#Activism

[nythracwn]

You can see more of his amazing art here!

art by Seth Tobochman

[mossworth]

Guys, queers. Specifically my fellow queers.

I work at a library. We do this thing where, every so often, we weed the collection. It hurts to see books go, but it's necessary to make sure there's room in the library for new materials.

I have seen so much support for the library in text, and I've seen folks pass around those beautiful "queer your library" flyers. Keep doing that. That's great. Nothing wrong with that. But you HAVE to turn your words into action. We MUST remember to actually go to our local organizations and libraries and actually, with our own fucking hands, interact with these materials we want to see more of.

My branch is medium-sized for a library, maybe a little small. We don't have as many materials as I'd like, but we have fundamentals. Tell me why, even with all the verbal support I've gotten from my local community for the library as a resource for our LGBT+ community, every single trans biography and a good chunk of our vaguely queer theory books were on the list. This isn't a scheme to take the books off the shelves, it isn't another bigoted American governmental push. The only thing we look at when we weed is how long it's been since the last time the item was checked out.

Three years.

No one in my community interacted in any meaningful way with the few books on trans life and history we physically had on the shelves for three fucking years.

I promise you the materials you want and need are there, but this isn't a horde. This isn't a static safety net. You have to use them. You MUST use them or, in the future, maybe in three years, they *won't* be there anymore.

This isn't a vague post, there's no one person I'm hinting at or calling out. I'm not even talking directly to anyone who's directly in my line of sight. I just want everyone to hear this. Big library, small library, whatever. Doesn't matter. Please, we cannot be losing our shelf visibility like this.

[samualjennings]

I know not everyone can, but I encourage anyone who is willing and able to be a part of this calling campaign, or at least to spread this handy leaflet around!

Freedom of Expression means all forms of expression, even if they're uncomfortable to some people, and in the long run this targets a lot more than just controversial adult content.

What's more, even of not explicitly stated, it's already heavily targeting the furry and LGBT+ communities!

We need to draw the line in the sand. Payment processors don't get to dictate what we can or cannot buy or sell with our own money!

[kclfirethief]

reblogging bc im an american. it really sucks that our governments are brain rotted.

hey guys just here to say that the new online safety act in the uk has blocked the suicide hotline

this is extremely problematic for very obvious reasons and i have no idea what the fuck this country is fucking coming to

childline has also been restricted

if you're a uk citizen and still haven't signed the petition please do so

even if you're not a uk citizen please reblog to spread the word !!!!!

this isn't safety, it's censorship

[thashining]

What the media won't show

[beauty-funny-trippy]

Donald Trump Trashed in Scotland's Biggest Newspaper

Hundreds of anti-Trump protesters took to the streets of Aberdeen and Dumfries. And more than 1,000 protesters demonstrated outside the U.S. Consulate in Edinburgh.

[just-a-seagull]

Importante

reposting from bsky, but heres a cheat sheet for how to properly send a message to payment processing companies over the recent highly conservative shift in where youre allowed to legally spend your money

more info here!

[lune-moon-nuit]

BTS Didn’t Save You—They Sold You a Story or When Empathy Becomes a Marketing Strategy: BTS and the Ethics of Brand Endorsement

The key difference between BTS members who continue to support, promote, and even serve as ambassadors for brands directly collaborating with Israel—such as Coca-Cola, McDonald’s or Starbucks—lies not only in their actions, but in the context in which they occur. In 2023, there was widespread confusion: many people were unaware of the full historical trajectory of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the depth of Israel’s occupation since 1948, and the extent to which multinational corporations were financially entangled with Israel. At that time, one could reasonably argue that some endorsements were made without a complete understanding of the implications, particularly before the global community witnessed, in real time, Israel’s unprecedented escalation of violence in Gaza.

