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[arsanatomica]

I did this necropsy last night. Reproductive issues is unfortunately THE MOST COMMON cause of death in female lizards. Things can go downhill really fast in these types of cases. This girl had an egg lodged in her pelvis. Reptiles only like one hole for everything, so having a stuck egg means that she’d be unable to get rid of waste as well, leading to rapid infection, organ failure, and shock.

[talesfromtreatment]

What really gets me is the fact that the owner thought she was a normal shape even though they were aware of the fact that most captive reptiles are fed incorrectly. This lizard didn’t quickly become that shape, as if it was due to being gravid. She’s been obese for a long time. So many lizards I see posted on Facebook are overweight, as are so many large constrictors and even milk snakes where people seem to use the excuse of “they’re naturally thicker bodied” to turn their snakes into snausages the same way people like to claim their giant breed dogs aren’t fat “they’re just large dogs!”

[fivepointfivesix-version3]

Why is OP fat shaming…healthy at any size

[vannjaren]

For fuck's sake...

I really hope that last commenter is being sarcastic.

Comparing a post about the unfortunate results of overfeeding a lizard with fat-shaming is one of the most ridiculous leaps I've seen in a long time. Some real mental gymnastics going on there.

This poor lizard DIED HORRIBLY AND IN PAIN as a result of complications of obesity. Complications that could have been avoided if they were maintained at an appropriate weight.

The effects of obesity in humans and those in other animals are simply not. the. same.

Humans can be overweight but still relatively healthy, as can some other species like bears etc. etc., but that is not true for all species, and the weird Internet trend of extrapolating someone's thoughts on one issue onto another very different issue is completely out of place.

This isn't the same as causing emotional distress to a person by criticising their appearance/physique, but rather is pointing out that in some species, obesity can have complications that do not occur in humans, and can be avoided by preventing obesity - which is their keeper's responsibility to do, so they should be educated on this - which is what this post is doing.

Not all species store fat the same way, and different species have specific optimal body compositions.

As an example, bears and humans are relatively large and have plantigrade gait... By contrast, cats are digitigrade and are small, light and built for agility and flexibility. Obesity in cats causes early onset arthritis and severely limits their mobility and flexibility, and prevents them from grooming properly so they get issues with matter fur and other hygiene issues can arise. These are issues related to the anatomy and physiology of cats, and have a negative impact on their quality of life. An obese cat who can barely move, can't climb or jump or generally just be a cat, is in constant pain from arthritis and has uncomfortable/painful matted hair from being unable to groom... That's a serious quality of life issue.

This lizard would not have had egg production stimulated without such extensive obesity - it was the egg getting stuck that killed her, and she certainly would have suffered from straining so hard she ruptured blood vessels and bled internally.

There was no need for her to die that way, but if more people know the risks, they can prevent this from happening to their lizards.

THAT'S what this post is about, not "fat shaming". It's about knowing more on these issues so people can do better with regards to the welfare of their pets.

The owner knew overfeeding can occur and cause issues, but evidently didn't know ENOUGH to recognise it in his own lizard and do something about it which would have avoided this.

There's so much of this "stop fat-shaming them" attitude around with regards to pets online that it's genuinely harmful.

Obesity is NOT the same for all species, and in some it either puts them in constant pain with very limited mobility, or outright kills them like this poor lizard. People posting videos of morbidly obese cats... I'm not talking here about slightly chubby kitties, I'm talking about actual obesity - which seems to be getting increasingly accepted as OK. That doesn't happen by accident, and that extreme is not just due to an individual being "naturally heavier" . That doesn't occur overnight, and clearly could have been addressed long before that point - but wasn't.

That's not cute, it's just fucking sad and neglectful.

SUFFERING IS NOT CUTE.

Cats are good at hiding pain, but arthritis HURTS, and typically they respond by being less mobile... So people just say/think they're "lazy". Years ago, people would have been shocked at how overweight some cats and dogs are in some of those photos or clips, but now people just call them "chonkers" and say they're cute.

