More relevant than ever right now, with the travesty of the Kyle Rittenhouse protestor-murderer trial going on right now, and the memory of Derek Chauvin finally going on trial for the murder of George Floyd still fresh in our minds!
An old video from mid-2020 that I unfortunately lost all the info for when Vimeo banned my account (along with Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, and countless others: https://www.toplesstopics.org/banned/ )
However all of it is still more relevant than ever, so it's worth reuploading I think.
I would link you to Kenny's Twitter account, but he was permanently suspended for mildly insulting a Trumper. And yet somehow it's always Trumpers bleating that they're being oppressed (:
Thank you for this video. As it happens, I was surprised when Kenny mentioned how unreasonable or impossible it would be to interfere with people's phones recording an event live. I was at an event where police "asked" cell phone services to disable all activity in the area and it was done. I don't know about the finer details - which companies cooperate, how much advanced notice they require, etc. - but I do know that at that event there was NO cellular service, not even for emergency services, and I know we do have emergency broadcast features that can be used to identify and locate phones immediately. There is no true limit to what people will do when people are gradually conditioned into compliance with the most awful acts of indecency and injustice. To me these events are just one more evidence of how terrifying the development of our world is becoming and how ignorant most of the people involved are of how it is so developing.
If you are a police officer, what checks on your indoctrination or attitude are there? If you are a protestor, what level of insult, harassment
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Thank you for this video. As it happens, I was surprised when Kenny mentioned how unreasonable or impossible it would be to interfere with people's phones recording an event live. I was at an event where police "asked" cell phone services to disable all activity in the area and it was done. I don't know about the finer details - which companies cooperate, how much advanced notice they require, etc. - but I do know that at that event there was NO cellular service, not even for emergency services, and I know we do have emergency broadcast features that can be used to identify and locate phones immediately. There is no true limit to what people will do when people are gradually conditioned into compliance with the most awful acts of indecency and injustice. To me these events are just one more evidence of how terrifying the development of our world is becoming and how ignorant most of the people involved are of how it is so developing.
If you are a police officer, what checks on your indoctrination or attitude are there? If you are a protestor, what level of insult, harassment, or theft will you cooperate with in order to seem innocent and be heard? There is no end to injustice as long as our society exists as a continuum, which is something both sides should account for.
If you have faith in Christ, you might hope for his return and righteous reign for a thousand years. If not, you might be wondering what revolution will be possible when people are so dependent on modern infrastructure that a little lack of cooperation between entities can cripple their way of life, crash their financial independence, and completely remove civil rights they thought they had. Social media, as you frequently stated, only works when there isn't prejudice and unreasonable bias governing it's oversight.
I pray for your success in touching enough people with your concerns to improve their thinking.
P.S. This is a totally off topic, but related tangent: I don't actually follow or support everything Donald Trump says or does, but I feel like we have had a pretty bad set of candidates recently and he is probably the best choice for purely practical reasons. I advocate everyone having small businesses and less interference from government, but I also advocate effective social services that don't seem like an attempt to prevent rendering services for some while making others completely dependent. My ex-wife and great friend has dealt with some very series life-threatening issues from such government behavior, and I was denied any kind of health care ever since President Obama's health care project came into effect. My feeling is quite simply, everybody wants their concerns to be represented with political representatives, but we are not going to sort out who is doing the right thing by just going with the system. We need people who are independently wealthy and willing to work for free and without conflict of interest to be the primary activists in rectifying our system in full observation of the public. We need to break our cumulative ignorance of how we are psychologically being herded through multiple generations of conditioning. The corresponding agenda (not calling it a conspiracy) may change significantly from one generation to the next, but generally connects because those responsible for manipulating it are also being conditioned. The two sides of the nation wide conditioning that concern me most are cooperation with assumed authority, such as the whole COVID-19 collection of conspiracies done in full public view under the supposed authority of "medical" professionals, and the constant nudging of what is "politically correct". Issues such as homosexuality, pornography, nudity (separate from pornography), civil rights, medical rights (as if they are separate), compliance to a prevailing unembodied will without prior commitment to do so, and more than I expect you to read here are topics of very directed manipulation through public media and semi-governmental rules. These notions and rules with some peoples have become a fully assimilated code of justice or morality. After studying the effects and the history, I am convinced there is some actual intelligence or mind directing many of these things, since they are too well coordinated and have very specific effects. The utter lack of effective resistance around COVID-19 time is all the proof I need that such conditioning has been working, but your whole effort to bring equality between men and women is exactly the same. It is not a matter of culture and tradition - that goes into neighborhood housing covenants, church conduct rules, and employment contracts. It is a matter of people believing something is absolutely right or wrong with no more reasoning than their conditioning said so.
@micahwelf do you...do you actually think trump is "independently wealthy"? Clearly you're not keeping up with the multiple fraud cases going on with him RIGHT NOW.
