digiacom

aka melek, or just Lionel. Happiness engineer, once-professional tarot reader, highly unprofessional artist, T1 diabetic, lifetime human being.

[digiacom]

A better kind of boring

In science fiction, we easily imagine AI technology being used under the hood manage massive starships and make the impossible possible – in

[digiacom]

THREE illegal murders by ICE since new year's eve.

Keith Porter Jr., 43, Los Angeles. Father of two.

Renée Nicole Good, 37, Minneapolis. Poet and mother of three.

Alex Pretti, 37, Minneapolis. ICU nurse at a VA hospital.

And if they are murdering US citizens in the street without accountability, I can only imagine what horrors are occurring to our immigrant neighbors.

They are killing us.

[reading-writing-revolution]

[amaiguri]

I made this video on worldbuilding for games because I think a lot people who aren't designers don't know a lot about worldbuilding for games. Specifically, how to worldbuild for the gameplay. And the gameplay is the most important part of a game, as it turns out.

"Oh, Amai, then why does the gameplay in All the Promised Burn suck ass?"

AHHHHHH SHADDUP I DON'T KNOW I'M JUST LAZY OKAY!!??!?!? ASFJKLAGJjal

[afloweroutofstone]

Documenting the Damage: 100 Harmful Policies from the First 100 Days of Trump's Second Term

The second Trump administration has had the busiest first 100 days of any US presidency in nearly a century. Since January, I've been keeping a spreadsheet documenting 900+ policy changes and political developments. I then bundled many of the most important changes into 100 topics areas and wrote a summary of each of them, providing a semi-comprehensive account of the tremendous changes to US politics which have occurred.

PDF version of the full report

Website version of the full report

Medium versions:

Introduction + Part I: Democracy and Government

Part II: Civil Rights and Liberties

Part III: Economy and Public Services 

Part IV: Environment and Energy

Part V + Conclusion: Foreign Policy

[ms-demeanor]

Folks, this is an incredible piece of journalism reflecting a tremendous amount of research, effort, and thought.

It's completely free, brilliantly made, and I am incredulous that it had been so narrowly shared on Tumblr.

I am in awe of what Brett has done here. Please click through and read at least some of this because I think people are really missing out on what an incredible tool this is.

It's a quick reference, it's an archive (it's SO rich in sources and references), it's an explainer, and it is a point-by-point means of de-normalizing the trump administration to anyone in your life who thinks things aren't that bad.

[ms-demeanor]

Part of what both trump admins have done, and that the second one has been very, very successful at, is running a shock and awe campaign of things that are so overwhelming and awful that people check out because they can't maintain attention for the continual hammering of information. What Brett has done here is an absurd feat of attention, keeping on top of the tidal wave and breaking it down so that we can see the actions of the administration in plain black and white without the feeling of being pummeled by increasingly panicked news stories.

There are a ton of things to panic about, to take immediate action about, to be outraged about - you shouldn't feel guilty about missing an HHS rule change while you're protesting ICE or having your gender erased - but part of why this document is so impressive is that it DID keep track of those changes and rollbacks that are blips in the news cycle, and it did so pretty much in real time. The fact that it was completed so soon after the first 100 days is staggering, and it's so incredibly useful to have this as a reference NOW instead of as a retrospective five years after the fact.

Really. Seriously. This is so fantastic. Please take a look at it.

It's not comforting, it IS alarming, and it is nonetheless one of the most approachable and motivating in-depth pieces of political journalism I've ever seen.

[997]

🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨

Sign the Petition

Defend the Internet Archive

[997]

[celestialrunes]

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YOUR DONATIONS ON CHANGE.ORG DO NOT GO TO THE SUBJECT OF THE CAMPAIGN

That means that when you donate, it goes to change.org. Now, this isn't useless — it does mean that the petition gets boosted. However, you're pretty much doing the same thing by reblogging. I am concerned about people donating something like $40 dollars since I'm not sure if they realize it doesn't contribute to the legal fund or not.

If you want to donate to the internet archive's legal fund (and help with operation costs), then you can click here to go their donation page

[callmearcturus]

I saw this without that last bit before. READ THAT LAST BIT.

[engineer-gunzelpunk]

Can I have everyone’s attention please? Especially Australians

Sign Petition EN7163 - Asylum for Gender and Sexual Minorities from the United States

There is a petition imploring the Australian government to take in LGBTQIA+ refugees from the USA. Given the rapidly worsening political situation over there, I want to at least give this a go. I don’t have any illusions that it will get through to the people that need to see it but I want to try anyway.

The petition closes in 8 days; if you aren’t Australian, please do me a solid and pass this around. Reblog this if you can. Thank you.

e-petitions

e-petitions

[engineer-gunzelpunk]

@official-auspol, @derinthescarletpescatarian, @lexidius, @passerkirbius, normally I wouldn’t tag individuals but the Aus tumblr community is small. Could you please be so kind as to pass this around to other Aussies on tumblr?

Thank you.

[lexidius]

PLEASE REBLOG THIS!!! This would allow not only my partner but many other friends of mine the liferope they desperately need.

