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Biden gets Paxlovid within minutes while an at-risk friend in SF was just denied Paxlovid and anyone in the US who *can* get permission to access it has to pay ~$1500
US president exposed everyone at his event today, JFC
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Greetings from Honolulu Comic-Con! Nurse Chapel says mask up!
#cosplay
#StarTrekStrangeNewWords
#MaskUp
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Today Max decided he likes being carried through the apartment in a paper bag.
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PSA: There's nothing wrong or unhealthy with consenting adults engaging in
#GoldenShowers
- but treason and conspiracy are ACTUAL WRONGS.
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I am the girl who just gave respirator masks to every homeless person in the Castro.
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When people say they wrote a "new blog" when they actually mean they wrote a new POST. It's a new post. Not an entirely new blog. The post goes on your blog, ya ding-dong.
Easier twitter challenge: name the most trivial hill on which you are willing to die
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If only
@Cloudflare
could deplatform the known, proven social network for mass murderers as quickly and efficiently as it did sex workers.
One reason that 8chan is able to exist on the web is the protection it receives from
@Cloudflare
. I’ve reached out to CEO
@eastdakota
to see if the company might change its mind about providing services to 8chan in the wake of today’s attack.
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Sex workers, sex writers, sex educators, erotic artists, erotic photographers, adult filmmakers, erotic performers watching millions of twitter users panic and scramble to find a safe social media site to continue participating in online society without losing touch with everyone
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"Tang had a secret weapon — she knows Pepper’s Mandarin name, Dai Meng, which loosely translated means “little dork.”" 😻
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Hi, I’m Violet! I'm in San Francisco, and I refuse to accept that infections and reinfections are inevitable - I will continue to wear a respirator to protect myself and others to break the chain of transmission. Will you join me?
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I am once again begging everyone to understand -- urgently -- that anti-porn orgs/anti-sex work orgs and their efforts are smokescreens for vile anti-LGBTQ+ anti-BIPOC and misogynist agendas.
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You can stop calling them protesters now.
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Because I write about sex, I can't use:
Amazon Associates
PayPal/Square
MailChimp
Wordpress dot org
Google / Facebook ads
Most web hosts
Apple/Play
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The Airbnb has a group of loud techbros in it and I guess I'm back to startup dudes having their offsites/meetings basically in my backyard, unaware a tech journalist can hear every word they're saying, so
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Amazon just terminated my Associates account and said it will not pay me any outstanding fees it owes me. The reason is "because the content [on
@tinynibbes
] promotes unsuitable activity." This affects ALL my books and book links everywhere, over a decade of linking.
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If more people substituted the word "clown" for "cloud" they might exercise the appropriate caution.
"storing data in the clown"
"clown security"
"the clown is just a computer"
"clown as a service"
"the clown marketplace"
"premium clown provider"
"Clownflare"
"Verizon Clown"
Amazon AWS had a power failure, their backup generators failed, which killed their EBS serversl, which took all of our data with it. Then it took them four days to figure this out and tell us about it.
Reminder: The cloud is just a computer in Reston with a bad power supply.
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Did a lot of people not know that the CIA is a spy agency?
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Within the past 5 hours "Donald Trump" was removed from the "notable clients" list on the Wikipedia page for Joe Lieberman's law firm.
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So all nine Bay Area counties qualify for the CDC's inadequate benchmark for indoor masking -- but none are doing it. While we watch CDC's 'community levels' obfuscation fail in real time nationwide. Where's the accountability?
Covid hospitalizations in the US up 15% in the past 10 days, approaching 40,000
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So, as you've probably heard, here in San Francisco our Mayor died. I have a few thoughts about Ed Lee I'd like to share, especially because his obituaries are so poor.
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Twitter has rate-limited Japan's NERV disaster alert account
@UN_NERV
@EN_NERV
for posting too many updates.
#Japan
#japanearthquake
#Tsunami
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new pop-up on the World Health Organization C19 dashboard, surprise everyone
(it wasn't there last night)
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This is going to increase homelessness, period:
Reminder: food stamps can *only* buy specific kinds of groceries (no hot food, no food to eat in-store; also no TP, no tampons, soap, etc). Reuters calling it "free food" is reprehensible IMO.
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I just need to say that the way nearly all covid data for California, Bay Area, and SF has all but disappeared while wastewater is elevated and rising is extremely alarming to me right now. Zero new deaths statewide since last week is impossible.
