Maria, 33 (1992), half Jewish (zionist | am Yisrael chai*), vegan, witch (predictions.) my gifs | 100 facts about me (TO FIX inaccuracies)\ life *the people of Israel live Lesbian, gengder non-conforming (b/wfemme and butch), introvert (very rarely, very extrovert), feminist + pro-trans ♫ ザ・ピーナッツ fan (Za piinattsu, The Peanuts), a J-Pop twins (sisters) duo, 1958–1975. Old lesbians forever #1 & #2 #read and relate #MiU by me (Mädchen in Uniform) | Meine liebe (Christa Winsloe) The gif made by me, the post is here (320x240px) Below the gif is a big sized icon/avatar of this Tumblr blog as black-haired, partly colourised version of Edelgard Comtesse Mengsberg (Annemarie von Rochhausen) from Mädchen in Uniform, 1931. DO NOT FOLLOW IF (any of or any combination): racist, fascist, male \ man, LGBT+ hater (TERF too), antisemite (including anybody who's against Israel as a counntry and its sitizens in general.)) Dislike | against 100% (can't be friends with those who are fans of): dark side (fictional or not) \ Devil \ Satan, etc.
I'm a simple woman visually & try to avoid total stupidity. Anything and anybody glamour(ous) & memes are two big no's. More about me & Tumblr, some other Tumblrs.
This is the reason why I have followed random blogs very rarely—several at a time at most at all times (during my 15.5+ years on Tumblr (since late August, 2011).) 2 users with a random blog have been inactive for 1-2 years+, so zero random blogs on dashboard other than my main. No posdible untagged unpleasant posts is such a pleasant feeling.
Maggie Kirkpatrick vs Pamela Rabe: Joan Ferguson (their opinions)
Maggie: "I'm not Joan."
Pamela: enjoyed playing Joan. (What? O_o)
No quote from Pamela & I've never watched either TV Series (not a genre for me.)
As a Tumblr user interested in Sapphic content (and other non-romantic topics on here), I saw posts about Joan (Wentworth) in the past (some Vera/Joan edits are wonderful.) Seriously, when I had read that Pamela enjoyed playing Joan, it was an instant bye-bye as to see some posts. If it were an article about Maggie, it would be exact opposite, as incredibly pleasant face of a simple-looking woman + hate of her evil character is a perfect combination. (Example of looks: POST 1, POST 2 (my re-blogs in case either is not available: POST 1, POST 2.)
As an person who's against villains, what can I say other than . . . Maggie for the win! (Two actresses who played bad people in an old favourite film of mine hated their characters as well, so the same here.)
Hungary's LGBTQ victory: devil Victor Orbán has lost election 👏🇭🇺🏳️🌈🇭🇺🏳️🌈🇭🇺🏳️🌈👏
After 16 years against everybody and everything related to LGBTQ
Source: e-mail from All Out (allout.org) on 13th of March, 2026 (elections was yesterday, 12th of March.)
All Out is a non-profit organisation which fights to help LGBTQ people Worldwide fighting in person (campaigning | protesting | marching) and on-line using petitions & collecting donations. The organisation used to be active on Tumblr @alloutorg (Most likely, this is how I had known about them back in 2013 or so.)
If you want to be part of the organisation, go to the site https://allout.org & sign their petitions (whatever is there currently.) Whenever any updates about signed petitions (you need to click to receive updates) & new petitions to sign, everything will be send to e-mail you'll use to sign first petition.
Full text of the e-mail is under Keep reading.
[Here goes first name (of a member of All Out who has received the e-mail],
Last night, Viktor Orbán lost the Hungarian general election. After 16 years in power, his government – which banned Pride, criminalised peaceful protest, prosecuted the Mayor of Budapest for daring to protect the right to assemble, and systematically dismantled the rights and dignity of LGBT+ people – has been removed from office. Peter Magyar's Tisza party won a landslide, securing 138 seats in the 199-seat parliament.
I was in Budapest last summer for a Pride march banned by Orbán. I stood with our partners and tens of thousands of Hungarians from all walks of life who refused to be invisible and who chose peaceful defiance over silence. Over 200,000 people marched that day – despite the bans, despite the threat of fines, despite the surveillance. It was one of the largest civil rights protests in the country's history.
I came home certain that something had shifted. Orbán failed to intimidate those who were bravely protecting the right to assemble peacefully. The power of an authoritarian government was no longer invincible.
