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At ALMOST $2 MILLION for Lackadaisy Season one there are just six hours left

Whatever the final amount this has been one wild party

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So this is really, really awesome to come across, because DS9 is my favorite, but season 2 of Strange New Worlds has been giving me *feelings* that I connect with DS9.

I've thought it might be that there is a kind of DS9 streak that runs through the subtext of SNW, and this has only strengthened that thought, because something that's made season 2 such a banger (imo, season one took a bit to get cooking) it's this unrestful rumination on prescience, the past, the future, the possible, and you see the characters both haunted in a non-linear narrative (both as a prequel and through flashbacks) and haunted BY future knowledge, as well as the past manifesting in the present/future.

"It is the unknown that defines our existence" and if that is taken away, what are we? how do we manage? I may be WAY OFF, like I could be wrong, but it feels like SNW is in more of a conversation with DS9 than any of the other series, and things like this make me feel like I might not be just wishfully imagining that.

"If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable"

wait but actually…sisko’s baseball is his orb??? he leaves it behind as a relic and a reminder of his return, as is common for prophets and messianic figures? it’s baseball that he uses to try and explain human time to the prophets? it never leaves his desk, and its presence haunts dukat when the cardassians briefly recapture the station?? pls tell me if this is something people have talked about because the baseball as a religious relic/object/orb is blowing my mind

#star trek #ds9 #strange new worlds #st snw #just thinking #Time present and time past #Are both perhaps present in time future #And time future contained in time past. #If all time is eternally present #All time is unredeemable. #What might have been is an abstraction #Remaining a perpetual possibility #Only in a world of speculation. #What might have been and what has been #Point to one end #which is always present. #Footfalls echo in the memory #Down the passage which we did not take #Towards the door we never opened #Into the rose-garden. My words echo #Thus #in your mind. #But to what purpose #Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves #I do not know.

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You know what makes me the most upset about the use of AI in our culture? It's not just removing artists from art or devaluing human creativity -- it's treating people like they're disposable.

Oh, you're not that special. We have computers to do that now. If you died tomorrow, we have your image. We have your voice. We have your biometric data. We can just duplicate you, it's no problem. Who needs flesh and blood? Who needs agency and free thought? Who needs the human soul? You're just a tool. And when we're done with you, we'll just toss you aside and find someone else.

Creatives, listen to me, and listen to me good: you have a voice and it matters. There is no one in the history of the world who is exactly like you, in this time or this place. There is no one who thinks like you, acts like you, speaks like you, moves like you. There is nobody else built like you. Nobody else with your unique experiences and outlook of the world. You are a product of history, of culture, of art, of love, of pain, of possibility. Don't let them take that from you.

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I have become excellent at cropping since creating an erotic tier on my Patreon.

#technically not porny #patreon #sensual #sexy art #what a tease

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This story is also a GREAT example of how to critique: you must put the person you're critiquing first in your mind and forget your ego; you have to base feedback in empathy, not entitlement. When receiving critique, too, look for this empathy. It doesn't mean giving nothing but praise, but considering your POINT OF VIEW. Folks who ask "what are you trying to do" rather than state "I want it to be like this:" 💗

"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit

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A portrait I drew on MLK weekend, Septima Poinsette Clark.

“We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.” —S. P. Clark 

Insightful and pertinent words.

Clark joined the NAACP in 1919 and from there ran a door-to-door petition that successfully convinced her SC school to hire black teachers. In 1945 she would work w/the NAACP and (future Justice) Thurgood Marshall on a case that successfully obtained equal pay for black teachers. For decades she ran & developed citizenship & community education workshops, instructing attendees how to teach math & literacy to others. Due to these classes & citizen teachers, more were able to pass the extensive “literacy tests” required to register to vote in Jim Crow South. In 1961 the SCLC took over these classes and made Clark director of them, she developed over 800 classes, spreading education like wildfire. Though called the Mother of the Movement by MLK for her decades of vital groundwork, Clark was often underappreciated by male activists. It can’t be overstated how important her educational work was & how important that kind of groundwork continues to be for developing social movements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septima_Poinsette_Clark

#septima poinsette clark #womens history #civil rights #american history #unsung heroes #just reposting

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Women don't want jewelry or make up, they want to ride the California Zephyr between Chicago and Emeryville for over 2000 miles and 50 hours. Give her a good birthday present this year

#Train Tumblr Unite #I want to be on a train right now #omg #I'd sleep so well #Also a good gift for half and quarter birthdays #sure #that's a real thing that exists #me want train

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I’m very tired. you probably heard that Russia destroyed the Kakhovka Dam to slow Ukraine’s counter offensive. here’s something I didn’t quite realize: since this February, the Russians operated the dam in juuuuust the right way so that as much water would build up as possible when the snow melted and spring showers started. and then they blew the whole thing up.

