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may be a hot take but i think the fact minors can access 18+ content by just clicking a button that says 'yes im totally over 18 trust me' is like. totally fine tbh. its a non-issue. i dont care if curious teenagers are looking at porn. they've been doing that for as long as porn has existed. id rather teens explore their sexuality through images on the internet than rush into real life experiences when they're not ready for it yknow. the UK is trying to put stricter age verification in place (which in turn is becoming an online privacy nightmare) and like. for what. who is it helping. why is this a problem.

''when did we all become so performative'' idk man when the threat of being recorded at any time and posted for milions to see without your knowledge became normalised.

do you think two pennies is still enough for the ferryman or has inflation driven up the fare

if he makes me use an app I am simply not crossing the river Styx.

i dont want a childproofed internet i am almost 30 fucking years old. give your kid an internet safety talk and stop making it the problem of every adult on the planet every time some cryptkeeper legislator gets the brilliant idea (via conservative lobbying) to push through yet another bill gutting our access to free expression + increasing the powers of the surveillance state + lining the pockets of Big Data in the name of Protecting The Kids they wont even feed. this shit is exhausting i can’t believe we’re going to be fighting about it for the rest of my life

#somewhere Lee Edelman is sipping a cocktail with his pinky extended being like “hate to say I told you so”#everyone should read “No Future”#it is a polemic and it is of its time in many ways#but I'm pretty sure he was the first to point out that states and bad political actors will use “for the children”#to justify basically any political end#and he calls it a Ponzi scheme#because the idea is that we adults deprive ourselves of happiness/comfort so our children don't have to#but when those children become adults they will be expected to subject themselves to that same deprivation for their own children#so actual happiness is infinitely deferred in service to a moral order that is supposed to be Good For Us#when what it actually is is puritan and conformist and frankly proto-fascist tags from @roadien60

Ok since my dearest @liminal-zone has deemed my tags rebloggable (😍) I'll just add that Edelman was writing about the stigmatization and social regulation of queer sex and queer bodies ("What do you MEAN you queers are choosing to organize your lives around something other than bearing and raising children who will bear and raise children?"), but his point speaks directly to current panics about regulating the internet because what comes for us comes for everyone eventually

I remember one time I got INSANELY high off of edibles while playing Among Us, and it quickly became apparent to the other players online. I forget how honestly but literally anything "sus" I did was ignored by everyone because I was so fucking high. I tested this theory by standing in front of a body and the person that actually reported it didn't even mention me. The funniest part was when I was trying to do wires, I kept fucking up over and over again, so I was just standing in front of wires for actual minutes trying to figure it out. A small crowd of players gathered around me to watch and would get mad every time someone reported a body or emergency meeting because "she's never going to get her tasks done if you keep interrupting them." I don't think anyone cared about winning at that point, they just wanted to see the high crew mate succeed in her tasks.

We all do, buddy. We all do

people DESPERATE in the notes to explain why the way THEY engage with harry potter is morally pure. It's like white people talking about rap music in there! Libraries buy the books! Fanfiction maintains a conversation around the IP! There is NO WAY to enjoy harry potter in 2025 without publicly supporting JK Rowling!

lesbians winning against 100% of all space false crime allegations

Every time I see this I lose my marbles I love it so much. "For some reason I yelled who is in here as I was falling" is the point where my soul leaves my body. God I love.

I just don't think we ever wrapped up the Clown Sightings of 2016 in a satisfactory way.

There’s a damn good story here.

It's the flip flop that's turned into an anklet that really makes it for me