the only reliable, effective way of "protecting children" is education. but people don't want to hear that because they don't actually care about protecting children, they care about protecting a mythologised ideal of innocence
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the only reliable, effective way of "protecting children" is education. but people don't want to hear that because they don't actually care about protecting children, they care about protecting a mythologised ideal of innocence
the only reliable, effective way of "protecting children" is education. but people don't want to hear that because they don't actually care about protecting children, they care about protecting a mythologised ideal of innocence
Please please please, I’m begging people, start talking about indonesia occupied papua. Over the last 50 years Indonesia has killed over 500,000 native Papuans in their occupation of the west half of the island.
This is also a genocide that should be talked about. It needs to be addressed, but it’s ignored on the global stage.
Free Papua!
This feels like an alright time to remind everyone of the one thing I know about West Papua: more than 90 tribes, political organisations, and religious groups based there have called for a boycott of KitKats, Oreos, Smarties, Ritz Crackers, Pantene, and Herbal Essence over ecocide.
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Crazy how the FAA won't let you fly if you ever took amphetamines. Meth was literally invented to make pilots fly better
Are they stupid
Another beautiful victory for Latin america!
Hate being that person but Brazil is also the country that most kills transgender people, I mean we're likely gonna lose this title to the USA in the future (not good), but still, it's not very good
It should be noted that places like Brazil have more legal protections for trans people and are much more likely to recognize their trans status. As compared to say, the UK or US which will erase that fact entirely. Thats not to say transphobic violence is not alive and well throughout the world, but there is factors to consider.
Brazil is also one of the few places to actually have the guts to record transphobic hate crimes for what they are. Not only that, it is also the place with the biggest parcel of the population out of the closet; that is to say, there simply are more transgender people living as they identify here than anywhere else. To reiterate the previous poster's point: transphobic violence is alive and well here, don't get me wrong, but the factors for the absolute numbers are compounding.
Plan of Action and Complaint Template Regarding Adult Content Being Delisted from Itchio
Alright so as y’all may or may not know, credit card companies and other payment facilitators have put pressure on digital storefronts such as Steam and Itch.io to remove “adult content” recently largely due to lobbying by fringe radical organizations. It would be bad enough if it just affected actual porn, but you know to these people “porn” means “anything that even mentions a homosexual.” Several of my team’s projects including mini-expansions to Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy “The Fanservice Files” and “The XXX-Files,” as well as team artist @chaospyromancy’s personal side project “A Squad of Drow” have been delisted from itch.io as of last night though they are still available by direct link or from our main account page and you can still pay us for them for now but there is no telling how long they'll actually stay up. Many others have had their projects completely delisted or outright removed, and are having payments withheld from them. If you don't want to see us and other creators pushed under by this crap, you need to do something about it.
People affected by this far outnumber the people who lobbied to make it happen. These organizations are very vocal but also relatively small and very fringe, and since it is a policy decision that was created by complaints it may be able to be destroyed by complaints.
Here are the phone numbers of these companies and an email address I was able to find. We need to blow their phones off the wall and fill their inboxes with customer complaints.
Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372 Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111 Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911 Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440 PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000
Visa Email Address: [email protected]
Mastercard Contact Form: https://b2b.mastercard.com/contact-us/
Saying stuff like “sex work is real work” and “this affects black trans women,” while true, is not the kind of thing that is going to tug at the heartstrings of lib-conservative CEOs and board members and their PR teams. They’re mercenary. You need to tell them how this is going to hurt their wallets and make their customers very unhappy.
If feasible, you need to get your moms and dads on this too, and get them to get their friends on it, etc.
40-60-year old middle class white people high credit scores and stuff will have more sway with these corporations than any young adult trans person.
My team has put together a template for your phone calls and emails. Take the template and delete the [bracketed parts] that don’t apply to you.
“My name is [_____], and I’m contacting you about your recent decision to alter your user policies regarding adult content and thereby putting pressure on digital storefronts like itch.io and Steam to hide and remove adult content. By doing so, you're cutting off a significant revenue stream, [and as someone with financial investment in your company, this has me extremely concerned]
[I both buy and sell that blocked content, so this is directly interfering in my finances, and I will seek compensation.]
Products I paid for are no longer available to me, [and people are buying my products without the money going to me because of your interference with the payment processing.]
If you don’t want to lose customers and face potential legal trouble, these policies which pressure itch.io, Steam, and other digital storefronts need to be reversed.
You have changed these policies because of Collective Shout, a radical group from Australia that sent only a mere 1000 calls to destroy a significant revenue stream on your part and to interfere with my finances. This decision literally affects millions of people and millions of dollars, and so I expect a prompt response on reversing these policy changes and removing the pressure on itch.io and Steam to ban adult content on their sites. [As a cardholder, I worry that these new policies are responding to a vocal minority of customers, and I’m left doubting the reliability, versatility, and integrity of your services. I use these services to securely and conveniently make the transactions I see fit, and it’s disappointing to see legitimate, legal transactions be excluded.]
[I am furious that an American company would bend so easily to a lobbying group from a foreign country.]”
I have less faith in these other two methods of taking action, but there is also a bill currently posited that would make it illegal for a credit card company to say what you can and can’t spent money on.
Louisiana senators never listen to my emails or calls but if you’re from a state with a chance to get through, do so.
There is also a petition you can sign here.
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“Lemme tell ya, ‘Star Wars’ always had the vibe of being in the most whitest, elite space. It’s a franchise that’s so white that a Black person existing in [it] was something,” Boyega said in the documentary. “You can always tell it’s something when some ‘Star Wars’ fans try to say, ‘Well, we had Lando Calrissian and had Samuel L. Jackson!’ It’s like telling me how many cookie chips are in the cookie dough. It’s like, they just scattered that in there, bro!”
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My official position is that Luigi Mangione is innocent because he's not the real killer and whoever the real killer is is also innocent. Two different people who are both innocent.
Innocent (he didn’t do it) vs innocent (it wasn’t wrong to do)
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historical linguistics is so cool/sad. there's just so much we can never know.
Reading sci-fi: How is it that humans colonized the whole galaxy but don't remember what planet they came from?
Real anthropologists: we don't know the name of the people whose cultural hegemony resulted in half the world speaking a descendent of their language. We think they dug pits and had several h-like sounds.
Some libraries can even get you hooked up with social workers and local aid programs. The important thing is investigating what YOUR library can do for YOU.