If people find chunky critters cute, go look at pictures of seal pups or bears or pigs etc., rather than overfeeding species that are seriously not built for the extra weight and suffer additional problems from it because of their specific physiology.

Promoting it is irresponsible and unethical.

[rjzimmerman]

A disease more lethal than covid-19 has nearly wiped out northern long-eared bats

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says white-nose syndrome has driven 97 to 100 percent population decline.

Excerpt from this story from the Washington Post:

Fifteen years after its was first discovered in a New York cave, white-nose syndrome has decimated the nation’s population of northern long-eared bats, reducing their numbers to almost nothing.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service moved to reclassify the mammals from threatened to endangered after a review found that “white-nose syndrome is expected to affect 100 percent” of the animals by 2025. “White-nose syndrome has caused estimated declines of 97 to 100 percent of affected … populations,” the review said.

Endangered species are animals on the path to extinction, while threatened species are likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future, the service said. Species on the endangered list are afforded a suite of federal protections that threatened animals do not get.

White-nose syndrome, a fungus known Pseudogymnoascus destructans, has been compared to HIV/AIDS for the way it burns through the skin and membrane of numerous bat species and kicks their immune systems into a frenzy, so much so that it attacks both healthy and unhealthy cells. The disease attacks bats as they hibernate in mines and caves. Thousands of the animals have been found dead or convulsing where they slept.

Fish and Wildlife said it is leading a team the White-nose Syndrome National Response team of 150 nongovernmental organizations, Tribes, states, federal agencies and other institutions to fight the problem. “Together we are conducting critical white-nose syndrome research and developing management strategies to minimize impacts of the disease and recover affected bat populations,” the statement said. “To date, this effort has yielded scientific advancements that include identification of critical information about WNS and its impacts on North American bat species.”

Northern long-eared bats are found in 37 states, including Maryland, Virginia and the District. Every Canadian province has them. Like other bats, it flies at night to feed mostly on moths, flies, leafhoppers, beetles and other insects known to devastate crops. Bats are also pollinators.

[vannjaren]

Useful article but WHY the f**k doesn't it have links to donate/help?

Had to change that;

https://www.batcon.org/our-work/research-and-scalable-solutions/white-nose-syndrome/

https://www.whitenosesyndrome.org/

https://www.fightwns.org/donate-now/

And a petition if you can't donate

https://therainforestsite.greatergood.com/clicktogive/trs/petition/BatsEatBugs#petition-details

[headspace-hotel]

Actually, can we talk about how Garbage a lot of ubiquitous writing advice in the late 2000's was?

Like "you have to begin in the middle of the action! your first line has to be a 'hook' that draws the reader further into the story!"

This is the bullshit responsible for the amount of books that begin in the middle of some sort of pointless fucking action scene that I care nothing about because I just got here.

Like I guess this makes books easier to "sell" or whatever on some level of the process, but it's garbage storytelling advice because setup and establishment of the Way Things Are is almost always necessary.

On some level I don't think it's actually possible to begin a story right on top of the "inciting incident" because...you don't have the raw materials to "incite" anything with. If you have to set up basic things about the characters and world after the "inciting incident," it's not really the inciting incident anymore, is it?

The event that "launches" a character into their plot line is something that follows from the character's established situation, desires, traits etc. It's a follow-up to a situation that makes a Story of some kind inevitable.

It is, by definition, an event that makes no sense and does not matter to the reader at all unless the "setup" already exists.

If you try to begin right in the middle of the event that "sparks" the plot, you're going to end up including a second, "real" event that actually does the job, because you can't do the job if the character, the stakes, the rules, etc. are not there yet.

Now the action scene you stuck to the beginning of your story is probably dead weight that is getting in the way of the setup.

[vannjaren]

Couldn't agree more with this.

I have the urge to put down some books that start in the middle of an action scene then flick backwards after it.

It feels really forced to me, like it's clearly a device being used by the author to get you hooked, rather than just TELLING THE STORY.

