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mohmoud-j

A year has passed since the aggression against Gaza, 🇵🇸 fear brought with it tension and anxiety 🥹

Bombing, displacement, deprivation 😭😭, genocide, death, hunger and deprivation,😢

Loss is without a safe haven. 😭🙏💔!!️

I ask your help in protecting my family !!️ 🙏

Please retweet and donate 🙏🍉💔

https://gofund.me/363ae8ca

#gaza #help request

tamarrud

Mahasen’s final illustration captioned "tell me what you’re feeling when you see anybody burning…."

Mahasen spent a lot of time on Tumblr trying to push her campaign to save her family.

Mahasen didn't succeed and was killed by Israel last night in north Gaza.

Mahasen's question still begs an answer: what do you feel seeing their extermination unfold right in front of you?

tamarrud

To the lowlives who question the legitimacy of these fundraisers and the people organising them: how much more proof do you want to believe those who are living through this genocide? Those who are fundraising are literally being exterminated daily and Tahseen is only one example.

bloglikeanegyptian

mahasen, digital cartoonist and illustrator, is being mourned worldwide

less than 13 hours before she died she was still drawing, the last drawing depicted above. she posted a video of it to twitter where you can hear the drones in the background:

please take a minute to scroll through her twitter and her tumblr and appreciate who she was as a human being, how she spoke, what she was doing despite how she was living.

because people don't have curiosity about how someone could still be living in north gaza, because so many of you have written off palestinians there as "already dead" in some way, because they don't ask how people survive while under siege, because they don't view palestinians as human beings who use the internet like they do, because they lack the capacity to imagine that this is happening to regular, everyday human beings who are online, who can understand you, who are engaging with the world despite living literally in unfathomable conditions undergoing the worst crimes humanity has to offer—we end up seeing otherwise perfectly nice users on here literally commit genocide denial and think nothing of it, call palestinian scammers easily, refuse to listen when people tell them very patiently why these things are happening and how, and eventually just turn a blind eye to it all.

too many of you are too dismissive too casually, are unbelievably ignorant about your own ignorance, and are too comfortable with great cruelty.

i don't know what it means that in our modern age you don't need to physically smuggle someone in your home to save them from a war, that you don't need to be standing across a fence to look at people in a concentration camp, that these things are all happening in your phone and on your computer. maybe this is why some of you don't understand the magnitude of it, that you are separated from a genocide only by a computer screen, which means your ability to help directly, to engage with these people, to offer them comfort and save their lives is so much greater and easier than it has ever been, and you still can't do it.

i've seen a lot of people on this website wax poetic about art and fandom and community and rights and fail the most basic test of solidarity with all of these ideas once faced with it.

3xtrav2g2nt

🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

#free palestine #Palestine #Gaza #ceasefire

staticnoisesss

please donate to get e-sims to gazans

gazans don’t just need these e-sims to contact the world. they need them to contact other people during their worst and loneliest hours.

i can’t even imagine how it must feel, to be so afraid and alone. to just need someone to talk to.

we often call friends and family to talk to when just we’re having a bad day. and this… these people are living day by day, unsure about the next hour, surrounded by screams, bombs, artillery and rubble.

gazans need to connect now more than ever. not just to tell their stories, but to connect to other humans. to feel a semblance of normalcy in the devastation around them. to have some sort of comfort amidst all the destruction. to be able to contact their family members and make sure they’re okay. to hear their voices. to keep their hopes and spirit alive.

please please donate. please help connect gaza. please reach out and let them know you’re there.

please keep talking about them. keep posting. keep protesting. keep connecting with them, and connecting them with the rest of the world. don’t let anyone forget what’s been happening to them for even a second. the world has spent almost a century in ignorance and silence, but not anymore!

don’t let their oppressors isolate them. israel is trying their best to break their spirit. don’t let them. we must stand with the palestinians and let them know we’re with them until the very end.

the palestinian cause is our cause. their fight is our fight.

remind them that they’re not alone. don’t you dare give up. not when they’re still fighting. and even if they stop.

don’t stop until palestine is free.

-6/12/23-

ravangie

i too like to drink herbal tea in hopes that it will fix my problems☕🍃

#nancy drew #dan #danger by design #minette

fullhalalalchemist

URGENT: 🚨🚨EARN IT ACT IS BACK IN THE SENATE 🚨🚨 TUMBLR’S NSFW BAN HITTING THE ENTIRE INTERNET THIS SUMMER 2023

April 28, 2023

I’m so sorry for the long post but please please please pay attention and spread this

What is the EARN IT Act?

The EARN IT Act (s. 1207) has been roundly condemned by nearly every major LGBTQ+ advocacy and human rights organization in the country.