@ceridwen Hmm.. I went back through my notifications when I had a few minutes and discovered these comments. I skimmed through my comment, since I didn't remember saying Donald Trump was "independently wealthy", and I don't see where you got that from. Maybe I should have added a paragraph break to separate statements? It was long, but meant to all be one postscript message explaining my perspective while not commenting directly on video topic. Considering how ineffective the latest person to sit in the president's chair has been, I'm not seeing any viable alternatives still. I can think of a few I'd favor if they were running, but people love to argue about such details without knowing much about the candidates (only what is published) and the few I might favor are not running, so I can't see a benefit to even trying to promote any positive opinions of them now. Frankly, I think there is far to much unconstitutional or unjust governing and conspiracy parading as legitimate right in plain view, but as I mentioned nobody would believe me because the majority of the nation is condit
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@ceridwen Hmm.. I went back through my notifications when I had a few minutes and discovered these comments. I skimmed through my comment, since I didn't remember saying Donald Trump was "independently wealthy", and I don't see where you got that from. Maybe I should have added a paragraph break to separate statements? It was long, but meant to all be one postscript message explaining my perspective while not commenting directly on video topic. Considering how ineffective the latest person to sit in the president's chair has been, I'm not seeing any viable alternatives still. I can think of a few I'd favor if they were running, but people love to argue about such details without knowing much about the candidates (only what is published) and the few I might favor are not running, so I can't see a benefit to even trying to promote any positive opinions of them now. Frankly, I think there is far to much unconstitutional or unjust governing and conspiracy parading as legitimate right in plain view, but as I mentioned nobody would believe me because the majority of the nation is conditioned to expect it and avoid the unknown political situation that would arise if and when trying to fix it. Serious propaganda isn't a bad thing if it isn't biased in any particular groups interests and is aimed at correcting our collective degenerating mind-scape, but I can't see any propaganda being supported nation wide without favoring some corrupt purpose, so I'll stick to writing comments and eventually books in hope of reaching others with similar understanding. I favor both you and Kenny because you publicly represent opinions and needed change that I support.
I have also heard much more dark and somewhat self-pitying views that I think represent something like a radical opposite. The way I see the state of the nation, racism was much worse, but still exists, and now has added to it reverse-racism - in other words prejudice against a traditionally dominant race with the sentiment of stopping racism. Likewise many other forms of societal evil have gradually transformed, but not disappeared. Children's education on these issues and exercises that teach empathy seem to have improved the average disposition or at least what is considered legal or common sense, but once it had an effect, it was practically discontinued. No further development on children's education is evident from my conversations with school teachers, general public, or from published media, so I see a need for that to be revisited. Anyway, I don't actually do or say anything that should get Donald Trump or anyone opposing him in office. I'm more concerned with what candidates will forward my goals of bettering the people and/or societies of the world, if only by reducing the active influence of the worst conspiracies. It all seems likely to get worse for the next ten years, but people will survive.
@micahwelf "Considering how ineffective the latest person to sit in the president's chair has been, I'm not seeing any viable alternatives still." This sounds like you're saying "biden and trump are equally bad" or worse yet, "at least trump isn't as bad as biden," which in either case, I'm not sure what I could say that would dissuade you from that notion. Honestly, I just don't have the energy for it. Plenty of information is already out there about the very real harm that's done to many, many people when Republicans are in power, that is only going to be 1000% worse if/when trump is installed again, especially since he's realized he really does have completely legal immunity to be as dictatorial as he want, and entire government departments of toadies to carry out his will. Democrats may be feckless, but if you think feckless = unfettered corruption and evil, then...yeah, I don't know what I can even say to encourage you to reconsider that extremely privileged position.
I'm going to decide on #livestream activities depending on how I feel that day (aka how much sleep I got the night before, lol) but I'm open to suggestion, and some possibilities are:
"When a subscription-based nudism video provider shows content containing white supremacy hand gestures"
I don't recommend watching this if you're a cis white male who is going to get offended that I talked about the resistance "many" (don't # notAllBullshit at me) cis white males display when racist/transphobic/etc dog whistles are pointed out to them, just because in their #privilege they've never noticed such things before.
"When a subscription-based nudism video provider shows content containing white supremacy hand gestures"
I don't recommend watching this if you're a cis white male who is going to get offended that I talked about the resistance "many" (don't # notAllBullshit at me) cis white males display when racist/transphobic/etc dog whistles are pointed out to them, just because in their #privilege they've never noticed such things before.
I'm actually pretty nervous about posting this video to any mainstream platform, given how easily the #censorship #algorithms can be weaponized to get content that haters don't like #banned . But I felt like it was important enough to try to speak out anyway. Beyond that, even though I censored out the nudist video sharing website's name in the video, they have deep pockets and I'm nervous they'll somehow decide to sue me for defamation or something, even though the freeze frame is taken DIRECTLY FROM their video...
