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Reading the new checks that might come in due to the Online Safety Act in the UK and this is actually bullshit

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And how will I prove my age?

There’s a number of methods a site or app might use to ask you to confirm your age. They might do this check themselves or use another company to do the check. These methods include:

Facial age estimation – you show your face via photo or video, and technology analyses it to estimate your age. 

Open banking – you give permission for the age-check service to securely access information from your bank about whether you are over 18. The age-check service then confirms this with the site or app.

Digital identity services – these include digital identity wallets, which can securely store and share information which proves your age in a digital format.

Credit card age checks – you provide your credit card details and a payment processor checks if the card is valid. As you must be over 18 to obtain a credit card this shows you are over 18.

Email-based age estimation – you provide your email address, and technology analyses other online services where it has been used – such as banking or utility providers - to estimate your age.  

Mobile network operator age checks – you give your permission for an age-check service to confirm whether or not your mobile phone number has age filters applied to it. If there are no restrictions, this confirms you are over 18. 

Photo-ID matching – this is similar to a check when you show a document. For example, you upload an image of a document that shows your face and age, and an image of yourself at the same time – these are compared to confirm if the document is yours.

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Not only is this such a fucking breach of privacy, but this is going to hurt adults in vulnerable and abusive situations. Some adults don’t have bank accounts or credit cards or even a fucking phone. I’m one of them. I could not give half of this information even if I wanted to. What the fuck is this. Fuck the UK government. This isn’t going to protect kids, this is just going to hurt adults, and I know full well when they say “sites that allow pornography” they’re going to be going after sites that have huge amounts of queer content, like tumblr and Ao3. Queer kids are gonna lose their fucking communities because of this shit. Abuse victims are going to lose online support systems because of this.

I’m genuinely fucked off about this, and worried about whether I’m going to lose every single one of my online friends. Anyone in the UK, please email your MP and sign this petition. It needs to reach 100k signatures to pass through Parliament.

I’m only hoping the backlash will be big enough for them to stop implementing these measures.

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Thinking about how Jon said he was a deeply annoying child and then listed textbook symptoms of autism

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terms like trans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, genderqueer, nonbinary, polyamorous, asexual, aromantic, & queer are just frameworks you can build off of. they're the canvas, you are the paint- each and every person who identifies as these terms has a different interpretation and idea of how to use and approach them. embrace that uniqueness; especially in identities you've never encountered before. that's part of the beauty of life!

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I get the feeling that Gertrude from your alive au would dispise cannon Jon. If they met I think it would end in bloodshed.

Jon's reaction would depend on which season we are talking about, but Gertrude's reaction would be the same

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[ID: The Magnus Archives fanart of Jon and Martin kissing in Jon's office. Jon sits at his desk, his fist is balled in Martin's shirt, and he is pulling him down for the kiss. There is a spilled mug of tea, and several papers fluttering to the ground by Martin's hand. There is a painting of Jonah Magnus on the wall behind Jon and Martin. He looks at the viewer with wide eyes. The office is cramped and messy, there are boxes and stacks of paper on the floor and shelves. There are small references to each of the 14 fears in the background. They are as follows: a coffin drawn on the chalkboard, a skull on the shelf on the left wall, a copy of The Bone Turner's Tale, a jar of ashes, and a spider on the shelf behind Jon, fog in the hopper windows near the ceiling, candles, a pair of antlers, a knife, and a clown doll on the shelf behind Martin, a surrealist painting of a door on a flat landscape, a tall painting of a ship on a stormy sea -both on the right wall-, and a cracked cabinet door revealing complete darkness on the left side of the room. End ID]

Jonmartin sucking face in a messy environment?? by me???? it's more likely than you think. (a commission for @primtheamazing <333)

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it drives me bonkers the way people don't know how to read classic books in context anymore. i just read a review of the picture of dorian gray that said "it pains me that the homosexual subtext is just that, a subtext, rather than a fully explored part of the narrative." and now i fully want to put my head through a table. first of all, we are so lucky in the 21st century to have an entire category of books that are able to loudly and lovingly declare their queerness that we've become blind to the idea that queerness can exist in a different language than our contemporary mode of communication. second it IS a fully explored part of the narrative! dorian gray IS a textually queer story, even removed from the context of its writing. it's the story of toxic queer relationships and attraction and dangerous scandals and the intertwining of late 19th century "uranianism" and misogyny. second of all, i'm sorry that oscar wilde didn't include 15k words of graphic gay sex with ao3-style tags in his 1890 novel that was literally used to convict him of indecent behaviour. get well soon, i guess...

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Stories that would be improved by polyamory:

Dracula: it's basically a novel of kitchen-table polyamory already, but this way someone might actually kiss Jack Seward.

A Midsummer Night's Dream: just let them all have an orgy at the end. I feel like they'd be into it. Puck's invited too if he wants.

Bridget Jones' Diary: why force a choice between Mark and Daniel if there was the option to have both?

Any Arthuriana: less cheating, more honesty, fewer duels, more snogging, everyone's a winner.

Stories that would be made worse by polyamory:

Wuthering Heights: dear God do not give Cathy and Heathcliff a reason to drag more people into their terrible relationship than are already involved.

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HEAR ME OUT- !!!!

Timeskip Olivier Song gets an armful of cloud tattoos. That’s all thank you.

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Yes, Martin, you are my reason. redraw of this from last year

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Maybe the indescribable part is that none of Nikignik's 100 eyes matches another....

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just the most beautiful Tim and Sasha to ever Tim and Sasha 😭

💫Happy holidays from the ever cheerful Tim and Sasha at the institute's christmas party💫

Now if you want to hear more about how they spread the holiday cheers, go read this absolutely wonderful fic by @briarfairchild about disaster archivists and assistants deserving a raise!

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this meant SO MUCH to see, knowing the story behind it just makes it better 😭😭😭

The Giggle: Behind the Scenes | Doctor Who

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it's me, I'm the friend!! I love my Lady Ethels so much 😭😭😭

Hey, I'm the one who has asked you for two Lady Ethels - one early, one later season - and you truly delivered! They are perfect<3 Thank you so much!

My original idea was to send one to my friend who has been with me throughout all hallowood horrors, but the moment they arrived I knew I could never separate them. So, I hope you don't mind I copied them and now one original is with my friend almost holding hands with the copy to my original and vice versa. We hope one day they will know how to open that portal between their hands and we finally meet in the hallowoods.

Oh this is spectacular. Love the collage!

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Can everyone please go listen to this fiction podcast it makes me want to combust in a good way. It is soooo fascinating and well thought out, it’s audio files about this college professor who’s teaching a class on the “Anterran Civilzation”, a recently unearthed an ancient civilization that is like 60,000 years older than Mesopotamia (just for scale it’s like…Neanderthal old). Anyways everyone thinks the profs insane bc the Chinese government discovered it and is keeping close wraps on it and thus very little information got out so no one really believes it exists…or does it…

Anyways yeah go listen to this the storytelling is so immersive and realistic you’d think you’re sitting in a lecture hall taking notes. Honestly so seemingly real that I thought it was a philosophy podcast instead of a fiction when it popped up on my recommended. Very underrated in the audio drama circles but it shouldn’t be!