Samuri's ships. That's right I got an armada or something

The office that I called allowed me to listen to my voicemail a couple times before sending it. I could even re-record my message a few times. Don't know how it is for other offices, but this one had that option.

It helps to have a script with all the info you need. So be specific about what bills you're calling about. Give the date of the markup. Etc.

Keep in mind what your senator stands for. Their political party, the reason they support/oppose age verification, etc. Lead with that.

If you have a big script and you're planning to talk to a person, keep a version that's super short, in case you need to do voicemail.

For the voicemail, time yourself rehearsing the script. Use a stopwatch to see if you can say your piece within 1 - 2 minutes

Tomorrow Wednesday the 5th, the Senate Commerce Committee will markup 5 bills.

The SCREEN Act - An explicit age verification bill for the entire internet - and the senate version of KOSA with the duty of care portion are the most notable, amongst the others. This is not a package, but individual bills.

You know what to do.

We need calls driven to the Senate Commerce Committee members NOW. You can find them here: <https://www.commerce.senate.gov/about/members/>

OR

use this list:

If you need a call script, either use [BadInternetBills](https://www.badinternetbills.com/) or spend some time writing your own.

““Hi there, My name is (your name) and I am calling to oppose multiple harmful internet bills. I oppose all bills that infringe upon teenagers’ constitutional right to free speech on the internet and enable government policing of online resources. If you truly care about young people’s experience on the internet, you should pass comprehensive data privacy legislation and oppose KOSA, SCREEN Act, and other age-gating restrictions on social media. Any kids safety package that includes KOSA, online ID checks, and AI preemption is a betrayal to young people everywhere.””

Thousands of you called, good job!! Your voice matters! 🩷 Be happy with me today. This is a huge win!

⭐️🇺🇸KIDS ACT AND KOSA UPDATE! 🇺🇸⭐️

BAD NEWS:

The Senate Commerce Committee voted to advance KOSA in the markup. The committee's approved version keeps the controversial duty of care provision intact, setting up a major legislative clash with the House of Representatives.

GOOD NEWS:

The Screen Act did not survive the markup! 🎊 (Update: @cofa said it will get a revote! This is ridiculous! I hope it gets shot down again!)

You can read more information on Politico or watch the video on the Senate Commerce Committee site! It's only an hour it was very short! I was surprised.

In the article from Politico/Markup Marsha Blackburn (R) (She is for this bill) said this:

“The Senate cannot and will not accept the version that the House passed earlier. It is toothless, and it is a very pale imitation of the Senate version, and therefore, it is a pale imitation of big tech accountability,” Blackburn said during the committee markup.

(Marsha and crew for these laws GO GET DUNKED ON IN THE SENATE ! Also, this woman looks and sounds like such a Karen literally look up a picture of her. She looks like she calls the cops on her neighbors for having a bbq.😂)

Anyway, from what I watched, this is going to be a HUGE fight in the Senate. This thing is all over the place it's awful to even listen, too! I would LOVE to see them get laughed out of there!

(8/3/2026)

Hey, do you like reading fics on Ao3? Do you like being able to talk about being a part of a minority group online? Do you like being able to log into stuff without providing your ID to a random third party?

Well, they're trying to take your ability to do that away!!

If you haven't heard, they're trying to push for the KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act) bill in the USA, which will basically ban kids from using the internet unless they want to give up personal information, amongst other things. They claim it's to protect the children from seeing harmful material, but that's a big load of horseshit - if they truly cared about the kids, they would improve parental locks and the safety of websites designed for them, instead of forcefully censoring the whole internet.

This is a plan to enact censorship on one of the only places that still hasn't been fully choked by it.

I know petitions don't do that much, so if you're in the USA, PLEASE contact your representatives - either trough an email or a phone call, and PLEASE don't stop periodically doing so until they're annoyed enough to vote against the bill.

And if you can't do that, or aren't in the USA, PLEASE AT LEAST SIGN THIS PETITION!!! IT TAKES LESS THAN A MINUTE AND YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO SIGN INTO ANYWHERE TO DO IT!!!

not only is KOSA a trojan horse for the government to collect as much data and have as much surveillance over us as possible, but it also will most assuredly be used for mass-censorship purposes, too. they do not want to protect kids, they want to harvest your info and ban everything they deem inappropriate.

good news is, it still has to go through senate, and senate is not for this version of the KIDS act. it has also both stalled and failed to pass senate before. bad news is, senate wants a harsher version of the KIDS act to pass (wanting to require age verification at the device and OS levels, for example), and some senators are very open to negotiations with the house just to push the bill through.

no specific date has been set for a vote yet, but senate will be back in session on july 13th.

I decided to make a post with plenty of petitions against the surveillance of the Internet from plenty of different places. Don't hesitate to reblog with petitions I didn't put, be they from your country or not. Let's make a long chain of action.