3 likes, 2 comments - toplesstopics on September 6, 2023: "So there's this platform that sells subscriptions to watch n@ked people just... Being n@ked, whic..."
and now a follow-up #youtube #tiktok #instagram short to an ignorant white woman claiming that the White Power hand symbol can only possibly belong to "the circle game":
0 likes, 0 comments - toplesstopics on September 6, 2023: "Replying to @seaabrooks white people (like me!) clinging to ignorance about subtle forms of #dogw..."
@Cleo of Topless Topics I saw some of the comments you've gotten, about how it's probably innocent or a mudra, given the yoga context, so I got curious.
I looked at how they did it, especially that segment, it took some effort to do, even with the frantic scene cut pace of current video edits that's fast, subliminally fast. Two or Three frames in a video that's running at 30 frames per second. I'm not a video editor, but I have spliced a few personal projects together, and I would be VERY frustrated trying to work with a three frame long video clip.
And the sign doesn't really look like any mudras, most of the mudras with an "OK" like pose use both hands, or they're oriented differently, and yes that makes a difference. Compare with the dharmachakra which is a rotating wheel symbol indicating change and transition.
I've attached a normal speed clip where you can barely see the frames in question, and a clip slowed down to six frames per se
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@Cleo of Topless Topics I saw some of the comments you've gotten, about how it's probably innocent or a mudra, given the yoga context, so I got curious.
I looked at how they did it, especially that segment, it took some effort to do, even with the frantic scene cut pace of current video edits that's fast, subliminally fast. Two or Three frames in a video that's running at 30 frames per second. I'm not a video editor, but I have spliced a few personal projects together, and I would be VERY frustrated trying to work with a three frame long video clip.
And the sign doesn't really look like any mudras, most of the mudras with an "OK" like pose use both hands, or they're oriented differently, and yes that makes a difference. Compare with the dharmachakra which is a rotating wheel symbol indicating change and transition.
I've attached a normal speed clip where you can barely see the frames in question, and a clip slowed down to six frames per second so it's easier to see.
Links to videos that contain nonsexual nudity in a nudist retreat:
Censored photo: contains male nipples visible on a mostly-naked male model with his underwear pulled down almost enough to see his genitals)
Quickly and crudely drew a meme on my phone. I also posted it to Instagram, but since I'm the most often banned non-nazi creator on all of mainstream social media, I'll probably still get banned 🙃
Content warning: meme including "implied female nipples," eye contact
Made a #topless #genderEquality #meme based on a rant with a friend. It really drives me up the wall that the ONLY place I can post NONSEXUAL female #nipples are places that allow "full body sexually explicit #nudity " like #sexWorker sites (no hate to sex workers, it's just infuriating that in the eyes of American culture, "female nipples" = "full body nudity" = "sexually explicit"), alternative platforms like #mastodon / #fediverse that I jokingly say "no one uses" (except, you know, the legions of infosec nerds who would much rather be talking about ruby-python-activitypub-compsci-whatever-other-programmer-type-terms than the crazy radical notion that "female-looking nipples" should be allowed anywhere "male-looking nipples" are ;p) and "anything goes" " #freespeech " platforms where you're sharing space with nazis, conspiracy theorists, and other such deplorables (:
Please feel free to download this and post it to your own #socialMedia apps! (Seriously, PLEASE DO....when my posts aren't outright #banned , they're all #shadowbanned so that they don't show up in any "recommended" feeds or search results, so I'm utterly depending on OTHER PEOPLE to share my content for anyone new to find it. 🙏
Content warning: meme including nonsexual female nipples, eye contact
Here's an #uncensored version of my #topless #genderEquality #meme with my heinous female #nipples on full display, in case you want to repost this to a porn site or "alternative platform that no one uses" (:
(please don't put it on an "anything goes" platform full of nazis and conspiracy theorists...)
Content warning: re: meme including nonsexual female nipples, eye contact
@LawrencesView I'm aware lol, I've been using mastodon steadily for almost two years now. It's just very hard to do much activisming when your only place to post the truest form of your content on a site that has shit-to-no searchability, and very few people who are likely to interact at all, let alone share your content. I was ranting about it last night, too...if I was independently wealthy, I'd be totally fine just screaming into the void along with my little posse of followers on here and discord. But that's how I've been doing it for fifteen years and I'm so tired 🙃
Content warning: re: meme including nonsexual female nipples, eye contact
@LawrencesView absolutely. and while bluesky makes a distinction between sexual and nonsexual nudity (absolutely groundbreaking thing that NO OTHER mainstream platform does), it is of course run by yet more corrupt conspiracy theory-spreading rich tech bros. there really isn't any good option...non-billionaires need to bind together and figure out a way to make a social media platform with the ease of signing up (and platform-wide searchability) of the Big Boys, but info security and decentralized protection from patriarchal and puritanical censorship of the fediverse. But almost everyone is so used to getting convenience for "free" that getting them to pay for something is next to impossible...and people like me have neither extra money NOR relevant expertise to donate to make it happen 😏
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@aurochs @LawrencesView yeah, even on fedi, there are basically no instances that let you post even just female nipples, let alone full body nudity, without censoring it with a CW. but then a lot of masto culture is CWing pretty much EVERYTHING, which I get if you're trying to anticipate the many, many, many forms of triggers out there...but especially among people who came here from twitter etc, they ain't taking the time to expand CWs so you might as well not bother posting (:
idk man lol. I just wish there was something like instagram but with fewer nazis and more not-categorizing-all-female-nipples-as-porn.
