Lipservice

pay attention please

[writscrib]

So, Net Neutrality has officially been repealed. It was split 3-2.

Now you guys need to absolutely pummel your local congressional representatives with calls, letters, and protests until Congress steps its game up and fixes this so that the FCC can never do this again.

We watched as three men callously laughed about how silly they thought some of the calls were for not being eloquent enough for their taste. We watched as they lied about the internet, even when the truth was uttered minutes before.

Don’t let them have this win.

Make your representatives miserable until they fix this. The news will be worthless to you in the upcoming months, as every major news network is either owned by an ISP or has tangential business with ISPs. They all serve to profit on this. Fact check with extreme prejudice. Don’t stop until your internet is back to where it needs to be.

Neutral.

I don’t care if you’re far-left, far-right, or dead down the center. Do you want it to be where an ISP can choose to throttle access to Fox News or Breitbart on a whim? What about Vox? What if some bad reviews come out for a movie and Comcast throttles it to hide that? What if Netflix is throttled into oblivion so that Hulu becomes the only possible option for viewing? What if you go to start-up a new business and you’re told that you have to pay for the $500/mo “business package” in order to get higher the 0.3 Mbps traffic speeds to your site?

Nothing about this decision is going to benefit how you use the internet.You use it for paying bills, for doctors and hospitals, for school, for work, and for entertainment.

Don’t give up, guys!

[globalcooldown]

Make your representatives miserable.

[definitly-not-a-spy]

DOesnt it need to go through court still? WHere it would be pummeled off?

[writscrib]

That’s when advocates take it to court! Agency actions don’t need to be rubberstamped by the courts (in fact, courts prefer not to interfere with agency action).

And depending on which district takes this court case, it could end up favoring the FCC on this.

You want Congress to make the decision because then it is written in law, and isn’t likely to be easily overturned.

[bleep0bleep]

If you are not sure what to say, Celeste Pewter on Twitter has some amazing tips as well as scripts.

Thread on Twitter

[shaolinbynature]

“Particularly damning is what today’s repeal will mean for marginalized groups, like communities of color, that rely on platforms like the internet to communicate, because traditional outlets do not consider their issues or concerns, worthy of any coverage. It was through social media that the world first heard about Ferguson, Missouri, because legacy news outlets did not consider it important until the hashtag started trending.” -  Mignon Clyburn, FCC Commissioner for Net Neutrality 

[staff]

Today the FCC voted 3-2 to kill the net neutrality rules you helped pass back in 2015

Let’s not kid ourselves: This is a major setback in our fight for a free and open internet. But It’s not the end. Not for us, and we hope not for you. 

Net neutrality is too important to be subject to the whims of any administration. We need legislative action. 

Go to Battle For The Net to get connected directly to your Senators or Representatives. If we work together, we can get it done. Again! 

Here’s more from Commissioner Clyburn this morning:

I am optimistic, that we will look back on today’s vote as an aberration, a temporary deviation from the bipartisan path, that has served us so well. I don’t know whether this plan will be vacated by a court, reversed by Congress, or overturned by a future Commission. But I do believe that its days are numbered. (Verge)

[bespangeled]

In the 1960′s Legally a woman couldn’t

Open a bank account or get a credit card without signed permission from her father or hr husband.

Serve on a jury - because it might inconvenience the family not to have the woman at home being her husband’s helpmate.

Obtain any form of birth control without her husband’s permission. You had to be married, and your hub and had to agree to postpone having children.

Get an Ivy League education. Ivy League schools were men’s colleges ntil the 70′s and 80′s. When they opened their doors to women it was agree that women went there for their MRS. Degee.

Experience equality in the workplace: Kennedy’s Commission on the Status of Women produced a report in 1963 that revealed, among other things, that women earned 59 cents for every dollar that men earned and were kept out of the more lucrative professional positions.

Keep her job if she was pregnant.Until the Pregnancy Discrimination Act in 1978, women were regularly fired from their workplace for being pregnant.

Refuse to have sex with her husband.The mid 70s saw most states recognize marital rape and in 1993 it became criminalized in all 50 states. Nevertheless, marital rape is still often treated differently to other forms of rape in some states even today.

