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The real purpose of KOSA and ID checks is constant Epstein blackmail: Palantir will know which “embarrassing” platforms you use and what content you order. This data can readily be weaponized to extort users.

If you’re part of any creative groups, unions or other organisations in the uk you should be passing news like this along and spreading the world. News like this gets has the chance to be overlooked but if enough organisations kick up a fuss things can change.

The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist ...

The goal is to completely deanonymize the internet for mass AI surveillance and we cannot let that happen.

— NO to KOSA
— NO to Section 230 reform
— NO to SCREEN Act
— NO to App Store Accountability Act
— NO to Kids Off Social Media Act
— NO 'age verification' laws
— NO to digital ID systems

Drawing of a tired puppy with the caption; "How it feels to endure and still be kind"

Enduring

There is NO VALID REASON why you should have to provide your LEGAL ID to access the internet or social media! Period! GET ON THE PHONE AND TELL YOUR REPS YOU DO NOT WANT KOSA, KOSMA, OR ANY OF THE 19 BILL SURVEILLANCE PACKAGE they've lied and called "child protection" !!!!!!!!!

Bad Internet Bills All of the bad internet bills. One website.

THREAD: Whenever imperialist governments go to war, they become more authoritarian at home.

That makes censorship bills like KOSA, ID checks, and attacks on Section 230 even more dangerous.

Online protest, documenting war crimes, even news articles could be suppressed.

www.badinternetbills.com

Screenshot of headline: Microsoft gets tired of Microslop, bands the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash

Lmfao this is so fucking sad 😂😂😂

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

The Digital ID (Age verification, hyper surveillance and destruction of free speech) bills will be going through full Committee markup via House Energy and commerce this week. (Tues or Wed or Thurs)
#KidsOnlineSafetyAct #KOSA #Section230 #freespeech #ageverification #digitalid

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WELL NOW, would you look at that?

A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE

it will result in dead trans people

and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing

you see the pipeline right?

we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die

WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

Everyone keep calling your reps over and over again and remind them why KOSA and the Section 230 repeals are bad ideas and why they should vote no in the whole package of bad internet bills.

Quick reminder to everyone, be sure to call your state representatives to stop the kosa bill from passing, time is running out!!!

🪐I put this off until later, thinking I'd finish it properly. But in the end, I was too lazy.

#voicesofthevoid #votv #ariral #dictator

a screenshot of a distressed Amuro Ray and the post "Anyone else permanently going through a lot lately"

recent mood

Sack, a roughly 7 foot 9 or 10 tall animatronic wolf animatronic with burlap covering his body and head, with a friendly looking smile painting on his face. Part of his fluffy looking body is barely visible under the burlap, most notably part of his chest, his left paw and his feet. There are visible claws on his feet, as well as some (not visible in this particular render) on his paws as well. He also has tall pointy ears sticking out from the burlap on his head. He kind of has the build of a large and slightly plump stuffed animal.

Sack, but in a cartoony form! He’s mostly the same as the previous image, but heavily simply stylized, especially his face. He’s slouching down and wringing his paws, as if he’s trying not to take up too much space, or is perhaps lost somewhere but too nervous to ask for directions.

Sack looming kind of menacingly above the viewer, staring down at them. He’s backlit by a small lightbulb, partially obscured in shadow, standing next to an empty bookcase. I really like his tall pointy ears, it activates the part of my brain where I want to pet my cat Rosie.

Sack as seen from a side profile, looking down at Daniel Schmidt (having been cropped out of the screenshot) He’s slightly slouching to look downwards, and I think he has one of his paws kind of sticking out in a kind of slight reaching gesture? It’s really difficult to tell on account of how dark the lighting is. He kind of always has dramatic lighting on him. You can also see just how tall he is, if he were to stand straight up, his head would be hitting the ceiling.

