foxxiwaves

Friends call me Becca. they/them. writer. embroidery technician. rise up, decepticons. I am a lvl 14 adult.

[picunha]

the transition im crying

[vanity-complex]

I am walking onto the field. Haters are forcefully removing me from the premise

[crap-userrname16]

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

[junequeer]

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

[featherandstorm]

This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.

[genderkoolaid]

Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.

[dueseaworthiness]

[beardedmrbean]

this sounds like a party to me

[beardedmrbean]

this sounds like a party to me

[seilnakyle]

Selina Kyle’s outfits from Sirens: Love Hurts #1-3

[starofhisheart]

Happy pride to those 5 seconds where Charlie Swan thought Jacob was coming out to him in the most insane way possible

[standardizedbogey]

[entheognosis]

“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

[dogtoenail]

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

realistic coworker conversation

[foone]

Important rules for the "age verification" era of the internet that we're living in:

1. Do not do age verification.

2. If you have to do age verification, cheat. Do not under any circumstances give them your real ID.

[very-gay-alkyrion]

Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord's Age Verification Check With a 3D Model

The tool presents users with a 3D model they can then manipulate to, the creator says, bypass Discord's age verification system.

Oh no I dropped my link, what a horrible thing! Sure hope this doesn't get reblogged until it reaches users from the UK and Brazil!

And remember to not make a second account just to test out what works best when verifying your identity

[asksanguinius40k]

A reminder that we still dont support Age Verification bullshit.

[flower-crowns-and-combat-boots]

Paywall removed here

[hungrymilliek]

Aaand here's the link to the project's Github.

GitHub - promptpirate-x/discord-id-bypass-tool: A verified tool that works on any potato computer that will let you bypass discord verificat

A verified tool that works on any potato computer that will let you bypass discord verification - promptpirate-x/discord-id-bypass-tool

[foxxiwaves]

Suddenly overcome by the absolutely normal human desire to eat and re-energize via Energon Cubes, as sometimes happens to ANYbody home alone on a fine Wednesday evening with the pets while a thunderstorm downpours outside, especially when you could be brainstorming dinner ideas with what's in the fridge to whip up before your S.O. is off shift on a late work night.

Of course, you could whip up some basic sugar cubes with food coloring and call it a day, but you remember that one person who made gummy energon cubes to share at TFCon... but then, you don't eat gelatin and so you can't do the jello base, and besides it's not in the house and it's thunderstorming outside, so how are you going to get the right consistency?

Then! You remember buying xantham gum (everyone's favorite go-to soluable fiber) a couple years ago for a savory baking recipe that...kinda worked... and it's just been sitting unused in your pantry with the cornstarch and baking soda because it PROBABLY doesn't have an expiration date, and it also probably does the same general thing.

So, you give it a shot! The worst that can happen is that it doesn't gel and you end up with puddles of goop that stain surfaces they touch!

[sgrimp]

post idw

[the-big-mood]

At Toba aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes

[chryza]

literally in tears at this video....such good helpers......

[sandersstudies]

Me: yeah I’m feeling a little down today

My husband: …would you be cheered up by a 1906 automatic pencil sharpener restoration video

[sandersstudies]

I was

[sandersstudies]

Silly me. I should have remembered that I’m on Tumblr and of course EVERYONE would be cheered up by pencil sharpener restoration. Here is the one my husband showed me.

[fuck-all-governments]