Get a divorce with some degree of ease.Before the No Fault Divorce law in 1969, spouses had to show the faults of the other party, such as adultery, and could easily be overturned by recrimination.

Have a legal abortion in most states.The Roe v. Wade case in 1973 protected a woman’s right to abortion until viability.

Take legal action against workplace sexual harassment. According to The Week, the first time a court recognized office sexual harassment as grounds for legal action was in 1977.

Play college sports Title IX of the  Education Amendments of protects people from discrimination  based on sex in education programs or activities that receive Federal financial  assistance It was nt until this statute that colleges had teams for women’s sports

Apply for men’s Jobs   The EEOC rules that sex-segregated help wanted ads in newspapers are illegal.  This ruling is upheld in 1973 by the Supreme Court, opening the way for women to apply for higher-paying jobs hitherto open only to men.

This is why we needed feminism - this is why we know that feminism works

[galacticdrift]

I just want to reiterate this stuff, because I legit get the feeling there are a lot of younger women for whom it hasn’t really sunk in what it is today’s GOP is actively trying to return to.

Did you go to a good college? Shame on you, you took a college placement that could have gone to a man who deserves and needs it to support or prepare for his wife & children. But if you really must attend college, well, some men like that, you can still get married if you focus on finding the right man.

Got a job? Why? A man could be doing that job. You should be at home caring for a family. You shouldn’t be taking that job away from a man who needs it (see college, above). You definitely don’t have a career – you’ll be pregnant and raising children soon, so no need to worry about promoting you.

This shit was within living memory.  I’M A MILLENIAL and my mother was in the second class that allowed women at an Ivy League school. Men who are alive today either personally remember shit like this or have parents/family who have raised them into thinking this was the way America functioned back in the blissful Good Old Days. There are literally dudes in the GOP old enough to remember when it was like this and yearn for those days to return.

When people talk about resisting conservativism and the GOP, we’re not just talking about whether the wage gap is a myth or not. We’re talking about whether women even have the fundamental right to exist as individuals, to run their own households and compete for jobs and be considered on an equal footing with men in any arena at all in the first place.

[gehayi]

