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[daytimemin]

KOSA UPDATE 7/10/26: THE SENATE RETURNS FROM BREAK SOON

I got this email from Fight For the Future and it is really helpful in communicating where we currently are in the fight against the KIDS Act and KOSA.

We should be using this time during the Senate's break to be calling, spreading the word, and doing everything we can to push back against these harmful bills. The return from break around July 15th, which is when Cruz said he wanted to consider the bills. So please, call while you can.

Bad Internet Bills

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

[roxierambles]

KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act) has passed the House.

From now until the Senate vote, This period of time is our last chance to stop KOSA.

Upset at Discord and Youtube's age verification policies? If KOSA passes, your alternatives to these sites will be affected too. You would not be able to avoid it, not unless you decide to leave social media entirely, which many people cannot do. You would have to choose between privacy and access to your accounts. All is NOT lost, but our hope relies on calls, petitions, emails. I cannot stress enough how important these next few months are. Every call made in the next few months is for the future of the online world. If you have struggled to find time to make a script, or don't know what to say, use 5 Calls. They give you a script to use while calling. People have also provided other scripts. @daytimemin for example has a document with scripts.

Find your senator here: U.S. Senate: Senators

Everyone is free to tag people, tag fandoms, anyone you think should know about this. This is serious EDIT: Guys I messed up. I accidentally said "Passed the SENATE". It has NOT passed the Senate. It has passed the HOUSE. I'm sorry if I scared you more by saying it passed the Senate.

[void-heart666]

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[franklingravestone]

Go check it out👆

I worked so hard on it

[bff0f7]

so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what

[adamtheredbeard]

The full picture is even more heart breaking after you open the uncropped version. Just a heads-up, it's rough

“The Roman Catholic Parish in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan was just grafitted.”

[afronerdism]

Nah let’s post it. Let’s feel it. Don’t look away.

[doobiebenson]

[butch-bakugo]

I notice alot of my followers on here skipping these posts just to mess with my lgbt ones, suspiciously the white popular ones.

Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.

Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.

Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.

They were CHILDREN.

They were murdered in cold blood.

[churchoftheconfusedchicken]

I’d like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldn’t have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how “great” they were.

Here’s another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didn’t get a picture

People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.

Reblog this or just stop following me

[ifiknewiwouldtellyou]

I had seen the first picture of the church, but not the second.

I went to a “Cancel Canada Day” event and burst into tears - not because I was surprised to learn of the unmarked graves (survivors told us they were there. Our government pushed it aside, and we let them), but because seeing all the people gathered in mourning drove it home: They. Were. Children.

This is my country’s legacy - and it’s not history. The last schools closed during my lifetime. My Father went to school with students who lived at the local residential school, after it was changed to a boarding house (read: holding centre) for indigenous youth who went to local schools.

They were all children, injured, abused, and killed in my country’s attempt to erase them. I want the world to see this and hold the state accountable to *active* reconciliation> I mean we could at least truly adopt UNDRIP in action instead of words for god’s sake.

[gayvampyr]

here you can read an article about a survivor of the church and some of the things he experienced to help put into perspective how awful and just how recent it was

[nothingweirdhere]

this is the memorial at the vancouver art gallery. 215+ pairs of children’s shoes (as well as stuffed toys and flowers) cover the steps…

[waterbugsanonymous]

hi, this is your gentle reminder and PSA: there are ELECTIONS happening in November 4th. PLEASE GO VOTE. Trump is the most unpopular he has ever been, but does that mean your average independent, or republican will vote for a dem this time around-likely no- they probably will just skip the process entirely if they don’t have a candidate they feel strongly about. this is why i’m asking YOU SPECIFICALLY to make sure to go vote. and i don’t wanna hear any doomerism shit about how voting is a waste of time bc of whatever, guys voting is the last of anything we have it is clear most of these people who represent us do not actually care, HOWEVER trump currently has the house, senate and courts and making it even slightly harder to do anything or having a large enough group to speak out against what he’s doing will help hundreds of thousands of people in the US. now more than ever is it important to make sure that they know that we do not stand for this

[thearchaeologicalwitch]

Hey!