Suspense of disbelief and immersion in the world is so much more difficult when I've already been hit with this feeling of the book as "product designed to sell more copies" rather than "here is a story being told because the author wanted to give it life and share it".

Leaves a bad taste when already I get the impression of dollar signs in the author's eyes where passion, enthusiasm and creativity should be.

There are a few scenarios when this approach can work (like, said action scene is actually something for the past and has implications for the protagonist and others in the future - this can aid setup and also isn't disrupting the flow of time), and these scenes CAN be well written... But for every occasion where it's pulled off successfully, there are so many more where it just feels like a leaden, clunky "plot device to hook the reader TM" rather than naturally slotting into the book, which just results in an instant NO THANKS from my brain, that I have to fight past to get over if I want to enjoy the rest of the book... It's deleterious rather than adding to it in most cases.

[ousia-poetica]

Ace of Shades, victorian lampshades. We know what we read and see, but we cannot say that what we read is real, as it depends on who is telling the story.

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

The number of people I have known who have pretended to be more ill/disabled than they really are: almost none.

The number of people I have known who have pretended to be less ill/disabled than they really are: almost everyone.

When people tell you they have a chronic illness/disability, believe them. Otherwise you are an Ableist asshole.

[itscassiberry]

This messed with me for so long and it still does because I’m like,,,, am I faking it??? Is it actually that bad??? And then I have a good day and I’m like well I imagined the pain I’m the first place I’m a fraud,,, then I get a bad day and suddenly I’m dying

[hog-friend-deactivated20221016]

i was gonna say “the only times ive pretended to be more disabled than i am was to get accomodations i really needed but wouldn’t have gotten otherwise” and then i was like wait.

That’s just being honest about how disabled i am.

[julian-is-vibing-here-deactivat]

ok wait that last reblog messed with me so much thats so true

[vannjaren]

So fucking true, sadly - in the UK as well, have seen it with my relatives.

Well said @hog-friend

Also in my own case, I didn't play up my autism when finally getting assessed for it - turns out even with kinda downplaying things through force of habit from spending a lifetime masking... Assessors were like... This is so obvious, how was this missed? (fucking school turning a blind eye, and lack of public awareness so my parents knew something was off but didn't know what)

But anyway... Even if it's not the same, I can at least relate to the feeling of - "I know my condition is real, I live with it every day - but how can I be sure the assessor will see that? What if they don't believe me and aren't convinced?"

I wasn't looking for resources (there aren't really any in Northern Ireland anyway, the autism service for adults there is fucking dead), but just for the diagnosis, so I could adjust my working conditions to stave off a nervous breakdown. So even if I didn't need resources, I NEEDED that diagnosis, and it was a hideous feeling that maybe the assessors wouldn't give it.

Like I said, for me it turns out I'm pretty much a walking DMSV checklist of autism, but I could certainly see how for some people, their range of traits and presentation might not be so obvious... and in the case of other conditions, it's so clear how much of an issue this is.

Not forgetting conditions that fluctuate - someone on a good day might be told they don't need or deserve resources, yet on a bad day they really need that help - but if the assessor didn't see!/hear about them at their worst, they could get denied access to things they really need, which is pretty scary tbh.

[refizul-deactivated20210908]

"No, I don't know how to behave at my age. I've never been that age before."

[backdoorteenmom]

[hussyknee]

I love how they left out the part about them giving out the lesbian couple’s personal information to send them death threats, running them out of their home, and encouraging other fundies to petition to have their children taken away. **examines fingernails**

Also the fact that they raised half million dollars from other raging homophobes to fund this bigotry. I hope the dickholes lose the shirts off their backs and have to live out of a van. But that’s too much to hope for.

[lesbianredhood]

I just wanna add that the lesbian couple were getting married because their mutual friend had just died of cancer and they were adopting her two daughters… and that the death threats were so bad that they had to quit their jobs and move. it’s never just about a cake. it’s about the precedent you set when you allow ppl to discriminate. it’s about all the disgusting bigots that crawl out of the woodwork when they feel like they have the right to hate.

