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[askrobouteguilliman40k]

Finished Wardens of Ultimar and my first Vicatrix Guard.

[rudavoidish]

Y'all if you're American please email your politicians and senators against the parents decide act. I'm fucking begging because we're reaching a tipping point.

[hetrosjistin]

Call or Write Congress About H.R. 8250: Parents Decide Act - GovTrack.us

Quick and easy link to both find your congressmen/women and giving you a quick and easy way to copy / paste the message into it. You want to oppose. It's an act that will demand that all major OS makers integrate a direct forced age verification control into all OS.

[rudavoidish]

I received a comment on this that I figured would be very helpful- it's a template for communicating with your representatives. Be sure to use it for reference

Dear Representative [Name],

I am writing to express my strong opposition to H.R. 8250 (The "Parents Decide Act"). As your constituent and a concerned citizen, I believe this bill introduces unprecedented risks to digital privacy and security.

Specifically, I am alarmed by:

SEC. 2(a)(1)(B): Requiring age verification to even use an operating system creates a mandatory "hardware lockout" that ends anonymous computing and forces users to hand over sensitive identification data to major corporations just to power on their devices.

SEC. 2(a)(3): Mandating that OS providers create a system for all app developers to access verification data is a massive security vulnerability. This effectively creates a centralized API of user identities accessible to thousands of third-party developers, many of whom may lack adequate data protection.

This bill does not protect children; it creates a centralized surveillance infrastructure at the OS level. I urge you to protect the privacy of your constituents and vote NO on H.R. 8250.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]

[Your Zip Code]

[willowtree1527]

This is a hell that us down under in Australia are already living in, and it’s not even effective at what it claims to do in protecting children.

Given that, in the wake of this mandatory identification policy, my country seems to be moving to hand over its citizens biometric data, like fingerprints, Face ID files, and identification documents, over to the USA and to ICE to maintain the visa free travel (ESTA) we have, I strongly urge any US resident to send these emails, or make calls.

But if you can’t do that, the most powerful thing you can do is spread the word. Tell your friends, family, coworkers, anyone who can help.

My reach will likely be small, and so I don’t know if this will mean very much in the grand scheme of things, but I cannot stand to see this tracking happen to another population as it did to mine.

And if you think it won’t affect you, it will. All anonymity goes out the window when your accounts can be linked via your personal ID

I wish you all luck in preventing this act from going through.

[mossdftba]

I called my representative and left a voice message!

[humming-fly]

Here’s the 5calls script to make it easy! https://5calls.org/issue/age-verification-internet-privacy/

[casualevan]

ULTRA CRESTS

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[dimonds456]

Tumblr hates trans women so REBLOG IF TRANS WOMEN ARE WELCOME HERE!! We love you!

[askrobouteguilliman40k]

So I cant remember. Do we know how long space marines can live without being placed in a dreadnaught? Or do space marines not generally live long enough to find out what with all the fighting?

The oldest recorded Spacemarine is Lucis Dante at 1,500+ years old.

He looks like an old man before he crossed the rubicon Primaris, now he looks a little younger.

[lionessjonson]

Also last I checked a Space Marine is FUNCTIONALLY Immortal. They just keep GOING till they are killed.

[askrobouteguilliman40k]

Not bad considering I had hand shakes.

[chemos-factories]

ian watson died

[relax-and-read-on]

For those that don't know, Ian Watson was the first writer for Black Library. He was the mind behind the completely insane but forever entertaining "Inquisition war" Trilogy.

I, personally, really like his writing and admired him as an author. He had a charming personal website that he was updating until just last year, that I invite everyone to go visit:

https://www.ianwatson.info/

From there, I invite you all to visit two specific section of his website to discover his work: the time he wrote the script for "A.I: Artificial Intelligence", the Kubrick movie. I know this movie is not wildly beloved, but the story behind how Ian Watson ended up writing it is pretty entertaining, and gave me new appreciation for that movie.

Similarly, if you can *somehow* find an english copy or read french, I suggest reading "Orgasmachine", wich is probably the strangest novel I have read in my life. It's a satyrical scifi erotic feminist mess. It's so strange. It's a delight. I think it might have been one of Ian Watson favorite work, as he mentioned it several time on his website and kept working at it for many years.

