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cool kids ✌🏻

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Cute 🩷💛

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Do you live in New York and have space in your heart and your home for a cat or two? New York City’s Animal Care & Control has so many cats that need homes that they’re unable to take in any more. All available adult cats have an adoption fee of $5 through the summer.

This is just a small sample of the amazing cats available for adoption. If you adopt any of these beauties I would love to see them in their new home!

Carol

Age: 10 years

Sex: Spayed Female

Location: Brooklyn ACC

Enjoys: Cheek/Chin Scratches

Elliot

Age: 5 years

Sex: Neutered Male

Location: Staten Island ACC

Other: Preferred home as only pet and no young children

Fleetwood Mac

Age: 9 years

Sex: Spayed Female

Location: Manhatten ACC

Enjoys: Gentle Petting, Napping

Kisya Blue

Age: 10 years

Sex: Neutered Male

Placement: Foster

Enjoys: Bathtubs, Pink/Red Wand Toys, Window Watching

Kytyy

Age: 10 years

Sex: Neutered Male

Location: Manhatten ACC

Personality: Sensitive & Shy

Nipsey

Age: 7 years

Sex: Neutered Male

Placement: Manhatten ACC

Enjoys: Pipe Cleaners

Snowball Friendly

Age: 7 years

Sex: Neutered Male

Location: Staten Island ACC

Enjoys: Being Pet, Snuggling

Soda Pop

Age: 2 years

Sex: Neutered Male

Location: Manhatten ACC

Health: Ringworm, On Medication

Other: Emergency Placement, isn’t doing well in shelter environment due to high energy

Sugar Packet

Age: 11 years

Sex: Spayed Female

Location: Foster

Enjoys: Attention, Being Pet, Snuggling

Other: Can be a little sassy, preferred home with no young children

Here are some of my favorite names of cats available for adoption, any one of these would be a delight to introduce to your friends and family! Your vet staff will immediately be smitten!

All Spice 1y

Applause 2y

Baby Bird 7y

Busy Bee 3y

Buttons 1y

Cat Benatar 9m

Catsanova 3m

Deedeedee 8m

Dollar Store 5y

Friend Owl 8w

Horse Power 3y

Kabootle 7y

MacAroon 5y

Man 1y

Meownificent 6y

Nugget 8m

Octocat 8y

Pajamas 11w

Rorschach 2y

Sasuke 3y

Sleeve 12w

Sour Patch 2y

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It’s so sad that big corporations like Disney can’t even pay the ppl who make there company those actors/writers/animators/etc literally keep there company going but A24 can who is a small Studio I’m very proud that A24 can respect it’s workers 😌

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Lullaby for a Soldier

Another detailed piece I started to work on after watching Age of Resistance. I just want them to be happy ok :')

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Hobie 🎸

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mutual enrichment

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48hr tumblr blackout proposal

tumblr mobile has seadily become near unusable these past few updates. not just from a user experience perspective (which is important enough in itself) but also from an accessibility perspective.

examples include the new way the image viewer works (if you can call it "working"), the tumblr live button replacing the profile button, and that newly created blogs will be forced to have their main dashboard tab be the 'for you' page.

the demands of the protest would be along the lines of:

reverse the recent image viewer update

scrap the new users 'for you' page default setting

let us turn off tumblr live indefinitely

increase efforts against spam / porn bots

make reporting abuse and hate speech as easy as reporting as reporting spam

let us go nuts show nuts again... for real this time

commit to improving usability and accessibility, and listening to users!

(suggestions welcome!)

to protest against these usability issues, and inspired by the recent reddit blackout, i propose a 48 hour blackout (where you don't use tumblr at all). preferably of both mobile and web (since web has problems too) but mobile is the focus here.

I suggest the 48 hours between the 30th of June to the end of the 1st of July.

this marks the end of pride month (for the "queerest place on the internet") and the start of disability month (since accessibility is a massive issue here).

tumblr office is in San Francisco, USA, so the times and dates will be calculated using their time zone (PDT).

you can find out the times and dates for your timezone here.

i can't afford to blaze this post so please spread it around as much as possible! protests only work if significant numbers show up!

