Illegally alive and making it everyone else's problem

in new zealand, our evil government are trying to legislate definitions of women and men, in ways that are legally incoherent but clearly trying to pave the way for more horrifically transphobic legislation. we have an election in a few months but our main opposition party, and all our mainstream news media, are so spineless and cooked that there's a good chance the ghouls will win reelection.

it took 2 whole months for local terf group 'speak up for women' to get 2,000 signatures on the petition that led to this new bill in our parliament.

it's taken five days for this pro-trans 'they don't speak for us' petition to get 17,000 signatures.

this is a show of support that is really heartening for a lot of trans people in our corner of the world.

cis/ish women, if you're from here but haven't signed yet, please do. and if you're not from here and you know any new zealanders, could you send them this petition? a full fifth of our population lives overseas, and there's a good chance they don't follow the news.

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Indeed it is! The FCC controls how much of broadcasting has to cater to children and that includes how educational that programming has to be, and exactly how much and in what way you are allowed to advertise to kids. That's why for the entire 90s and up to the early 00s, kids shows had shorter commercial breaks, and ads that talked about a website had to say "ask your parents before going online", and those websites had to be non-commercial--i.e. they could not be shops, and could not have any way you could spend money or were encouraged to spend money. That's why Barbie.com was flash games, and O'Rielly LIFTING that ban is why Barbie.com now takes you directly to a storefront instead.

If you're mad about Saturday Morning Cartoons, dark patterns in ads targeted at children, online protections for kids, or wondering why educational children's shows aren't as much of a thing as they used to be, get mad at the FCC and the person in charge of it who is gutting the Children's Brodcasting Rules (sometimes called the Kid Vid Rules), because those rules control all of that!

While O'Rielly is responsible for gutting the rules in 2019, he was replaced in 2020 by Nathan Simington as head of the FCC, and Simington resigned in June of this year. The post remains vacant as of the time of this writing (August 31, 2025).

I just got a notification as soon as I posted, it was something that looked like a notice from the Tumblr staff. It said something about my account being hidden? And that my posts won't be seen or something.

But I don't get it, you clearly just saw what I posted, so like what is it?

I'm just real confused, I took some screen shots, I was wondering if you can help?

Idk if this is a scam or not. Did I do something wrong? Lots of other accounts have been tagged in the replies too. They might be dealing with the same thing I am.

Please, if you have any ideas or know someone who can help I would really appreciate it.

Hope you have a good day, bye for now.

We sorted this out in DMs, but I just wanted to spread awareness.

Any other mutuals or followers that get this, do not touch it!! This has scam written all over it! This account publicly posts accounts that are supposedly under this "visibility guard" in the comments section. I've also seen people say that the "verification process" also demands for bank details.

This account does not have any other posts, nor does it have a verified badge signifying that it is an official Tumblr account, like the actual staff account has.

Hey everyone, Dark Horse, the people who publish a ton of media including the upcoming Secrets of the Zonai (the Tears of the Kingdom lore/artbook), are unionizing and they have asked for signatures to show support to help convince the CEO to acknowledge their union by tomorrow (June 3, 2026).