Ian Watson was a legend. He was a writer, spoke many languages, was generous with his community, quite funny, and just seemed to be a kind soul. He was doing very forward thinking things with his novels, even in time when it wasn't so popular.

Go read aomething by him today. The world is a bit less whimsical without him.

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Dark Angels Ironwing by Brian Valeza

[radigalde]

And a few full-size meme templates. Make Emperor proud with them.

[wh40kartwork]

by Jaume Nomis

[lionessjonson]

No son of Dorn would let his weapon be compromised by the weather in such a manner.

The Guard offering him a smoke is spot on.

[gotham-at-nightfall]

The Lion of Caliban

By Rodrigo Lorenzo

[t-a-r-0-t]

Hey, stop scrolling.

Everyone who is reading this: I’m so glad you’re alive. I’m so proud of you. You are loved. I’m here. Don’t give up, we’re almost there.

Pass it on.

[existennialmemes]

Not to sound like a decrepit, rambling corpse about it, but back in my day Word used to be a pre installed program that came with your computer, if you were running Windows.

No subscription. Just program.

On your computer. You got to use it forever and ever and never had to worry about it going away.

Because it was physically on your computer. As a program. That you actually owned. Not because you got it separately, but because it was a standard inclusion with your computer.

I'm sorry but I'll just never get over it. I remember when companies cared about their products being usable out of the box. I remember when our things belonged to us.

Old man shaking fist at cloud, wherein the cloud is the background of the Windows 98 logo.

[askrobouteguilliman40k]

Wait.... What's this rumour about nuking AoS?

Why? I thought it was doing well?

Sure it took a bit to find its feet... But why destroy it and start all over again?

[lionessjonson]

Another rumor is that it isn't THE END TIMES, and more FALL OF CADIA.

[zelovinit]

GUYS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS TESTING OM TRANS PEOPLE

[zelovinit]

GUYS IF THIS ISNT REBLOGGED IT WONT FUCKING BE SEEN.

[modernsuperhero]

Hey! I'm one to check sources and actually read through things with big, flashy, scary titles like this.

This is real.

For your own context, please actually check out the original substack:

The Trump Administration is Testing Conversion Therapy By Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons

The Bureau of Prisons is subjecting trans people to conversion therapy and denying them care with the goal of helping them "recover." It's t

Basically, it's what's on the tin: they're going to mandate that gender dysphoria be "treated", as a medical mental illness.

[askrobouteguilliman40k]

So they just going full Nazi now?

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Since some of you don't seem to understand how this 'new notes' thing works, I'll break it down:

I'm the OP. I'm making this post. If you like, comment, reblog (without comment) on this post, then I'm the one who will see all those notes in my activity page.

However...

If you reblog (with comment), I will get a notification that you did that, but any likes/comments/reblogs (without comment) you get on that reblog will only be shown to you. As OP I won't see them.

If someone adds a reblog (with comment) to your reblog...as OP I won't see that. I won't see any of those notes in my activity page.

Basically, if someone with a large following makes a comment, then they will get all the notes and OP will see nothing. If OP has said something silly because they're, y'know, 21 and it happens, and then someone reblogs it onto the dash of someone with a large following who then dunks on them for fun? OP doesn't see it, doesn't get notes for it, but they're gonna get the harrassment for it in their inbox.

If I, someone with a 5 digit follower count, reblog something to correct misinformation on Ancient Egypt, then OP will never see it unless it was on the original post, but I will continue to get notes on that post even though it's not my post. If I reblog fanart, or just art in general, with a comment like 'Oh this is so lovely!' then OP will not see any of the notes from people reblogging it from me. They'll only see my reblog. So it's possible for an art post by someone else to have 200 notes for them, but 9000 for someone who reblogs it with a comment, and the OP artist will have no idea it's been seen by that many people.

It's killing blow to the community we've built here, by someone higher up who doesn't understand that being able to see all the comments and reblogs is what makes this site the place I keep coming back to.

That's what sucks.

I encourage people to go to tumblr's support page, select contact support, and then in the dropdown menu select 'Feedback' and leave polite and constructive feedback (for those of you who enjoy 'emails worded politely but are a strong 'are you an idiot?', try that way of wording it). They're more likely to listen to you if you're not an asshole about it. I've already gone and done this, and I hope others will too.