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@LawrencesView Yeah... At least a lot of fediverse instances require CWs on ALL nipples, not just "female looking ones" 🙃 if they won't give femme presenting people the same rights as men, AT LEAST ban ALL nipples! @aurochs
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@aurochs Yeah, a lot of instances are very sensitive to nudity. I mean, I think posting "NSFW" content SHOULD have a CW just in case someone is, for instance, actually at work... But something being "NSFW" shouldn't mean it can't be posted AT ALL, which of course is the problem with mainstream platforms (and that female nipples are considered NSFW but not male nipples 🙃) @LawrencesView
It's astounding to me how many people (usually men) argue that women can't have #freeTheNipple #toplessEquality "or men will commit more sexual abuse against them." I mean wow, what an argument. God forbid we ever place the onus of self control on MEN, instead of making sure our girls stay chaste and unappealing! (as if even countries where women are required to cover themselves head to toe aren't also full of sexual assault)
Replying to @helpimdrowninginurbs "women can't have the same #genderEquality as men because men won't be able to control themselves at the sight of a female nerpal and will be physically compelled to SA them" this argument makes sense to you? Really?…
"Rape is always a woman's fault" and "Men cheat because women tease them" are two of the excuses I've heard when discussing #ToplessEquality and #FreeTheNipple with other semi-pro writers. And it comes from women, too.
I'll still be posting the same stuff to my existing @toplesstopics and @toplesstopicstv accounts, but I'm hoping without (quite as much of) an algorithmic censorship-tripping word right in the title, maybe I can extend my reach ever so slightly before the haters knock me down (I searched "topoff" and mostly just got alcohol-related stuff....which we all know, along with violence, gore and guns, is a-OK in American society and culture, but anyone's lower bits and the nipples of "people who look female" alone will get you banned and arrested on sight!
@LawrencesView thanks. I'm not holding my breath, all it takes is my dedicated cabal of haters to false-report even my fully clothed videos as "sexually explicit nudity" but I figured it was worth a try 😏
it sucks that you have to censor them . its odd that people loos there minds about a person being nude or for a woman to be topless just like a man . folks just need to grow up
Big tech now arguing that the platforms they’ve built can’t be held accountable for e.g. racism, as racism has been around for all of human history. Well yes, you know what else has? Nipples. Interesting how easy those were to ban, but racism? “Content moderation is just *so* hard!”
Content warning: link to a video short ranting about sexist banning of my female nipples while male nipples are allowed to exist unbothered any dang place
(please note this is not an attack on anyone on here who has suggested I upload to Peertube--as it says in the video, I know you mean well. Just watch the video to hear why it nonetheless irritates me when this is the go-to response from people who haven't followed me for a while, or who only watch the super-censored versions of my videos)
The enraging part of being a #capitalism unfriendly #creator who gets #banned all the time for daring to present my (already #censored ) heinous female nipples for the purpose of normalizing the sight of female nipples in non-sexual context so that maybe someday we can have the same rights to go topless in public and online that "male nipples" get, is that at this moment I only have three possible places to upload my content: mainstream platforms like #YouTube #Instagram #tiktok #facebook etc that are blatantly #misogynistic and arbitrary in who and why their #algorithms ban someone (I mean, there are channels I could name on YouTube alone that have millions of viewers who post entirely nude, entirely uncensored videos and somehow get away with it, but I get banned even when I censor out my heinous female nipples with a giant digital pastie that hides my whole-arse chest??); actual porn sites (which out of desperation I've tried before, but as expected the only people who find my content on there are people already looking for women to sexually objectify, and it feels hypocritical to say "Stop treating women's chests as inherently sexual" while posting on a porn site); or tiny, obscure alternative platforms like #peertube that very few people use, and even fewer people care about Topics like #feminism , #genderEquality , racial equality, homelessness, mental health, and other #progressive Topics like that.
As it is now, I've been posting super censored versions of my content to YouTube, Instagram, etc, then embedded a link in the videos (not clickable urls in the description as YouTube has given me multiple #strikes for "linking to porn" when I link to my own website) encouraging people to go to my peertube instance to see the "#patriarchy unapproved" version of my videos, and I'm lucky if one out of a hundred ever bother to (meanwhile leaving such insightful commentary as "were bob" despite it saying RIGHT THERE IN THE VIDEO where to see "bob").
