Not Even Jupiter Can Find A Lost Opportunity.

I’m a little shy online, but tag me and I’ll see it.

[i-survived-that]

ID: A youtube comment with 11 likes by Niceone, it says "I've lived 46 years without knowing this. How nice of life to save some of the best bites for later." End ID.

Normally, people tend to get frustrated, even jokingly, if they miss out on something. This comment was on a song from 1974 and it made me smile quite much. Simply appreciative. Like a dessert after dinner.

[thethirdromana]

Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.

[queer-crows-nightmare]

[mrmagusjester]

Canadian government proposes restricting social media for kids under 16

The short of it: The newly-proposed bill C-34, the "Safe Social Media Act", aims to ban people under 16 from using any social media site that doesn't adequately prove that it's safe for children to use. It also requires chatbots like ChatGPT to "mitigate the risk of harmful content" — though chatbots will notably not be banned for under-16s (which suggests it might be the big AI money that's partially motivating this movement).

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/safe-social-media-act.html

https://theccf.ca/billc34explained/

Now, this is not inherently a bad idea; I don't have to tell you how dangerous it is for kids to have unrestricted access to the Internet. But we all know where this is going. Whether or not it's a good idea to restrict people under 16 years of age from using social media, in practice this is almost certainly going be enforced either by using an AI-based algorithm to analyze user behavior a la YouTube's age verification system (which is notorious for false positives) or by outright forcing you to upload a scan of your ID (which, to be fair, is strictly illegal as far as I know — for now). This is not speculation — this is what happens time and again whenever a country or jurisdiction implements a policy like this.

Furthermore, censoring so-called "harmful content" is a dangerous attack on freedom of speech. We can't yet be sure that the commission created by this bill won't ban us from simply talking about dangerous topics. Do we want to risk that? And what about the requirement for chatbots to avoid creating harmful content — sure, we shouldn't be using AI anyway, but do we want Google's search summary to get censored if you happen to search something "problematic"?

The bottom line: This is just another attempt by our government to establish further surveillance over all citizens. It's a good idea in principle, but in practice is far too sweeping and invasive.

As always, there are ways we can oppose this right now.

What you can do as a non-Canadian

You can share this post and make your Canadian friends aware of what's going on. Erosion of online privacy is an issue being faced in many countries across the world right now, and we need to stand together to oppose it.

What you can do as a Canadian

You can write to your member of parliament, inform them of your concerns about the bill, and ask them to vote against passing it as it currently stands. You should also write to other important members of the government, such as the Cabinet. In particular, consider writing (politely-worded) emails and/or letters to Marc Miller (who as the Heritage Minister is responsible for online harms legislation), Evan Solomon (the Minister of Digital Innovation), Sean Fraser (the Justice Minister), Mélanie Joly (the Minister of Industry), and of course mister Mark Carney himself.

One hilarious note: As I write this, I can't actually get to the official parl.ca page to view the full legal text of the bill — the website seems to have been inadvertently DDOSed, or at least majorly slowed down, by the sheer number of people trying to access it. That's a good sign, since it shows that this bill is getting widespread attention. Now, I confess that means I am not yet fully informed on this matter. But I will be continuing to educate myself and research what this bill will mean going forward, and I will share important information as it becomes available to me.

I don't yet know of any official petitions against bill C-34, since it's so recent, but I'll post about them when I find them.

As always, have hope my friends. Hope is itself an act of resistance. All things must inevitably end — even the hard times. Even if we lose here and now, laws written by humans can just as easily be un-written by them.

[loveridden1999]

rule of thumb is you do not think about your life on a sunday. that is the devil talking

[demonfoxbunny]

it's really so infuriating to me that the nazis have a reputation nowadays for like. miraculous superweapon designs and shit. because it's like. ever fucking weapon and thing they ever designed was shit. completely inoperable, falling apart, exploding randomly, physics-doesn't-work-like-that bullshit. it's literally just nazi apologism

[demonfoxbunny]

and like the fact that all their shit was garbage isn't unrelated to the nazi ideology. it is in fact directly because of it. they purposefully rejected actual science as jewish abstraction and perversion, and tried to replace it with "aryan science" which was all . fucking empty meaningless garbage. not to mention all the jewish scientists who fled or were killed.

[sabertoothwalrus]

aint it crazy how everyone is famous nowadays and yet I dont know who anyone is. there are countless people that will have more followers on instagram than the population of Sacramento and no one I know irl has ever heard of them

[heartfairy]

I would love to unclench my jaw one day

[minotauri]

sources say there are muscles in the back of my neck. and they want to kill me

[8d2t]

apprentice uniform for brushbuddy too so they dont feel left out

[lunadragongem]

Happy pride! I made brushbuddy pride icons to celebrate. Feel free to use em, just pls credit :D

[naloo-art]

a normal brushbug family

[pocketlad]

I think I once heard Charles Martinet say at a panel, the script for Mario Teaches Typing 2 had Mario telling the player negative things if they failed but he himself changed the lines and instead said things like “That was great, but I know you can do even better” and “That wasn’t as fast as last time..let’s try again” because in his mind he had already decided that he wanted Mario to be always loving

[pocketlad]

I wasn’t expecting this many people to see this, so I’m going to try to dig for some peoples’ panel recordings to confirm if I’m remembering right

[pocketlad]

That didn’t take long, thank goodness!!! I found a recording by Dan8675309 on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9RywNQXCUM (the timestamp is around 20:29)

“When I got the script and I’m in the studio, I’m reading the script, you know, for the first time, there were things like ‘You failed,’ ‘That wasn’t very good,’ ‘That was much worse’ ‘That was bad.’ And I was reading that and I said ‘Can I…do you mind if I just like, play with these words a little bit and just change them around? Because you know…I never say ‘no’ and I never say anything negative as Mario. And the producer graciously said, ‘Sure! Go for it!’ And so, it became ‘Oh! That was good, but I know you can do even better!’ ‘Ooh, nice one but let’s try again!’ So it was always uplifting and always trying to be positive. And I think…that is the essence of the character to me. It’s that love and that joy…and you know, I think that in our world we should all be loving and joyful to each other.”

He went on for much longer than this, and had very sweet and wise things to say. But I’ll leave it off there as this is a post about the Mario part, and it would be getting too long. if you’d like to hear the rest you can check the video out.

[monamoni]

Giant Otter

[homeofhousechickens]

Oh baby fight

[its-a-beautful-day]

See them jousting

[homeofhousechickens]

So cute, I love it!

[red-eye-radio]

So I thought y'all would like this too This great white comes to the jersey shore every year and this year they named her and have been tracking her hella so this is Mary Lee and she decided to show herself under this rainbow for pride month A true gay icon

[victoryyodel]

#This is the representation I’ve been looking for

[nadianotapplicable]

the ancient romans also had the backrooms but they thought it was normal so they didnt write it down

[important-cat-pics]