THERE ARE FUCKING BALLOT PETITION PROPOSALS ON THE BALLOT THIS YEAR.

THINGS LIKE WEED, CENSORSHIP, VOTING RIGHTS ETC. GIVE A SHIT AND LOOK IT UP ON YOUR STATE'S ELECTIONS/ SECRETARY OF STATE PAGE.

[humming-fly]

Adding onto this to say if you are a California voter MAKE SURE YOU'RE REGISTERED FOR NOV 4TH AND VOTE YES ON PROPOSITION 50!!

Prop 50 introduces a way to counteract Trump's play in Texas and other red states to rig districts to produce more republican house reps, by making it so that if (and only if!) Texas and other states make those moves to redistrict California will counter proportionally with its own districts. It's a short-term play that will expire in 2030 and the state will go back to its usual non-partisan districting, this is purely to make sure we see fair midterm and presidential elections which is as you may infer EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.

This has scared the shit out of republicans in Cali and they are pushing Hard to trick people into voting No by sending out a shitton of mailers seemingly sponsored by groups like 'Vote no on 50' who claim to be pro-democracy but are being funded almost single-handedly by a republican billionare (charles munger jr) whose dropped over 30 mil personally to decry this.

All that to say your vote DOES matter this November and please please make sure you are researching Whatever propositions are on your local ballot to see who actually supports them!!

[humming-fly]

Reminder that today (Monday October 20th!) is the last day to register to vote for the special election in California!*

*If you do miss it you can still register to vote provisionally up until election day November 4th (I think) - my understanding is you just have to go in person vs. being able to register online, so if you want to do it the easy way make sure you do it today!

[depsidase]

[1theneighborhoodcoffeeaddict1]

If you'd like to do something against this, the ACLU is starting a petition to have construction of this ended. Also, they're suing the Trump regime, which might be more practical. There's also the Friends of the Everglades, a smaller group filing a separate lawsuit against the camp on environmental grounds. You can sign the petition or donate to either group and support their actions.

Shut Down "Alligator Alcatraz"

"Alligator Alcatraz" is an environmental and humanitarian disaster. The cruelty must end. Join me in telling Congress to demand access and b

STOP "Alligator Alcatraz"

[hotshotriot]

stop being silly in front of me

[prokopetz]

Pay attention to the particulars of Mastercard's responses, because this a textbook example of how to create plausible deniability.

"Mastercard has not barred any legal transaction" is, technically, a true statement – because Mastercard is not the one processing the transactions in the first place. Mastercard does not deal directly with any merchant, and in fact typically refuses to communicate with merchants at all; there's always a payment processing service sitting in between Mastercard and the merchant, whether that's Stripe or Paypal or any of dozens of other service providers.

Consequently, there are two layers of service agreements in place: the agreement between Mastercard and the payment processing service, and the agreement between the payment processing service and the merchant. That second layer of service agreements, between the payment processing service and the merchant, is where all of these content restrictions are being imposed. Mastercard can thus truthfully claim that they aren't barring legal transactions.

Now, if you've been paying attention, you've probably already spotted the issue: if the content restrictions are being imposed upon the merchants by individual payment processing services and not by Mastercard, why do all of those payment processing services seem to have exactly the same content restrictions?

That's where the critical sleight of hand comes in: while Mastercard's own terms of service do not require payment processing services to bar transactions of particular types, their ToS does require payment processors to bar transactions which could be damaging to the Mastercard brand. What constitutes damage to the Mastercard brand is not defined; it means whatever Mastercard wants it to mean. The payment processing services are thus in a position where they can be held in breach of Mastercard's terms of service for basically any reason, which gives them a strong incentive not to test any boundaries.

And that's why Mastercard can truthfully say they have never barred any legal transaction: they're never the ones doing the blocking. The layer of payment processing services that sits between Mastercard and the merchants are enforcing those content restrictions, based on a series of unwritten handshake agreements between the payment processors and Mastercard regarding what does and does not constitute acceptable content – and because the particulars of those handshake agreements aren't in writing, Mastercard can assert that their terms of service do not compel payment processing services to bar any legal transaction and technically be telling the truth.

