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Despoina/Des | She/her They/them | 30 | Animation, Comic, 3D.| Fuck NFT/AIGEN|🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Fuck Puritans and their Neo Hays Code
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Hot dang this video essay hits hard, is well researched, and aligns so well with what I think ails this world.

I feel that now, more than ever, solidarity of the 99% will truly be one of the few things that can fix this absolute mess of a techno feudal-ish world.

Mega worth the watch:
Greed is Destroying the World
YouTube video by Drew Gooden
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Jesus Christ, could corporations stop katamari damacying each other for like five minutes
December 5, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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This is what they are being sued for?

"Prause and Levy concluded NoFap, which promotes abstinence from masturbation and viewing pornography, is not an effective means of treatment. They also maintain that pornography is not addictive and shouldn't be presented as such in public health messaging"
Alexander Rhodes, founder of NoFap, the much-maligned anti-masturbation group, has filed suit against researchers he claims are part of a vast conspiracy to defame him, along with Aylo, owner of Pornhub, and 150-year-old peer-reviewed scientific journal Taylor & Francis.
NoFap Founder Sues Aylo, UCLA, Scientists & Academic Publisher AVN
Aylo leads a class of defendants in a state-level defamation lawsuit brought by the founder of NoFap, a controversial anti-pornography group.
avn.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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It gets stranger...

avn.com/news/legal/n...

Again, not the @theonion.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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finally getting a chance to read through Rhodes filing which, at least so far, offers no real proof of conspiracy other than repeating "upon information and belief" a thousand times.

The one revealing thing so far is that NoFap is broke and no journalists have called him in over six years.
December 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Of course, when Rhodes sued his own mother for defamation, Pennsylvania didn't have a SLAPP law. The state legislature passed one in 2024, allowing those sued for defamation to recover damages if the suit is harassment meant to chill free speech.

This might get interesting.
Pennsylvania | Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Pennsylvania has a narrow anti-SLAPP law. SLAPP stands for strategic lawsuits against public participation. Compare your state's anti-SLAPP laws.
www.rcfp.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Reporter @mdmcjr.press lays it out well. He says its critical to understand this in context of the larger push for "traditional sexuality" in the manosphere, where everything from eating vegetables to masturbating is coded as weak or beta.

Also mentions that Rhodes previously sued his own mother.
Members of the far-right Manosphere push a dangerous politics of male ...
Facing the ‘Fratriarchy’
www.cityweekly.net
December 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Researchers like @nicolerprause.bsky.social (one of the scientists being sued) found that the massive for-profit NoFap Army is, in addition to being bad science, associated heavily with violence, noting both online violent talk and offline violent actions.
Violence on Reddit Support Forums Unique to r/NoFap
Masturbation abstinence practices have returned to the USA in the form of semen retention communities. Followers on one of these male, anti-masturbation forums, “NoFap,” on Reddit (denoted “r/NoFap...
www.tandfonline.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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She's not the only one. NPR reporter Lisa Hagen said that while reporting this story she found that "supporters of masturbation abstinence have harassed critics by calling employers, targeting them with misogynist or antisemitic slurs or even violent threats."
Masturbation abstinence is popular online. Doctors and therapists are worried : Consider This from NPR
More than two decades of growing internet use has surfaced fears about the social and psychological impacts of nearly unfettered access to pornography. But many researchers and sex therapists worry th...
www.npr.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Alexander Rhodes, founder of NoFap, the much-maligned anti-masturbation group, has filed suit against researchers he claims are part of a vast conspiracy to defame him, along with Aylo, owner of Pornhub, and 150-year-old peer-reviewed scientific journal Taylor & Francis.
NoFap Founder Sues Aylo, UCLA, Scientists & Academic Publisher AVN
Aylo leads a class of defendants in a state-level defamation lawsuit brought by the founder of NoFap, a controversial anti-pornography group.
avn.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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An international furry on their way to MFF got detained at the airport, interrogated and deported back to their home country today. I’m not sure if the news has made it over from Twitter yet but fuck man
December 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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𝔦𝔪𝔭𝔶-𝔴𝔦𝔪𝔭𝔶
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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shame and guilt are totally not burning harriet alive 😼
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Dark Samus
December 5, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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December 5, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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December 5, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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officially 10 years of asuka bday drawings 🤓
December 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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what if we just consolidated all entertainment into one huge megacorp? why not?? let's just get it over it, let's just all have one fucking roiling mass of bullshit that makes shows to then dump them with no advertising or simply cancel them for the tax rebate, why not
Netflix has made the highest bid to buy Warner Bros so far.

(Source: bit.ly/3XE0Wxl)
December 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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I feel real bad for Grasshopper Manufacture. There's the Lollipop Chainsaw remake whose developer says there'll be "no DEI" in the game. Then there's the Let it Die sequel that's jammed up with AI. They have nothing to do with/no input on either game. This is what happens when you don't own your IP!
December 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Oh okay this video just did a Mortal Kombat Fatality on me
Blindspots for Millennials 😅

IMO: it’s pretty accurate.
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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waterlilies
December 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Alpha Hatsuseno Comm🛵
December 5, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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While still being urged to directly create policies online that protects vulnerable people Ofcom has other ideas "What if VPN is the enemy of children-"
December 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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witch magic bookclub time
December 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM