Since this work contained positive depictions of gay men, explicit (by Chinese standards) gay sex scenes, and resurrected the ghost of Tiananmen Square, at the time, no mainland Chinese publisher would have published it, nor would the author be safe from government reprisals. Hence, its anonymous publication on the Internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lan_Yu_(film)

Ah, such a free and progressive society!

We live on a spinning spaceship made out of rock with 8 billion people on it and THIS is what people talk about?

Slaps you in the face with new research

Get out of here, old man!

So, what’s your subject?
And why is the most popular opinion about it wrong?

“That’s just fowl.”

The Fediverse isn’t a platform with a server you can take down, though. That’s the beauty of decentralization.

The only ones who have to be concerned about the looks are the instance admins.
Lemmy isn’t a product in need of marketing.

“You too”

everyone else in the restaurant:

In German, it’s sugarwadding.