if you ever get a message like this:
DO NOT OPEN!!! it’s a virus and it’s fake!!! be careful please 💗
repost this so more people can see it!!
League of Villains: *all strewn across the floor, various tables and chairs*
Shigaraki: *stumbles in, pale and sweaty* Hey, guys...I'm dying.
Dabi: I was dying earlier. Then I died. Now I'm dead.
Twice: *sobs* I'm miserable!
Toga: Twice isn't even contradicting himself...
Shigaraki: *slides down against the wall onto the floor, clutching his stomach*
Spinner: What is this...?
Kurogiri: *stiffly walks in, leaning against the doorframe*
Kurogiri: It's food poisoning. I have it, too. I did not sleep for one second last night. And I vomited no less than seven times.
L.O.V.: *all groan*
Hawks: Oh, God, don't say that...
Shigaraki: Has anybody talked to Compress?
Spinner: Oh, I can't even imagine what that stick is going through...
Dabi: I have vomited more than Mister's body weight in the last twelve hours alone...he may have just disappeared off the face of the Earth!
Toga: *trying to get up* We need to call him, we must reach out to him!
Toga: *falls onto her face, whimpering* I can't...I can't do it.
Kurogiri: *stands up with a groan of pain and exertion, stiffly walks over to the landline*
Kurogiri: *swings his arm, knocking the phone onto the floor before slumping down against the bar*
Kurogiri: Twice, Extension 7820.
Twice: *rolls over to the phone, slowly starts tapping the numbers in with his nose*
Some time later...
Mr. Compress: *saunters into the bar, humming cheerfully*
Mr. Compress: *sees the state of the League* Woah! It smells like vomit died in here! What happened?
Kurogiri: We got food poisoning, Compress. How do you not have food poisoning...?
Spinner: Because he didn't eat anything.
Shigaraki: He just kept taking pictures and talking about the "wow" factor.
Mr. Compress: Not true, I ate everything you all did.
Kurogiri: Think, Atsuhiro. Was there anything you didn't eat?
Mr. Compress: Oh, yes! Those stupid chicken fingers Hawks brought! They're not a proper dinner food at all!
Hawks: *shocked* The chicken...betrayed me?
Hawks: *looks to the League* Never again, guys. As God as my witness, they are dead to me.
Mr. Compress: Alright, well, I feel great, so I'm going to eat some sushi and then get you all some fluids. I bid you adieu!
L.O.V.: *all groan in misery*
....was not expecting that
I was bored so I took a mental age test, twice
Taking an avg., I’m 11
Accurate
In a particularly scummy move, the Kids Online Safety Act is going to be put into the must pass end of year spending bill: www.axios.com/…
The two laws best positioned to get rolled into big year-end legislative packages, according to advocates and lawmakers, are:
The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which would require platforms to guard kids from harmful content using new features and safeguards and to make privacy settings “on” by default for children. The law also mandates privacy audits and more transparency about privacy policies.
At first glance, the bill doesn’t sound bad, since it’s about helping “protect children” online. But like every “protect the children” type law, this would censor the internet of anything “harmful” to children aka any LGBT, NSFW, or whatever the Right doesn’t like, force everyone to upload their govt ID’s to even access anything online, and surveil everyone else. Gutting everyone’s privacy in an era where we see massive state violence and encroaching fascism globally. This is not only pushed by the same people (Senator Richard Blumenthal and Marsha Blackburn) who created the awful EARN IT Act, but also has many of the same flaws, such as pro-censorship, anti LGBT resources and content, and pro-mass surveillance.
But the biggest problem, as Mike Stabile has pointed out, is HOW the mechanism to which this works: The State Attorney General.
This addition would allow states like Texas and Florida to sue companies for having LGBTQ+ content, along with sex education resources, incentivizing these platforms to ban that content. To be more specific, the bill allows the state attorney general to sue if they believe that platforms do not protect minors from a list of harms that includes politicized terms like “grooming” which, as we’ve seen can include any sort of LGBTQ information, entertainment or literature.
