#Bans

[mapsontheweb]

States that have banned the "Gay Panic" or "Trans Panic" defenses in court

[alwaysbewoke]

[gramarobin]

[danddmeta]

I feel like I need to say this as an aside for all of the new followers that I have been getting recently, there are many spam and p*** bot accounts that have been appearing again recently with the influx of new users. Because of this when I check your account if you have not posted anything I need to assume that you are likely a Spam account, really just do an introductory post of "hello I'm new I am real" that at least gives me something to work on.

[galleryyuhself]

Galleryyuhself - So that clock stopped.

[grusik]

DSCN1034 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKli6n5Dfvw by en-ri

[nando161mando]

@anarchistmemecollective got nuked, tumblr is on a banning spree lately for the most mundane bullshit reasons...

[intransheart]

(Diamond Stylz Presents: Marsha's Plate Podcast) We talk about Gilbert Arenas being childish, State of the Union address, and Katie Britt trying to use her Handmaid Tale voice on us

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Elon Musk’s Twitter banned Thursday the accounts of multiple journalists covering the technology industry without explanation.

Accounts belonging to CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, the New York Times’ Ryan Mac, and the Washington Post’s Drew Harwell and several other tech journalists were all abruptly suspended.

“Elon says he is a free speech champion and he is banning journalists for exercising free speech. I think that calls into question his commitment,” Harwell told CNN.

The account of progressive independent journalist Aaron Rupar was also banned. Rupar told CNN he has received no communication from Twitter about the ban. “Nothing,” he said in a phone call.

CNN has reached out to Musk and Twitter for comment.

The suspensions come after Twitter shut down an account belonging to Mastodon, an emerging competitor, also on Thursday.

The Mastodon account had tweeted earlier in the day that people could follow @ElonJet, the account that tracks Musk’s private plane on its platform, after the billionaire banned @ElonJet from Twitter on Wednesday.

That tweet is likely what ran afoul of Twitter’s rules. In his quest to rid Twitter of @ElonJet, Musk introduced new policies banning accounts that track people’s live locations.

Musk also blocked any account from linking to such information, as Mastodon did by linking to the account on its platform.

The move comes after Musk reinstated previous Twitter rule-breakers and stopped enforcing the platform’s policies prohibiting Covid-19 misinformation.

Several of the journalists banned Thursday had covered the ban of the Mastodon account and highlighted the irony of Musk’s self-purported mission to advance free speech on the platform.

“Free speech is when the world’s second-richest man threatens legal action against a 20-year-old college student for sharing publicly available data he doesn’t like,” Harwell tweeted before his account was taken down, referring to Jack Sweeney, the college student who runs @ElonJet.

CNN’s O’Sullivan, too, had been covering the story, having interviewed Sweeney and his grandmother about the issue.

“I do think this is very important for the potential chilling impact this can have for freelance journalists, independent journalists around the world, particularly those who cover Elon Musk’s other companies, like Tesla and SpaceX,” O’Sullivan told CNN Thursday.

[mapsontheweb]

E-Cigarette Bans by Country.

[blood-sweat-pencraft]

I don't care what people think

And I don't care what people say

Only sticks and stones can break my bones

Like children throw stones at cats and crush worms for fun

My heart still beats with their laughter knife through it

Voices and snickers flood off my back and down the gutters

Spaz, mong and crip labels stitched in my head with no anesthetic

“They don't let spazzers drive rockets that cost billions”

My dreams crash to earth like an astronaut in a ball of flame

Found poem source:

Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Vintage Books, New York, 2003. pp: 25-26, 43-44, 103, 113, 118

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

No bans in Brooklyn!

[my-52-weeks-with-christie]

Absinthe: Let's All Panic!

When you don’t have a fancy absinthe spoon, you can make due with a fork! While increased availability and/or Magnan and Legrain’s theories swayed some back towards wine (which most experts considered harmless), a far greater number now viewed the absinthe as a guilty pleasure — which only enhanced its protracted pizzaz. This not-so-subtle brush-off made teetotalers, doctors, and winemakers…

[bi-buddha]

#Repost @thejinkx

Last night my heart was broken as I learned that Tennessee’s anti Drag/Trans bill passed.

I really had more faith.

At this point, I dunno what else to say. We are fighting an uphill battle as a direct result of the progress we have made— and the insidious efforts of the conservative right (and well, ALL republicans at this point, you f*cking evil cowards)

I want to be angry, and yell, and scream. I wanna throw a brick through the window of every Chik-f*ck-A.

I wanna dismantle every press outlet that continues to give a resounding voice to vitriol and bigotry.

I wanna sit every boomer down and educate them on these issues so they stop following misinformation like sheep.

But I am so tired.

So I’m sharing the articulate words of my friend @johnpollysays

Repost from @johnpollysays

A map of bills restricting drag shows that are advancing around the country.

Dark green = bills progressing

Light green = lawmakers have expressed intention to file bills

Some bills age-restrict attendance at drag shows. Others redefine "adult businesses," which means most gay bars and even mainstream venues will not be able to get licenses they'll need to host drag shows.

Some of these bills are vaguely worded so that they can be used to arrest trans & gender non-conforming people just for existing in public.

When it comes to local drag show, brunches, Pride events… This map shows where drag performances could be criminalized.

Tennessee is set to be the first state to ban drag this Thursday 2/23. Kentucky also has Anti-LGBTQ legislation in the works. Harmful Anti-Trans legislation is being pushed through these states, too.