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[sixty-silver-wishes]

sorry america but you’ve been really mean. and I don’t want to go to your birthday party in two days

[sixty-silver-wishes]

so this post has blown up; turns out a lot of people feel the same way I do. If you're feeling conflicted or upset over 4th of July, I've compiled a list of educational resources and charities, both regarding US and international issues, which you can look into if you'd like. Issues here include humanitarian aid to Gaza, Ukraine, and the Caribbean, as well as reproductive, LGBT, BIPOC, and disability rights in the US.

[sixty-silver-wishes]

woke up and saw people were reblogging this again. anyway, yeah. america is still being really mean and I do not want to go to its birthday party today

if you would like to spite the really mean people even more today, consider donating to raices con voz. they're a student-led organization in los angeles, who deliver food and essential supplies to immigrant families who can't leave their homes due to the ICE raids. More information about them here

EDIT: Had to fix the link! please reblog this version instead

[sixty-silver-wishes]

another year of not wanting to go to america's birthday party in two days. because it's really mean. so we should help the people that america is being really mean to

in keeping with tradition, here is a link to unicef's fund for emergency health supplies and services for survivors of the venezuela earthquakes.

here is another link for manos in action, an organization that delivers supplies, such as food and childcare items, to latin american immigrants in central florida. I've participated in one of their local food drives; they're great. if you're not local to central florida, you can always donate money.

the other links are still available too, so feel free to check those out!

[ninanation]

Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people

[ninanation]

please keep talking about how Becky from Maryland doesn't like the rising gas prices. It's clearly the more pressing issue.

[creacher-art]

USA folks, that is a consistent temperature range hitting 113°. Death Valley temperatures. In Banda, it hovered between 116°-118° (47°-48° C) for a week straight.

This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:

ActionAid India

SEEDS India

GlobalGiving

Raise India (Project Tapan)

[gaslit-dipshits]

[appalachian-werewolf]

PoweredByWho — Who's Building Data Centers in Your Backyard?

Follow the money behind America's data center boom. Track 2,300+ projects, PAC spending, and the politicians who sign off on it.

[makingqueerhistory]

Anti-Book Banning Bingo

We made this for an event with the Writers' Guild of Alberta to fight the book bans in our province. Feel free to use it, and if you want to fill in the "support a trans author" square, consider becoming a paid patron of Making Queer History!

[gwydionmisha]

Instead of tackling affordability, House Republicans bully trans college students

The Congressional Equality Caucus condemned two GOP-backed higher education measures, warning they would invite discrimination against LGBTQ

If you can’t safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

And another: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

“Congress. gov:” https://www.congress.gov/

[daytimemin]

AGE VERIFICATION ALL-HANDS-ON-DECK MOMENT

BAD NEWS: The House GOP and Democratic members of the Energy and Commerce Committee have been working on a package of age-verification bills and have finally struck a deal (I believe some of these are the same bills in the KIDS Act which they had passed out of committee a few months ago). Theoretically, this means that the House of Representatives could bring this package up for a vote at any time, with some reporters saying as early as this week or next week.

If this package were to pass it would still face an uphill battle as the House version of KOSA doesn't not include a duty of care provision, which the Senate wants.

However, we need to do everything to can to stop this from passing now, so it doesn't advance any further.

We must call House Leadership, our representatives, and our senators to express our opposition and we need to spread the work. If we can make noise and create pressure over how unpopular age verification is, it makes passing bills like these less enticing.

(Note: this is different from whatever deal the Senate and the White House are trying to reach over AI and age-verification)

You can use the resources linked to find more information and 5-calls to call:

Bad Internet Bills

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

Resources For KOSA

Call Script on Page 2! Resources For Learning about KOSA Petitions: STOP KOSA Tell Congress: KOSA Will Censor the Internet But Won't Help

House strikes bipartisan KOSA deal

The leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will unveil a bipartisan deal Monday on guardrails for protecting kids against online

Also noting that leaders in the push for age-verification don't like the House's version. So, if the House doesn't like the Senate version and the Senate doesn't like the House version, and no one likes Marsha Blackburn's AI package, that is a weakness/friction that can work in our favor, so PLEASE CALL TO OPPOSE:

AND PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD WHERE EVER YOU CAN!

[daytimemin]

MORE INFORMATION AND WHY YOU SHOULD BE CALLING

It looks like they're really trying to coalition-build around the KIDS Act, which isn't the best news. I believe friction still exists, but we must make our opposition known by calling this week and next week ahead of any possible vote!

(Edit: I believe this tweet is in referring to Kathy Castor, who isn't a Senator, but another member of the House who also sits on the Energy and Commerce Committee)

[daytimemin]

EVEN MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL!!!

A possible vote is next week and the House Speaker is supporting the package. Please call your representatives, Senators, and leadership now and through the weekend.

I know this is scary, I'm worried too, but we can't panic and give up. We must fight this at every step.

[daytimemin]

THESE BILLS COULD BE GETTING A VOTE AS EARLY AS TOMORROW CALL NOW, TOMORROW MORNING, AND BEYOND!

