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@beachbum99 said in Hey everyone! Bore da!:
@bi4smooth
Yes yes...rub it in haha :)! It's nice today, 4.5C, thats tropical for round here atm!
I do like Florida though, I envy you
Come visit! My massage table, ropes, handcuffs, blindfolds, and other play things await! 
Welcome - and just so you know, I'm in Fla - the LOW today was 66 F (that's 19 C)...
There's a REASON we're the world's #1 tourism destination!
Just 2-words...
HOT DAMN!
Bondage top here myself... would love to have you on my table!!!
@anythingold said in Showing My Age Now.:
You couldn't get much more private than a BBS.
That is somewhat less true than you know. We were just individuals - and sometimes the cops came calling... different sysops handled things differently.
I actually helped organize other local sysops (gay, straight, non-sexual BBSes all together) to help standardize how we did things (learn from each other). Many of us (BBS Owners) would get requests by police from time to time! They were NOT oblivious!
Brevard County Sheriffs knew me and knew I was happy to help when it was a case of violence, or theft, or the like... but NOT willing to help in (the thankfully rare) case of "outing someone" (mostly they didn't care if you were gay, but sometimes I'd get subpoenaed in a divorce case (trying to prove infidelity, esp same-sex infidelity) or some lame indecency suit... we did NOT comply with those, and I had some limited ACLU support in that.)
Honestly, the only cases where we (BCSD and I) truly butted heads were the prostitution cases... I wouldn't support giving up data for that.
So, by way of examples:
The point is, though, some SysOps would comply completely with the police, and in some jurisdictions, those were fishing expeditions - trying to "out the queers" and charge them with indecency for posting nude pictures!
(Remember: at dial-up speeds, you got PICS, not VIDEOS!)
Excellent question.
MY PERSONAL definition of a twink is a lithe (skinny), smooth body, likely a little smaller than average, and often moderately to more effeminate.
MY PERSONAL definition doesn't include age...
I LOVE TWINKS OF ALL AGES! 
I used to run/host a 6-line BBS system for LGBTQ (just "gays and lesbians" back then!) on the Space Coast of Florida.
The best part of it was that I didn't have to download the images - they were right there on my system!
I had some problems with it when I had a BF though - he would login and do things (read other people's messages, approve memberships, etc) without my knowledge. He let a couple of kids join (I always required ID - he was more interested that they were cute!), and that nearly got me shutdown!
The BBS (I named it Space Coast MOTSS after the UseNet group MOTSS - for Members Of The Same Sex) long outlived my relationship with my ex (he was actually my first ever boyfriend!)... but I closed it down when I moved to the west coast of Florida ca. 1992.
Six modems back in the day (14.4kbps - v.32bis!)!
We were one of only 2 in the area that had multiple lines, so you might - might - actually be able to chat live with someone!
Come now - do you really think George Floyd is the first black man killed at the hands of police? What made that case blow up was solely the fact that it was captured - in its entirety - on video, and then made public. Plus the fact that it took over 8-minutes for the man to die - slowly - as the policeman showed complete indifference.
Take that one facet away, and he's just another statistic!
The truth is, death by cop is an epidemic in our country - and with easily defined reasons:
As a result, the Police often act as-if the public were the enemy, and that virtually all situations are potentially violent.
IMHO, we need to re-think what we want out of our Police force... Do we want Robo-Cop (who shoots first and asks questions later)? Or, do we want Adam-12: (Reference to a 1960's and 70's police drama about 2 LA police officers who routinely went out of their way to help people, catch the really bad guys, and sometimes give people who need it a break.)??
I'm sorry, if you payed as much attention to the goofball (and frankly, just as dangerous) ideas coming from the RIGHT as you do the LEFT, you'd see why the MSM just doesn't think it's newsworthy -- at least, not until it gains traction....
