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KOSA again, with a different name⌠and theyâre trying to sneak it past you before July 4th. CALL YOUR REPS!
Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all usersâ ages, require government-directed moderation p
Like the man saidâŚthe shadow takes another form and ruses again. Time to make some calls and let them know weâre watching.
Not âOnly my reading of canon is correctâ or âInterpretations are subjective and all validâ but a secret third thing, âMore than one interpretation can be valid but thereâs a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and Iâm fine with telling you itâs wrong, actually.â
not to be all "these two words will change your life" or whatever, but I promise you, programming in "good catch!" as your response to people correcting you/pointing out errors or whatever removes so much friction from interactions, and comes with a delightful happy meal toy of "not hating yourself so much for making mistakes"
I use "I stand corrected" a lot. The mild silliness of the outdated language makes it work for me.
I had a high school science teacher who would say "if you admit you're wrong and change your mind..." and the whole class would respond back "... you aren't wrong anymore!"
And when a kid would assert something incorrect In class, he wouldn't tell them they were wrong, he would help lead them to the right answer and then when they admitted/ accepted the new information, he'd say "now we're both right! Nice work!"
For a bunch of gifted kids whose identity and reputation often was staked on knowing more than most people, it was a great safety valve. No shame in making a mistake, because if you accept it you have learned! Now you are smarter! It always made me feel better.
Before I log off, im sure you guys have heard about the blackouts in Cuba a result of the oil blockade by the US. Please consider donating this group that is planning to bring direct aid to cuba
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I sometimes think about the letter KA Applegate posted for her fans who were disappointed by the ending of her series, and while I understand simply not liking how a story ends, I really respect her reasoning.
Like you can dislike the ending, that's fine.
But her reasoning is very interesting to read. And I really enjoy the framing of the anti war message.
You don't like that one war simply led to another? Fine. Pretty soon you'll all be of voting age, and of draft age. So when someone proposes a war, remember that even the most necessary wars, even the rare wars where the lines of good and evil are clear and clean, end with a lot of people dead, a lot of people crippled, and a lot of orphans, widows and grieving parents.
K. A. Applegate, May 2001, 6 months before the start of the US-Afghanistan War.
The High Court of Andhra Pradesh in India has ruled in a landmark decision that trans women are legally recognised as women.
HUGE GOOD NEWS
the world may seem bleak but PLEASE take time to feel the trans joy and to be happy for our sisters in India
Some women are conditioned to be fragile and weak, and to believe that it's a sin to outperform a man. Her feminism would involve allowing women to be strong.
Some women are expected to be strong at times when they can't. Her feminism would involve reassuring her that it's okay to not be strong.
Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're too stupid to ever amount to anything. Their disability activism would involve reassuring them that they're capable.
Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're smart and gifted, and are expected to live up to impossible standards. Their disability activism would involve allowing them to fail, make mistakes, be stupid, etc.
Some children are constantly reminded "you're the child, I'm the adult" in order to deny their autonomy. Their youth rights activism would involve treating them like an adult at times when they feel ready for it.
Some children are treated like adults in order to justify increased expectations or to downplay abuse against them. Their youth rights activism would involve allowing them to be a child.
There is no one-size-fits-all solution to oppression. Each individual person's experience is different. Whatever trauma is caused by their oppression, the activism should focus on undoing it.
my dad, trying to explain the concept of money to me: say you have a sandwich, and i need your sandwich. but i don't have anything to give you. you're not just gonna give it to me.
me: i would just give it to you.
my dad:
in elementary school we had. basically an immersive economics lesson that was "playing City," with different jobs and businesses; it was mostly semi-free time for socializing and selling/buying toys and snacks from each other. one of the lessons we were supposed to learn was the importance of paying a small amount of money into health and/or business insurance, because you had a chance of being hit with the Daily Disaster and a huge bill.
anyway, some kid who didn't buy insurance got hit with a "medical bill" early on, so he was supposed to be bankrupt and have to sit the rest of the game out. the 8 year olds were not having it and spontaneously invented crowdfunding so he could keep playing with everyone else.
