick a Bartender Into Giving Me a Free Drink
How smart glasses can be used to con, cheat, and manipulate—and how to spot if someone is doing it.
lifehacker.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:03 AM
"I recently reviewed Even Realities G1 smart glasses (they're very cool) and the first real-world thing I used them for was scamming someone."
This is terrifying, actually
This is terrifying, actually
“Why is that a problem? The recent online safety bill required websites to verify the age of their users, companies hired third party services to do the age verifying part. Those companies were hacked. Users’ images and personal information stolen and used for God knows what, by God knows who.”
“The market for children’s information on the dark web is, unfortunately, booming. The demand is there and digital ID will create one of the largest supplies of children’s data just waiting to be hacked.”
I'm An Online Harms Expert, Here's Why I'm Terrified Of Digital ID For Kids
"The market for children's information on the dark web is, unfortunately, booming," said cyberpsychology consultant Catherine Knibbs.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 12:16 AM
“Why is that a problem? The recent online safety bill required websites to verify the age of their users, companies hired third party services to do the age verifying part. Those companies were hacked. Users’ images and personal information stolen and used for God knows what, by God knows who.”
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Traffic to Pornhub has fallen by more than 75% in the UK since the introduction of the Online Safety Act, as legal adults have shifted to the thousands non-compliant sites, supercharging the growth of platforms that don't moderate for pirated content, revenge porn and CSAM
An unmitigated disaster.
An unmitigated disaster.
UPDATED: Aylo Accuses Ofcom of Ineffective AV Enforcement AVN
Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub.com and other adult platforms, accused the United Kingdom's (UK) digital regulator of ineffective enforcement of the age verification requirements outlined und...
avn.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Traffic to Pornhub has fallen by more than 75% in the UK since the introduction of the Online Safety Act, as legal adults have shifted to the thousands non-compliant sites, supercharging the growth of platforms that don't moderate for pirated content, revenge porn and CSAM
An unmitigated disaster.
An unmitigated disaster.
This week, we’re inviting supporters to adopt a reentry kit - a simple way to say, “I see you, and I believe in your next chapter.”
Each kit costs $25 and includes hygiene items, basic clothing, snacks, and a phone card. It’s a small package with a big message: you matter, and you’re not alone.
Each kit costs $25 and includes hygiene items, basic clothing, snacks, and a phone card. It’s a small package with a big message: you matter, and you’re not alone.
October 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This week, we’re inviting supporters to adopt a reentry kit - a simple way to say, “I see you, and I believe in your next chapter.”
Each kit costs $25 and includes hygiene items, basic clothing, snacks, and a phone card. It’s a small package with a big message: you matter, and you’re not alone.
Each kit costs $25 and includes hygiene items, basic clothing, snacks, and a phone card. It’s a small package with a big message: you matter, and you’re not alone.
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Welcome to spooky season!
🦇 🧙♀️ 🔮 ⚰️
Artwork by the talented @liberaljane.bsky.social
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#sexworkiswork #SexworkerRightsAreHumanRights #decriminalizesexwork #sexwork
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Artwork by the talented @liberaljane.bsky.social
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#sexworkiswork #SexworkerRightsAreHumanRights #decriminalizesexwork #sexwork
October 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Welcome to spooky season!
🦇 🧙♀️ 🔮 ⚰️
Artwork by the talented @liberaljane.bsky.social
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#sexworkiswork #SexworkerRightsAreHumanRights #decriminalizesexwork #sexwork
🦇 🧙♀️ 🔮 ⚰️
Artwork by the talented @liberaljane.bsky.social
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#sexworkiswork #SexworkerRightsAreHumanRights #decriminalizesexwork #sexwork
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"Are Sex Workers the Original Feminists?".....Yes. The answer is yes.
#WomensHistoryMonth (Canada)
www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/...
#WomensHistoryMonth (Canada)
www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/...
Are Sex Workers the Original Feminists?
‘Sex workers are the original feminists’, say Juno Mac and Molly Smith in Revolting Prostitutes. It’s an incendiary claim–not least because tracking ‘firsts’ is a fraught pursuit–but it might well be ...
www.versobooks.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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They’re talking about “porn addiction” on bluesky as if it’s real LORD GIVE ME STRENGTH
They’re talking about “porn addiction” on Twitter as if it’s real lord give me strength
October 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
They’re talking about “porn addiction” on bluesky as if it’s real LORD GIVE ME STRENGTH
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We are getting ready for the book launch of "So What It I'm Puta?" with the amazing @amoiramara.bsky.social
#BookSky #SexWorkIsWork
#BookSky #SexWorkIsWork
October 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
We are getting ready for the book launch of "So What It I'm Puta?" with the amazing @amoiramara.bsky.social
#BookSky #SexWorkIsWork
#BookSky #SexWorkIsWork
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This is what Portland cops are doing in their stings out on 82nd.
“End demand” laws—often marketed under name of the Nordic Model—are frequently touted as a one-size-fits-all solution
The logic sounds straightforward: if you punish clients who purchase sexual services, the industry will collapse, exploitation will end.
But decades of evidence tell us otherwise.
The logic sounds straightforward: if you punish clients who purchase sexual services, the industry will collapse, exploitation will end.
But decades of evidence tell us otherwise.
October 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This is what Portland cops are doing in their stings out on 82nd.
“End demand” laws—often marketed under name of the Nordic Model—are frequently touted as a one-size-fits-all solution
The logic sounds straightforward: if you punish clients who purchase sexual services, the industry will collapse, exploitation will end.
But decades of evidence tell us otherwise.
The logic sounds straightforward: if you punish clients who purchase sexual services, the industry will collapse, exploitation will end.
But decades of evidence tell us otherwise.
October 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
“End demand” laws—often marketed under name of the Nordic Model—are frequently touted as a one-size-fits-all solution
The logic sounds straightforward: if you punish clients who purchase sexual services, the industry will collapse, exploitation will end.
But decades of evidence tell us otherwise.
The logic sounds straightforward: if you punish clients who purchase sexual services, the industry will collapse, exploitation will end.
But decades of evidence tell us otherwise.
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