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#Furry #Transformation #NSFW #NSFWArt #NSFWComic #Lewd #LewdArt #LewdComic

Stopping your robot girlfriend from going to work in a neon orange fur coat and striped bell-bottoms (her internal clock reset and she thinks it's January 1st 1970)

Pro tip: If you wouldn't go to someone for advice, don't take their criticism either.

Did you know that porn addiction isn't a thing?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/201808/science-stopped-believing-in-porn-addiction-you-should-too

"If the concept of pornography addiction were true, then porn-related problems would go up, regardless of morality, as porn use goes up. But the researchers didn’t find that. In fact, they cite numerous studies showing that even feeling like you struggle to control your porn use doesn’t actually predict more porn use. What that means is that the people who report great anguish over controlling their porn use aren’t actually using more porn; they just feel worse about it.

Having moral conflict over your porn use (PPMI) does turn out to be bad for you. But that's not because of the porn. Instead, higher levels of moral conflict over porn use predict higher levels of stress, anxiety, depression, and diminished sexual well-being, as well as religious and spiritual struggles. In one study by Perry and Whitehead, pornography use predicted depression over a period of six years, but only in men who disapproved of porn use. Continuing to use porn when you believe that it is bad is harmful. Believing that you are addicted to porn and telling yourself that you're unable to control your porn use hurts your well-being. It's not the porn, but the unresolved, unexamined moral conflict."

TL;DR: Porn addiction isn't a thing, and if you feel harmed by it, you can get help but you're not addicted to porn, you just have something else going on.

Enjoy being horny and enjoying yourself, just know that porn isn't inherently evil and corrupting like heroin.

We make all sorts of creatures:
plushie, latex, pooltoy, goo;
a quiet appointment to view
what we've recently finished,
unique, colourful, delightful--

Oh, seen a creature you like?

Why not try it on?
Slip legs, arms inside,
pull on the head,
take a look in the mirrors.

Sometimes it's so nice
to be something else,
someone else,
a whole new you
that you'd never seen before.

It's permanent if we seal you up,
so, how about it?~ 💜

#tf #transformation

I spent a while scrolling through r/hypnosis and was just kind of aghast at the amount of content that is (1) contentious (2) founded on absolutely nothing (3) linked to some guru.

There's something else that makes it very hard for me not to read this kind of thing as a scam against newbies.

The phase of hypnosis where a person goes from awake to hypnotized is called an "induction," and learning to do inductions is one of a handful of experiences you can have that will literally make you feel like a wizard in real life.

Any act between consenting adults can constitute "sex." What makes it sex is a function of the people involved: I have no love for feet and no act involving someone else's foot is likely to constitute "sex" for me. For many couples, it's not sex at all if everyone isn't barefoot.

Likewise, a dirty secret that every hypnotist will discover eventually is that you can do almost anything and call it an "induction." Hypnotic induction demands skill, but not technical skill, and it especially demands emotional fondness or at least a sense of understanding between the parties.

The induction is going to be the central point of focus for many new hypnotists and yet it's one of the least technical aspects of hypnotism.

Hypnosis resources for novices focus to a great extent on inductions, and the advice is highly technical: it encourages you to sort your subjects into a great number of categories and warns you that most categories of subject will not respond to most kinds of induction.

This creates a state of mind where before you've actually hypnotized anyone, you've learned a discipline and developed a dependence on a particular curriculum structured in a particular way, and it creates a state where if you encounter failure, you're meant to interpret that failure as a sign that you could have addressed the situation by buying more books.

I think this is a pretty grim situation for new hypnotists. It's not an uncommon situation, though. My actual opinion is that many communities, ultimately, become dominated by the exchange of branded myths. First by a group of first-order myth creators who benefit directly -- the master hypnotists and guru -- second by a group of people who have no chance of being sorted to the top of a community based on charisma, but who have a chance of making it to the top by demonstrating technical knowledge.

Third by people who have no choice but to find the mythical content compelling -- who have been told "believe this now and you can have all the things you want later." These are the true victims -- they're participants not because the myth serves a social function for them but because they actually believe the myth is true. And these are the ultimate bagholders of every self-help community -- crypto, the metaverse.

Hypnotism is actually incredibly satisfying, but my experience is that it's satisfying in a very tactile way. There's a lot of personal discovery involved: you're going to a place that's very intimate, and you're taking someone else, and you don't know what it will be like for both of you.

I believe that in a place where there's only room for a small number of people, there's little room for sorting, and I suppose I want to be in spaces that create the potential for that kind of intimacy.

(At the very least, my ideal community would have zero "master hypnotists" in it.)

Passkeys: A shattered dream.

https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-04-26-passkeys-a-shattered-dream/

Last November, NASA's Voyager 1 sent home garbled data, and engineers traced the problem to the flight data subsystem (FDS). The problem turned out to be a single chip in the FDS memory. They couldn't repair the chip but could move the affected code into sections and store them in different parts of the FDS system. They tested the new system this week, sending signals to the Voyager 1, 22.5 light-hours away. It worked, and Voyager 1 is back.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

"Being alive is as special an occasion as it gets" 😍

I. Feel. Every. Single. Fucking. Word.

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Sleeping more flushes junk out of the brain

Rhythmic activity during sleep may get fluids in the brain moving.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/sleeping-more-flushes-junk-out-of-the-brain/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social