@changelingsandothernonsense @ryttu3k @mindscapej @opalrhea @justcasth1ngs @industrial-tools-and-screaming

tagging for visibility @stormbornwitch @batshit-auspol @theauspolchronicles @chaser @unteriors @virtualgirladvance

[espanolbot2]

Trump Wants Snitches to Report on DEI. There’s Just One Problem.

Donald Trump wants people to expose diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in the federal government. The idea is already flopping.

The threat was loud and clear: Report your so-called “DEI” employees or else. What exactly “DEIA or similar ideologies” means is up in the air, but the message was out there. And so was the email address of the DEIA snitching hotline. Fake emails quickly started to roll in. ‘I don’t care, fuck these McCarthyite bastards,” one BlueSky user said, with an screenshot attached of an email to the hotline where he ironically reported Donald Trump and JD Vance for being “put in their positions solely because of their race and/or gender despite the fact that they are wholly unqualified for their jobs and, in some cases, have criminal records.” “Anyone have a script to fire off a billion e-mails an hour??” another user asked in the replies. “Anyone can email anything of any size even if it crashes the site,” one X user noted. The scope and effectiveness of this latest phase of Trump’s anti-DEI crusade remains to be seen.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

FLOOD THIS :D

MAKE IT UTTERLY UNUSABLE :D

[genderaffirmingslurs]

The email is [email protected] btw

[theygender]

Don't just spam it today. Keep spamming it until they shut it down. Spam it for weeks, months, however long it takes. Queue this post to reblog periodically to remind other people. Set reminders on your phone or calendar to send Trump bullshit. Treat this like a challenge and win it

Don't let the momentum die down. Don't allow the tipline to become useable in a few weeks when this post stops spreading. Don't allow them to harm vulnerable people on your watch

[shopwitchvamp]

Just wanted to share some shockingly good news in these difficult times. The full article is really worth reading. [Find it here]

[pompompurin-futch]

important reminder (esp to those in liberal states) to never doubt the power of queer folks in red states to get 👏 shit 👏 done 👏

[bogleech]

This also goes to show that, yes, it is in fact productive to argue your case. It isn't a waste of time to reason with your opposition. It may never upend their entire worldview but it can change the course of their moral choices.

[quasi-normalcy]

(x)

[quasi-normalcy]

Controversial opinion: If they're not going to turn out to town halls, you need to turn out to their homes and offices.

[jv]

It's called "escrache", and the Argentinians invented it: you just organise demonstrations, noisy ones, lengthy ones, in front of the private residences of politicians.

[tobiasdrake]

Oh, they are way too late to stop viral backlash from circulating online. It has already begun.

But also yes. Demonstrate at their homes. Demonstrate at their offices. If you see one of them at Denny's, go start shit. And then circulate that online. Republican Congresspeople should know no peace as long as the legislative branch is abdicating its responsibilities.

That also goes for any Democrats who aren't committed to resisting this administration. I shouldn't have to say that but I do.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[findingfeather]

I absolutely fucking hate this. Gold star, no notes.

[maichan808]

Feb 4, 2025 - Thousands of Los Angeles high school students walked out of class and marched on the city capitol in third straight day of Anti-ICE protests. (Source)

PROTESTS ARE HAPPENING. THEY ARE JUST NOT BEING COVERED OUTSIDE OF LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS. DO NOT RELY ON MAINSTREAM MEDIA.

There was a huge Trans-rights demonstration last night in New York outside of NYU Langone hospital in protest of their decision to halt gender-affirming care under Trump's order. (Source)

[theprofessional-amateur]

For no reason here is a library story

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

[eskiworks]

Please understand what is happening right now. An illegal unsanctioned organization (DOGE) headed by a foreign Nazi billionaire (Elon Musk) is actively raiding and sabotaging the federal government.

[proleposting]

[bogleech]

Responses on my post about this are all over the map, but it looks like most people who create art do so just out of a need to create art, even though they find the actual steps and process to be totally unfun or even annoying to do.

It appeared from notes to be a bit rarer that people draw or write out of loving the work process itself. Lets find out!

which describes you when you make art?

It's difficult or unfun to do the work but the final creation is what matters

I do it because the process is fun, the final outcome isn't important

I love both the entire process and the result

Other

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Voting ended onJan 13, 2025

[thepollspace]

what was the FIRST social media platform you’ve ever made an account on?

instagram

tiktok

facebook

tumblr

twitter/x

discord

snapchat

youtube*

wattpad/ao3

a social media that no longer exists

a social media platform not listed here (elaborate)

multiple of these at the same time

Voting ended onDec 18, 2024

*for our purposes, a youtube account only counts if you’ve used it to post videos.

reblog for reach/bigger sample size!!

[commodore-64]

sms.at LOL, also forums, literally none of the platforms listed here existed when i started using the internet lmfao

[eskiworks]

Livejournal was my first social media site technically. I had access to forums before that, but didn't use them. I liked the ability to long-form scream into the void, and the communities that sprang up there!

[digiacom]

Livejournal, my oh my what a drama factory that was