[vannjaren]

This kind of clickbait SHITE always gets me angry, because they invariably leave out crucial details and context in favour of sensationalism. *somewhat-connected rant coming up*

Almost always, it’s framed in such a way as to evoke sympathy for the innocent victims (read “bigots”) who clearly haven’t done anything seriously wrong. Of course it’s those wacky gays, blacks, asians, trans people and environmentalists who are to blame for their ridiculous demands and for being “butthurt” about minor issues. Yes, there are idiots in those groups of people just as there are idiots in every group of people, no matter what you use as a denominator/group. That’s just... people. BUT - there’s an overwhelming tendency to paint certain groups as “unreasonable”, as “moaners” and as eccentric/crazy/unreasonable/sensitive - and who does that serve? You can answer that yourselves. I haven’t exactly seen many clickbait-type articles showing marginalised groups of any kind in a positive light. Have you? The comments on such articles, if comments are allowed, are a festering cesspit of the worst of society.  In the age where everyone likes to critique “social justice warriors”, I vote we take that term away from people. It has become a derogatory and mocking term, which is often implied to mean someone who freaks out at minor and meaningless things and is overly sensitive, but now the term gets applied as a pejorative on literally anyone who is making a point about the uglier sides of society, and is used to mock and invalidate their point - labelling someone as a “crybaby SJW” is a method for attacking their credibility and encouraging other readers to see them as unrealistic, weak, sensitive and not someone to take seriously - even if, and especially when, their point is actually very much serious. People fighting for improved conditions and attitudes have always been mocked and ridiculed - see the suffragettes, see anti-slavery and racism campaigners...  It seems the trend of “SJW bashing” has become a general, one-size-fits-all hobby for attacking activists, but now it’s done anonymously on the internet, where there is no immediate threat of repercussions, and Neonazis and similar shitheads can congregate and cultivate their own views in a self-supporting bubble that only fuels further extremism. I may have went off-topic a bit, but it’s something I find quite disturbing that this clickbait - which is easily accessible and also tends to pop up on genuine news sites (which themselves are or at least strive to be impartial) - so people click on them via reputable news sites and by association are more likely to think those articles are reliable as well - a very sneaky and quite disgusting tactic by those publishers. When someone is taking a short break, like if working at home, and wants to check local news and the weather - oh look, a clickbait article at the bottom of the screen. Seems interesting and should only take a minute or two to read. See how easy it is to fall into the trap of going instantly from reputable impartial news media to sensationalised, biased and often bigoted shite? 

How many people are actually media-savvy enough to have the awareness to protect against this? How many people end up being influenced by the things they read?

Clickbait is fucking dangerous and is the lowest shite at the bottom of the sewage tank of journalism.

[refizul-deactivated20210908]

"Man is the craziest species. He prays to an invisible god, but destroys a visible nature."

Hubert Reeves

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Works by Adam Burke

This artist on Instagram // Facebook

[inritum]

reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

[ghostdog07]

OH MY FUCKING GOD, IT’S BACK ON MY DASH.

THIS SHIT WORKS OKAY, I AM DEAD SERIOUS.

The last time I saw this on my dash, I didn’t think it would happen, so jokingly I wished I could go to a fun. concert.

AND GUESS WHAT, I WENT TO A FUCKING FUN. CONCERT.

THIS SHIT WORKS, TRY IT.

[deathklaue]

YOOOOOOO

I SAW THIS ON MY DASH THE OTHER DAY AND THOUGHT “ITS WORTH A TRY” SO I WISHED I COULD GET A 3DS

LITERALLY LIKE 4 DAYS LATER MY DAD SENT ME A PICTURE OF THE 3DS XL HE BOUGHT FOR ME WHILE I WAS AT SCHOOL

IM STILL FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS

[doryishness]

holy fuck, I didn’t expect this to work, I was like psh, whatever it’s just a quick reblog, but I wished my Dad would actually respond back to me AND HE FUCKING DID A FEW DAYS LATER, I GOT A FUCKING TEXT FROM MY DAD TODAY WHO HASN’T SPOKEN OR RESPONDED TO ME IN MONTHS HOLY FUCK WHAT IS THIS MAGIC IT WORKS. 