10: Sack the Wolf from Project 1976: Grand Opening (2024) by Bonfilms Studios
I can’t tell you why my brain decided to cling onto this guy, but it did. The perfect combo of creepy uncanny valley and adorable. He’s almost 8 feet tall, looks very soft & would probably be nice to hug, 10/10 guy

Lydia, wearing all black including a huge brimmed black hat, holding a camera looking up

Lydia in a more casual, still all black, outfit, with her hair tied back in a messy bun? Ponytail? One of those it’s been a hot minute since I last saw the movie

Lydia wearing the outfit from the first picture, but this time she’s inside reading the Handbook for the Recently Deceased

Lydia in her high school uniform, seen at the very end of the movie

Lydia Deetz, played by Winona Ryder, in Beetlejuice (1988)
My other childhood sapphic crush, and probably why I had a goth phase too. A slightly more child appropriate movie than the last one, but had just as much influence on me

I know the main post only has 8 likes, but what if I just ignored the like goals and just kept posting characters I liked

Yeahhh I’m just gonna do that idgaf

Ripley wielding the flamethrower in Alien

Ripley in Aliens, about to head into the hive to rescue Newt

Ripley piloting the power loader in aliens. I really like her short curly hair look in this film and I wish mine looked half as good

An action figure of Ripley holding a flamethrower. This figure apparently also came with a small figure of Jonesy, that damn orange cat, which I think is hilarious

8: Ellen Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver, in Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986)

One of the women of all time. She is goals and also made me very gay when I saw these movies way too young. I love that damn cat Jonsey too, most famous orange cat of all orange cats probably

According to payment processors, purchasing fictional sexy art is grossly immoral.

Betting on school children getting blown up is fine though.

Carney's statement on the US-Israeli attack on Iran frames the RETALIATION as the threat to regional peace, not the initial strikes that killed 200+ people, including little girls at a school. He "reaffirms Israel's right to defend itself" in the context of an offensive operation.

please to not give in to despair. if you want to start somewhere you can help, a donation to Doctors Without Borders is a great place to start

Tell Congress: No War with Iran! Israel launched horrific, illegal strikes on Iran in the heart of its capital, Tehran, killing scores of civilians. Israel carried out targeted assassinations of top leaders, scientists, and a negotia...

Americans can support the War Powers Resolutions to end unauthorized strikes: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-no-war-on-iran

A render of Geno from the smrpg remake

Geno’s render from the original game on snes

Geno speaking with Mario and Mallow inside the forest maze. He says: “we must get rid of Smithy, find the Star Pieces, and repair the Star Road..”

A small Geno cameo in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. This was his last major appearance after smrpg, about 2 decades before the remake was released!

7: Geno from Super Mario RPG. I played the original on Wii ware years ago, and was unbelievably excited when the remake got announced! Big fan of his design since I really like non-human characters

A screenshot of Alfred standing in front of the strangetown hotel owner. (The first 3 screenshots in this post are from my Buddy @acmeearts here on bluesky. Just wanted to properly credit since these are some of the cleanest screenshots of Alfred from the game that I’m aware of 👍)

Alfred sitting on a couch, the hotel owner’s arm barely in view

Alfred holding a plate from a refrigerator completely vertically, seemingly studying it closely. I don’t think that’s how you hold plates properly buddy

A photo of a 3ds with the game running, courtesy of myself since I don’t have a capture card. I am in the hotel atrium talking with Alfred (who is walking away for some reason) while Tristan Legend is walking towards my character. Alfred is speaking on the lower 3ds screen saying the following: *Tching* I am so tired of fiddling with machinery. *Blink* I wish I had a biology degree. *Rrr* Disassembling and reassembling humans would be most enlightening. *Clong*

6: Optimum Alfred 9000 from Sims 2 DS. I got super re-fixated on this game around 2021-2022 and went out of my way to completely 100% it since I had a load of free time. Alfred low-key the best character and also the funniest guy in the game. Also where the first half of my username comes from!