Mikhael

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So, on the subject of everything costing money, my phone bill is coming up on the 27th (already late) and again on the 15th. Without my phone, I will be out of contact, can't post here, can't receive calls or texts from state agencies (EBT and Medicaid), or keep trying to look for work. DoorDash barely pays enough for me to keep fuel in my tank and no one else will hire me, and if I lose my phone line, I cant even do DoorDash anymore.

I need $80 before the 27th, that's the immediate panic "I need help" amount. Then I'll need $60 before the 15th, but I have time to try to make that deadline.

If I don't get the $80, my phone line gets cut off. It wasn't a problem before when it was just mine and my ex-wife's lines, but now my eldest kid has her own line and my ex can't afford three lines.

I wouldn't be asking after promising not to anymore unless I had no other choice.

...now y'all see why I want to disappear into someone's basement, no more bills, no more need for money...

Regrettably, here's my info again and here's to hoping that this capitalist nightmare will end someday.

Cashapp: $JuggernautShark

PayPal: @SweetSkittles90

And a brief reminder that now folks with Venmo can send to folks with PayPal.

UK legislation: Online Safety Act 2023

Brazil legislation: Digital Statute For Children And Adolescents

Apple App Store Age Verification

These are not tumblr specific policies. Tumblr is implementing age verification in response to legislative moves that were made months ago.

Tumblr is a failing social media site that has escaped death multiple times already; they do not have the social cachet to defy state regulatory agencies. We know they won't say no to Apple, either--the porn ban on tumblr was in response to Apple's crackdown on explicit content.

If you did not know this was happening, you were behind the curve. That is fine. You're caught up now. The next step is to link up with people in your country who are working to preserve privacy, to roll back these laws where they exist, and to prevent their passage where they do not. In the US the organization you want is Stop KOSA--in the EU you can start with Fight Chat Control.

The single most useful thing you can do is to call your state representatives and tell them that you OPPOSE these mandates. Here is a script that takes less than 30 seconds to read during a call:

Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [CITY/TOWN].

I'm calling to urge [REPRESENTATIVE] to oppose the App Store Accountability Act, the Parents Decide Act, and any other legislation that mandates age verification on internet platforms. Current age verification methods are unreliable and threaten our privacy, and they let predatory tech platforms off the hook without accountability.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

IF LEAVING VOICEMAIL: Please leave your full street address to ensure your call is tallied.

The phone numbers for your representatives, along with this script and additional information, can be found here:

IF PHONE CALLS MAKE YOU NERVOUS, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CALL DURING BUSINESS HOURS!

It is perfectly acceptable to call and leave a voicemail after hours, so long as you include your address. Both ways result in your opinion being tallied, which is the single most influential way you can oppose these laws.

Whilst it's correct that tumblr has no control over the ID thing, what they do have control over is their mature content filters. If you weren't before, now is the time to get really fucking insistent that they fix their extremely broken mature content filters.

Politely.

"Dear tumblr,

The combination of the new ID verification requirements, and the extremely janky mature content filters, means that tumblr is now unusable for me. Any posts that get tagged in error as mature will be completely blocked out, and I won't be able to see them.

It would be helpful if you had a function that allows the userbase to report incorrectly applied maturity filters for staff to remove, so that I can continue to enjoy my favourite site. Otherwise, I will be forced to leave the site until the ID legislation in my country is repealed/reversed."

Ta-da! That easy. Feel free to copy that text if you want. Feel free to mention you won't be going through ID verification due to concerns about the security of your data. Expand on it however you want, I'm not your parent.

But this is an opportunity to present a solution to something that's been pissing us off for a while now, and it gives us, the userbase, a better opportunity to combat report bombing of trans folks and black folks. I think we're morally obligated to push for this.