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@zedweirdo.bsky.social

(they/he) midwest sex worker organizer

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Don’t Let Opposition to Big Tech Disguise the Real Intent of Online Safety Bills What looks to some like a rare form of bipartisan agreement to rein in Big Tech is also a method of scrambling actual accountability with a broad, dangerous “save the children” crusade.

I wrote about KOSA, Naomi Klein’s new book, and why it remains dangerous for us to cede “holding Big Tech accountable” to the right newrepublic.com/article/1758...

28.09.2023 14:18 — 👍 23    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
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Get Real, Congress: Censoring Search Results or Recommendations Is Are you a young person fighting back against bad bills like KOSA? Become an EFF member at a new, discounted Neon membership level specifically for you--stickers included! For the past two years,

The authors of the Kids Online Safety Act (#KOSA) believe pinning liability on a platform’s recommendations will allow them to square a circle and get away with censorship while complying with the First Amendment. It will not.

28.09.2023 23:51 — 👍 76    🔁 55    💬 0    📌 0

two books coming out in 2024 i need you to look out for:

Manjula Martin's THE LAST FIRE SEASON: A Personal and Pyronatural History ("H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene," goes the PR copy) +

Charlotte Shane's AN HONEST WOMAN (@charoshane.bsky.social! my own heart expands)

14.09.2023 16:38 — 👍 19    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I believe it in a heartbeat. I've been witnessing brain fog in people who don't even realize it (and need stimulants to function).

16.09.2023 16:45 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot of bluesky account @rorythewhore.bsky.social 
Rory Theytheminato  
28 FtX (they/them). Hairy adult performer & bedside comedian. Inquiries: daterory@proton.me 
tryst.link/escort/roryftx

Screenshot of bluesky account @rorythewhore.bsky.social Rory Theytheminato 28 FtX (they/them). Hairy adult performer & bedside comedian. Inquiries: daterory@proton.me tryst.link/escort/roryftx

Made a werk account

16.09.2023 16:20 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
the word 'sex' written (spray painted) in large letters amongst a colourful wall of graffiti and tags. a skull has been spray painted on in the lower right hand corner.

the word 'sex' written (spray painted) in large letters amongst a colourful wall of graffiti and tags. a skull has been spray painted on in the lower right hand corner.

sex, title screen, pc-9801 (1995) refuge.tokyo/pc9801/pc98/...

24.08.2023 05:36 — 👍 45    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 4

The efforts of sex worker advocates are better invested ...

in making the rich pay their god damn taxes and redistribute their wealth so we don't have to create all these workarounds just to stay housed

23.08.2023 18:10 — 👍 23    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1
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Extreme heat could impact the effectiveness of birth control and pregnancy tests Many states with abortion bans are experiencing broiling summers — and the heat could damage supplies such as emergency contraception and condoms.

Extreme heat threatens emergency contraceptives, pregnancy tests, and even condoms as all are heat-sensitive and lose effectiveness if left exposed. "Last month, the Lilith Fund reported heat damage to about $3,500 worth of pregnancy tests, thermometers, and condoms."

09.08.2023 14:31 — 👍 31    🔁 26    💬 1    📌 0

by my accounting we did this in april 2021

23.08.2023 15:52 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Ugh thats so awful.

23.08.2023 16:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Join the Michigan Transes. We have faygo.

04.08.2023 17:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

My cat knows how to meow in a thirsty way to beg me to make the faucet drip just right

04.08.2023 17:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(Email me if you’re not Sen. Wyden’s office)

03.08.2023 17:44 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Community member lost her apartment due to fire and is now navigating houselessness. Please support this harm reduction warrior!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/fire-disaster-emergency-relief

27.07.2023 17:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Elon/CSAM discourse is really testing me btw

27.07.2023 00:50 — 👍 21    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1
Info graphic with two people having a conversation surrounded by speech bubbles numbered 1-5. At the top reads "Molecular HIV Surveillance What Are The Issues?" Speech bubbles:
1.They don't need your consent to share data
2. MHS isn't like other kinds of public health surveillance 
3. Police may use your data against you 
4. CDC's data privacy guidelines don't protect much 
5. Informed consent and medical mistrust

Info graphic with two people having a conversation surrounded by speech bubbles numbered 1-5. At the top reads "Molecular HIV Surveillance What Are The Issues?" Speech bubbles: 1.They don't need your consent to share data 2. MHS isn't like other kinds of public health surveillance 3. Police may use your data against you 4. CDC's data privacy guidelines don't protect much 5. Informed consent and medical mistrust

PrEP-are yourself against molecular hiv surveillance

24.07.2023 20:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Shot of my hand using small jewelers tongs to pick up a used syringe from the sidewalk and transfer it to a plastic pencil case

Shot of my hand using small jewelers tongs to pick up a used syringe from the sidewalk and transfer it to a plastic pencil case

Don't like seeing used needles around your neighborhood? Me either, that's why I clean them up.

I use jewelers tongs to pick them up and a plastic pencil case reinforced with cardboard and duct tape to collect them. When the case is full I chuck it into the bin at my local needle exchange

24.07.2023 19:38 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

I know where these worries are coming from and I shouldn't listen to it. Boobs won't save you! There is something very real about social transition within the sex trades & learning to navigate precarity as a different gender.

24.07.2023 20:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"You should cancel your surgery" i think "you can't make money without boobs".

24.07.2023 20:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Trying to keep my head above the water financially and mentally, and taking the transition charges at exactly that pace.

24.07.2023 20:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Starting HRT during a pandemic is such a weird work transition. All of the sudden being thrust into the traditional workforce but still swerking thru 2nd puberty. Going from the highest rates in my career to back where I was years ago.

24.07.2023 20:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I tell my obgyn to put the speculum in my boy pussy

18.07.2023 18:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Other organizations have been able to get grant funding--but in such a small town for an operation with highly specific needs, WCIIA is currently just operating on donations.

17.07.2023 16:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Particularly when it comes to sw who use drugs--creating programming by sw who use drugs, for sw who use drugs (criminalized opiates & stimulants). Please support so they can continue to get folks in western mass what they need to survive!

17.07.2023 16:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

Whose Corner Is It Anyway is in URGENT need of donations to meet their goal so they can host their monthly supply pick up! https://www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corner-is-it-anyway
I learned so much from @marginalutility.bsky.social WCIIA has really shaped the sw rights movement

17.07.2023 16:01 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

How THE FUCK do I get Hunter Biden to buy a blowjob from me

16.07.2023 20:27 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

To be fair (derogatory?) the NYT giving Kristof a platform to crusade against sex trafficking, sometimes also with invented stories, and for two decades give or take, all that helped all of this became a #1 white savior issue

15.07.2023 21:44 — 👍 46    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0

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