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[quasi-normalcy]

We've not only taken away all of the physical spaces for our children to exist in, we're now taking away the electronic ones as well. I'm sure this won't have any negative consequences.

[ash-and-starlight-deact]

The Yokoya trio before and after everything went to shit

[glue-bubbles]

Modern kataang chaotic family photo with the cloud babies :3

[fortuneaday]

Age verification can be protested and stopped.

For those who don't know, Fortune A Day can be found on Pillowfort and Bluesky. Updates might stop on Bluesky as it appears the app is rolling out age verification more widely ahead of actual regulation.

They are complying in advance for no reason.

Even if all these age verification laws were fully on the books in every US state, websites should still stand up for their businesses and the privacy of their users and not comply. That is a choice at scale if they would only fucking care to make it.

Bluesky's age verification is being handled by Veriff, a company that has already failed to protect peoples' data. There are data-hungry companies out there begging for websites and apps to comply with age verification ahead of time, calling it an inevitability, because they want to pump and dump our public and private identifying info. Naturally, protecting that data is not at all a concern to them. Lawsuits will be a slap on the wrist; they'll be the price of doing business and your information will continue to leak while they make millions of dollars off of it.

If you are in the US, please do this for all of us: Contact your representatives TODAY, June 29, 2026, to tell them to vote NO on the KIDS Act, HR 7757.

Here's more information through the Electronic Frontier Foundation. And this page has a way to send a form letter to your rep via email.

Do this right now. HR 7757 is being voted on today.

Phone calls are best and they can be incredibly quick. The person at your rep's office will answer the phone. They'll want your name and your location to confirm that you're a constituent. Simply tell them this and then: "I just want my representative not to vote for HR 7757, the KIDS Act. I know that it does nothing to actually protect children. It's about selling my information and stopping free speech." Thank them. Hang up. It is genuinely easy, even with phone anxiety.

Say No To Bad Internet Bills also has even more you can do to stop these things because there is an absolute deluge of these kinds of bills working their way through the US Congress right now.

Again: These bills are not about protecting children. They want to identify you online so they can prosecute you if you say something they don't like. They want to sell your data. They want kids who need community outside of abusive situations to not be able to find it. They want to clamp down on free speech and the movement of ideas.

[fortuneaday]

Unfortunately the bill has passed in the House of Representatives.

Now we need to direct efforts to our Senators to stop it in the Senate. Find who your rep is and contact them early and often.

https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

Tell your Senators that you oppose the KIDS Act and KOSA.

It does not matter how Republican or vampiric your Senator is. One of mine is professional Skeletor impersonator Rick Scott, the worst of the worst. I will still be contacting his people to tell them I'm not fooled by this. Rick Scott has made enough money off of conning the American people (he, in particular, should be in fucking prison for exactly that). I don't need him restricting my speech, selling my info, or trying to arrest me for making posts like this calling for political action in protest of disgusting censorship.

Your reps, even if they are your political opposites, are supposed to represent and vote for you. Remind them of that.

[fortuneaday]

I want to note something about this that I'm seeing on other KOSA/KIDS-related posts and in some tags:

"Vote blue straight ticket" and "It is important to vote Democrat!" and "Blue no matter who" is not the appropriate response to these bills right now. Action in the present day is the correct response. Contacting your Senators to kill these bills in the Senate—that is appropriate and necessary right this instant. We can talk about voting another time. We will talk about it later (not that it isn't preaching to the choir on Tumblr).

Support of KOSA/KIDS has been bipartisan. Sponsors of the bill have included Richard Blumenthal (Democrat), Gus M. Bilirakis (Republican), Chuck Schumer (Democrat), and Marsha Blackburn (Republican). Yes, a lot of Republicans voted for this bill.

Please also understand that 104 Democrats voted in favor of the bill in the latest House of Representatives vote on June 29. Here are their names:

Democrats are just as prone to mistaking these bills for being "child protection" or are, frankly, straight-up being in the pockets of the data collectors and suppressives who want these bills passed. We're not just talking on the Federal level, either. For example, Democratic Governor of Illinois J.B. Pritzker is pushing the "Children's Social Media Safety Act" in his state. And other states have already passed bills to suppress online speech and take online access away from people based on age or are in the process of doing so.

This is not a "blue no matter who" moment.

This is a "I'm not kidding: Email AND CALL your Senator" moment.

We still have a chance to stop this in the Senate.

[fortuneaday]

Senate Committee Markup for KOSA and SCREEN are on August 5, 2026—this Wednesday. It is time to make contact with your Senators. If you have already, call again. Remind them that they will never get your votes if they work to age-gate, censor, and throttle the internet.

