This is fucking terrifying: Google is implementing Android Developer Verification, a program that would require all developers to register with Google before distributing apps on Android starting September 2026. There is a widely-circulated narrative that Google already backed down from this. They didn't, and that misunderstanding may be the most dangerous part of the story right now.

This will kill open source. This will make it easier for governments to ban apps. This will mean apps will have to abide by what Google deems acceptable.

Also, deleting Google Play Store does NOT mean you're safe from this. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DOWNLOAD AN UNVERIFIED APP ON YOUR ANDROID PHONE, PERIOD. To use an example from the video: it's the equivalent of preventing you from installing a .exe on your computer.

Google is controlling more and more. This is censorship. Fuck this shit.

More info here: keepandroidopen.org. They have a list of worldwide national regulators you can contact to lodge a complaint.

May/5/2026

Vanessa Doofenshmirtz (15th June)

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My love for you, m'lady🐈‍⬛💝🐞

I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the Mass Lobby at Parliament on June 25th, 11am-4pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.

The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It becomes statutory guidance in the UK by the end of June.

Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or don’t pass too well.

A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Ask your MP to:

Demand full parliamentary scrutiny, debate, and use their free vote on the EHRC Code of Practice.

Support any motions rejecting the EHRC guidance. As of June 4th, Labour MP Nadia Whittome has submitted a prayer motion - Early Day Motion 240.

Write to Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities about our concerns

Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.

I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.

It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut:

I wanna know about the general mistrust of people who’ve been akumatized? I mean you don’t turn into a supervillain and terrorize Paris without getting backlash after, even if you weren’t aware of your actions. And you know there are going to be those high and might asholeans who won’t care whether or not people were in control of themselves they just wanna point their fingers. 

Or maybe before the whole Puppeteer incident, people who’d already been akumatized, at least could assume that now they wouldn’t have to now. But then Puppeteer does happen and on top of everything else they now have the fear that they could turn back anytime. And imagine all the theories on akumatization out there. I mean does the general population besides ML and CN know exactly what causes people to be akumatized? They must have some idea but do these people have the facts? Does this whole thing mean people are being nice to each other, or that there’s an even deeper mistrust around citizens? My money’s on both. 

In that vein, imagine how mentally ill people could be further stigmatized by this. Specifically people with illnesses and disorders that affect their mood and make them feel negative emotions very strongly. Imagine how people would see them as “at a higher risk” for being akumatized. The way we saw Ivan treated after Stoneheart was only the beginning. 

Do you think the threat of akuma attacks would affect the Paris economy at all? 

Would people who were seriously harmed in akuma attacks harbor a deeper distrust of people who have been akumatized even if it was all fixed in the end by ML? I’m gonna say yeah. Even if it was just one specific person. Imagine being caught up in a super villain attack and being seriously hurt and even though it was fix shortly after, immagine later meeting the person who was that villain who did that to you. Imagine being manipulated by a supervillain to hurt people and later come face to face with one of those people and they still look at you like a monster. Even if there was no physical aftermath because of ML imagine life after being akumatized.  Imagine Max looking at YouTube footage someone took of The Gamers rampage, and watching himself vaporize people.

Imagine Kim meeting someone whose relationship was in shambles because of things they said to each other under the power of Heartbreaker/Dark Cupid.

Alya looking at all the recordings of Lady Wifi and seeing herself trying to hurt her number one idol. 

Max and Alex coping with the fact that they essentially killed people, even if they don’t remember it and they’re the only two who know how horrifying that knowledge is even if they know it wasn’t their fault.

Alya, Roger, and Nathanael and their paranoia of being turned back at any time after the Puppeteer. Roger wonders whether he can even be trusted with his duties as a police officer. This paranoia spreads to other akuma victims.

The importance of the phrase “Akuma victims” because they’re victims just like everyone else and they get the backlash. They have to watch the news after and hear themselves referred to as villains and perpetrators when that wasn’t them.

People who harbor a deep mistrust of akuma victims until one of their loved ones is akumatized.

People who harbor a deep mistrust of akuma victims even after one of their loved ones is akumatized. 

People who lose loved ones over being akumatized. 

People who just can’t and won’t understand until it’s happened to them. 

Any person who’s been akumatized going to work, or the store, or riding the train and being asked “Hey weren’t you so and so?” “Hey wasn’t that you terrorizing Paris?”

Max and any other kid with strict parents having another kid from their class added to the list of people they’re not allowed to hang around every time one gets akumatized because “it’s too dangerous.” And when Kim is added to that list after Dark Cupid it’s crushing and that just adds to the stress that leads to The Gamer. 

Parents getting a wake up call when their child is akumatized. 

Parents who get harder on their kids after they get akumatized.

Then one day, he’s browsing online and sees an article blaming the akuma victims for their loss of control and another about how to damaged one’s reputation becomes after akumatization, and he does some research, and finds that anyone who gets akumatized is automatically taken off the hiring lists for some companies and others let them in but only as like menial work, and he just…loses it. These bloody fools don’t know crap about what it feels like to get angry for one moment, and the next to have everything else stripped from their identity except revenge and obedience to a supervillian! Where do they get off on hurting people because of it?

So, how can he help? He does what he’s good at: he writes a song (something like “Dear X, You Don’t Own Me” by Disciple, perhaps). It seems like a small thing, but he knows his platform, and knows he can reach a huge audience and maybe make them think twice about judging a victim, and if they want to do that, they will have to judge their favorite rock star right along with them, because he’s one of them. Bob is completely against it at first, but Jagged fights for it, and it is released, and it becomes the rallying song for the akuma victims. Idk, maybe LB and CN show up to his concerts to show solidarity with the new movement.

Also bonus Agustín and Milo Murphy