[prokopetz]

(This is also why payment processors like CCBill that specialise in adult services can exist, incidentally. Since it's all off the books, specialist adult-services payment processors can have their own special arrangements with companies like Mastercard while still technically being under the same terms of service as everyone else.)

[prettyarbitrary]

Valve just issued a public rebuttal to the press calling Mastercard out directly on their lies: Valve says payment processors specifically cited a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand

"Mastercard did not communicate with Valve directly, despite our request to do so," a Valve representative said. "Mastercard communicated with payment processors and their acquiring banks. Payment processors communicated this with Valve, and we replied by outlining Steam’s policy since 2018 of attempting to distribute games that are legal for distribution.

"Payment processors rejected this, and specifically cited Mastercard’s Rule 5.12.7 and risk to the Mastercard brand."

[elfive]

Kind of ironic how much damage pulling this shit is doing to their brand.

[prokopetz]

Not really, no; it was never about protecting the brand, and it's naïve to believe that it was. Mastercard's terms of service for payment processors invoke brand protection because whether or not a given transaction is damaging to the brand is subjective. Having a "no damaging the brand" policy furnishes a pretext for Mastercard to claim that any transaction they please has violated their terms of service with the payment processor in question, and it's essentially impossible for the offending payment processor to prove otherwise.

[gaylor-moon]

Welp.

[secondbeatsongs]

Hey, real talk though? If you're in the USA, right now you need to call your representatives. 11.8 million people could lose health insurance because of this, as well as a lot of other shit going down, so speak up.

Go to 5calls.org, put in your location, and make the calls. Do it after business hours if you're worried about actually to a person, but do it.

We're running out of chances with this, please please do this now, while it's still possible to stop this.

[partlysmith]

Due to the amendments made, this is going back to the House to be voted on again, so yes, you should still call them.

I'm not great at talking to people, and I can't express enough just how easy 5calls makes this process. The longest call I've had with them took 3 minutes. That's it.

[bituingalaxy]

🫁🧠🫀 ”And I wept” 🥩🍖🍔

[barginbel]

This is definitely a hyperfixation now….worth it.

[barginbel]

new hyperfixation has touched the beacon, you all know what that means, combining it with PO of course

✨🥕✨

please go check out Radioactive Chicken Heads please please please

[zombinary]

go check out secrets to success with dr brain on itchio ok?

[bituingalaxy]

Omg hi sir omg hi sir

[doobledabbadoo]

idk chat should we let him in?…

[spartanlocke]

I left tumblr but I guess I might be coming back soon for real time since apparently Elon's bots ARE POSTING ACTUAL, REAL LIFE CP AND CSA NOW.

I'm not even fucking joking. There are dozens of people in the replies and QRTs saying the same thing: the "PUSSY IN BIO" bots pots posted actual CP on their tweets.

IF YOU USE TWITTER, DO NOT HAVE AUTO-RECORDING ON, DO NOT STREAM AND MAKE SURE YOUR CACHES ARE CLEAN, POSSESSION OF CP - EVEN ACCIDENTAL - IS ILLEGAL. IF YOU SEE A TWEET HIDDEN FOR SPAM, DO NOT OPEN IT. I'm lucky to not have run into any CP/CSA footage myself yet, but I'm going to be extremely careful and I recommend you all be too. And if you DO happen to run into it, you can use websites like https://tips.fbi.gov/home. report.cybertip.org or iwf.org.uk/en/uk-report/ to report it.

Don't bother reporting it to twitter. Elon's already been exposed for restoring the account of a man who posted real CP. He won't care. He's a demon and twitter has become exactly the way he wants it.

Stay safe and pray for Elon Musk's downfall.

[dogdisorder-deactivated20241208]

Need to throw a correction out. You cannot be charged for accidentally viewing illegal content like cp. Only possession aka downloading it onto your pc/phone is a crime. Webcache does not count. Please dont fear monger