Video of a kitten at a vet’s office protesting loudly as it’s scooped from the floor. Another kitten turns around the corner and walks up to the camera, also protesting loudly for its friend. From here.
⭐️🇺🇸LETTING YOU KNOW THIS! STATES ARE GETTING SUED FOR DOING THIS! 🇺🇸⭐️
California is getting sued for passing the same law on operating systems. Other states are also being sought after in these lawsuits, too. Illinois probably will be next. It violates multiple rights, especially the First Amendment.
I would "love" to see them try to enforce this. I know they will face pushback from developers. Developers say it's nearly impossible and hard to enforce these systems (especially with open source options). They would have to build this system from the ground up.
The worst they would be able to do is ask for your age like Google does for an account, for example. That is the simplest way that the developers would do this. (Update: Also, from reading the bill, HB5511 does not require any ID uploads, or so it says. It is saying OS manufacturers have to include a manual field that parents can use to flag their children's accounts. It outlaws sharing of account information with 3rd parties other than the specified flag. SO it might just be for parents to mark on the device when they are setting it up. This bill is all over the place! Such atrocious writing! It still violates multiple laws, though! This was my interpretation from what I read. Feel free to correct me if you read it.)
Tech giants also do not build separate regional operating systems, which means they would affect users even outside of these states, possibly even in other countries!
Some smaller open source software projects might choose to block access entirely from regions with strict age laws rather than build compliance systems because, like I said, they are not gonna build a whole other system.
If anything, it proves how stupid the governor of Illinois is and all of those other states. Very tech illiterate. We need to vote people like this out in our states!
⭐️🚨CONTACT YOUR REPS, SIGN PETITIONS, PROTEST, AND RAISE AWARENESS!🚨⭐️
Discord is supposedly saying this is going to affect "only 10% of users", but I really don't believe them at all. It's always going to be way worse and affect more people than what they claim.
So in case anyone needs it:
After Discord announced plans to require age verification for all users, a free, HTML-based tool emerged that aims to bypass facial scans on
I was trying to find a comprehensive list of places trying to implement age verification, and this is by far the best resource:
A live map of US state online age-verification laws: which states now make you prove your identity to get online, which are scheduled or blo
Check out their other tabs on speech, surveillance, and data centers as well. They back everything up with sources AND tell you how to get involved to fight back.
If you see this person, or anyone doing the following;
Do not click the link, they used surli.cc to try to hide the fact the link is malware.
The real link leads to effectivecpmnetwork, which is an advertising tracking and monetization URL commonly associated with pop-up ads, malware redirection, and ad-injecting scripts.
While the term ecpm is a legitimate digital advertising metric, this domain is widely flagged by cybersecurity services as a malicious or unwanted host.
The URL is frequently spammed in the comments, bios, or direct messages of platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and Threads.
It often hides behind deceptive links promising free followers, exclusive videos, or redirects.
It is typically triggered when a user accidentally clicks a malicious ad or downloads a browser extension that is bundled with adware, causing their device to be redirected to intrusive, or scam websites.
The network functions by generating fraudulent ad impressions or redirecting users to third-party ad networks in order to generate illicit revenue for the hackers operating it.
if youre in the US (especially the northeast + michigan) i would avoid bagged salads/greens and generally wash your produce very thoroughly unless you want the diarrhea parasite
Michigan is experiencing its largest outbreak of a parasitic infection that causes severe diarrhea. Nearly 1,000 people have been diagnosed
this is not life-threatening, but also who wants weeks of diarrhea and a fucking parasite in them lol. if you suspect you've already had this and it's passed, i would see a doctor. you might need an antiparasitic anyway. if you're actively sick, see a doctor and they might be able to prescribe medication to help you get over it faster.
try to avoid eating raw vegetables, scrub fruit with a produce brush and rinse thoroughly with water. again, don't bother with premade greens or bagged salads. if you buy lettuce, remove the outer 2-3 layers of leaves.
there are UNVERIFIED rumors that the greens have been linked to a company that sources to taco bell. some locations have been actively pulling fresh ingredients like lettuce, avocado, and pico de gallo to mitigate the threat, so i would avoid any products from them just in case. considering how vast supply chains are, i'd be wary of any fast food greens in general for now.
my friend Amir lives in Gaza and him and his family desperately need our help. they need help with food and rent, and Amir is currently studying at university so he can get a job and move his family out of Gaza.
please, if you can donate, please please do so. if not just keep sharing for him and his family!!
my friend Amir lives in Gaza and him and his family desperately need our help. they need help with food and rent, and Amir is currently studying at university so he can get a job and move his family out of Gaza.
please, if you can donate, please please do so. if not just keep sharing for him and his family!!
kosa passed house, unfortunately. not the best news to hear
it isn't law yet, however. so don't freak out, yet. or at all because the best thing you can do is be calm. it still has to pass senate and that's a fact.
keep calling your reps... especially the ones who have voted specifically for the kids act + kosa. reminder that these aren't the only bad bills they're passing. i forget all of them (since they total as 19, i believe) but the screen act and appstore accountability act are especially alarming.
call, email, fax, and write to your senators! resources are right down below as usual for easy access! (badinternetbills provides you an email script and the names of senators. it's super easy, anyone can do it with just a few clicks. if you don't feel like calling you can wait until after hours and leave a voicemail. you can always write a letter, but i'd advise you do that immediately so it's seen as soon as possible!
and if you can't do any of those, it's okay. just keep spreading the word and not only on tumblr. make videos to post online and persuade family into contacting local congress as well (but be careful with who you tell, because they might just be in favor of these bills)
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals. protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.
the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity. make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged. and strike. attack.
