AENS System (usually November)

Hypnosis is very powerful, it can change sensations, moods, memories, and more. You can do a lot of kink with it and it's very hard to think of a mental effect it can't achieve. The main limitation is that it takes time and skill, with the more intense of an outcome you're going for, the more time and skill it will need. Part of this is that it takes practice to drop into trance.

As for the concern of nonconsensual hypnosis, my overall best guess is that it's about as hard for someone to nonconsensually hypnotize you as it would be for them to more generally violate your consent without you then going "fuck you, I'm getting out of here". It'd also rely on similar tactics, mostly manipulation, so a hypnotic abuser is going to be very similar to a regular abuser

A scenario: If you want to cum, you can ask, and then be tied down. Once your chastity cage is removed, you'll then get a handjob/have a toy used on you for exactly 15 minutes. You don't get to see the timer. Cum to early and you'll end up getting overstimmed for the rest of the time. Wait too long and you end up not getting to cum at all

I feel bad about using my wheelchair because, like, I obviously don't really need it, I can just not leave the house except on particularly good days, and even then not go outside for that long, and then I simply don't need my wheelchair at all. So I'm probably just faking everything and I'm awful and shouldn't use it

I guess I need to find some ablist people to validate my self-hate

I keep getting into arguments on fedi about why I don't deserve to exist, but they're frustratingly really hard to win. I guess I'm too stupid to explain why I'm awful

The open-source community, because leftist communities didn't have enough infighting and taking things out of proportion

Fun fact, at least if you're really weak like we are, giving a footjob can actually be a pretty decent leg workout

My partners are arguing if I get seizures or not, but like, I'm fine and totally healthy and there are good videos on youtube that have flashing lights and I don't want to have to stop watching them just because they make me really dazed

Last night I drank a third of a beer, my Owner drank an entire beer plus the rest of mine, and yet I was the one who was feeling really tipsy and weird and stuff, while Owner was basically sober. Oh, and Owner took advantage of me of course, which was really really fun

Okay, so you know how a while ago I was working on a software standard? I've tweaked it a bit and it now has an actual repo: https://codeberg.org/novemberorwhatever/FRAD

Come check it out and if you don't like it, make a PR!

Okay, so, not a lot of people know how to recognize left-wing bigotry, so here's some advice from what I've found. Please try to gently correct people on this instead of turning it into even more leftist infighting.

General mechanisms of enforcing bigotry:
Weaponized boundaries. You'll often see, even in cases where both people are equally entitled to the space, people setting boundaries that boil down to "cut it out or get out". Sometimes that is necessary, but at least at the start the goal should really be to find a way where both people can feel comfortable.
Dictatorial communities. In a lot of cases, especially online, the default is that one person is just fully in charge of the community and has all the admin rights. There are absolutely ways to mitigate this, but if nothing is done then the admin's biases can easily be enforced rather than questioned.
Acting on bad evidence. I think we've all seen cases of people acting on what a friend of a friend said happened. Please, try and give people more of a fair shot than this.
Voting, and then no more supporting. There are a decent number of leftists who try to help systemic problems with their ballots, and occasionally with donations to charities, but that then refuse to actually help people more immediately close to them who they might actually know.
Finally, there is a general tendency to hold people to a higher standard of behavior the more repressed they are. A take that gets a minor correction from the comments for a white guy with a podcast can get a disabled trans person driven off the internet.

Racism:
Cultural appropriation. Another culture's religious symbols? Generic art and home decor.
Using a culture's supposed sexism to criticize it without really understanding it, see a lot of left-wing islamophobia.
People doing some variant of "Racism? In my community? Impossible." And then nothing is done because the issue is always ignored.
Testing Jews to see if they're "one of the good ones" is another problem, along with ignoring antisemitism.
That said, I'm White, so I'm sure I've missed a bunch, please let me know

Sexism:
If you are part of an oppressor class, you're not one of the good ones simply for not participating in the oppression, you're one of the good ones for actively trying to stop the oppression.

Ablism:
Vilification of cluster-b personality disorders.
Holding disabled people to unreasonably high standards or expecting far too much work from them.
A lack of any actual consideration for disabled people when planning events.
The medical system has a lot of problems with things like cost, availability/scheduling, and effectiveness for people who aren't white men, especially when it comes to mental health care. This should be pretty well-known at this point. And yet "just spend a bunch of time and energy trying to get the medical system to help you" is put forward far too often as the only solution to problems for disabled people.

Homophobia:
A lot of right-wingers have shifted from directly criticizing gay people to criticizing things associated with gay people, like the kink and furry communities, or just treating anal sex as a especially extreme and weird way of having sex. And unfortunately the left has not done much to actually support these communities and in a lot of cases joins in on the criticism.
Similarly, there's a tendency to criticize gay people who don't conform and who are campy and weird and fun.

Transphobia:
I think degendering has already been mentioned a lot, if someone has preferred pronouns other than they/them, use those when you can.
Another big one I see especially on Fedi, is pushing everyone with some amount of gender dysphoria or atypical gender presentation down the same path of transitioning. This can often lead to transmedicalism and enby erasure.
It's been mentioned so many times, but seeing trans women as too manish whenever they stand up for themselves is a big problem.
And finally there's the simple fact that trans people are the ones who so often fall victim to the general mechanisms of enforcing bigotry.

Again, please use this for gentle correction where possible and not even more leftist infighting. Also let me know if there are common things I missed and I'll edit them in

Okay, looking for some story recommendations for Sierra, our age regressed member (roughly age 8). She'd like something longform, with hurt/comfort elements, and a protagonist that is around her age, and ideally also age-regressed. Bonus points if the protagonist is disabled. She's already read "The Wolf Princess" and "Kidnapped by the Strongest Guild", and would like more stories like those. Any recommendations? Boosts welcome

Network is weirdly broken on my Debian install, and I'm considering distrohopping, either to Void or Hannah Montana Linux. I'm a little scared Void will be a decent bit of setup effort, but also I have worked with it before and liked it. Either way I'm switching from Sway to KDE for the time being, I don't have the energy to have things be not all-GUI by default