Critics of SCREEN warn its reach is potentially much broader than even some state age verification laws: “It doesn’t differentiate between search engines, social media, bookstore websites, or porn... it could be up to a handful of individuals to decide whether a website has harmful content or not.”

Adult Entertainment Group Opposes Age-Verification Bill in Senate

A trade group representing the adult entertainment industry is mounting a last-minute blitz to defeat legislation that would require websites hosting sexually explicit content to verify users’ ages.

news.bloomberglaw.com

I visited Our Secret Spot during the day today 👀 There wasn’t even a party, and the lights were on! 💡 What do you think I was up to? 🧐 (⛔️Wrong guesses only!)

This is the most Thelemic art I have seen in a long time. This says Aeon of the Child LOUDLY. Artist: yoishikata

This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.

Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.

Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...

Fresh hair and lips 👄

Hi there #opensource #ruby #developers: morph needs you. It keeps scrapers running for Planning Alerts, and the stack has aged badly. Come and take a piece of it. Even a README fix helps. oaf.org.au/2026/07/30/m...

morph.io is stuck in 2016. Help us get it out.

morph.io has been quietly running scrapers for the civic tech world for over a decade. Over 11,100 public scrapers, 43 million rows of data, and one server that’s still running Ubuntu 16.04. …

oaf.org.au

I’m craving fried chicken and cock

Ma Bell would be proud ☎️

Damon Beres@damonberes.com · last wk.

I wrote about the new "Apple Upgrade" program, which plans to entice people into *leasing* new devices—perhaps devices they can't truly afford—leading them to stay on a perpetual cycle of monthly payments and upgrades, filtering their most personal data through property that isn't truly theirs. 🎁:

“There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · last wk.

“This “privacy for me, surveillance for thee” attitude feels like a perfect encapsulation of the future we’re already living in: one where wealthy elites can afford privacy, while the rest of us are forced to live in a corporate surveillance panopticon.” www.ms.now/opinion/tayl...

Glad I dug through my emails and found all of the council pickup dates; there's an upcoming pickup this week and now I can offload a few bulky things that have overtaken my living room!

Starting a new series where I post all of the photos from my lost Instagram accounts! Here's 2014 😜 kimcums.com/instagram-un...

Nick Kristof is an utter piece of shit and a liar. #SexWorkersRemember Who in Sex Work remembers "Exodus Cry"? Porn vs Pulitzer: How Nicholas Kristof and the New York Times Became Mouthpieces for Religious Conservative Propaganda producerx.medium.com/porn-vs-puli...

Porn vs Pulitzer: how Nicholas Kristof and the New York Times became mouthpieces for religious…

“Every time we engage in licentious sexual activity, we come into agreement with Satan…” — Exodus Cry, the self-described anti-sex…

producerx.medium.com

let's try again

-𝚖𝚘𝚡@moxiest.art · 3y ago

I won all the darts! 🎯

Ironically, France's government did a study several years ago that found there was no safe or technically feasible way to mandate online age verification without massively expanding surveillance and eviscerating online privacy. They decided to do it anyway.

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 2w ago

France just became the first nation in Europe to ban teens from social media and, you guessed it, they’re forcing everyone to upload their ID’s for social media access in order to enforce it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I'm doing a course in August about writing about the sex industry! If you're a journalist who wants to know more about this incredibly important industry, please sign up here: courses.outvoice.com/products/liv... (And also everyone should promote this class so I get a lot of signups and money)

New Event

Lux Alptraum will walk you through the basics of reporting on the sex industry. In addition to providing an overview of the different corners of the sex industry, she’ll walk participants through the ...

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From empires to coups, from propaganda to Native history, Jermaine Fowler of The Humanity Archive offers a reading list of books that will make you "impossible to lie to" thehumanityarchive.substack.com/p/these-his...

These History Books Will Make You Impossible to Lie To

How power actually works, who got erased, and where we go next. Mainstream history can be rewritten. The books on the shelf in your house cannot.

thehumanityarchive.substack.com

We're getting ready to launch our 2026 State of the Creator survey, which raises money for sex worker serving nonprofits. Last year, we raised over $8K, and hope to increase that this year. Compiling this year's beneficiaries now. Who are your favorite SW-serving orgs?

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Happy Sex Worker Saturday! 🖤 Open ya wallets! 💵💵 Fellow SWers, post your tip links below! If using an img use alt text or put alt4meNSFW to be reposted. 🖤🧡 Everyone else- we pay and support SWers around here. Be sure to tip and share the thread!

Just letting y’all know that this lil guy is now on greeter duties at my incall. In the past I’ve always put him away in a separate area during bookings, but honestly he’s weaselled his way into ruling the house. Which yknow, it’s his home so fair enough really for him to get all areas access 😌

Tried to suss out a bunch of tattoo artists on Insta but opened too many tabs and now I've had to verify myself again for like the 17th time this week 🙃

I have to wait over a week for my new hair and lip filler appointments 🫦💖😫

Hey, are you a new dominatrix just getting started with dungeon gear? I am going through my kinky storage and good lord, I have SO MUCH STUFF that I never use. So I’m going to give it away. Would you like a few new-to-you pieces in perfect condition? If you can come pick them up, they’re yours. 1

NEW nipple piercing stretching video is available here: kimcums.com/8g-nipple-st...

Also, because I'm now in a *mood*. I'm going to share my one controversial free speech take: Country music should be banned on all non-country music stations. I don't care how popular the song is, or how many people like it. ❌

Been desperately trying to get away from Adobe products for years, but then whenever I try alternatives they crash constantly and/or I spend hours just trying to get basic things like the fucking audio output to working so that I can edit, and then I give up.

Hey hey #sexwork community this seems useful

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 3w ago

I have been expressing desire for an app that alerts me to the presence of pervert glasses in my vicinity. It exists and it's called Nearby Glasses! Immediate download.

stop. if you think the existence of a warrant is part of the conversation in any way, you cannot, by definition, argue that it makes any difference whether the guy they killed had a warrant or not. because right guy or wrong guy, an arrest warrant isn't a death sentence.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3w ago

BREAKING: BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) - Homeland Security secretary said man killed by ICE in Maine was not the target of warrant, Maine Sen. Angus King says.