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here's the sexual content guidelines saying nudity is ok

here's the bit from the termination email telling you you can make a new account as long as it doesn't break the same rule

here's the guidelines for what counts as explicit (not mature, aka grounds for content deletion)

here's the section telling us that you will always be able to respond to content getting flagged as explicit (lie)

here's the section where it says you will be notified when your accunt gets terminated, and that the appeals are reviewed by humans (both lies)

and by the way, posting a single thing against ToS isn't supposed to be grounds for deletion,

A months-long Al Jazeera investigation has found that military-related goods originating from at least 51 countries and self-governing territories continued entering Israel after the ICJ’s warning of a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza. Based primarily on an analysis of Israeli Tax Authority (ITA) import data between 2022 and 2025, and supported by customs records and freedom of information requests, the investigation traced military supply chains linked to countries across Europe, Asia, North America and South America. All named countries are signatories to the Genocide Convention. In some cases, the military-related goods originated from countries that had formally imposed arms embargoes on Israel or had partially suspended arms supplies to the country. In fact, according to the ITA data, arms imports increased after the ICJ ruling, with the largest share falling under the category of munitions. The five largest countries of origin for military-related goods entering Israel - the United States, India, Romania, Taiwan and the Czech Republic - all recorded increased shipments during the war.

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Patrick Wilken, a researcher at Amnesty International, said the scale of Israel’s military campaign made such international support indispensable. “There is no way that Israel alone could have sustained the intensity of its massive bombardment across the Gaza Strip,” he said. “Israel has relied on a global supply chain of arms, munitions and support services, primarily supplied by the United States but supported by many other states.” As the war continued, weapons-related imports to Israel increased. The data appears to bear that out.

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Neve Gordon, an Israeli professor of international law and human rights at Queen Mary University of London, told Al Jazeera that “country after country has contributed to the evisceration of the international legal order by feigning blindness and refusing to abide by their legal obligations". “This is myopic. The very states that helped build this legal order, and invoke it constantly, are now playing a central role in its dismantlement.”

those "boundaries" get us murdered lol. trans women who can't access women's shelters or other forms of housing because of cis women's "boundaries" are left on the streets to be assaulted and murdered

These influences define the niche that Andy Weir and Ernest Cline both write in, as well as certain other prominent figures like John Scalzi, Randall Munroe, Cory Doctorow, and kind of Rich Berlew.

It’s not an indictment of them; it’s just a particular niche. However, due to the specifics of such authors’ identities and experiences, they can often write with the apparent idea that they are not specific; that they are universal and apolitical. This often comes with an idea that they believe in racial/gender/sexuality equality, and they do because they believe equality is good and humans are all more alike than we're different and humanity is fundamentally decent, but also they not-infrequently write like they don’t really know any gay people or people of color and have never really thought very hard about it.

And one of the reasons I still haven’t read The Martian or Project Hail Mary even though I have been intending to for years and I’m confident I would enjoy them… is that in my large and ever-growing TBR I tend to de-prioritize this particular sci-fi niche. There are SO many good-sounding books in the world that I want to read and I tend to prioritize books by women, by authors of color, by queer authors, by authors with social science backgrounds. The only Scalzi I’ve read was Redshirts and it wasn’t that great and was kinda thoughtlessly sexist; and I have many, many thoughts about Ready Player One and Ready Player Two (almost none of them good lmao). I definitely have my beefs with Cory Doctorow despite respecting him in other ways. I found his YA novel Little Brother respectably ambitious but also kinda mediocre. And I have followed Order of the Stick and xkcd for more than a decade and you can really see the political/social evolution of the authors over time. That’s another trend; you can see these authors reacting and adjusting to more nuanced gender/race/queer issues over time!

It just feels to me like a highly identifiable style, one that has been more miss than hit with me, which sometimes is made more frustrating by recurring beliefs that there’s nothing uniquely identifiable about it; that books by Gen X straight white men aren’t identity-based books like books by and about women and people of color and queer people are.

And. Like. I love Order of the Stick! I have Munroe’s first “What If” book, autographed! And though I’ve read little of his fiction I think John Scalzi is overall a cool guy (though sometimes thinks he’s funnier and cleverer than he is). And when I get around to reading The Martian and Project Hail Mary I also genuinely believe I’ll like them—I floated on fuzzy warm emotions for days after seeing the PHM movie, certainly! This isn’t to say this automatically makes a work bad. It does however make a work specific, in a way straight white men are rarely expected to think of their work as specific. But like. It’s a style, a niche, that’s definitely specific.