-First things first, my name is Timmi! Iām 19 and am a trans pan guy whose pronouns are he/they pronouns
- I'm a rabbit therian!
-I'm really into Batman right now!
-Iām also a Trekkie!! DS9 is my favorite!
-I have a tendency to ramble!
-Iām always open to talking - sometimes I may reply late sometimes but I always try to get back to whatever we were talking about!
-Additionally, I do struggle with tones and sometimes with phrases (more in real life but I feel like itās worth knowing in case we do talk and I get confused about something)
I know the midterm election is not until November 3, 2026, however I want everyone to be prepared and not say that they "didn't know" or "couldn't figure it out". This is a guide for everything you need to know about voting in the U.S. in the next major election - the 2026 midterm. I will be updating as needed. If you have a question about voting, registration, or anything else please send me an ask or message. State specific deadlines and info listed under the cut! Even if you have a super unique situation, I will absolutely research it for you!
Every seat in the House of Representatives is up for election!
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I have been convicted of a felony, can I vote?
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At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields
technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.
Free Harvard courses.
Free Courses from Stanford.
Free Courses from MIT.
Free courses from Yale.
Free courses from Princeton.
Free courses on Coursera.
Free Courses on EDx
Free Courses on Alison
For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.
When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses."
Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.
the kids online safety act passed the u.s. senate.
long story short (for anyone who hadn't heard of this before) the kids online safety act, aka kosa, is a bill that will censor online content and resources for lgbtq+ matters, reproductive healthcare, activism (INCLUDING PALESTINE AND LIKELY OTHER CRISES GOING ON LIKE IN CONGO OR SUDAN), mental health, etc. everywhere--its effects likely won't be contained to just america.
today, july 30th, 2024, the senate passed it 91-3. it has officially moved to the house of representatives.
is this a pretty massive setback? yes. do you have every right to be scared, sad, angry, or whatever else about this happening? absolutely. but should you give up hope completely? NO!
even though kosa passed the senate, the house is on break/august recess at the moment. we have around an entire month to get emails, calls, and faxes in to house reps, maybe more depending on when they decide to vote on it.
should it pass the house and get signed into law, we still have a whole 18 months before it actually goes into effect. this is plenty of time for digital rights orgs (e.g. fight for the future, the electronic frontier foundation) and other groups that oppose it to file a lawsuit against it. even if, worst-case scenario, it flies through the house immediately after the recess ends, we can still fight this up to march 2026.
so, yes, remember what's at stake here, but also remember that it's not over yet. we lost a battle, not the war.
below are some resources to learn more about kosa and how to contact your reps (first link) + a page that lets you directly contact progressive house reps, sign an open letter opposing the bill, and view others' testimonies against it (second link):
Call Script on Page 2! Resources For Learning about KOSA 2023: KOSA bill itself: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/1
this is my most popular post on here by far. it's still getting likes even though it will be a year old in a few days. thank you to everyone who interacted for caring and trying to spread awareness :)
that being said: it has been reintroduced to the house this year. please keep calling your reps and senators to voice opposition!! this is an even more dangerous time than before for KOSA to be signed into law. the people who will be most negatively affected by this bill are already having a terrible time under the new administration, so we need to do what we can. even if it feels like it's not much, it's better than nothing.
everything is dire lately, and there have been times where it felt like this passing congress would be inevitable due to its sponsors' persistence in trying to get it through, but we've held it back for 3 years this way. we still can! march onward!!
update: minor mistake. i think it was actually reintroduced in the senate according to recent news. that's the nice thing about when bills like this fail: they go aaaaaall the way back to square one :)
however there IS a version of it for the house. if it was and i was right the first time too, please let me know (and others too!)
article to learn more:
Lawmakers who support KOSA today are choosing to trust the current administration, and future administrations, to define what youthāand to s
hi guys, it's been a while since i've last talked about this, but KOSA is back again.
the kids' online safety act has been but into a 19-bill "online safety" package, which also includes some other bad internet bills such as the STOP CSAM act, the interstate obscenity definition act, the SCREEN act, etc. this thursday, 12/11/25, that package is getting voted on in the house energy and commerce subcommittee. this is probably the worst time out of all the past years we've been fighting KOSA for it to become law.
the bill itself (house version only, to my knowledge) has been updated since my last posts on this. the infamous duty of care section has been replaced by a general requirement to mitigate various harms, and has been updated to include nonprofit platforms with the previously covered ones (source). the duty of care's absence also provides a bit of a silver lining, as the decision angered some pro-KOSA groups to the point they actually might oppose its passing if they keep this version (source).
so!! the plan is to:
drive as many calls as possible to members of that subcommittee, whose names and numbers you can find here (<- the linked google doc also contains more resources on KOSA including call scripts!). ideally, call all of them if you can. you can also email or fax.
spread awareness by any means possible!! we need mass opposition right now. every single time, KOSA was blocked by the endless pushback it got. tell anyone who will listen!
everyone is well within their right to feel tired and frustrated after this bill has been brought back again and again and again, but please don't give up and despair. the stakes are higher than ever right now, so we really need KOSA and its big, ugly family of censorship bills to lose. despite how terrible everything is right now, we're still seeing that good things can happen.
no matter what tomorrow's outcome is, no matter how small and ineffectual you might think your efforts are, it's always better to have fought than not. your voices are the reason i can still post about these issues.
I can back this up. It isnāt only their shelters.