I was a child in the 1960s, a teenager in the 1970s, a young adult in the 1980s. This is what it was like: When I was growing up, it was considered unfortunate if a girl was good at sports. Girls were not allowed in Little League. Girls’ teams didn’t exist in high school, except at all-girls’ high schools. Boys played sports, and girls were the cheerleaders. People used to ask me as a child what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said I wanted to be a brain surgeon or the first woman justice on the Supreme Court. Everyone told me it was impossible–those just weren’t realistic goals for a girl–the latter, especially, because you couldn’t trust women to judge fairly and rationally, after all. In the 1960s and 1970s, all women were identified by their marital status, even in arrest reports and obituaries. In elementary school, my science teacher referred to Pierre Curie as DOCTOR Curie and Marie Curie as MRS. Curie…because, as he put it, “she was just his wife.” (Both had doctorates and both were Nobel prize winners, so you would think that both would be accorded respect.) Companies could and did require women to wear dresses and skirts. Failure to do could and did get women fired. And it was legal. It was also legal to fire women for getting married or getting pregnant. The rationale was that a woman who was married or who had a child had no business working; that was what her husband was for. Aetna Insurance, the biggest insurance company in America, fired women for all of the above. A man could rape his wife. Legally. I can remember being twelve years old and reading about legal experts actually debating whether or not a man could actually be said to coerce his wife into having sex. This was a serious debate in 1974. The debate about marital rape came up in my law school, too, in 1984. Could a woman be raped by her husband? The guys all said no–a woman got married, so she was consenting to sex at all times. So I turned it around. I asked them if, since a man had gotten married, that meant that his wife could shove a dildo or a stick or something up his ass any time she wanted to for HER sexual pleasure. (Hey, I thought it was reasonable. If one gender was legally entitled to force sex on the other, then obviously the reverse should also be true.) The male law students didn’t like the idea. Interestingly, they commented that being treated like that would make them feel like a woman. My reaction was, “Thank you for proving my point…” The concept of date rape, when first proposed, was considered laughable. If a woman went out on a date, the argument of legal experts ran, sexual consent was implied. Even more sickening was the fact that in some states–even in the early 1980s–a man could rape his daughter…and it was no worse than a misdemeanor. Women taking self-defense classes in the 1970s and 1980s were frequently described in books and on TV as “cute.” The implication was that it was absurd for a woman to attempt to defend herself, but wasn’t it just adorable for her to try? I was expressly forbidden to take computer classes in junior and senior years of high school–1978-79 and 1979-80–because, as the principal told me, “Only boys have to know that kind of thing. You girls are going to get married, and you won’t use it.” When I was in college–from 1980 to 1984–there were no womens’ studies. The idea hadn’t occurred in many places because the presumption was that there was nothing TO study. My history professor–a man who had a doctorate in history–informed me quite seriously that women had never produced a noted painter, sculptor, composer, architect or scientist because…wait for it…womens’ brains were too small. (He was very surprised when I came up with a list of fifty women gifted in the arts and science, most of whom he had never heard of before.) When Walter Mondale picked Geraldine Ferraro as a running mate in 1984, the press hailed it as a disaster. What would happen, they asked fearfully, if Mondale died and Ferraro became president? What if an international crisis arose and she was menstruating? She could push the nuclear button in a fit of PMS! It would be the end of the WORLD!! …No, they WEREN’T kidding. On the surface, things are very different now than they were when I was a child, a teen and a young adult. But I’m afraid that people now do not realize what it was like then. I’ve read a lot of posts from young women who say that they are not feminists. If the only exposure to feminism they have is the work of extremists, I cannot blame them overmuch. I wish that I could tell them what feminism was like when it was new–when the dream of legal equality was just a dream, and hadn’t even begun to come true. When “woman’s work” was a sneer–and an overt putdown. When people tut-tutted over bright and athletic girls with the words, “Really, it’s a shame she’s not a boy.” That lack of feminism wasn’t all men opening doors and picking up checks. A lot of it was an attitude of patronizing contempt that hasn’t entirely died out, but which has become less publicly acceptable. I wish I could make them feel what it was like…when grown men were called “men” and grown women were “girls.”

[lukehumphris]

A comic I did about toxic masculinity. You can read the whole comic over at the nib here: https://thenib.com/toxic-masculinity

[moosekleenex]

My partner made a very important comic for the Nib.

[prokopetz]

The whole net neutrality discussion seems to be focusing on download speeds and access to particular services, but does anybody remember back in 2006 when AOL got caught blocking people from sending or receiving emails that expressed criticism of AOL? There was no sign that it was happening, and the emails would appear to be delivered - AOL’s mail servers would even report a normal “accepted for delivery” status code - but they’d just never show up in the recipient’s inbox. Or how about the incident a year earlier where Telus imposed fake service outages for websites expressing support for the Telecommunications Workers Union? Again, no indication that any blocking was taking place: just a error page falsely claiming the affected sites were down.

Under the proposed deregulations, this sort of thing would be explicitly permitted, and we know it’s possible because it’s been done. Now consider how much more communication happens via the Internet in 2017 than in 2005/2006. It’s not even email or websites; big chunks of the telephone network now pass through ISP-mediated VOIP channels, and those conversations would likewise be targetable by faked outages.

Like, this isn’t some dystopian sci-fi scenario; we’re talking about horseshit that major ISPs were getting up to on the sly over a decade ago, and are now about to be told can be engaged in without regulatory penalty.

[gacorley]

This happened? That’s serious.

By the way, that kind of scenario is how censorship in China works. They don’t throw up a page saying the content is illegal, they just route it in such a way that the packets go around in circles and time out. ISPs could easily start pulling all kinds of tricks to demote things they don’t like – they have the option of not routing it correctly, slowing the bandwidth to a crawl, or just stopping the request and sending back a 404. We need to keep Net Neutrality.

[prokopetz]

Oh, yeah, it happened. The cited incidents aren’t even the half of it - they’re just a couple of the better known ones.

For example, there was the time that Comcast blocked Boston-area subscribers from accessing their GMail inboxes, and when folks called their support line to complain, they falsely claimed that it was a technical issue on Google’s end and tried to sell them a Comcast email account.

