Hey look, a blog

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[calicovert]

✨Special Stage Cleared! ✨

aahhhh I was seized by inspiration and spent a whole day actually finishing a piece of artwork!! The palette was just perfect for these two, so you'll have to forgive me for shoving my OC in y'all's faces, I just look for any excuse to draw Warp, hah

[sycamorality]

hi guys! discord is doing a survey on how people would like ai to be integrated into discord. take it and say fuck no to every question. when you get to "in general, how do you feel about discord inegrating ai features?", respond that you would actively get everyone you know off of discord and wouldn't pay for nitro or other shop items if they added ai features.

[modmad]

watch out for the trap! there's ONE QUESTION where the last option *isn't* the max 'no AI' option, read each part carefully to be sure

[strawbebehmod]

Hey instead of just canceling your Paramount plus subscription, put that money you were spending to good use by donating to npr and pbs

Only about $1.60 per tax paying us citizen was being spent on public broadcasting per year.

Donating $1.60 per month would make up for the loss of budget from 12 taxpayers. If you donate your paramount plus subscription of $7.99 you are making up for the money spent on it from 60 tax payers per year!

If you had the 12.99 subscription? You are making up for the loss of budget that would have come from nearly 100 people.

If just ten people do a donation of 12.99 per month, that makes up for the taxes of 900+ people. Imagine if 100 people did monthly donations? And that's JUST if you do 12.99$ a month.

Consider donating.

Support PBS by giving to the PBS Foundation or by donating to your local station.

NPR+ | NPR Network

Hell npr has a special bonus service if you do 8$ a month^^^^

Cancel some subscriptions you don't use and do this instead.

[joudama]

Do not think for a moment that this admin is only going after trans folks. They are ultimately going after the whole LGBTQ community. They start small, like getting rid of a hotline option, then go BIG.

[none-penis-with-left-beef]

sources:

Trvor Project

Rolling Stone

There's an ActionNetwork petition you can sign. Don't let the Trump administration win without a fight.

[daysleftofsecondterm]

Non-Americans can also sign. We need all the help we can get the next 1,307 days

[bogleech]

Genuinely why, what is even their claimed justification

[dogstomp]

Dogstomp #3317 - July 4th

[uesp]

There is a pro-consumer rights movement for gaming right now called Stop Killing Games. It is currently try to pass an initiative to ensure that games that you pay for cannot be rendered completely unplayable after being sold to you, please consider supporting it.

If you are an EU or UK citizen, please consider signing these petitions for your government: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074/ Otherwise, you can learn more here: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

[uesp]

The UK petition has met the minimum signatures needed, and the EU initiative is getting really close! Both will need extra though in case there are any issues with any signatures, so please keep it going and help Stop Killing Games!

If you are an EU or UK citizen, please consider signing these petitions for your government: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074/

Otherwise, you can learn more here: https://stopkillinggames.com

The links are clickable this time hopefully making it even more convenient! Tumblr didn't let this post the first time with clickable links, but it worked for one of the Rebloggers (thank you to everyone for helping to share this!), and sure enough worked the second time.

[fronomeeps]

Stop companies from killing games!!! (EU and UK edition)

Tired of buying a $60 game that stops being functional a year later when big corp decides to pull the plug on its support? Tired of companies being able to brick things you own because they feel like it? Tired of beloved games becoming lost to time?

There is currently an initiative being pushed in both the EU and UK for game companies to be held accountable for keeping at LEAST some version of a game functionable.

The movement is currently in dire straits but has been gaining a ton of traction lately that could bring it back. If you are a resident of either, there's things you can sign to get things moving!!

ROUGHLY ONLY A MONTH LEFT TO SIGN!!! ONLY EU OR UK CITIZENS CAN SIGN!!!

LINK TO EU INITIATIVE

LINK TO UK PETITION

And for more info, you can visit the Stop Killing Games site!!

While this movement only applies to Europe at the moment, it has the momentum to ripple outwards to other countries if we keep it alive and continue pushing back against companies that want to pulp games they don't deem lucrative enough.

If you are unable to sign, consider passing the post around! I doubt anyone WANTS their favorite game to die forever, so if there's enough eyes on the movement we're bound to make progress. Thanks for reading

[orteil42]

if you're in Europe PLEASE consider signing the Stop Destroying Games initiative. the deadline is July 31st 2025. i've posted about it before; it aims to create legislation for publishers to stop killing the games you pay for and to provide an end-of-life plan for live-service products. thank you!!!

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

[catwolfmask]

Petition: Prohibit publishers irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold

The government should update consumer law to prohibit publishers from disabling video games (and related game assets / features) they have a

Uk petition for same thing by same people

[wafflecat2]

For those who don't know or got miss info:

This basicly regulates publishers to make a version for the said games to still be able to play, even if the official servers/online has been shut down.

This does not mean that every game has to be single player games, but make life-service (gacha, mmo or similar things) games still be playable.

[herius-is-drawing]

Happy PRIDE MONTH 🫶🫶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💖

[parsleysaauce]

fish fear him i want him

[canisalbus]

✦ Diplomacy ✦

[everydaylouie]

BIG STEPPER (NEW FUNK ALBUM)

(bandcamp) (spotify) (youtube)

all proceeds on bandcamp to be donated to the immigrant defenders law center and CHIRLA

[ruinedchildhood]

[howthehelldoileave]

I hate that people never include the finished render when posting that. it looks so good it's a shame not to.

[yorozumarugallery]

BLACK CAT

[dreamywolfdd]

huh?

[dreamywolfdd]

i could get on my pc today, so i drew something simple rn, i catched a cold around the end of may, so i spent these past few days watching el eternauta and the usual fav old animation and movies n stuff

i also drew this briefly on procreate even tho i dont use it as much to draw nowadays

bleh

[simkaye]

Happy Pride! Fuck ICE 🌈🔥

[cavegirlpoems]

[tye-wig-music]

Chemical castration for sex offenders to be trialled in 20 prisons - BBC News

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is also exploring whether chemical castration could be made mandatory.

[lowercasenospaces]

This is about the UK specifically.

[cavegirlpoems]

See this? This is the trap. This is how they get you. You appeal to outrage and emotion, you make a bold statement like "sex offenders don't have rights" and whip up that righteous anger, get people all thirsty for blood and punishment, right? And that's their foot in the door. Once you've decided that there's a class of people it's okay to do this to, there's no clean line in the sand anymore, is there? Now chemical castration (or whatever fucked up shit you wanna bring into it) is an option on the table. This is how fascists talk, this is how fascists think, and this is how fascists appeal to you to get what they want. Because once you've given them that inch, they can use it to take a mile.

[beloved-child-of-the-house]

Alan Turing (as in the Turing test) was chemically castrated following a conviction for “homosexual acts” in 1952. He committed suicide as a result.

[dumbbitchawards]

[uselesslyroxy]