kids who don't 'get it' are right, actually
endlessly, morbidly fascinated by how when you're a kid you're constantly having parents, school, religion, media, all drumming it into your head that Sharing Is Good And You Need To Do It, and then you grow up and suddenly they're all like right never mind all that, this is The Real World and it's every bastard for himself
A lot of people seem to mix up âcommunityâ with âfriend groupâ so when they read âno one should be abandoned by the community. No matter what they didâ they think it means âyou have to be friends with abusersâ. When in reality it means âno matter what someone does they shouldnt be left to go homeless and be denied financial, housing, medical, etc aidâ
You donât have to be friends with these people, no one is saying that. Itâs just saying that you should support rehabilitative justice, support programs that help homeless people, support funding for free medical services, and make sure they donât turn away anyone who needs help.
the more time you spend in active recovery from any given self destructive behavior or addiction the more you understand the common conception of the "relapse" as defined by a broken "streak" to be, like, so bad for one's own well-being that it would be funny if it weren't resulting in just a lot of misery and death
I told my girlfriend to think of quitting vaping as training her endurance by seeing how long she can run before she gets tired, then doing it again and hoping to go further next time. She said it really helped her.
This is the stages of change model, with each circle being a part of the process of growth. You'll notice how relapse is not a failing of the model, or a set back, but an active step in continuing to grow and change. Everytime you relapse, you learn something; maybe a certain time of year is difficult for you. Maybe certain people push you back into the habit. Maybe your other coping skills/replacement habits didn't work how you wanted and you need to strengthen them, or develop new ones. Maybe it's not quite as clear cut and you need to spend the time figuring out what exactly went wrong so you can catch it next time. It doesn't matter the exact lesson, but it's part of the process.
I'm not seeing a lot of posts with links to Minnesota Mutual Aid Funds so here's a post
Extra info was provided by a local friend I wont name because shit is scary for our Minnesota friends. But here's some valuable orgs and funds that are on the ground helping right now
MN Freedom Fund - bail org for arrested protesters
TCMAP - mutual aid project
Powderhorn Families - direct donation to families in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood so their rent and utilities are paid while they are sheltering in place during ICE deployments
Fe y Justicia - Latine aid organization that is managing rapid response in St Cloud
MN CAIR Minnesota - assisting with representation for Muslims in
Minnesota Minnesota Interfaith Coalition (ICOM) - accompanying people to USCIS appointments and on errands to keep them safe from ICE
MIRAC - THE immigrant rights org in Minnesota, doing a huge amount of rapid response and protest work in the TC
Sip of Silk - Palestinian and Salvadoran coffee house in the university neighborhood doing a direct food and hygiene products drive
Smitten Kitten - sex shop in on Lyndale and Lake doing a direct food and hygiene products drive
All of these and more here
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
Adding the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund to the excellent resources above. They provide bonds to individuals in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Kentucky, and expanded to Minnesota in response to ICE's aggression there.
Ways to Give > Legacy Giving In-Kind Giving More Ways to Give Sponsorships FAQs There are more ways to give to Neighborhood House Your inves
Neighborhood House has been here for 130 years actively helping immigrants, and they are FIERCELY organized. They're providing food support especially right now and could use any donations they can get.
Our youth and family nonprofit theatre is doing the musical Annie with a cast and crew of about 100, mostly children. Yesterday we had a two-show day with limited time for kids to rest and eat in between.
A parent offered to set up catering to be delivered for anyone who didnât want to or couldnât leave the site, and asked that anybody who was interested contribute a small amount to the cost. A few parents started asking if they could pay for other families who might not be able to contribute, and put in extra.
The whole cast was fed. There was food left over. Very few families left to get food or brought food from home because there was an abundance. Kids got seconds. Kids got seconds of dessert.
Itâs been said a million times, but people balk at the idea of socialism and taxation and âpaying for freeloadersâ because weâre devoid of community and isolated. Nobody feared âpaying for freeloadersâ because those freeloaders arenât faceless, theyâre kids who go on playdates with your own children, or families who offered your child a ride when your car broke down. If we could think about other people as members of our community instead of faceless, we would be more generous and sharing almost instantly.
