Seattle Summers

A place to acknowledge anything that catches my interest, including science, literature, daily life, and fandoms (including Doctor Who, Hetalia, and others). Warning: contains opinions. Knitting Blog

[friendlyfrankenstein]

the scariest thing about old tv isnt really the racism or the sexisim because you kinda go in braced for that it's all the scenes where suddenly an actress is holding a lion cub or a chimpanzee is in the same room as a toddler, or suddenly theres a lion, or there's a chimpanzee again but it's driving a car, or holding a lighter, or holding fireworks. You just kind of watch in horror as over and over an actress performs with only 1960s tv film shootings best animal handling between her and the opening to Nope.

[retroactivebakeries]

[kiradical]

This is how I learn that the famous chimp my dad got my nickname from tried to kill Reagan. Fuck yeah.

[inkwellfire]

[Image Description: A digital drawing of the Greek god Hermes, as a young man in a brown cloak with a blue sky color on the inside. He wears a broad brimmed brown hat with gold wings. His skin is marble-like, wit blue highlights, with grey curly hair. He winks, holding a lamb in one arm and a scepter in the other. He wears golden winged sandals and has wings on his ankles as well. End ID]

Hermes & Persephone tied for my poll, so I'll draw her next! (He went first because I just generally know more stories with him in it) Hermes is a god of SO many contradictions. A stone (mom)/sky(dad) or Olympus/Underworld balance is difficult.

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[pandariousgooch]

i never realized cuneiform was made with the corner of a cuboid tool, i thought the wedge shapes were carved such that you would press straight down with the tool at a 90° angle to the clay

[kitchenwitchupinthisbitch]

Wow! My mind is super into this new information

[ferret-on-pancakes]

[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."

[ryan-sometimes]

I love how Zohran Mamdani is wearing a suit everywhere. And if he has anything else he puts it ON TOP of the suit. A basketball jersey. A high-vis vest. All worn over the suit. He’s like the mayor character in a cartoon who’s always dressed as The Mayor. If I didn’t know who he was and he biked past me in NYC I’d be like holy shit was that the mayor

[werewolf-transgenderism]

he jumped in a pool in the suit yesterday to celebrate the public pools opening for the summer btw

[dragon-in-a-fez]

today's reason I fucking love the open source community: Ageless Linux, a brand new Debian-based operating system specifically designed to break the law by giving children access to computers that explicitly refuse to track their age.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

reblog this post to help a child break the law

[0x5742]

oh goddamn this whole page goes so hard actually, please go read it. what an impressive, visceral takedown of this dumb law

[ralfmaximus]

As of June 29, 2026 the law discussed here is a recently passed California state law (AB 1043) that requires age validation before using a computer connected to the internet. This is expected to happen at the operating system level, when you login to Windows, MacOS, Linux, etc.

Ageless Linux intends to force the issue before the California state supreme court, then ultimately (probably) the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). It's a stupid, dangerous law, voted into place by legislators who either don't understand the core issue OR knowingly voted for it because they're assholes.

California is an influential state in the US. Many laws & regulations passed there eventually trickle out to most states. That's why it's worrisome to see this kind of thing rammed through, and why it's important to fight it.

Also, it doesn't matter if you use Linux or not. Or whether you live in California or not. Visit their site, read the text, learn what's going on with access to computing in this hellscape timeline.

[inkwellfire]

[Image Description: Digital drawings of Persephone, Cerberus, and Hades. Persephone is a pale young woman with dark curly hair in a bun with flowers and a gold headress. Her skin has a green tint. She wears a green layered dress and a red shawl with gold leaves. She has a pomegranate in one hand. Cerberus sits next to Hades, looking happy. He is black with glowing red and gold spots on his back. Hades has his hand on Cerberus' middle head, holding a bird-tipped scepter in the other hand He wears a dark teal tinted copper himation over a red tunic. He has blueish grey skin with ashy and red undersides of his feet and hands. He has a dark beard and curly hair, wearing a white poplar leaf in his hair. End ID]

I was just gonna do one but they're kinda a solid pair/trio, lol. They both are each other's major story.

