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opening up Instagram to see this post from @casuallydeliciousphilosopher instantly watered my crops, cleared my skin, and made me lunch. it was such an unexpected surprise!

This entire project would be nowhere without you!

#and of course I just now realize that I did this reblog on the trusty side blog rather than my main blog! #😂

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Love as Acceptance

Caitlyn Siehl // Leonard Cohen, "Anthem" // Rumi, "Bitterweet" // trans. Anne Carson, "Euripides" // Sade Andria Zabala, "Coffee and Cigarettes" // tumblr acct @/gayassnatural // Anne Carson, "H of H Playbook" // William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 116" // Clementine von Radics, "Mouthful of Forevers" // Toni Morrison, "Jazz"

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URGENT: 🚨🚨EARN IT ACT IS BACK IN THE SENATE 🚨🚨 tumblr's nsfw ban hitting the entire internet this spring 2022

February 1, 2022

I’m so so sorry for the long post but please please please pay attention and spread this

WHAT IS THE EARN IT ACT?

The EARN IT Act has been roundly condemned by nearly every major LGBTQ+ advocacy and human rights organization in the country. This is a bill that will make children less safe, undermine online safety and security, and trample free expression, because it carves out another exception to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA 230), which the ACLU describes as “foundational to modern online communications.” This has been the law that has let the internet grow into what it is today, we’ve had this law since the 90s. (For context, Trump wanted to get rid of this law because he knew it would lead to mass govt surveillance and censorship of minorities online.)

The EARN IT Act will lead to online censorship. Platforms will be incentivized to scan their users’ communications and censor all sex-related content, including sex education, literally anything lgbt, transgender or non-binary education and support systems, and sex worker communication according to the ACLU. All this in the name of “protecting kids” and “fighting CSEM”, both of which the bill does nothing of the sort. In fact it makes fighting CSEM even harder.

If this bill passes, we're going to see most, if not all, adult content and accounts removed from mainstream platforms, for fear of the liability that could come with ever accidentally hosting CSAM, as well as the erasure of end-to-end encryption on messaging platforms.

This is really not a drill. Anyone who makes or consume anything “adult” online has to be prepared to fight Sen. Blumenthal's EARN IT Act, brought back from the grave by a bipartisan consensus to destroy Section 230.

EARN IT will open the way for politicians to define the category of “pornography" as they — or the lobbies that fund them — please, (Right now, right wing organizers are catgorizing books about racism as ‘porn’ to ban them from schools) which is a cherished goal of organizations that seek to reintroduce obscenity prosecutions for content now protected by Free Speech jurisprudence. This will 1000000% be used to eradicate anything LGBT online.

What this bill says it does on the surface is make platforms liable for their users’ activity if that activity involves sex and minors. However, because of 230, platforms are not liable at all about their users' activity. This has allowed platforms to grow and thrive and many niches online to as well. The bill also creates an unelected commission to create “best practices” to combat online child sexual exploitation. While these recommendations are nominally voluntary (so Americans have no decision on who gets to be on it), platforms that refuse to comply will be liable for criminal prosecutions and lawsuits should the government decide any of their users is engaging in online child sexual exploitation.

This is already a nightmare enough. But the bill also DESTROYS ENCRYPTION, you know, the thing protecting literally anyone or any govt entity from going into your private messages and emails and anything on your devices and spying on you.

This bill is going to finish what FOSTA/SESTA started. And that should terrify you.

Senator Blumenthal (Same guy who said ‘Facebook should ban finsta’) pushed this bill all of 2020, literally every activist (There were more than half a million signatures on this site opposing this act!) pushed hard to stop this bill. Now he brings it back, doesn’t show the text of the bill until hours later, and it’s WORSE. Instead of fixing literally anything in the bill that might actually protect kids online, Bluemnthal is hoping to fast track this and shove it through, hoping to get little media attention other than propaganda of "protecting kids" to support this shitty legislation that will harm kids.

The entire EARN IT act is based on *multiple* misunderstandings of the law and reality. It's a really really really bad policy that will do serious harm. But because Senator Blumenthal wants headlines, he'll pretend that it "helps protect the children." It won't. It'll do real damage. It will make CSEM much much worse.