This is the third time the Senate has been trying to force this through, and I talked about it last year. It is a bill that claims "protects children and victims against CSAM" by creating an unelected and politically appointed national commission of law enforcement specialists to dictate "best practices" that websites all across the nation will be forced to follow. (Keep in mind, most websites in the world are created in the US, so this has global ramifications). These "best practices" would include killing encryption so that any law enforcement can scan and see every single message, dm, photo, cloud storage, data, and any website you have every so much as glanced at. Contrary to popular belief, no they actually can't already do that. These "best practices" also create new laws for "removing CSAM" online, leading to mass censorship of non-CSAM content like what happened to tumblr. Keep in mind that groups like NCOSE, an anti-LGBT hate group, will be allowed on this commission. If websites don't follow these best practices, they lose their Section 230 protections, leading to mass censorship either way.

Section 230 is foundational to modern online communications. It's the entire reason social media exists. It grants legal protection to users and websites, and says that websites aren't responsible for what users upload online unless it's criminal. Without Section 230, websites are at the mercy of whatever bullshit regulatory laws any and every US state passes. Imagine if Texas and Florida were allowed to say what you can and can't publish and access online. That is what will happen if EARN IT passes. (For context, Trump wanted to get rid of Section 230 because he knew it would lead to mass govt surveillance and censorship of minorities online.)

This is really not a drill. Anyone who makes or consume anything “adult” and LGBT online has to be prepared to fight Sen. Blumenthal’s EARN IT Act, brought back from the grave by a bipartisan consensus to destroy Section 230. If this bill passes, we’re going to see most, if not all, adult content and accounts removed from mainstream platforms. This will include anything related to LGBT content, including SFW fanfiction, for example. Youtube, Twitter, Reddit, Tiktok, Tumblr, all of them will be completely gutted of anything related to LGBT content, abortion healthcare, resources for victims of any type of abuse, etc. It is a right-wing fascists wet dream, which is why NCOSE is behind this bill and why another name for this bill is named in reference to NCOSE.

NCOSE used to be named Morality in Media, and has rebranded into an "anti-trafficking" organization. They are a hate group that has made millions off of being "against trafficking" while helping almost no victims and pushing for homophobic laws globally. They have successfully pushing the idea that any form of sexual expression, including talking about HEALTH, leads to sex trafficking. That's how SESTA passed. Their goal is to eliminate all sex, anything gay, and everything that goes against their idea of ‘God’ from the internet and hyper disney-fy and sanitize it. This is a highly coordinated attack on multiple fronts.

The EARN IT Act will lead to mass online censorship and surveillance. Platforms will be forced to scan their users’ communications and censor all sex-related content, including sex education, literally anything lgbt, transgender or non-binary education and support systems, aything related to abortion, and sex worker communication according to the ACLU. All this in the name of “protecting kids” and “fighting CSAM”, both of which the bill does nothing of the sort. In fact it makes fighting CSEM even harder.

EARN IT will open the way for politicians to define the category of “pornography" as they — or the lobbies that fund them — please. The same way that right-wing groups have successfully banned books about race and LGBT, are banning trans people from existing, all under the guise of protecting children from "grooming and exploitation", is how they will successfully censor the internet.

As long as state legislatures can tie in "fighting CSAM" to their bullshit laws, they can use EARN IT to censor and surveill whatever they want.

This is already a nightmare enough. But the bill also DESTROYS ENCRYPTION, you know, the thing protecting literally anyone or any govt entity from going into your private messages and emails and anything on your devices and spying on you.

This bill is going to finish what FOSTA/SESTA started. And that should terrify you.

Senator Blumenthal (Same guy who said ‘Facebook should ban finsta’) pushed this bill all of 2020, literally every activist (There were more than half a million signatures on this site opposing this act!) pushed hard to stop this bill. Now he brings it back, doesn’t show the text of the bill until hours later, and it’s WORSE. Instead of fixing literally anything in the bill that might actually protect kids online, Bluemnthal is hoping to fast track this and shove it through, hoping to get little media attention other than propaganda of “protecting kids” to support this shitty legislation that will harm kids. Blumental doesn't care about protecting anyone, and only wants his name in headlines.

It will make CSAM much much worse.

One of the many reasons this bill is so dangerous: It totally misunderstands how Section 230 works, and in doing so (as with FOSTA) it is likely to make the very real problem of CSAM worse, not better. Section 230 gives companies the flexibility to try different approaches to dealing with various content moderation challenges. It allows for greater and greater experimentation and adjustments as they learn what works – without fear of liability for any “failure.” Removing Section 230 protections does the opposite. It says if you do anything, you may face crippling legal liability. This actually makes companies less willing to do anything that involves trying to seek out, take down, and report CSAM because of the greatly increased liability that comes with admitting that there is CSAM on your platform to search for and deal with. This liability would allow anyone for any reason to sue any platform they want, suing smaller ones out of existence. Look at what is happening right now with book bans across the nation with far right groups. This is going to happen to the internet if this bill passes.