Hungarian LGBT+ activists have spent 16 long years refusing to disappear: organising, resisting, and leading, even as their country became ever more authoritarian. They just kept showing up with courage. And across the world, people like you kept standing with them. When you added your name to the All Out petition, you sent a clear message: you are not alone, the world is watching, and we have your backs. I know from spending time with Hungarian activists that this support helped provide the power and endurance that carried this fight to the result we saw last night.
I want to be honest with you about where things stand now. We don't yet know what Peter Magyar's government will mean for LGBT+ rights. He ran a cautious campaign on this. The legislation that made Pride illegal, banned books, criminalised protest, and stripped LGBT+ people of legal visibility is still on the books. The work is not done.
But here is what we can say today without hesitation: a government that treated LGBT+ people as a political weapon and that used our lives as a tool for division is gone. As the EU Commission President put it last night: "Europe's heart is beating stronger in Hungary tonight."
Please be on stand-by to stand with our Hungarian friends again. When the new government forms, the real work begins – the work of repealing the laws that did so much damage, of making Hungary a place where LGBT+ people can truly feel at home. We will need you again. We will call on you. And we hope you'll be there.
For now, take a moment to recognise what collective action can do: people stood firm, others stood with them, and history shifted.
NOTE: It ought to be 1–9 followers for Newbie (or additional category for 8 more followers maximum, or just from 2 to 9 in total), as a gap cannot exist.
POST (sorry, my re-blog is linked, as various blogs (including already non-existent one of the original poster's) can be deleted by owners (or worse, by Tumblr in much rare cases) any time.
There (somewhere in Europe) where I was born & raised (and studied as a librarian) is not Dewey Decimal System, but an alternative one. My maternal grandma worked as a librarian for over 35 years (but studied History.) This is how our books were arranged specific way (see below.)
If to take fiction & non-fiction, I would divide them.
A. fiction. All at once, sorted by author's first (etc.) letter(s) of surname, BUT children's books (picture books = pre-school mostly | chapter books with or without pictures (= juvenile literature or US term Middle Grade) are SEPARATED from so-called books for adults (starting from ~ level of secondary (high) school English curriculum, but not limited by classics) + pre-school thin | small | lift the flap etc (for early readers) books were* located separately as stacks, due to their non-standard size. Big children's books had their own tall shelf (standing, yes!)
B. Non-fiction. By genres (but mostly whichever shelf (as opposed to two bookcases) had* space. We had* informative books mostly (dictionaries | encyclopaedical kind of books & medical books (related to medications & illnesses) + some books about celebrities (quality ones, not rubbish like some of the ones can be published now for profit) & we knew exact location of a book in most of cases, so if something wasn't in its place for prolonged period of time, it might be lost within a flat O_o
ALSO A few of to read | + one or several ones to look through (to find something needed) were* located near bed (one of two bookcases & a shelf with big-sized children's books were near bed as well, he-he :P = as if to be in a library at any time.)
*When i lived in the original location (a flat.)
IN SHORT, if to arrange fiction (which I have | will have) biggest number out of total number of books, by author surname. (This is how I've voted.)
If you or anyone you communicate with might become a target of the Trump administration or a future more fascist state, do not use agentic AI.
If you aren't familiar, an AI agent is not a chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. Agentic AIs do autonomous tasks like manage email or make reservations. Examples of agentic AI programs include OpenClaw and Microsoft Recall.
These AI agents are snitches.1 Signal President Meredith Whittaker has raised privacy concerns2 that we need to listen to. The short version is this: agentic AIs are being designed to save everything on your screen, permanently. This includes all messages that you send and any messages you receive. This data is not end-to-end encrypted, and there's generally no way to opt out private communication tools.
Right now, it's impossible to know whether someone in a Signal group or WhatsApp or Telegram channel is using agentic AI and compromising you in the process. Even if you hate AI, you can’t ignore this. So please take action now to tell the billionare AI corporations one very important and very true thing: the only good AI is a privacy-protecting AI.
SIGN THE LETTER NOW
As the invasive surveillance of Flock3, Amazon Ring4 doorbell cameras, facial recognition5, and data brokers6 is actively being resisted at an unprecedented scale, agentic AIs are yet another threat vector. Even experts7 can’t trust it.
For an AI agent, disappearing messages never disappear and all of your passwords are a government inquiry away. This leaves your most sensitive communications and tools available for subpoena or worse—for sale to data brokers and advertisers, exposed to malicious hackers, and potentially even eagerly shared without a warrant by an AI company in need of political points. Big Tech needs to step up the privacy protections immediately, sign our letter to them now.
