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it's the last day you can rb this

the kids online safety act passed the u.s. senate.

long story short (for anyone who hadn't heard of this before) the kids online safety act, aka kosa, is a bill that will censor online content and resources for lgbtq+ matters, reproductive healthcare, activism (INCLUDING PALESTINE AND LIKELY OTHER CRISES GOING ON LIKE IN CONGO OR SUDAN), mental health, etc. everywhere--its effects likely won't be contained to just america.

today, july 30th, 2024, the senate passed it 91-3. it has officially moved to the house of representatives.

is this a pretty massive setback? yes. do you have every right to be scared, sad, angry, or whatever else about this happening? absolutely. but should you give up hope completely? NO!

even though kosa passed the senate, the house is on break/august recess at the moment. we have around an entire month to get emails, calls, and faxes in to house reps, maybe more depending on when they decide to vote on it.

should it pass the house and get signed into law, we still have a whole 18 months before it actually goes into effect. this is plenty of time for digital rights orgs (e.g. fight for the future, the electronic frontier foundation) and other groups that oppose it to file a lawsuit against it. even if, worst-case scenario, it flies through the house immediately after the recess ends, we can still fight this up to march 2026.

so, yes, remember what's at stake here, but also remember that it's not over yet. we lost a battle, not the war.

below are some resources to learn more about kosa and how to contact your reps (first link) + a page that lets you directly contact progressive house reps, sign an open letter opposing the bill, and view others' testimonies against it (second link):

Google Docs

Resources For KOSA

Call Script on Page 2! Resources For Learning about KOSA 2023: KOSA bill itself: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/1

FIGHT. FIGHT. FIGHT.

i made a guide for ppl

"B-but Palestinians can get their freedom with peace not violence 🥺🥺" no. Screw your feelings. The armed resistance against colonizers and murderers is what will give Palestinians their freedom and what will eventually achieve real peace.

An enemy that bombs and uses white phosphorus against civilians doesn't know nor practice what your broken moral compass describes as "peace". Freedom was proven throughout history not to be achieved through kneeling and asking the oppressor to kindly stop. Freedom needs to be taken by force. Your little Utopian way of thinking doesn't work in the real world. Your feelings don't matter because you're not the one living under occupation. Your feelings don't matter because you're not one of the thousands of children who lost their limbs. You're not one of the children who became orphans due to this genocide. You're not the mother who lost her child to the carpet bombing. You're not the father carrying the remains of your child in plastic bags. You're not the newlywed woman who lost her husband. You're not the one at risk of either getting killed any second or losing your loved ones in the blink of an eye!

"Peace" is not really a thing you see during a live ethnic cleansing!

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Hi! 👋 We're reaching out with a heartfelt message of hope. My wife, Diana, our two young daughters, and I live in Gaza, where we face daily struggles in an environment filled with conflict 💔. We've just launched a new GoFundMe campaign to help us escape this danger and find a place where our family can live in peace. Your support, even by simply sharing the link, would mean the world to us. Thank you for reading our story, and for any help you can give ❤️🌸.

Please take a moment to check it out: [https://gofund.me/8d92e7ff]

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Hello! My name in here is Aluma~🎶 I am a Sun Leo, I love art, I like to dream big, my brain ROTS from AU ideas for anything amd everything, I draw (digitally amd traditionally), I like rps (mainly by my good moots. You all know who you are :D), current enrollled in a cooleg (if you speak Temmie from Undertale, you know), and Summer is my main season.

I am in a few fandoms. Guess which ones. I want you all to figure out what I like. :3

My dear, lovely,silly moots (you all know who you are), you cannot give the fandoms I am in away. Let the people figure it out :3

Also I do art but I may not share it yet.

Tell me why 🎶

Tell me why

Yuu(in the weirdcore Au): I could win in a fight with Ace…

Ace: Pff! Yeah, right. How exactly would you do—

He has ONE big ass eye, I will take advantage of that in a fight.

But also, could Yuu just poke him in the eye and he would just get annoyed or would something supernatural happen if they touch those weirdcore parts?

ABDGSJVDJQNS LMAO

I feel like a number of things can happen... The funniest to me is the potential for Yuu to get their hand stuck - like, picture with me...

Ace is teasing Yuu and being a bit of a little shit. Yuu, naturally, gets tired of his shit and tries to gently bonk him over the head to get him to stop. Only for their hand to immediately feel like that static-y pins and needles tingly feeling when you move your leg after you've been sat on it too long completely fills their hand in an instant.

And they can't pull it away.

It's like there's a beat of silent shock as everyone who witnessed the exchange just kinda pauses to process before-

Ace: "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK"

Yuu: I DON'T KNOW I FORGOT YOUR HEAD IS 90% EYE

Ace: TAKE IT OUT!?!??!

Yuu: I CAN'T--

It takes the assistance of Trey and Cater to calm Ace down so that Yuu's hand can be pulled from the sticky mucous membrane that apparently helps protect beings with such large eyes from larger debris or weak attacks.

Yuu: who tf are you calling weak?

Cater: Not you, Yuu-yuu!

Yuu leaves that encounter with a hand covered in a reddish iridescent goo and new knowledge about how some of their new, weird friends work. (And a whiney ace about how the spot where their hand got stuck feels weird and numb for the next few minutes)

Trey: What did we learn?

Yuu: Ace's eye goo tastes like cherries.

Trey: No, we- wait did you eAT IT?!!?!?!