One of the many reasons this bill is so dangerous: It totally misunderstands how Section 230 works, and in doing so (as with FOSTA) it is likely to make the very real problem of CSAM worse, not better. Section 230 gives companies the flexibility to try different approaches to dealing with various content moderation challenges. It allows for greater and greater experimentation and adjustments as they learn what works -- without fear of liability for any "failure." Removing Section 230 protections does the opposite. It says if you do anything, you may face crippling legal liability. This actually makes companies less willing to do anything that involves trying to seek out, take down, and report CSAM because of the greatly increased liability that comes with admitting that there is CSAM on your platform to search for and deal with. This liability would allow anyone for any reason to sue any platform they want, suing smaller ones out of existence. Look at what is happening right now with book bans across the nation with far right groups. This is going to happen to the internet if this bill passes.

(Remember, the state department released a report in December 2021 recommending that the government crack down on "obscenity" as hard the Reagan Administration did. If this bill passes, it could easily go way beyond shit red states are currently trying. It is a goldmine for the fascist right that is currently in the middle of banning every book that talks about race and sexuality across the US.)

NCOSE, the far right anti-LGBT hate group behind the global anti-sex legislations, is pushing the idea that any form of sexual expression, including talking about HEALTH, leads to sex trafficking. Their goal is to eliminate all sex, anything gay, and everything that goes against their idea of ‘God’ from the internet and hyper disney-fy and sanitize it. This is a highly coordinated attack on multiple fronts.

The reason these bills keep showing up is because there is this false lie spread by organizations like NCOSE that platforms do nothing about CSEM online. However, platforms are already liable for child sexual exploitation under federal law. Tech companies sent more than 45 million+ instances of CSAM to the DOJ in 2019 alone, most of which they declined to investigate. This shows that platforms are actually doing everything in their power already to stop CSEM by following already existing laws. The Earn It Act includes zero resources for proven investigation or prevention programs. If Senator Bluementhal actually cared about protecting youth, why wouldn’t he include anything to actually protect them in his shitty horrible bill?

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) along with a coalition of 26 civil society organizations urged the United States Senate to reject the EARN IT Act. Groups on the left and right, including the ACLU, Fight for the Future, EFF, and Hacking // Hustling oppose it. Because it threatens free expression online and will threaten marginalized people’s safety while being totally unnecessary and failing to fix the problem it claims to address. The EARN IT Act empowers states to give law enforcement access to users’ private conversations and force companies to create encryption backdoors for law enforcement. This is totally unnecessary. Platforms are already handing over CSAM to the federal government. It’s actually likely to make prosecuting child molesters more difficult since evidence collected this way likely violates the Fourth Amendment and would be inadmissible in court.

I don't know why so many Senators are eager to cosponsor the "make child pornography worse" bill, but here we are.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

EARN IT Act was introduced yesterday! And it’s already scheduled to get marked up, which is the first step post-introduction. Most bills never go to markup, so this means they are putting pressure to move this through. IF YOU LIVE IN THESE STATES (IL, VT, CA, RI, MN, DE, CT, HI, NJ, and GA), CONTACT YOUR SENATOR AND HOUSE MEMBERS NOW. THIS IS URGENT. This is who gets first crack, and folks in all have Senators who are on the Judiciary committee.

I'm guessing this month or March is when the bill would be passed if there is no opposition 😭 The bill was re-introduced yesterday, already set for markup this Thursday. This feels like an attempt to fast track it this month. Additionally the current makeup of Congress favors those who want it passed. Back in 2020 it was mostly Senate republicans and democrats who are basically republicans (just like now, check the sponsors) pushing it with Ron Wyden using the filibuster to stop their efforts. The house dems didn't want to give Trump a win and needed to appear as pro-privacy/free speech for the 2020 election. Now the dems have the presidency, both chambers of Congress and if you've noticed have spent a few years repeatedly demanding social media censorship and desperately want to give Biden victories. biden isn't like obama who opposed sopa/pipa to appeal to younger voters. This is similar to how FOSTA passed with the group who made it happen last time back again. Far as I'm aware Wyden hasn't spoken about new earn it yet but even if he does oppose it, it's very possible there will be enough Senate democrats to join the republicans in passing it beating a filibuster. Then pelosi's band of house idiots pass it and we have to choose between breaking the law because they can't stop us from using encryption or being obedient sheep to a group who consider themselves above laws.