Even if they are Democrats. Democrats have been voting in favor of these censorship measures and they need to stop.

Oppose KOSA and the KIDS Act (UPDATED 6/29) - PASSED HOUSE ⭑ 5 Calls

Updates June 29, 2026: By a vote of 267-117, the House has passed H.R. 7757, the KIDS Act. The bill now moves to the Senate, though the Sen

5 Calls has a very easy script with clear instructions. Please reach out to your Senators today. And tomorrow. And Wednesday.

[nyancrimew]

[eosofspades]

[bellwethers]

She’s grown up

[what-even-is-thiss]

The amount of slavery in Ancient Rome was legitimately terrifying tbh

[what-even-is-thiss]

Y’all know that I’m into ancient Roman history and I do a lot of research on it but even though I should be used to it by now sometimes I read an anecdote about how an individual slave was treated and I’m hit with the realization that like a third of the population was living like that and I just need to put my head in my hands for a second

[what-even-is-thiss]

Emperor Hadrian randomly stabbed a slave in the eye in a fit of rage and he was supposedly unusually sympathetic to slaves.

There’s other instances of people randomly punching slaves that they didn’t even know because they got in their way or something. This was just normal behavior.

And slaves didn’t rebel en masse because if even one slave committed an act of violent rebellion it was common practice to kill every slave and former slave in the household.

People only took notice for posterity when these mass executions got into the hundreds of people. One of the few recorded for the history books is of over 400 people being killed because one guy stabbed his enslaver.

Like how many people throughout history were beaten to death because some rich asshole was angry and there was no legal or social consequences for doing so? We don’t know.

[what-even-is-thiss]

When you study ancient history you’re reminded that slavery has never once been kind or justified. It just takes on different forms of evil in every time and place that it infects.

[girlfailure-poetics]

the whole “I was born [thing], so I dont need to read [relevant political theory], I already know it” is a shitty argument for a lot of reasons, but mostly because being born [thing] was also true for most people who WRITE political theory and clearly they didn’t feel as though the people around them innately understood these systems or they wouldn’t have written what they did

[troublepunk-ldn]

actually i am gonna give you guys a genuine answer to that. not the anon because they obviously don't actually care, but the rest of the new followers i seem to have picked up off that youth lib post.

why do i give a shit about social media restrictions? well, i went to the library three months ago with my two teenage brothers to sign them up for new library cards (they just moved) and i was told that under 18s can't have a library card, even a restricted kids-books-only card, without a parent there in person to give consent.

that's fucked for abused kids for sure but that's also fucked for kids whose single mum works two jobs and can't get to the library while its open. and there is NO good reason for it except to appease parents who want to control what their kids can read.

people coming onto my posts telling me 'kids should just do X' have not actually looked into the possibility of doing what they are suggesting. kids now cannot do what you did when you were a teenager even a decade ago. abused kids, disabled kids or kids from low income families ESPECIALLY cannot do those things. they are running out of places to go.

interviews and studies with teenagers repeatedly prove that they WANT to hang out with their friends in real life, and it is getting harder and harder to do it. the internet is one of the only places they can all spend time together, unsupervised, without spending money or getting hassled or moved on by adults.

social media bans won't fix that. they won't even keep kids off social media. they're just going to make life harder for everyone, increase the amount of tracking and monitoring EVERYONE is subject to, and force kids to lie about what they're doing to any adults that actually DO give a shit about them.

[lamignonette]

[sansevierias]

[kcggggg]

I collaborated with the Human Artistry Project to make this strip alongside other web cartoonists to make the point that “Stealing isn’t Innovation” when it comes to A.I. usage. It seems to be doing numbers on instagram and elsewhere, so you may also read it here, tumblr.

May the discourse that ensues be long and unhelpful.

[aksarah]

The last panel needs to be a poster put up in every school in the world.

[juunipupu]

Knight under Everything

[juunipupu]

Now available as prints and at-home print file

[usualskin]

claudia in simone rocha ss21

[megaceros]

my 1x1m quilt! i am so happy with the soft result <3

if u are in europe it is up on my vinted

[catasters]

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

Ok but that cat has fantastic swedish pronunciation

[mihai-florescu]

Languages tend to peak at their word for butterfly. Never seen 2 that are the same, either. Papillon. Mariposa. Borboleta. Fluture. Vlinder. Schmetterling. Pillangó. Babochka. Farfalla. Sommerfugl. Perhonen. Farasha. Titali. Chōchō. Nabi. Húdié. Buom buom. Great job guys, i really mean it.