I would just like to remind you all that the Take It Down Act didn’t disappear; it passed. And it WILL be implemented as soon as 2026 comes around.
”Ferguson and Commissioners Mark Meador and Melissa Holyoak said they plan to vociferously enforce the TAKE IT DOWN Act, a recently signed law that requires tech companies to remove nonconsensual sexual imagery within 48 hours of being alerted.” - Politico
If you care about LGBTQ rights and safety, contact orgs.
If you care about trans rights and safety, contact orgs.
If you care about women’s rights and free speech, contact orgs.
If you care about YOUR rights and free speech, contact orgs.
Hell, if you care about keeping the Internet open to anything at all, YOU CONTACT ORGS.
IF YOU CARE ABOUT PROTESTING AT ALL AGAINST WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OUR GOVERNMENT, FULL STOP, YOU NEED TO CONTACT ORGS.
Trump has LITERALLY SAID THAT HE PLANS ON USING THIS TO HIS OWN ADVANTAGE AND CENSOR HIS CRITICS. The language of this bill is TOO BROAD to ONLY target ai deepfakes. THAT IS INTENTIONAL. THEY WANT TO GIVE HIM MORE UNCHECKED POWER.
Where is the backlash that happened right after he signed it into law?? Where did it go? WE NEED THAT ENERGY AGAIN. WE NEED TO ALL URGE ORGS TO SUE AND TAKE THIS BILL TO COURT. IT HAS NO SAFEGUARDS IN ITS TEXT THAT SPECIFY IT TO ONLY AFFECT AI DEEPFAKES. IT WILL BE USED TO CENSOR LGBTQ COMMUNITIES AND OTHER GROUPS. IF YOU THINK YOU ARE SAFE FROM THIS, YOU. AREN’T. THIS WILL AFFECT EVERYONE.
CALL THE ELECTRIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION.
CALL THE ACLU.
TELL FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE.
IN THIS POLITICAL CLIMATE WHERE SO MANY PEOPLE ARE AT STAKE, WHERE SO MANY LIVES ARE BEING THREATENED, THE AFFECTS OF THIS BILL WILL BE DRASTIC. IT WILL ISOLATE THE VULNERABLE, IT WILL KEEP US UNINFORMED, AND IT. WILL. SILENCE. US. OUR PROTESTS, EVERYTHING.
WE ARE HALFWAY THROUGH 2025.
WE ARE HALFWAY THROUGH JULY ALREADY.
WE HAVE LESS THAN 6 MONTHS TO GET THESE POLICIES CHALLENGED AND TAKEN DOWN.
SO HELP US! PLEASE!
HERE IS A BASELINE SCRIPT TO USE WHEN EMAILING ORGS. YOU CAN EDIT IT AS NEEDED TO VOICE YOUR OWN CONCERNS.
“Hello [insert org name here], I'm emailing you to call attention to the Take it Down Act, also known as TIDA.
TIDA is intended as a way to crack down on deepfake content, which often includes generated images of non-consenting individuals. In reality, this bill can and will be used by the Trump Administration as yet another overreach of government power, and to remove any content the President doesn't like from the Internet.
I urge you to please help us by challenging this bill in court as it directly goes against our 1st amendment rights.”
Get loud.
We've opposed the Take It Down Act because it could be easily manipulated to take down lawful content that powerful people simply don't like
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Sure I've moved away from Serato DJ to Virtual DJ (as an aside, FUCK SUBSCRIPTION MODELS FOR SOFTWARE!!!) but other than that, it's just like riding a bike...a wonderful comfortable bike that I missed riding for so many (over five) years now. I can't wait to get back on stage, this time with my new, REAL, voice, not one hidden behind a veil of organized religion.
