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The intersection of sensual storytelling and edible indulgence is giving rise to a new kind of intimacy experience—one where lollipops and literature go hand in hand. Welcome to the world of sex candy like 11oysters natural sex boost candy and erotica, a playful and provocative pairing that blends the imagination of words with the physical pleasure of taste. It’s a multisensory adventure that transforms reading into an act of seduction.
Erotica has long been a gateway to fantasy. Through rich language and evocative scenes, it engages the mind and stirs the senses. But when paired with sex-themed confections—think aphrodisiac-infused gummies or suggestively shaped chocolates—those fantasies can feel even more immediate and embodied. Each bite becomes a tactile extension of the story, linking narrative arousal to physical sensation.
This pairing isn’t just about novelty. It taps into how our brains process pleasure. Reading erotica activates the same neural pathways as physical touch and arousal. Add in a sweet treat that melts on the tongue or tingles with spice, and you're amplifying the experience. You’re engaging taste, smell, and imagination all at once—creating a loop of desire that’s both cerebral and sensual.
Boutique brands are starting to embrace this fusion. Some companies now release curated erotic short stories alongside their candies, designed to be consumed together. You might unwrap a lollipop flavored with rose and chili while reading a scene of slow-burning seduction. Or pop a passionfruit gummy as a character dives into a moment of intense pleasure. The edible becomes part of the plot—a kind of edible punctuation mark for the prose.
Sex candy and erotica also offer a solo pleasure ritual. For those exploring sensuality on their own, it’s an empowering way to combine self-care and fantasy. You choose your setting, your sweet, and your story. It’s a personal ceremony of indulgence, one that doesn’t require a partner but is easily shared if desired.
There’s also room for play and humor. Not all sex candy is serious or sultry. Some options lean cheeky—like tongue-in-cheek lollipops or chocolate body parts—which can bring levity and laughter into the mix. Erotica, too, can be witty and lighthearted. Together, they remind us that pleasure doesn’t have to be polished or perfect. It can be deliciously human.
As intimacy culture becomes more open and creative, combinations like sex candy such as the benefits of 11oysters candy and erotica reflect a growing desire for layered, sensory experiences. They speak to the joy of slowing down, of savoring not just what we feel, but what we imagine. With each turn of the page and each lick of the lollipop, we’re invited into a world where taste and tale ignite the senses—proving that sometimes, the sweetest fantasies are the ones we can taste.
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Quoting Gideon Levy on how Germany is betraying the memory of the Holocaust through its response to the situation in Gaza:
[...] It is difficult, if not impossible, in Germany to criticize Israel, no matter its actions. This isn't friendship; it's a subservience to the past that must end in the face of Gaza. The "special relationship" cannot include legitimizing war crimes. Germany has no right to ignore the International Criminal Court, which was established because of its crimes, and to consider inviting a prime minister wanted for war crimes. It has no right to continue reciting clichés of the past and laying wreaths at Yad Vashem, an hour and a half's drive from Khan Yunis.
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#Écologie 🌱 Les étonnantes contradictions de la ministre de l’écologie sur les pesticides
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Life isn't cruel. The universe isn't cruel. People are. Specifically, people like that. Don't let them taint it. The universe may not care, but that doesn't make it cruel.
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My friends, hi, I am pretty drunk and going to bed soon but one thing I want you to know as I do is, tomorrow's Big Story involves Elon Musk, feral neo-nazi presidential advisor Stephen Miller and Steven Miller's gross neo-nazi wife who apparently actually fucked Stephen Miller at some point who was also then assigned to be a nazi control agent of also-nazi Elon Musk, and a "polycule" happening and that going eerily creepily wrong - and haha holy fucking shit, I swear I am EXTRA-sex-positive normally but I want you all to know, because I love you, that even if YOU are also EXTRA-sex-positive, this news cycle will be an absolute FUSILLADE of blowing chunks and it is ok if you do. Be ready.
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The Israeli occupation army continued last night and on Wednesday to carry out deadly attacks on different areas of the Gaza Strip, killing and injuring dozens of civilians.The Palestinian Information Center
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As with most modular things, the more modules you have, the less "solid" a device feels. That's also the case with the framework 16, which feels less like a solid, one piece device than the 13 inch.