YES
i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word.
above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that
Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money
TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)
WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it
Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me
So, I never thought we would get to this point, but here we are.
This little guy here is Remus. A year ago, he contracted Feline Leukemia Virus from Baby Kitten, who passed it on to him and Caramel.
Baby kitten passed away before we even knew what was wrong. When Caramel got sick, she got really really sick. We tried everything, from Virbagen to blood transfusions, but nothing worked. Two weeks of running to the vet every day, and all we were left with are broken hearts.
And now Remus is sick. He has a limphoma in his chest and he's probably going to need surgery. We can't afford to not try to save him.
Quite frankly, the treatment isn't cheap. Just the ultrasound, the blood panels and the biochemistry analysis cost 600€. The CT scan is going to cost more. And all of our credit cards and savings are thinning out.
And listen, I know we're all broke here. But if I can trade some cute cat pictures for a few bucks, even that will help.
My brand new Kofi account.
And some pictures of my poor, beloved, idiot son doing what he does best: sleeping.
The face of a man who has, after two hours of blood sweat and tears, sucessfully evaded all attempts to give him a pill.
"AND I'LL DO IT AGAIN!"
Needless to say, we're going back to intramuscular shots after this. At least that way we can actually be certain the medication has been administered.
550/1200€ Please donate to support Remus' drug habit🤣💖
Friendly reminder that if you get a dm from someone along the lines of this sort of story, it is a scam. Do not click any links! Yes, even if its from someone who has followed you for years, even if it's from a moot.
URGENT: YOU CAN SAVE HAMMAD AND HIS FAMILY ❤️🩹‼️🇵🇸
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VETTED BY ASSOCIATION: Hammad and his family are friends with Safaa [VETTED BY 90-GHOST]
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The last post about Hammad’s campaign is LOSING TRACTION FAST and DONATIONS ARE DWINDLING.
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Meet Hammad A.
Hammad is one out of 9 members of his family. He is the eldest boy and the sole provider of his family at the young age of 24 since his father has been battling heart disease, and consequently suffered a debilitating heart attack.
[TW: Close by sounds of heavy artillery shelling and bombing.]
Months ago, at the start of the war, the neighborhood that Hammad and his family grew up in, where they created and held so many cherished memories and bonds, was besieged.
For days, Hammad and his family were trapped, terrified, between the once stable, now crumbling, walls of his home that once brought comfort and privacy to him now threatened to crush him beneath the rubble and the violent shelling of bullets and bombs whistling past their ears through the air and decimating anything it came in contact with.
His family sat, hungry, terrified, praying to live, watching the sun make its rounds past the plumes of black smoke rising from crumpled homes that once lined their block. This is only a fraction of what Hammad has been forced to endure for the over 550 days.
He watched his beautiful home be destroyed — the memories of his childhood, destroyed; the hard work he and his family put into creating their home, destroyed; the pride he and his family had of their home, destroyed; comfort and security, destroyed.
So Hammad pitched a tent. In the face of exposure to harsh elements, forced conditions of unsanitary environments where disease and sickness spreads rapidly, and deprived of the most basic necessities with skyrocketing costs for flour, clothes, and shelter, Hammad persevered to keep his family alive and as safe as he could. He cared for his father as best he could, but his heart disease requires an operation that none of the besieged or otherwise destroyed hospitals of Gaza can do.
But a day came where deafening and core shaking sounds of shelling and bombardment shook the nearby area as they prepared food. Terrified, they ran for their lives. And when they were able to return, their tent has caught fire and burnt down, along with the few items in their tent that they were able to grab from their home before it was destroyed.
Faced with extreme hunger, thirst, displacement, and now the tent burnt down leading to more exposure to the harsh elements, Hammad’s father’s condition has only worsened. The resilience and strength Hammad has constantly and consistently shown only goes so far in the face of the lifeblood of his family suffering under such dire conditions, and I cannot bear for Hammad to have to endure the heartbreak of losing his father.
There is no more room for any more tragedy in his life. We cannot allow it.
While there is a lot of notes on the last post about Hammad’s campaign, traction has been dwindling fast and donations have been slowing down. I cannot emphasize enough the urgency of this campaign and how critically Hammad needs your help.
‼️ STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH GAZA AND DONATE TODAY ‼️
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Chuffed has a waiting period for processing and transferring funds. If you want your donation to IMMEDIATELY be sent to Hammad, paypal is linked below.
Go to paypal.me/esakach and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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