It already has a fifth of the Senate cosponsoring it. There is a very very very real chance this bill becomes law. This is an uphill battle that's going to happen fast and quick. PLEASE, FIGHT NOW.

202-224-3121 connects you to the congressional hotline.

This website takes you to your Senator / House members contact info. EMAIL, MESSAGE, SEND LETTERS, CALL CALL CALL CALL CALL. Calling is the BEST way to get a message through. Get your family and friends to send calls too. This is literally the end of free speech online.

More sources to read about this bill:

https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/the-earn-it-act-is-anti-evidence

Fight for the Future’s Statement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=678EW8v09z8&t=1s

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220131/22423648395/senates-new-earn-it-bill-will-make-child-exploitation-problem-worse-not-better-still-attacks-encryption.shtml

EARN IT Act treats Myths as Facts.

https://surviveearnit.com/what-is-the-earn-it-act/ From 2020, but little has changed about the bill.

https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/earn-it-act-back

Center for Democracy and Technology’s Statement

TLDR: The EARN IT Act will lead to online censorship of any and all adult & lgbt content across the entire internet, open the floodgates to mass surveillance the likes which we haven't seen before, lead to much more CSEM being distributed online, and destroy encryption. Call 202-224-3121 to connect to your house and senate representative and tell them to VOTE NO on this bill that does not protect anyone and harms everyone.

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So... I found this and now it keeps coming to mind. You hear about "life-changing writing advice" all the time and usually its really not—but honestly this is it man.

I'm going to try it.

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Magical Starry Night Photography By Joni Niemelä 

Joni Niemelä is an expert photographer with a passion for capturing incredible images of the sky. His photography focuses on his motherland, Finland, his prime inspiration. The featured series is titled Night Sky and exhibits stunning star-studded sky images shot between the years 2011 and 2015. The photographer has captured the enchanting nocturnal landscapes filled with forests, snow capped hills and isolated huts under the night sky.

The images give prominence to the surreal elements within the scene instead of focusing on establishing the realistic landscape. Obscuring the bright colors found in nature and bringing out the darkness of the scene with colors to compliment the dancing constellations overhead creates a soothing atmosphere.

Joni Niemelä traps the silent beauty of the night that appears when the activity of the day subsides. His vision sees Finland from the eyes of the native in love with his country, and his lens executes the effortless imagery of his series Night Sky.

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April 2021 Illustrations ヽ(• ‿ •)ノ

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dear young/new/insecure/unsure/hurt/just plain bummed writers and artists: fanfiction and fanart isn’t a competition. your voice and words and your creations have inherent value regardless of your level of skill. art is art. don’t be discouraged please. keep writing, keep creating, keep posting, keep being unapologetically you

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Me being traumatized and not wanting that to happen to other kids makes me a bad person now :)) I’m disgusting :)) and horrible :)) and it’s my fault that happened :)) and everybody hates me more now :)) cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool.

You are not horrible. And I do not hate you. It is not your fault that it happened. But things that are marked as adult very clearly are not for kids, and if you read it anyway it is on the people who should have been supervising you and did not intervene, or, assuming that you were old enough to know what ‘adult content’ means and chose to engage with stuff produced by adult fans for adult fans, on you for ignoring the warnings.

If a ten year old child goes to a library right now, and walks to the romance section and pulls down a book, that child’s guardians are responsible for saying “Hey now that is not for you.” If that same child comes back at thirteen and, knowing there is content in that book that adults do not want them to read, furtively hides away from guardian’s eyes and reads it anyway, that is not the fault of the library for having that book, or the author for writing it.

I am very sorry you’ve been hurt. But adults are going to produce content for adults, and if you ignore the guidelines set in place to keep kids out of that content, then that’s not the fault of the adults who wrote the stuff.

