RIP Bob

(he’s just taking a nap)

I guess so, maybe. I don’t know, whatever.

I don’t recall feeling overly impressed with content on Mastodon, it’s just social media, but with a small userbase, I’m guessing more tech-saavy. I think what ultimately “wins” in the social media space is wherever “everybody” ends up going. Right now, Bluesky seems to have the momentum going for it as people are flocking to it in droves, but it’s hard to tell how sustainable it is long-term as the hype settles down. Right now everybody is excited and seems like they’re trying to make it a positive, creative, liberal space, but eventually trolls will start invading the space and it’ll be like every other social media site unless it’s somehow structured in a way as to avoid that.

Those are precisely why I like BlueSky. I don’t know if this was normal for twitter or what, but I learned you can search for a hashtag of your kinks (exp. #bigboobs) and you can see porn from people that have posted pics or posts about it. You can also hide other tags from ever showing up in the results, which lets you finetune what you’re looking for. I know the search works relatively the same as twitter with respect to hashtags, but was porn on twitter this whole time?

Skim Lemmy and now Bluesky, play solitaire games, watch videos, go for a walk, contemplate the meaninglessness of existence, write, play video games, work (if I’m at work)

Meh. I knew going into the election that my vote would have little to no impact on this state, but I didn’t realize a good portion of voters were just going to sit things out in the swing states, what the fuck was wrong with those people? Of course Republicans were going to vote Republican, but I thought I could count on people to turn out to save our country and vote against a dictatorship. Obviously not, and here we are.

The only possible thing working in our favor at this point is how utterly incompetent Trump and his ilk are, they’ll be just as likely to infight amongst each other as they are to destroy the government.

I just hope that Ukraine can hold out or secure some kind of semi-favorable terms for peace out of the whole thing, they’re the real ones that are getting fucked out of this whole thing. They’ve fought harder for their freedom than anybody else and we let them down.

TMI warning, but I actually prefer this everytime I fuck now, having my balls cupped and squeezed, it makes sex so much better. It’s just constant stimulation when going for the in-stroke and out-stroke, and then it feels great when nutting.

Unfortunately, it can sometimes depend on the shape of a woman’s body if she can easily do it. If a woman has a dump truck ass, she may not be able to reach around her phat ass to get your balls. I wish there was something I could wear in that situation that felt the same, but I don’t know that a testicle pouch would really do it. Plus, it’d be weird to ask a partner to let me wear it before sex.

I know it’s shitposting, but I don’t know that this is a good movie for this, as the name of the park itself is the name of the movie, it’s already there. They literally say, “Welcome to Jurassic Park.”

https://youtu.be/m4ZbNLuwTlk

These are apparently called “Desire Paths”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path

It sounds like a weird sort of backdoor religious movement, like they’re taking vows of chastity or something. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s not being pushed by Conservatives themselves. Sure, go ahead and ignore Conservative men, they deserve it, but taking a vow of chastity is kind of weird.

Is he the guy that came up with the phrase, “Your body, my choice”?

Bananas, pickles, onions, mustard. Now it’s like, “Whatever, just shove it down my throat.”

I’d be fine if we get embroiled in a war with Russia, martial law gets declared and, oops, guess we can’t transfer power.

“We acted like garbage people, and then got treated like garbage, that’s antisemitic!”

In that context, that paints a very different picture of your Dad than what I read originally. Apart from general “issues” with prostitution as a business, I’m not sure I could say your Dad was really doing anything “wrong”, apart from facilitating an illegal business, but from what you’re describing, he seemed to do it in a relatively fair way (assuming whatever %'s they were operating under wasn’t exploitative, but I don’t even know what the cut-off is). It’s kind of a morally ambiguous crime based on what you’ve written (also assuming no trafficking or coercion or anything like).

Had it been my Dad, I don’t know that it’d be the sort of thing I’d disown him over, but I’m a guy with lenient views of prostitution anyways, so you may feel quite differently about it. Hopefully he’s able to stay out of trouble and transition to more legal ventures, I know how hard it can be for people to get out of the legal system once you start getting caught up with all sorts of restrictive conditions and such. Oftentimes it seems like the legal system is design to keep people spiraling around the drain more than it is trying to help people get better.

No idea about the particulars of the business or anything about your Dad, but sounds like he got caught because maybe he wasn’t ruthless or abusive, which I guess is a good thing in his favor (?). I could easily see that woman’s argument turning out much worse for her had your Dad been a different person and resorted to other negotiation methods. Did he just provide protection services or did he sort of manage the transactions from start to finish, almost like a temp agency… just for prostitutes? I’m always curious about how black market businesses operate outside of “normal” business environments.

Well, that doesn’t sound nice. Had you been exposed to that part of his life, or are you that close with your Dad? I should think part of the danger of being around somebody like that is that they could potentially bring you into that, which may not be so great for women involved with that. That he has a suspended sentence makes it sound like he’s still out free, he just has to keep to whatever conditions they set for him, so I guess he still has a chance to avoid jail.

Part of me thinks that Prostitution should be legalized (though heavily regulated), but there’s instances like this where I’m not so sure women wouldn’t just be taken advantage of (thus the need for heavy regulation). It’s been an ongoing trade for 1000’s of years, women shouldn’t be punished for providing something that men clearly value. Maybe it should be punishable to be a pimp or a madam, but the women themselves shouldn’t be punished. But on the other hand, is exploitation, even self-imposed exploitation due to economic hardships from a cruel and unjust system ever really justified? I say that women should have a choice in the matter, but do they really have a choice?

Wait… you’re not suggesting that voting for the lesser of two evils would’ve somehow helped the Palestinians somehow (or at least lessened the negative impacts)? Everyone knows that you either get everything you want or you just let the worst possible result happen, there is no middle ground.

Hey, at least the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is about to be finally resolved in our lifetime.

I just played it and beat it. It was good and has a great soundtrack, it’s just a shame that you can really only play the game once. I kind of wish there had been some sort of randomization mechanic added to it so that you didn’t play the same story twice and had a different crew each time. Otherwise though, an interesting little game that had me hooked.