Or the time that Madison River Communications ended up getting fined for their VOIP-metering scheme when it turned out that they were interfering with 911 calls made by users in their service area.

Or the time Verizon started selectively blocking text messages sent by pro-choice advocacy groups, even to recipients who’d explicitly opted into them.

Again, none of this is hypothetical - this isn’t stuff we imagine major telecoms will do in the absence of strong net neutrality protections, but stuff they already have done, and in many cases only stopped due to regulatory pressure at the federal level.

[lovbun-deactivated20180210]

Ok so this post is extremely long and I put it all together for my blogs Feeling sad page but as I don’t have a huge amount of followers I realize so many people are not seeing this information so I’m posting it here too!

alternatives without harming yourself:

holding/squeezing ice.

splashing your face with water.

getting a rubber band and snapping it against your skin (this could hurt, though it’s better than other ways that people usually choose to self-harm).

take a hot shower or bath.

eat something sour. it will take your mind of the urge. (lemon, sour lollies)

massage where you want to self-harm.

get a red pen or red paint and draw/paint over where you usually self-harm.

remind yourself as to why you shouldn’t do it. (scars, harms organs, leave memories etc…)

describe what you are feeling. (is the urge/pain in your chest, fists, legs, arms, head).

killing yourself will not help. it is not a solution.

you have your whole life ahead of you. you have so many more years that you can accomplish things in. for example;

having a family.

getting married.

to watch the sun rise.

to watch the sun set.

to save someone else’s life.

finish school.

get your dream job.

to laugh.

to smile.

to go camping.

travel to new places.

to wake up every morning to the person you love.

friends.

family.

to keep that promise you made.

to accomplish a goal.

to meet your idol.

to listen to new music.

theme parks.

video games.

chocolate.

to be able to look back and say “i made it”.

what you’re going through is temporary.

in case you need to hear this:

you are loved.

you are wanted.

you are needed.

you are beautiful.

you are handsome.

you are important.

you are not alone.

you are okay.

you are strong.

you are worth it.

you are smart.

you are not a failure.

you are useful.

you are going to be okay.

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[lovegaygirls]

because this can help people

[blackness-by-your-side]

WORD.

[swagintherain]

he does the job no one wants to do and then will be told that he’s stealing it.

[motherofpalms-deactivated202003]

The driscolls boycott is still goin on And here are ways you can help farmworkers

Donate to food chain workers alliance https://t.co/okIpzNoyEv

Donate to United farm workers https://t.co/HwgXdH4l7w

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Keep in mind that Publix and Wendy’s refuse to join the fair food program

[hitthisandjustchill]

Reblogging again for the links

[kateywumpus]

Yeah. I was about to say. He’s that fast because he’s being paid by the pound, not by the hour. So he has to or else he won’t be able to make enough money to put food on the table.

[liveitout]

Bob The Drag Queen explains why he raises money for women’s shelters in New York City on TRANSFORMATIONS: Bob The Drag Queen & James St. James [x]

[ithelpstodream]

[lady-feral]

Hot damn.

[bright-happy-healthy]

[ndnickerson]

because it helps to remember this every now and then.

[themodifiedlife]

Also did anybody else notice that they removed the “Elton John’s AIDS foundation” logo from Miley’s picture? Fuckin’ agendas everywhere….

[1fuckedupbabe]

I literally threw a mini fit

[thatmaskednegro-blog]

The fact that they even touched up the woman in the BACKGROUND of the Selena Gomez pic is crazy.

[arugratshanukkah-deactivated201]

I’ve said this every time it comes on my dash but please also notice that a lot of the women get photoshopped lighter.

[birdvswindowpane-deactivated201]

And that´s the reason why nobody should try to be that thin, because that thin doesn´t exist in reality.

[destinyrush]

I just wanna talk to whoever thought this was a good idea

[the-hermit-in-her-cave]

This is probably even more shady than it seems. They raise the rates and then less people go. Low attendance numbers leads to that park getting less attention and less money. This discourages new parks and devalues current parks. Then the government can be like “lol people don’t care about nature let’s drill” Parks and libraries should be free places for people to enrich themselves, but smart sheep aren’t worth anything 🐑

[ophidiae]

^^^This. It’s why they’re also slashing park funding. According to the linked article, the current budget proposal includes:

Cutting base operating funding by $132 million, affecting at least 90 percent of parks. This includes cuts to law enforcement, health and safety, natural and cultural resource projects, and volunteer and youth programs.

