Here Lynx screams into the Void

In the video the survivor said “Never seek a permanent solution to a temporary problem. And they’re all temporary problems.”

It also seems like it will go off, sound and vibration, whenever someone posts. Trump is awake at 2 AM. You will not be able to shut off your phone or stop the noise until you handle this. It will also drain your battery by being a surprise 2 AM noisemaker.

Don't put it on your phone. It's actually stealing less data than I expected (I mean, yes, OBVIOUSLY it's tracking your location and sending that to any cop who's bored, but it isn't taking any credit card info, so hey, that's nice), but it still can access and fuck up anything saved on your phone, record any unlocking method you use including fingerprint and face, and seems to want to do so to force you to suddenly have an explosion of noise.

Again: this may extend to dropping a call for an ambulance.

Based on this article and other discussions with tech people, the app:

Provides your location, every 4.5 and 9.5 minutes, to Trump and company;

Can copy, modify, or delete information on your phone;

Can alter webpages you visit through them;

Has multiple security flaws;

Is creating a personal profile on users;

Can, in fact, interrupt phone calls, no definite answer on 911 but very likely;

Is showing signs of being spyware in unstated ways.

(The best of this post and its reblogs, but with links that work)

Here is a website where you can scroll down to all the different levels of the ocean 

Here is a website where you can see the future of the universe

Here is a website where you can press a ‘make everything okay’ button, over and over, until things really are okay

Here is a website that you can read if you feel like a burden

Here is a website where you can look at strobe illusions (TW strobe/flashing)

Here is a website where you can cut stuff up (TW blood/sh)

Here and here are websites where you can play with sand

Here is a website where you can draw with macaroni and other fun foods

Here is a website where you can paint someone’s nails

Here is a website where you can grow a garden with emojis

Here is a website with hundreds of videos of people hugging you (rightfully dubbed ‘the nicest place on the internet’ because it really is, y’all, it made me cry)

Here is a website that will take you to other useless websites

Here is a website where you can make a tiny cat play bongo drums (and other instruments!)

Here is a website to help give you gentle reminders <3

Here is a website where you can grow a tiny farm

Here is a website where you can take a bunch of scientific personality tests

Here is a website of calm rain noise

Basically, people are using their key fobs to set off their car alarms when they see ICE.

This is effective for several reasons:

Obviously, it alerts everyone that something is wrong. Given ICE has been terrorizing Minnesota, people are likely to immediately know it is ICE. This gives people time to flee or barricade themselves in their homes.

ICE loses the element of surprise.

I had believed after seeing the footage that Renee Good's death was effectively instant. That one of the three shots fired had been a head shot.

It turns out that was incorrect. She was shot twice in the chest. At least one bullet hit the left side of her head--she was bleeding out her ear--and her left arm. They're not sure yet if it was four shots or three per her body's condition. If it was the three we all saw and heard, then it sounds to me like she raised her left arm defensively, possibly.

But more importantly, her death was NOT instant. When EMS was finally permitted to reach her, twenty minutes after she was shot, she still had a pulse. She had at that point stopped breathing, but she STILL HAD A PULSE. I know how long it takes to get to the nearest trauma centre from our neighbourhood. It's six minutes. It's VERY close to us.

But they wouldn't let a physician bystander render aid--they threatened to shoot him. They wouldn't let EMS bring their rig up to the scene. They made EMS carry in their equipment and they made EMS carry Renee to their rig.

Twenty minutes is how long it took them to allow her to receive aid. Twenty. Fucking. Minutes.

When she was six minutes away from a level one trauma centre.

I wonder if she was conscious at any point as she sat in her car, bleeding. I wonder if she could hear her wife screaming that they'd killed Renee. I wonder if she thought 'I'm not dead yet.' I wonder if she wondered why no one was helping her. I wonder if she thought of her children. I wonder if she thought they'd killed her wife, too.

I wonder how alone and cold and frightened she was as she sat there bleeding in her car, with a doctor nearby and EMS trying to get to her.

I don't know what structures in her body were damaged. I don't know if Renee could have lived after her injuries. I don't know what recovery might have looked like, or if it was possible.

But I know that her brave, strong heart beat for twenty minutes after she was shot. I know that her family was robbed not just of her life but of any chance to say goodbye while her heart still beat.

And above all, I know that she did not need to die. Jonathan Ross murdered her for that brave, strong heart that beat for twenty minutes after he tried to extinguish her life in a heartbeat.

In the video the survivor said “Never seek a permanent solution to a temporary problem. And they’re all temporary problems.”

No permanent solutions to temporary problems

He learned the ending in the early 2000s, with me, long after he'd stopped reading fantasy, because I heard this story and got to tell him it'd actually just come out...on DVD.

Fifty years after it saved his life, he found out how it all turned out.

It is bad because it supports a woman who is actively funding groups that are seeking to deprive trans people of their rights in the UK and especially Scotland, where I live, where people inside the government are quietly remarking that they are struggling to fight against the groups she funds, as she has more money than God. Any money made from this new audio adaptation goes directly to funding these groups and these cases.

It is also bad because commissioning such an expansive series with such a well-known cast (Riz Ahmed?! Come on man) has eaten up the majority of Audible's commissioning budget. In the UK, the only people commissioning audio drama are the BBC (separate conversation) and Audible, and this new Harry Potter series has hoovered up resources that could have otherwise gone to new stories, new voices and money to creators that aren't actively trying to erase trans people.

I am angry at anyone who signed up to star in this, I am angry at the production companies that took on this commission, I am angry that this series continues to have a stranglehold on the UK media landscape despite all that its creator has done.

It is bad for trans people, it is bad for audio drama, it is bad for anyone working in media in the UK right now.