#long post #psa #the internet and sites like AO3 were not invented for children #it’s parents jobs to keep an eye on their kids and educate them #it’s really not that hard considering the child content blocking tools web browsers and electronics have built in these days

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I am the inevitable path of fate bearing down on you, the titan daughter of earth and sky, the overcast sky laden with the promise of storm.

#based this off my legal name #why does it sound so cool while my name is normally just kinda eh #I never actually use my legal name on social media #I only ever use my ‘pen name’ so to say

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The Apple event triggered someone 😂

The misinformation in this post is incredible. The new iMac has USB-C. It has an Ethernet port built into the power brick. The mouse and basic keyboard come with it in the box and match the color you pick. (They are sold separately if you want to only buy the new mouse and keyboard and not the new iMac.)

You can hate on Apple products all you want, but don’t blatantly lie to people about them.

Do I think these new iMac’s look good? No, I think they’re pretty ugly, but I still respect the engineering in them. This computer is as thick as most people’s smartphones.

As a side note, the M1 chips.

Impossible to replace on your own? Yes.

Are there faster chips out there? Yeah, if you want to pay as much for the CPU alone as you’ll pay for a fully operational M1 computer.

But let me tell you, my M1 MacBook Pro drops 10% in battery life for every 10 fucking hours of hard use. So until you can find a processor just as fast and efficient don’t act superior.

people trying to defend Mac products in the year of our lord 2020, like honey, please, leave him, I know he looks cool and fast and you’ve been dating since high school, but he’s isolating you, this isn’t good, the new iMac is just

the literal keyboard and mouse are sold separately 

It’s almost impossible to repair

You’ll find another fast processor out there, I promise. There’s just no fixing him (literally) 

#Apple products are far from perfect #but they are well engineered #I say this as a literal fucking engineer #I have a 9 year old MacBook Pro that still runs #it’s slow and old #but so are 9 year old windows machines #some people prefer Apple because Apple doesn’t steal every single scrap of our personal information and sell it for profit

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One day later... avoiding moving my arm as much as possible.

Got my COVID shot today!

#I don’t have any flu-like symptoms #but my arm... #I literally can’t lift it more than a few inches #I saw a post in tumblr about getting the shot on the side you don’t sleep on #I chose to get the shot on my non-dominant arm instead #I definitely made the right decision getting it on my non dominat side #but sleeping on my side is now impossible lol

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Got my COVID shot today!

#COVID-19 #my arm is a little sore when I lift it all the way up in the air #other than that we’re all good #it was so sad the way the vaccine workers all thanked everyone for getting the vaccine #I sadly live in a very red region and only 51k out of 500k people have gotten vaccinated

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My work from home setup when COVID hit: No desk. No dual monitors. Lots of days sitting on the couch hunched over with back pain. A 9 year old laptop that couldn’t hold up to the demands of 3D rendering. Constantly flipping between programs to reference documents.

My work from home setup now:

#it took 7.5k to get here but I can not go back now #thank god work from home has become permanent at my job #and I got to retire the ancient MacBook that I got as a high school graduation present #this sit stand desk has ruined me for all other desks #and best of all #no more back pain! #desk setup

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Went to the bookstore with my spouse. I picked out a single book to buy, but every time I picked up another book and went “Oh, next time.” He just took it and added it to the stack.

I have never been more certain that I married the right person.

And that’s how I wound up with seven new books today. Lol.

#I have never been more in love #one of them was the special edition of a court of thrones and roses #which I have never read somehow despite its cult-like following #now I have to finish the Remnant Chronicles so I can read all these new books #I am running out of room on my bookshelves lol

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Here’s a choose men quiz but all the answers are good and sexy and I’ll tell you what I think your love for men is like (6 possible results, all positive 😬💗)

#romantic #I am quite satisfied with these results

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Showed this to my spouse, his exact reaction was:

“I am a kind and peaceful man, but if I haven’t eaten in a day and there’s a toddler standing between me and a sandwich I will punt kick that fucking toddler.”

the way being hungry literally makes you evil

#why is this true #I too am evil when hungry