[comicaurora]

I had to read a Heinlein book for a literature class on sci-fi and it was HORRIBLE and the only thing that got me though it was thinking "it's time for more Deep Thoughts With Heinlein(tm)" what a strange man this author was...

my working theory is that the most foundational works of literature in a given genre are the ones that inspire the most concepts and tropes that are carried forward in the genre and this inspiring property is frequently because there is, to simplify, something deeply wrong with them

[non-cannon]

So, uh... following that train of thought... what's deeply wrong with the Lord of the Rings?

[comicaurora]

Johnald Ronald Rolkien Tolkien built fifteen different elvish languages and wrote poetry in all of them and you ask me what was wrong with him

[luimnigh]

PlayStation will stop releasing games on discs in 2028

The firm said future games would still be sold in shops, but they would come with a digital code only.

Playstation has announced that physical discs for new games will no longer be printed past January 2028.

In other news, earlier this week Playstation deleted 550 purchased movies off of Playstation users' consoles:

PlayStation Is Deleting Terminator 2 And 550 Other Movies

Movies like Rambo: First Blood, Bridget Jones' Diary and The Deer Hunter are all being unceremoniously removed

[ladylingua]

If there were one article in the world I think should be required reading it’s this one:

(CW: child death)

Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?

Or look here for a free pdf version

Because it’s getting warm again it’s on my mind- this article was truly life changing. It could happen to anyone, so truly it’s worth the read.

[ladylingua]

another heat wave, another reminder

Please read this, it could happen to you it could happen to anyone

[inkwellfire]

[Image Description: 2 drawings of a pale knight with grey armor and hair with a green haired princess in a pink dress with brown skin. In the first drawing he stands still while she looks up at him with her hands behind her back, on her tiptoes. In the second, she pulls on his arm happily, tugging him with her. End ID]

Art Fight attack numero uno! @maroonwithonem 's Chrissy & Ardin

[traaumaa]

*has several debilitating disorders* idk maybe i'm just lazy

[onlytiktoks]

[lezbadeez]

Holy mother of curb theory those are GOOD

See what happens when we do things for disabled people? We get shot like this that's just better for *everyone* AND accommodates for wheelchair users

[muffinlance]

The hoodies are $59. That is straight up a normal hoodie price that is AMAZING

Creating adaptive clothing and accessories designed to bring joy and confidence while increasing your quality of life. Discover products to

[ordinarytalk]

Also noting that this line has a lot of clothing that works for people who need easy chest access or have limited upper body mobility, like if you are recovering from surgery or doing chemo

[brightlotusmoon]

[normal-with-adhd-is-a-joke]

Conservative beauty standards are back with a vengeance which means it's especially important to go out this summer with bellies out and bodies unshaved. Also be unapologetically disabled with mobility aids and wearable medical devices and stim toys and ear defenders and all that stuff. You need it. People need to see it. Everyone needs to be reminded that life is unquestioningly more enjoyable when you're not living inside an arbitrary set of rules created by people who are offended by all the wrong things.

[sagihairius]

i work as an actor at a haunted house and this little girl who was dressed as a cat came through she saw me and was like “no thank you please dont get closer i am already scared” and i was like alright i appreciate the good manners ill back off. so her dad picks her up and starts going down the rest of my dark hall and i just hear her yell “everybody wait! i dropped my ears” so i find them and give them to her dad and she goes “thank you but i hope i never see you again goodbye” and waved over her dads shoulder. i waved back and she gave me a thumbs up. honestly this kid has a lot of guts props for being so polite when shes terrified i hope she gets a lot of candy this year

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[mini-wrants]

Outdoor in sun perfec t place for president to do speech! Outdoor very warm very soft put old man on green lawn under sun. Put old man in warm sun. no problem ever in warm sun because good view and audience can see long speech. Nice podium outdoor sunny perfect place for old president can trust warm sun to give nice view to President good luck to President. friend sun.