So tonight I went to the kink club that I discovered a couple of weeks ago (they had a beginner’s night), and I was lucky to find a small group of people who were also total newbies, including a couple in their 80s. (You’re never too old to try new things!!!)

It was fun, they had an experienced couple run through a demonstration of impact play, electric play (I even got to touch her hand and feel the zap :D ), and chain bondage, talking about the do’s dont’s pros and cons all the while.

I hit my social interaction limit a couple hours in though, and it was readily apparent that the club is really geared towards couples rather than singles looking to mingle.

I’m glad I went, but I’m not sure I’ll go again any time soon.

politijohn:

Some alarming climate news as of June 2023

CW: Trans-medicalism, Penises

RE- LRB:

The thing is, of all the things that I would love to change about my body, the last on the list are the dangly bits. I *like* getting / having / using erections for sexy purposes. It’s all the other ancillary stuff that drives me up a wall and/or to despair, things like fat distribution, a flat chest, aggressive body/facial hair, skin texture, etc.

Yet everything I’ve read about HRT tells me that you can’t have the former without the latter, nor excise the latter without also killing the former. And it’s frustrating. Hormones are not kind to half-measured gender fluidity, and being just a femmy boy has its limitations.

If there’s an option I’m missing, please let me know!!

nerianasims:

Studios Are Terrified That the Strikes Will Reveal the Truth About Streaming
We are now part of the Summer of Strike. After failed negotiations with the studios and corporations who run the entertainment industry, bot
Pajiba

“Think of the two major possibilities here: Either the studios owe untold millions to their talents and paying it out will decimate their stock prices, or they owe so little because there really is no money in streaming and the bubble of their entire 21st century business model will burst in spectacular fashion. And make no mistake: this is a bubble. This is the inevitable climax of a stockholder-driven hunger for infinite growth, despite the fact that, by design, such a thing cannot and should not exist. The infection of Wall Street has overwhelmed the entertainment industry beyond repair, leading to cultural vandals like David Zaslav to be appointed with the callous duty of strip-mining decades’ of artistic beauty for pennies of tax write-offs. The past and future are frivolous in comparison to the short-term demands that the line keep going up.”

clorofolle:

DIGITAL PIRACY 101

Pinning this since I genuinely think Piracy is a great skill to have and I want to share it with anyone who’d like to see it

Okay so! You need to download something!

Be it a movie, a game, a software, a book. Where do you even start? You know people catch viruses or fines pirating, so how to do it, and do it safely? This is going to be a bit verbose, so coloured text has the most important info. THIS WILL BE LONG but you can just skim it! (P.S. there are some goodies for artists in the end so do take a peek there if you do art and would like courses or procreate brushes) By the end of this you should be able to download or stream almost anything.

(Disclaimer: I’m not super knowledgeable on the technical side of things, just a moderately seasoned pirate. Will explain stuff to the best of my abilities, but there will be wild semplifications. If there’s any issue, or precisations you’d like to make, or just need a hand with something, feel free to reach out to me directly on here!)

Putting a cut here so I don’t spam your dashes <3 - now, here we go:

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