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is because people have been arrested and put in fucking PRISON just for having gay sex in the privacy of their own homes. in the United States. this millennia.

if you think i'm joking, look up Lawrence v. Texas (2003). 14 out of the 50 US States STILL had laws on the books criminalizing sodomy--and yes, you could be imprisoned for multiple years and sometimes even life for repeat offenses.

in the years directly leading up to the landmark case, enforcement even in those 14 states varied, but it was absolutely weaponized against queer people, especially when stacked on top of other offenses to make up a longer sentence.

"Sodomy" does not, in a legal context, mean "anal sex."

It means "any sexual act the court has decided is deviant."

BDSM? Sodomy.

Crossdressing for sexual pleasure? Sodomy.

Jacking off to nude photos or video your consenting adult lover sent you of themselves? Sodomy.

Het oral sex? SODOMY!!!

If you're starting to think "but how could anyone prove that happened without breaking down the door?"

Ha. Haha. Ahaha.

First, I'll give you one guess how they did prove it.

Two, these were often scapegoat charges--basically they couldn't actually nail you on anything because you hadn't done anything actually illegal, only things they didn't like, and they relied on public disgust against your "degenerate character" (yeah there's a very big reason we keep saying not to use that word and it's not to be killjoys) to make sure you knew your place.

Which means that in practice:

Went to a socialist meeting? Sodomy.

Male kindergarten teacher? Sodomy.

Mixing races? Sodomy.

Not Christian (or the right kind of Christian)? Sodomy.

YES THEY FUCKING DO COUNT.

Wanna know why?

Take a look at how many politicians have labeled trans people and their allies as pedophiles.

Take a look at how many politicians used to label gay people as pedophiles.

Take a look at how much suspicion falls on innocent men who just think working with kids is fun and want the chance to help, grow, nurture, and teach.

Take a look at yourself.

What about you could someone twist into "that person is a pedophile" if they wanted rid of you?

I can tell you exactly how they'd do it with me. I'm queer. I have a niece who came out as lesbian in her teens. I supported her.

Clearly I groomed her into that lifestyle, right?

Child sex abusers should be proven in a court of law to be guilty, and penalized to the fullest extent of the law. Pedophiles who have not abused children and seek to avoid doing so should not be hanged for something going wild in their brains.

Yes! That's super uncomfortable to say! I'm a CSA survivor! It's awkward and it means I have to defend people I really wish were not the way they are!

But the rope you use to lynch another will yank you into the tree to die.

Its also a fucking useless example for sodomy law especially because of how wildly age of consent can vary even in the united states. Which I hate that people get so weird about when you try to discuss it. No, knowing this stuff isnt a "red flag" you have to know something before you can speak on it or try and change it!

Child marriage is legal in 34 states with 4 of them technically not even having an age minimum outside of common law that could theoretically set it at 12. If we go back a few years the state of it would be even MORE dire as many of these laws putting age minimums only were put into place in the past eight years! So if one defines sodomy as "any sexual act done premarital that isnt missionary" then these wouldn't be covered.

Sodomy laws are USELESS for protecting children, because laws about CSA are better off being their OWN thing with strictly defined terms. Sodomy is so nebulous and hand wavy it does nothing but punish people who have done nothing wrong, strict terms with clear meanings is what creates protections. "You can't just make "if we think its gross" the law and expect that to actually work on deterring people who are doing the actual crimes. Which are ALREADY illegal.

“We need a law that makes it illegal to go into a bathroom that doesn’t align with your birth sex! Otherwise, people might go into the wrong bathroom to sexually assault someone!” Huh, interesting, but isn’t it already illegal to sexually assault someone, including in a bathroom??? Because if so, then you can just completely discard that explanation for the entire law. It is already illegal to go into the wrong bathroom and sexually assault a person; ergo, the law is not about sexual assault at all, it’s just about bathrooms.

“We need to arrest undocumented immigrants in order to crack down on gang activity!” Huh, interesting, but isn’t that gang activity already illegal??? So, if you wanted to crack down on gang activity, you could simply arrest people who are associated with gangs, and in fact, we do already do that. Ergo, this rhetoric isn’t actually about gang activity at all; it’s just about undocumented immigrants.

“We need to diminish free speech and freedom of movement rights for suspected terrorists, because otherwise they could commit mass murder!” Well, interestingly, mass murder is already illegal, and if you have probable cause that indicates that someone is planning to commit mass murder, you can simply arrest them for that. Since the law is already fully equipped to go after people who are genuinely suspected of gearing up to commit a violent terroristic act, this clearly isn’t really about terrorism at all; it’s just about diminishing free speech and freedom of movement rights.