RAISE HELL
The promise of an AI Agent is so tempting: just give the software access to everything that appears on your screen and it will buy your concert tickets or research your vacation. But people are getting less and less interested in trading their privacy and safety for convenience. In this moment of heightened repression, data-hungry government systems are actively being deployed8 to scare people who speak out. Right now, any activist, immigrant, or marginalized person9 should be very concerned, because Big Tech’s agentic AIs spy on the tools we have to keep us safe: our Signal messages, our phone calls, our encrypted documents, our passwords.
These tools will continue to be less safe until the developers of agentic AI take responsibility for the massive threat their products are to movements for justice and liberation. A good AI, open source or corporate, will not10 betray its users. If AI developers would like their technology to succeed, robust privacy standards need to come first. Tell Big Tech: nobody wants their AI bot to rat out everyone they care about.
TAKE ACTION
Do not install any agentic AI that isn’t truly private by design—and spread the word. This is one more way that we have to keep each other safe.
We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change. This includes potential ag
Hey everyone, don't mean to scare you but; the UK is at it again with their extreme online surveillance and if their plans work out, I will not be able to be here anymore. Like, I will barely be able to use the internet at all. It will not be safe for me to do that.
So back in 2025, the Online Safety Act came into effect over here, and despite government officials constantly going to the press saying it only covers pornography and "harmful content", it does in fact effect any website with a search function and user-generated content that is accessible in the UK. Websites that comply force UK citizens to go through "age assurance", which means you need to either hand over a government ID or scan your face to use it to prove you're over 18. This is, of course, a terrible idea. These age assurance providers are not regulated and have no connection to the UK or its government, and there have already been data breaches due to this. Even if these providers were regulated by the UK, the UK has a terrible track record of preventing data and security breaches. The UK government does not have the tools to prevent them. We should not be doing this in such a large scale. This one is from just today!
But here's where it gets even worse: the UK government is working towards expanding this. They want to get even harsher, and they also want to ban VPNs (sorry, "restrict them for under 18s", aka put them through age assurance and make then useless). This has been a long time coming, they've been talking about VPN banning since 2022, but they're finally attempting it now. I cannot safely use the internet without a VPN. I do not live in a household where I can safely use the internet if there is a risk of my activity being traced. This is the same for a lot of vulnerable people. Thankfully, in the source provided about restricting VPNs, there is already pushback from people working in government on this, but as you can see from the 2022 article, this has been a pattern for a long time. They want VPNs banned, and when they do, I will not be able to be here anymore. Neither will others in my position. It is as simple as that. Not to mention that depriving children under 18 of an online safety tool that could keep them safe from trackers and data thieves is just... monumentally stupid? Stop making children's data vulnerable, you morons??
But you can help! The link at the top (also here) is a consultation you can fill out even if you're not in the UK! All questions are optional and skippable, you can just fill out the ones you want to.
There are a LOT of leading questions in here, it could not be more obvious that they're looking for a specific outcome here, but we need all the pushback we can get! Seriously, I know the entire world is pushing for age verification now, but the UK's push for total surveillance is particularly fucking scary right now. I didn't even go into what's been going on with digital ID here. It's honestly so terrifying.
If you could fill this out and share it, I'd be so grateful! And if you're in the UK: contact your MP! You can find out who yours is here. Thank you!
I filled out this form. I made it very clear in my worded responses that I am against age restrictions and government monitored website usages, so please do the same.
+1 filled out the form (most of parts, minus Chapter 4: Preparing children for a digital future (approximately 8 questions))
My reason against age restrictions was that, for example, "If minimum age restrictions mean a person needs to submit a document or send a selfie, it is against anonymity & in case with selfies, real age can be different (compared with look) much more than not." & that submitted documents and selfies ~ "can be stolen & have been more than once which is very dangerous."
addition: I understand wanting to wait until things feel Right to write. but as someone who also contends with adhd and The Situations there is not going to be a time where it magically feels perfect to write. "I'll do it someday / later / when..." is an endless delay. you've gotta crack open a document and write something even if it sucks ass because if you don't get your brain used to the habit it's not gonna stick. the time you can start is Now.
U (spelling is correct in Dutch, incorrect in English) and I are (in my case) exact same me, myself and I. I looove re-reading my draughts (means various works in progress, as I change something seriously veeery rarely.)