Fuming mildly after seeing a personal anecdote designed to make men like me more comfortable with the notion of seeking emergency medical care in ambiguous situations that might be, but probably aren't, a heart attack. "Just go to the nearest ER and get checked out, it's the wise and smart thing to do, your wife will love you for your commitment to staying alive for her!"
It's also a quick way to incur more debt in an afternoon than some of us make in a year. Not such an easy decision to make.
@B_Whitewind@ErosBlog Naive question from a European: chemists at the pharmacy can often advise on treatment when symptoms are described. Would that be an option at all?
I would be thrilled to receive follow recommendations for porn-posting accounts on Mastodon that routinely (I do not look for or expect perfection) show provenance for the photos (any kind of metadata telling us who's in the photo, who took or published it, or where/when it was first published) and at least a good-faith stab at some alt text. I don't mind a bot account (if it does this stuff, which I haven't ever seen one do) but hand-rolled is nicest.
How long, I wonder, before we see the first confirmed AI casualty caused by somebody who thinks an AI hallucination served up by Google must be reliable info and takes/follows the fatal advice?
Years late to the party, I'm pleased to announce that ErosBlog finally uses HTTPS. I know some people in select controlled browsing/computing environments may hitherto have been prevented or deterred from visiting. If that's you or anybody you know (boosts encouraged!) then welcome back and thanks for your patience.
It's genuinely ASTONISHING how much technical debt a non-techie webmaster like me can pile up over the course of 22 years. But that's one box checked off!
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.'"
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!
I wanna tell 'em "This is the Fediverse! Nobody is going to boot you for posting a bondage picture as long as it's behind an appropriate content warning. If that's not true on your instance, find a better instance!"
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.
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.
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.
According to what was reported the day the bill was last debated, both houses of Parliament were basically told "You're going to stay here & keep voting until you vote for it to pass," which is its own whole other nightmarish reality.
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!
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.
@ErosBlog I don't use AI for my own writing but I sometimes use it as a toy and what I noticed is that at least the one I use typically glosses over any sexy bits (I was surprised to read "erection" at one point in the generated text ๐) but it has no qualms pairing up family members if they're the only characters with names. Which is noteworthy IMO because mainstream retailers won't publish incest erotica at all.
By the way this was 100% not posed or staged in any way. My neighbor was showing off the features on the touchscreen of his fancy truck and I said "Hey, you mind if I snap a picture of that?" He had no idea I was composing a shot of the Red America trifecta: luxury Trump hat, crucifix, and country music.
I assume that people who need to know this would already know it, but I am not such a person and did not know it, so I will pass this on from a correspondent who wishes to remain nameless: There's a FOSS menstrual cycle and fertility tracking app named "drip." created by feminist female developers with privacy at its foundation. I'm not qualified to opine about its safety or security but developers say everything stays on your device: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.drip/