[victoriaringsinyourears]

I WANTED TO SEE MY BOYFRIEND AND I DIDN’T THINK I’D GET DAYS OFF BUT THIS WEEKEND I’M HEADING UP THERE??? THIS IS CRAZY SHIT 

[lenshade]

SO LIKE I JOKINGLY WISHED FOR MY OWN LEN KAGAMINE AND THEN LIKE A WEEK LATER I GOT A LEN NENDOROID??? H ELP

[themixedbagofwhat]

WTF OKAY SO THIS SHOT ACTUALLY WORKS BECAUSE WHEN I WISHED, I HAD WISHED MY CRUSH WOULD LIKE ME BACK AND GUESS WHAT? I HAVE A BOYFRIEND NOW. WHAT THE HELLLLL?????

[wodkat]

ok I’ve said this before but IM DOING IT AGAIN THE FIRST TIME I SAW THIS, MY WISH DID COME TRUE SO I REBLOGED AGAIN AND SAID IT IN THE TAGS BUT THEN I WISHED FOR SMTH ELSE AND IT LITERALLY LITERALLY HAPPENED LIKE A COUPLE DAYS LATER WHAT THE HELL SO NOW IM WRITING THIS HERE FOR YOU BC I DONT BELIEVE IN THIS CRAP BUT STILL IT’S AN AWFULLY BIG COINCIDENCE

[acstiel]

THE BOY I FELL I LOVE WITH LEFT TO TRAVEL THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD AND HAS BEEN GONE NOW FOR 3 MONTHS. WE HAVENT SPOKEN SINCE BECAUSE I DIDNT WANT TO MAKE HIM FEEL TRAPPED TO ME AND NOT ENJOY HIS TIME SO I WAITED FOR HIM TO CONTACT ME FIRST. I SAW THIS ON A PARTICULARLY LOW DAY WHEN I WAS MISSING HIM SO MUCH I CRIED FROM THE PAIN, GUYS I REALLY LOVE HIM, SO I THOUGHT MEH WHAT THE FUCK, AND WISHED HE WOULD JUST LET ME KNOW HE WAS OKAY.

GUYS.

HE FUCKING CALLED ME 20 MINUTES LATER

20 FUCKNG. MINUTES. LATER.

GOOD THINGS DO HAPPEN. AND ITS IN THIS POST.

[juststrokemyglabella]

I wish for someone to leave something in my ask.

[adweeb-deactivated20160228]

OKAY SO I ASKED FOR A HEDGEHOG AND NOW GUESS WHO HAS A PET HEDGEHOG

[mydeadcarcass]

I WISHED FOR SNK MERCH THE FIRST TIME. I GOT A JACKET.

I WISHED FOR MY GIRLFRIEND THE SECOND TIME. I HAVE A GIRLFRIEND.

[openyourthird-eye]

THIS WORKs I WISHED I WAS MOVING TO NORTH CAROLINA AND GUESS WHAT GUYS IM MOVING TO NC IN AUGUST I PROMISE U IM NOT LYING

[ariya-art]

guys ok ur probably thinking that this is all just bs right? WELL I THOUGHT SO TOO BUT I WISHED MY CRUSH WOULD CHAT ME AND HE DID AND IM FREAKING OUT not even kidding i swear on my grampas grave this works

[haihl-blog]

I love this it always works for me yey thank u shooting star :’)

[phoxae]

woah the notes let’s hope my wish comes true

[tonight-in-atlantic-city-deacti]

ok I know this stuff seems fake but literally nothing could hurt in trying it! :)

[zoologynewsology]

[fight4future]

Strike for the climate!

