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My friend Teal has had an awful year.

They've had to move back in with family who makes them feel unsafe by hacking into their accounts.

They've lost several people close to them in the past few weeks, including their grandmother, whom they weren't able to see before she passed.

They've recently been assaulted by someone they thought was a trusted friend.

I am trying to help out as much as possible but there is only so much I can do.

Please, if you can, donate and reblog some to help make them feel safer and seen, so they know they're not alone.

cash.me/$tomi1

paypal.me/tominova

venmo: tominova

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beta server stress test going on so we are now the beatles

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The IOF has already begun Occupying Gaza.

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Y'know I had fun with wplace for a few hours making art and stuff but then I learned about the transmisogynist hate campaign an ex-mod has been put through and I kinda don't wanna touch it with a 10 foot pole anymore

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drew this post as a comic because its so fucking funny to me

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Sure would be a shame if thousands of people saw this...

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TUBI IS STREAMING 800 LOONEY TUNES CARTOONS!!!!!!!!!!!!! FOR FREE!!!

THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! for years and years i've had people asking me where they can watch LT cartoons--AND NOW YOU HAVE AN EASILY ACCESSIBLE ANSWER!!!!!! this is about 80% of the entire LT filmography, so HOP TO IT AND GET TO WATCHIN' CARTOONS!

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Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

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death of the author yeah whatever but death of the fandom is so integral to enjoying and having a decent read of legitimately anything like that is just a necessary step to take in ur head always. do not let them affect the text in any way exterminate them all with ur death ray. they r not real and cannot hurt u and have absolutely 0 bearing on the text itself lol

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To any US citizen who is against KOSA but unsure of what to do: these people will send a letter on your behalf and will also provide instructions on what to say in a call to your lawmakers to voice disapproval of the bill. We've been able to at least push this bill back to the drawing board before and we can do it again. https://www.stopkosa.com/

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If you’re looking for ways to help at-risk communities in the DC area during this crackdown please look into supporting some of the following orgs:

Remora House

Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid

HIPS

CASA (Virginia)

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I don't know who needs to hear this but please please please please please explore the settings. Of your phone, computer, of every app you use. Investigate the UI, toggle some things around and see what happens. You won't break anything irreperably without a confirmation box asking you if you really mean to do that thing. And you can just look up what a setting will do before touching it if you're really worried ok?

Worst case scenario you just have to change the settings back if you don't like what happened but it is so so so important to explore the tools available to you and gain a better understanding for how the stuff you use works.

Even if you already know. Even if you're comfortable with how you use it now. You don't just have to accept whtever experience has been handed to you by default and it's good for you to at least know what's available to you.

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I FOUND THE REST OF IT

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Hey if you hadn't heard, now you have.

I don't post photos of myself publicly online often, but I think this is important. Under this legislation, these random photos of me would be considered pornography solely because I'm a transgender woman.

This ban hasn't gone through yet, it's in the senate right now, so please call your senators and urge them to shut this down. Aside from a ban on pornography being ridiculous in the first place, this is about targeting trans people and having our lives made a living hell.

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Okay so bad news for everyone on YouTube right now

Starting the 13th, we will have an AI determine if we are children or not and if you are a child, than you are forced to send your ID, send a selfie or a credit card

This has the obvious cons of having your privacy being revoked from you and and in case there is a security breach, major identity thefts.

So what do we do in this scenario?

Well right now I have real idea as this is relativity new to me, but I do have two plans

Plan 1. Bug the shit out of them, send letters and send emails about how much of bad idea this is.

Include why the AI will mess up and target adults who watch cartoons, include privacy issues, censorship issues, anything you can think of that relates to this. I want you guys to bug the hell out of YouTube until they reverse this idea

Plan 2. Blackout.

Since the thing is coming out on the 13th.

The plan will be to completely avoid YouTube at all cost for that day, no watching, no sharing, no uploading, no nothing.

Download videos before things go down, watch Netflix. Whatever you do, don’t touch YouTube.

That’s all I can say right now, I also want you guys to let YouTubers know of this situation cause if it’s important for everyone on the website to talk about this immediately

Spread this stuff around, let people know of YouTube’s upcoming policy and how it’ll hurt everyone

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well this fucking sucks