acepumpkinpatrick:

Since western media (especial American) are working overtime to suppress South Africa’s hearing and Yemeni voices I want you to keep these 3 points in mind:

  • Not 1 major American news outlet broadcasted the South Africa case hearing on Thursday, but they broadcasted Israel’s case hearing, today, Friday 12/1/2024.
  • Yemen has repeatedly said that the Red Sea blockage is because it’s following its duty to upload “Article 1 on the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the crime of Genocide” and IS NOT to “endanger the freedom of navigation in one of the world’s most vital waterways” like Biden put it, in his statement.
  • Gaza Strip is still under severe bombardment. Don’t allow yourself to get used to it. They just bombed an entire neighborhood in Khan Yunis which is a southern city! And as of recently the electricity has gone off in a hospital because gas has ran out.

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predatory-lesbians:

0venatrix:

predatory-lesbians:

sapper-in-the-wire:

Leathers and furs are 1000% more environmentally friendly than any petrochemical fabric lmfao.

wool tho, wool is murder. did u know they get these big strong lesbians to manhandle the sheep while theyre being sheared? pisses me off. that should be me!!! i should be getting manhandled by big strong lesbians!!!! boycotting wool until this is addressed tbh

My mother worked in a shearing shed and I wish she wasn’t homophobic, to show her this reblog.

i could fix her.

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nsomniacsdream:

I have a hard time talking about American law enforcement, because I have ptsd (like a therapist told me this and everything) from my own experiences with cops and because it’s so balls quaking insane.

Like, a cop in the United States can pull you over for any reason. Which is a nice way of saying no reason, because literally anything can be used after the fact as justification. A cop can say its cuz you looked at him, or didnt look at him, or it looked like you were holding something, or looked like you were driving too perfectly for it to be natural. It’s insane.

There are apparently no circumstances where a cop can’t just kill you. The line the courts have applied is “reasonably believed” you were a threat, but that’s such a nebulous nothing limit that people get shot for reaching for their license, having their phone in their hand, you’re running away with no weapon, not being able to follow conflicting commands, like anything. And cops are almost never charged, because every court is going to believe he could “reasonably believe” he was threatened. Fuck, if you give me enough time, I can make any situation seem juuuuust plausibly threatening enough to pass that bar. It’s insane.

A cop can just rob you. Like tell you to give him your wallet, take all the cash out, and just walk away with it. Exactly like you would imagine getting robbed in an alley would go, except no one can help. And he doesn’t even have to hide it, he just drops it in a box at the station and they put it in their bank account. It’s legal. You can’t prove it wasn’t drug money. I can’t prove any money wasn’t at some point drug money. It’s insane.

If a cop just walks in your front door and says “I’m here to kill you and your entire family” YOU ARE GOING TO PRISON IF YOU STOP HIM. There is no positive defense for assaulting a police officer in the United States, and doubly so if you kill him. You have effectively no defense against a homicidal cop, which happens same as any other job. Unless for some reason you have cameras all thru your house and clearly caught the audio of him saying that he’s there just to kill you, you have zero chance of not going to prison, probably for life. And that’s assuming you aren’t killed “resisting arrest” while being taken into custody. It is a crime, in this country, for you to defend yourself under any circumstances if the person you’re defending yourself from is a cop. That’s insane.

You don’t have civil rights if a cop says so. You have the right to have a gun, right? A lot of states have open carry. A cop can shoot you if he sees you have a gun. Doesn’t matter if you have a license and everything. So you effectively don’t have the right to bear arms if a cop can shoot you for exercising it. You have the right to protest. Unless a cop tells you to stop. He doesn’t need a real reason to tell you to stop. And if you don’t stop, you can be arrested or shot. So you don’t really have the right to protest, do you? A cop cant just search your car or house, right? Unless he claims he heard something, or smelled something, neither of which can be proven. So a cop can search whatever he wants, as long as he pretends there was a “reason”. So you dont have protection from unreasonable search and seizure, do you? These are no longer rights- they’re things the cops allow.. for now. But legally, those rights have already been found to not actually be rights, because any random cop can decide to take that right from you, for any reason. It’s insane.

These aren’t like crazy things that I’m just making up, these aren’t some weird twisted way I’m looking at something, these are all very real things that we all just.. ignore? Police abolitionists and the media bring these things up all the time, and the overwhelming response to it is: so what? Don’t break the law and it won’t matter. Blue lives matter. More police funding. Cops should have tanks. It’s insane. And I always feel like im just rambling and sound insane when I say this kind of stuff because if you wrote a book and had the dystopian government doing the stuff that the police in this country do every single day, those same people who “back the blue” would line up to say stuff like “*Books government* wouldnt have a chance before us real americans stopped them” on twitter and not even get a hint of the irony.

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godisafujoshi:

finntheehumaneater:

ruinedchildhood:

imagine you’re a guard for your castle, and you see this lady calling for help and saying she’s the queen, so you bring her in and everyone watches as she fucking eats the babies in there and just goes, “yep. Sure. New queen.” Because she got them, along with you, all high on psychedelics. And then she transforms into a giant fucking blue creature and crawls away, never to be seen again.

God forbid women do anything

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dduane:

Inside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill
Republicans’ Project 2025 plan would leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion.
Rolling Stone

“GOP operatives have already crafted an expansive blueprint, 887 pages long, laying out in painstaking detail how they intend to govern, including plans to leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion access. The document explicitly names their intention not just to rescind FDA approval for the abortion pill if they regain control of the White House in 2024, but to revive a 150-year-old law that criminalizes sending or receiving through the mail any “article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine or thing” that could be used to facilitate an abortion. That law, the Comstock Act, is viewed as a de facto federal abortion ban by reproductive rights advocates and anti-abortion activists alike.”