However, by 2025, this context has fundamentally changed. Over the past two years, the world has been confronted with undeniable evidence: extensive documentation—through videos, photographs, and testimonies—of mass bombings, extrajudicial killings, and the systematic targeting of civilians, including women, the elderly, and children. We have seen the corpses of infants and children, victims of starvation deliberately engineered through Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid and its obstruction of international flotillas. These acts, coupled with countless instances of recorded violence, have left no room for plausible deniability. To continue collaborating with entities that fund such actions is not an act of ignorance; it is an active moral choice.

What makes BTS’s participation particularly troubling is the discrepancy between their public image and their actions. The group has built its global brand on narratives of empathy, social justice, and humanitarianism. Yet these values appear instrumental rather than genuine—tools for commercial success. Their marketing has exploited universal desires for belonging and healing, particularly among adolescents and marginalized groups, cultivating a fandom whose loyalty is sustained through narratives of victimhood and moral exceptionalism. This dynamic mirrors mechanisms observed in cults, where emotional manipulation and identity-based allegiance serve to protect the group from scrutiny while enabling harmful behavior.

The behavior of their fandom amplifies this problem. Rather than engaging critically with the group’s actions, large segments of the fandom engage in systematic deflection, harassment, and even disinformation campaigns. Online, critics are frequently targeted through doxxing, mass bullying, and coordinated smear tactics, often justified under the guise of “protecting the group’s image.” This willingness to suppress dissent and rewrite narratives—claiming achievements that are not theirs, erasing contributions of other artists, and weaponizing serious sociopolitical issues to silence opposition—bears uncomfortable similarities to patterns of supremacist ideologies, including colonial narratives and Zionist propaganda: the erasure of inconvenient truths to maintain power and moral authority.

Within this framework, BTS’s corporate alignment is not incidental. They are part of one of the most powerful and opaque entertainment conglomerates in K-pop, currently under investigation for financial fraud, labor exploitation, and media corruption, and known for partnerships with pro-Israel entities. The members themselves are not passive participants in this system. Their careers have benefited from these structures, and their silence—or, in some cases, their performative disregard for criticism, such as publicly promoting products tied to the funding of Israel despite widespread calls for boycott—reflects an awareness that their status shields them from accountability.

The persistence of their fandom’s defense mechanisms exacerbates the ethical breach. For over a decade, fans have justified or minimized nearly all of the group’s transgressions, often infantilizing adult men in their thirties while vilifying critics. This cycle of protection has created an environment in which the group’s members can act without fear of consequences, relying on their audience to redirect blame, generate positive publicity, and even attack other artists to deflect attention from their own actions.

The core argument is therefore twofold. First, BTS’s complicity is qualitatively different because it contradicts the very principles upon which their global success was built. Their brand has commodified suffering, empathy, and activism, transforming these values into profitable narratives while simultaneously undermining them through direct collaboration with entities implicated in mass violence. Second, the timing matters: in 2025, after two years of unambiguous evidence of atrocities in Gaza, continued association with such brands cannot be rationalized as ignorance. It is a deliberate alignment with systems of power that perpetuate oppression.

Supporting any artist or public figure engaged in such collaborations is ethically problematic. However, BTS’s case is particularly indefensible precisely because their success has relied so heavily on the illusion of moral leadership. To move forward, audiences must confront the dissonance between image and reality, reject manipulative narratives, and recognize the broader structures—capitalist, colonial, and propagandistic—that make such contradictions possible.

[arcadialannita]

[writing2changetheworld]

Hi!! I recently saw a post of yours and wanted to discuss my opinion with you perhaps ,obviously I don't mean anything rude or malicious at all and my anxiety was telling me to go anon when I'm disagreeing but we've interacted before positively and different opinions don't ruin that!!

when it comes to the healthy baby thing, I understand how the wording might come off ableist but my point of view was quite different. Why wouldn't I wish for a nondisabled child? This might come off as wrong but I'm speaking from my own experience. I'm autistic and I wouldn't wish my kid to be autistic too. Not because that makes them any less by any means, but because ik from experience that being autistic will introduce a unique set of difficulties to thier life. Of course that isn't thier fault at all but we sadly live in a world that isn't inclusive or comfortable for people with autism. This goes for any disability (i think?) Each disability will give you a unique set of experiences and difficulties that non disabled or even differently disable people will never understand. And so much of it is sadly negative experiences. I don't want my kid to suffer, and even if they are disabled I will do everything in my ability to accommodate them and help them. Another example is my fibromyalgia, I would never want my kid to experience that level of pain daily. If they are disabled surely that won't ever make me love them any less at all.

