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[randomperson54321]

FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE - VPNs = Lifesaving LGBTQ+ privacy tool

Happy pride to us all. And especially to any queer femmes out there just trying to exist who, like me, are using a VPN right now.

A quality VPN is a very important tool for privacy. They protect us from malicious scammers on iffy wifi, from what we do online being surveilled by the people and institutions that would do us harm. They hide the location we’re browsing from, so that creeps can’t mess with us at home. In a word, they help keep us safe.

They’re also essential for access to community. They let us dodge censorship and join the online world from the perspective that’s best for us. This means a lot as walls go up around queer digital life in the US, and also to people around the world whose love and identities are criminalized. In a word, they keep us alive.

So what are states like Utah and Michigan trying to do?

Ban them, of course!

At Fight for the Future, we’ve been slapping these lawmakers upside the head: holding a VPN Day of Action1, dragging Utah’s nonsensical law even as they delayed its rollout2, heaping shade on Michigan3, and generally organizing so that there’s an actual resistance to protect these crucial tools.

But we’ve got to be real: nobody’s really been funding this work except our grassroots supporters. And there is a lot more that we need to do.

So, if you can (and like I said, we get that we’re all just trying to exist out here), would you consider becoming a monthly donor to help us keep going on VPN defense?

This pride, we are really hoping to get support from 30 new monthly donors. We already have 6 this month - wanna help get us into double digits? To thank you, you can pick out a special piece of pride merch.

If you’ve got it, you’ve got it. If you don’t, don’t stress. We’ll keep fighting with everything we have!

Wishing you a little too much fun this June,

Lia at Fight for the Future

Footnotes:

TechRadar: https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-want-to-make-some-noise-advocates-are-stepping-in-to-defend-vpns-and-they-need-your-help

Fight for the Future Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYDjrjoPIJa/

Fight for the Future: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-09-26-major-backlash-to-michigan-vpn-ban-bill-as-thousands-call-on-lawmakers-to-defend-vpns/

[pinkyprincessnom]

Rebloging

@d0esery @gentleman-velvet @hannahhook7744 @roxfox5 @youtube-privacy-union

[just-thots]

this is so funny bc on the one hand what the fuck are we doing tumblr. like you cannot be serious you're censoring entirely sfw concepts bc sometimes people ALSO involve it in fetish stuff? but on the other hand. i was in fact searching it in hopes of finding porn so you do have me there technically i can't lie

[hghhhhh-big-boys]

This is how some of yall will end up if you keep liking and reblogging my posts

[dericbindel]

u promise?

🥺👉👈

[antiauspicious]

innuendo aside and immediately brought back later… what machining process is this? grinding, honing,… lapping?

[linguisticparadox]

Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don't know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?

Like this young person didn't even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went "aw yiss time to do a theft" and I was like "I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?"

Anyway I'm gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it's fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.

[ri-writing]

Spreading the news to my followers - if you weren’t aware of this before, here’s the link to Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/

Project Gutenberg is a gigantic collection of books that are in the public domain.  You can read the books through the site or you can download them in various formats so you can get the format you prefer for your eReader of choice.

It is free. 

It is legal.

I was reviewing the list of the top 100 books downloaded yesterday and I saw a fair few that I had to read for college classes - so if you’re a college student and your professor assigns you to read Plato or any number of older works, check here before you buy a copy.

I reread the Anne series several years back - they were free through this.  I need to reread Pride and Prejudice at least once a year, and my e-book version is from this.  Someone recommended Jekyll and Hyde to me a few weeks back and I got a free copy from this.  When I went to Haworth on my last holiday before the plague times, I brought books by the Bronte sisters with me to read or reread that I downloaded from here.  It’s a great resource.

[linguisticparadox]

Yes yes yes! I was honestly so flabbergasted that this young person hadn't heard of the gutenberg project! It's been around for AGES, maybe longer than the kindle has? And it's such a huge project and wonderful resource! It used to be a household name (or maybe that's just my family, thanks to my dad being a cheapskate nerd [affectionate]). I was so glad to be able to share this resource and others with them though, and I wanted to make sure no one else was missing out!