RuPaul on TikTok?
A clip on transgender youth on Facebook?
A gay character in a Disney movie?
Suicide hotlines for gay youth?
Cue a suit from Texas or Florida targeting the entire web.
And the problem is that given the current political climate and the cruel behavior of a number of GOP aligned political groups in positions of power, this only ends up making things RIPE for abuse and mass censorship (since companies will probably end up choosing to acquiesce to their demands rather than risk being subject to liability) not to mention the damage this would cause to children who might need resources regarding LGBT or sex education.
Furthermore, the definition of “sexually exploitative material”, “grooming”, and “child porn” has been used in the past year to target transgender people, drag queens, and the wider LGBTQ+ community by likening their very existence as sexually violent. Yet another way this bill’s language will be used to target a community that is already facing violence. Every night, Fox News blasts a story on “sexualization of children “ to fear-monger around the LGBT community. One needs to not look any further than the right-wing ecosystem to see how KOSA would easily be weaponized.
This article by Mike Masnick on Techdirt also goes further into KOSA and its adjacent bills.
To make matters even worse, on top of the usual suspects of NCOSE (a far right group disguised as an anti sex trafficking org, who are infamous for being religious nutjobs who HATE anything to do with sex or LGBT. They used to be called Morality in Media) supporting this travesty of a bill, it’s been revealed that the Senate leader is claiming there’s no opposition.
This is literally giving the fascists a dangerous tool to abuse, all for the sake of political brownie points against ‘Big Tech’. A tool that far right groups like the Heritage Foundation have OPENLY stated will abuse to silence LGBTQ+ or sex-ed content for youth everywhere if it passes.
The ONLY way this works is by making sure who is and isn’t a minor is to have some form of age-verification scheme. And the only way to do that is through a third party like ID.me which has recently come under scrutiny for, you guessed it, data leaks. So everyone who accesses anything online will be forced to upload their govt IDs. How is this protecting anyone’s privacy?
With all that said, what can we do?
Well, the same thing we did for the EARN IT Act; we make a LOT of noise, and get the word out.
And PLEASE call your Senators at (202-224-3121).
There is a call script with phone numbers here.
Fax them, email them. Tell them they MUST oppose this bill. CONTACT any major human rights, LGBT, and cybersecurity related organizations aligned and let them know about this bill, and the harm it can cause to LGBT rights and children!
EMPHASIZE THE HARM TO CHILDREN WHEN YOU CONTACT PEOPLE, SINCE THEY’RE TRYING TO CLAIM THAT THIS WILL HELP PROTECT CHILDREN’S PRIVACY, WHEN IT DOES THE EXACT OPPOSITE.
There’s also a Petition by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and from Fight For the Future.
Relatable.
Me: No, no, no, I can't reuse that!
Also Me: Yes, yes, write more about this exact thing over and over!
me as a writer: Oh no I can’t write that, somebody else already has
me as a reader: hell yes give me all the fics about this one scenario. The more the merrier
Content with my weekend and 292 days until Venom Let there be Carnage.
Yeah, this is usually my exact kind of thought process ⬆️
My old man once said to me, “your thoughts are so random and unconnected. We were just talking about the carnival- how did you get started on wasps?”
So, I told him, “they’re not unconnected- we were talking about going to the carnival, and the carnival is on the same fairgrounds they used to use for the rodeo, and one time at the rodeo my brother spilled sprite on himself and a bee went up his shirt and stung him, and bees die when they sting, but wasps don’t, and I was wondering why, so I asked you.”
And he said, “that makes no sense,” and for the life of me I can’t understand how anyone thinks of anything if not by this exact process
THEY'RE EVERYWHERE! THEY NEVER TIRE, THEY NEVER REST, THEY NEVER GIVE UP!
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