Okay. I've been working on this post and I saw your username (which I won't share in case you don't want it known) until recently. Now it fully says "anonymous" and I don't understand. That honestly makes me really sad because I thought we could openly disagree and it not be an issue.

Someone is going to have difficulties, that's life. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Even if a nondisabled or someone with a different disability or disabilities can never understand, that doesn't make a disabled child's difficulties or whatever worse than a nondisabled child's difficulties.

You acknowledge it wouldn't be their fault but you're putting a lot of fault on the disabled kid.

I was also born disabled and I do have difficulties. I experience daily physical pain, people dismissing my needs, people dismissing my problems, people calling me names, people saying awful and inappropriate stuff to me out of ableism, etc. People need to learn and that's not going to happen with another nondisabled person in the world. And if they refuse to do better, at least I tried.

Every single human being suffers for whatever reasons at multiple points in their lives regardless of disability. You can't stop that.

I'm glad you would try to accommodate and them being disabled would not make you love them less. Congrats on being a decent human being. (Sarcastic)

I understand not wanting your child to be in pain because of fibromyalgia. But something could easily happen that makes them disabled and causes them as much if not more pain everyday.

Hoping/Wishing your kid is nondisabled - for one less disabled person to exist (because that's exactly what it is) - is literally eugenics.

I also asked my mom to read your ask to see if she, as someone who was pregnant with and birthed and parents a physically disabled person and my able-bodied younger sibling, could offer a perspective I can't. She said she worried about me growing up disabled and hoped my younger sibling wasn't physically disabled (each of which she realized were selfish).

[vulturewarrior]

As a black person myself, it really makes me very upset to a member of my community being treated terribly by the color of his skin and because of the fact that he was just trying to help others who are in need.

[mistress-of-malevolence]

Ok, so I know this isn't really my regular thing, but it kind of is because I think I've been pretty clear on my stance on censorship and AI and big companies and the government overstepping their boundaries, so I'm going to talk about it.

so, as some of you may have heard, Youtube has announced that they are going to start trying out a new AI age detection policy, and anyone who the AI suspects might be a minor based on what they watch and other algorithmic things will have their account flagged and be limited on what they can and can't see/do on the app and website.

Penguinz0 and a few others have already made videos talking about it and voicing some valid concerns, and admittedly, it's only through videos like this that I heard about it all.

I had no idea that the UK had even had that law passed, but now that I have, I also agree that it's fucked up.

The YouTube age detector AI is set to hit the US on August 13th, and though I myself am not an American citizen, I find this incredibly concerning. If this goes forward unencumbered, I'm sure it will come to my country next as well, so I do consider it my concern.

I looked it up, and apparently, it is somehow legal for YouTube to request your personal and sensitive information (like your ID or a selfie to help verify), though I don't believe it should be.

Regardless of my opinion, however, it's happening. starting on august 13th, American youtube accounts are going to start being monitored by a new experimental AI trying to find out how old the user is based on what they watch, explicitly ignoring whatever the accounts stated age is, and if its wrong, the only way to regain full access to your account is to fork over a piece of ID.

The excuse they are giving is that it's to "protect kids", but if they really cared about protecting children, they would have put effort into managing the adult content on their site with actual review and cleaned up their YouTube kids app so that THAT is actually appropriate for children instead of somehow worse(??)

I'd like to make it clear that I believe it is important to keep inappropriate content out of the hands of children. I myself saw damaging things way too young and suffered for it for a long, long time, and I have younger sisters whom I want to spare from that suffering and protect at all costs; however, this is not the way to do that.