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.
It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
I think mostly what young fandom types (and I guess younger people in general) who are very very invested in the idea that â20 is still basically a minorâ need to understand is that the feeling of âIâm just a child pretending to be an adult, and everyone else around me is a REAL adultâ is DEEPLY universal (and wonât stop, ever, by the way, sorry!) and also is not, like, praxis.
Believe me, I get it, but the self-infantilization needs to stop, especially when youâre trying to engage in conversations about actual children and the harms they can face. Yes, it is scary to wake up and realize youâre 22 and you still feel like youâre 15, but it happens to all of us. Youâre an adult. You have to deal with it.
Like I'm nearing 40 and I don't feel significantly different as a person than I did at 20, other than being less depressed.
I know I'm different bc i respond in different ways to things now, but there's not a sense of "ah yes I am become adult" that's for fuckin sure. It's normal. It's okay. So stop infantilizing yourselves about it.
And stop infantilizing others about it, too. Yes, you're realizing at 25 that you still don't feel like an adult, but you cannot use that feeling to let yourself think of people who are younger than you as "even less of an adult than I am" when they are, in fact, adults. And you have to be very, very careful not to let that feeling convince you that it's okay for young adults to have fewer rights.
There's no age at which you magically stop being worried that you're not doing it right or well enough. Every single person alive is the oldest they've ever been and we are ALL winging it. Being scared of getting it wrong doesn't mean that you shouldn't be allowed to get it wrong.
It is universal, and it doesn't end.
If you're 20 or younger, and you want a binder, need a new one, get one now.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced new proposals that would effectively block gender-affirming care for trans youth acros
Links to free binders:
Point of Pride provides free chest binders (specially-designed chest compression garments) to any trans person who needs one and cannot affo
Trans Essentials and our parent company, Early to Bed, are happy to announce their Free Gender Affirming Gear Program. Designed for folks 24
The Queer Trans Project is a Black- and Trans-led nonprofit providing free gender-affirming kits, flight assistance, and community support t
Morebinders is a program created to get free chest binders (gender affirming clothing) into the hands of transgender, nonbinary, two spirit,
Get a free FTM chest binder through TOMSCOUTâs Freedom Binder Program. Support trans and nonbinary voices. One story = one binder (just cove
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a series of actions yesterday that could essentially ban gender-affirming care for youth all over the country. The most significant move is a proposed rule that says hospitals providing this care cannot receive any Medicare or Medicaid funding. (x)
hey y'all this is open to public comment for the next 54 days (from 12/25/25). If you have a minute, go make some noise.
Also I am asking all of you, once again, to learn about ecosystem conservation and restoration instead of wallowing in "we are already past the point of no return" or that it will take "millennia" to restore ecosystems.
You have to understand that nature does not work in the same timeframe as ours. Protecting and restoring ecosystems is RIDICULOUSLY inexpensive and requires very little industrial technology; shovels and saplings are not exactly high-tech. But it takes time and long-term projects with people determined to do it. Maybe we are too focused in our "we want it now" thinking, but what you see today is not what you may see in 10, 20, 50, even 80 years if you live that long.
But it works. It's working right now, and when capitalism is replaced by socialism and we stop thinking on short-term gain, when our societies are focused into the common welfare instead of accumulation, it will even work better. Again I could point out to individual examples but instead, I encourage you to learn about ecology. We are well past from the catastrophic "Earth will die and there's nothing we can do" predictions from the 80s. We know what to do, we know it can work.
A new study published online today, April 25, in the scientific journal Science provides the strongest evidence to date that not only is nat
This article talks about this very much in the "see? ecology can help the economy too!" tone that unfortunately is sort of necessary to convince people in the current capitalist system. But I don't want you to focus on this right now.
I want you to KNOW how doable this is. How inexpensive this is, how POSSIBLE THIS IS. That people working and loving the land and nature they live in is possible. That these projects WORK, THEY DO restore and preserve ecosystems. That humanity is neither a plague that destroys everything or a passive bystander on its own destruction but that these are actual things that can be, are, and will be implemented, backed by actual science and results. This is not empty #hopecore #hopepunk feel good stuff, these are things you can learn about, even work towards, and you can most certainly demand they are part of our society.
