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Profiles in Dishonor: Sen. Lindsey Graham

Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · 5d

POV: a sleepy Italian is about to pull you down for a kiss or a cuddle

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Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · 10d

This is not the Nobel Peace Prize; it’s the Jarebear Peace Sign

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Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · 11d

New video: For many reasons, Senator Lindsey Graham sucks and he deserves to lose his upcoming election. Let's chat about it a little.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZe1...

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There Is No God on the Mountain

Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · 17d

Brat first listen ranking:

1 So I
2 I might say...
3 360
4 apple
5 365
6 B2b
7 girl so confusing
8 mean girls
9 Sympathy is a knife
10 Von dutch
11 rewind
12 Talk talk
13 Club classics
14 everything is romantic
15 i think about it...

Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · 18d

New video: Been busy with other things, so this week's essay is a personal exploration about how frustrating it is be somewhere beautiful... and not experience the same awe everyone else does
youtu.be/kToXt2WlRqQ

Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · 19d

My initial ranking for no reason:

1 The Life of a Showgirl
2 Father Figure
3 Wood
4 Honey
5 Eldest Daughter
6 Wi$h Li$t
7 Actually Romantic
8 Ruin the Friendship
9 Cancelled
10 Elizabeth Taylor
11 The Fate of Ophelia
12 Opalite

Censorship 4: The Death of Language

Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · 22d

Big ol sweater, big ol legs, big ol desire to take a nap

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Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · 25d

New video: Censorship 4 - The Death of Language

Algospeak is incredibly annoying. Unalive, grape, corn star. It’s annoying, but worse than that, it represents something far more sinister: an attack on language itself. Yes, this is me talking about how TikTok and other are evil.
youtu.be/kGqF7-Ilzfc

#videoessay #youtube #youtuber #censorship #tiktok #algospeak

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Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · 25d

Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · 25d

New video: Censorship 4 - The Death of Language

Algospeak is incredibly annoying. Unalive, grape, corn star. It’s annoying, but worse than that, it represents something far more sinister: an attack on language itself. Yes, this is me talking about how TikTok and other are evil.
youtu.be/kGqF7-Ilzfc

Censorship 4: The Death of Language

Censorship 3: The Death of the Internet

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Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · 29d

Eyes bright, hair fluffy
Feel cute, but nose stuffy

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Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · Sep 19

New video essay out now on censorship that goes over some updates on the attacks on games, the difficulty with cleanly defining genre and mature themes, debanking, and the future of the internet itself

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6u9...

Censorship 3: The Death of the Internet

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Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · Sep 19

New video essay out now on censorship that goes over some updates on the attacks on games, the difficulty with cleanly defining genre and mature themes, debanking, and the future of the internet itself

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6u9...

Censorship 2: The Death of Gaming (Steam, Itch.io, and Collective Shout)

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Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · Sep 19

The second, focused almost entirely on Collective Shout, PayPal, Stripe, Visa, MasterCard, and the attacks on games: youtu.be/slpSVymLSCk

And next week's (9/26), discussing the complicity of sites like TikTok, YouTube, and OnlyFans in the attacks levied against language itself: youtu.be/kGqF7-Ilzfc

Censorship: The Death of Art

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Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · Sep 19

The first essay, covering the (non-valid) reasons people to attack erotic art, what some fantasies are on a deeper level, and the censorious nature of self-publishing sites that "embrace" erotic art: youtu.be/CSA8sv8wY0g

Censorship 3: The Death of the Internet

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Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · Sep 19

This is getting more attention than I'm used to, so I'll just say I have two video essays discussing this very topic out now, another one that comes out tonight at 6, and one more next week

Tonight's, on gaming, age verification, and the sanitizing of the internet youtu.be/i6u9oS4JnO4

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Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · Sep 19

Stripe's anti-art stance is already concerning. It does not speak well for how likely they are to stand up in defense of speech. Hopefully, they learn and improve.

Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · Sep 19

Reminder that Project 2025 redefined pornography in its massive policy plan to include any media that includes trans people. They will use the attacks on erotic art as a pretext to go after queer people. The moves to sanitize and infantilize the internet are part of this assault on speech.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 18

There are a lot of calls to support independent media, rightfully so. But one problem is that substack's biggest investor is Andreesen Horowitz. Another is if the right wing mob figures out how to target stripe next, everything they disfavor could be easily targeted and defunded to silence dissent.

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Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · Sep 19

To disengage from the doom of social media for a moment: Between this, the attacks on speech from conservatives re: Kirk, the anger at ABC/Disney for capitulating, and more, we might be about to witness a massive pro-speech, pro-art movement. There is hope in that, and hope is important

Ana Valens | 🔞 | COMMS: (3/5) @acvalens.net · Sep 17

Starting to hear rumblings from organizers, activists, interested parties that they want to advance further on protesting payment processors. Not enough to call, not enough to sign petitions. It’s time to protest in person, IRL at the locations of these businesses — PayPal, Visa, MasterCard

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Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · Sep 15

I have an annoying habit of only ever listening to the same habit on repeat for months. In other words, I recently listened to The Fame Monster for the first time. It has been replayed probably... 20 times the past couple of weeks?

Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · Sep 15

Jarebear 2: Return of the Big Ass Sweater

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Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · Sep 13

But if you don't want that sort of deal, I can also share PDFs and the like of the books and sheet music (the demos are uh... rough as I am not a singer by any means)

Jarred Corona @jarredsax.bsky.social · Sep 13

For my non-theatre friends, New Play Exchange is a massive library of plays uploaded by those of us who write them. For under $20 a year, you get thousands of works at your fingertips. You can read and recommend them. It's a great place.