really pissing me off to see so many people writing off the motivations behind the current wave of censorship & surveillance bills in the West as about “parents too stupid to monitor their kids on the internet”
these bills are about CENSORSHIP AND MASS SURVEILLANCE. “protecting the children” is a conservative smokescreen and by repeating that narrative, even in contradiction, you are reinforcing it. do not give these far right wingnuts an ounce of credibility. I know you know the words censorship and surveillance.
courtesy of past failures of legislation, it’s increasingly difficult to keep kids away from the dangerous parts of the internet, even in spaces that are supposed to be child safe. do not insult people for struggling to navigate the internet.
kids need opportunities to exist outside of their parents, and the internet is one of the last safe havens left in countries rotting under the weight of industrialization. children are already the most oppressed class in the world. do not encourage parents to invade their kids’ privacy.
again, and I cannot stress this enough, these bills are about CENSORSHIP AND MASS SURVEILLANCE. the goal of these laws is to allow governments to monitor and manipulate huge swathes of the human population. the goal of these laws is to weed out political dissenters and destroy access to information that contradicts propaganda. I do not believe it's a coincidence that this is happening now, in the wake of mass disillusionment with Israel.
I’ll keep reblogging info & action posts regardless, but know that if you've done this, you are choosing to be part of the problem. do better.
Don't stop! Keep doing it! They're NOT LEARNING THEIR FUCKING LESSON! Like any serial killer who thinks they're smarter than everyone else and thinks they won't get caught, they're lying through their teeth and deflecting the blame. DO! NOT! STOP!
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More (Nonsensical) Ranting about More Vshojo Unraveling
I was watching Zentreya's first stream after all this shit started going down, and BAM, this tweet appeared out of the ether.
What the fuck else can I say?
Gunrun's tweet should've been advised by a lawyer, and at first it sounded and looked like the typical corporate speak. I can recognize it because it's shit like that, that made me swear to never work in IT ever again (I was also mocked and ridiculed for bringing up what would become the over proliferation of AI replacing jobs in the work force well over a decade ago, but I can't even revel in the vindication because I can't be happy about people losing their jobs). Except that that it wasn't. And then it sunk in. You don't even have to read between the lines, dude straight up said that he committed financial crimes, then downplaying it like it was an honest lil mistake.
Nah, brah, that's a colossal fuckup with some very real and very serious legal ramifications. Sorry, but putting a picture up on a video wall in Tokyo ain't saving shit.
To add some dark-ass comedy to an already fucked situation, these weren't committed just anywhere in the US. This shit happened in California. Y'know, the state that sometimes comes off as a little insane and batshit and off-the-wall but that also has some surprisingly strict (in comparison to the rest of the US) labor laws and laws regarding white collar crime? Yeah, that state?
I can't be happy about this. I can't be happy about any of this. Because in addition to the talent, what about the lower-level staff who knew nothing about what was going on and now not only have to deal with likely being without a job within a relatively niche field, but also having their reputation tainted by an agency/corporation that went down in flames this spectacularly? And it's so fucking weird that I've seen first hand this same type of shit go down in other industries and it keeps happening, almost as if this is how capitalism is designed?
I don't fucking know, I shouldn't be this upset but the flashbacks wanna say otherwise.
Right now, the best thing we can do is channel our collective anger, ire, and whatever other negative emotion and pour it into not just supporting the talent who got unceremoniously fucked in this debacle, but also why not go and find other small indie vtubers to support as well so that they never have to end up in a similar situation in the future?
Support the creators you like, big and especially small.
My (Probably Pointless and Nonsensical) Thoughts About the Vshojo Situation
Right, so first of all, before I go on one of the unholiest of unholy rants (that I'm typically known for during my Twitch streams, but this time in text form since I'm on hiatus due to a rig change), there a bit of context required:
Now that that has been addressed, here's the link to the Tiltify,
So it's been about 24 hours since I came home from a night shift to turn on my PC and see this on my feed, and the more I looked into it, the angrier I got. As of writing, all of the Vtuber talent have left Vshojo in a mass exodus.