Cutting 1,242 staff positions.

A 37 percent cut to the Historic Preservation Fund.

A drastic cut to federal Land and Water Conservation Fund, which helps parks purchase private lands within park boundaries from willing sellers that would otherwise be vulnerable to inappropriate commercial or residential development.

Elimination of the National Heritage Area program, which preserves large historic landscapes managed through innovative partnerships.

Combined with the drastic rate hike, it’s hard to see this as anything other than a ploy to force park closures. 

[missvisibleninja]

This proposal is currently open for public comments and will be open until November 23.

Click here to write a comment

Comments can be written by anyone. You don’t have to live in America.

Please write a comment saying how much you love the parks or a certain park or why you think this is a bad idea. If you don’t live in America write something about how you travel here to see the parks or how you wish that your country had a park service like America (the American government loves having its ego stroked)

Public comments are the only thing the park service is going to see. They aren’t going to see how many notes this post gets, they’re going to look at that comments page to see how many people they would tick off it they did this. So please, reblog this post but go comment, it’s the only way to let the parks service know how you feel.

[finnglas]

PLEASE do this ^^^

[hug-your-face]

Call to action!

Been to a park? Wanna go?

LEAVE. A. COMMENT.

[swagintherain]

This can save lives of many Black people who were wrongly convicted and arrested on drug possession charges. Please spread!

[tkachevmeifyoucan]

I was worried that this post would be a protest against these employers, and am pleasantly surprised that this is being promoted as a positive.

Many, many people are either wrongfully convicted, or grossly overcharged due to mandatory minimums in drug possession, minor crimes, and three-strike rules. Disproportionately, these sentences fall on people of color, especially poor people, and particularly black people. 

Prison is dehumanizing and deprives people of far more than their liberty. Individuals with a felony conviction, even once released, have trouble finding housing, jobs, income sources, etc., and society provides barely any aid or recourse. Bless these employers for going against the tide and helping change a brutally unjust system. 

All of the people subjected to the brutality of the American criminal justice system deserve the chance to rebuild their lives.

[odinsblog]

In response to #MeToo, “listening and learning” emerges as the “thoughts and prayers” of social justice movements

We stumbled into a reckoning. It had been a regular staff meeting — standard announcements, small talk, and project updates— until we began discussing the results of the 2016 presidential election. My fellow white coworkers and I bemoaned the state of the nation. What went wrong? How did we get here? And why didn’t we see it coming?

After many long minutes of shock from a chorus of white voices, a colleague of color chimed in. “We did see it coming,” she said. “We saw it coming in our work. We saw it coming in our country. We told you. You just didn’t listen.”

There was a long silence. I felt my stomach collapse in on itself, the telltale sign I was hearing a terrible truth about myself. She was right.

“Black women don’t get to be surprised. We don’t get to be exhausted or ‘woe is me’ or any of it. We’ve been here a long time. So, I guess, welcome, but what took you so long?”

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[diaryofajewishgal]

So apparently one of my friends (a very sheltered jewish boy) thought that Halloween starts the night before. Like the trick-or-treating happens on the 30th.

He thought Erev Halloween was a thing.

[brehaaorgana]

He’s actually not wrong at all! The night before Halloween is sometimes called Mischief Night, or Devil’s Night, but a few other communities in the U.S. have different names for it. This is less common, but does exist. 

However, more notably, Halloween is already the “erev” aspect of a holiday, which is known as Allhallowtide - Halloween already comes before the “holiday”! Halloween is just a condensed way of saying All Hallow’s Eve. I assume that things like Hallows’ Eve and Christmas Eve are just throwbacks from when Christians began their holidays at sundown the evening before. 

I also think people don’t realize Halloween began life as part of the Catholic holiday, but the Allhallowtide is as follows:

All Hallows Eve/Eve of all Saint’s Day = Halloween, or Oct 31st, which begins the vigil for the dead. 

