[catcrumb]

( consider donating to the gofundme for the family of adriana smith. she was taken off life support one year ago today. may she rest in peace, and i hope her family receives the support they so desperately need for the heartbreak and medical bills they've been unjustly forced to bear. )

[catcrumb]

( hi everyone! it's that time of year again... expect me back sometime in august! in the meantime, consider donating to direct relief for earthquake recovery in venezuala! )

[void-flesh]

For Juneteenth consider donating to the The National Bail Fund Network.

[monstrous-femme]

as a regular donor to Gaza Soup Kitchen I get their email updates, and they said today that while they've continued to be able to expand, donations are slowing down as Gaza gets less coverage. If you have a few dollars to spare, I encourage you to send them here to continue the amazing work that Hani and his team are doing.

[what-even-is-thiss]

There’s at least a little good news

[wizard-laundry]

The KIDS act (which contains KOSA) passed the US house, so I would recommend calling your senators and telling them to vote in opposition. I don't think I need to stress the importance of being able to use the internet freely and without privacy barriers being breached.

There are many scripts online you can follow, many ways to tweak your message to fit your senator (ESPECIALLY if they are up for reelection this year). Whether it's a recording you reach or a real person, be straightforward, don't argue, just let your rep know that you are a constituent and you oppose the KIDS act, etc.

Here is where you can search for your senator... call, email, fax, bring them physical letters, show up in person to their offices if you are able.

[mimeparadox]

Note, because searching congress.gov for "KIDS Act" brings up several bills introduced this session: the one you're seeking to oppose is H.R. 7757, and its full name is the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act.

[titleknown]

Trump Moves to Deeply Censor the Entire Internet

The Trump administration is cynically exploiting calls for stricter AI regulation to pass broad censorship measures at the federal level.

So, in terrible news, Trump's trying to pull some strings to pass this massive internet censorship bill, featuring all the kinds of internet censorship we're terrified of, including mandatory ID for accessing basically any website, specifically to crush state regulation of AI, because apparently this man will always see the moral bottom of the barrel and start digging.

So, if you live in the US and hate censorship and AI you know what to do, contact your congresspeople and tell them do not fucking dare let this through or so help us god...

[kosher-salt]

More direct source of concern

URGENT: We’re one bad D.C. deal away from the era of online government censorship.

Congress and the White House are negotiating your online speech rights away. Tell lawmakers: reject KOSA, NO FAKES, and age-verification man

[rfpreiwaphase]

5calls has NOT updated to reflect this

6/14/2026

Bad Internet Bills

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

Call now. Call often. Get your Americans on the horn. 📞 Every time you call, 🐨 will hug you

[gaywitchybitch]

For any Black Trans/LGBT+ who needs some help!! ❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤

[sharkcloset]

THATS MY BESTIE!! Ery is amazing and i can 100% vouch for them/their services! They were a long time user on here before the fucking cops (tumblr admin) nuked their account in the Black blogger purge. Definitely reach out to Ery if you need help!!

[luntfontanne]

i just think more fictional women especially those who have been forced into marriage and forced to bear multiple children that they never wanted as teenagers should openly revel in abortion like this is exactly what i've been talking about genuinely it's not enough for fictional women to be ostensibly placidly pro-choice but ultimately still have their own baby in the end despite the absolute most horrific external circumstances imaginable because it's different when you're a Good Guy in the story or something and everyone knows the good guy feels tormented about it but ultimately Chooses to keep the baby or whatever idk like we gotta write women who unapologetically love abortion and HAVE abortions and feel freed and saved by those abortions because it is genuinely a joyous and miraculous thing. abortion is not a horrific last resort worst case scenario and people need to stop treating it as such because by FAR the worst case scenario is being unable to get an abortion and forced to carry a pregnancy to term that you either don't want or like physically materially cannot survive. anyways.

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

[junequeer]

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

[sztupy]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking go

[made-in-manetheren]

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

[reasonsforhope]

Additional source and more details below. Absolutely thrilled to say that this is real. And yeah, it's huge.

For all the reasons above AND ALSO because this particular lawsuit is a defamation case

Privacy lawsuits are hard because most privacy laws are super super weak, and there's very rarely a lot of money or enforcement backing privacy laws for...twenty million reasons, really...

But defamation suits? Those have teeth.

(In large part because, at least in some countries and including in the US, defamation laws protect public figures the least - and "public figures" legally includes most if not all politicians, and a hell of a lot of other rich ppl too)

A Munich court ruled Google's AI Overviews are its own words, making it liable for false claims, a decision that, if it holds, could reach e

A German court has ruled that Google can be held directly liable for false claims made by its AI Overviews, a decision that could put a serious legal dent in the whole “the AI made me do it” defense. According to The Next Web, the Regional Court of Munich issued a temporary injunction after Google’s AI Overviews wrongly tied two Munich publishers to scams, subscription traps, and dubious business practices. The court treated those AI-generated summaries as Google’s own statements, not just ordinary search results pointing to third-party pages. That distinction matters. Search engines have traditionally had more protection because they index and link to other people’s content. AI Overviews changes the machinery. Google is not just showing the web anymore. It is summarizing it, rewriting it, and sometimes apparently hallucinating a tiny legal grenade into the results page.

-via Search Engine World, June 10, 2026

[cryptenby]

second verse same as the first: i’m so hungry 🥲 i’m asking before i get to the part where it’s painful, so if you have literally anything to spare, please consider sharing it with me & my wife. we finally moved to safer housing but we’re still looking for work and starving in the meantime. gig work just isn’t cutting it where we are now. please.

vnmo & cash: torkz428

pypl: torkz

[cryptenby]

thank you so much for sharing, i no longer get any movement without help 😭 i’ve gotten some really helpful donations, & we will be able to eat tonight. i would love it if we could eat tomorrow & maybe get our meds too. pls continue sharing!!!

