I don’t think your comment was dumb at all. I have friends with ADHD who can’t take stimulants because it makes them feel like shit. Everyone’s brain and body is different so we all react differently to medications.

I am also diabetic and one of the drugs I take (Metformin) gives some people horrible GI side effects to the point that it’s intolerable and they can’t take it. But it doesn’t seem to bother my GI system at all 🤷🏼‍♀️

I suppose this shouldn’t be a surprise. The Democratic party would never support a candidate who isn’t a spineless coward. They don’t want us to elect people who will fight for us. The only reason they don’t primary people like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib is that they’d risk losing those seats to a Republican.

Fucking losers. Gonna compromise and respectability their way straight into fascism but somehow we are the assholes for refusing to support them.

He’s so cute 🥺

We have welcomed Hitler back to the White House with a fireside photo op.

We are the respectable party.

They do love to lose!!!

This is mostly true but also I (and many sex workers) buy the blue check as a sort of mafia protection racket. We kind of have to be on there for work, and we get deleted a lot. I bought the blue check after I got my account restored the last time. I figure they are significantly less likely to delete me if I’m paying them. So far, so good.

When will the Woke Pope liberate us from our oppressors?!

Love how the libs discovered Project 2025 approximately 4 months ago and are suddenly up in arms like “Evangelicals gaining power and trying to force Christofascism on the masses?!?! THIS IS THE FIRST WE ARE HEARING OF THIS!!!!”

The chronic pain is paining these past couple weeks. Moving up and down the whole left side of my body, every day it’s a fun guessing game of which area will be killing me when I wake up. Sometimes it switches over to the right side just to keep things interesting. The usual mitigations (heat, self-massage/myofascial release, stretching, NSAIDs) are not mitigating and it’s grinding me down. Idk what triggered it. Could be anything or nothing 🫠 I think it’s the combo of colder temps, financial stress, and the political situation here in the US.

I wish I could exercise more!! I was getting back into a good routine and it was helping my mental health a lot and in some ways seems to help my body feel better but then in other ways makes it worse.

Seems like people generally like the sound of my voice, but everyone thinks I’m too loud.

(Well, white people think I’m too loud. 😐)

Bodies/brains are different but Adderall XR is like a miracle drug for me. I have very few side effects, it makes my life easier, and it also helps with emotional regulation.

I swear I become more China-pilled every day

It’s true. It’s her turn. She deserves it.

Yes that’s exactly it.

As far as I know, not really. This is one piece of the puzzle I don’t understand: why do they care so much?

My best guess is that it’s due to the higher frequency of chargebacks on adult transactions, but they already mitigate this with high processing fees so I just don’t get it.

The traditional porn sites also struggle to retain payment processors and pay exorbitant transaction fees (10%+)

There has been a big crackdown recently due to the rise of Christofascism

This is definitely a thing, but I have a different take on OnlyFans in particular.

I don’t think they ever wanted to get porn off their platform. Unlike sites like Reddit and Twitter, they started as a porn site and they have always made all their money from porn. They really started raking it in during the height of COVID, and when the platform got huge, that started attracting unwanted attention from Big Banking. It’s difficult and expensive to maintain reliable credit card processing as an adult site because these big banks have very strict and ever-evolving puritanical rules about what types of content they’ll process payments for. Run afoul of these banks, lose the ability to process Visa and Mastercard, and your business is dead in the water.

By appearing to pivot away from hardcore content and aggressively promoting SFW creators, it’s easier to make the case to credit card companies that it’s not just a porn site.

OnlyFans makes an astronomical, disgusting amount of money. They know where their bread is buttered. It’s a soulless capitalist enterprise, they don’t give a shit about the “morality” or porn or anything else. Their only goal is to maximize profits, and every decision they make can and should be viewed through that lens. They don’t sell paid ads on their site so they don’t have to worry about advertisers pulling out the way sites like Reddit and Twitter do. Plus Reddit and Twitter were never making real money off adult content on their sites; we have always driven tons of traffic to their platforms but they don’t actually profit from our presence there beyond the traffic we bring, so it’s easy for them to discard us once the users are already there and invested. None of that is true for OnlyFans.

FWIW, this is not a popular take among my peers. Most seem to think OF is like the other tech companies that want to boot us once they get big enough. But I think there’s decent evidence that OF does not want to do that and will never do that. Not because they care about us or anything, but because our porn makes them hundreds of billions of dollars (probably.)

Thanks Bob Dole. Idk why my parents didn’t vote for you in the 90s

Yeah I addressed this in another comment, but this will happen if Bluesky gets big enough. That’s just the joy of being a SW! But we’ll use it until we can’t. We’re very adaptable like that because we have to be.

The reason I thought it might be relevant here is that we are pretty much always early adopters, so often the masses tend to follow us, whether they’re aware of it or not. We’ve been on there for a year or so but this is the first really big migration that I’ve personally witnessed.

My opinion as to why Switter never really took off is that a SW-specific platform is too niche. Clients/customers didn’t really follow us over. It’s super difficult to get people to switch to new platforms; Emile Torres did a great episode of Kelly Hayes’ “Movement Memos” podcast about “switching costs,” why it’s so hard to move people to a new platform, and what platforms can do to mitigate those costs.

Also, Mastodon just seems a little too nerdy for the general public if I’m being honest 😬

Ah the joys of being a woman online! It’s either “tits or GTFO” or “OMG I saw a titty, will no one think of the children?!”

God forbid you want to make money off showing the tits, because that tends to piss off the “tits or GTFO” crowd for some reason 🧐