Bad Internet Bills

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

[autisticadvocacy]

American Association of People with Disabilities

American Association of People with Disabilities

Moving the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) and the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) out of the Department of Education will harm disabled students. Take action now — tell Congress to protect the rights of students with disabilities: https://aapd.quorum.us/campaign/148277/

[daytimemin]

AGE VERIFICATION ALL-HANDS-ON-DECK MOMENT

BAD NEWS: The House GOP and Democratic members of the Energy and Commerce Committee have been working on a package of age-verification bills and have finally struck a deal (I believe some of these are the same bills in the KIDS Act which they had passed out of committee a few months ago). Theoretically, this means that the House of Representatives could bring this package up for a vote at any time, with some reporters saying as early as this week or next week.

If this package were to pass it would still face an uphill battle as the House version of KOSA doesn't not include a duty of care provision, which the Senate wants.

However, we need to do everything to can to stop this from passing now, so it doesn't advance any further.

We must call House Leadership, our representatives, and our senators to express our opposition and we need to spread the work. If we can make noise and create pressure over how unpopular age verification is, it makes passing bills like these less enticing.

(Note: this is different from whatever deal the Senate and the White House are trying to reach over AI and age-verification)

You can use the resources linked to find more information and 5-calls to call:

Bad Internet Bills

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

Resources For KOSA

Call Script on Page 2! Resources For Learning about KOSA Petitions: STOP KOSA Tell Congress: KOSA Will Censor the Internet But Won't Help

House strikes bipartisan KOSA deal

The leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will unveil a bipartisan deal Monday on guardrails for protecting kids against online

Also noting that leaders in the push for age-verification don't like the House's version. So, if the House doesn't like the Senate version and the Senate doesn't like the House version, and no one likes Marsha Blackburn's AI package, that is a weakness/friction that can work in our favor, so PLEASE CALL TO OPPOSE:

AND PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD WHERE EVER YOU CAN!

[daytimemin]

MORE INFORMATION AND WHY YOU SHOULD BE CALLING

It looks like they're really trying to coalition-build around the KIDS Act, which isn't the best news. I believe friction still exists, but we must make our opposition known by calling this week and next week ahead of any possible vote!

(Edit: I believe this tweet is in referring to Kathy Castor, who isn't a Senator, but another member of the House who also sits on the Energy and Commerce Committee)

[daytimemin]

EVEN MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL!!!

A possible vote is next week and the House Speaker is supporting the package. Please call your representatives, Senators, and leadership now and through the weekend.

I know this is scary, I'm worried too, but we can't panic and give up. We must fight this at every step.

[cassolotl]

UK petition: Maximum working temperature

UK work guidance has a minimum safe temperature for employees at work, but not a maximum one.

Click here to sign a petition to get the UK Health and Safety Executive to implement a maximum safe working temperature.

[frenchkey]

Here's the link to the official UK government petition. You can only sign if you are a UK resident or a British citizen, but if it gets enough signatures, it's required to be heard.

SIGN BOTH!!!

It's quick and easy and could save a life. My office reached 31 Celsius today. It was not the hottest office in the building. We do not have any fans for electrical safety reasons. There was an emergency ice pops run at lunch, which sounds funny but we were genuinely concerned our pregnant colleague was approaching heatstroke and the official guidance is to 'open a window'. Heat kills! Outdoor and manual jobs have it even worse right now too. I know I'm lucky to be able to be sitting down with free access to water during this!

[dkettchen]

I made a new flyer for my research project 📋

LINK TO THE SURVEY

The survey will be open until at least the end of 2026 if not beyond. Only these 14 measurements are required, all the others are optional:

If you have been on HRT for at least 3 years, have half an hour and a measuring tape, consider taking the survey!

If you don't qualify or don't feel up to participating feel free to share it :)

I will also be at various UK pride events this summer either walking around with a sign handing out flyers or having a stall where people can come get measured in person! Come say hi :)

[dkettchen]

We'll be tabling at Southwark Pride in Mint Street Park SE1 London tomorrow afternoon!

If you're around, come say hi! If you qualify for the survey, come get measured!

Other upcoming events currently include:

[ms-demeanor]

As much as I understand and sympathize with your concerns, it's hard not to look at that entire list and not feel like it's being held up solely by Slippery Slope thinking. There's a lot of dangerous stuff going on in tech right now, but without some serious evidence the last thing anyone needs is fearmongering that makes it sound like lawmakers are so idiotic can't even, for example, ban CSAM without making it illegal to share ANY images online.

the last thing anyone needs is fearmongering that makes it sound like lawmakers are so idiotic can't even, for example, ban CSAM without making it illegal to share ANY images online.

I have extremely bad news for you about our lawmakers.

This is NOT a slippery slope argument, it is an argument with very clear precedents and lots of evidence of harm done. There isn't dangerous stuff going on in tech right now, there has been dangerous stuff going on in tech since "tech" has existed.