“We need tort reform that caps the monetary damages that large corporations can be forced to pay, in order to keep people from bringing frivolous and fraudulent lawsuits!” Hmm, but see the thing with that is fraud is already a crime, and frivolous lawsuits can already be thrown out. If a law caps the amount of damages corporations need to pay in lawsuits which were not found to be frivolous or fraudulent, then almost by definition, it has nothing to do with frivolous lawsuits or fraud – it’s just about limiting corporate liability.

I could go on.

Always ask yourself what the actual function of a proposed law is – not just the stated goal, but what it actually does that is not already covered by an equally restrictive law.

And remember, a good general rule is:

I keep hearing that most Americans can't read above a 6th grade reading level.

So with that in mind, recommending that they read Republic by Plato isn't going to do much good now, is it? Even if they read it, they probably won't understand it. Most people have to read Republic several times anyway before they start really getting it.

Understanding the Cave of Shadows from Republic is like trying to wake up from the Matrix from the 1990s- most people naturally struggle against this kind of awakening, because the truth sucks. Reality sucks, and most people struggle to handle that kind of truth.

Allegory of the cave, they usually call this cave of shadows, or something like that...

I think anyone who wants to try changing things for the better in America needs to understand what they're working with here, which is a caffeine/video game/social media addicted population that is largely borderline illiterate. Most Americans don't even know the difference between Socrates and Plato. They don't know the difference between a novel and a short story. They do know the difference between Nintendo and Sega, though.

Also, it seems most Americans aged 25 and under don't understand how to use a desktop computer nor the keyboard, having been raised almost entirely on tablets and smartphones with touchscreens. Most of these kids don't understand what ctrl+alt+delete means.

I've been ctrl+alt+deleting since I was in grade school, but I don't know how to teach that skill to the younger generation. I don't know how to pass this knowledge on, which is probably a sign that my generation has also been failed by the American public education system. It didn't fail my generation as badly as it's failing these kids now, but it was a colossal failure all the same.

I think my generation is the last generation to be taught how to write in cursive? Handwriting in general seems to be a dying art. Some of these kids struggle to write their own names because they're used to a program or AI prompt just giving it to them as a graphic on a screen. They're being taught to memorize graphics instead of learning to actually read letters.

In addition to all of this, social media has been dumbing the entire internet down since roughly 2008, which has further eroded the ability of the younger generations to self educate themselves when the public education system fails them, as it has failed them since the Reagan era of the 1980s.

So, how to reach this group?

Lots of houses became empty as people defaulted.

What happened was Corporations purchased the houses and then rented them out . People did not become house owners, despite huge amounts of empty houses.

We need to do what we can to protect the Internet Archive. Here is a petition that you can sign.

the online safety act in the UK and the content purge of 18+ games of all genres on both itch.io and steam happening at the same time is so, so, so scary. the online safety act might result in UK users being unable to access wikipedia (!!!???) since the site is unable to comply with the data collection regulations imposed on it by the law without putting people at significant risk and going against its stated mission and ethos.

being required to provide so much personal information (up to and including biometrics) to companies is an absolute privacy nightmare as well. we have a new catastrophic dataleak basically every month, and now they're going to be including passport data and face scans as a rule and not an exception? not to mention that no social media site should have the right to collect any of that information on its users in the first place.

also extremely cool and great that this coincides with the massive cuts to the welfare budget, which means that people who are particularly in need of these online services for various reasons like disabled, sick, or elderly people will be the ones who particularly won't be able to afford e.g. a dedicated VPN to get around this.

itch.io was meant to be a space for games and creative works which cannot find mainstream distribution or a mainstream audience. which has always disproportionally affected adult content, whether that's horror, ero content, or both. that was the site's purpose. it's absolutely heartbreaking to see the site be purged of the kinds of works that are one of the big reasons for its very existence because U.S. payment providers can dictate what people globally are allowed to do with their money and time.

and steam, let's be honest with ourselves, basically has a monopoly on PC gaming. sure, there's GoG, Epic, some publisher specific storefronts like the EA one, but they are comparatively insignificant. if your game isn't allowed to be sold on steam, you're losing the vast majority of your audience.

both steam and itch.io already had the ability to hide adult content and warnings if you were about to encounter it, with users needing to explicitly opt in. it's absolutely insane to enforce that adults must not be allowed to engage with any adult content because somewhere a child might be able to access it when they shouldn't.

the continuous de-anonymizing of the internet, the pearl clutching "think of the children" rhetoric gaining landslide traction everywhere, it's genuinely terrifying to me.

i see a lot of arguments along the lines of "you should be concerned about this because ero or horror games are just the start, soon they'll come after sfw gay content" or whatever. and it's not that i disagree that this is one of the slippery slopes which is actually real, and which we've been able to observe in the past. but you should care about this even if that doesn't happen. you should care about this even if you have zero interest in adult content, if you think it's gross, if you never want to see it.

