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Kaya: Are you more into coffee or tea?

Jace: Coffee for sure.

Nissa: I much prefer tea.

Chandra: I have been forbidden from consuming caffeine after The Incident.

Kaya:

Kaya: What was-

Jace: We don't talk about The Incident.

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Cards used are-

Eruth, Tormented Prophet

Academy Loremaster

Azorius Knight-Arbitor

Compulsive Research

Bruvac the Grandiloquent

Whispering Snitch

Coffin Puppets

Daretti, Ingenious Iconoclast

Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath

Attune with Aether

Zendikar Resurgent

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Chandra: I have the uncontrollable urge to set something important on fire.

Liliana:

Chandra:

Liliana:... So?

Chandra: Aren't you supposed to tell me not to do it? Be the voice of reason?

Liliana:... You needed a voice of reason and you came to me?

Chandra: You're a teacher now! You're supposed to be responsible!

Liliana: Chandra, Strixhaven education can be responsible. It's even encouraged. But it's not a requirement.

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Kaya: I don’t get why you never at least tried to settle somewhere else. You have a spark, you don’t need to stay in Ravnica.

Ral: I can count the number of planes in the multiverse with indoor plumbing on one hand.

Kaya:

Ral: Sorry if I put the value of hot showers above scenery

Kaya: Ok, but what about Kamigawa? Kaladesh? There are options.

Ral: Well, neither of them allow me to do the kind of thing the Izzet can do. They just have so many regulations for magical technology…

Kaya: …Looking at the average Izzet experiment, I’d say they have good reason.

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Twitter formatting would butcher this meme so y’all can have it instead

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Perfectly accurate, I don't know what you mean inaccurate.

Chandra: So, what's your type?

Jace: Oh, you know... powerful, strong personality... if they tell me they're taking me out I can wonder if it means a date or a murder.

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Happy Pride Month! ♥️🧡💛💚💙💜

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why is it always The Machine VERSUS The Flesh. why can't they be yuri. or yaoi. or whatever.

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America doesn’t simply have a gun problem, it has a problem with gun owners who are just itching for the opportunity to murder. For non-life threatening “crimes” like knocking on doors, accidentally opening the wrong car door, entering the wrong driveway by mistake, and apparently even fishing.

These alleged adults, who are afraid of their own shadow, are desperate to live out their Wild West fantasies. Anything that frightens them, startles them or makes them feel uncomfortable is fair game, as long as they get to tell their stories about how they “bravely” “defended” themselves from a non-dangerous situation.

We need to overturn all Stand Your Ground laws and take the Castle doctrine back indoors where it belongs.

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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.

(202) 224-3121 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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(At Elesh Norn's crowning celebration)

Sheoldred: Oh, just sit down, Urabrask. It might be nice to talk to a grown-up for a change.

Urabask: Well, this party is certainly a break in my routine. You know, normally I spend my Saturdays... carefully laying out the scraps to maximize the chaos in the following week. Then I stroll down to the forge to see if Brudiclad is there.

Sheoldred: Oh, yeah. You've gotta keep busy. I collect matchbooks from glamorous nightclubs. It's amazing. If you just write to them and ask them nicely...

Urabrask: Is this how you imagined compleation, Sheoldred?

Sheoldred: Well, yes. But then I was a very depressed newt.

Urabrask: (Raising his glass) To poor decisions.

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Hello friendos:

If you’re unaware, Missouri’s Attorney general is going to put a ban on trans medical care starting next Thursday on the basis that it’s experimental. Within the ban, it repeatedly references a debunked study and adds provisions that makes it nearly impossible to get any medical care. It is also ableist requiring a screening for autism as a way of banning autistic trans folks from getting their healthcare.

Also it’s not age dependent. It’s on adults as well as kids. So a small cat is out of the bag, they’re trying to kill us. Trans healthcare is life saving for so many, to attempt to ban it in one state is more institutionalised transphobia. With all the other anti-queer and anti-trans bills (correct me if I’m wrong, there’s been at least 300 within the year), this is just another one leading up to a genocide of my own people.

Here’s a few articles about this piece of shit thing:

For my folks living in Missouri here’s a video on resources and what to do:

For anyone else that finds this post please reblog it if the word hasn’t already been spread and add resources for aid. This is a small part of the internet but this is extremely important.

They can’t kill us in a way that matters, but let’s avoid death in the first place.

Queer rights are human rights. And all power to all the people.

(And as a given terfs do not fucking interact).

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core classes as undead :)

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Jace: (About Gideon) Such power and grace. I must have him.

Chandra: What was that, Jace?

Jace: In… the Gatewatch. I must have him in the Gatewatch. I covered that up well.

Chandra: Covered what?

Jace: Nothing. (Thinking) Note to self: it there’s an echo, I’m thinking. Otherwise, I’m talking.

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About a week ago I posted this.

I’ve been getting horrible messages like this in my ask for months, including:

and my personal favorite

After getting the message saying “Just go kill yourself” I was completely done dealing with this person’s horrible messages and replied with just an “Okay.” and logged off tumblr.

About a week later I logged back on with 17 messages in my ask, most of them from the anon. I scrolled down and at first when I logged off, the anon messaged me things like

I scrolled up more and all of a sudden they started sending me more and more messages like

This was extremely surprising to me. I thought “After all those horrible messages you sent to me for MONTHS about hating me and wanting me dead, you say ‘sorry’ and that you ‘cant be responsible for someone’s suicide’?”

But I guess the lesson goes like this:

DONT TELL ANYONE TO KILL THEMSELVES UNLESS YOU ARE PREPARED FOR WHAT MIGHT ACTUALLY HAPPEN