well? DO you know the mossin' man?

+ little Simon and rocky :)

went through the effort of making this gif just to remind everyone of rocky scooting closer to grace on the beach

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

I just now opened bluesky to use social media as one does and got asked to verify my age.

That says "verify again" because I bit the bullet to see what they'd ask of me in the email of how to prove my age.

I haven't clicked this one yet and I don't think I will be doing so any time soon, as I immediately googled "Is KWS safe" and on reddit from a post over a year ago explains it will take a ton of your information. It stands for 'kids web services' and they're transparent about what they use or want on their website. I still dont trust it though.

The short of it is it seems it will ask you for ID and credit/debit card information to prove your age as well as a picture of your face. We all know the issue with face cams/pictures already I imagine. Short answer to that is its easy to trick but also very dumb and will say a young looking adult is under 18.

I will not be selling my digital soul to this machine and I don't think you should either so I guess this means I'll just go do anything else except be on bluesky. Which sucks because recently I had been having a fun time reaching out to some small fandom community and interacting with some artists.

This reddit post seems to have more updated information as it is recent. Im still confused on if its a Texas or United States thing though. People are debating and noting that its Bluesky's choice on the matter and one commenter's wife suggested that you make your complaints heard to bluesky.

GITHUB HELP THAT FIXED MY ISSUE