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I'll add smth here cos I learned after posting this on IG that people still aren't entirely understanding how scary and dangerous this is. Ppl kept saying to me 'I can still buy your book in shops though' or 'Its okay, I'll order your book into my library!'

I dont give af about my book lol No one outside of Ace ppl ever read it, its yearly sales don't even cover a month of expenses for me.

The thing you should all be concerned about is that a totally benign unheard of book about someone's every day life is being banned. And those laws listed above are passing through US government right now. One of those laws would make it so that any teacher/librarian in the US could lose their job/go to prison for simply sharing 'ideology'- and I don't mean only lgbtq folk, these laws are attacking black history, civil rights history, disability rep in books. Just talking about these things will now legally be considered a 'dangerous ideology'.

And once that's set into law, the US government has backing via law to go ahead and say 'if these books aren't legally allowed in schools, then they shouldn't be allowed in shops, either.' And from there it sets up a great argument for 'The dangerous content in these books is lawfully being removed from public, shouldn't we be lawfully removing the people living out/promoting this ideology too?'

I can see why ppl don't fully understand how dangerous book bannings are, if they're not familiar with the history of fascism. If you're interested, there are plenty of graphic novels that share this history via first hand accounts- Maus, Persepolis, Banned Book Club.

But guess what? You're on limited time to get these via libraries...cos all three of these books are on banned lists too, and they got nothing to do with lgbtq rep, and everything to do with warning ppl about fascism.

And the US government knows it can get away with this, because they are passing these laws as we speak and barely anyone is doing anything about it or talking about it. I've been trying to talk about it for years and no one does anything except say to me 'don't worry, I'll buy your book!' or say its a badge of honour that I have a banned book.

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Slavery is literally happening now. Police never stopped being slave catchers. People are supporting it now just like they supported it then.

And was like, uh, are you missing something there, buddy? Like all that red in northern Africa? Because that's a lot of red.

And I was going to give them the benefit of doubt, since I don't know much about the climate in Northern Africa, aside from Morroco and Egypt, which seem like really hot places, so you know, maybe it's normal there?

But nope, that's not the case:

Some selections from the article:

"The region has been experiencing some of the most intense heat waves in recent years, but in many cases they’ve been under-reported due to misconceptions about Africans’ ability to withstand them.

“Africa is seen as a sunny and hot continent,” said Amadou Thierno Gaye, a research scientist and professor at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, the capital of Senegal. “People think we are used to heat, but we are having high temperatures for a longer duration. Nobody is used to this.”

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YES YOU DID

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the more you reblog this the more it breaks

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WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO

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This disaster of a post seems to be the result of two distinct events that compounded upon each other. Unfortunately the details can be challenging to suss out, so the following is a best effort explanation based on available evidence.

Event 1:

The initial post was published by @roach shortly before 4AM UTC [1]

A great many users received notifications that they had been tagged in it, but found no such tags present [2][3][4]

@roach edited the post several times over the next hour, two remaining version contain a block of usernames, followed by the string “mfc-ads” repeated 1,000 times [5][6]

A screenshot posted by @the-universe-at-large (current URL @bleary-eyed-blue) shows what may be the version of the post they had been tagged in, also containing a block of usernames [7]

Some users replies suggest that they originally reblogged a different version of the post than they are attached to now [8][9]

A possible reconstruction of events involves @roach repeatedly editing the post to add “batches” of user tags, before editing it again to remove them

Event 2:

That very same day, Tumblr began switching from the older “indentation” reblog format to the current “caption” style format [10]

@the-universe-at-large’s reblog (and others [12]) partially retained the “indentation” formatting despite the wider website’s migration [9]

When @high-saffron (now user @anthraxplus) reblogged @bleary-eyed-blue’s post [13], they noticed that @roach’s root post (in the new format) was re-inserted into the beginning of the chain every time there was a reblog, and did several times [13]

As duplicates accumulated in the top of the chain, the post seems to have more fully migrated to the new format some time before @lenasai’s reblog. However, some quirk in the process flattened the whole corrupted chain into a single post, which then had its authorship attributed to @lenasai, as the most recent contributor [14][15]

The @roach conga line continued to grow irregularly for some time, before settling on the 28 currently present

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Ageless Linux intends to force the issue before the California state supreme court, then ultimately (probably) the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). It's a stupid, dangerous law, voted into place by legislators who either don't understand the core issue OR knowingly voted for it because they're assholes.

California is an influential state in the US. Many laws & regulations passed there eventually trickle out to most states. That's why it's worrisome to see this kind of thing rammed through, and why it's important to fight it.

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

Suicide Hotline: 1-800-784-8433

LifeLine: 1-800-273-8255

Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386

Sexuality Support: 1-800-246-7743

Eating Disorders Hotline: 1-847-831-3438

Rape and Sexual Assault: 1-800-656-4673

Grief Support: 1-650-321-5272

Runaway: 1-800-843-5200, 1-800-843-5678, 1-800-621-4000

Exhale: After Abortion Hotline/Pro-Voice: 1-866-4394253

buddy you went to SCHOOL FOR THIS. JUST TO DISFIGURE PEOPLE’S BODIES JUST BECAUSE YOU DONT UNDERSTAND THEM.

This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:

ActionAid India

SEEDS India

GlobalGiving