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My Google Tech Talk on sex, privacy, and search has almost two and a half million views. I went on Oprah because she liked my book on women and porn, and we talked about ... porn. I just don't understand how we got to Amazon's level of sex censorship.
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Can't wait to find out the real, horrible reason why Facebook is suddenly claiming it will delete everyone's facial recognition templates (and will allegedly stop scanning people).
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The pope’s “[Trump] endorsement” has over 868,000 Facebook shares; Snopes piece exposing it as fake only has 33,000:
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I just don't understand how I can be killing myself to engender understanding about human sexuality while literally invited to participate at the forefront of everything shaping the internet, and find myself utterly excised from it.
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*hits the floor in a dead faint*
Stop 👏🏼talking👏🏼to👏🏼me👏🏼about👏🏼my👏🏼mother's👏🏼dirty👏🏼books👏🏼unless👏🏼you👏🏼want👏🏼to👏🏼role👏🏼play👏🏼scenes👏🏼from👏🏼them!
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We're down to 92 in San Francisco. The entire MUNI bus system melted. Pigeons burst into flame on Market Street. No one is wearing clothes. Tech jocks on scooters paint their teeth silver screaming WHAT A LOVELY DAY. Ubers parked in bike lanes radiate the heat of a thousand suns.
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Grubhub is doing a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack on restaurants' phone numbers so they can charge when you *don't* use the app and this should be seriously illegal.
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🎶Just a mask-face girl, living in a maskless world
She took the midnight plane going anywhere🎶
* with her
@flo_mask
Pro,
@medifyair
MA-10, knockoff stoggles, covid-safe situational awareness, etc.
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"250,000 people died for absolutely no reason other than placating assholes" -Thomas Fuchs
Stricter Covid mask rules could’ve saved hundreds of thousands of lives, new study finds
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Sometimes I wonder if Max is comfortable enough during quarantine, seeing him with his personal heater in his hammock lined with a faux-fur self-warming pad.
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So nice to see wildlife return to San Francisco after everybody is on lockdown.
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Upset that not a single headline is calling this Big Wick Energy
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Just in: the alt-righties bailed to Pacifica. San Francisco *literally* chased the Nazis out of the city.
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All we wanted was no nazis, Linda.
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I'm just sitting here in shock. I was the first female podcaster but Apple censored me. I was one of the earliest sex bloggers. The SF Chronicle's first sex columnist. Banned by Libya for having the words "sex positive" on my website...
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This is it, this is the article. <the headline does not do it justice
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When life doesn't give you lemons, sometimes you have to hop a fence, cross a rooftop, then another fence and pick all the lemons in the backyard of the neighborhood Airbnb (vacant until at least Sept, apparently). Then you make lemonade 🙃
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I think we can all agree that "I have dinner with *lots* of racist homophobic pro-Trump pro-wall white supremacist conspiracy theory nutjobs you should try it exclamation point lolol" is not a good look.
#DeleteFacebook
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Lol I just finished transferring my playlists and am right now writing a privacy-forward guide to dumping Spotify, Daniel you know me, and should know better by now
BREAKING: Spotify has shutdown its live customer support due to an unprecedented number of complaints after they doubled-down on their Joe Rogan anti-vax campaign
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Missing my family today, shout out to my family, here we are when we could all be together last year
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Now that Google PR has emailed me (Saturday evening) telling me to 'tone down' my "unfair" headline, go read it:
http://t.co/EJHXbJZewz
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Can't stop clicking 'like'
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Here it is.
SF Pride considers excluding Google from parade over homophobic harassment on YouTube by
@sashaperigo
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Just heard terrible noises and thought a cat (Banana Thief!?!) was in distress in the neighbors' yard so I ran out, hopped fence -- and found this 😳
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...Just a girl, gettin' bi(valent Moderna Covid-19 vaccine booster 0.5 mL) 😆
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A jerk suggested noone would want to see my self-portrait earlier, so I've decided to post one a day for 30 days. 🤣
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This incredible thread focuses on the (coordinated, armed) group that brought flexicuffs (restraints) into the room *in-hand and ready* for a plan that wasn't executed. Most if not all are ex-mil.
Remember: They plan to return on the 19th.
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"Real names" does not work. It has made Facebook the epicenter of online abuse for over 23 million women (1 in 4 women are domestic violence victims). NNEDV's own Survivor Privacy Guide instructs survivors to NEVER use real names for social media accounts.
