Niko

20 | he/she | eng/nld | no dni

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Niko. 2005. he/she bigender. aplaroace-spectrum + i like women. UTC+2. i go inactive for sometimes months at a time. in a QPR with Lo ♡. i speak english & dutch. neet ~9 years (possibly changing soon fingers crossed). pro-para, anti-c. profiction.

[⚠️] not in the habit of tagging cw/tw.

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i am going to be rewatching safe (1995) which might be a good idea or a horrible idea considering the Horrors but we shall see

[rozieramati]

scans from rinko kawauchis “utatane” (2001)

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funny thing about the rose boots. my grandparents bought them and at first my grandfather actually wanted to have them and wear them himself but they were too small for him. actually it's a little bit sad he can't wear them because that would be awesome. he lived like he has a stick up his ass for over seventy years and he's finally becoming more of a human being instead of a robot. but on the other hand i'm not too sad about it because now i have cool boots

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anyway does anyone wanna see my emotional support WWII bunker

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need to go here again and just sit inside of it. i think it would be good for me

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had to stop watching iwtv because lestat reminded me too much of my ex girlfriend but maybe i should finish watching it

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been feeling a connection to spiders lately

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thinkingggg about getting a jumping spider or a tarantula. obv first would have to find a good enclosure and read up on how to keep them healthy and stuff. so idk yet if i will actually do it, but ☝️ i'm seriously thinking about it

[minoravirus]

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the first time i heard the phrase “i need that like a hole in the head” it didn’t even occur to me that many people don’t live with passive suicidal ideation at all times so i just assumed it was a way of saying that you really really needed something and i have continued to use it that way ever since

[rosieandthemoon]

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i'm insane about your teeth lol i have been looking at those pictures for a While

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wisdom tooth is not being very wise rn. my teeth are already crowded on the bottom row and this one feels like it's just pressing everything even more together it feels gross and it hurtsss

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just identified a behavioral pattern within myself

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wisdom tooth is not being very wise rn. my teeth are already crowded on the bottom row and this one feels like it's just pressing everything even more together it feels gross and it hurtsss

[moldavite]

hanging from the meat hook all by yourself, handsome?

[theoutcastrogue]

Online Age Verification Law Could Kill Whistleblowing

The KIDS Act, ostensibly aimed at protecting children, will raise the risk for journalists, dissidents, and whistleblowers.

"Democrats and Republicans in Congress have struck a deal on a bill they say will help keep children and teens safe online. The KIDS Act could pass on the House floor as soon as next week; if enacted, it would fundamentally change the way everyone — not just kids — accesses the internet.

At stake is your ability to use many social media platforms without revealing your identity. 

That’s because the KIDS Act at least strongly incentivizes — and, for some services, outright requires — age verification. Many platforms will turn to age verification to avoid potential liability under the law. Companies like X, video-sharing services like Vimeo, and others with a history of users’ populating social feeds with edgy content may be required to verify users’ ages because they host a certain amount of content deemed “sexual material harmful to minors,” a term that the KIDS Act defines broadly. 

That’s a big problem for people who need to be able to use the internet anonymously, since, as Taylor Lorenz has previously written about in The Intercept, “there’s no way to reliably verify someone’s age without verifying who they are.” 

Threats to online anonymity harm everyone, but one group is often overlooked: journalists and the sources who talk to them. Age verification requirements will help the Trump administration carry out its vendetta against the press by creating new avenues to identify journalists’ confidential sources. [...]

Mandating age verification effectively hands Big Tech and the government a skeleton key to the identities of every whistleblower, dissident, and investigative reporter who uses online platforms, not to mention everyone else, including children. This kind of surveillance on steroids that surrenders our right to speak, report, and read the news anonymously won’t make anyone safer."