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Lily Allen is releasing a line of butt plugs

The only time I’ve been irked enough to make an account to comment directly on the article.

Save you a click: Starting the article with, “Looking for a kinky Christmas gift for your terminally online gay friend this year?” And then quoting Allen with,
“For me, toys can help you to better understand your body and learn what you like,” feels tone deaf and pretty disrespectful. You don’t have to be gay to like anal play, and to start the article with that statement is more likely to make those that are not gay, or maybe even questioning their sexuality feel shame. You could have simply left out “gay” from your sentence altogether and it would have been fine and still a reasonable statement to make, but by having “gay” as part of that sentence implies that if you’re not gay, sexual exploration is not for you- or even that if you do like anal play you must be gay. Please consider your word choices more carefully in the future.

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OF alternative fediverse?

Big big risk here having spent last 6 years working for the largest provider of adult live porn cams, FOSS isn’t the issue but regulation and safety and infrastructure to ensure everyone participating is a consenting adult and not being trafficked or abused is a huge problem around the world. I may incur downvotes for this opinion, but this is a space where it SHOULD be regulated with a lot of checks and balances. You don’t want to accidentally come across CSAM and have that cached in your temp files for so many reasons.

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What's up with media mentions of Period Trackers so much, do women need a special calendar or something to actually know when thats going to happen and plan around it?

Bodies don’t have a set schedule for things. An AFAB body is supposed to routinely ovulate and have a period, but lots of things can disrupt that and cause things to happen early or not at all or delayed. Tracking becomes important for a lot of medical reasons, but a common situation in which it’s important to track is for conceiving. And yes privacy is a huge risk with using an app to track, and with how the government in the US is currently talking about punishing women for not conceiving or having miscarriages etc

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Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway?

Ex-employee of a large provider of adult content. Everyone’s hailing around similar things that are more or less accurate (fosta/cesta, csam, puritanical values, PNC Chargebacks) but follow the money back to who owns the CC providers and where they’re located and you’ll see the cultural acceptance of sex work is different and while they want porn money they ultimately don’t like sex work and that’s why they’re a pain in the ass so they have a number of options to to talk themselves out of offering transactions for whenever they feel ick’d about porn

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The trails got smoother and the bikes got burlier. Something has to give.

There’s something to be said about skills progression too. I love my well manicured trails/parks they help me feel safe getting used to different features so when I go out on something not manicured I feel a lot more confident approaching and tackling it. My bike is way more bike than I can utilize but I’m hoping to grow into it skills wise, which is imo better than buying a bike that’s limited and replacing it every year or two I get better and need more out of it.

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Christ On A Cracker Barrel

What is amusing to me is they’re complaining about something so trivial and a large part of their complaint is the barrel is gone… except… it’s not. The yellow background is a barrel turned on its side 🤦 I think it’s lazy graphic design personally, and that it reminds me of a Golden Corral logo but ya know let’s have a “war on Cracker Barrel” segment on fox for the next 8 months

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Color parity between screen and printer

Printers use ink, cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK). This is subtractive colors which means all colors mixed in equal parts is black. Monitors however mix colors using light which is additive, Red Green and Blue (RGB) the presence of each of these colors results in white. So when you’re looking on your monitor it’s very likely you’re looking at an image generated in this manner. But your printer is thinking in CMYK leading to the discrepancy. You can compensate for this sometimes by changing the color profile to CMYK on some monitors- or more likely (since it’s an old monitor) in the settings of the image editing software. You may also want to consider a better printer depending on how old it is. I’d suggest looking into the settings and try printing some test pages https://www.internet-ink.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Colour-Test-Page-scaled-1.pdf see if any of the colors look particularly skewed.