#Actionable

[liminalweirdo]

Telehealth is necessary healthcare for many immunocompromised and disabled people, especially those with long Covid or ME/CFS. Please sign this petition to save telehealth!

[in4newz]

[mothric]

I'm also concerned that the "they're all protesting FOR us 🥺" narrative is giving a lot of ppl an excuse to not actually organize or protest themselves. it feels like it's coming from a place of escapism and, to risk using a therapy term, learned helplessness. what I mean is that I'm getting a sense that people have just gone belly-up and accepted there's nothing we can do in these fearsome terrible times, but golly it sure is nice to imagine that someone somewhere else in a far off location is doing the work for us.

guys, Germany and the UK and Mexico City aren't heroes in shining armour come to rescue us. there is a LOT we can do. you can call your representatives. you can print out flyers with information about ICE and hand them out. you can research grassroots projects in your own community. you can start teaching yourself how to distinguish reliable sources from unreliable ones so you can better discern what's in the news and keep yourself from conspiracy thinking. you can keep your mouth shut if someone asks you if you know any immigrants. you can check on your queer friends. you can look up official boycotts. assuming you are able bodied, you can even protest! yes, you, US American reading this! the right to peaceful assembly didn't just disappear overnight!

believing we cannot possibly do anything ourselves to make anything better doesn't help us or our neighbours, it just makes it way easier for people who don't like us to keep doing shit that makes our lives harder.

[warmhappycat]

Sign up to help cure ballots in Pennsylvania

You do not need to live in Pennsylvania.

Even if the presidency is lost by now, down ballot elections REALLY matter. This effort will help determine US House of Representatives, as well as state and local races in Pennsylvania. Whatever safety we will have in the years to come, will come from state and local officials.

I’m a neurodivergent, mentally ill person who needs a lot of rest time, but I signed up for like 5 shifts. It’s only for a few days, and it’s a tangible thing to DO.

[jestermaxxed]

love you adam cole but if you take that belt from my sunshine precious angel kitten i’m going to Do Something

[liminalweirdo]

If you don't know what to say you can read other people's comments. Writing a comment here takes less than thee minutes of your time.

We have 30 days until the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) laws are rescinded. This is the 50-year bedrock of American conservation. Normally, these actions take years but the administration has provided 30 days for public comment gutting clean water and clean air. Drop what you’re doing, before you make any more calls or read any more social media posts, please populate the Federal Register with dissent.

A. Go to https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/25/2025-03014/removal-of-national-environmental-policy-act-implementing-regulations

B. Click on the green rectangle in the upper right corner ("SUBMIT A PUBLIC COMMENT") .

C. Fill in your comment, and info at the bottom, and SUBMIT COMMENT.

[liminalweirdo]

Full text reads:

"People who don't include disability liberation in their understanding of justice will never make sense to me. Like what do you MEAN you oppose sexism, racism, and classism, but the minute the lived reality of that oppression starts showing up physically, all your energy just evaporates?

Genuinely, try to name for me a form of oppression that doesn't result in, or amplify the impacts of disability. Spoiler: you can't. If you care about healthcare, abolition, housing, workers rights, bodily autonomy — if you care about liberation you need to include disability justice.

There is a very real push of eugenicist ideas occuring and over the coming years it's likely to only get worse — I am begging you to resist it. Already I've seen leftist organisers complaining that disabled people cannot offer anything to a movement because they dared to ask for masks at a meeting.

It's not surprising if we look to history—pandemics and a rise in fascist/eugenicist rhetoric go hand in hand. But if we look to history we should also know that disabled activists have been vital in antifascist + workers movements since forever. Erasing their contributions helps no one.

"We will never win if we continue to abandon the people most impacted by the very systems we are claiming to fight. If when it gets inconvenient we're just replicating the same attitudes as the fash and the same abandonment as the state, what exactly is the point in what we're doing?

Anyway reminded that solidarity is not transactional, and giving into eugenics is, among other things — deeply embarrassing. With enough time and luck, disability is coming for all of us. Do yourself a favour and start dealing with the hole in your politics now. *double heart emoji*"

- themme_fatale

[in4newz]

Ah yes, the local news outlet, a frauds administration, one of the best animes of all time, one of the modern day heros and a fucking circus as top 5 trending. Beautiful.

[paintedcrows]

Did anyone tell Ford (bonus doodles: Family Movie Night, 70s Classics)

[mothric]

some infographics from the CNN article above (tho I suggest reading the whole thing):

[biotopia]

Petition to stop aerial spraying of glyphosate over BC forests.

