What Even is This

- Are they clean? Do they need help bathing or showering?

- is their space clean and free from clutter and trash? Is their bedding clean?

- do they need help with preparing hot food? Or are they living on easy to eat snacks? When was the last time they had a vegetable? Protein?

- do they have pets that need care? When was the last time their dog was walked or their cats litter was cleaned?

Visually impaired folks can go read on Twitter, but I must include the screencapped thread here as well.

You need to understand that yes, Romance is going to be hit hard, but this will also censor my science fiction as well.  ANY book with sex in it will be censored.

There’s an image embedded in this one:

Visual translation:

“ STOP SESTA / FOSTA

 Expands existing federal criminal law to target online platforms where users discuss sex work and related topics. Platform owners can be prosecuted under the expanded law even in cases where they didn’t know that people were using those platforms to engage in sex work, and even in situations where there is no indication of coerced sex trafficking of adults or minors.

Opens online platforms to new criminal and civil liability for hosting content about sex work at both the federal and state levels.

Changes the law RETROACTIVELY: an online platform can be prosecuted under federal and state law or held civilly liable for hosting content created before FOSTA passed. “

ANY AUTHOR CAN BE TARGETED.

ANY WEBSITE CAN BE TARGETED.

ANY GENRE CAN BE TARGETED.

ANYONE CAN BE TARGETED.

THIS MUST BE STOPPED.

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If you’re an American, you can contact your Senators and Representative by using this page here: https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAoNWOBhCwARIsAAiHnEiaFDM5_0BJoQUWVrGE89I20jiBB2VmvPkReE2XhbVbYF9UTn5DjvMaAtemEALw_wcB

Just insert your address and off you go.

If you are outside the US, but you believe this will severely impact your own online activities (business or otherwise), consider contacting the US. Department of State, which handles international issues.

https://register.state.gov/contactus/contactusform  would be the contact form, and do feel free to mention the State Department is in charge of the Economic Prosperity and Trade Policies for international issues.

On Tuesday, the Guardian published an interview with the American philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler, which included a scathing critique of so-called “gender critical” transphobes and trans exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs), who don’t believe trans women are women, and oppose the right of transgender people to exist in gendered spaces, such as a bathrooms.

“The anti-gender ideology is one of the dominant strains of fascism in our times,” Butler said. “So the Terfs will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism, one that requires a coalition guided by struggles against racism, nationalism, xenophobia and carceral violence, one that is mindful of the high rates of femicide throughout the world, which include high rates of attacks on trans and genderqueer people.”

Hours later, this section of the article, including a question from the interviewer Jules Gleeson and three paragraphs from Butler, were removed. The only explanation is a cryptic note at the end of the article, stating: “This article was edited on 7 September 2021 to reflect developments which occurred after the interview took place.” Screenshots of the deleted section of the interview have gone viral on Twitter.

According to Gleeson, who provided Motherboard with a written statement, the Guardian’s editorial team, and in particular its team based in the UK, “folded” under pressure from readers who took issue with the article and decided to “censor” Butler. The Guardian did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“Habitual bigots online are going to do their thing, and usually respond to pieces without even reading them,” Gleeson wrote in a statement sent to Motherboard. “What’s been more unexpected was how quickly the publication folded. I was expecting the Guardian US to stand by me as a writer, and while I have received apologies from their side, this has been a draining and consuming episode that I didn’t expect.”

Gleeson told Motherboard that Judith Butler has also emailed the Guardian about its decision to remove that section of the interview, but has not heard back.

Gleeson said she last heard from the Guardian last night, and that her editor said “there’s not much I can do” because a decision has already been made. 

Comic on having long-COVID as a young person. Sending love to others who may be similarly suffering.

Ko-Fi

(ID under the cut)

“I’m a stripper not a cop.”