I found the report horrifying but also unsurprising given the lack of meaningful action from our government. As with election interference, it is a serious challenge that our government is an ineffective gerontocracy where few of the people at the top can grasp these technical challenges, and no one can hope to make…

OH yes. It actually got revealed during a school day, so that was fun! Two year investigation, and now a trial in November.

Uh yeah, he’s been under investigation for 2 years now, and we have a trial in November. I also may have told him I’d happily scalp him if he ever came near me or my kids again.

From my own experience with someone that tried to groom me, I would not trust this person with anything. They will go as far as they can and if they find too much resistance they will just go after someone else.

Nope, he was totally normal, typical grandpa sort of guy. Of course hindsight being perfect, my husband realized that the first step he took with our son was something he’d done with my husband also: Showing him porn (my husband, to be fair, was 15-ish I think, and it was justified as a form of giving him “the talk”).

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What I find so horrifying about child pornography is the insidiousness of its perpetual existence. Survivors live with the reality that images of their abuse are probably out there somewhere, being viewed by who knows how many predators. I can’t even begin to imagine how that must feel. Yet, society as a whole treats…

We discovered two years ago that my husband’s step-father was grooming our son. He had been doing all kinds of awful things in clear escalation of grossness, clearly prepping him for the worst kinds of sexual abuse. Our son told us he’d (among many other things) been taking pics of him while he was changing clothes.…

At the same time, the powers-that-be have no problem using it as an excuse to weaken privacy protections or to reduce access to security tools for the overwhelming majority of users who are not now, and never will be, a threat.

He was pretty good at his job! Just not good at keeping his hands to himself!

I read this article and it makes me want to die.

Yup.

It is truly sad that someone capable of intelligent thought can reason out that those things are okay. They must be morally bankrupt (but probably still religious!).

They can stfu about shirts imo.  At least her’s is censored.

Every time somebody outside The Squad’s districts talks shit about their reelection I have to laugh.  If you don’t live there, then don’t worry about them.  Mind your own districts!

...and now they are all pretend-concerned. Look, the deplorables and their apologizers in the media can’t tell me nothin’. Fuck their feelings.

She has nothing to stand by or apologize for.

As one of her fellow constituents, I say... yup. She may not always be perfect, but I appreciate her fighting Marathon over air quality, and her other battles for the neighborhoods. (I also remember her going door to door as a state rep, and how she remembered talking to my mother after I mentioned she’d passed away.)…

Hopefully, Lindsey clutches those fucking pearls so tight he does a Hutchence!

“stand by” lol

Helena’s concepts were interesting too. Her Octopus custard pie idea was really interesting.