Meanwhile, you can type random characters into the YouTube search field and quickly stumble into "Pregnant Elsa kills Mario" with a thumbnail of copyrighted Disney and Nintendo figures brutally murdering each other, and somehow YouTube is totally fine with that 🙃🙃🙃
Minnesota cities can no longer ban pollinator-friendly native landscaping, thanks to a provision in a state government finance bill that took effect in July.
Content warning: Photo containing nonsexual male nipples
I posted this to Instagram since it's most relevant there, but thought I'd post it here as well in case there are other male presenting people in mastodon that could make use of the new viewpoint from a #freeTheNipple #toplessEquality #activist who is sick of having anti-censorship #malePrivilege shoved in my face even by self-professed allies
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To those of you who support my mission for anti #censorship #genderEquality freetheneepel/topleesh equality*, I have one request:
When you're posting topleesh content to the many, many #sexist #nisogynist anti #feminism mainstream platforms run by #thePatriarchy, PLEASE censor out ALL neepels, not just "female presenting neepels) (look the phrase up at knowyourmeme.com for a fun time, lol). I ask this for two reasons:
1. Honestly, given how sexist our society is, it's as shocking to see" male presenting neepels" that ARE censored as "female presenting neepels" that AREN'T. so if you share my goals of highlighting the hypocrisy of gender-based censorship, this is a great way to do it.
2. While I value our male - presenting allies, it feels a bit like a slap in the face when you flex your privilege by posting your "male presenting neepels" knowing full well that we can't. It's a bit like standing in front of someone with dietary restrictions and deliberately eating the thing we can't eat right in front of us. I know it's a challenge to everyone to step outside of our own world experiences enough to realize something might be a problem for others without being a problem for us, but teaching ourselves empathy is a cornerstone of the lifelong effort to be better people overall ❤️
Thanks for reading! I'm really not trying to sound H condescending, just maybe raising the issue to men posting themselves topleesh without a second thought, despite considering themselves allies of the topleesh equality cause.
*sorry as always for the incoherent baby talk, but as longtime followers know, haters have weaponized false flagging to get my content unfairly banned so many times already that I'm on every algorithm's sheet list, only compounding the reality that my content is banned to a degree no one else is. This post will probably also get banned, so feel free to screenshot it and share it yourself!
Just started our LAST #toplessTopics livestream before summer! (I'll still stream July + August, just not topless) over at https://www.joystick.tv/u/toplesstopics 😁 Hang out with me while I do some last-minute prep for #Vidcon 2023 which is happening NEXT WEEK!!!
I decided I'm going to try to stream on twitch and just hope Aeden doesn't interrupt too much (he's home sick, though he's acting fine now). I'm probably gonna work on more t-shirt designs in illustrator, but I could be convinced to play a video game instead. see yall in an hour and a half at https://www.twitch.tv/cerigotgame !
Here are my top five plans for what I'm going to accomplish at this year's Anaheim Vidcon 2023, which takes place June 21-24 at the Anaheim Convention Center! (you can find out more at their website: www.vidcon.com
I went last year (after the con was canceled in 2020 and 2021 thanks to the rona) and had a great time, but this year I'm feeling even more ambitious, and will do my best to grow my audience in tangible ways (maybe even earn the respect of my peers in this Capitalistic society by finding myself a video sponsor for the first time ever (: ). If nothing else, it's fun just to connect with other content creators! (famous or not). If you see me at Vidcon, feel free to say hello! (just be respectful please). If you want to buy a Topless Topics branded t-shirt, I'm still teaching myself how to code a website enough to make a fancy e-store, but for now you can see the designs I have available here: https://www.toplesstopics.org/store
I was watching and reminiscing about some of my oldest videos, and my supporters told me I should reupload this very old video from the very beginning of Topless Topics here on Peertube in case if/when Youtube deletes my entire account. 😀 Before that happens, you can see the original comments left on it here:
You can watch the VOD of the livestream where I reacted to this and old videos here:
I wanna edit highlights out of the livestream eventually, but I already have so many other videos I filmed but haven't edited to put up for the first time that that's probably not a realistic goal...hopefully when I go to Vidcon in one month, I can find a video editor to hire, that would be lovely (:
today's #livestream is gonna be at https://twitch.tv/cerigotgame instead of joystick, because I want the sound to come properly from my computer not my speakers for better audio quality (and because I am not planning to do anything with visible female nipples). I was watching some of my oldest videos last night out of nostalgia, and I thought it would be fun to "react" to some of them and reminisce by reading 8+ year old comments people left on them (good and bad). As usual, I'll be streaming 12 - 3pm PST- I'd love if you stopped by to hang out!
Here's another interview with longtime follower and friend @Kenny_Riot, whose fighting game podcast HyperComboCast can be found here: audioshocker.com/podcasts/hypercombocast
This was a bit of an experiment in testing out how to record Skype calls and how to interview others, but I still had fun! We're already eager to make plans to bring Kenny back for some more future interviews about ranging subjects!