If you look at the first reblog from me I also recommended a few other resources, most of which were from www.archive.org, home of the Wayback Machine! They run openlibrary.org, where you can check out ebooks of some public domain titles! They even have the Bone series by Jeff Smith!

And archive.org itself has all kinds of public domain media including music and movies! For Dracula fans, here's a radio show adaptation of the book, starring Orson Welles! And here's a 1920 movie adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," starring John Barrymore, the grandfather of Drew Barrymore!

I'm so excited to see people falling in love with classic media through Dracula Daily! Let's keep that fire blazing!

[wanderingchaos]

Also, if you can't handle reading things, check out libirvox.org! it's a free audio book project taking public domain works and people doing free audiobooks! there's a lot of great stuff on there, but it takes things in the public domain and makes audio books out of them!

it's a super nice project, and you can find some really nice readers there!

[athenadark]

Also don't think a book is old because it's in the public domain

lots of writers and publishers are prepared to waive future profits for entirely petty reasons

because of this the entire works of Philip K Dick [petty writer who found himself with lots of hangers on during his life] and HP Lovecraft [his publisher - who was his wife and hated him] became public domain on their death

Sherlock Holmes entered public domain this year, it's always worth checking because you can save a fortune

and the more popular the classic - the more likely someone has uploaded it

[the-haiku-bot]

Also don’t think a

book is old because it’s in

the public domain

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[elfwreck]

Want audiobooks instead?

LibriVox has free public domain audiobooks.

Public domain works in the US are:

Anything published (in the US) from 1927 or earlier (this number goes up every year for quite a while), and

Anything published between 1928 and 1963 that wasn't renewed, and

Anything published before 1989 without a proper copyright notice.

(Don't go looking for things in that third category unless you've studied a LOT about copyright law. Mostly that covers things like "weird little newsletters" and "self-published booklets" and sometimes fanzines. But most publications have a copyright notice in them.)

There's also some oddball exemptions here and there; copyright law is a tentacled mess. But those are the basic guidelines. (Except for audio. Audio has its own set of rules. It's weird.) (I mentioned tentacles, did I not? Double the amount of them you were thinking of.)

There are a lot of works from the 50s and early 60s that were not renewed, especially short stories published in magazines.

Project Gutenberg began in 1971; the first text was the US Declaration of Independence, shared through the university computer system. That was the start of "hey computers + public domain text = FREE BOOKS FOR EVERYONE."

[noswordinourlake]

Adding on that Project Gutenberg is not just Eng language texts either! I know specifically about the French texts because I did independent study French lit in high school and all my sources were Project Gutenberg acquired (Candide my beloathed) but there's many open source texts available in a number of languages.

[stevespookington]

browsing the top 100 books downloaded in the last 30 days can be really fun too, interesting to see how things change

https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top#books-last30

[rostekhorn]

Oh man, yeah, young people definitely need to learn this. I read so many public domain things when I was fresh out of college and penniless but still needed entertainment. Just going straight to Wikisource works too:

And yes, Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain. But I got bored with Sherlock Holmes after a few months, and became much more pumped when I discovered his mirror opposite, Arsene Lupin. Because when you're not only young and penniless but living through the Great Recession, what you really want to read about isn't the world's greatest detective solving crimes. It's the world's greatest thief robbing fat cats blind while pantsing the police along the way.

[transtenzin]

not to be maya on side but please do not call someone or something “mayan” when talking about our people, culture, etc. “mayan” refers to our language family (a language FAMILY, in which there are plenty of unique languages). we are the maya, not the mayans. i am maya, not mayan. it is the indigenous maya community, not the indigenous mayan community. 