40,000 people may need to be evacuated. I don’t really have the energy to say anything else right now.

Hospitallers Medical Battalion: actual angels can confirm. they’re combat-zone medical services - you know how humanitarian groups like MFS and Red Cross have to pause operations due to the Russians fucking shooting at humanitarian zones? yeah, these guys don’t pause for bullets, they fucking walk into them and they bring out anyone they can.

Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation: you can choose from a number of various fundraiser projects here, if you’re feeling particularly picky. for those of you who balk at the idea of supporting anything military just please remember that things like vehicles and drones aren’t just for military use, they’re also for evacuation and finding the wounded and they’re fucking vital.

KSE Foundation: similar to the above, KSE has multiple projects you can choose from to donate to. looking at it right now, one of the projects with the lowest amounts of money raised thus far - despite being started in April - is Seeds for Ukraine, which will help Ukraine recover from the ecological devastation Russia has been wreaking (and with Ukraine, the countries that rely on Ukraine’s grain exports that Russia keeps trying to steal).

Come Back Alive: do these guys even need the introduction? they’re Come Back Alive. I’m kissing all of them.

United24: Zelenskyy’s brain child, and the official fundraising platform of Ukraine. Mark Hamill recommends the fundraisers for drones in particular.

UAnimals: Nova Kakhovka’s zoo got… pretty much completely swept away. all zoo residents except the birds have drowned. UAnimals has tried throughout the occupation to keep the animals safe, and they’ve been reporting on the status of the zoo. I don’t really know what to say except that I hope they’re able to save the pets and strays in the towns along the river.

You can find NGOs specific to evacuation efforts in this post; please signal boost it as well. I’ve listed them but am leaving the links for the op post.

Ukrainian FireFighters Foundation

Helping To Leave

VOSTOK SOS

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Hey tumblr, could you help me find another artist who's had a radial nerve injury to their drawing hand? I've likely got a long recovery ahead of me and I'd really love to hear how someone else managed through something similar.

Also anyone who's had to relearn to type after this sort of injury, I would love to hear your experience too.

Please share around, it's apparently a rarer thing and I haven't had a chance to talk to anyone else who's dealt with something like this yet.

also: tumblr won't let me reply to posts right now? so repost or send me a message if you can, thanks so much

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New Process Blog is up!!!

#comics #illustration #art process #process #adaptation #wuthering heights

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OKAY! Gonna try uploading these on Tumblr as vertical scroll. If it gets traction, I'll probably upload more. Yeah :) So this is Adult Casual, a mature-readers comic about 40 year-old women who are kinda weird and don't have their lives figured out. ENJOY!

#comics #webcomics #slice of life #moms #reblog #adult casual

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What I love about Yellowjackets is, at this point, I'm ready for anything. They've been so successful at establishing not only unreliable narrator, but unreliable everything, that they could go any bananas direction and I couldn't be mad about it. Is it supernatural or just psychosis? idk. Did things really go down like that in the Wilderness? idk. Is present day even real? Is Callie even real? Did they even make it out? I DO NOT KNOW.

And that not knowing is fucking refreshing.

#yellowjackets96 #yellowjackets #yellowjackets spoilers #Like seriously #what if they never made it out #They are all kind of living their own punishments #except Misty #because she truly believes nothing she does is wrong #I'm 97% sure this isn't what's happening #that 3% tho

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Decided to do a little fanart, as a treat ;) And what was on my mind? Only my favorite group of hungry girls >:)

YellowJackets96

#yellowjackets #fanart #lottie matthews #antler queen #no return #horror #spooky bitches #shauna shipman #taissa turner #misty quigley #yellowjackets96 #women who eat women #women who EAT women #notebook sketch

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Hey! If you like yellowjackets, and are now patiently waiting, you just might dig my comic Beavers. Head on over to my itch.io and give it a try?

#comics #horror #yellowjackets #hunger #spooky bitches #women making horror

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Just so we're all on the same page with the writer's strike.

If during the strike, it's announced about AI generated shows. We are not watching them. Not even out of curiosity. Let them fail every AI generated show they try make.

The human voice can not be replaced by AI. Don't let them try.

#writers strike #solidarity #fuck ai

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What if FOSTA/SESTA & the PATRIOT ACT had a terrible baby and it was bitten by a radioactive MAGAQ? Call your reps now, this is not a drill, this bill won't die (again) without our help.