(Remember, the state department released a report in December 2021 recommending that the government crack down on “obscenity” as hard the Reagan Administration did. If this bill passes, it could easily go way beyond shit red states are currently trying. It is a goldmine for the fascist right that is currently in the middle of banning every book that talks about race and sexuality across the US.)

The reason these bills keep showing up is because there is this false lie spread by organizations like NCOSE that platforms do nothing about CSEM online. However, platforms are already liable for child sexual exploitation under federal law. Tech companies sent more than 45 million+ instances of CSAM to the DOJ in 2019 alone, most of which they declined to investigate. This shows that platforms are actually doing everything in their power already to stop CSEM by following already existing laws. The Earn It Act includes zero resources for proven investigation or prevention programs. If Senator Bluementhal actually cared about protecting youth, why wouldn’t he include anything to actually protect them in his shitty horrible bill? EARN IT is actually likely to make prosecuting child molesters more difficult since evidence collected this way likely violates the Fourth Amendment and would be inadmissible in court.

I don’t know why so many Senators are eager to cosponsor the “make child pornography worse” bill, but here we are.

HOW TO FIGHT BACK

EARN IT Act was introduced just two weeks ago and is already being fast-tracked. It will be marked up the week of May 1st and head to the Senate floor immediately after. If there is no loud and consistent opposition, it will be law by JUNE! Most bills never go to markup, so this means they are putting pressure to move this through. There are already 20 co-sponsors, a fifth of the entire Senate. This is an uphill battle and it is very much all hands on deck.

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES.

This website takes you to your Senator / House members contact info. EMAIL, MESSAGE, SEND LETTERS, CALL CALL CALL CALL CALL. Calling is the BEST way to get a message through. Get your family and friends to send calls too. This is literally the end of free speech online.

(202) 224-3121 connects you to the congressional hotline. Here is a call script if you don't know what to say. Call them every day. Even on the weekends, leaving voicemails are fine.

2. Sign these petitions!

Link to Petition 1

Link to Petition 2

3. SPREAD THE WORD ONLINE

If you have any social media, spread this online. One of the best ways we fought back against this last year was MASSIVE spread online. Tiktok, reddit, twitter, discord, whatever means you have at least mention it. We could see most social media die out by this fall if we don't fight back.

Here is a linktree with more information on this bill including a masterpost of articles, the links to petitions, and the call script.

DISCORD LINK IF YOU WANT TO HELP FIGHT IT

TLDR: The EARN IT Act will lead to online censorship of any and all adult & lgbt content across the entire internet, open the floodgates to mass surveillance the likes which we haven’t seen before, lead to much more CSEM being distributed online, and destroy encryption. Call 202-224-3121 to connect to your house and senate representative and tell them to VOTE NO on this bill that does not protect anyone and harms everyone.

Daryl doesn't appreciate door to door sales people.

#nancy drew #daryl gray #darylgate

Daryl doesn't appreciate door to door sales people.

#nancy drew #daryl gray

naancydrew

exploring magnus's cabin

#nancy drew #clue crew #sea #it looks so good!

karenplaysnancydrew

turns out i can still make nancy drew shitposts

ragnarthemess

Absolute beauty

#nancy drew #final scene #spoilers #light of our love

eyestrain-addict

The most niche meme I’ve ever made

#clue crew #nancy drew #lani minella #i was so excited when I found out she also voiced Rouge the Bat #she also did some voice over work for D&D online and gave the Kobalds silly voices if I remember correctly

lunar-goodness

With the overturning of Roe v Wade I just want to take a moment to remind everyone that this means the right to abortion is now decided at state level, if you happen to live in Kansas the upcoming primary election on Aug. 2nd has a provision on the ballot concerning Kansans right to abortion. Currently the Kansas constitution protects the right to abortion but the provision being presented on the ballot would call for those rights to be revoked. Please don’t think it’s all entirely hopeless yet, vote NO in the upcoming election to preserve our reproductive rights in Kansas. Vote!! The deadline for voter registration in Kansas is 21 days before Election Day, there’s still plenty of time to register to vote!!!!

ragnarthemess

Kansas is one of the first states to vote on this, but I'm sure it won't be the last. Please keep an eye out for things like this and when state/local elections are taking place!

ragnarthemess

In the first test of its kind since the Dobbs ruling, Kansas voters have decided not to amend the state constitution, keeping abortion legal

So happy how this turned out!!

#abortion rights

sharkthief

Did everyone see this on Facebook because oh my god this is simultaneously hilarious and disturbing?

#a true fashion icon

lunar-goodness

ragnarthemess

Kansas is one of the first states to vote on this, but I'm sure it won't be the last. Please keep an eye out for things like this and when state/local elections are taking place!

#vote #kansas #abortion #reproductive rights #abortion rights #vote aud 2nd #roe v wade