Worldwide

United States

Change.org: Stop KOSA Europe

As of the first of August, the script isn't updated so I'm providing with a new script based on the script present on Chat Control and the words of one of the petitions (don't worry I got the autorisation of the latter) that you can send during the month of August:

(Beginning of script)

Dear member of the European Parliament,

I am writing to urge you to oppose all the regulations that will permanently allow the mass indiscriminate scanning of all European's messages especially "Chat Control 2.0" for numerous reasons:

1. It destroys the privacy of 450 millions of European citizens. This isn't targeted scanning, an IA will have access to all the private texts and all the photos any citizen will send to their family, to their friends, to anyone.

2. The IA is unreliable at best. It has already been known for flagging vacation photos and discussions between teenagers, the very people this measure is meant to protect, and sending those to the authorities.

3. It doesn't protect the children. Quite the contrary, if they know their every words are being read and potentially sent to the authorities, they might seize talking about taboo topics like rape.

Worst, if they don't know about sexual harassment, how can they even defend themselves against it. It is impossible to defend people by making them ignorant.

4. It would flood the authorities with false positives and drown them in mountains of conversations and photos that are irrelevant to child rape.

5. It wouldn't work. The pedocriminals don't use the sites where honest people go. They will simply continue their practices unbothered on insecure platforms and therefore be unaffected by this measure.

6. The non-permanent measure has been passed in an anti-democratic way with the measure being a rewrite of a law rejected by the Parliament, treated as a second reading (so only a majority of MEPs could stop it), just before summer break. This wasn't a fair vote and agreeing to a permanent regulation would show that democracy isn't an important value anymore.

For all those reasons, we need to fight back and we need to defend real measures against child abusers, we have to push back against surveillance measures that will affect everyone, especially the children and future adults.

This fight starts with you as our shield against these unfair, ineffective and dangerous measures that will do more harm than good.

Yours sincerely, [Your name] [Your address] [Optional: profession / background, e.g. “software engineer”, “parent of two children”, etc.]

(End of script)

United Kingdom

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/769907: a petition against the age verification put in place in the UK.

France

Word of encouragement

As you can see we are not alone in fighting back everywhere against measures that go against our privacy. I am not alone and neither are you.

We are not alone! We can fight back!

Anything counts: sharing counts, talking counts, signing counts, emailing representatives everywhere counts.

Watched untill episode 5

So I started the second season and at first I was a little bit uneasy with Korra's temper, mainly because it was affecting her relationship with Mako.

I was thinking that the writers missed all the progress she made throughout the first season, but then I realized she was facing practically the same problem. Her freedom was at stake again, people telling what she had to do without asking what she wants or what she thinks and Mako got caught in the middle of those things.

She started to be confused, worse then that, Korra didn't know in who she could relay on. Tenzim wouldn't let her breathe, her father had hidden important information from her, and it was in her uncle that she saw an opportunity to truly grow as avatar, but then, she found herself alone when realized she couldn't trust him.

Plus, her behavior towards Mako wasn't right btw. In the first season one always balance the other decisions. Fr, they don't seem the same characters. Ugh

I will make a post about that 🤔

Mako, in one of their discussion said: "what's your problem with sides? Why you always thought that I'm against you?"

One of the differences between Aang and Korra trajectory as avatar is that Aang didn't have to pick a side to defend, he had one only target, but Korra always had to make a choice, and making that, she unleashed a lot of things. Good and bad.

Even the bad ones was necessary tho.

She was constantly searching answers in and with Mako, but he didn't know how to answer as well, at the other hand he always said, and affirming, that he was on her side no matter what...

First season by the way ↑

And the problem start here... Mako characterization.

At the beginning he was in the Avatar side, they go through a lot since the first season as a team... But then, suddenly he chooses his duty as a police man over all of this?

First of all... They put his character in a position to create conflict with Korra's. In the first season we never seen him being interested in serve the police or the city, he had one and only thing in mind. Being at Korra's side even if this cost his life and do the right thing...

Is so wrong that they put Mako in this position, and worst, reaveling or not Korra's plan, any wouldn't affect his job in any way. He was coerced because of his closeness to the Avatar, but nothing forced him to do it... Even worst than that... Reaveling such a thing would put a target in him too.

Anyways...

It's seems like they throw away everything his character was created to be. A loyal man that gives his live for those he love the most.

Confession

This gif has a beautiful quality↓

I wasn't going to write anything in this post, it was just to appreciate this beautiful ending, but something came to my mind.

It's how Korra reacted after lose her Avatar side.

Since a very young age she was surrounded by many people and those people aways make things for her just because she was the avatar, so when Korra says "go back to your life, I'm no longer the avatar. You don't own me any more favors", its seams like she sees that people stays with her just because of that... Somehow she has difficult in see otherwise?

Haha I don't know

The legend of Korra was planned to have just the first season

like...

They decide to make more season when the first season was in it's climax, that's when they realized the audience was good and asking for new ones... It makes me think that this same audience wanted to see more of Makorra too.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠)