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if it's not end-to-end encrypted, it's public

It especially worries me cuz that shooting happened right here in Utah, a state that has essentially no gun control laws

Worst part about this Charlie Kirk shit is that the right will use it to complain about out-of-control people or something, still defend the use of guns by citizens, keep ignoring school shootings, and we as a country still won't even try to have any kind of gun control

The lettering is done in simulated sidewalk chalk. Next time you think art doesn't matter, consider how scared the fascist are of sidewalk chalk.

Next they'll outlaw playing hopscotch. 🏳️‍🌈

Speaking on this; there's a tumblr post that PERFECTLY explains why TERFs have 'so much reach', and folk need to see it.

Stop engaging with TERFS, block them, and get them offline. Likewise, report *their* harmful comments.

Organise and be smart.

COMMENT ON THIS NOW IT IS SUPREMELY IMPORTANT

I actually had to explain to someone recently that the AI that tells enemies in video games how to react to player inputs is NOT genAI and has existed for literal decades. they genuinely had no idea there was a difference. this shit has poisoned the well so bad.

Cis people:

This is where you fucking step up. Do everything you can to support trans people in the coming days. You're going to hear horrible, hurtful rhetoric about us. Shut it down. Don't let it stand.

And buy the trans people in your life a drink.

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

A reminder not to let the National Center On Sexual Exploitation's official-sounding name fool you: they're the rebranded busybody group "Morality In Media", whom you might remember from such hits as "Trying to have Life Of Brian pulled from theatres" and "trying to connect queerness to mass murder"

Hey Americans, if this passes you'll be uploading your ID to every social media and website to access it.

Occasional reminder that Grammarly once tried to get me to post a graph on my blog proving men are better writers than women and they wanted to pay me for it with an Amazon gift card.

Fuck Grammarly forever.

Hey, if you haven't already, cancel your Spotify subscription. This company sucks for artists and now it sucks for users. Please just stop giving them your money.

dont do this on literally any platform ever btw its fucking stupid. humans arent even good at guessing ages by faces, let alone an algorithm running off pictures from either a front-facing phone camera or a shitty webcam. how anyone decided this was a good system for anything is mind-boggling to me

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Good morning. Did you call your local censorious payment processor and let them know you’re upset with their bullying of Steam and itchio? No time better than the present

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Post on /r/transgenderUK entitled “Reddit now censors LGBTQ+ content under OFCOM’s new ‘Online Safety Act’”

post text: “I honestly can't even think of words to describe how vile this is. Here's a screenshot of what I now see when I search "lgbt" with my VPN switched off. Occasionally a banner appears at the top of the screen saying something about needing to verify ID to access "mature content" but the button doesn't even work. The fact that we're now considered "mature content" makes me feel sick.”

The screenshot referenced in the previous image, showing the results of a search on Reddit for the term LGBT. No results from LGBT-specific subreddits appear; instead, posts from /r/Conservative, /r/Islam, /r/JustUnsubbed, etc are highlighted.

the UK’s Internet age verification law has led to the effective censorship of all LGBT content on Reddit

what a shocking and unexpected turn of events!

For 0 reason at all just wanna remind that South Park is one of the most virulently transphobic and its consistent rhetoric of aggressive centrism and never caring directly contributed to the fascist moment we're in. But hahaha they said trump gay with devil recycling their 20 yr old homophobic joke

Please… for the love of god, just stop reading Harry Potter. There are other god damn fantasy series out there, and ones that don’t give money and attention to a person helping to directly harm trans people.

"age verification rules" are a backdoor to censoring all LGBTQ content of any kind from the internet and the process is well underway under many governments. The tactic is part of Project 2025. But nobody fucking believed it could happen and now here we are.

the core idea that can radicalize people is so simple:

there is enough.

there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe.

once you accept that there's only one question:

why don't we?

looks into the camera

Don't doom scroll.
Put down your phone and sleep as best you can.
Get up when you're supposed to and don't skimp on breakfast.
What you have control of right now is you.
Start there.
Maintain that.
Be good to yourselves.
Be good to each other.

already seeing people giving in and doomscrolling too like Do Not Fucking Let Them Make You Hopeless. this is how they got away with it in 2003. the news is already trying to manufacture consent, we have to get loud.

1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so.
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What weird assumptions to make.

As far as I can tell, it's just a generic Dress design. Immediately assuming bad intent is questionable

Also there's literally like no gore, it's just implied

I don't find it as funny as others, though I can understand why. But it's just meant to be a dumb joke, so

CLARIFICATION :

The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.

They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY

So spread this around

They can be texted. They can be called.

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

Do literally anything right now to give yourself some feeling of joy today.

Log off.
Go get some ice cream.
Take a nap to some ocean sounds.
Play one of your favorite video games or board games.

The fear and stress that you're feeling is real, but we need you alive. Allow happiness to bloom today.