alice ๐ชโฅ๏ธ ๐ฉ๐#Puritanism creates lust. Says #littleme? No. You may read it in "Listen, Little Man!" by Wilhelm Reich.
Puritanism
According to H. L. Mencken, "The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
(noun) โ 2025 far-right ideology.
The absolute, zero-compromise belief that modern society is terminally poisoned by degeneracy and the only cure is its total, ruthless eradication followed by the building of a pure, ordered, high-trust civilisation built on strength, family, faith, and blood. ...
Greg JohnsonWatson on the 6th Commandment: mercy works adorn the gospel as fruit adorns a tree (Matt. 5:16)โthey credit religion and silence its critics. Westminster-level conviction.
Contrast today: God is fine with our bad PR, gainsayers deserve snark, a few meals last month covers it. Watsonโs question lingers: how do you let your light shine?
Wisdom in SpacePuritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken
Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken
โฌ #Wisdom #Quotes #HLMencken #Puritanism
โฌ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico
Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken
C.Credit card companies in Canada (and elsewhere) have been imposing draconian restrictions on the use of their payment networks for anything even slightly racy -- digital Puritanism, enforced by a handful of companies that have a combined monopoly stranglehold on payment systems.
Risque video content? Racy text? Erotic drawings? All forbidden to one degree or another, by un-elected moral crusaders that you simply can't choose to not use. If you're a content creator depending on payments / subscriptions, you can be demonitized instantly, with no explanation and no recourse, at any moment. Goodbye, income!
This petition isn't perfect - it's written solely from the point of view of someone concerned with the effects on the videogame market, not any other type of content creator - but it's a start. If you're in Canada and want payment processors to not engage in such discriminatory practices, take a look at this (brief) petition and consider signing it.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6695
#PaymentProcessor #CreditCardCompanies #Puritanism #demonitized #opaque #stealth #Canada #censorship #content #ContentCreator #mature #adult
Bibliolater ๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๏ธ **David D. Hall, "The Puritans: A Transatlantic History" (Princeton UP, 2019)**
"_A breathtaking work of scholarship by an eminent historian, The Puritans: A Transatlantic History (Princeton University Press, 2019) examines the tribulations and doctrinal dilemmas that led to the fragmentation and eventual decline of Puritanism._"
๐ https://open.spotify.com/episode/65RzLYpTZwOcdJMvsorpEX
#History #Histodons #Puritanism #Christianity #Religion @histodons
Miro CollasMastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io | Censorship | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/mastercard-visa-backlash-adult-games-removed-online-stores-steam-itchio-ntwnfb
Void of Tranquillity ๐Itch has been forced to purge adult content and our first issue has been caught up in it. In the case of zines, that looks as though that takes the form of removal from search results, rather than full delisting.
It looks like you can still download it for free and tip us for copies, so do that while you still can, I guess.
https://voidkvlt.itch.io/how-to-interact-with-transmasculine-people-without-being-fucking-transphobic-vol