🇨🇦 SWers + 🌽 creators! @publicpubics.bsky.social & I have been researching SW financial discrim. in Canada + are seeking anecdotes of de-banking to include in our published report Has a bank ever frozen/closed your accounts or withheld $? Willing to share your experience? DM me (+ pls share!)

in our interview episode this week, I talked to porn historian and professional pervert Noelle Perdue about the dangers of isolating intimacy, whether the cat is entirely out of the bag, and our favorite parody porn. watch it on youtube or listen wherever you get your podz youtu.be/9eqMXBwWtkA?...

Why AI Porn Sucks with Noelle Perdue

YouTube video by 404 Media

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Did you miss me?? I’m on stream today playing Zoom Traitors!! 🩷💚 and it’s Wicked themed! Watch me live here ➡️ linktr.ee/GibbsGames

We love when SpankMates rep Spank pink! 💕 No one pulls it off like @gwenadora.bsky.social!

Is Taylor Swift co-opting the term “showgirl” from sex workers? Thank you @gwenadora.bsky.social and @mssexysaigon.bsky.social for chatting with me for this piece mashable.com/article/shou...

there likely will never be a reckoning for how much AI tech companies have stolen from sex workers, but at least we have records of it

Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI ‘Superintelligence’

Strike 3 Holdings is suing Meta in federal court, alleging the tech giant pirated copyrighted adult videos to train its AI models.

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October SpankMate announced!📢 The lovely @gwenadora.bsky.social 🤍

Turns out the politician who "banned" Kneecap from entering Canada may have gone rogue and done it without authorization. Not to mention they might not even be banned at all because it's beyond his authority to do so. He's refusing to comment on it www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Is Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap still banned from entering Canada? Were they ever? It's unclear | CBC News

When Liberal MP Vince Gasparro, the parliamentary secretary for combating crime, announced Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap is banned from entering Canada, he cited a U.K. terror-related charge for one memb...

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"Audio erotica, sex toy reviews, and your favorite ASMR YouTube channel could all be banned in Michigan should this bill be passed into law" mashable.com/article/mich...

Michigan bill seeks to ban porn, erotic ASMR, and more

The act also prohibits depictions and descriptions of trans people.

mashable.com

Corn Telethon is only two days away!!!! I’m SO EXCITED! 💛 like if you’ll be watching ♻️ repost if you’ll be donating 🗣️ quote repost if you’re one of the almost 100 people participating! This Thursday, September 4th, 9am-9pm Pacific (12pm-12am Eastern) corntelethon.com for more info! 🌽☎️ 🌽☎️ 🌽☎️

LMAO

Is Trump Dead Yet?@trumpmortality.bsky.social · last yr.

Hope brings charity

We warned legislators and regulators this would happen. We showed them data on consumer non-compliance and the surge in VPNs and pirate sites. They knew this would happen didn’t care.

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · last yr.

New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW

An adult industry company fought and won the right for fair banking access to all Americans. Up until this month (August 2025), any American’s bank account could be seized (along with their $$) if the bank deemed them a “reputational risk”. Thank you @spankchain.bsky.social

Guaranteeing Fair Banking For All Americans

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

whitehouse.gov

I find it vewwwwyyyy interesting when men reply to educational threads I make acting like I’ve wrote it because I’m just hearing about it for the first time! :3 (Dear reader, she did not find it vewwwwyyyy interesting at all.)

The porn industry’s organizing efforts have kept the first amendment of the USA propped up with a dildo. The reason why these age-verification laws haven’t come sooner is because we have been fighting them the past 5 years.

Under ~the guise of keeping the country safe~ your data WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU. Protest age verification internet laws today!

This is the first time I’ve ever seen a social platform say that these child safety (aka anti-porn laws) are bad for everyone. Governments around the world are “think of children”ing their way into tracking you online and forcing a monopoly of the internet. It’s getting really scary.

Bluesky@bsky.app · last yr.

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

More kids are seeing porn now than before the Online Safety Act became law. It’s literally having the opposite effect. The major cause? X. The vast majority of minors saw porn, far outstripping actual porn sites. So of course, the UK government wants to double down with more censorship.

Children’s exposure to porn higher than before 2023 Online Safety Act, poll finds

Children’s commissioner for England says findings show little had improved despite new law and tech firms’ promises

theguardian.com

OK Sen. Dusty Deevers says the state level laws aren't effective at protecting kids — which is something everyone tried to tell him for years — so the US now has no choice but to OUTLAW PORN COMPLETELY ... "for the survival of our Republic" This is going to work great.

Why America can — and must — outlaw pornography | Blaze Media

The constitutional and moral case for outlawing pornography.

theblaze.com

At this stage of the apocalypse, if you aren’t furry adjacent what is wrong with you

Grooming being included in the standards is bad enough, but the fact that Meta only scrubbed it after Reuters found it is....very telling

Every day, more of us become vulnerable to prosecution or litigation under US censorship laws. While we fight, it's also essential that we protect ourselves. FSC has a guide to help platforms and creators navigate the age-verification landscape. www.freespeechcoalition.com/toolkit

Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · last yr.

Coming Soon: Compliance with US Age Verification Laws — the state-by-state guide for adult sites. Clear breakdowns, practical guidance, and easy reference charts all in one place. 📩 Join the waitlist for a free preview: www.freespeechcoalition.com/toolkit

“Anyone who believed that government censorship of internet speech would stop with adult content was profoundly naïve. Had the mainstream tech industry taken the threat against us seriously rather than argue that our speech was less worthy of protection, we might not be in this situation.”

Age verification laws are sweeping the US, changing the future of online speech

Age verification laws have been passed in at least 24 states. Some say it’s an effort to protect kids, while others say it restricts protected speech.

yahoo.com

if you’re telling a sex worker and a trans woman they need to “do more for women’s rights”… boy do I have some news for you!

SNoggie@snogg3.bsky.social · last yr.

Yeah, no.😆 That's just a comment y'all use very loosely. My point is we should be fighting RIGHT NOW for the rights of all women, not just the trans community, and your silly TS take, tho welcomed to your opinion, is a distraction. I will be of no use to my trans friends if I lose the vote.

If we didn’t allow each other to comment on culture, we wouldn’t have culture.

@paulopatrezzi.bsky.social · last yr.

It’s an album title. Spinal tap never ate a shark sandwich, or a shit sandwich for that matter. 😂

I was committed to actually these stupid reusable bags for a craft. I ended up with these…

Frances Meh@francesmeh.reviews · last yr.

don't throw away your old grocery bags you can use them for amazing arts and crafts projects like "bag full of other grocery bags", "lone grocery bag in the corner of the kitchen", and "what's that smell did you save the bag that had the meat in it"

not to get political on here, but Taylor Swift calling herself a showgirl is stolen working class valour and I will stand on that hill.

honoured to announce I’m making my mainstream acting debut at #TIFF this fall. I’m so excited for y’all to see Modern Whore. It’s such a special project. 💗

Modern Whore

Andrea Werhun and Nicole Bazuin challenge toxic misconceptions about sex work and sex workers with great audacity and high style.

tiff.net

sorry I’ve been not talking about all the age verification news. if you want an my opinion, feel free to look at my last 5+ years of media quotes 🫠

“Losing anonymous internet access means giving companies and government agencies more power to track our activities online, transforming the American conception of the open internet into something reminiscent of the centralized tracking systems we’ve long opposed in China and similar countries.”

The Facial-Recognition Sham

Surveillance won’t make the internet safer.

theatlantic.com