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le miserable. there's just one of him

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A serious (and seemingly obvious) problem with the implementation of the Online Safety Act is that it requires malicious actors to not exist.

Since the UK govenment in any form hates paying for things, especially things required for their goals, the current situation is that websites have to work out to do age verification themselves. There is no government-approved or provided service for this - it's a free-for-all of third-party verification providers.

Now, some people are pointing out that depending on how these companies handle the data given to them to perform verification, it's possible this data could be stolen or leaked. This is a worrying possibility. This danger is primarily one of passive incompetence, although if your driver's licence gets leaked, you won't be happy either way.

But passive incompetence probably isn't going to hurt anyone before active malice does.

Normalising showing your face or identity documents to random websites is an incredibly stupid thing to do. You know who benefits from this? Actual criminals! Phishing attacks continue to be successful because people will put their banking details into websites that are very much not their banks. And while random websites asking for your banking details is suspicious, the OSA makes it so that random websites asking for your driver's license or passport or other such things will now be expected.

Meaning an enterprising criminal can set up a website, stick a fake age verification pop-up on it, and harvest a whole bunch of things that come in useful for committing identity theft. Or blackmail perhaps.

The overall point here is that in this respect, the Online Safety Act is going to make the internet more dangerous, in a way that should be obvious if you actually think about the potential negative consequences.

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you don't have to like porn to know that making it harder for people to access the regulated sites wont stop them from consuming it, it'll just mean they go to dodgier, darker places to get it. Places where laws aren't followed, where they don't do checks, where revenge porn and other illegal and abusive types of porn exist.

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Absolute Madmen and Certified Ledges Masterpost. Feel free to add your own pariahs.

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We really have lost the plot when it comes to pulp (by which I mean fiction that prioritizes the pleasure and enjoyment of the reader above all else.) It feels like a lot of modern books can't decide whether they are pulp or not, and that really limits them, because they get tangled up in anxiety about the nature of what they're doing and its moral or artistic value. To write great pulp, sublime pulp, you can have no illusions that your goal is pleasure - and we need pulp! It serves an essential social purpose - to give us space to explore our drives and desires that would be dangerous or impossible to live out in reality. It's psychologically essential.

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rest in peace tom lehrer :(

he kept it real until the end

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your son is a pleasure to have on his knees for me

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no when i say intimacy i mean one of us is bleeding out and the other is putting their entire body weight behind their hands to stop it

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‘haha eating pussy for 30 minutes that’s AMATEUR haha lesbians have sex for HOURS haha you must SUCK in bed’ some of us are disabled shut the fuck up

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A Heart's a Heavy Burden

Dead Boy Detectives Howl's Moving Castle AU — CHAPTER 2 is out! 🔥 Written by the amazing team: @dear-monday • @dont-offend-the-bees • @tw0-ravens and illustrated by yours truly, @idliketobeatree

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Kind of loathe how whenever there's talk of some platform banning NSFW content the discussion always jumps to "this is bad because the people who institute these rules think queerness is inherently NSFW!" and it's like yeah but also I think you should be outraged regardless of the slippery slope argument. Because I do think NSFW hetslop should also be able to exist

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Hello!

I'm here to ask for help in the final leg of getting my mum and younger sister moved into their new home following over a year of homelessness after leaving my abusive father.

Getting a home that fits my sisters accessibility needs has taken a long time, and council homes have everything ripped out between occupants so they've had to decorate and rebuild everything, but we're nearly there!

We've been successful in getting some grants and with additional help from lovely people we now only need £300 to be able to get the last of the flooring and underlay in so that they can be moved in.

If you'd like to help then my ko-fi is here and my PayPal is here.

I appreciate all the help, reblogs, and kind messages so far, it means the world and brings us closer to being able to start a new chapter without him 💜