don’t forget hot! I’ve seen those selfies 😉

If you lived near me i’d grab coffee with you in a heartbeat, but alas, the internet’s greatest strength is also its great weakness.

Only if you take up sign language, I like my ladies chatty and opinionated

Unlawful, unfortunately no. Immoral, certainly

And also we should destroy capitalism

To be fair, the US is being treated like the US instead of like an apartheid state, so…

Not holding my breath on that one.

Hell yeah

I do think that I agree with the basic premise of “the current laws (at least in the US, where I live) were obviously written to protect chastity rather than protect consent.”

Of course, there is a lot of room for disagreement about how, if at all, the current laws would need to be changed. Personally think that the lengths teenagers will go to in order to have sex despite their parents telling them not to says something about their mental state and ability to consent - but that doesn’t mean that relationships between teens and adults are all fine and dandy.

The truth is that sexual activity between minors and adults is so rarely consensual and positive that it is worth outlawing even if the justification given for doing so (the idea that “minors can’t meaningfully give consent to sex”) is flawed on its face. It’s unfortunate that in doing so we undermine children’s agency, but it seems to be the best solution available.

But I do think we penalize relationships between teenagers too harshly. But perhaps that’s incredibly us-specific, I don’t know what the laws are like elsewhere. Here, if an 17 year old sends a nude selfie to an 18 year old, the 18 year old can serve many years in prison and be labelled a sex offender for life. It’s ridiculous.

It doesn’t need to be 16 if it’s married /s

(In case anyone’s confused, i’m making fun of nonsensical laws here - I don’t think children should be getting married, especially to adults. I’m just pointing out how, at least in US law in some states, the “age of consent laws” don’t seem to be about consent at all, actually, seeing as marriage is a loophole in the law.)

Looks like I have some books to read.

We are tiny specks in the universe…

Guess I gotta kill oil execs

I will say that it isn’t usually like this.

I mean there’s always drama somewhere but this drama is especially big because a LOT of people found out all at once that either:

1. their content feeds were being censored/manipulated without their knowledge

Or

2. They were being shadowbanned (either as an individual or because their home server was censored)

by a developer who went to some pretty incriminating lengths to obfuscate the censorship he was baking into a tool that lots of people were using.

Most of the time I look at my memes and the drama passes me right by. It’s there if you look for it, of course, but this particular snafu is a bit of an outlier.

Yay! I’m so happy you were able to share that with her!

Ocarinas are such an affordable instrument, it’s crazy how niche they seem to be

The gremlin in your brain demands ✨novelty✨

You just have to have the card in your deck.

I don’t think it’s super strong this set, but it seems ok and could be lots of fun.

I wouldn’t worry about the past. It happened and there’s nothing we can do about it.

There are ways to look the way you want, or at least enough that your dysphoria is manageable and you are happy. You just have to keep trying ❤️

Girl it isn’t over. I didn’t even start until I was 25, you can do it and don’t give up hope so soon!

Right? What’s a girl gotta do?

Aww, thank you!

It’s actually a top, but it does look very dress-like

Also the dodo went extinct precisely because it was so peaceful

To be fair, it’s a pretty exclusive list