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are you a teenager? do you wish you had the space & resources & organization to do a thing, whether that's an anime club or a movie night or a big craft workshop or creative writing group or literally whatever? would you like to do your thing totally for free? yes?

okay, then bring it up to a librarian

seriously, teenagers are the absolute hardest group to engage at most libraries & we'll often organize programs that absolutely no one will show up to & it sucks. if you go up to a public librarian & say "hey, some friends & i want to do this thing. does that sound like a feasible teen program for the library?" most people will move heaven & earth to pull it off for you because we know there's an interest in our community. we will go balls to the freaking wall to make it happen

July 24, 2026 - Anti-imperialist Venezuelan workers took to the streets this week in protest against the government's renewed ties with Israel, which the people condemned as a betrayal of the revolution and the Palestinian people, as well as the continued US occupation of Venezuela.

We should all be talking about KOSA. The bill would mean the end of the open internet in the US, and it was just approved by a House committee for a floor vote. The act is ostensibly designed to regulate the age of social media users. However, it actually deanonymizes the internet and allows the government to sue LGBTQ+ websites.

Unsurprisingly, the Heritage Foundation is one of the main lobbying groups behind this push. They have publicly stated they want to use the law to restrict LGBTQ+ and abortion-related content. Blocking children under 16 from accessing the internet means young people will be isolated within their communities. They cannot discuss LGBTQ+ issues with their online peers. They could not request help to access abortion clinics. Senator Marsha Blackburn, who once personally sent the FBI to my doorstep to harass me, admits the law is intended to shield “minor children from the transgender [sic] in this culture.”

“The through-line couldn’t be clearer: destroying online anonymity is a way for government to be able to identify ¬— and ultimately punish — dissenters,” explains Ari Cohn, lead counsel for tech policy at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. The DHS has already subpoenaed hundreds of anonymous accounts tracking and protesting ICE. KOSA would make it even easier for the government to access your data.

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do not get IR blocking fabric or thick wool to cover your nose and mouth

do not get IR blocking sunglasses since facial recognition has moved up to targeting and identifying the upper face

do not avoid having your phone or any bluetooth devices around these cameras as they can detect and track those signals

do not buy cheap green lasers 1 milliwatt or above from etsy or walmart or amazon (i will not try and find a link if you ask)

do not use them to fry those fuckers from a distance damage the delicate inner sensors by pointing the beam in the lenses

AND unless you want to cost Flock more money in repairs, do not buy a small circle saw or a reciprocating saw and cut down the pole

OR do not climb said poles, spray paint on the solar panels, cover the lens with paint or a sticker, then use bolt cutters to sever the wires

when doing all these things, DO NOT avoid using latex gloves as fingerprints can leak through

DO NOT USE DEFLOCK TO FIND FLOCK SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS NEAR YOU

remember, flock is for YOUR safety :) even though crime rates have not gone down since they were implemented, they're being abused to track down exes and s/os, and many face pools or houses or schools or gymnasiums! Where there are no liscence plates to be found!

DO NOT DO THESE THINGS and enjoy a life under surveillance!

enjoy living in the country where 87,000 of these cameras were used to track down a woman who got an abortion!

enjoy living in the country where there's no consequences for a flock exec to watch a inside of a gymnastics place without their knowledge!

Remember, this is their American Dream.

merry cripmas everyone. here's a disability ask game made for physically disabled people. feel free to share it if you aren't physically disabled but I'd like to keep the answering exclusive to my fellow cripples. remember to send an ask if you want an ask etc. etc. let everyone talk.

How did you find cripplepunk? Do you like it? Would you leave a good Yelp review?

Is there some ableist interaction you're still bitter over?

What's your favourite and least favourite thing about cripplepunk?

We all know that cripplepunk is separate from both "cripple" and "punk" as individual concepts. But how do you relate to those two concepts?

Is there a disability aid you don't need (as in, you can survive without it) that you would like anyway? What is it?

Do you or did you know any other physically disabled people IRL? If yes how does it differ from people here online?

If you have any marginalized traits, what ones intersect most with your disability? If they all intersect too much you can just pick one.

Of course we are all such perfect cripples who do no wrong but, hypothetically, what trait or behaviour do you have that the ableds would hate and consider you a bad cripple for?

Tell us the symptom you have that is the most minor inconvenience symptom ever but god you hate it.

Do you have any physical disability icons?

How well do you react to pity? How does it rate amongst all the reactions people can have to your disability?

An abled is walking towards you. Do you: a) punch them. b) kick them. c) bite them?

Is there an aspect of disability or disability rights you don't find a lot of support or discussion on but you'd like to?

Which slogan is the best physical disability slogan? If they all suck come up with your own.

What's something people assume you just would get handed or have access to, but you don't?

Were you born physically disabled? Yes or no; describe your experience.

What's been the most surprisingly helpful little bit of advice you have been given or can give wrt physical disability?

What would cripple pride look like to you?

What community, if any, is the best at accommodating your disability?

Can you work a job? Ability aside, if you could pick your ideal job, what would it be?

Everything in the world is interconnected. What rights do you think go hand in hand with disability rights?

Are you familiar with crip theory?

What's your least favourite holiday as a physically disabled person?

Which is worse for your disability, the heat or the cold?