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well this fucking sucks

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Guys istg if this safety act thing makes me unable to use AO3 at some point I PROMISE you guys you will see me on the news

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Hey guys something fucking bad happened

KOSA/the kids online safety act has been reintroduced into legislature after it passed Senate last year and then got snubbed. It is not unlike the bill that just passed in the UK a few weeks ago. If you don't want what happened in the UK to happen here, now would be a good time to vocally oppose it.

Here is a petition that can be signed by Americans. Attached to the petition is an easy tool that allows you to call and leave messages for your representatives. I have already done so. You can also email your representatives by searching for their name, most have message submission boards as well. This thing died once, it can die again.

Please sign/share the petition and contact your representatives.

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Welp.

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hi americans. do you feel helpless and scared? do you have access to a phone? boy, do I have the product for you!

it's "call your House representatives right fucking now"!

so the senate passed HR1 aka the big beautiful bill aka "let's slash the budget for every single public social service including planned parenthood clinical services, SNAP, and medicaid, while tripling ICE's budget and rolling back environmental protections" bill

here's what to do!

enter your zip code here to find your rep's name and number, as well as a script to read. if you want to go off-script, this site has some general tips.

call.

rinse and repeat every day

that's it!

I don't care if you don't think it's the most effective method of protest. you can do other things on top of this, it takes almost no time, and it's not going to hurt our chances at blocking or delaying it so more terms will be cut from the bill

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hey uh new type of ao3 spam comment just dropped. (I know it's spam because the fic they left this comment on . doesn't have chapters. lmfao). Report this kinda comment as spam and don't take it personally it is literally recycled bullshit

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I'm seeing so many medias (games, movies, series, fucking songs) becoming unavailable for some reasons lately. And I'm here to remind you-

DOWNLOAD AND STORE LOCALLY YOUR MEDIAS

that being fanfictions, books, albums, movies (especially in your language for non-english users!) because boy if you ever thought "Oh I don't need to worry about it, it will surely keep being there!" then THAT is a sign you NEED to save it. Save it!

GO SAVE IT NOW!

I'm ALSO talking about youtube videos! Oh man I will never forgive myself for thinking certain videos from some of my childhood youtubers would still be there and now they are lost to time.

Now more than everr, but don't feel too panicked, just make a list of top 5 things you really like and would like to keep consume in the long time. Download some of your faves stories. Save one media every week. Just go in order of priority.

Add an adblocker, download firefox or Opera, so that you can also have a free VPN and do that thing to save your media, you know what I mean (see tags)

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Reminder to contact your reps to HELP pass the impeachment bill:

Currently this bill is offering the 'INTENT TO OFFER RESOLUTION' under the 'Questions to privilege' Rule of the House.

What does this mean?

TLDR: TO IMPEACH TRUMP ON GROUNDS OF QUESTIONING THE EXECUTIVES PRIVILEGE(THE PRESIDENTS SHIELD/WHY THEYRE ALLOWING HIS BLATANT AUTHORIANTARIANISM)

more information here regarding questions to privilege rule: https://govfacts.org/explainer/executive-privilege-vs-congressional-oversight-the-constitutional-tug-of-war/

(P.S. for those more legally savvy than myself, if there's anything i got wrong please do not hesitate to add on to this post that can help!)

CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE! EMAIL! CALL! DONT LET UP!

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www.nokings.org

If you're able to go tomorrow, please stay safe and thank you!

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Guys I want to bring attention to the Revive Gaza’s Farmland initiative!!!! APN is working w farmers in Gaza to help restore Gaza’s agricultural sector. They’re just shy of being within 67% of their goal at the moment. Please show them some love by donating & spreading the word

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Wow, now there's a bot going around on Ao3 telling people that the "moderators" will delete works from "deprecated" fandoms and impose bans.

Fearmongering bullshit, but it's fearmongering bullshit that seems to be taking advantage of the recent spotlight series in order to trick authors into deleting their fics.

Just. Why.

What the hell does anyone get out of making these bots.

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Hey guys let me tell you about advance fee scams

I hope y'all are familiar with these in this day and age, especially my artists out there, because they're incredibly common.

About half an hour ago I posted a drawing and tagged it #artists on tumblr, and very quickly received this comment.

My scam radar went off immediately, due to the generic blog name and lack of any emotion in the comment, but I decided it might be an entertaining venture so I dmed them. They asked for a drawing "of these", and sent me a random selfie. I got the details and told them it would be $15, and they promptly offered me $300. At this point I know it's a scam, but I play along for funsies and give them my paypal. Shortly, they send me this image for "confirmation" (I blocked out my email)

And they began to insist that I checked my email. I looked in my spam folder and found the following email.

This is fake. This is not a thing. And the "you're to refund the $200.00 back" is the scam. They send vaguely official-looking emails at you to "prove" that they sent you the money, then have you send them $200 (or however much the scam is for). Then, surprise surprise, you're out $200.

I continued to play along for a bit, and in the second email "Paypal" told me that I had to refund the $200 before they could "credit the $300 to my account", along with these lovely threats.

And yeah, it's silly. But it's not silly if you don't know and get scammed. So. Spread, please! And thank you very much to @mlaurel for the opportunity to get these screenshots.

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PSA

Just a heads up, there are bots going around on AO3 accusing people of using AI. Considering the timing, this is likely AI bros' retaliation for AO3 users calling them out for scraping their work. Examples of what you might be sent:

Screenshots from here.

If you get a comment like this, just report for spam and delete.

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AO3 has been scraped, once again.

As of the time of this post, AO3 has been scraped by yet another shady individual looking to make a quick buck off the backs of hardworking hobby writers. This Reddit post here has all the details and the most current information. In short, if your fic URL ends in a number between 1 and 63,200,000 (inclusive), AND is not archive locked, your fic has been scraped and added to this database.

I have been trying to hold off on archive locking my fics for as long as possible, and I've managed to get by unscathed up to now. Unfortunately, my luck has run out and I am archive locking all of my current and future stories. I'm sorry to my lovelies who read and comment without an account; I love you all. But I have to do what is best for me and my work. Thank you for your understanding.

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On April 16th 2025 the US federal government has proposed to change the interpretation of the endangered species act so that it no longer protects habitat.

This is open for public comment until the end of May 19th. Please comment and make your voice heard.

Wildlife need their habitat. If the ESA redefines harm so that habitat is no longer protected, the implications for wildlife would be catastrophic.

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You want to call your House rep now and tell them Trump needs to be impeached immediately for defying a Supreme Court order (re: Kilmar Abrego Garcia), which functionally voids our constitution and means no one in America has rights anymore.

I am not exaggerating.

As of now, anybody can be disappeared, no due process, no recourse. Trump is openly disregarding a Supreme Court order and says he’ll send US citizens to El Salvador.

This is not a drill.

Call your House rep and tell them they must impeach. Tell them if they cannot bring themselves to impeach, they must resign. A more open and shut case to impeach is not possible. Trump and his administration are saying openly, in public, that anybody can be kidnapped by ICE, even in error, and disappeared permanently.

Call your senators, too, and tell them to support impeachment (it goes to them once it passes a majority House vote).

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