ah fuck i just answered an ask privately while on my work desktop and i did so in kind of a hurry...

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ah fuck i just answered an ask privately while on my work desktop and i did so in kind of a hurry and guess what’s not on my work desktop– xkit. fuck! no outbox.

can you imagine having a functional communication system that let you look back at what you wrote after you sent it? only through the magic of xkit is that possible. i have no idea if i wrote anything sensible whatsoever and if this person writes back to me i’ll have no idea what i said to them, because my brain doesn’t retain, like, things at all, so.

that was dumb of me! sorry! (Your picture was not posted)

anyway we’re getting our internet replaced at work

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anyway we’re getting our internet replaced at work today and i was trying to frantically bang out all my Important Internet-Related things and anyway I failed, I will maybe be around later and probably not! sorry. (Your picture was not posted)

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so mom has mostly finished dealing with the paperwork of dad’s death. his military pension will resume (i think she gets half of what he was getting? might be slightly more– but think about that! they stop paying when he dies! and then you have to go through paperwork to prove there’s still someone to receive it! thank god she’s not relying on that but has her own pensions and retirement stuff set up. man our entire society is really set up to fuck widows over.)

She also was trying to sort out his Social Security stuff– and in the midst of that, got a spam call telling her that her Social Security card had been cancelled.

Fortunately she is in posession of all her wits as of yet, and knew immediately that this was fraudulent.

She did manage to get through to the SSA today and confirm she’ll have to send in a copy of the marriage certificate to get survivor benefits from them (this is apparently a thing), but.

Did the spammers know she was in the midst of this process??? thank God she’s together enough to have known better! I just– I hate, I hate scammers like that, who prey on vulnerable people. Of all the things to go after someone for–

Ugh! (Your picture was not posted)

Censorship is a tool that gives power to abusers

means all, censorship is a slippery slope, fandom censorship

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meeedeee https://meeedeee.tumblr.com/post/173750929211/censorship-is-a-tool-that-gives-power-to-abusers :

Thread here https://sassbandit3000.tumblr.com/post/173698135641/nanshe-of-nina-baratheon-naamahdarling .

Read Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women’s Rights https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fbook%2Fshow%2F269212.Defending_Pornography&t=NzcyYzE0OTc0OWQ0ZWE5MzM4ZDZjNDUxZWUzNjkxODkwZGZlODNhMCxZMjRkb1hjWg%3D%3D&b=t%3AEUkhTfMZHAPeONoHeXryww&p=http%3A%2F%2Fstele3.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F173740816645%2Fsassbandit3000-nanshe-of-nina-baratheon&m=1 by Nadine Strossen

Excerpts:

“In the late 80s and early 90s there was a vocal group of radical feminists who believed that pornography inherently harms women, not just in its production but also in its consumption… These anti-pornography feminists teamed up with the religious right and managed to get anti-porn laws passed. In particular, a law was passed in Canada preventing the importation of “obscene” material”..

…. Guess what was seized first? “The Joy of Gay Sex” and the like. Guess what businesses started finding all their shipments seized or delayed – sexually explicit or not – to the point where they were being put out of business? Gay bookstores. Guess what wasn’t seized at all? Mainstream porn made for straight men…..

Here’s the key point: Strossen is a legal scholar who’s looked at a lot of attempts at censorship, and you know what she found happened every time? When you try to censor pornography, even in the interests of protecting vulnerable people, that censorship will be applied first, and hardest, against the people who are most vulnerable. They won’t come for actual abusers, they’ll come for the abused, and prevent them from accessing resources, education, talking to each other, creating art to express themselves, or organising against those who are actually causing harm.

This is old, old business, we’ve seen it more than once before, and it never goes the way the antis think it will. Censorship is a tool that gives power to abusers and lets them inflict more harm on those who are abused, vulnerable and discriminated against. Don’t fall for it. (Your picture was not posted)