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Here the links to my socials! (probably should have done this sooner aaaa)
My youtube account: Link!
My kick account: Linky!
My twitter account: Bleh.
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My VOD YT channel!(Idk how to add channels to the channels tab help): Linky-poo!
I will be adding my links as I need too!
ā¼ļøCALL YOUR SENATORS TO OPPOSE THESE BILLSā¼ļø
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
A Congress.gov resource providing links to legislative information for the U.S. states and territories.
Various federal and state bills have been introduced to require age verification for internet platforms. While these billsā purported purpos
if you want to experience life more deeply you have to find more beauty. stop training yourself to dismiss, to mock, to assume the worst all the time ā when you do this you build walls between yourself and the world. and after a while you stop feeling the warmth of it entirely.
beauty requires openness. it asks you to let things reach you, to soften enough to be moved. itās not naive to see beauty everywhereāitās a skill, a form of intelligence, a kind of quiet bravery. because it is so much easier to critique than to create, to detach than to engage, to dismiss than to love.
let yourself be affected. let yourself find things beautiful and let that be enough. life is not asking you to be cool, sitting on the sidelines and nitpicking everything. itās asking you to see life and experience it fully.
KIDS act package will be voted on in the house on Monday at the earliest:
CALL, FAX, EMAIL, & WRITE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOUR REPRESENTATIVES NOW AND DO NOT STOP.
It passed the House. You need to call your senators.
as expected, the kids act has passed the house under suspension, 267-117. i get that this is scary, i am scared, but no doomerism. we have time. unless the house version is changed (adding in duty of care), which it will be very unlikely to as it risks losing bipartisan support and raises major concerns about free speech and liability concerns from platforms, this will be a huge fight in the senate.
if the senate changes the bill to include duty of care, it has to be re-voted on within the house. the house passing this with the duty of care included is very unlikely, as they do not want duty of care. the senate passing the version without duty of care is also very unlikely, as major cosponsors and senators have called the house version, "dead on arrival" without it. this has been the fight forever. this will take time, it's not something that's just going to happen overnight.
call your senators, call your representatives, fax them, email them, sign petitions, spread the word, and do not stop fighting. take care of yourselves and rest today. we got this. no doomerism.
Reminder to all my US followers CALL AND DEMAND YOUR representative to oppose KOSA/KIDS act and make sure to call consistently if you can! I just called and it was a super simple process that takes less then a minute!
5calls is a good resource!
I have the link! Here you go: https://5calls.org/
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.
šŗšøāļøWhat amendments in the US constitution does age verfication violate?āļøš
This post will also be educational for people in and out of the US, so stay tuned!
I got inspired to make this because @flare4688 told me that Nebraska blocked age verfication on the First Amendment grounds. A few other states have done this, too.
So that leaves the question:
What amendments does age verfication violate?
- The First Amendment (Free Speech and Expression
ā The First Amendment protects your right to speak and to read or watch information. If age verfication is put in place that blocks all of that for everyone.
- Fourth Amendment (Unreasonable Search and Seizure)
ā The Fourth Amendment protects you from unreasonable searches and seizures. This amendment is violated when age verification requires handing over sensitive data.
- Fourteenth Amendment (Equal Protection and Due Process)
ā The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship, protects against state violations of civil liberties via the "Due Process Clause" and requires states to provide equal protection under the law for all individuals.
ā It also requires laws to clearly state what conduct is prohibited. Some courts have found that some age verification is unconstitutionally vague, which it is. That is why the US is having problems with kosa/kids act/other age verfication laws in the US. because they do not clearly explain exactly how platforms must comply or what data they must collect.
If they put age verfication in place, they are violating the amendments. The US is no longer a place of democracy, freedom, and laws when the government keeps breaking it all!
āļøāļøCALL THESE PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT OUT! STAND UP AGAINST THEM! āļøāļø
(Thank you, @flare4688 , for inspiring me to make this :) šš)
im not really trying to be funny here i genuinely have never wanted context for something more in my life than this video. i mean ive always figured its just one of those weird for the sake of weird kind of things. but regardless the logistics of this whole setup are what intrigue me. what is this body of green water? a koi pond? the lighting reminds me of a hospital room or something. is the room flooded? it doesnt really look that way, but its possible. why are there apples and balls in it? but why is it also in a room? i cant tell if theres light eminating from the water or if its just such an intense shade of green it gives the illusion. is the bed affixed to the wall and suspended over the water or what? how did the bed even get there if its not a flooded bedroom? i only just noticed the water bottle tied to the bar as well. how does he manage to act relatively unbothered by a massive branch hitting him in the neck. and the watermelon just speaks for itself. im not expecting an answer i just need you to know these are the kinds of things i ask myself for 20 minutes each time its brought back to my attention
So I just simultaneously did, and possibly didn't lose my job today :)
Very much did in the sense that I literally do not know where my job is at the moment. But, for the time being I haven't been let go because nobody else including the store owner knows where it is either.