Are you listening to me?
"I'm just losing hope." Then get some fucking conviction. Millions of people around the globe are working their asses off and seeing results. What they are doing IS WORKING.
This orange peel story was huge years ago: https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/a-fruitful-experiment-in-land-conservation/
Beavers reintroduced to historic wetlands improve them at such a level that we can see the improvements from space: https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/nasa-satellites-reveal-restoration-power-of-beavers/
Africa is successfully slowing desertification and restoring historic farming soil with their Green Wall project: https://welcomeafrica.org/en/africa-combats-desertification-with-a-belt-of-life/
There has even been success at regrowing coral reefs--something which I am old enough to be told was impossible. But people have been hard at work for decades since then, and this is one of the results: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240308123248.htm
REPAIRING THE DAMAGE IS ENTIRELY WITHIN THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY.
THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE IF YOU HAVE THE CONVICTION TO BACK IT UP.
Hey the US government is proposing to get rid of the Endangered Species Act. Please go comment.
(yes this entirely for corporate profit)
Cut and paste the docket number to put in your response if you remember. You can comment anonymously if you want.
The Oregon Zoo has some sample arguments you can make.
We have until December 22nd!
I don't usually add on to stuff like this, but this is really really important to me.
Since OP didn't explain what's actually changing (lots of things) here's a simple explanation of one of the Big Ones.
One of the biggest changes is a proposal to remove the ESAâs Threatened Species Blanket Rule (FWS-HQ-ES-2025-0029). The Blanket Rule is extremely important because it automatically extends the same protections given to endangered species to all newly listed threatened species, quickly providing prohibitions on harming, killing or trading the species. If the Blanket Rule is rescinded, species-specific rules would have to be enacted, imposing additional procedural delays and uncertainty at the most critical time for the species' survival. And with more and more species in danger each year, thatâs a risk that we as a country cannot afford to take.Â
Also, @why-animals-do-the-thing / @animalphotorefs this seems like something that your reach might help with, and that's relevant to your blog(s).
If you run into issues, try turning off your VPN if you have one, in case it's getting annoyed that you're not "in the U.S.".
If you need a template, I'm putting one I got sent at work under the cut. (But check out the Oregon Zoo link, too! Or better yet, write your own! Unique and individual comments catch more attention than copy-pasted ones!)
Thanks for the tag, I definitely want to jump in here because the most helpful thing any individual can do is write your own comment.
Iâm going to give you a little bit of information about the process thatâs happening here, why itâs happening, and how you can best contribute to protecting the Endangered Species Act. You can skip it by scrolling to the red text, but youâll be best set up to comment and help if you know some things about whatâs happening first, so please stick with me. I promise to be as simple and jargon free as possible.
First, and to catch people's attention as they scroll, here's two red wolf sisters: a species the ESA actively preserving. This is who we're doing this for.
To clarify one thing: theyâre not trying to totally repeal the ESA, the entire law, theyâre looking to roll back regulations implementing it/enforcing it to what was being used in 2019. This is still bad! Very bad! But a thing thatâs important when dealing with legislation/regulation is precision in the language we use.
Okay, so hereâs what you need to know. This is part of what is known as the ânotice-and-commentâ rule making process, which is federally mandated. This happens with the implementation of regulations to enact new laws, or changes to the interpretation of laws. Laws like the ESA, once passed, are delegated to various federal agencies and departments to enact and make happen, and they do that by deciding what regulations need to exist to fulfill the text and intent of the law. This change to the ESA is happening because one of the earliest executive orders from this administration âdirected all departments and agencies to immediately review agency actions to identify those actions that potentially impose an undue burden on the identification, development, or use of domestic energy resources, and, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, consider suspending, revising, or rescinding agency actions identified as unduly burdensome that conflict with this national objective.â So, as @sweetfirebird said, literally go figure out what laws and regs and protections they can interpret differently, put on hold, or trash for the energy sector. Fucking gross.
