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PLEASE LISTEN I BEG YOU GUYS IF YOU LIVE IN THE US DO THIS!!!

More social media bans, censorship, and age gating coming your way! The KIDS Act passed the House yesterday and is now moving on to the Senate, and a bunch of states are working on their own bans in the meantime:

Several U.S. states are pushing to ban young people from social media entirely. This marks the latest wave of censorship bills masquerading

(https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/how-and-why-fight-back-against-social-media-bans)

Several U.S. states are pushing to ban young people from social media entirely. This marks the latest wave of censorship bills masquerading as “children’s online safety” measures, with states like Massachusetts, Idaho, Minnesota, North Carolina, South Carolina, Illinois, and EFF’s home state of California leading the charge.

That is an incomplete list of states that are pushing social media bans, so please take a minute to find out if your state has one of these bills and contact your reps about it.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a centralized resource hub here: https://www.eff.org/issues/age-verification

unbfacts

Seoul uses smart plugs and AI to help keep an eye on people who may be living alone or feeling isolated. The system watches simple daily signs, like electricity use and light levels. If nothing changes for a set time, it alerts a monitoring team, who can call or visit the person to make sure they are safe.

akissmksskka

"social media bans are good for kids! they'll finally start going outside more!!!

the outside? that is experiencing borderline inhabitable weather most times of the year? that has polluted air and water and zero actual safe spaces for kids to hang out without being chased off for loitering?? plus, not everyone wants to be outside 24/7 and not everyone can be outside 24/7. you can whine about how children in the 80s used to spend all of their time outside but you have to realize there's a massive difference in how the world operates today and we can't just go back to it. and if you want your kid to go outside so bad, make them! take their phone! stop giving shitty parents grace by insisting the state should be regulating these things! stop excusing your own bad behavior. stop making excuses to be complicit

"we should fix these issues, THEN ban social media"

still bad. even with a good community where children can disperse, it doesn't excuse surveillance. so many people online are ignorantly in support of these bans without even knowing how they're going to be implemented. id and facial scans. is that not insane? is that not alarming??

everyone and their mother would have rioted against these laws 10 , 14 years ago... in fact they did, and that's why kosa didn't pass a few years back. but now that ai and tech + government overreach are both slowly being normalized, everyone's stupid and thinks the meta ai lobbied child safety bill will actually help people

stuckinapril

do some people know they’ll be inscribed into my heart forever no matter the silence and the distance and most of all no matter the time

thoughtkick

“Sometimes we can’t find the thing that will make us happy, because we can’t let go of the thing that was supposed to.”

— Robert Brault

ninanation

Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people

ninanation

please keep talking about how Becky from Maryland doesn't like the rising gas prices. It's clearly the more pressing issue.

han0225

MORE PEOPLE NEED TO CARE!

This is why we go to climate crisis demonstrations! This is why we stand holding signs! This is why we get PISSED OFF when people give zero fucks about the temperature of our planet!

It's not just animals and plants, it's PEOPLE! Living, breathing people who are DYING because fossil fuel companies, the government and other bodies of people with power DON'T GIVE A SHIT.

Just because your own country isn't 50 degrees- mine isn't, thank FUCK- doesn't mean it isn't happening elsewhere!!

Look beyond your own life and your own country! Look at the world around you!

We should be caring more! Our pragmatic impact as civilians on the crisis is never going to be immense, but we should do what we can and speak up about how much of an absolute EMERGENCY this is!

I would apologise for the caps, but I'm done apologising for being passionate and giving a shit about people who are not my race or nationality.

WE ARE ALL HUMAN BEINGS.

WE ALL DESERVE TO LIVE LONG, HEALTHY LIVES.

People in India and other countries are DYING because of global warming. That isn't just "how it is", that's a heartbreaking disaster 💔

Even if you're privileged (living in England, I know I am and I'm infinitely grateful) be vocal about problems that affect people who aren't so privileged!

Some of these people don't have convenient water in taps- they're having to trek to and from wells in 50 degrees just to have water. There is not one scenario in which that is acceptable in 2026.

I'm keeping this pinned. No way am I letting this get buried. Not until many more people have read and reblogged.

sillyguy-supreme

white americans when you tell them that the idea of climate change as an impending disaster is a reductive first world perspective because it’s a tangible reality for many in the global south already:

thesweetiepienovels

People who recycle and put their trash in their pocket until they find a trash can and people who pick up liter when they see it and people who still cut the six-pack rings so animals don’t get trapped or choke on them and people who move turtles out of the road and people who stop for ducks and geese to cross all have a very special place in my heart. You are so good to this world and earth. I hope you know that.

probablyasocialecologist

Household food bills ‘risk pressure from degraded soil and climate volatility’.

The Save Soil movement said it had estimated that a typical household could potentially end up paying hundreds of pounds more per year. It said that degraded soils are slower to recover, so droughts, heatwaves and floods cause larger yield losses and sharper price swings.

[...]

Praveena Sridhar, chief policy and science officer of Save Soil, said staples such as potatoes, bread and vegetables could be particularly exposed in terms of the pressure on family budgets. “Prices are driven by energy, labour and global markets, but soil decides how hard each shock lands. “Healthy soil holds water through a drought and structure through a flood, so yields hold and prices steady.” Save Soil is calling for a legally binding soil health target, a national soil-monitoring scheme and funding for farmer advice and training.

22 June 2026

dailymanners

When having a conversation with others, be mindful of your assumptions on how you think the other person is going to react to what you'll say. This is especially true for assuming the other person will disagree with you or be offended by what you're trying to say.

The reason it's important to be mindful of these assumptions is because when we assume someone is going to disagree with us or be offended before we even start speaking, we can (even unintentionally / unconsciously) take on a more defensive or even aggressive tone and body language. This can result in making our conversational partner feel put on the defense even if they actually do agree with you, which results in unnecessary conflict.

So say, for example, you're having lunch with a co-worker or classmate, and you want to say that you don't like the new city plan to convert more green spaces in the city into apartment buildings. And for some reason, you just assume that your classmate or co-worker is going to disagree with you, so you put on a defensive or even aggressive tone and body language. You lean forward, you furrow your brows, you sneer back your upper lip a bit, and you stare at them rather intensely while saying this and even add some defensive statements like "and I don't care how much you want those new high rise apartments, this is what I feel and you can't change that!"

Even if your classmate or co-worker agrees with you, your tone and body language is likely to make them feel attacked or threatened, and many people will have a reaction to feeling put on the defense and reacting accordingly. So even if they agree that it's important to protect the city's green spaces, they might react to your defensive/aggressive tone and body language and start saying things like "well what about what this could do for making housing more affordable in the city!" even if they normally wouldn't bring up a point like that if you hadn't been made to feel on the defense.

So if you want to keep your conversations civil and neutral, avoid making your conversation partner feel put on the defense. Remember the old proverb of what "assume"-ing makes of u and me.