URGENT: 🚨🚨EARN IT ACT IS BACK IN THE SENATE 🚨🚨 TUMBLR’S NSFW BAN HITTING THE ENTIRE INTERNET THIS SUMMER 2023

April 28, 2023

I’m 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 (s. 1207) has been roundly condemned by nearly every major LGBTQ+ advocacy and human rights organization in the country.

This is the third time the Senate has been trying to force this through, and I talked about it last year. It is a bill that claims "protects children and victims against CSAM" by creating an unelected and politically appointed national commission of law enforcement specialists to dictate "best practices" that websites all across the nation will be forced to follow. (Keep in mind, most websites in the world are created in the US, so this has global ramifications). These "best practices" would include killing encryption so that any law enforcement can scan and see every single message, dm, photo, cloud storage, data, and any website you have every so much as glanced at. Contrary to popular belief, no they actually can't already do that. These "best practices" also create new laws for "removing CSAM" online, leading to mass censorship of non-CSAM content like what happened to tumblr. Keep in mind that groups like NCOSE, an anti-LGBT hate group, will be allowed on this commission. If websites don't follow these best practices, they lose their Section 230 protections, leading to mass censorship either way.

Section 230 is foundational to modern online communications. It's the entire reason social media exists. It grants legal protection to users and websites, and says that websites aren't responsible for what users upload online unless it's criminal. Without Section 230, websites are at the mercy of whatever bullshit regulatory laws any and every US state passes. Imagine if Texas and Florida were allowed to say what you can and can't publish and access online. That is what will happen if EARN IT passes. (For context, Trump wanted to get rid of Section 230 because he knew it would lead to mass govt surveillance and censorship of minorities online.)

This is really not a drill. Anyone who makes or consume anything “adult” and LGBT 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. If this bill passes, we’re going to see most, if not all, adult content and accounts removed from mainstream platforms. This will include anything related to LGBT content, including SFW fanfiction, for example. Youtube, Twitter, Reddit, Tiktok, Tumblr, all of them will be completely gutted of anything related to LGBT content, abortion healthcare, resources for victims of any type of abuse, etc. It is a right-wing fascists wet dream, which is why NCOSE is behind this bill and why another name for this bill is named in reference to NCOSE.

NCOSE used to be named Morality in Media, and has rebranded into an "anti-trafficking" organization. They are a hate group that has made millions off of being "against trafficking" while helping almost no victims and pushing for homophobic laws globally. They have successfully pushing the idea that any form of sexual expression, including talking about HEALTH, leads to sex trafficking. That's how SESTA passed. 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 EARN IT Act will lead to mass online censorship and surveillance. Platforms will be forced 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, aything related to abortion, and sex worker communication according to the ACLU. All this in the name of “protecting kids” and “fighting CSAM”, both of which the bill does nothing of the sort. In fact it makes fighting CSEM even harder.

EARN IT will open the way for politicians to define the category of “pornography" as they — or the lobbies that fund them — please. The same way that right-wing groups have successfully banned books about race and LGBT, are banning trans people from existing, all under the guise of protecting children from "grooming and exploitation", is how they will successfully censor the internet.

As long as state legislatures can tie in "fighting CSAM" to their bullshit laws, they can use EARN IT to censor and surveill whatever they want.

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. Blumental doesn't care about protecting anyone, and only wants his name in headlines.

It will make CSAM 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.)

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? EARN IT is 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.

HOW TO FIGHT BACK

EARN IT Act was introduced just two weeks ago and is already being fast-tracked. It will be marked up the week of May 1st and head to the Senate floor immediately after. If there is no loud and consistent opposition, it will be law by JUNE! Most bills never go to markup, so this means they are putting pressure to move this through. There are already 20 co-sponsors, a fifth of the entire Senate. This is an uphill battle and it is very much all hands on deck.

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES.

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.

[phone] connects you to the congressional hotline. Here is a call script if you don't know what to say. Call them every day. Even on the weekends, leaving voicemails are fine.

2. Sign these petitions!

Link to Petition 1

Link to Petition 2

3. SPREAD THE WORD ONLINE

If you have any social media, spread this online. One of the best ways we fought back against this last year was MASSIVE spread online. Tiktok, reddit, twitter, discord, whatever means you have at least mention it. We could see most social media die out by this fall if we don't fight back.

Here is a linktree with more information on this bill including a masterpost of articles, the links to petitions, and the call script.

DISCORD LINK IF YOU WANT TO HELP FIGHT IT

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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This meme is inescapable on French insta so I'm posting it here for all to enjoy

#can it