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Affordable Leather @affordableleather.bsky.social · 21h

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

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Affordable Leather @affordableleather.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 23h

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 · 23h

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 · 23h

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 · 23h

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 · 23h

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 · 23h

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 · 22h

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 · 22h

“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.

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Affordable Leather @affordableleather.bsky.social · 7d

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Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social · 5d

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…

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Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social · 5d

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…

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Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

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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Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social · 5d

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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Affordable Leather @affordableleather.bsky.social · 7d

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Affordable Leather @affordableleather.bsky.social · 7d

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Affordable Leather @affordableleather.bsky.social · 7d

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 9d

Mozilla has launched a new Firefox browser with a free, built-in VPN, which some say may be in reaction to the spread of age-verification measures in conservative states.

Mozilla Launches Free VPN in Firefox to Win Back Users - Kotaku

Mozilla is testing a free VPN in Firefox, a simpler version of its paid Mozilla VPN service.

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Affordable Leather @affordableleather.bsky.social · 12d

But is he a super villain...? 🤔

a man in a superhero costume is holding a hose in his hand .

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Affordable Leather @affordableleather.bsky.social · 12d

Sorry you have totally misunderstood what I was saying...

a young boy wearing a yellow shirt is smiling and making a funny face .

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Affordable Leather @affordableleather.bsky.social · 12d

Another person missing the point 🙄

Affordable Leather @affordableleather.bsky.social · 12d

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Affordable Leather @affordableleather.bsky.social · 13d

Maybe someone is a bit further up the Autistic Spectrum and literally *doesn't know* how the sort of social interactions that non-neurodiverse people take for granted actually work.
But, hey, if it makes you feel better to laugh about this, maybe the problem is you... 🙄

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