I caught Kson's livestream where she grilled the Vshojo JP CEO FUCKING LIVE on stream. It was hard as fuck to watch, and I stood with her when she straight up demanded where her money was. For context, Kson, one of the JP talent working for Vshojo, hasn't been paid since September 2024. THAT'S TEN FUCKING MONTHS AGO. TEN MONTHS OF NO FUCKING PAY. And she straight up asks the CEO why she hasn't been paid and it's FUCKING revealed that the JP branch staff has been paid, but the talent has not. The JP branch CEO has no response when asked WHERE THE FUCK IS HER MONEY apparently if the JP branch was doing so well financially? He goes on to say that there was some sort of miscommunication between the JP branch and the EN branch, with the EN branch having full control over the financials...And as such they didn't pay her...at all...And ooh fuckin-a, I'll get to that half a million in Mouse's address in a fucking bit. Talk about a speedrun to death.
We also hear from Geega, Michi, Zentreya, Henya, and Kuro has an upcoming livestream likely addressing his side. And that's only the talent I'm aware of, I'm sure almost all of the talent either has or will come out with their own statements of their own addressing their side of the situation.
So, why the fuck am I so upset? Well, as someone who's working towards restarting my music career that was derailed by a certain 2020 epidemic, I've seen a similar sort of predatory behavior in the music industry that's pretty much the standard way of doing things. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not privvy to how Vshojo operates, as this is STILL unfolding, but when you put into consideration that the main OG members which were Zentreya, Ironmouse, and Projekt Melody have all left, there's clearly something going on.
What we do know, though, is what is brought up in Ironmouse's video. Withholding talent pay, gaslighting and guilt-tripping, taking advantage of her kindness. Oh, and let's not forget:
$500,000 unaccounted for which was supposed to go to the non-profit organization the Immune Deficiency Foundation. You know, a charity whose whole purpose is to help people with Immune Deficiency disorders, of which Ironmouse herself is a part of.
Never mind my aggressive militant leftist stance. You don't have to agree with my politics to wonder HOW FUCKING BATSHIT SCUMMY DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO STEAL HALF A FUCKING MILLION DOLLARS FROM A CHARITY?
For legal reasons, I'm not going to go into detail in my thoughts about the higher-ups at Vshojo nor will I name and shame him because I'm not about to get my ass sued for defamation or domestic terrorism. But let's just say that he's near the top of the shitlist.
And here's where it gets worse. The money is already bad enough, but the betrayal of trust is especially egregious. And not only that, this shit has a ripple effect to people outside of Vshojo. Conner aka CDawgVA, and is Ironmouse's best friend could barely contain his rage that his best friend essentially got fucked over by this shit corpo as well as, you know, HALF A MILLION STOLEN FROM A CHARITY! Which has a ripple effect to Trash Taste podcast as they were frequent collaborators. And add to that others like Heavenly Father, Koefficient, Moist Kr1tical, PremierTwo, Ludwig, and I'm sure many more will comment on this who were in some form or another were connected either to Vshojo or Vshojo talent. Even artist BBNO$ who just released a song featuring Ironmouse made his thoughts known and I can't say I don't agree with him.
And let's talk Mouse herself. This is a young woman who started streaming to make friends, and she grew her community and her community literally saved her life because of her plasma transfusions at the time were $20k per transfusion and she needed them at regular intervals. She joined Vshojo as a means to help managing the financials. At the same time, she worked with Conner and together they did Cyclathons where Conner would cycle across parts of Japan to raise money for the Immune Deficiency Foundation. Previous years had no issues, but this year, HALF A FUCKING MILLION, poof, gone, disappeared. This is money meant to help people with a chronic illness that isn't very well understood that also struggles to get funding to research. HALF A MILLION! FUCK!
And I'm sitting here, and maybe this is my stupid dumb ass, but this shit gave me flashbacks. Flashbacks to Completionist. Flashbacks to Rooster Teeth. Flash backs to Machinima and the MCNs and Maker Studios. Oh yeah, Maker! I remember Maker! Why do I remember Maker?