Not that it flexes or anything, because it's still a nice big block of aluminium, with very little bending or flexing, but you definitely feel the keyboard moving a tiny bit, the separator and sliders aren't "locked in place" 100%.
The laptop is also pretty big. The GPU module sticks out of the back, about 1.5 centimeters, and the display has massive bezels on top and at the bottom, so it's 16:10, but it could be 3:2.
I decided to go with Fedora 41, as it was just released and it's the most "vanilla" distro I could think of. And install went without a hitch, apart from the preinstalled Windows on the SSD that I had to set up so I could disable bitlocker.
After that I had nothing to do: every part of that laptop works as advertised, with the dedicated GPU being recognized, and used for the right programs automatically in hybrid graphics mode, the touchpad, audio, ports, everything just works.
In terms of performance, in Geekbench 6, the laptop got 2551 in single core, and 11314 in multi core. As per gaming, I ran a few benchmarks: Horizon Zero dawn, at the native 2560 x1600 resolution, and ultra settings, got 30 PS. At 1440p upscaled with FSR set to quality, on ultra settings, it reached 82 FPS, which is perfect.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider got an average of 72 FPS at the native resolution and ultra settings
In terms of battery life, you get an 85Wh battery in this thing, which, with the display brightness lowered to 50%, on wifi, playing youtube videos in a loop in Firefox, got me around 7h15 minutes. not too bad!
Now, let's talk hardware. The display is 2560 x 1600, up to 165hz, and it's fantastic. It's 16:10, which is fine, with big bezels, around it, which isn't great, but the display itself works really well, with 1500:1 contrast ratio, 100% of DCI-p3, variable refresh rate and freesync if your desktop supports that, and 500 nits of brightness. Great display.
I won't dwell on the webcam and onboard mic, they're bot the usual potato stuff, suitable for video conferencing and not much more**
You do have privacy switches here as well, for the webcam and the mic though, so that's nice.
The keyboard is excellent, the keys have more travel than you'd think, and they feel really nice with a little clicky muted sound that I really enjoy. I didn't expect a hot swappable keyboard to feel that good, but it's one of the best laptop keyboard I've used. really good. You also have the fingerprint reader in the power button, which works perfect on Linux, without any addition stuff to install.
The touchpad, though isn't as nice. The touchpad itself feels super smooth, it's glass, and clicks well, even though it's still a diveboard mechanism, so you can't click from the upper part of it. The issue is that the touchpad module wiggled just tiny bit in place, and you can feel it when moving around, doing gestures, and clicking, and that's not great.
Speakers are solid and won't disappoint, they don't reverberate in the chassis, which must have been tricky to pull off with such a modular ensemble of plates popped on top of the main laptop, and they have a decent amount of bass, really not bad at all. As per the sound the laptop makes under load, well, it is a laptop, so you'll hear the fan when gaming, but it's not the whiniest, highest pitched fan I've heard. Headphones will make that sound disappear, and I never heard the fan when just using the laptop to browse the web or type a script in a notes app.
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Virtually everything online now collects data. And this data doesn't just stay at the company that collected it. This data is a giant repository for governments to use and track or monitor their citizens.
See, in a LOT of countries, governments have the right to ask a company to provide all the data they've collected on their users. Companies have no choice but to comply with these, which is also why using end to end, and zero access encrypted services is crucial.
For example, the US can request any company to give them data on a specific user, they've done so more than any other country in 2020. But other countries do the exact same: Germany, Denmark, South korea, France, virtually ever country does this.
If you want even more scary numbers, in 2022, Meta, the parent company for Facebook, Instagram, or Whatsapp, got 827K requests for data. They complied with 76% of these requests.
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There are a lot of legal offensives being planned, or already implemented in various countries, so let's look at a few.
In Russia, recent laws from 2017 banned anonymous use of online messaging apps, and prohibits the use of tools that would circumvent government censorship. This means that while VPNs aren't exactly banned, if they let people access banned websites, then they'll also be banned. This has happened to at least 15 VPNs, including NordVPN, ProtonVPN, and OperaVPN.
