Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

i spent years thinking that i wasn't "really" trans

i "wanted to be" a girl

i hated "being" a boy

i fantasized about magic or science that could change my body

but somehow i still thought i wasn't "really" trans

bc i didn't say it

(scared)

and didn't transition

(super scared)

but i was ALWAYS trans

even before i said it

even before i transitioned

even before i knew the word

there's no legal amount of pride merch you have to own before you're 'really' trans

you are trans enough

if mass reporting can be weaponised somewhere on the internet, that place is obviously too big to moderate effectively

@luna

anyone else feel mild resentment towards button-shaped objects which are not pushable?

BREAKING: Social media app Twitter announces likes are now "florps", and users can expect the timeline to "go sideways". The company was not available for comment.

AI-generated images are becoming extremely convincing. It's becoming very easy (and cheap!) for bad actors to peddle them as part of disinformation efforts.

We cannot allow them to hide behind "oh dear I thought it's obvious!" afterwards.

I believe we need to start assuming bad faith when AI generated works are posted without being clearly marked as such, just as we assume bad faith when alt-right dog whistles are posted without them being clearly marked as sarcasm.

please always make sure to read the ToS of any financial service before using it, and operate with caution. watch out for terms like 'pornographic' or 'obscene' in the part of the ToS that says what kind of transactions are disallowed.

stripe, paypal, cashapp, kofi, and a lot more, will not allow any kind of adult content. the reason is essentially that credit card companies consider sexual stuff 'high risk' (i believe due to the possibility of chargebacks and also because of the general hostile political landscape around even legal sex work). high risk transactions carry big fees and overall are rather disincentivized, so, basically everywhere says Nope

your safest bet will always be to set up thru platforms that exist primarily for or heavily are based on sex work - platforms like manyvids, onlyfans, etc. these platforms are, of course, still capitalist and bad and etc. but their core interest of 'making money from sexual content' aligns with your own enough to keep you safe in this regard.

that's all ✨
#SexWork

Tickle Clown Economics

1990s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Watch framework of site gradually appear
- Start reading site text
- View images once they load
- Click a hyperlink to more information on the thing you're looking for

2020s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Wait for Cloudflare to verify you aren't a bot
- Wait for background movie to load
- Dismiss cookie popup
- Decline to subscribe to their mailing list
- Decline to speak to a chatbot that promises it's a human
- Scroll infinitely looking for the information you want that's probably not there since it's all generated text intended for other robots to read anyway

New wave of Mastodon users incoming on april 15th.