I WAS FUCKING SIGNED TO MAKER STUDIOS.
And I'm watching history repeat itself and seeing people I'm a fan of who are just trying to have fun and do good things getting fucked over.
Don't get it twisted. I don't have delusions of grandeur and that decade ago when I was more active as a YouTuber I was by no means a big YouTuber. But I was on the way to carving a tiny niche for myself. I had videos that had half million views and things were looking up and it all went up in smoke so bad I ended up deleting my old channel and starting from scratch, with no intention of ever making money again as a YouTuber.
Even as a streamer, I don't do it for money or to get famous, I do it because I enjoy talking with people who are fans of games I play and interacting with them, and as I shift a little to try and collab with other small-time indie Vtubers where I can, because I've come to love the community, I still don't intend to try to make it big. Especially as someone who has unholy rants like this one plus my hard left political leanings, I have no chance to make it big, lets not kid ourselves.
But dammit, as a fledgling indie artist who's trying hard to get back on that bicycle, to see artists and creators I enjoy get so thoroughly fucked over infuriates me to no end. I try and support indie artists, regardless of medium whenever I can. I love commissioning art at artist alleys at conventions. I love collabing with people online, especially since my tastes tend to be really niche. And it makes me genuinely upset to see corpos take the goodwill of talent AND fans and squeeze all the money they can out of it from their own greed rather than actually being truly beneficial to talent and fans.
Or maybe I'm just being some self-centered idiotic asshole, screaming into the void for no reason. I guess this nonsensical rant's just over. But fuck. I think I just needed to say something and I have no one else to say it too.
HALF A MILLION! HALF A FUCKING MILLION!
I guess I'll see y'all around.
EDIT: I forgot to mention. None of this is the fault of the Vtuber talent. As much ire that Vshojo will rightfully draw, it'll be even better to go and support the Vtubers you like who were part of this unfortunate shit show. I know the actions of Vshojo won't affect my fandom regarding Mouse, Kson, Henya, Kuro, and Zentreya, and I'll continue to support them, and if you're fans of theirs, you should do the same. They're victims in this debacle and frankly don't deserve to be treated like they were by Vshojo.
USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.
Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.
If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.
I've been listening to the American Scandal podcast on Wondery recently and damn, it's giving me a whole lot of ammo for politically charged songs about things the US Government has done, often against the will of its own people regardless of political affiliation or in secret. Recently I learned about the Chicago Seven and the politically and racially-charged trial of anti-war protesters and activists in Chicago. I've also learned about Watergate, the Iran Coup of 1953 (which led to almost ALL of the turmoil in the Middle East now), the blatant racism of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and his multiple attempts to not only stop, but kill the civil rights movement, the Iran-Contra scandal, the Cuban Missile Crisis (man, Cuba got super-fucked in that one, sheesh), the still horrific corruption in New York, Payola (aka why I hate the music industry), Tuskegee Experiments, Wounded Knee Standoff, Osage Murders, Attica Prison Uprising (man, the US mindset about prison is fucked), the Midnight Crew, the Pentagon Papers (another Vietnam War scandal directly-related to this), and how the Sackler family should be held responsible for fueling the opioid epidemic (you could almost say a massacre considering 500k have died from it) and how it's escalated to fentanyl abuse.