So, I don't wanna risk doxxing myself by posting pictures but goddamn am I tempted because this is not a believable event. This is a cartoon problem. For looneytoons.
But yeah, so, I work(ed?) at a kiosk selling boba tea, right? Freestanding kiosk in the mall with full water and electrical hookups and multiple fridges and sinks and a mini kitchen and the works. Fully functional tea shop. Very important to note that it was there last night, The work chat was discussing another issue last night at closing time. I'll get back to this.
It's been showing signs of being on the way out with how business is being handled lately and I've been considering other options, which is probably why I'm not as torn up about this as I should be, but maybe it just hasn't set in yet, but that's not the point. The point is there's been a lot of shit breaking and not being replaced and nobody mentioning anything about it until I walk into work in the morning and have to figure out why shit like the fucking cash register isn't there today. So I'm kinda used to having to ask questions about big things that nobody bothered to update me on. I was out for two weeks recovering from a surgery, so I came to work this morning assuming there'd be some kind of bullshit, yeah?
So, the question I had to ask the chat this morning was:
Not a text I ever thought I'd have to send in sincerity, but there it is. Because what I found instead was a fenced off patch of discolored tiles and a few holes in the floor where my entire place of employment used to be.
And the answer? Nobody knows! It was there last night when the mall closed, and every single trace of the structure and all its contents including drink making supplies and our safe and cashbox was gone when it opened again. And when I say nobody knows, I mean everyone from last night's closers to the actual (former?) owner of the store jad no fucking clue about this until getting that text from me this morning. For once I am actually the first to know. š.
So. I guess I didn't so much lose my job as had it stolen. Not by AI, but good old fashioned hands-on human beings picking it up and carrying it away somehow. All mall security would tell me was that they were instructed not to tell me anything and have us contact our management. Who also don't know anything. And later on I came across some construction workers around the gravesite of the kiosk discussing filling in the holes, asked them about it, and was told that they "weren't at liberty to say".
So, not only is my job gone in the most literal physical sense of the word, but it was taken in some kind of super secret kiosk extraction in the dead of night without any warning or witnesses and nobody is allowed to speak of it. The store owner said she was gonna figure it out 10 hours ago and still no word back.
I don't know what else to say aside from I've been laughing all day and I'm gonna have a hell of a time explaining Schrodinger's Unemployment to the benefits office.
Update that is not an update because I'm basically certain this isn't what actually happened:
My mother in law thinks the FBI took it.
Not any of the other stores around the state. Just the one little kiosk.
Why? Because she loves a conspiracy and is just a little bit extra.
Also because she was around for the massive crackdown on Yakuza-owned businesses in Waikiki (in her homestate) that did actually involve the FBI seizing stores (no confirmation of making kiosks cleanly disappear in the middle of the night though).
Still no word from my job on what's actually going on, but the most likely theory so far is that maybe the kiosk was on lease and got repossessed? The mystery continues
(also shout out to the person who proposed Carmen Sandiego)
ACTUAL (partial) UPDATE:
According to the owner, based on what she's been able to find out, the kiosk was not removed legally and they're starting a potentially long process of legal action. I hope she gets to sue the shit out of whoever did it but for now at least I know for sure I'm unemployed.
Really hoping for more details in terms of who/why/how, so I'll keep updating if I learn anything.
For now the summary is: An unnamed entity that is most likely mall management (on account of mall security cooperating with them) stole an entire kiosk and all the contents including money and machinery with barely a trace in the middle of the night grinch-style, with zero warning or explanation, and ensured the silence of both security and the construction crew, in an action that was definitely preplanned and illegal, and as far as I know nobody knows its whereabouts.
So now I'm officially out of a job. Because my workplace was literally stolen in the night.
Actually fuck it let's share some photos cause I wouldn't be inclined to believe this myself. It's not like anyone can stalk me at my job now and I'm not gonna have to see any coworkers that might find my tumblr.
Enjoy the unintentionally funniest text I've ever sent in my life
Aaand a close-up:
The last remains of a once Very Much Solid And Immobile Workplace
HEY HI HELLO THIS ONE'S MY FAVORITE
via @kagaminilen
[cut to a kiosk on legs, sipping a boba, while wandering into the nearest forest on chicken legs]
Here you go @a-bit-too-dyscrasic
Oh my goodness you're my hero this is so beautiful
Holy fuck my job got fan art
hey. is this yours?
HOLY SHIT
A "salad" of radishes on the side would make this dish perfect.
You could add mozzarella pearls to the radish salad. Soften the pepperiness of radishes a little.
Do they sell mozzarella balls that small?