Don't let them tell you otherwise; this is not about protecting kids. This isn't about protecting anything but their own self-interest. This is about censorship, monitoring and control. It's fascist, and we need to fight back. Fight the banks trying to tell you how to spend your money, fight the VPN's that have given in to government pressure to add backdoor spyware into their products, and fight any and every social media platform that wants to demand you hand over your personal information.

I want to draw attention to how this is not just about YouTube; this is about the internet as a whole. This is about all of our privacy. This is about control, surveillance, and suppression of a place they currently cannot control like they can in the real world. I don't care if you think porn is bad, or if you think no child under the age of 18 should be allowed a social media account, or if you think this post was too long and boring to read. Just look at what the UK is going through right now. Look at what is happening, and please try to understand how much worse this is going to make everything for everyone. Much of our lives are digitized now, and we cannot afford to let our freedoms be taken away here as well.

It starts with our games, our videos, our music, and that might not seem like that big of a deal, but what about when it's our schools, our jobs and our transportation? Computers are a part of everything at this point. The further we allow this to go, the more screwed we are. I don't trust them any further than they've earned, and they've earned nothing. And if you think I'm just being anxious and paranoid about all this, I hope you're right. I don't want to throw around words like "Fascist" and "Dystopian" around, but it really, really is.

"Rights aren't rights if they can be taken away. They're Privileges." -George Carlin.

We shouldn't have to fight for our privacy, but we do.

If you are in the UK, sign this petition to get the Online Safety Act revisited and hopefully rolled back.

If you are in Canada (like me), please check out this petition to stop Bill C-11, The Online Streaming Act.

And if you are American, please check out this petition on the Kids Online Safety Act.

Finally, there is this petition to stop YouTube's new rollout specifically.

Make sure to do your own research on everything, learn your country's rights because they probably aren't the same as America's, and never shut up about any of this.

Back to YouTube being fucking awful, let's try some alternate clients, shall we?

ok, I know that was a lot. If I got anything wrong, please correct me, I just like a free internet. I love you, stay safe💕

[thrivingisthegoal]

STARTING TOMORROW

Scientists in weather and climate are live streaming for 100 hours to make their case to the American public.

They are live streaming, but engagement is necessary for it to work. SHARE THIS WITH PEOPLE, RECORD THE STREAM, POST CLIPS OF IT THAT ARE FUNNY, if you can tune in, PLEASE DO!

This is something that has to be heard by as many people as possible. Put it on in the background! See if you can get other people to watch it! Do whatever you can do support those who are trying to be supported! Anything and everything helps!

TUNE IN HERE

article I posted screenshots of here

[politijohn]

It’s not lost on me that Bernie Sanders is the only mainstream politician touring the country rn listening to Americans’ concerns, giving them hope that a better world is still possible. Not campaigning for President, not an election year, just inspiring swing town voters to use their power to incite change in their communities.

Bernie is 83yo, doing the work that every single Democrat could be doing simply in their own district. He’s packing overflow rooms by the thousands in suburban and rural towns, not “democratic strongholds”. It is possible to get through the next four years but the status quo Dems aren’t going to make that happen.

Imagine what a true progressive party could do for the US. Leftist policy is popular and wins elections. Bernie and others have told us this for decades. If you tuned out his message before, I have to wonder what side you’re truly on. Because his shtick has not wavered with everyday Americans.

Not me, us.

[liminal-disaster]

reblogging because HOT DAMN DID I NEED THIS

On twitter I’m seeing dozens of threads from Black activists warning people against burnout, giving all sorts of useful tips about preventing and managing it for the sake of a long-term, sustainable effort.

On tumblr I’m seeing a hell of a lot of young white kids yelling at anyone who actually follows those steps, and acting like burnout is a moral falling rather than a well-proven psychological phenomenon.

Be careful who you get your information from. Don’t let guilt lead you to make choices that will harm both you and the movement.