I may not operate in CHH circles anymore, with all the bridges burnt from their side when I came out as Queer (Pansexual) back in 2021, but there are some artists and songs that I can't forget. In today's tumultuous climate, I don't share the same hopelessness that a lot of my peers do. Instead, it's anger. A whole lot of anger. Explosive anger. Motivational anger. That anger drives my own music, writing, and artistry, and will likely make me a target of the US government. And a lot of it stems from my knowledge of history and how a lot of this started in the 1960's (arguably you could say it really started in 1776 and I wouldn't disagree) and is still horrifically prevalent in different ways today. One thing, however, that I will forever hold the US government culpable to is the Khmer Rouge Regime in Cambodia. Many know it as the Cambodian Genocide. My parents knew it as hell on earth, because they're both survivors. My mom refuses to talk of the really horrific things she's seen and holds a lot of anger at the Cambodian government (the entire current government, who are all horrifically corrupt, were all people who desperately held on to their power at the expense of Cambodian lives, and they're just as culpable. My mom wishes horrific death upon every single one of them, and I don't disagree). My dad, formerly from a family of seven, is one of only two survivors. The US ops Operation Menu, Operation Freedom Deal, and the Cambodian Campaign all played a major role in the Khmer Rouge's rise to power, after pressuring Sihanouk to allow US military operations in Cambodia during the Vietnam War only to betray him in a coup immediately after (Cambodia opted to stay neutral during the war and had the Geneva Accords to reinforce their neutrality, in addition to fighting their own civil war at the same time.) After US troops pulled out in 1975, the Khmer Rouge guerillas, led by Pol Pot, staged a coup and massacred a bunch of K-Rep soldiers (Khmer Republic, which were right-wing nationalists allied with the US led by Lon Nol, and not exactly innocent people either) right in the middle of Phnom Penh. For the next four years, anywhere from 1.5 to 4 million Khmer people were killed, many in ways so horrific that the movie The Killing Fields could really only show the LEAST violent methods of torture and execution. As a less horrific example, my dad's father (paternal grandfather) was executed via lethal injection in a hospital.
And yet, few people know about it. Well, I think more people should, because it's one of many, MANY, things that came as a result of the US government (let me make the distinction, the GOVERNMENT, not the PEOPLE. I don't blame US soldiers necessarily either, because they were just following orders and didn't really have the choice or the information to act upon a standing based on morals and ethics) sticking its nose where it doesn't belong to the benefit of the wealthy and elite interests and dressed up through propaganda as political or morally-motivated military intervention in countries that don't want it. Sound familiar? The War in Iraq and the War on Terror was sold on a similar lie, and I bought it and it led to me enlisting on the US Army, which is among one of my biggest regrets in life. And it continues to happen, regardless of political party or affiliation. My people's blood are on the US Government's hands, along with Native American's blood, a lot of Latinx blood, a lot of Black American's blood, and a lot of Middle Easterners' blood. And now with Ukraine, a lot of Eastern Europeans' blood is being added to that too. Hell, a lot of ordinary Americans' blood is on the US governments' hands, and yet many still believe it's the greatest government in the world.
This song is from Christian rapper T.R.I.G.G.A. aka Born-Again Trigg. He's a special artist to me because during my time as a Christian Hip Hop DJ, he was one of the artists I used to work very closely with. And this song in particular is what sold me to work with him. It's a song highlighting how the Cambodian people never really recovered from the Genocide, and is crying out for people to realize that something has to change. It doubles as a prayer for help, but without action, nothing will change. It's also a statement because as a Cambodian-American himself he's dedicated himself to trying to help pull other Cambodians and Cambodian-Americans and uplifting them. Sad to say, a few years after this song released, we both would be tested during Trump's first presidency, when 8 Cambodian-Americans from our home state of Minnesota got detained by ICE, one of which was his brother-in-law and a man who would attend all of our concerts when he could. They would later come to be known as the Minnesota Eight or MN-8. Thankfully, our friend who was detained was released and allowed to return home to his family. However, four of the others got deported to Cambodia. Of the four, three of them had never been to Cambodia before in their life. How is this possible to be deported to a country you've never been to before? It's simple, they were born in refugee camps either in Vietnam or Thailand and came to the US from there. One of the ones who was deported doesn't even speak Khmer. And needless to say, it makes me seethe. The MN-8 event also caused me to have a political reckoning, as I was, sadly, a hardcore right winger. I'm not anymore in case anyone reading couldn't tell. If you wonder where I stand now, let's just say I feel there's a need for a trans equivalent of the Black Panther Party, especially now more than ever, and while I can't lead such a group as I'm not trans myself, you bet your ass I'd be a major player in the group because I'm extremely angry at the continued dehumanization and persecution of trans people, especially considering how roughly 90% of my friends are trans.