[transtenzin]

you can reblog this 😔

[dmdog]

It lives in the arcade and leaves sticky little footprints on the linoleum. Naming it Gumble

[patrothestupid]

hobby date

[pmamtraveller]

By Rob Pointon

[filmphotofranz]

source

[zoctopode]

full lesbian robot comic

thats it! all 8 pages! i had a lot of fun drawing this, thank you for everybodys kind words on the preview post.

if you wanna be SUPER COOL you can throw me a few bucks on my patreon B)

[tooies]

the clock app always picks the numbers for you but in calculator the numbers can be anything you want

[antiauspicious]

its pride month so don’t forget that it’s all completely worth it. it’s gonna be okay. please stay here with us. please keep being here. we love you so much. it’s all gonna be okay. someone is going to be willing to understand you one day. someday someone will. you’re gonna miss someone and want to call them and you’ll be so happy that it all means that much to you and that you can. kiss em in public. toss your keys together in the catchall. never give up. please.

[fulda-gap-express]

If I'm elected as your president in 2028 I promise to bring back the Western Interior Seaway.

[fulda-gap-express]

North America peaked with this design and every change since has been worse.

[luidilovins]

[grrrrrrrbarkbarkbark-deactivate]

NONONONO NO. NO. DO YOU WANT ANY OF THIS FUCKING SHIT BACK?

[prof-grace-aspen]

Pretty babies come swim in w ater with big fish water is fine with big fish in come taste interior seaway with big fish

[antiauspicious]

oh hey it’s ichthiosaurus! very happy to see her represented here.

[ravioliet]

never kill yourself. you have to fill your mutuals dash with shit they don't care about forever, okay?

[the-lumpfish-queen]

[simena]

Alejandra Caballero

[antiauspicious]

it’s most likely been said but notifying someone feels like ringing their doorbell but you’ve transported their door to a hallway that you have no business bringing it too but your doing anyway bc you want attention.

[juno-the-great]

I'm bored reblog with random pictures

@small-bottle-of-expired-milk @zanderandtheexistentialcrisis @calcium-is-screaming @waitingonabook @onlypartiallysane @kingofkaumidy5 @femboy-offical +open tags

[femboy-offical]

Okay :D

@tomboy-offical @twink-offical @goober-offical +open tags

[cossachka-offical]

[daedricsheep]

[small-bottle-of-expired-milk]

@laciffo-natas @professional-fool-of-energy @remington-is-awesome @zanderandtheexistentialcrisis

[laciffo-natas]

Open tags :3

[emvss]

tags: @megumismyhusband @riuvy @mnserrat @fushihearts @cosmic-almonds @dreadfulcannotexplainsituations @mapleevan @abbi111 @kenqo @tinysanemi @m0derngrrl @quimichi

[cosmic-almonds]

@h0shi-17 @rainy-matcha @cosmosdystopia

[h0shi-17]

@rainy-matcha @unliterary-nonsense @a-lil-bit-weird @cosmosdystopia @oceanamethyst @ourscarygirl @honeystarberry @scribl + anyone else i missed

[honeystarberry]

@tiramiiun @unliterary-nonsense @maicennie @a-lil-bit-weird @mayowayo @bobcross1010

:P

[a-lil-bit-weird]

@pc-on-a-motorbike @astracaedes @shakusame

+ open tags

[astracaedes]

@skepticalvoidhedgehog @yoonchaes-baby-sister-offical @gay-melanistic-fox-offical + open tags

[aliensatemysocks]

open tags lol

[rainbowkessem]

@ovloppy @sams-hyperfixations @paranormaltheatrekid @hexesandwyrmwood @beth-unico-offical @hypnopompic-decay @not-offical-offical @nothing-special-i-guess @minute-maid-official @rusty-spooooooooon @oliverquary + open tags !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[not-offical-offical]

