May 13 2023

The Senate has been in a "do something!" mode regarding children's online safety. They're using this as an excuse to push for widespread internet censorship and surveillance. The EARN IT Act, has a slimmer chance of passing with widespread opposition and some senators saying they won't vote for it. TLDR;The real threat is actually KOSA (s.1409), the Kid's Online Safety Act, which will mass censor and surveill the entire internet by giving all 50 state attorney generals the power to remove content that is "harmful" for kids, and force you to upload your govt ID online to access the internet. I'll explain how it works below the action items but it's absolutely urgent that anyone who likes having a free and open internet fights back. It's all hands on deck, because this has so much public support it's insane:

HOW TO FIGHT KOSA

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES & THE COMMERCE COMMITTEE

This is a link to the Senate Commerce Committee phone numbers and a call script to read off of. (202) 224-3121 connects you to the congressional hotline

Opposition is getting drowned, and these upcoming weeks will be heavy for lobbying and they're using young people to do it. We NEED to show these senators that young people are actually opposed to this and don't want it.

2. Sign these petitions

Open Letter Against KOSA

Petition 1

Petition 2

Petition 3

Petition 4

Resistbot: Text PHJDYH to 50409

3. Spread the word.

The opposition is getting absolutely drowned online. Dove has nearly 100k signatures to push for KOSA. Influencers on tiktok are pushing for this without ever having read the bill. Fucking Lizzo is sponsoring it. If you have twitter, reddit, tiktok, are in any community, SPREAD THE WORD, PLEASE.

Here is a linktree with all the above petitions for easy shargin: Link to linktree

HOW KOSA WORKS

First, KOSA pressures platforms to install filters that would wipe the net of anything deemed “inappropriate” for minors. This means instructing platforms to censor. We saw how these filters impacted websites firsthand with tumblr in 2018, with not only blocking all adult content but also sfw queer content such as suicide hotlines, art archives, wiping out entire blogs because they had queer fandom related posts, etc. Places that already use content filters have restricted important information about suicide prevention and LGBTQ+ support groups. KOSA would spread this kind of censorship to every corner of the internet. And who gets to decide what is and isn't harmful for minors? Oh don't worry, just every single state attorney general and the FTC, which is appointed by the president. You know, the same attorney generals that just banned gender-affirming healthcare under the guise that it "ruins mental health" of minors. This is why the Heritage Foundation was one of the first to sponsor the bill because they can use it to censor trans content, and Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee is it's co-author.

Second, KOSA would ramp up the online surveillance of all internet users by forcing websites to use age verification and parental monitoring tools. Yup, that's right. Now every single person who wants to access the internet has to upload their govt ID online to third party apps that get hacked all the time. You queer in a red state? You undocumented? You an activist? Have fun getting all your online activity and metadata attached to your govt ID.  

Over 90+ human and LGBT rights groups agree that KOSA is dangerous and updates to the 2023 version won’t and can’t address the big problems with the bill. This bill has MASSIVE bipartisan support, and the authors Blumenthal and Blackburn (yes, that Blumenthal that's pushing the EARN IT Act, and who also sponsored the RESTRICT Act and SOPA/PIPA if you remember) are using the tragedy of mothers who lost their kids to online harassment and young adults who've been traumatized online to lobby for it, and got Dove the company to use a bunch of influencers to push for this under the guise it prevents eating disorders...I wish I was lying. There are already 30 co-sponsors.

I want to clarify that if you see this, it is still an ace flag, just with 1 more gradient.

Attention everyone please ignore this user as well as their affiliated acc and if necessary block the heck outta them

Y'all still remember user Lieldamoza(who eventually made another acc named amunoelising) right??? That one annoying kid that is now deactivated, here's a refresh on their previous behavior

Well the annoying ask blog is run by them. Not really to hard to figure it out 'cause they leave obvious traces. Anyways, i gave them a chance but NOW they're really crossing lines. So everyone I'd like your cooperation and to ignore the accounts mentioned and if being harassed via dm or ask, block the user, since reporting isn't the most viable way for me rn(but if you know a method of reporting or if this can be reported let me know!)

