Holy Water

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
stfudiscoinfernoed
stfudiscoinfernoed

Still so funny to me how LGBTQIA has become one of the most common versions of the acronym but if you asked anyone about like... what the specific advocacy needs of asexuals and aromantics are, what rights are being infringed upon, how have they contributed to "queer history" and the lgbt rights movement, etc you'd get basically no answers or something about visibility.

Like, the performance of using the correct acronym or not gatekeeping has reigned supreme, but there's been very little to actually address what real similarities and differences there are between lgbt issues and ace/aro issues. Sure you can say lack of visibility has lead to poor research, but shouldn't yall have been fighting for that and not the right to call yourself queer?

fractalfruittrees
greater-than-the-sword

One time when I worked at the Dollar Tree a man came in with a little boy and he said to me, “This is my adopted son. He’s autistic.”

He told me this story. “When he got to be about 4 years old his mother realized he was growing up autistic and she didn’t want to raise him any more. So she drove out to the middle of nowhere and pulled over on the side of the highway and put him out of the car. On her way back in to town she was driving behind a van with a two story ladder tied on top. The ladder got loose and slid through her windshield, killing her instantly. They found her head in the backseat.”

I was like 😶 “your total is 13.95”

recoiloperated

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anarchistmemecollective

normalize decapitating ableists

anarchistmemecollective

#like deserved fate for an ableist #but that's a lot to drop on a dollar store employeeALT

so true bestie

boredandboredmind
fullhalalalchemist

internet censorship bill about to pass congress:

ao3 is facing a ddos attack from an overseas right-wing anonymous group because it contains "degeneracy and disgusting things like LGBT and NSFW".

they're not the only right-wing group that is attacking fanfiction sites because of queer & nsfw content. the Heritage foundation, the US right wing think tank that writes laws for republicans, wrote an article about how "big tech turns kids trans" in which they're advocating for the Kid's Online Safety Act to pass because it will give state attorney generals power to sue websites for "potentially harmful content towards minors". in this article they point out websites like wattpad, tumblr, tiktok, twitter as sites that GOP attorney generals can and will target for censorship if this bill passes. all places where fandom, that's mostly queer, hangs out.

if you think this bill has no chance of passing because of all the red flags it poses, think again. it currently has 38 cosponsors in the senate, and is being pushed by the democrats as a "protecting the children!!" type bill.

there are left-aligned orgs in congress rn lobbying for this bill to pass. july is extremely decisive, because if KOSA goes through to markup it'll be bundled with the Earn It act, Restrict, and all the other bad internet bills and passed as a package, completely censoring the internet forever.

if you want to learn more about the bill, go here. also sign the open letter against it here

it's ESSENTIAL that you call your members of congress, specifically Maria Cantwell (you can call from out of state) and tell them DO NOT PASS KOSA. this site here connects you to your members of congress and gives you a short simple script to read off of! super easy and doesn't take much out of your day! please do this now!!

twisted-curious

Why the hell do people seem to think that the internet is supposed to tiptoe around fucking children? Monitor and babysit fucking children? How about pointing a finger at the PARENTS and making THEM responsible for what their kids are engaging with online? That is their JOB as PARENTS. NOT anyone else's.


It's such a brainless notion to sterilize the entire internet just because someone's snotty toddler or bratty ass teen might stumble across something age-inappropriate. Tough shit! The parents should be more in control of what their kids are looking at. It's no one else's responsibility to bend over backwards to protect kids from mature content. I swear this mentally makes me so damn angry. I'm so sick of people prioritizing children in this context. And I know it's deeper than just trying to protect kids. That's a scapegoat in part, in my opinion, but it still frustrates me beyond belief.

boredandboredmind

True tho. I mean, the Internet isn't something that was created for children. Of course, there are spaces for them, such as there are spaces for other age groups, lol.

Also, either some parents and/or conservatives like it or not, if kids and teenagers wanna know or access something, they will. They can easily lie about their age when they sign up for something.

Or learn things that their parents/these people don't want them to through friends at school, or even other people they meet else where.

But either way, we all know this is not about the children or their savety and wellbeing. It never has for these people, and it never will be.. it's always just about control and censoring ideas and people that they do not agree with and hate. If they gave 2 shits about the children they would focus on other 10 billion things that hurt children in this messed up world. And freedom of expression on the Internet is not one of them.

And ya know, as a non-American, it still annoys me to death to see American conservatives think they know better for everyone else!! Like get a fucking life!!! The Internet is not just American or for America, and your conservative asses!! Also, gotta love how freedom of speech applies only when they spout their hateful bullshit!! Also, there is a difference between having freedom of speech and being contradicted/criticised on your ideas, and outright erasing and censoring, which is what these hateful people love to do to other groups of people. I am so tired of them!

(Apologies for the rant. I usually don't get political online. But I am so tired of hearing American conservatives or just such hateful people in general having so much power and doing this type of things, and being hypocrites and hiding behind the "protecting the children" when they obviously don't give a flying fuck about anyone but themselves, their antiquated ideas they want to force on everyone else in the world and control, because they are nothing but power freaks!)

precisely i'm so tired