When you only have 22 minutes (or even 45!) to present the news (allowing for all the commercials that interrupt), combined with the desire to do a "deep dive" on one or two of them, and there is just precious little "space" to report on the pop-up fringe nutball ideas - even the dangerous ones...
That doesn't take away from the fact that both the far-left and the far-right are becoming even more radical in these times... and, in-fact both are becoming dangerous... it's just that there's so much ELSE out there that is "of consequence"...
BTW: That's why MSM came up with their NEWS magazine shows - 60 minutes, Dateline, 20/20, and so forth...
And cable news? Sheesh - they have the opposite problem... there just isn't 24-hours worth of actual news out there to report on in MOST 24-hour period! They need filler - and these hyper-extreme stories can sometimes fill the void...
Funny - now that we're in the Information Age we're REALLY STRUGGLING with clear and important aspects of Communication!
Of course I think it's wrong... I think it's "wacky" wrong...
But the part of your post I replied to was the part about MSM not reporting on it!
The point I was trying to make is that I see this kind of "wacky" (just plain bad) idea on the leftist and rightist sites all the time... they don't get traction - usually not even on their own networks - and the bad concept dies a quick and quiet (and well-deserved) death...
In other words, the MSM doesn't cover this kind of dumb idea unless (until?) it starts to gain traction in the wacky world from which it originates - unless they're doing a segment on stupid things that should have never been said or something...
You know the segments: where they look at how they convinced themselves that we'd all be in flying cars by 2000! 
I should point out that I also peruse the BBC, DW, GlobalTV, and other "international" news outlets - I try not to be US-Centric...
And for the record, some of those outlets have a "political bent" as well - I think it's really hard to present news without some kind of angle. Further, I think the appearance of impartiality we like to remember about the newscasters of old is a beautiful illusion
@ricky said in Trump VS Biden LGBTQ:
Would someone that is anonymous, need privacy?
Actually, the privacy concern there would be the maintenance of their anonymity.
I'm not so sure about histrionics (and from @raphjd? Pot meet kettle!)
But it certainly has a liberal bent... that said, a lot of the "acceptance" of LGBTQ people are progressive ideals.
The terms "Conservative", "Liberal", "Progressive", "Libertarian" and so forth can be applied to many very different "parts" of our politics.
For example, I consider myself a Conservative on many fiscal and government policy areas. I consider myself a Progressive Libertarian (both) on most social issues (in a nutshell: leave people alone to live their personal lives they way they want, so long as it doesn't actually hurt others!)
In a broad sense, I think our American (and global) Society is being challenged on 2 major fronts:
Until we can find ways to ensure people's privacy, and at the same time hold people accountable for their actions (even verbal/texted ones) -- seemingly opposite issues -- we're going to struggle...
@bc22
I've posted about this before....
The reason Obama, Trump, and now Biden can make all of these Executive Orders is because there is no controlling law. I think Biden hit it on the head when he said he wasn't creating law, he was creating policy!
It's up to the Legislature to make LAW - and when they do, Presidential Executive Orders are either codified into law, or overturned by the law.
This is a symptom of a totally broken congress.
It was broken under Republican "rule" in Obama's term, it was broken (even worse?) under Trump's term... it remains to see just how broken it remains in Biden's...
And the result is that we all get whiplash when a new President comes in and starts changing all the "policy" - for which there are no laws!
Congress needs to pull its head out of its collective ass and start passing laws! Start by evaluating the Trump version and the Biden version of some of these Executive Orders... get together and negotiate a middle-ground that both sides hate equally! Codify it into law, and STOP THE MADNESS!
I get my news from multiple sources.... some Internet, some "print", almost none "cable news"
It is a fair charge to say I can't speak directly to what's on FoxNews or MSNBC airwaves (a misnomer, as neither is a broadcaster!)... because I can't watch either, except to watch clips online.
There's a good reason for that: I cut the cable years ago What little "live" TV I watch is through *https://locast.org" - a re-broadcaster of over-the-air TV signals...