Want to make a video with me to be uploaded to Topless Topics? Film a sample video telling me about yourself and what subjects you want to talk about and send the link to toplesstopicstv@gmail.com and we'll try to get it arranged!
just started today's livestream! gonna work a bit on making more t-shirt designs, then finish editing my "topless topics goals for vidcon 2023" video! https://www.joystick.tv/u/toplesstopics
reported a straight up porn account on Instagram yesterday, and of course the Instagram algorithms declined to ban their account. I don't mean a sex worker--I mean an account that just straight up posts porn clips from random foreign porn clips. they started following me so I looked at their account, and their pinned post was video of a Taiwanese (I think?) woman giving a straight up blowjob.
Meanwhile, Instagram literally banned A CARTOON PAGE I drew MOCKING them for their insane banning policies for "sexually explicit nudity". there is no fking justice on mainstream platforms, but of course we already knew
just started today's livestream over at https://www.joystick.tv/u/toplesstopics ! gonna write a script and maybe record a video called "why I was never really a nudist"!
Good morning, Fediverse! We'll be getting fresh content up on our website this afternoon! Thank you so much to everyone—so many folks are sharing about our fundraiser and giving so generously, we are all incredibly moved. 🤠
We are still waiting on the board to rescind the layoffs and closure. In many ways, our hands are tied until then. Our letter gave them until close of business Wednesday to respond. Not only does the GoFundMe help our staff directly, it makes a compelling argument to both the board—and potential major donors—that the Observer is worth saving.
Again, we are asking our board to show faith in us by rescinding closure and layoffs, and (🧵 2/?)
for any board members who don't believe in us to step aside so we can rebuild a new board which includes
✔️ people who believe in our future ✔️ a staff member with VOTING powers ✔️ Journalists of national standing and experience in supporting orgs
We are having many planning sessions about our future, and are considering the numerous ideas people have suggested. But for now, all we can ask publicly is that you support our GoFundMe while we wait on the board to respond to our letter. (🧵 3/3)
Read our previous thread from earlier today on what the future looks like. In short, we await a formal response from our board. But again, we do know they are paying attention and listening. We are not out of the woods yet, but so much more hopeful than yesterday, thanks in no small part to all our friends on the Fediverse. https://texasobserver.social/@TexasObserver/110101912371078713
Read our previous thread from earlier today on what the future looks like. In short, we await a formal response from our board. But again, we do know they are paying attention and listening. We are not out of the woods yet, but so much more hopeful than yesterday, thanks in no small part to all our friends on the Fediverse. https://texasobserver.social/@TexasObserver/110101912371078713
Good morning, Fediverse! We'll be getting fresh content up on our website this afternoon! Thank you so much to everyone—so many folks are sharing about our fundraiser and giving so generously, we are all incredibly moved. 🤠
Please help me make Topless Topics bigger and better by funding improvement of recording equipment, server hosting costs, hiring a video editor so I can get higher quality videos out more quickly, etc.! You can purchase the standard-definition size of the photo for $10, or an ultra-high-resolution version for $100!
(image marked as sensitive even though everything but my face is censored out by text)
Artistic nude photo from a photoshoot taken at Sauvies Island/Collins Beach in Portland, OR in 2018 This digital photoprint can be purchased at either Standard Definition or High Definition (view Variants below)
@Sir_Lord_B sure! it's full body nudity not just topless, but you can't see my nether regions from this angle anyway 😂 (probably why no one has bought it yet...)
@Sir_Lord_B I'm slowly adding them to https://toplesstopics.gumroad.com/ and I have all the ones I've cleaned up so far visible at toplesstopics.org/photopicker but am only now figuring out how to adapt them to put them up on sale at gumroad. previously I had some up at etsy, but etsy costs you money every month just to have a listing so I stopped doing that 🙃 gumroad takes 10% of every sale but at least they don't charge just to have a listing so that's great.
Topless Topics is a video series focused on gender-equal anti-censorship (also known as "free the nipple") and other progressive issues, like racial inequality, sex worker advocacy, houselessness solutions, and more.
ah I see. I think the last promo thing I posted for you linked to your etsy, so I'll change that if I can find it. Will add the gumroad link to your auto-footer thing too, in case you post to ABW !
I also recommend following me on all the socials so you can find out when a new stream starts, new video goes up, etc: https://www.toplesstopics.org/contact
Anyway time to start today's 12-3pm PST livestream at https:///www.joystick.tv/u/toplesstopics 😃 Hang out with me while I edit myself reacting to #youtube-safe #boobs!
*media marked as sensitive in case anyone is upset by pre-censored boobs*
I also recommend following me on all the socials so you can find out when a new stream starts, new video goes up, etc: https://www.toplesstopics.org/contact
Just started today's 12-3pm PST livestream at https://www.joystick.tv/u/toplesstopics ! Hang out with me while I edit Handmaid's Tale cowls over my heinous female nipples, maybe photo-edit some more artistic nude photography to put up for sale, maybe fine-tune some more #freethenipple slogans to put on T-shirts!