yes, there's no such thing as "just a little bit of censorship". once the precedent is set that art can be banned, or made financially unviable, or quietly buried, it never stops where you think it will. the line always moves. but more importantly, even if i agreed that "harmful art" should be censored, which i do not, you can't build a rule that says "only bad or harmful art should be censored" without handing power to someone else to decide what counts as "bad" or "harmful". and the people who get to make those decisions do not have anyone's best interests at heart. they care about money, and liability, and advertisers. nothing else. people need art that's weird. messy. explicit. personal. people need to talk about trauma, desire, identity, grief, rage. fiction is how we metabolize those things. the targeted genres in particular are where people actually explore socially taboo and liminal experiences, where lgbt people can tell stories that don't follow the mainstream script, where disabled creators can represent bodies and experiences that aren't sanitized or made palatable. if you're scared of people engaging with "dangerous" ideas, then the answer is more expression, not less. the more people engage with art and fiction that challenges them and their thinking, the more they'll be able to refine their literacy and their ability to reason through their own positions and beliefs. the end goal should be an endless amount of perspectives to engage with, rather than U.S. tech conglomerates being able to universally decide what counts as appropriate content and what doesn't. and even if you are 100% convinced that game XYZ or book ABC doesn't do that, that it's not created for "legitimate enough reasons", that there's a difference between it and games/books/whatever which engage with a topic more tastefully or critically or appropriately... so what! even apart from the fact that i firmly believe these things still have just as much of a right to exist as anything else, i still don't think that anyone gets to make the decision on whether this is the case or not on behalf of another grown-ass adult who can make their own mind up about it.

Let’s start with a simple test. Click this link here: https://whatismyipaddress.com/ It will tell your IP adres, your ISP (internet service provider), and your location. The location might not be very accurate, but then again, it’s just a simple website. Imagine what the government can do!

So basically, everyone can find out where you live. But there is more danger. Your ISP. Your ISP logs your every move online and they are required to keep it in case the government wants access to it (or if a 3rd party wants to buy your data (yikes). They have everything. What websites you visit. How long you stay on a website. What you download. Your search terms. European laws are more subtle on this but if you are from the US you are #@*#&, especially because Trump doesn’t support the open internet. It’s scary but maybe in the future you can’t get a job because the recruiter knows your searched on ‘how to deal with depression’ or anythings else that’s supposed to be private because it’s your f*cking right. Or you get a $100k fine because you pirated a movie 15 years ago. You need a VPN. You’re dumb for not using one. but what does a VPN do?

A VPN encrypts all your data so if it were be intercepted no one can ‘crack the code’ and damage your privacy. 

Usually being online goes like this (simplified): Your computer —-> ISP (—–> keeps data —–> sells it)

But with a VPN it goes like: Your computer —–> VPN (encrypts data)—–> ISP (ISP can’t see shit)

Furthermore, a VPN hides your IP address and location by giving you another IP address located in Spain for example (you can often choose from a list and change as many times as you want).  

Now that you know why you should get a VPN and what is does it is important to educate yourself because people often choose the wrong VPN. VPN providers are also businesses and have to obey the law. If you choose a VPN provider located in the US then you are throwing your money away because the laws in the US shits on your privacy. If the US gov wants the provider to give all their logs they have to obey.  The ISP  still can’t see what you are doing online and sell your data but the US gov can interfere with your VPN provider so NEVER CHOOSE A PROVIDER LOCATED IN THE US. 

I just wanted to make that very clear so my followers don’t buy false security.

There is still more danger!  Who says your VPN provider isn’t selling your data? You need to check their logging policy. Do they keep logs? If yes, what for? For how long do they keep them? Tip: Choose a provider who doesn’t keep logs

More about law  The US is part of the Five Eyes program (the worst):  

The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are bound by the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence (source)

There is also a Nine Eyes (bit better) and Fourteen Eyes Program (better).  You don’t want a VPN provider who is located in one the Five Eyes countries.  If you had to choose go for a provider located in a country that’s part of the Fourteen Eyes Program or even better, go for a country that isn’t part of any program! 

I know this is a shitty explanation and please pardon my english but now it’s time to do your own research. Take your privacy seriously. Maybe WWIII breaks out and you get killed for liking the ‘wrong’ FB-page.  

Go to this website: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-vpn-comparison-chart/

Make sure that your future VPN provider both has green boxes for Privacy Jurisdiction and Privacy Logging. 

I recommend ovpn.se and trust.zone. ovpn is located in Sweden so they are part of the 14 Eyes Program and they keep minimal logs. Their business ethics, however, are alright. 

Trustzone is located in the Seychelles. No country can interfere and their privacy jurisdiction is the best you can get. The US want your data but needs to get it from Trustzone? The Seychelles will simply give them the finger and wave them goodbye. However, this makes this provider very appealing for people who torrent and criminals because they keep no logs (and that is how it shoud be) Also,  there are almost no marketing efforts so this provider is one the cheapest)

Also, often providers such as ExpressVPN are being called ‘The Best’ on websites about VPNs but know that this is just marketing which also makes those provider more expensive (and they too shit on your privacy)

This must be the worst article you have ever read but please, please take your privacy very seriously.