I like to watch the Atlanta area news, even though I don't live there anymore.
My VPN provider makes that easy LOL
As for online news: I read from several sites: some liberal, some conservative (I won't name them here)... the stories that I believe are the ones that are reported by ALL of them
As for the "political" take, I am smart enough to filter that out - filter it out of foxnews.com, filter it out of cnn.com, and filter it out of the others.
@raphjd said in MSNBC Suggests Using Drone Strikes Against American Citizens:
https://newspunch.com/msnbc-suggests-using-drone-strikes-against-american-citizens/
MSNBC is a poor imitation of successful right-wing media badly attempted by the left. Seeing the success the likes of Rush Limbaugh (who I don't always agree with, but you cannot [or should not] ignore his success!), they're an experiment in trying to do the same to the base of the Left.
In short: MSNBC is a Fox News wannabe... a failed wannabe at that!
But he truth is, we should not have either! At least not from the same companies who claim to bring us real news! (and what I mean by that is that the same media outlets that purport to provide unbiased news shouldn't also be spouting one political side or another on the same channel - or with the same name).
Newsmax doesn't even pretend to be "real news" - it's political, and they revel in it! Fox News and MSNBC try (badly) to wrap their political agendas into news wrappers, and I find it offensive (on both sides).
Not surprisingly, MSM isn't reporting on this.
I'm not as surprised... MSM cares about real news, and MSNBC being leftist and purporting some lefty-wingnut idea is no more newsworthy than Newsmax being right-ist and purporting some right-wing nutjob idea.
maybe on a slow newsday, but with the Biden administration just starting to make this shit real (and starting to scare the pants off some who voted for him solely because he wasn't Trump) - combined with the absolute CIRCUS MAXIMUS that is the impeachment trial in the Senate... and there's just no room for another lefty (or righty) nutty idea that's DOA in the real world today.
Honestly, it's no more troubling to me that the Left is proposing to use drones to enforce the law (including, essentially, air-strikes! Really? Jeezzus!) than the Right proposing to crate Militias in each State to be prepared to forceably re-take "our Country" -- equally shocking, and equally covered (minimally) by MSM...
This is a FREE COUNTRY and Freedom IS NOT Free! We do have to put up with nutjob ideas published in public media! But, to be honest, I'm just as terrified of the far-right as I am of the far-left! Both are like waking up from a nightmare and seeing footprints in the carpet next to your bed! "Is this shit real?"
We are truly living in interesting times... Thanks for the curse!
@bc22 said in It haunts me.:
Posted a trimmed version on Reddit, and that is the version my partner read. Now the different bits and parts told over the years make sense.
My partner had two words for me.
FIND HIM
It sounds like you have a great partner who is mature enough not to be threatened by this.
Congrats for that, at least!
Your powers of mental gymnastics are truly amazing!
You belong in a circus!
Then again, you get it wrong so often, the organizers would go broke giving away prizes....
c'est la vie!
I would imagine I'll get far more pushback from our local wingnuts, but I am prepared for that...
@andergarcia said in THIS or THAT: the game:
Skinny dipping, no doubt about it.
We have great beaches in Spain where you can practice nudism.
I have been to Malaga (technically, we visited Malaga, but stayed in Torremolinos!)
Beautiful beaches, beautiful naked bodies, but chilly water LOL!
(Anything to explain the small - when soft - penis!!! ROFL 
)
Sleeping naked or with pyjamas?
I don't sleep well with clothes on - too many years sleeping nude (since I was like 12!!) to change now!!
So - definitely naked
Next:
unusual for a gay forum (stereotype much?)... but...
It's SuperBowl Sunday!
Bucs or Chiefs?
Yeah, well this so-called-RINO was called this weekend by my local Republican Party to serve on a committee - a committee focusing on rebuking QAnon and returning our Party to one of true Conservative Values.
SANE minds will re-take this party!