sarah chechi says fight to win

Hi! We are fighting this tooth and nail and have been for years even though we lost a major foundation funder because of our vocal and effective opposition to KOSA.

Anyhow here's our donate page ;-) www.fightforthefuture.org/donate/

chelsea!!!!!! literally had so much fun meeting you, hopefully i can come visit y’all soon 🤍

i’m also on how border surveillance tech becomes everywhere surveillance tech today at 7 PM but i accidentally left it off the graphic. you can find my schedule / the entire electronic frontiers forum track on the app !!

if you’re @ dragoncon this year come find me!! (i’ve got a ton of cool @fightforthefuture.org stickers for y’all)

whoever is designing the packaging for Trader Joe’s has gotta be a nepo baby

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....

Amazon Ring is introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices.

Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire

not to wade into the discourse but [proceeds to wade into discourse] I don't think that a broad definition of trans people is why we lost Skrmetti, I think we lost because we live in a state whose main lawmaking body is a reactionary unelected council of nine people who decided that fascism is good

we talk about men doing shrooms and having revelations we had at 12 on tumblr.com. next we have lifelong blue check liberals who are "experts" in policy figuring out conservatives want us all dead actually literally in 2025. also found that out at 12 on tumblr.com.

and as i tell everyone all the time, fanfic + archive of our own would wither away without fair use

Fair use is what enables quote-dunking. It's what lets you make fun of elected officials by quoting their own words back at them. It's what allows gifs to exist in the first place. It's what makes software interoperable. It underpins literally everything online.

absolutely locked in for this

A medieval artwork, in colour, which depicts a scaly, brown devil (who has chicken feet, a tail and visible vertebrae) carrying Jesus away into the hills. Jesus is a pale-skinned man with brown hair and beard, wearing an orangey robe. He has a strangely stiffened posture, as if paralysed.

Jesus and the Devil, caught at a Coldplay gig

lots of "by any means necessary" guys amped up by the possibility that the necessary means might be "risking horrifically violent death at the hands of militias and/or the state" but strangely unwilling to consider that they might be "doing the dishes" or "making common cause with winemoms"

I hope we Americans can let go of our desire to be the individual Chosen One who leads the rebellion and punches every Nazi. Organizing is hard, it takes experience and resources and time. Stop fantasizing about being a superhero. Start joining existing groups and be part of collective action.

the days of summer are dwindling and you are still with your shit boyfriend when you should be outside. think on that

text from linked EFF article: "Not to be undone with new bad features, they are also planning on rolling back some of the necessary reforms Ring has made: namely partnering with Axon to build a new tool that would allow police to request Ring footage directly from users, and also allow users to consent to letting police livestream directly from their device."

for the love of god, get rid of your surveillance doorbell. and take the battery out of your parents'. if we're scared about cops using license plate readers / FRT databases to criminalize protesters, migrants, and abortion seekers? don't give them more to work with
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

wow it's too bad no one at the ftc ever has done work around algorithmic discrimination in pricing. if only a person (or two??) there had been ready for this future

gotta start wearing a sign that says "i'm fine" when i'm not in the south and say i'm doing so and so around abortion in texas. people have started fainting. crying. handwringing. i've started comforting people about my own lot in life (living in a place i love with the people i love)

How Renters Fueled Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Andrew Cuomo won 11 out of 13 majority-homeowner districts — but Mamdani swept the floor in renter-heavy areas, where turnout surged.

Areas with the highest rates of non-family roommates voted overwhelmingly for Mamdani.

With much of the city’s communal civic life decimated, sharing a home — in many cases because one can’t afford one’s own — is one of the most potent social networks for spreading political support.

Flock being used for immigration enforcement and abortion surveillance is not an abuse of the system.

Flock enabled this when they built their software. Flock knew what they were doing.

The only way to prevent surveillance tech from being harmful is to never use it.

Zohran Mamdani once said "you too" when I told him to enjoy his Bloomin Onion that I served him at Outback Steakhouse

There is a massive, massive contingent of lefties on Bluesky who react with serious, deep and ferocious hostility towards the possibility that Gazans are in fact real people who can use the internet rather than abstract brown faces whose only purpose is to serve white leftist performance

the way i can chug an amount of caffeine that would put other people into shock and then immediately fall asleep should be studied (it's been studied) (there's diagnosis for such a thing)

FUCK ANDREW CUOMO AND BILL CLINTON AND ALL THEM. YOOOOOO

People wondering why a leftist may open carry at a protest seem to be ignoring the murders of Garrett Foster, Joseph Rosenbaum, and Anthony Huber.

All of whom were executed by racists who are just freely walking the street today.

i don't think bluesky is an echo chamber because if it was y'all would be talking about love island way more for me

We need journalists who aren't afraid to ask tough questions of trans activism.

For example: All the major trans and LGBTQ+ organizations have been led by dependable, fall-in-line Democrats. Has that tream-player, don't-rock-the-boat strategy led to gains or losses for the community recently?

Karen (?) either fanning or hitting Jack (?) with a clipboard, from the show Will & Grace, shouting, "Don't they teach you anything in homo school?"

me when I see yet another queer person saying "we need to be quieter and capitulate more"

as usual, NYT blaming anyone and anything but themselves for barriers facing the trans movement, as they publish a podcast building upon its years of anti-trans reporting *cited in anti-trans law and policy* in spite of industry criticism and pushback

i lost my voice so i'm trying not to talk and for a grade A yapper this is one of the hardest things i've ever done ... i keep telling myself it's like that one episode of hannah montana to cope