Trust.Zone has a free trial. Use it. 

btw this post only has 11k notes? That’s quite disappointing for something this important. 

Sources

Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped 

Congress just voted to let internet providers sell your browsing history 

Don’t tell me you just wanted to scroll past this. Stop looking at pictures of cats for a moment, okay? Don’t you realize how important this is? This is dangerous! ‘America, the best FREE country in the world’ my ass.

With this new law your ISP can sell your Internet history which could include passwords, usernames, religion, credit card numbers, race and much more to the highest bidder. So here is what I want you to do. You are going to read the whole thing and before you think ’this is so important. Let me reblog this real quick and go back to admiring cats again-’ NO! Don’t reblog this. Take action first. Then reblog. Sign up for a free trial! Trust.Zone offers one (here). Yes. It might be difficult to set up a VPN for some people. But is that going to stop you from protecting yourself and your family? 30 minutes. 30 minutes is all that it takes. 5 if you know how to install software. The problem with some of you is that you see ‘difficult’ as something negative. I want you to see difficult differently. I need you to push through this stuff. You are going to protect yourself. There is nothing negative about that. VPNs are fun and costsaving too! A VPN bypasses geographical restrictions so you can access websites you normally can’t or you could start Netflix’s one month free trial over and over again- forever. And it’s legal! (unless you use it to buy weapons etc.,) Don’t tell yourself that you are too tired and that you will do this tomorrow. Because that isn’t going to happen and you know it. You have to do this right now. You only have to click on it. Don’t let this/shit/life just happen to you. Take yourself seriously. Get a VPN.

the governmental website for covid information is now propaganda. not a joke, not hyperbole, not an exaggeration: it's genuinely the definition of propaganda. this is biased misinformation determined to push a political stance. it is being hosted on a government server. it looks like something you'd find in a "top 10 weird internet conspiracy stories (and their origins)" youtube video.

my brother called me when he saw it. he had me type it into google. for a second i legitimately thought that i had typed something wrong. we have both taught college: we have both said "a .gov site is usually a reliable resource." i just stared at my phone for a long, long time.

i thought about how when i was a kid, conspiracy theories were mostly fun and a little spooky. unserious. i remember reading some long, complicated website about how avril lavigne is dead. how bigfoot is real. it used to be funny-and-a-joke.

over seven million people (globally) have died from covid. america has the highest death rate with over 1.2 million people.

the thing is - every time a person dies from something like a mass shooting or poverty or treatable illness - we are told don't make it political. we are told it's just something that can happen. we are told it's sad but what can you do!

the president of the united states is using a government website to try to erase the very-real deaths that he personally caused due to a complete mismanagement of the pandemic. the president of the united states is using a government server to host propaganda, undermine science and medicine, and encourage distrust amongst his followers.

nothing is going to happen. nobody's gonna, like, do anything about it. it's a thursday today, and we are just going to move on from this like we have been moving on from everything else.

yesterday my brother was outside walking his dog, mask included. a guy in a truck pulls up and shouts something about covid and whatever the fuck else. my brother has a good sense of humor, described it to me as enthusiastic! i hadn't ever been catcalled before, this was new and therefore thrilling! i do see why you hate it, though. like. i have actual covid, does he want me to cough on him?

my brother doesn't get extra time off work anymore, because the cdc practically doesn't exist. my brother said i'm not exposing 200 students to covid. his boss shrugged and said: who cares? they're going to get it eventually anyway. like it isn't a pandemic.

when I was younger, I got food poisoning. I was supposed to recover from it, but I wound up with a bunch of nasty medical conditions instead. I never imagined I would become disabled from food.

so I am really glad I have been able to help spread the word every now and then about food safety and recalls, since it hopefully means a few less people going through what I have.

while I have your attention, I do not post every recall, even just for the US, so here are a few of the links I use!

recalls.gov/recent.html <- aggregate of official government recall links for the US! food, drugs, products, child safety seats, motor vehicles, and tires! (half the feeds are broken half the time, but hey, it works™! check the FDA enforcement reports for a more complete list of recalls, especially drug recalls!)

recalls for canada <- recalls for canada!

RASFF <- food recalls and safety alerts for the EU!

food safety news <- news about food safety in the US, canada, and around the world!

I was poisoned <- see where people have gotten food poisoning near you, and report your own! (worldwide!)

It’s passed in the house and going to the state senate as far as I can tell and it seems like they just snuck it in there because ???. So it’s time to harass your state senator and rep. You can find them here: https://malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator

Link to article: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/09/metro/massachusetts-house-opposite-sex-teams-transgender-athletes/