Yeah, they're sold as mozzarella pearls. The idea is that you can throw them into a salad, instead of shredding a normal sized mozzarella ball.
Some stores have mozzarella in a tube shape and it's firmer. You can slice pieces and put them on pizza and they keep the shape better.
Yup, balls and bricks are what I'm familiar with.
But yeah, more spheres for the sphere menu! xD
could have mochi for dessert
At the Tumblr Ball Pit Diner
You can't just hide this in the notes @theadveragecanadian! xD
The KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act) bill has passed House approval and needs to only go through the Senate to be officially passed into law.
A reminder that this bill does NOTHING to protect children.
It does not hold companies accountable for intentionally targeting them to get them addicted to algorithms.
It doesnāt hold them accountable for not acting/actively pushing back against acting when genuine dangers are presented to minors (i.e Roblox)
It doesnāt call to take online abuse seriously, it does not do ANYTHING to actually help children.
What it DOES do is censor YOU.
It serves to force creators to have to consistently have their content be āchild-friendly.ā
It forces age verification and giving over far too much information to a company like META that has a history of selling our information for profit just to post a picture or share an opinion.
It is an excuse for the American government to have a tighter grip on the freedoms we have, which are running out more and more each day with the current administration.
We all know that they are not in the interest of protecting children. Looking at the news for one minute would be able to reflect that.
This bill would allow companies and actual dangerous people on the Internet to gain more unneeded information about users and children.
Please Contact Your Representatives
I know itās basically a Hail Mary (personally, mine basically dismissed my previous concerns with corporate speak) but:
A: Itās far better than doing nothing
B: Iād say that itās not enough to simply explain the actual dangers behind this bill to a representative. We need to stop treating politicians like theyāre reasonable people. They arenāt. What we need to be doing is use their interests against them and remind them of whoās actually meant to have the power. The people.
If they agree with this bill, tell them point blank that you will be voting them out come the time to vote. Tell them you are a non-voter and this will sway you to vote for their opposition. Threatening the power that they have by using the power that you have is what needs to be done.
Voting is the power of the American people and it is in the best interest of those people that we use it to our full advantage.
the KIDS act passed the house today. 267-117, 47 not voting.
that's not great. but it's not the whole story.
a few things got worse right before the vote too. the language that explicitly protected encryption, saying the bill couldn't be used to force platforms to weaken it, got quietly stripped out on Friday. that safeguard just doesn't exist anymore.
but this isn't over. it heads to the senate next, and the senate is genuinely not on board. blumenthal and cantwell, two of the senators who wrote the original KOSA, are saying they don't want this version near a markup. blackburn, a republican and the other original author, called the missing duty of care provision a red line.
worth being clear here, blackburn isn't on our side. she wants the policy stronger, not gone. but that's still a crack we can use. her opposition means the house version has zero guaranteed path through the senate as written, and a stalled bill is a bill that isn't law yet. use her objection, don't trust her motive.
senate commerce hasn't even scheduled a markup yet. that's the next pressure point. this thing has died or gotten majorly rewritten at this stage before.
contact your senators: find yours here. tell them you don't want the house version anywhere near a vote.
and remember, if you have to, contact your senators scared. anything helps.
this fight isn't lost. it's just moved.
KOSA just passed the House.
Here's why this becoming law would be BAD
Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all usersā ages, require government-directed moderation p
Get on the horn to your senators.
Congress is preparing to vote on the KIDS Act, a sweeping internet bill that would pressure websites and apps to determine usersā ages befor
HEY
HAVE YOU CONTACTED A REPRESENTATIVE OR SENATOR TO STOP KOSA???
Yes, 1 person
Yes, both senators
Yes, a senator and a rep
Yes, both senators and multiple reps
Yes, everyone I could contact
If you haven't contacted anyone, GET ON IT! We cannot let KOSA pass under any circumstances!
KOSA is a censorship bill that wonāt make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a fr
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All of the bad internet bills. One website.
KOSA is a censorship bill that wonāt make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a fr
CALL AND BE SO ANNOYING. TAKE OUT ALL YOUR ANNOYANCE WITH THE GOVERNMENT AND DOUBLE IT AND GIVE IT TO THE NEXT.
Tag ur fandoms. Blow it up.
YES, YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT DISCORD'S AGE VERIFICATION
But while cancelling Nitro and boycotting Discord CAN be a form of protest, it sadly may not be effective on its own. Why? Bc their hands are tied due to the recent trend in age verification bills worldwide.
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
This site helps send emails to your lawmakers to oppose certain Internet bills in the US, many of which would push age verification if passed HOWEVER, calling your lawmakers on the phone is most effective. If you're not in the US, you can still help by spreading the word. The only way to prevent age verification (On Discord and ALL other social media platforms) is to prevent the bills that are forcing it. Look at the site for more info