[closet-keys]

“The CDC statistic, which is an under-reported statistic, says that 1 in 5 children are raped or sexually assaulted by the age of 18. The thing is, there’s a study by the American Academy of Pediatrics that was published in 2012 that says that gender nonconforming children, and I really hope you hear this point, especially those male assigned at birth–so we can picture who these children are: effeminate boys, trans girls, nonbinary people who were male assigned at birth–they are actually the most at risk.”

—

Amita Swadhin, “Stories Become Movements, Become Stories: Ending Sexual and Gender-based Violence" Allied Media Conference, 2018

[link to cited study]

[downsouthdyke]

*pic for attention*

I need help bad. Idk what to say. I just im not sure if I want to keep trying. It feels like it all amounts to nothing. Im canceling dr appts bc I cant afford them. Im off my medications bc I cant afford them. I have until the 11th to save my car. My power will be off the 13th. I need food. Im exhausted. I just dont know how to keep going when for years I have tried and tried and done nothing but got sicker and sicker and therefore poorer and poorer. I don't think ive reached goal in months, years actually so i just keep drowning more. Im so tired. It feels like noone gives a fuck abt black women, abt poor women, abt disabled women, abt gay women, abt trans women. Feels like my and my wife's existence is just a joke to the universe.

If u are able to help me I'll put my paylinks and home needs wishlist below:

zlle: [email protected]

cshapp: $sailorsylvie

vnmo: Serena-Manning

pypal: [email protected]

Kofi

Home Needs Wishlist

My website where I sell handmade Press-On Nails

Thanks y'all, hopefully it all turns around. For all of us.

[downsouthdyke]

I have until tomorrow for my car. Im at $411/1338. Please keep sharing if u can!!!

[downsouthdyke]

I HAVE TODAY!!!!!

[downsouthdyke]

Even tho I got my car back i am still tryna reach goal for everything else! Sorry I disappeared one of my cats passed and I've been either at work or at home being an emotional wreck! Thank y'all so much!

[red-berin]

Kyle Gordon's back

[athenagray]

“So... We got the exploding diarrhea. Here's my advice for anyone who doesn't have it yet:

It's going to take a minute for the government to pin down where this is coming from, and then issue a recall, because the FDA has been gutted. But, I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt : this is coming from Taylor Farms produce, and you will see them recalled.

You'll want to avoid all Taylor Farms produce in the grocery store. They supply McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut, about any fast food place you can think of.

Raspberries, watermelons, cilantro, and the veggies you're hearing about are not causing this many people to get sick. It's the shredded lettuce, specifically, that's the problem. But, you'll want to stay away from every type of produce this company puts out, because one strand of shredded lettuce is all it takes to contaminate bushels.

Taylor Farms is the source. Taco Bell proactively pulled their produce from their restaurants. You're going to see other fast food places doing this, and probably will see that before the government names a source. The FDA knows this, but they can't come out and tell us all until there's proof, which takes resources and research, which takes manpower, but the FDA has been cut by about 20-30%

During the Biden term, onions at McDonald's had ecoli. We knew this because DNA testing was done quickly and they were able to narrow it down to one place that caused the outbreak. And, it was traced back to Taylor Farms. This isn't going to be solved as quickly though.

When you get this, make a virtual appointment to your PCP - a "same day sick" appointment. Tell them someone in your family just tested for this and was positive and was prescribed Bactrim. If you go in person, they're probably going to make you poop in a cup and wait until results come back to prescribe.

You'll know when you get this. Trust me on all of this.

You'll want to stay hydrated because this parasite damages the lining of the small intestine. Your small intestine, in turn, secretes more water into the gut, and less nutrients and liquid are able to remain in the body. So no matter how much you shit, you're going to want to drink. A day of this leads to dehydration if you don't increase your fluid intake, and a few days will land you in the hospital.

If you have headaches, weakness, muscle cramps, dizziness, or an increase heart rate - hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Go to the ER for fluids if you can't drink enough.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk. Brought to you by America's 250 birthday celebrations, workforce reduction in the FDA and CDC, and viewers like you.

Please feel free to share this.

And, MAGA - don't blow up the comment section. I argued with y'all on COVID bc I was afraid y'all would die, but I really don't care if you get explosive diarrhea.

And no, ivermectin will not help this at all.”

[probuccalfat]

when will the terfs realize that even if every trans woman and tgirl fell off the face of the earth like somehow got thanos snapped out of existence tomorrow, it wouldn’t get us any closer to solving/eradicating misogyny like it would still be there… because it isn’t caused or furthered by trans women and girls

[swisssjeeez]

When will TRAs realize that transwomen do in fact reinforce misogyny by erasing women as a legal sex class and dismantling our rights to single sex accommodations and violating our boundaries and tying “womanhood” to misogynistic stereotypes and are generally extremely misogynistic themselves and that even so, not a single “terf” thinks they should be eradicated or thinks that they are the “cause” of misogyny.

[1980re1]

ah yes trans women will single handedly and infamously erase women as a legal sex class. whatever that means. as if anyone is actually doing that. as if it isn't the men in power who are sabotaging and taking women's rights away...

[probuccalfat]

as we know, trans women just have so much spare time and energy to dismantle women as a legal sex class after dealing with exponentially higher rates of sexual and physical violence, fatal hate crimes, public harassment. so they make a hobby out of dismantling women as a legal sex class in the comfort of a warm home, you know, that they managed to get despite a higher risk/rate of unemployment and homelessness due to workplace discrimination. they just have lots n lots of time, energy, money, and power—unlike right wing politicians.