[abdalsalam2000]

The ceasefire agreement was reached and joy is floating among the Palestinian people

[astriiformes]

I know that realistically you can only fit so many movies into a list of approximately 100, but I cannot take that "How many of tumblr's favorite movies have you seen?" list that's been going around seriously because there are some truly egregious omissions.

Some of it is very clearly recency bias, which makes me wonder if the op truly wasn't on here in 2013 or so, but you're telling me you made a list of "tumblr's favorite movies" that doesn't include Pacific Rim or Mad Max: Fury Road? Because, like, I was there, Gandalf.

[liminalweirdo]

I know some of you guys haven't been following this, but if you're in the US PLEASE CALL YOUR REPS.

KOSA will stop queer and trans kids from being able to access resources to help them online.

KOSA will make it harder for people to post and access fanfiction and fanart.

if you want to protect queer and trans kids, you must call your reps and tell them why KOSA is not the solution. this has nothing to do with "protecting children" and everything to do with forcing queer and trans kids into isolation.

KOSA IS CENSORSHIP

"We’ve gone over this before, KOSA gives way more power to law enforcement, including state AGs (yes, including Republican ones) to effectively force websites to block information that they define as “harmful.” So, Republican states may no longer be able to access abortion information or information on LGBTQ+ communities. The bill’s “parental tools” mandate seems to not even comprehend that not every child has a relationship (or a good, loving relationship) with their parents, meaning it’s wide open to abuse by parents."

but change is possible, but activism is called activism because you must act. Don't wait for others to do it for you.

Find your reps:

Not in the US? Sign the petition.

KOSA is a threat to minors and a threat to free speech

IF YOU NEED A SCRIPT

DEMOCRATIC VERSION:

Hi, I am urging you to VOTE NO on KOSA, s.1409. Nearly 200 human rights and LGBT organizations total came out in an open letter opposing it in 2022 and 2023 because of how dangerous it is. The new language does NOT meet any concerns brought up, in fact many organizations were ignored. Major news have reported that this bill actively harms kids. When you look online through social media, you will find thousands of posts by Gen Z who are opposed to this bill. We do not want this. 

The rewritten bill would still allow any state attorney general, and now the FTC, to sue any website for “harmful” content. When you have Republicans calling anything LGBT “sexual exploitation” or anything about race “CRT” to successfully ban books and teachers, then they will use any justification to censor the internet. The Missouri attorney general used “mental health” successfully to ban gender-affirming care with backed up research. Suicide rates will skyrocket for marginalized youth with this bill restricting content.

Multiple experts agree this bill pushes age verification, even with the new language. KOSA hands more private data of children to third party companies. Furthermore, updated language threatens encryption the same way the Earn It Act does. How is this protecting children’s privacy? 

KOSA actively harms kids by taking away educational resources they need right now. Do NOT support this bill. Thank you.

REPUBLICAN VERSION:

I am urging you to VOTE NO on KOSA, s.1409. This is a dangerous bill that will harm children. Many news organizations have reported that this bill actively harms kids by exposing their private data to strangers under the guise of protecting them. We need to hold Big Tech accountable, but KOSA is not the solution.

The rewritten bill would still allow any state attorney general, and even thr FTC, to sue any website for “harmful” content. Do we really want blue state lawyers deciding what can and can’t be allowed online and continue to censor people? This is massive government overreach. We need a bill that actually protects people by creating better security measures instead of bringing about more censorship.

Multiple experts agree this bill pushes age verification, even with the new language. KOSA hands more private data of children to third party companies, which would put them in further danger. How is this protecting children’s privacy? What parent would want their child’s private data in the hands of strangers like this? KOSA is actively putting kids in danger. Do NOT support this bill. Thank you.

SCRIPTS ABOVE CAN BE USED TO EMAIL OR FAX AS WELL IF YOU CANNOT OR DO NOT WANT TO USE THE PHONE.

KOSA PASSES SENATE 7/30/24

Kosa has unfortunately passed the Senate on a 91-3 vote. I want this to be clear, It’s not going into effect, it still has to get to the House but I believe there will be a break for the month of August which gives us A WHOLE MONTH!! to call your HOUSE representatives and tell them to vote NO on Kosa. It’s not over yet, it barley JUST passed the Senate now because so many people told their senators and representatives that they didn’t want KOSA. We can do it again, PLEASE do not panic and give up!! I know it’s scary I’m very scared right now myself but if we go silent that’s how it’s going to pass the House and get signed to the president. Let’s try to stop that from happening!!!

Call your house representatives!!!!there is more opposition in the House, we can stop it. BLOW UP THEIR PHONES!!