The triumphant completion of editing this video I filmed almost a full year ago. Well, except I still have to do the censored version which will take another 10+ hours, but who's counting?
(nonsexual female nudity photography available at link if you purchase the digital print, not in the preview)
My first test entry for selling my #ArtisticNude #photography on #Gumroad! I heard of gumroad before but only used it to purchase some royalty free stock photos for drawing references, so I thought that was the only kind of digital files you can buy there. But it seems to be a lot more open-ended than that!
I also really love Gumroad's far more healthy attitude towards "adult content" vs "sexual pornography" that I wish so many other places on the internet had:... show more
(nonsexual female nudity photography available at link if you purchase the digital print, not in the preview)
My first test entry for selling my #ArtisticNude #photography on #Gumroad! I heard of gumroad before but only used it to purchase some royalty free stock photos for drawing references, so I thought that was the only kind of digital files you can buy there. But it seems to be a lot more open-ended than that!
Unlike Etsy, Gumroad doesn't cost you money for every listing you put up, just a flat 10% cut of every sale. That means I can put up a lot more versions of my photography up for sale without having to pay out the arse for each one. You can also put "variants" within the same listing, so like with this one, I put up a standard definition variant for $10 and an hd variant for $100.
Attached image: contains censored-out-but-implied female nipples and genitalia on a full body artistic nude photo
Artistic nude photo from a photoshoot taken at Sauvies Island/Collins Beach in Portland, OR in 2018 This digital photoprint can be purchased at either Standard Definition or High Definition (view Variants below)
The biggest concern I have so far is that, as they warn on their Adult Content page, sometimes the @#$@#%holes over at Stripe and/or Paypal will suddenly jump in and get your account closed for "selling pawrn," and gumroad can't do anything to stop them. I already went through my own bullshit with stripe (details at www.toplesstopics.org/fkstripe ) but beggars can't be choosers I guess, and we all know how american-focused companies hate and revile female nipples as "nudity" and "nudity" as "sexually explicit."
So I'm worried I'll put a lot of work into putting my photography up for sale on gumroad, only to have some trolls report my account and get me banned (as they've done so many times already to so many other places). But I guess I just have to try it and if I get banned yet again, whelp. More screenshots for my Banned page! www.toplesstopics.org/banned
uh oh...something isn't working when I try to test out the "buy this" option on the page gumroad made for selling my product, i click "Buy this" and nothing happens, even on an incognito window -_-
UPDATE: OH you have to type into the "name a price" well that's confusing since it already displays $10+ there
micahwelf
in reply to Ceridwen • • •Thank you for this video. As it happens, I was surprised when Kenny mentioned how unreasonable or impossible it would be to interfere with people's phones recording an event live. I was at an event where police "asked" cell phone services to disable all activity in the area and it was done. I don't know about the finer details - which companies cooperate, how much advanced notice they require, etc. - but I do know that at that event there was NO cellular service, not even for emergency services, and I know we do have emergency broadcast features that can be used to identify and locate phones immediately. There is no true limit to what people will do when people are gradually conditioned into compliance with the most awful acts of indecency and injustice. To me these events are just one more evidence of how terrifying the development of our world is becoming and how ignorant most of the people involved are of how it is so developing.
If you are a police officer, what checks on your indoctrination or attitude are there? If you are a protestor, what level of insult, harassment
... show moreThank you for this video. As it happens, I was surprised when Kenny mentioned how unreasonable or impossible it would be to interfere with people's phones recording an event live. I was at an event where police "asked" cell phone services to disable all activity in the area and it was done. I don't know about the finer details - which companies cooperate, how much advanced notice they require, etc. - but I do know that at that event there was NO cellular service, not even for emergency services, and I know we do have emergency broadcast features that can be used to identify and locate phones immediately. There is no true limit to what people will do when people are gradually conditioned into compliance with the most awful acts of indecency and injustice. To me these events are just one more evidence of how terrifying the development of our world is becoming and how ignorant most of the people involved are of how it is so developing.
If you are a police officer, what checks on your indoctrination or attitude are there? If you are a protestor, what level of insult, harassment, or theft will you cooperate with in order to seem innocent and be heard? There is no end to injustice as long as our society exists as a continuum, which is something both sides should account for.
If you have faith in Christ, you might hope for his return and righteous reign for a thousand years. If not, you might be wondering what revolution will be possible when people are so dependent on modern infrastructure that a little lack of cooperation between entities can cripple their way of life, crash their financial independence, and completely remove civil rights they thought they had. Social media, as you frequently stated, only works when there isn't prejudice and unreasonable bias governing it's oversight.
I pray for your success in touching enough people with your concerns to improve their thinking.