@gay-cheerios-offical @dnd-character-offical@aethinus @winterinkspill @biohazard-offical @watercooler-offical @the-king-of-beans-offical @garlic-bread-offical @radiation-poisoning-offical @autumnstar06 @perpetuallyconfusedindividual @untitledoffical @sok-offical @rain-offical @heraldofbooksthethird @shenanigan42 @chat-official @prehistoric-chihuahuas @the-cheese-offical @hunger-offical @purplemoon11 @mxtx-offical @unstable-cucumber @spooky-cryptid-friend @the-loonylunie-on-yt @psychotic-wizard-official @i-could-do-stuff2 @shinies-offical @moth-offical @unholyfrogspawn-offical @meme-offical @liminal-space-offical @quiet-girl-offical @hampter-offical @existing-offical@a-clown-offical @yourlocalfandomfriendo @britishteaaa @unshipper-offical @introvert-official @shiny-and-domsticated-dih @42autisticfrogs @sm64-green-toad @8-ball-official @homeschooler-offical @marinebiology-offical @valentine-cadaver @pond-scum-offical @homeschooler-offical @towel-offical @amnesia-offical @crypticgoose3 @pizzapops-offical

[pluto-offical]

@t-offical @no-one-offical @hekate-offical @cool-guy-offical @mike-wheeler-offical @evil-neutral-offical @inflated-ego-offical @horror-movie-offical @holloween-offical

i have so many more mutuals than i remembered :D

[horror-movie-offical]

thanks for the tag >_<

@somesillywriter @rainbowkessem @rawrxp-casper @shoebill-offical @emofuker + open tags

[emofuker]

@an-insane-femboy69 @abaddonmustdie @evan-ashes @riverthesillytherian @izziesroom @fruittriobrainrott @kaihasmoreswagthanyou3 @xiaxiaoo @cheeseballman72 @vintagestarssystem

[evan-ashes]

(This was a curtesy of my bf. He is not trans ftm nor was he born female.)

also for those of you who don’t understand, this is literally just a shitpost meme thread I believe-

@timeforbedwolfstar @too-tired-twink @theslumberingmage @chaoticgaektcat @pookieadriana16 (I was trying so hard to tag your old user before realizing you’d changed it lmao-) @the-bone-eating-vulture @zeldafloof @aribugs + Open tags

[aribugs]

My favorite chain on the internet as of this moment

@itsyaprisonknife @flowersdontgrowl @bloodyglitter6669 @commander-starscream-the-great (+open tags ^^)

[flowersdontgrowl]

i literally only have my own memes on my laptop so take this </3

@krisdreemurrmustdie @feline-of-the-flowers =:3

[replicateddaydreams]

rickenjacker :p

open tags yall

[makeitfast9052]

dont ask

@asmollestgremlin @confusedfroggirl @lightsabersandbluecookies @obsessivebookwormalert @obsess-over-ink-on-dead-trees @printer-reads-505 @catastrophiccblues @thedogbard @the-one-and-only-piper-offical @thecrisisnight + open tags :p

[the-one-and-only-piper-offical]

Open tags

[jellydeprived]

@robotwithadhd, @mimi-b0t, @temp-unit, @days-without-ai-ads-offical, @petaleditor, @thelssiknwthebttr, @zavixel, @wittywonderwolfy, @ddawgthechef2, + open tags

[robotwithadhd]

@roguerinzler @the-bell-lord @applesolutelymac idk who else

moog model d

[applesolutelymac]

@uraniumchips @dr3amerz-f0lly @ghostcrows @hoodzii64 @creepyrutismsimulator @bobinnyy @nu11ify @5t3r30-5lut

[nu11ify]

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[antiauspicious]

this is what falls out of me when i wake up

@sorrelwolf @residentsweatgoblin @dericbindel @dollbit @u-eeee-a @ashyrvir @weed-smoking-girlfriend um @iceybot @virtualgirladvance @steelblue8 @cicero-not-cisero @khymera2000 @241048 @saintbogus @androjeanous and uh idk maybe @honeyscotched @colgreatsushii if ur like even still on here.