My fiancee got an insulting Christmas card from her parents this year. There was nothing written in the card proper, but inside was a “family update” letter that was clearly written for people outside the family. It had language like “we’ve moved to be closer to (name), our eldest daughter” and other stuff that you…

Georgia voter here - I had literally never heard of my Democratic candidate for the House before I found his name on Ballotpedia. They didn’t even run anyone against my district’s Representative in a prior election. Yeah, they’ve forgotten about us in this “red state” because for all their bluster about “changing the…

If Altria’s weed business doesn’t take over the market, expect attempts at draconian regulation aimed at their competitors or smaller businesses (see: the US’ clove ban, which Altria helped draft at a time when, coincidentally, their clove brand was underperfoming in market share).

LGBTQ content gets flagged because readers flag them.

As well as artists who do work that can’t be posted on deviantArt, but whose work isn’t “furry” so they can’t post it on FurAffinity/Weasyl, and who only do commissions, so Patreon isn’t a proper venue for them either. This is going to severely impact a lot of livelihoods and drive a lot of users off the site out of…

So you’ve missed the years-long discussion about how many automated systems have filtered out LGBTQ+ content as inherently sexual, even when it’s not, while letting actual porn through? Or the talk right now from artists saying that the X-rated pics on their adults-only blog aren’t getting flagged, but the SFW crops…

The fact that you used “Agony in Pink”, literal torture-murder-porn, as your only example (and fan works as your only category) makes me think you understand less of what the impact is going to be here than you say you do.

dA nominally doesn’t allow porn either - sure, there’s porn on it, but if it gets reported it can lead to a whole gallery being locked. I’ve known a few artists who keep anything that might possibly get classified by the most Puritanical moderator as “porn” off the site so they don’t get their dA presence nuked - and…

Why not DeviantArt?

There’s so much we don’t know about child sexual abusers because nearly no one looks, such as how many offenders are exclusively or partially preferential (actually sexually attracted to their victim) versus opportunistic (victims are chosen due to access, not attraction). This even goes for the age aspect of child…

I just wish the the Democratic Party would run candidates consistently, even when they think they’re going to lose, for any contestable seat. My Congressman has run unopposed in some elections, and in 2018 the Democrats technically “ran” an opposing candidate, but gave him almost no support. In the months before the…

The GOP is stirring up fear of Socialists and Communists and throwing their weight behind a man named McCarthy. Time is a flat circle indeed.

All I could think of was the costume design from The Fifth Element, namely the tweaker that tries to mug Korben and the guy who screams “SMOKE YOU!” at the cops.

Even if full abolition of incarceration were the end goal, the desired result would be diversion and monitoring.

(Dangit, that was supposed to be “couldn’t say”. >.<)

“If you can’t say ‘forced busing’ or ‘states’ rights’, you say...uh...Cheesecake Factory, I guess? Though I see that some of you have gone back to saying...that thing I said you could say...anyway.”

If people bother to vote every election, polling stations will learn to prepare to accommodate them, and take on more election officials and set out more booths.

The line was two and a half hours at my early voting location on the 27th. Which was the county Board of Elections main office. Which had fewer voting stations than the other county facility I early-voted at in 2016, and far fewer stations than my on-the-day location had in 2014. It’s almost like they’re actively…

And don’t forget about Sylvia Browne, who was so bad as a medium you could almost have solved cases by looking everywhere but where she said.

“Graphic design/designer” is the accepted form of the term in American English and has been since the term was coined in the 1920s. In fact, “graphics designer” is used by some graphic designers, including some friends of mine in the field, as a reverse shibboleth indicating that a job/contract listing doesn’t know…