All Hallows (also known as All Saint’s) Day, or traditionally Hallowmas = Nov. 1st (Hallows meaning Saints.) 

All Souls Day (which is a part of the syncretic holiday of dia de los muertos, although the mass and catholic aspects are not required.) 

….I think the holiday and its various iterations and folk practices are pretty cool because I love holidays about the dead, so here’s some of my favorite facts (most lifted from wiki):

Allhallowtide became standard “holy days of obligation” by the 12th century (given the black death, who would blame them?)

yes this holiday became a Catholic obligation around the time of everyone dying of plague, isn’t that fun?

criers would dress in all black and wander the streets ringing bells for the souls of dead christians 

some people think the practice of trick-or-treat candy evolved from the practice of “souling” where soul bread or cakes are baked for the dead. (gotta love feeding the ghosts.) They were generally eaten by the poor - “Groups of poor people, often children, would go door-to-door during Allhallowtide, collecting soul cakes, in exchange for praying for the dead, especially the souls of the givers’ friends and relatives”

I guess people who were out souling for bread would carry turnip lanterns with them to light the dark night 

Halloween is a spooky scary night because it’s the last night restless souls wander the earth: On the custom of wearing costumes, Christian minister Prince Sorie Conteh wrote: “It was traditionally believed that the souls of the departed wandered the earth until All Saints’ Day, and All Hallows’ Eve provided one last chance for the dead to gain vengeance on their enemies before moving to the next world. In order to avoid being recognized by any soul that might be seeking such vengeance, people would don masks or costumes to disguise their identities”

some people think that poor churches who didn’t have relics of saints let folks dress up in saint’s costumes and lbr if ANY of those costumes were accurate to how they got martyred it was probably terrifying looking. 

“Many Christians in mainland Europe, especially in France, believed “that once a year, on Hallowe'en, the dead of the churchyards rose for one wild, hideous carnival” known as the danse macabre, which has often been depicted in church decoration.“ Again, the danse macabre becomes a big deal around the time of the black plague. 

people would reenact the danse macabre by dressing up as corpses and throwing parties 

english protestants almost ruined everything and killed halloween so for awhile guy fawkes night took over. The scots, however, keep up the good fight of celebrating the dead, and the Irish are Catholic, and that’s important for what’s next:

puritans brought this no fun attitude to america, so it’s a wonder that halloween took root here at all! It actually didn’t during the 17th/18th centuries – Catholics and Anglicans recognized Allhallowstide but it wasn’t until a huge influx of scots and irish immigrants came to the U.S. in the 19th century that it gained real prominence in the majority of North America/the U.S. However, formerly Spanish or French colonial areas had celebrated it! Cajun areas would say mass in cemeteries on halloween night. Lots of Latinx folks had dia de los muertos coincide with their own native rituals for the dead. 

most people celebrate it completely without regard to religion today and i love it. best and greatest “made non-religious” holiday ever. 

[washingtonpost]

Trump wants to defund PBS. ‘Sesame Street’ brutally parodied him for decades.

"Grump” appears in three episodes spanning decades — sowing fear and chaos and inspiring a political march down Sesame Street.

[thestateonmtv]

this is what radical political comedic satire looks like 

[memeween]

im Here for publicly funded jokes at his expense

[mechakitten-deactivated20180324]

Anyway, here’s how to donate to Sesame Street and support PBS with donations. Talking about how awesome a thing is can be great if you also take action to support it.

[mistyvampyric]

@boohesloth

[fallingtowers]

Incel redditor perilously close to inventing feminist analysis of society

[hellpopgroove]

“Shiner” (1953) by Norman Rockwell

“My recollection of working out this picture with Norman is one of laughter and fun. He showed me the sketch and wondered what I thought about it. I got it. It was about role reversal. For once the little girl was victorious, and it did not matter that she had a black eye. That was the mark of the trophy!” -  Mary Whalen Leonard on Posing for ‘Shiner’

[heroineimages]

I grew up in a house with several books of Rockwell’s art, and my grandmother had several others, but I don’t recall having ever seen this particular portrait. I like her already!

[laughingacademy]

Our Lady of Not Sorry