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ErosBlog, 4 days ago to random

Much of my pleasure reading lately has been in the space of kinky erotic romance, which means my usual Kindle weather report is "steamy with a chance of severe werewolves." Thus did I find myself laughing out loud at a line by Cory Doctorow aka @pluralistic when he spoke of a "whole world of indie Kindle books pitched at incredibly voracious communities of readers, especially the very long tail of very niche sub-sub-genres radiating off the woefully imprecise category of 'paranormal romance.'"

ErosBlog, 4 days ago to random

Not gonna name any names but...

Have any of the rest of you noticed people here on Mastodon who are visibly DAMAGED by their years of posting on abusive #pornocalypse platforms? As in, they have flinches and tells from years of dodging capricious moderation?

I just saw someone who posts found BDSM pics without provenance or alt-text. They don't know anything about the img context. But they still put "Consensual bondage. Not an actual depiction of any violent or illegal behavior" on each toot!

ErosBlog, 9 days ago to random

Demanding that people use content warnings on their toots about protest activity is... at best a peculiar look.

It's the fascists who demand protesters stay on the sidewalk, but not in the street and not on the lawn. It's the fascists who complain about the noisy chants.

If protest activity is INTENDED to be noisy, obnoxious, and impossible to ignore (which it often is) then it's weird to imagine that SUPPORTING that protest activity with information ops should be tagged for easier ignoring.

mindpersephone, 9 days ago to random

Proposal: we stop using NSFW (Not Safe For Work) and start using NSFCA or Not Safe For Corporate America

ErosBlog, 10 days ago to random

Friendly reminder that in the time you would spend confronting an online stranger's hostile and bizarre opinions, you can just as easily exclude that stranger from your infosphere permanently and still have time to go to your kitchen space and make yourself a nice cup of flavored coffee.

ErosBlog, 10 days ago to random

In the realm of bizarre things happening to unfortunate people I don't know on the other side of the world for whom I can do precisely nothing, it's hard to get my attention. But what's this I hear about the Brits rounding up international asylum seekers and mailing them to concentration camps in, of all places, bloody Rwanda? How? What? Who thought that was a good idea? I can't even. I don't even. Just what? Never mind, I can't afford to think about this. My brain hurts now.

ErosBlog, 11 days ago to Dog

I can't believe the Washington Post did a whole story today about Democratic politicians mocking Kristi Noem for her dog-killing and fucking NOBODY mentioned the shit Mitt Romney got for making his sick dog ride on the roof of his car!

http://www.erosblog.com/2012/03/16/mitt-and-ann-romney-horsing-around/

#KristiNoem #Dog #Killiing #DogKiller #MittRomney #DogsAgainstRomney #RoofDog

ErosBlog, 12 days ago to random

There's a political throughline for EVERYTHING. Including Governor Kristi Noem's pride in shooting her own dog in a gravel pit.

Robert Heinlein was a revered authorial figure (same pantheon as Ayn Rand) for generations of the American right.

Kristi Noem is of an age to have read Heinlein in her uncritical adolescence.

In 1973, Heinlein included the following in his bestselling book Time Enough For Love: "You must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out."

She thinks it's a VIRTUE.

ErosBlog, 12 days ago to cars

All the way back in 1957, cartoonist Bill Ward spotted the kinky potential of those newfangled safety belts in cars:

http://www.erosblog.com/2021/11/13/back-seat-safety/

#SeatBelts #Cars #Bondage #BillWard #McCartney #Cartoon #Kinky #BDSM #BackSeat #LeatherBelt #Leather #RedDress #Furs #PrettyGirl #Babe #HotBabe

futurebird, 13 days ago to random

I’m very fond of stories in a universe where some advanced, but long vanished, race of enigmatic aliens has left behind strange artifacts: like puzzle boxes or dungeons for our heroes to explore and nearly get killed in. If not aliens let it be a lost human civilization.

I also like to think about those ancient people who built the ‘Temple of Doom’— for all of those traps to work so well after thousands of years they must have been very clever. What was it like to set them up?