It’s time to strike for the climate. From September 20-27th, there will be strikes around the world for climate action.

To support them, we’ve launched a Digital Climate Strike to get some of the biggest websites on the Internet to raise visibility.

Add the strike to your Tumblr to spread the word! See the instructions here.

Ready to strike? Click here to find a strike near you.

[staff]

Today is the first of two Global Climate Strikes that are being held in 150 countries across the world. Millions of people are coming together in solidarity with young students who have protested every Friday to stand up for the one and only planet Earth we have.

Can’t make a strike today? There’s another one on September 27th, 2019. Can’t make either date? Help spread the word. We’re in this together.

You can find a strike near you at globalstrike.net.

[wilwheaton]

Say it louder.

[stacymarie43-deactivated2023122]

Illustration about Native American boys who have to cut off their braids to follow school dress codes.

[yokhakidfiasco-deactivated20210]

And black people have the same issue when it comes to finding jobs/careers.

[boihedonist-deactivated20171216]

^^^^ yes but it ain’t about us right now

[gloomypunks-deactivated20220717]

this is actually really important and pardon me for doing the cliche reblogging with a caption thing but i want to talk about braids and just how significant they are

to native people (and of course i can’t talk about every native tribe as there are very specific sects and i only really am coming from the perspective of seneca) hair is extremely important as it represents the walking of the Sacred Path as the physical extension of thought and self, and holy men, women and two-spirits are identified through specific styles of dress and even if not holy, the hair shows what a person has participated in, their feelings, their age, whether they are married or not, whether they are in mourning and their tribe

my grandfather is seneca and he had to remove his braids at a very young age and it was an act of assimilation because his mother knew they had to try to be white in order to proceed and it’s a tool of oppression and humiliation to cut (or force to cut) a native american person’s hair for both religious and cultural preservationist reasons

my mom is half-seneca and her choice for me to not cut my hair until i was 13 and for it to be worn in traditional manner was because of this and when i cut my hair then, i cut it off at the base of my head for also this reason; i was diagnosed with depression and was going through therapy, i wanted my hair and my treatment to signify that i was becoming a new, better person– eventually i started dying my hair but that is for separate reasons of colour symbolism and it’s still an important thing to me

please do not invalidate the struggles of other POC, i understand that this happens and it’s horrific to not be able to wear your natural hair, these are also children whose culture and religion is being stripped away from them and they can’t even participate in something so important within their culture simply because of white patriarchal ideas of masculinity

[something-in-the-way-she-knows]

^^THIS

American Indian children (especially plains ndns) were forced to attend boarding schools where they were forbidden to speak their own language and had to cut off their hair and choose a “white” name from the bible. If you refused, the teacher would often ridicule you by ignoring you anytime you attempted to speak or participate in class, to the point of saying offensive, false things about your people to rile you up enough that you gave in and picked a white name so the teacher would let you speak and tell the truth. (This is shown in bury my heart at wounded knee). In fact, it is hard to trace records before the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries bc the govt considered the way native peoples often have several different names that they go by in different context and by different people to be too annoying to record them in a census, another reason they were forced to choose white names.

Being oppressed for your natural hair and the names you choose is a real thing other poc face and it’s wrong and it’s racist, but this specific post is about what it means to American Indians, and for them it was not only racist stereotyping, but forced assimilation and genocide of their cultures.

[kelpien]

dude holy shit being ridiculed for not assimilating was the least of your worries in a residential school. i know people who were forced to kneel on sharp rocks in a corner for speaking a single word in their native language

some fun facts abt residential schools:

• people who went to residential schools were abused physically, sexually, verbally, and emotionally. my mushum went through all of these until he turned 18 and was allowed to leave

• boys were not allowed to wear their braids. period. the point of the residential schools was to ‘kill the indian in the child’ and you can google literal before-and-after images of students that the schools would distribute as a source of PRIDE

• the government would experiment on the students, starving them to see how long they could go without food before it seriously affected them. officially, over 6,000 native children died in residential schools. our government admits the number was likely much higher