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In Australia, in 2021, a law was proposed to force people to attach their real name to their social media posts, apparently to fight online trolls, bullying and harrassment. Users would have had to provide an ID before opening any social media account, which would obviously open the door to surveillance, monitoring, and censorship.
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In France, we have the recent SREN law. This thing would give the telecom watchdog powers to block websites, and require tools for age verification. On top of that, the law will give the government capabilities to demand web browsers and DNS providers block certain websites.
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in the UK, the Online Safety Bill of 2022 allows the regulatory agency Ofcom to force websites to collect people's personal data, and they'll be able to scan, restrict and remove content that is considered harmful. The bill also mandates online communication services to be moderated, which basically means end to end encryption can be enabled there anymore.
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So, what can you do about this? For protecting your data, there are plenty of things you can do. First, stop using privacy invasive operating systems. If you can't move to something like Linux, try at least to disable all the telemetry you can in Windows or macOS, in Android and iOS. You can try using a degoogled, privacy focused Android ROM on your smartphone.
Leaving Chrome for a more private browser is also pretty much mandatory. Same goes for your online services: stop using Google as a search engine, Gmail, or stuff like Outlook, OneDrive, iCloud, and the like. Using a VPN is also a solid option to at least try and blur the lines.
Fighting the spread of harmful content online is an important goal, but effectively addressing the issue has grown more urgent and complicated as Internet users spend more time and post…Kir Nuthi (Center for Data Innovation)
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Google has shown that with enough scale, just running ads on a website is enough to keep the content free of charge. But of course, as with everything where money is involved, it went way too far. This limited the ad revenue, and so websites decided to add more ads.
To compound that, ads started paying less and less, so websites started chasing profits by making the internet worse for everyone.
Twitter's revenue is 89% ads. It has existed for more than 10 years, and has never made any money. So even at that scale, ads are just not working to sustain a company.
All the changes Musk is making to Twitter, like firing most of the workforce, charging for the API, limiting the number of tweets, Twitter Blue, it's all to try and turn a profit. So, the experience of Twitter is now ten times worse, because ads don't work.
Now let's look at Reddit. Reddit is about as popular as Twitter. And Reddit isn't profitable either. They're kept afloat by raising money from investors. And so Reddit charges for their API now. Reddit made their site worse for everyone: the regular users, and also everyone browsing the internet and landing on reddit to see a "this subreddit is private" message, making any web search ultra inefficient.
And we can also look at Youtube. Youtube is HUGE. And it's hard to know if youtube is profitable or not. The consensus seems to be that it is, but the actions of youtube seem to indicate that maybe it's not THAT profitable. For example, youtube seems to be planning some moves against adblockers. Youtube is also taking steps against third party frontends, like Invidious. They wouldn't do stuff like that if profit growth was awesome.
I love alternative platforms, but they'll probably never replace the giant ones: they don't offer a business model for people to create content on them.
As a user, you probably don't care about that. And the person running the instance of said platform maybe is ready to fund it out of pocket, but the people creating the content on these platforms? They're not making money from them.
And so as ad-based internet models start dying off, I have a feeling we're going to be faced with 3 options
First, the big platforms survive as-is with the ads, you can still have ads on your own website, but the platforms will start keeping more and more of the ad revenue.
This is where we're heading now. People are tired of ads and their privacy invasion, and the over abundance of them, but platforms seem to think this is the way to go.
Second option, the big platforms and websites evolve to another model, like paywalling everything behind a paid subscriptions like Youtube Premium.
It would basically kill off an entire portion of the internet, but it probably wouldn't be the worst portion to lose.
Third option, the big platforms and the internet as a whole can't find a new model to replace ad based ones, and big platforms and big websites die off. Content creation becomes a hobby mostly.
This is probably the best outcome for the internet as a whole, as it would probably kill off most clickbait, disinformation, AI generated crap. We would have far less things to read and watch, but a lot of if would be higher quality.
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