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Just want the well-meaning folks suggesting I check out Bitcoin to know that I was ejected from Coinbase for no reason at the same time they kicked other people in sex businesses off the service (including erotic comic artists). Add it to the list of non-options.
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He doesn't know he'll be in surgery in eight hours.
He just knows the food went away four hours ago and I am to blame.
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Everything in this Echo/Alexa article is horrifying. "Two of the workers said they picked up what they believe was a sexual assault. When something like that happens, they may share the experience in the internal chat room as a way of relieving stress."
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The Zephyr mask is just covid cosplay and
@RealSexyCyborg
deserves all the credit for this:
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It's hard to comprehend how much the CDC is misleading the public about covid right now.
On left: CDC "Community Levels" = open hospital beds
On right: CDC "Community Transmission" = cases in the community
The green one is what visitors see first on CDC's Community Data Tracker
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I feel really dumb for being excited that I canceled my Netflix and stuck with Amazon Prime out of brand loyalty.
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In case anyone's curious, the 'I got covid at Black Hat/Defcon' tweets started today 😢
It's like watching a weather system roll in around the last day of each conference this year. IMO two-way masking is working but mask drops are where people are getting caught.
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In this case Your Porn Name is a common password recovery question so just don't. Always avoid:
Mother's maiden name
First pet
First car
Your high school
Town/city of birth
Street you grew up on
First job
First BF/GF
Where you met spouse
Fave food
Fave vacation spot
good evening, I'm Patrick Grand Cherokee and I'm here to do a sex
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Last night the goth kids downstairs came home very late and did drunk baking, accidentally set off smoke alarms, woke me up, I came out.
They just knocked on my door and apologized with this bowl of fresh, still-warm chocolate chip cookies 😊
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Imagine dying
Alone and trapped
In a fiery tunnel
Because you're afraid
To ride the bus
Tesla in
@boringcompany
tunnel with retractable wheel gear that turns a car into a rail-guided train & back again
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I haven't been able to touch another human being in seven months and I can't breathe the toxic air outside my house and the losses of my hometown and state are horrifying and I think that's why I can't stop looking at this photo.
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Hey local smarty pants, today every Little Free Library in Castro and Cole Valley got stocked with two *signed* copies of Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy! Go grab one ❤️
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It's time to release research and resources from hackers about defying surveillance and protesting. Your Phone is a Tracking Device includes: phone problems at protests; phone signal interception; best phones to protect you; burner phones and apps:
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Fuck yeah, turn it up. Punches, swords, and ass-kickings: A sanitary pad ad with actual blood
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From the looks I got today this is now my favorite gym shirt.
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My body is banned by Tumblr
My body is banned by Mark Z
My body is banned by Apple
Oh bring back my body to me
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Fantastic coverage. Student is an adult performer (she's 18), school paper does a straight profile, admin try to threaten and intimidate the students' teacher.
“Read the law,” the students told their superintendent. “Read it carefully.”
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After years of struggling for recognition as an indie female security reporter, it feels so good to be credited for breaking the shadow profiles story.
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Seriously, the Associates partnership was how I could survive on my books (my old publisher screwed me out of my ebook and audio royalties going back almost 20 years) and be an indie publisher of my own work.
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I'm really upset, that @ was me misspelling
@tinynibbles
. I've done business with Associates across all my websites since 2002. This is significant monthly income for me to lose as an author.
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Stop everything you're doing and watch this
A person called OwlKitty changed the Business Card scene from “American Psycho” to the guys showing each other pictures of their cats on their phones… and it could possibly be the greatest masterpiece ever 😂
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Sam has been reading tomorrow's Cybersecurity Roundup over my shoulder. 🤣
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Twitter just made itself unusable for breaking news.
This is terrible.
Twitter ditching ‘Latest’ chronological feed option on the web, still available on iOS for now by
@ChanceHMiller
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If you're an erotic artist who lost their Tumblr, @ reply me with a link to where we can find you now and I'll feature you in a post.
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They did this "to align with CDC." They also removed test positivity rates for counties, replaced by "Patients with covid." SF went from High to Low overnight. It's useless now.
I'm very dissapointed by
@CovidActNow
changing their Covid risk thresholds to redefine the country as "Low risk" overnight.
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In case you ever wonder, "What kind of values do the decision-makers at Facebook/Meta bake into the products?"
I give you a Meta Tech Lead.
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