So yeah, when people ask my why I'm so angry all the time and why a lot of my music sounds like an angry punk rapper screaming over an 808-heavy track, this is one of many reasons why.
Power to the people.
Under no pretext.
Bella ciao, my friends.
Damn, for every artist I heard growing up making comebacks, there's always one that ends up leaving us too soon. We lost a good one over the past weekend. Thank you UNK for helping establish my love for naughties hip hop, teaching me a dance that I still do even as I get older and less mobile, and being the soundtrack that kept me alive in high school and still here today. RIP DJ UNK, and I hope you teach the gods how to 2 Step and Walk It Out.
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We have about three months before the inauguration, and we need to make the most of that time to organize. In the past two days I have seen an outpouring of despair, rage, grief, and hopelessness – especially here on Tumblr – and personally, I am fucking furious. But my god – if I wallow in despair, it'll fucking kill me, and I am not giving up without a damn fight. I am begging you on this site to take your rage and grief and channel it into action.
Indivisible is a progressive group formed in response to the 2016 election, and right now, they are one of many groups working their asses off to get people coordinated.
Indivisible joining a call tonight (November 7th) at 8pm EST / 5pm (Register Here) along with 200+ other progressive organizations to lay out concrete actions to take in the next week. They will be hosting another strategy meeting Wednesday, November 13th at 8:30pm EST / 5:30pm PST (Register Here). Show up, drag as many of your friends and family as you can to show up, and follow up wherever and however you can.
Dozens of other events – in-person rallies, online, phone-based, and more – are available here. Check your state, check your region, and get out there and MARCH if you can, or call, or talk, or anything else – if there is nothing near you, you can host your own event.
While Republicans have won the majority in the Senate, the results of the US House elections are not finalized. While the situation is grim, Democrats still have the potential to grab seats – shrinking a Republican stranglehold or even taking control of the House. Ballot curing efforts (e.g. correcting any mistakes on mail-in votes so that they are not thrown out) are ongoing in several critical states. While dates vary by state and issue, the deadline to fix signature issues is Tuesday, November 12th by 5pm locally. You can Volunteer Here to support ballot curing efforts in Arizona, Nevada, and California every day until then.
This is just one organizer out of hundreds, if not thousands. If there is something local or regional, go. If there is a protest near you, go. If there is nothing, be the first, and let them know that we're not going fucking anywhere.
If nothing else, share these opportunities with your friends and family and niche Discord servers and whoever the hell else will listen, and keep donating to progressive organizations like these ones here. We all need to have each others' backs going forward – so get out there and make sure these motherfuckers know we're going to make it a living hell for them to implement even a single one of their ghoulish policies.
Apparently in China peach wood (Along with the rest of the plant) is believed to have properties that repel evil spirits, a little similar to silver in European legends or iron for both European fae and West Asian/Middle eastern Jinn. Taoists sometimes keep swords made of peach wood because of this. This made me realize something. If you took a peach wood stick, and attached studs to it of both silver and iron you'd end up with a club or staff (or mace, flail etc.) that would have the weaknesses of many kinds of supernatural creatures while still retaining effectiveness as a normal weapon (peach is a hardwood and silver's poor edge retention doesn't matter for studs). You could even keep adding new stud materials to get something ridiculous that affects over 120 catalogued folkloric monsters. Since you just need a few little studs you could even get some really expensive materials like meteoric iron (a thumb tip sized meteorite can still cost like 10-20 bucks I think). I could somewhat feasibly make a weapon that affects every monster ever thought to walk the earth, from vampires and werewolves to jinn and jiangshi and even mankind.