SESTA/FOSTA, passed by lawmakers to prevent human trafficking, is why it's so easy to get trans women on tumblr banned for posting 'mature content'. It has also made human trafficking worse, made sex work more dangerous, and sanitized the internet to the point that it's difficult to post photos of classical sculptures or instructions on how to perform a breast self-exam on most platforms.

The DMCA, passed by lawmakers to protect copyright holders online, is frequently used to censor criticism, cover up reporting on corporate malfeasance, and prevent buyers from having true ownership of digital purchases.

Lawmakers are CONSTANTLY attempting to use "But this would protect children/prevent the sharing of CSAM" to attack Section 230, a legal provision that prevents platforms from being held liable for the content they host. The proposed changes lawmakers idiotically present actually would drastically erode your ability to post ANY images online, would not make anyone safer, and would further consolidate the power held by platforms like Google and Meta while making it harder for smaller online platforms to exist.

The original sin of all of this (in the US at least) is the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which was passed in 1986 to regulate charges and sentences for computer-based crime and has been used since to prosecute security researchers and activists, and has been responsible for tremendously disproportionate sentences levied against people charged with computer-related crimes.

The people who write and pass laws about computers and the internet don't understand computers or the internet. The people who advocate for these kinds of laws either don't anticipate the second-order consequences or anticipated the consequences and wanted fallout like the sanitation of the internet or the criminalization of downloading journal articles.

I am not fearmongering, I am someone who has been aware of the disastrous outcomes of legislating the internet for decades pointing to the specific ways that the sorts of rules people are proposing have demonstrably been fucking people over forever.

[ms-demeanor]

I really really really want you to understand that any time someone says "there oughtta be a law" about regulating the internet you should immediately raise every possible red flag and investigate what they're proposing and what tech-literate people think about what they're proposing. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a wonderful resource for this, you should pay attention to the things they care about and advocate for because they are one of the best safeguards we have against dangerously uninformed legislation.

[ms-demeanor]

Call your reps and tell them you want them to vote against KOSA.

[politicalaction]

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[renstrapp]

Keep Venezuela in your thoughts ❤️‍🩹

Venezuela was hit by two earthquakes yesterday, a 7.2 and a 7.5. Many parts of the country have been reduced to rubble, and areas of Caracas have been flattened. Their infrastructure has already been under immense strain. Here's how you can help:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-relief-for-venezuela-earthquake-victims

https://thehouse-project.org/products/support-the-house-project-make-a-difference-today

[cyanide-latte]

Bookshop.org has begun their anti-Prime-Day sale!

As of today (6/23/2026), USA-based bookshop.org is running their anti-Prime-Day sales until June 26th to compete with Bezos and Amazon while the latter runs the Amazon Prime Day sales (to fund that stupid ballroom.)

If you live in America and wish to buy books online the next few days, I recommend bookshop.org because they will be offering free shipping on all orders during their anti-Prime-Day sale and because their mission always is to donate portions of their proceeds to support local independent bookstores across the USA. You can even look up on their website to see if you can select specific bookstores for your proceeds to support! Also, check and see if that indie author you wanted to purchase a book from has their books listed on bookshop.org. You'd be surprised how many of them are on there!

So once again, if you were planning to buy books online sometime in the next few days and you want free shipping and you like to make sustainable purchases that give back to independent bookstores all over America (and you definitely don't want to give money to Amazon,) I recommend bookshop.org!

Reading comprehension questions I cannot believe I have to add...

1: did OP mention borrowing books from libraries in this post? Why do you think that is? Do you think it is appropriate to co-opt a post [about a sustainable option to buy books while supporting indie bookstores] by saying people should be using the library instead?

2: is there a reason why OP did not mention Thriftbooks.com in their post about Bookshop.org? Why do you think they did not bring up Thriftbooks as an equally sustainable purchasing option in this post about Bookshop.org's specific and intentional sale?

3: if you are not living in America, does this post indicate in some way that this website is USA-based and supports bookstores in the USA? Do you think OP is choosing to be exclusionary, or is this post meant to be informative?

[titleknown]

Trump Moves to Deeply Censor the Entire Internet

The Trump administration is cynically exploiting calls for stricter AI regulation to pass broad censorship measures at the federal level.

So, in terrible news, Trump's trying to pull some strings to pass this massive internet censorship bill, featuring all the kinds of internet censorship we're terrified of, including mandatory ID for accessing basically any website, specifically to crush state regulation of AI, because apparently this man will always see the moral bottom of the barrel and start digging.

So, if you live in the US and hate censorship and AI you know what to do, contact your congresspeople and tell them do not fucking dare let this through or so help us god...

[titleknown]

IMPORTANT UPDATE: The bastards just worked out a deal on the package, and they're going to try and ram it through the House in the next couple of weeks.

So, if you've been waiting to call, the time is NOW. Do it ASAP, be polite, be informed, but light up those phones like a Christmas tree!

[politicalaction]

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Good Trouble, next month!

[politicalaction]

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