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Miguel O’Hara is so 🔥

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URGENT: Congress about to pass a mass censorship and surveillance bill under the guise of "protecting children"

May 13 2023

The Senate has been in a "do something!" mode regarding children's online safety. They're using this as an excuse to push for widespread internet censorship and surveillance. I already spoke about the EARN IT Act, which has a slimmer chance of passing with widespread opposition and a few senators saying they won't vote for it. The real threat is actually KOSA (s.1409), the Kid's Online Safety Act. It does two primary things:

First, KOSA pressures platforms to install filters that would wipe the net of anything deemed “inappropriate” for minors. This means instructing platforms to censor. We saw how these filters impacted websites firsthand with tumblr in 2018, with not only blocking all adult content but also sfw queer content such as suicide hotlines, art archives, wiping out entire blogs because they had queer fandom related posts, etc. Places that already use content filters have restricted important information about suicide prevention and LGBTQ+ support groups. KOSA would spread this kind of censorship to every corner of the internet. And who gets to decide what is and isn't harmful for minors? Oh don't worry, just every single state attorney general and the FTC, which is appointed by the president. You know, the same attorney generals that just banned gender-affirming healthcare under the guise that it "ruins mental health" of minors. This is why the Heritage Foundation was one of the first to sponsor the bill because they can use it to censor trans content, and Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee is it's co-author.

Second, KOSA would ramp up the online surveillance of all internet users by forcing websites to use age verification and parental monitoring tools. Yup, that's right. Now every single person who wants to access the internet has to upload their govt ID online to third party apps that get hacked all the time. You queer in a red state? You undocumented? You an activist? Have fun getting all your online activity and metadata attached to your govt ID.  

Over 90+ human and LGBT rights groups agree that KOSA is dangerous and updates to the 2023 version won’t and can’t address the big problems with the bill. This bill has MASSIVE bipartisan support, and the authors Blumenthal and Blackburn (yes, that Blumenthal that's pushing the EARN IT Act, and who also sponsored the RESTRICT Act and SOPA/PIPA if you remember) are using the tragedy of mothers who lost their kids to online harassment and young adults who've been traumatized online to lobby for it, and got Dove the company to use a bunch of influencers to push for this under the guise it prevents eating disorders...I wish I was lying. There are already 30 co-sponsors.

HOW TO FIGHT KOSA

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES & THE COMMERCE COMMITTEE

This is a link to the Senate Commerce Committee phone numbers and a call script to read off of. (202) 224-3121 connects you to the congressional hotline

Opposition is getting drowned, and these upcoming weeks will be heavy for lobbying and they're using young people to do it. We NEED to show these senators that young people are actually opposed to this and don't want it.

2. Sign these petitions

Open Letter Against KOSA

Petition 1

Petition 2

Petition 3

Petition 4

Resistbot: Text PHJDYH to 50409

3. Spread the word.

The opposition is getting absolutely drowned online. Dove has nearly 100k signatures to push for KOSA. Influencers on tiktok are pushing for this without ever having read the bill. Fucking Lizzo is sponsoring it. If you have twitter, reddit, tiktok, are in any community, SPREAD THE WORD, PLEASE.

Here is a linktree with all the above petitions for easy shargin: Link to linktree

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I’ve been skimming John Francis Daley’s (director on D&D: Honor Among Thieves) twitter and I continue to be so completely blown away by the movie’s commitment to practical effects and/or minimized CGI where feasible. I mean holy shit look at all this

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i’m a bit bummed and how little recognition NOPE has received this awards season i will say it

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It was a really, really good political news day today in the US (4/4/23)

For anyone who hasn't heard, not only did Trump get arrested, but also:

-We found out that the legal case against him in this prosecution (stormy daniels hush money case) is SIGNIFICANTLY stronger than people had speculated. Like, wow do they have receipts.

-In fact, the evidence was so entirely there that the new question on prime time news (well, at least on msnbc lol) is "Hey, why didn't the federal courts prosecute him for this already???)

-Trump FAILED UTTERLY in his attempts to rally mass protests and demands for "death and destruction" if he was arrested. There was no violence at the arrest at all, and as for Trump supporters? They failed to show up in any kind of numbers--reportedly only about a hundred people were protesting the arrest

-We (aka Judge Janet Protasiewicz) WON what is widely considered to be the most consequential election of 2023, a Wisconsin state supreme court election that handed control of the state supreme court to the left

-Because of that election win, it is now extremely likely that abortion will be legal in Wisconsin, and that Wisconsin won't be able to throw out electors in the 2024 presidential election

-ALSO bc of this, Wisconsin, the most gerrymandered state in the country, will probably get nonpartisan, accurate maps, which COULD FLIP THE HOUSE OF REPS in 2024

-In Chicago, Brandon Johnson, union organizer and former teacher, won the election for mayor, in a decisive win progressives, esp for meaningful criminal justice reform and investment in mental health (whereas the other guy was campaigning on hiring hundreds of new cops and being super tough on crime)

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