P.S. This is a totally off topic, but related tangent: I don't actually follow or support everything Donald Trump says or does, but I feel like we have had a pretty bad set of candidates recently and he is probably the best choice for purely practical reasons. I advocate everyone having small businesses and less interference from government, but I also advocate effective social services that don't seem like an attempt to prevent rendering services for some while making others completely dependent. My ex-wife and great friend has dealt with some very series life-threatening issues from such government behavior, and I was denied any kind of health care ever since President Obama's health care project came into effect. My feeling is quite simply, everybody wants their concerns to be represented with political representatives, but we are not going to sort out who is doing the right thing by just going with the system. We need people who are independently wealthy and willing to work for free and without conflict of interest to be the primary activists in rectifying our system in full observation of the public. We need to break our cumulative ignorance of how we are psychologically being herded through multiple generations of conditioning. The corresponding agenda (not calling it a conspiracy) may change significantly from one generation to the next, but generally connects because those responsible for manipulating it are also being conditioned. The two sides of the nation wide conditioning that concern me most are cooperation with assumed authority, such as the whole COVID-19 collection of conspiracies done in full public view under the supposed authority of "medical" professionals, and the constant nudging of what is "politically correct". Issues such as homosexuality, pornography, nudity (separate from pornography), civil rights, medical rights (as if they are separate), compliance to a prevailing unembodied will without prior commitment to do so, and more than I expect you to read here are topics of very directed manipulation through public media and semi-governmental rules. These notions and rules with some peoples have become a fully assimilated code of justice or morality. After studying the effects and the history, I am convinced there is some actual intelligence or mind directing many of these things, since they are too well coordinated and have very specific effects. The utter lack of effective resistance around COVID-19 time is all the proof I need that such conditioning has been working, but your whole effort to bring equality between men and women is exactly the same. It is not a matter of culture and tradition - that goes into neighborhood housing covenants, church conduct rules, and employment contracts. It is a matter of people believing something is absolutely right or wrong with no more reasoning than their conditioning said so.
Ceridwen
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in reply to Ceridwen • • •@ceridwen Hmm.. I went back through my notifications when I had a few minutes and discovered these comments. I skimmed through my comment, since I didn't remember saying Donald Trump was "independently wealthy", and I don't see where you got that from. Maybe I should have added a paragraph break to separate statements? It was long, but meant to all be one postscript message explaining my perspective while not commenting directly on video topic. Considering how ineffective the latest person to sit in the president's chair has been, I'm not seeing any viable alternatives still. I can think of a few I'd favor if they were running, but people love to argue about such details without knowing much about the candidates (only what is published) and the few I might favor are not running, so I can't see a benefit to even trying to promote any positive opinions of them now. Frankly, I think there is far to much unconstitutional or unjust governing and conspiracy parading as legitimate right in plain view, but as I mentioned nobody would believe me because the majority of the nation is condit
... show more@ceridwen Hmm.. I went back through my notifications when I had a few minutes and discovered these comments. I skimmed through my comment, since I didn't remember saying Donald Trump was "independently wealthy", and I don't see where you got that from. Maybe I should have added a paragraph break to separate statements? It was long, but meant to all be one postscript message explaining my perspective while not commenting directly on video topic. Considering how ineffective the latest person to sit in the president's chair has been, I'm not seeing any viable alternatives still. I can think of a few I'd favor if they were running, but people love to argue about such details without knowing much about the candidates (only what is published) and the few I might favor are not running, so I can't see a benefit to even trying to promote any positive opinions of them now. Frankly, I think there is far to much unconstitutional or unjust governing and conspiracy parading as legitimate right in plain view, but as I mentioned nobody would believe me because the majority of the nation is conditioned to expect it and avoid the unknown political situation that would arise if and when trying to fix it. Serious propaganda isn't a bad thing if it isn't biased in any particular groups interests and is aimed at correcting our collective degenerating mind-scape, but I can't see any propaganda being supported nation wide without favoring some corrupt purpose, so I'll stick to writing comments and eventually books in hope of reaching others with similar understanding. I favor both you and Kenny because you publicly represent opinions and needed change that I support.
I have also heard much more dark and somewhat self-pitying views that I think represent something like a radical opposite. The way I see the state of the nation, racism was much worse, but still exists, and now has added to it reverse-racism - in other words prejudice against a traditionally dominant race with the sentiment of stopping racism. Likewise many other forms of societal evil have gradually transformed, but not disappeared. Children's education on these issues and exercises that teach empathy seem to have improved the average disposition or at least what is considered legal or common sense, but once it had an effect, it was practically discontinued. No further development on children's education is evident from my conversations with school teachers, general public, or from published media, so I see a need for that to be revisited. Anyway, I don't actually do or say anything that should get Donald Trump or anyone opposing him in office. I'm more concerned with what candidates will forward my goals of bettering the people and/or societies of the world, if only by reducing the active influence of the worst conspiracies. It all seems likely to get worse for the next ten years, but people will survive.
Ceridwen
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