This ânotice-and-commentâ process is the process with which all these federal agencies go about exploring changing regulations. Itâs a formal process that is specifically designed to allow stakeholders to have input on what happens. Good news: in the ESA, the public is literally a stakeholder! Itâs written into the law that any âpersonâ (basically an individual or a group of individuals) can sue the government for a violation of the law. This is actually historically the prime enforcement mechanism of the ESA. Which means you, as an American on tumblr reading this, have absolutely valid standing to go tell the feds to knock this shit off. And with the way the ânotice-and-commentâ process works, they actually have to take your argument into account. (Yes, even though we know this admin is a piece of shit and dgaf). Hereâs why.
A ânotice and commentâ process has four major steps.
Agency issues a notice of proposed rulemaking. Thatâs what youâre looking at in the first link @sweetbirdfire shared. They have to describe what the rule they want to make/change is and explain the legal authority for the rule.
The public must be given an opportunity to participate in a written comment period. Thatâs what youâre being asked to do - submit a comment before the comment period is over on the 22nd.
The agency must âconsider all relevant, timely-submitted comments. If it decides to issue a final rule, the agency develops the regulatory text along with a preamble explaining the ruleâs basis and responding to all significant issues raised in the comments.â
Final rule is published.
Okay, so why did I jump to a direct quote from federal documents in the third bullet point? Because thatâs the really important shit. When federal agencies move forward with rulemaking after a public comment period, they are required to consider and response to all significant issues raised. And that is why you should write your own comment if you can.
Itâs really common for organizations encouraging people to leave public comment to ask people to send in form letters. Itâs easy, it takes no time or real work, it shows a lot of general public support on the issue, and they can quote the comment numbers when theyâre lobbying.
But! What Iâve been told by serious professional people who work with regulatory agencies is that all those form letters only have the functional weight of a single comment during the ânotice-and-commentâ process. If 100 people only bring up the same significant set of issues, that requires far less time and work for the agency to respond to than even 20 people writing in with their individual concerns. Iâve seen follow-ups on comment periods where they actually count how many people raised issues on a single topic or concern - but the form letters only counted as one âcommentâ because they were the exact same thing.
And while the political agency head probably wants to fast-track this process of changing the regs to let the feds tear up whatever the fuck they want, a ânotice-and-comment periodâ is a really good way to gum up those gears. There are still people in lower-level positions who do this daily work and I expect that theyâre opposed to this and will go through the whole process like theyâre been trained to. Under normal administrations, an overwhelming number of concerns raised during comment periods have stalled the creation/change of specific regulations for a decade. This is a process that works best when as many people as possible participate, and itâs detrimental to our interests as invested members of the public that that isnât more widely known or the process understood.
So! What does that mean you should do here?
Write your own comment if you have the time/spoons.
Literally, write it in your own words, rather than using the form letters provided. If you make it a âdifferent commentâ it has to be considered separately and your concerns on the topic will be given more weight. Even if you just stick to the topics the Oregon Zoo offered: to be clear, theyâre really good ones.
But, youâll have even more impact if you can tie it to specific concerns for you. It takes a little more work so I donât expect everyone to do this, but if you have some specialized or local knowledge that can be relevant, this is a great time to drop that in. Tie the concern to endangered or threatened species in your specific community, or an ecosystem that you know companies might want to pillage.
Your comment doesnât have to be super well written or perfectly edited. It can be in language about as casual as youâd use in a tumblr post (with punctuation, though). This isnât something youâre turning in for a grade - itâs raising your hand to say hey, I object! Youâre not a major advocacy group or professional org, you donât have to be perfect, you just have to tell them how you feel. That being said. Public comments are public record. You can submit them anonymously but donât include identifying information.
Hereâs a link directly to the comment portal. While the site has a text box embedded in the page, you can also submit a document/file containing your comment.
https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FWS-HQ-ES-2025-0039-0001
Comments close at 11:59 PM EST (4:59 GMT) on December 22nd. We have less than five days to get more comments in. Iâm really not kidding when I say every unique, individual comment makes an impact. Letâs do this.
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