• residential schools were literally hitler’s source of inspiration for concentration camps during world war II

• where im working right now, there are people in their 30s who were forced to attend residential schools

• the last residential school closed in 1996, one year after i was born, two hours away from where i live, twenty minutes from my family’s reserve

native assimilation has been the goal from the very start

[bigcatwildcat]

Pure Nature Specials - Wild Iran

The Asiatic cheetah once had a distribution that extended across the Middle East, Central Asia, north into southern Kazakhstan and southeast into India. Today, the cheetah has been extirpated from its entire Asiatic range, except for a small and critically endangered population in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Estimated at 200 animals in the 1970’s, there are now thought to be only 70-110 Asiatic cheetahs left in the wild, all occupying the arid, central plateau of Iran.

Major Threats facing the Asiatic Cheetah include:  - Overhunting of cheetah prey - Habitat degradation  - Direct poaching

For more info, please go here | source.

[labambinafantasma-deactivated20]

If you’re European, in a couple of weeks you will be denied any and all access to fandom contents on Tumblr and everywhere else on the internet. Here’s why.

On June, 20th the JURI of European Parliament approved of the articles 11 and 13 of the new Copyright Law. These articles are also known as the “Link Tax” and the “Censorship Machines” articles.

Articles 13 in particular forces every internet platform to filter all the contents we upload online, ending once and for all the fandom culture. Which means you won’t be able to upload any type of fandom works like fan arts, fan fictions, gif sets from your favourite films and series, edits, because it’s all copyrighted material. And you won’t also be able to share, enjoy or download other’s contents, because the use of links will be completely restricted.

But not everything’s lost yet. There’s another round of voting scheduled for the early days of July.

What you can do now to save our internet, is to share these informations with all of your family members and friends, and to ask to your MEP (the members of the European Parliament from your country) to vote NO at the next round, to vote against articles 11 and 13.

Here you can find more news and all the details to contact your MEP:

https://saveyourinternet.eu

Also, sign and share this petition:

https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet?recruiter=50668942&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial

We have just a couple of weeks to stop this complete madness, don’t let them dictating the way we enjoy our internet.

#SaveYourInternet now!

[theconqueeror]

It’s funny how y'all will reblog any and all US things but when whole Europe might lose access to internet then everything is quiet.

[mmmmmmmilo]

Are you fucking serious? Is this really happening? I’m European and I didn’t know a single thing about this

[labambinafantasma-deactivated20]

Here you have

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52016PC0593

https://creativecommons.org/2018/06/20/european-parliaments-legal-affairs-committee-gives-green-light-to-harmful-link-tax-and-pervasive-platform-censorship/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitterfacebook&utm_content=JURI-vote-june-20

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/article-13-european-parliament-internet-censorship-copyright-a8408531.html?amp&__twitter_impression=true

https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/20/eu-votes-for-copyright-law-that-would-make-internet-a-tool-for-control?__twitter_impression=true

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/eu-meme-war-article-13-regulation

Also ao3 has spoken out about this

https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/10637

[umbrxlla-acxdxmy]

PLEASE help share this as someone who lives in Europe I don’t want to see the internet change forever

[fight4future]

HAPPENING NOW: A key House committee is voting on net neutrality

This is super important. A key House committee is voting on the Save the Internet Act RIGHT NOW and we need Congress to know that the whole Internet is watching. Watch the livestream here:

Click here to tell your lawmakers to pass the Save the Internet Act with no bad amendments.

Unfortunately, telecom lobbyists have been working around the clock to try to derail the bill. Their main strategy right now is to punch it full of holes with bad amendments. So be sure to tell your rep to vote for a clean bill and oppose amendments that weaken it.

Taking action takes just a minute or two and it makes a huge difference.

The vote is imminent and we can’t afford to lose this one! If we pass the bill through the committee it will likely get a vote on the House floor next week. But if the bill is gutted through hostile amendments, then we’re back to square one.