I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated in their name, and on Christmas they received three cheap things, items likely not even from the person who sponsored them.
My friend quit, and Iāve not given them a dime of my money since then.
Iām a wildfire and disaster logistics specialist.
I deal with a lot of agencies who provide disaster relief.
I used to say the Salvation Armyās disaster services were the one (literally the ONE) good thing they did.
They would come in, set up a canteen trailer, make and pass out hot coffee and donated food in a disaster, usually being one of the first agencies to get there and the last to leave.
Then I found out.
Every time they did this, regardless of if they were actually invited or deployed by the agency in charge (usually FEMA, sometimes others) they would SELF-DEPLOY. Meanjng they would just show up. Ok. Thatās not TOO bad, sometimes agencies have to take initiative and get there before the red tape is sorted out. BUT. They, after they left at the end of the incident, they would send FEMA or the host agency a BILL. They used one or two paid employees (usually the driver of the truck and a supervisor); and many VOLUNTEERS, but they would bill for EVERYONEās Labor at standard federal rates. They would bill for the food they distributed even though it was all donated by another agency or private parties. They would bill for the coffee they made and the supplies. Except they would use electricity from the shelter location, water from donations or from the shelter, and in many cases, they would get the coffee and industrial filters DONATED, but bill for them at retail prices.
The Salvation Army is also ass to the workers. A good number of people join it, naively thinking that itās doing good, and end up leaving cynical and beaten down. The management is hostile, if not outright abusive, and demand some ridiculous hours of it lower to mid-level staff. Donāt support these people.
Also just for even more horrific context on the original twitter thread?
Salvation Army reached out to Milknmuffins and asked what shelter sheās at with the promise to address the abuse in it. Sheā¦ended up saying where she was. She was thrown out onto the street. Itās also all on Twitter.
They invited her to a personal talk so she could explain the situation in person.
And then they threatened her with a screenshot of a rape-threat made supposedly by her:
And then threw her out into the street while claiming she broke house rules that
So yeah, the Salvation Army is a bunch of entitled assholes that will treat the most vulnerable like shit if they dare try to do anything that makes them look bad
TheĀ āFuck Salvation Armyā posts are making the rounds again, so conisder this your reminder:
Do. Not. Give. These. Assholes. A. Single. Fucking. Penny.
If you see the timestamp and think āmaybe the Salvos got better in the last 8 yearsā no. No they didnāt. Actually they got worse. DONāT GIVE TO THE SALVOS. THEYPISS ALL THEIR MONEY UP THE WALL ON THE CORPORATE END AND DO LITTLE TO NOTHING TO HELP WHO THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO HELP.
donāt tell social media if you went to protests or not(especially if you didnāt), donāt give cops an easy way to track down protesters. punk life advice
Secrets Of The Clans will be open for new ShadowClan & RiverClan members starting August 1st and ending August 15th!
We are a discord-based, 15+ TTRPG inspired roleplay! This meaning, we incorperate dice-rolls for random chance and eight sets of skills with the ability to level up when gaining EXP. We have been on-going since 2020 and have over 100 active members!
Allow me to walk you through more of our server's mechanics . .
Basic FAQ
So, how does joining work?
A great question! Upon joining our server, you'll be confined to our "rookie nursery" where you, everyone else waiting to join and our server staff will be there to greet and hangout before you're allowed into your Clan! We have our membership application pinned in the channel for you to fill out whenever you'd like.
Once the server is open, staff will look over your application to ensure you meet our age-restriction and will sort you into one of the open Clans! We allow everyone who meets requrements into the roleplay!
How many Clans can we join?
While previously you would be restricted to a singular Clan, SOTC has expanded our rules to allow everyone into a second Clan once they reach twelve completed activity checks! An activity check happens once every month.
Systems & Mechanics
Skills & EXP
EXP is used to level up your characterās skills. Each thread has a "focus" that dictates what skills you are allowed to gain EXP in for that thread. Each roll of these skills (even if a failed roll) will gain your character +1 EXP.
When roleplaying with skills, you'll be able to use our dice system to determine the outcome! Let's say you're attempting to catch some prey, you would roll hunting at the level they're at and our bot will let you know the rest!
Litters & Kits
SOTC has a custom litter roll system! This meaning, we gather your character & their partner(s) genes in order to create a genetically accurate litter.
If you don't know how genes work, don't worry! There's a channel in our server where some of our more gene-loving members will happily help you sort out your character's genetics.
Once your litter is rolled and ready to be born, staff will present the litter with fun description, genes, starting skills and provided art. The art that's created for your litter is simply to give visual of what your kits should look like and can be designed differently beyond this.
Kits can be born to a single parent & NPC, by surrogacy, adopted outside of the Clans and can even be rolled between a dam & multiple sires for a polyamorous couple.
Should you be roleplaying a same-sex couple who genetically cannot produce offspring, you're able to use one of the cat's genes for an NPC! Almost everything is possible so long as it fits within our system.
Roleplay
Roleplay in SOTC happen in "threads" that help determine you, your roleplay partner(s) and any readers of any potential triggers, the pace of roleplay you would like to go at, the skill EXP you want to earn & the setting of where you're roleplaying.
You have a max of 2 threads that your character can be in at a time. If you have an HR, a parent character, a kit, an apprentice, or a mentor, you will have an additional thread on top of the two you have already been granted!
These are just a few of our mechanics & there's more to each of them! You can read more on our website, or hop in the server and let us know of any questions you might have! I promise we're more than happy to answer them.
