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I love that there wasn't any big issue with the development that delay it, it just took a Long ass time to make because that's how they roll.

Bro you’re falling for anti-lawyer propaganda saying shit like this. There are hundreds of thousands of talented lawyers who dedicate themselves to public service either through working directly for local/state/federal government or for nonprofit legal aid/pro bono organizations.

Sure sometimes legal assistance can be expensive but a lot of times lawyers are more than happy to work out payment plans for people who can’t pay lump sums. When I worked for an immigration practice, they had set fees for all of their services which set a cap on the amount of money their clients were expected to pay and then they let them pay at a rate of $100 per month until it was paid off, which is crazy cheap if you have any idea of how much work goes into a basic immigration case.

Furthermore big firms do NOT only hire top attorneys. Some of the dumbest motherfuckers I’ve ever met are charging $500/hr because the got their partner daddy got them a job. Big firms thrive on nepotism and clout chasing, not quality legal work. Obviously there’s an advantage to having deep pockets, especially when it comes to litigation, but do not buy into the myth that lawyers are simply inaccessible to the average Joe.

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And how will I prove my age?

There’s a number of methods a site or app might use to ask you to confirm your age. They might do this check themselves or use another company to do the check. These methods include:

Facial age estimation – you show your face via photo or video, and technology analyses it to estimate your age. 

Open banking – you give permission for the age-check service to securely access information from your bank about whether you are over 18. The age-check service then confirms this with the site or app.

Digital identity services – these include digital identity wallets, which can securely store and share information which proves your age in a digital format.

Credit card age checks – you provide your credit card details and a payment processor checks if the card is valid. As you must be over 18 to obtain a credit card this shows you are over 18.

Email-based age estimation – you provide your email address, and technology analyses other online services where it has been used – such as banking or utility providers - to estimate your age.  

Mobile network operator age checks – you give your permission for an age-check service to confirm whether or not your mobile phone number has age filters applied to it. If there are no restrictions, this confirms you are over 18. 

Photo-ID matching – this is similar to a check when you show a document. For example, you upload an image of a document that shows your face and age, and an image of yourself at the same time – these are compared to confirm if the document is yours.

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Not only is this such a fucking breach of privacy, but this is going to hurt adults in vulnerable and abusive situations. Some adults don’t have bank accounts or credit cards or even a fucking phone. I’m one of them. I could not give half of this information even if I wanted to. What the fuck is this. Fuck the UK government. This isn’t going to protect kids, this is just going to hurt adults, and I know full well when they say “sites that allow pornography” they’re going to be going after sites that have huge amounts of queer content, like tumblr and Ao3. Queer kids are gonna lose their fucking communities because of this shit. Abuse victims are going to lose online support systems because of this.

I’m genuinely fucked off about this, and worried about whether I’m going to lose every single one of my online friends. Anyone in the UK, please email your MP and sign this petition. It needs to reach 100k signatures to pass through Parliament.

I’m only hoping the backlash will be big enough for them to stop implementing these measures.

That. Includes. Scheduling.

That. Includes. Firing.

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

A little bit louder and a whole lot worse!

So y'all may or may not remember that around this time last year I had a huge dental procedure and an equally huge bill for it.

Yeah, turns out the dentist's office fucked up my total when they handed it to me and six months later, they tell me I still owe about $3,000.

On top of that, a month later I had one of my four remaining molars crack and about a third of the damn thing sheared clean off of where it was apparently already mostly filling.

So I'm looking at $3,100 in debt (because they were kind enough to pause the interest on their fuck up for all of three months), as much as $1,700 for the fillings I need, and as much as another $2,000 to fix the busted molar.

Needless to say, I've put the GoFundMe back up. Same drill as before, every dollar helps and every reblog counts.

GFM link here!

And it not being socially acceptable to talk about your own childhood is super alienating. Sometimes people want to know why, and any answer you can give them is going to be off putting.

One of them said something like, "it doesn't bother me that [Friend] was in residential mental health treatment, I just wish they wouldn't talk about it ALL the time".

The other replied, "Well, that was all of last year for them. So when they say 'when I was in treatment,' it's like when you say 'last year'."