Let's talk about porn quickly, it's time for milquetoast takes with Nucleo hour!

Our seeming inability to create any real solutions to pornography other than the false dichotomy of "ban that shit" and "wild west" is a product of our deeply sexually repressed country.

In a society where people are unwilling to talk about sexual material behind baseline acknowledgements of its existence, real solutions for navigating its intricacies can never be reached.

This, of course, has catastrophic downstream effects. As many know, there's been a push to treat sexuality and (especially) gender minorities as "inherently sexual," forcing them to contend against the pornophobic box of "that which should be banned without exception."

Even looking beyond this conflict, there are issues to be discussed with real pornography as well! The pornography industry is infamous for intentionally exploiting both its consumers and creators, and this has gone largely unchecked due to the unwillingness to get involved with such an uncomfortable topic. This shit ruins lives, but we can't talk about pornstars being exploited by the industry without people awkwardly shying away. There's literally an active scientific debate going on right now about whether or not the addiction model can/should be used for discussing pornography, but the only time this seems to come up is weird chuds advocating for NoFap, instead of *actual* harm reduction.

These issues can't be solved in a way that isn't totalizing if you're unwilling to have conversations about them, friends. Talk about pornography reform.

It's another one of those issues where there are real, legitimate problems to be discussed, but those discussions can't happen because bad faith actors are constantly trying to sanitize society as much as possible, and the conversation instead has to shift toward telling those people to fuck off.

(While my posts are usually written with an American audience in mind, no shortage of them (this one included) apply to most other countries as well)

Gonna get on the birding grind again, need to add to my life list 😎

Donald Trump signed an executive order today targeting homeless and mentally ill people. He wants to have them "civilly committed":

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

Fascists trying to defend Trump probably showing up in the Epstein Files by saying Bill Clinton could be in there too like I ever had any respect for his sex predator ass