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Affordable Leather @affordableleather.bsky.social · 3d

Ah, I was wondering, since you generally can only donate three times a year.
Still impressive, though 🙂

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Affordable Leather @affordableleather.bsky.social · 3d

Impressive!

I'm 60 and on 57 👍

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Affordable Leather @affordableleather.bsky.social · 3d

From what I can see, the "Dislikes" feature is a private thing so you can shape what appears in your feed, unlike Xwitter that shoves more and more rage bait at you because you engaged with it once 😡

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Jack Parker @mxjackparker.bsky.social · 7d

With 4 days left, we're in the final stretch to get this funded! We've raised £11,676 so far of the £15,700 we need and it's all or nothing.

Help this project get the rest of the way there so it can be made - by pre-ordering a copy or sharing the campaign!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...

A picture of the Kickstarter page for Transactional Intercourse, showing that the project has raised £11,676 of the £15,700 total goal with 325 backers and 4 days left to go.

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Jack Parker @mxjackparker.bsky.social · 9d

Self-Advocacy as a Pregnant Trans Person

An article covering how to advocate for yourself when accessing pregnancy care, correcting misinformation that medical professionals might give you, and going over what kinds of misgendering you can expect and how to avoid it when possible.

Self-Advocacy as a Pregnant Trans Person

Pregnancy care varies in quality at the best of times, but when you’re trans and coping within a system that isn’t built for you it’s important to be proactive about self-advocacy…

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Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social · 7d

Ireland continues to be criticised for our lack of action on identifying trafficking victims, prosecuting traffickers and the lack of implementation of the National Referral Mechanism. The sex work laws are failing! Time to decriminalise.

www.socialjustice.ie/article/irel...

Ireland and the 2025 Trafficking in Persons Landscape | Social Justice Ireland

The Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, published annually by the U.S. Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons,…

www.socialjustice.ie

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Decrim Now @decrimnow.bsky.social · 9d

Amazing work by our friends in Ireland to write and launch a bill to decriminalise sex work, which would enable sex workers to work together for safety, and improve their health and access to workers’ rights.

Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social · 15d

Press release: Decriminalisation of sex work bill launched by TD Ruth Coppinger

The bill was co-created by Red Umbrella Éireann, the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland and the Street Workers Collective.

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Irish News 🇮🇪 @news-flows-ir.bsky.social · 11d

Bill seeks to change law on brothels to improve safety for sex workers

Organisations including the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland have argued that the brothel keeping element of the legislation has made it unsafe

Bill seeks to change law on brothels to improve safety for sex workers

Organisations including the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland have argued that the brothel keeping element of the legislation has made it unsafe

www.irishexaminer.com

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · 8d

DEADLINE EXTENDED! ESWA invites all sx workers to reclaim the narrative about our industry in a community video project

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9d

This is several days old. But amidst so much else id missed it. That’s a stunning number. No wonder they about-faced. Reminder of the power of consumers in oligarch era, not subject to the same kind of targeting.

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Affordable Leather @affordableleather.bsky.social · 11d

No, no! Marriage is the union of a *man* and a *woman*. Nothing else!!!

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ALT: a window that says ' installing ideology 2.0 please wait ' on it

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Affordable Leather @affordableleather.bsky.social · 11d

Do you really think you've made a clever point there?
The world moves on, languages change, definitions change, but some people demand that what they learned as a child is the *only* correct way to think about things.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 11d

The UK government isn't unaware of what's going on. There's plenty of data before and after that's shown this would happen. Ofcom itself has made efforts to listen and to find solutions. But ultimately, this was always going to happen.

Sex workers were seen as an acceptable sacrifice.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 11d

Law enforcement does this regularly, with high-profile round-ups of sex workers under the guise of stopping trafficking. They're rewarded with grant money and federal funds and PR. Meanwhile, the sex workers are jailed or forced through rehabilitation programs or assaulted.

That's exploitation.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 11d

For all the talk about exploitation and sex work, the biggest exploiters are often governments. Here, they're effectively removing money out of creators pockets so that they claim political victory. While they may not be keeping the money directly, that's still profiting off of someone else's labor.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 11d

For adult creators, it's even more disastrous. The more people are dissuaded from going to legal sites, the more they seek out pirated content, which doesn't require facial scans to access.

The UK government is starving creators to score a political point.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 11d

And it's not just Pornhub. Traffic to adult sites has fallen dramatically, even according to the figures supplied by Ofcom, the UK enforcement agency.

The British government is actively dissuading adults from accessing adult content, using the threat of surveillance.

That's called censorship.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 11d

Traffic to Pornhub has fallen by more than 75% in the UK since the introduction of the Online Safety Act, as legal adults have shifted to the thousands non-compliant sites, supercharging the growth of platforms that don't moderate for pirated content, revenge porn and CSAM

An unmitigated disaster.

UPDATED: Aylo Accuses Ofcom of Ineffective AV Enforcement AVN

Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub.com and other adult platforms, accused the United Kingdom's (UK) digital regulator of ineffective enforcement of the age verification requirements outlined und...

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Affordable Leather @affordableleather.bsky.social · 11d

Dictionaries only tell you how words *have* been used.

They don't tell you how they *must* be used.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 11d

“The market for children’s information on the dark web is, unfortunately, booming. The demand is there and digital ID will create one of the largest supplies of children’s data just waiting to be hacked.”

I'm An Online Harms Expert, Here's Why I'm Terrified Of Digital ID For Kids

"The market for children's information on the dark web is, unfortunately, booming," said cyberpsychology consultant Catherine Knibbs.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Affordable Leather @affordableleather.bsky.social · 17d

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Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social · 15d

You can read the full press release here: sexworkersallianceireland.org/2025/10/pres...

Press release: Decriminalisation of sex work bill launched by TD Ruth Coppinger

The bill was co-created by Red Umbrella Éireann, the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland and the Street Workers Collective. These organisations are made up of sex workers and activists who are drawing on…

sexworkersallianceireland.org

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Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social · 15d

Crucially, violence against sex workers, either by clients or by members of the Gardaí, remains widespread and sex workers themselves have explained how the current legislation has been disempowering for them, making them therefore more vulnerable to this violence.

Press release: Decriminalisation of sex work bill launched by TD Ruth Coppinger

The bill was co-created by Red Umbrella Éireann, the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland and the Street Workers Collective. These organisations are made up of sex workers and activists who are drawing on…

sexworkersallianceireland.org

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Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social · 15d

Launching the bill yesterday at the Red Umbrella Film Festival, Ruth Coppinger said “Reducing demand was a key aim of the 2017 Sexual Offences Act — this incontrovertibly has not worked, as the Minister for Justice himself admitted after the review of the legislation was published.

Press release: Decriminalisation of sex work bill launched by TD Ruth Coppinger

The bill was co-created by Red Umbrella Éireann, the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland and the Street Workers Collective. These organisations are made up of sex workers and activists who are drawing on…

sexworkersallianceireland.org

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Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social · 15d

These organisations are made up of sex workers and activists who are drawing on lived experience and mountains of evidence to bring forward a piece of legislation to fully decriminalise sex work and introduce regulations that centre the safety of sex workers.

Press release: Decriminalisation of sex work bill launched by TD Ruth Coppinger

The bill was co-created by Red Umbrella Éireann, the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland and the Street Workers Collective. These organisations are made up of sex workers and activists who are drawing on…

sexworkersallianceireland.org

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