FE: Fortune's Bees

@notallbees.bsky.social

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unironically one of the best things i have seen this year. a site made out of spite against AI slop/ads that ACTUALLY functions AND has a 2000's website vibe to it?? their kofi is linked at the bottom of the site, consider supporting them!! they've provided this HUGE service to us for free 😭

jess m. ☕🍂@jametc.bsky.social · 22h ago

holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!! pinlite.app someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol

screenshot of PinLite, a skin of pinterest that's just taken away all the bs and only shows the images, on a grey web 1.0 background

This is part of what I'm referring to with many people demanding stories that reassure them they're a good person. They want the moral instruction because otherwise, rather than processing the reading experience, there's a thrum of "am I bad? am I bad? what if someone finds out I'm bad?"

Tumblr post by graftini:

stories about abuse are allowed to exist without reducing themselves to moral instruction. i think sometimes when people complain about the “romanticization” of abuse, what they're actually objecting to isn't necessarily the way abuse is being represented, but the fact that the representation doesn't provide them with constant moral reassurance. like, there is a difference between “this story frames abuse as desirable or inherently romantic” and “this story depicts abuse in an erotic/ambiguous/complicated way and doesn't repeatedly tell me that abuse is bad, therefore the depiction itself is irresponsible.”

The people who have a problem with porn also have a problem with: • sex, all forms • healthcare, all forms • entertainment, all forms • other religions, violently enforced • other people having agency, violently enforced • other people not being enslaved, violently enforced • you, violently enforced

When you say 'all erotica is bad, no exceptions' you inevitably end up down the rabbit hole of conservatism where LGBT folks, queer culture and anything deemed 'strange' sexually is renounced and eventually banned through legal means.

been a discord user 10+ years, so I would have had to be 3-7 years old when I started because they've put me in the 'unconfirmed' age bracket. makes it pretty clear that their supposed automatic method of determining the age of accounts is a baldfaced lie.

Rona Altana@ronaaltana.bsky.social · 3w ago

Discord finally confirmed for real when they're rolling out age verification service-wide (tomorrow) and I've not seen a single person make a peep about it