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thank god if a reply is deleted the @'s in response still preserve their username. tumblr said haterism will prosper

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Alright, listen up.

I don’t normally make posts like this myself, but this is very, very important right now.

The Australian government recently passed a bill that legally requires every citizen to have a digital ID linked to their real identity to access the internet, and completely bans under sixteens from accessing social media, as of the tenth of December, 2025.

As a frequent Australian social media user, as someone who has found more friends on the internet in the past year than I ever have in my entire life, and as an anarchist, I am strongly opposed to this. And if you aren’t, wake up. Read the bill. Understand that this is going to negatively impact all of us, especially teenagers, queer people, and disabled people.

And the worst part is, the majority of Australians don’t care or even know that this is happening. And that’s why I’m making this post, and asking you to help bring attention to this. If you are Australian, write to every government official you can. Join a protest if you are able.

And, most importantly: strike. Strike from the internet, work, school, anything that will get the government’s attention. Make this backfire in their faces as soon as possible. And don’t think that none of this will do anything. There are almost twenty-eight million people in Australia. Do you know how much we could do of even a few hundred thousand could cooperate on this? Do you know how much good striking has done in the past? Community can make this possible, I believe in us.

I am begging you, don’t take this lying down. It is your right as a human being to have freedom.

The bill: https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bills/r7284_first-reps/toc_pdf/24150b01.PDF

More information: Not just kids: Everyone to be age verified for social media | Information Age | ACS

I am tagging my mutuals and humbly asking all of you to simply reblog to raise awareness, because not many people know that this is going on. If you want to be removed from the tags, please tell me: @zephyrofkindness @greeen-bean @winter-depressed-belle @quetzal-of-chaos @assignedchaosatbirth @raynetherainbowwithaflamethrower @thelocalidiot @ivanhoe @tasty-cilantro @verylonedad @thegayfoxboy @silly-boi-adventures @justanotherbookwyrm @yourlocaltboy @poirolivia @here-for-the-vibe @iobsesswaytoomuch

Other tags: @its-spelt-censorship @you-need-not-apply

Have a nice day, and stay safe. We will get through this.

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So what did happen to Tumblr, wherefore the change in zeitgeist? In 2012 the Romney campaign had a blog on here, in 2014 it was being used to advertise Spider-Man, now it's persona non grata to outside companies? (Which, to be clear, is very bad - I don't give a shit if you want to have it just be the Cool Kids Club, if there's not outside support and popularity this place is never gonna be able to be both free for you and able to pay the bills)

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ground control to crazy frog

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I like it when a character-focused franchise that brings the character back in endless reboots and multiverse shenanigans occasionally takes the opposite tack and has the character die simply because their current actor had a scheduling conflict with another movie, that's hilarious.

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The Wichita Beacon, Kansas, August 9, 1918

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me: "hey i think i might be bisexual."

friend: "that's cool, thanks for letting me know."

lois griffin after getting turned into a gas station:

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Inventing a type of girl who sits in the cuck chair but doesn't even watch her girlfriend get fucked she's playing like, phone games the whole time.

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Actually I'm here to thank you; before your black sludge incursion I was frail as could be, always getting sick and needing crutches to get around. But ever since I was left for dead as the black sludge encroached the town and it overcame me (no, really, I couldn't outrun it) I've become a right proper olympian. Now I can outrun the flightiest deer, I can carry twice as much as the previous strongest townsperson, and I haven't caught cold in weeks!

Here, I hunted down the transmogrified wolf that's been terrorizing our new settlement and crafted a jacket from its pelt, please accept this as a token of my gratitude.

admit it. you’re mad at me for secreting a black sludge that turned all the animals into bigger scarier animals

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admit it. you’re mad at me for secreting a black sludge that turned all the animals into bigger scarier animals

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Feenie jumpscare

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Mouse nesting instinct has got to go wild

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Name: Sea Bat (again)

Debut: Donkey Kong Jungle Beat

It has been quite a long time since our old post on Sea Bat, so long that it was known as Sea Bakky back then! How long was it? Uh it was SIX YEARS? NEARLY SEVEN YEARS AGO??? My word. Well I think we've earned the right to mention this funny slug for the second time in over six years. We can indulge.

I want to talk about Sea Bat because it is so awesome! It's so cool! This is genuinely one of the coolest things ever. We just had a whole year of Shadow the Hedgehog, but sorry! He's only the SECOND coolest character. Number one is Sea Bat, babey! This thing hells yeah! (that's my new way of saying something is really cool. No one else says it but you could start if you want)

It's really a shame that DK Jungle Beat is so slept on, not only because it is genuinely a very fun game, but because Sea Bat is such an incredible design. As the name implies, it is a variant of the typical bat enemy, but as great as bats are, you cannot expect me to give a hoot about a regular ol' bat when one of them is actually a SLUG!

Not just any slug, but a clione, a sea angel, whatever you like to call them! I like to call them Fairy Slugs, but nobody else does. They are really some of the most magical creatures in the world, fluttering about in the void of the sea... and to think that such a magical creature is a SLUG! What a wonderful planet this is!

Jungle Beat dared to ask the question: what if a clione was goth? It would go hard, is what would happen! And it did, and it does. Sea Bat is not JUST a clione with bat wings, not JUST a clione with a bit of a spooky face. It's a FLATWOODS MONSTER clione! That head-and-face-shape combo is unmistakable! Representation WIN: this marine mollusc is from West Virginia!

Just... this thing is so cool. I know I've said that before but it's so cool. And it's criminal that barely anyone knows about it! This design deserves more than to be beaten up by Donkey Kong in an out-of-character spree of violence against innocent wildlife. It should... be on a skateboard, maybe? Nothing preventing anyone from painting it onto a skateboard! Hell Yeah!

And to think, they made this sea angel monster so cool and spooky, and didn't even need to include the real thing's Nightmare Face Tentacle Eruption form. Wowee! Swimming snails can rest easy tonight!

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decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

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what if it was all just a dream?