Theyre impersonating Popcornpr1nce, and that's not ok. Heads up y'all

Theyre doing it for attention

This blog in the photo accompaninstuo91 does not have a proper blog. When you click on their blog, an image pops up asking you if you're 18 and if you say yes or no, it directs you to a virus/porn site that isnt on tumblr

The bots are evolving to actively redirect you/ give viruses to you

Please reblog this so you dont fall victim. Do not click follow or try to go onto their blog, instead the only way to report them is to click the little three dots and click report

Finally got my grade so I can be calm about showing this online lol. The short story about how I sneaked my blorbo and old concepts into my homework hehehe

@just-a-drawing-bean really helped with colours and details he was such an L bozo before lmao thank you smm<33

A random info dump about the setting of this world and Moon's design is under the cut because I can :)

If you already made it can I see it please

I really need it

I speedran this comki. ( i finally have time and i had to get this out of my head (its been weeks))

I have a littel headcanon for @xitsensunmoon biting the hand that feeds au, that y/n has a corkboard with 'thank you' cards and picutes of their old patients pin to it. To remember why they do what they do.

Here's why you should still boycott.

Game companies are spending less money and giving you an inferior product *and not charging less*

They are not paying aritsts anynore, but they are pocketing the saving and not reducing the cost to consumers.

A Pangolin reacts happily to a human grooming it in places it could not reach or take care of it by itself. There are many benefits to humans having opposable thumbs. 

I have been far too into the game lately and my brain has been spouting off different ideas. This will be an au, your character will be the leader of the cult (most likely the god of it instead of the vessel) while the lamb is their partner / lover and second in command. This won't be smut the entire time, but in the beginning there will be it. The idea is the lamb goes out on a crusade only to end up badly injured and having to cut it short. Cue him coming back in said state this is where we will start. If you wish to play as multiple characters be my guest, I am open to a polyship.

Now the Lamb's name will be Lazarus. His age is unknown, but he looks to be in his twenties. He was the very first follower of yours cult. He was an outcast, he did not have a flock to call his own. This being his situation meant he had to survive all on his own which has left his body battered with many old battle scars, long jagged nasty things littering his entire body. There is three claw marks covering his right eye and side of his face. His eyesight is gone in that eye, but it doesn't hold him back. Lazarus is short and small, but by now it is know his looks are quite deceiving. He reaches to be 5'3 to 5'4. His eyes are a beautiful chocolate brown color, his right one being lighter and milky looking due to it being blind. His skin is a darker tone, I would say it is an espresso tone. His hair is still pure white. It's short, fluffy, and curly. He has the lamb ears that are the same color as his skin tone (they replace human ears) and a pure white fluffy lamb tail at the base of his spine.

Lamb Reference Pic (yes I made it myself)

https://imgur.com/gallery/1jw8YRt

Necklace he is wearing;

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From the very beginning of his life, it had not been easy. His parents had been shunned from their flock and casted out, left to suffer and rot. He never knew the reason why. They never spoke of their past to him. They were loving parents either way, and his childhood was decent until they stepped into unknown territory. His parents were killed a few days after. He had only been fifteen years old. This left poor Lazarus to flee with his body littered with horrible wounds. Somehow, he managed to survive all of that. He didn't know how, but he did. When his wounds were healed enough he escaped the territory and kept as far as from it. Now this began his new life, a very lonely and pain filled one. It was only years later he was captured and dragged back to that place. He was to be killed to keep some sort of prophecy from coming true. His arms had been bounded behind his back and he was forced to his knees. His eyes squeezed shut and he awaited for the pain to come. It never did.

There were sounds around him, loud and chilling. Screams came from his capturers, they were yelling to one another about attacking something. Suddenly everything went silent and a chill settled in the air. What the hell had happened? Well, *he* had come. *He* was the enemy of those who had ordered the slaughter of his entire species. That day he had been rescued and given a new life. One that was amazing. He was no longer alone, he now had a permanent home. The dangers of the world seemed so far now since he had joined the other. Though, he never imagined he would ever join a cult but here he was. A few years later and helping run one with the same man that had saved him. The same man he long had fallen in love with and now was in a relationship with. The past Lazarus would find all of this insane and he couldn't blame him.

Now, his duties consisted of many things. One of them was venturing within the enemy's territories. Whether it was rescuing new members for the cult, gathering supplies, or just defeating creatures. He did it all and typically Lazarus never had any trouble. At least until today. He didn't know where or what went wrong, but something did! Multiple creatures surrounded him, fast and strong ones. Intense pain rocked through his body in waves. The pain came from the many injuries scattered across his body. Variety of claw marks, bites wounds, slashes from swords and daggers. He wasn't going to make it home at this rate if stayed put. Cursing, he pulled all the power he could before releasing the freezing curse. Knocking the creatures back a good distance and freezing them temporarily. His free hand shakily reached up, grasping tightly onto the necklace his partner had given him. Calling upon their power he teleported himself back to the base.