When somebody tells you in that much detail what they’re going to do if you let them… believe them.

Please get registered early, and vote.

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kurtbusiek:

vaspider:

beatrice-otter:

drpepper-spokesman:

GOOD NEWS! PLEASE READ!

KOSA has been delayed! It’s not for too long, just until January. But this gives us more time to continue sending emails and calling. ITS WORKING! KEEP CALLING! KEEP EMAILING!

(I was alerted of this because I’m on Fight for the Future’s email list)

Here’s the link to continue the fight!:

Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
Fight for the Future

And, critically, the reason that it is being delayed for a month is that Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), changed her mind on it. In November, she was not just going to vote yes but trying to get it fast-tracked. Last week, she admitted there were queerphobic problems with the bill that needed to be fixed before it could move forward.

Why do you think she’s trying to fix it now? Probably because she’s gotten a lot of pressure and phone calls on the subject.

This is great! It’s progress in the right direction. Next step: continue the phone calls and letters, pointing out that the bill as written does nothing to protect kids, and there is no way to make a bill like it that doesn’t harm LGBTQ+ folks (because the bill’s sponsors have admitted that the whole POINT of it is to let them censor LGBTQ+ people) and also no way to make a bill like it that doesn’t invade peoples’ privacy.

So yeah. Call your senators, or write them. The EFF has resources and talking points, and if you can put them in your own words that makes you more likely to be listened to.

This is unspeakably important. Don’t sleep on this.

One of the letters to Sen. Cantwell came from me, since I’m one of her constituents.

But please, contact your own senators, United Statesians!

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charliejaneanders:

Today I managed to reach a real live human being at Senator Butler’s office to register my concerns about KOSA. I went through my concerns that this bill would be used by red state AGs to silence queer people online. But then I did something that seemed to make an impression.

I got a bit more personal, and said that as a transgender person I am actually scared that this will drive me off the internet and cut me off from my community.

I also said that my friends have trans kids, who depend on the internet for support. And I’m legit worried what’ll happen to them.

I think that talking about my personal worries for this bill really helped drive my message home. I got a somewhat warmer response than in the past when I’ve called.

I’ve said this before, but my guess is that if this bill passes, it will be similar to what happened with sesta-fosta.

Platforms will either ban content that might be challenged, or merely shadowban it.

There is a lot of fear-mongering right now about algorithms recommending harmful content to kids. In response, platforms may do the opposite: set up algorithms to ensure that nobody sees content that Republicans don’t like.

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mxactivist:

Support the BBC for having a trans character in recent episodes of ‘Doctor Who’

Apparently the BBC (UK) has had 144 complaints about a recent episode of Doctor Who because it contained an openly trans character.

News article screenshot. Newspaper name: Deadline. Headline: 'Doctor Who' Gets More Than 100 Complaints Over "Inappropriate" Transgender Character By Jake Kanter, December 8, 2023 1:43am. Photograph with caption: 'Doctor Who' starts David Tennant and Yasmin Finney.ALT

I’ve made a complaint to the BBC that there weren’t enough transgender characters in Doctor Who. I would love if 144 other people did the same thing. Here’s the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint/#/Complaint

(For your easy reference: “The Star Beast” aired on 25/11/2023 on BBC One, and the trans character is called Rose.)

Please note that the complaint form asks for your UK postcode, so only UK folks can join in with this - but if you suspect you might have any UK-based followers, maybe give us a reblog to boost the signal?

Reply when you’ve done it, so I can keep track of us!

Here’s my complaint:

Screenshot of online form. Select the best category to describe your complaint: Bias What is the subject of your complaint? Not enough trans people. Please enter your complaint, and please don’t add personal details such as your name, email or phone number in this field – we’ll ask you for those at the next stage. Textbox: I am upset because Doctor Who only two transgender characters - Rose (Donna's daughter) and the Doctor. I think Doctor Who would be way better if there were more trans people in it. If we assume the Doctor is genderfluid kinda, and Rose is a trans woman, there should at least be a trans man in there somewhere! Anyway, thank you for adding some trans representation, I appreciate it, and I'm sorry to hear you had complaints about Doctor Who being "too woke". Trans people are all over the shop in real life, it only makes sense to have them on TV every now and again too. Take care, [remaining text not visible]ALT

I recommend:

  • Avoid sarcasm or irony. Assume your post will be taken literally. If you are clearly joking or being mean you will be ignored or misunderstood.
  • Include some gratitude/appreciation. It’s pretty great that they included a trans woman in a positive way, and they should know that they have explicit support for that.

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thexphial:

thexphial:

ralfmaximus:

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
Ars Technica

UnitedHealthcare, the largest health insurance company in the US, is allegedly using a deeply flawed AI algorithm to override doctors’ judgments and wrongfully deny critical health coverage to elderly patients. This has resulted in patients being kicked out of rehabilitation programs and care facilities far too early, forcing them to drain their life savings to obtain needed care that should be covered under their government-funded Medicare Advantage Plan.

It’s not just flawed, it’s flawed in UnitedHealthcare’s favor.

That’s not a flaw… that’s fraud.

I work in healthcare, and let me tell you, NO ONE denies care as much, as often or as blatantly badly as UHC. Not a one. It’s known in the industry to be one of the worst insurance carriers around. DO NOT sign up for UHC this or any other open enrollment period. (I work in rehab and the things they deny are basic and hugely important to quality of life)

I’m reblogging this again because I realized that I didn’t include something important. If you have a plan with UHC (or any carrier, honestly) and you are denied something that you and your care team believe you need, ask your doctor to ask for a “peer to peer” review. This is a process in which the doctor speaks to another doctor in the company. It cannot be handled by AI and cannot be just denied without review by an actual doctor.

Peer to peer!

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