ErosBlog, 18 days ago to ai

I asked a fully-censored pornocalypse-enabled commercial AI chatbot to write me a limerick about a man who ate a mango and... this isn't bad, actaully!

A fellow named Stan, quite the gourmand,
Bit into a mango, so grand!
The sweet, juicy flesh,
Made a tropical mesh,
And left sticky contentment in hand.

#Limerick #AI #ChatBot

ErosBlog, 26 days ago to random

Tell me you live in Red America without telling me you live in Red America, riding around in your neighbor’s dualie diesel truck edition:

ErosBlog, 1 month ago to privacy

All of a sudden it starts raining handmaids in handcuffs:

http://www.erosblog.com/2024/04/06/its-raining-handmaids-in-handcuffs/

#Facism #Handmaids #HandmaidsTale #Privacy #ReproductiveRights #BurnThePatriarchy #Technology #Patriarchy #Christofacism #Christianity #Ovulation #OvulationTracker #Ovia #Tech #Danger #ReproductiveFreedom

ErosBlog, 1 month ago to gay

I was just going back through my pornocalypse posts and was reminded of the news last Christmas that Disney had Bowdlerized "gay apparel" out of the popular holiday carol. Didn't get any notice or comment on my blog at the time, and I can't remember if I posted it here, although surely I must have. Anyway, yeah:

http://www.erosblog.com/2023/12/30/pornocalypse-comes-for-your-gay-apparel/

#Pornocalypse #Gay #Disney #GayApparel #Christmas #ChristmasCarol #DonWeNowOurFuzzySweaters

ErosBlog, 1 month ago to Marriage

Do you kiss your wife's feet as often as you should?

http://www.erosblog.com/2015/01/15/kissing-his-wifes-feet/

#Wife #Kissing #Feet #FootKissing #FeetKissing #FootFetish #FeetFetish #Vintage #VintagePhoto

ErosBlog, 1 month ago to random

Posting misinformation on the 1st of April isn't funny in this media environment. It makes you look like any other Boomer who has been overwhelmed by pernicious memes.

#AprilFools #Boomer #Confused

ErosBlog, 1 month ago to music

I haven't heard the album yet, probably won't ever hear it except whenever various songs trickle in through the membranes of my social media bubble. But I can tell you right now, I don't need a bearded white man in the Washington Post to tell me what I ought to think about Beyoncé’s country music album.

#Beyonce #CowboyCarter #CountryMusic #Review #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Album #Music #MusicReview

ErosBlog, 1 month ago to random

The kings of the economy wail that nobody wants to work. But from where I sit, it looks like those same fuckers don't want to manufacture or sell products.

The kings of the economy are on strike. They won't sell you an object that sits there, does its work, minds its business. There's no excitingly toxic business model in that, so they refuse.

If it doesn't have a monthly subscription or a cloud services contract or a data harvesting angle or proprietary consumables, they aren't interested.

ErosBlog, 1 month ago to random

Corporations are not people. Corporations are the state: they operate by state charters, subject to state-issued rules, in service of state policies. Corporate oppression is government oppression.

My lifelong political journey across the spectrum of anarchy flavors (from right to left) and my slowly increasing willingness to use the tools of government to attack itself in its "predatory corporate capitalism" manifestation) can be mapped to my super-slow realization of this essential truth.

ErosBlog, 1 month ago to random

So far every troll or serious asshole I've encountered on Mastodon has appeared to show up based on following one of my hashtags and they all trace back to small instances which are at-a-glance obviously set up to be a nest for trolls and an eyrie for the pernicious memes that travel in flocks.

The asshole who blamed my dogs' chronic pain on the "toxic" spray cheese I use for pill bribes was a covid denier and crypto promoter from a "libertarians fleeing censorship" themed server.

geraineon, 1 month ago to random

And here's some discussion about military sff that maybe will be of interest to some of you: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/4514231

#PFDiscussions