#Community Preservation
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GET KOSA TRENDING.
STOP SCROLLING NOW!
AS OF FEBRUARY 21ST, 2024, WE GOT FIVE DAYS UNTIL THE DAY OF DECISION OF THE KOSA BILL, WHICH WILL CAUSE MASS CENSORSHIP ROUND THE INTERNET IF PASSED. WE NEED EVERYONE TO KNOW ABOUT THIS AND CONTRIBUTE. I'M NOT GIVING UP ON YOU ALL.
(IMPORTANT UPDATE: Kosa will not necessarily pass on the 26th. It only has the support to pass in Senate, and we STILL HAVE TIME. That being said, time is of the essence.)
WE'RE DOWN TO THE WIRE BUT WE CAN'T GIVE UP YET. IF WE GIVE UP, EVERYTHING IS OVER. IF WE DON'T, AT LEAST WE HAVE A CHANCE.
I'M THE ONE WHO SOUNDED THE ALARM, AND I'M NOT GOING TO CURL UP AND DIE YET.
Reblog this post in every LEGAL way you can under the Tumblr guidelines with the appropriate tags. TELL AND TAG EVERYONE YOU KNOW, then add the tags to see below... and more if you can think of any complying.
Visit badinternetbills.com if you want to find a way to defeat KOSA. It WILL NOT take much of your time. Reblog with any other information or sources, too-- but make sure to reblog if you can.
Reblog if you support lgbtq+ content.
Reblog if you support questioning queer youth and/or abused youth getting the information they need.
Reblog if you support Ao3 and/or other sites that wholeheartedly preserve talentedly made media.
Reblog if you're going to repost this on other sites than Tumblr and spread the word across Twitter, Tik Tok, Pinterest, or elsewhere, alongside the link to badinternetbills.com.
Reblog if you think KOSA is unfair and shouldn't be anyone's problem -- including the adults ALL OVER THE DAMN EARTH forced to face the mass censorship it causes because "think of the American Children!".
Reblog if you support internet activism and Palestine.
Reblog if you hate fascism or censorship, and don't want actually serious and helpful conversations censored on the internet.
Reblog if you value the internet in any way at all whatsoever.
CHECK THIS PETITION, TOO! https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-kosa?recruiter=1331807538&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=sms&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf&recruited_by_id=57368c40-d0fd-11ee-98f7-2175430f819f&share_bandit_exp=initial-36809664-en-US
(Also, please reblog with at least "stop kosa" as a tag and not "kosa". I made the mistake of not adding just "kosa" as a tag...)
We won't let this stand any longer. Let's start a riot and get this trending.
(Update: this is outdated, but we should still talk about it. Get Kosa trending.)
#meme#memes#kosa bill#Stop kosa#bad internet bills#stop censorship#anti censorship#internet censorship#internet freedom#internet culture#Internet#signal boost#media preservation#social media#social justice#archive of our own#Ao3#stop kids online safety act#very important post#important#anti conservative#antifascist#Fanfic#Fanfiction#Headcanons#LGBT#lgbtq#lgbtqia#lgbtq rights#lgbtq community
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Happy Canada Day | Evolution of My Old Hood: Nostalgia, Gentrification, and Canada's Changing Landscape - Part 2
The Impact of Transit Developments: Eglinton Crosstown and the Ontario Line As I stand here, reminiscing about my childhood in Flemingdon Park and Thorncliffe Park, I can’t help but feel a sense of nostalgia mixed with anticipation. The upcoming transit developments, the Eglinton Crosstown and the Ontario Line, will undoubtedly bring profound changes to the neighborhoods that shaped my early…

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#Canada Day#Changing Landscape#Community Preservation#Eglinton Crosstown#flemingdon park#gentrification#Immigration#Inclusive Urban Planning#Nostalgia#ontario line#thorncliffe park#Transit Developments#Urban Transformation
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I’m actually serious about this, if at all possible, right now is a very good time to request queer books from your local library. Whether they get them or not is not in your control, but it is so important to show that there is a desire for queer books. I will also say getting more queer books in libraries and supporting queer authors are pretty fantastic byproducts of any action.
This isn’t something everyone can do, but please do see if you are one of the people who has the privilege to engage in this form of activism, and if you are, leverage that privilege for all you’re worth.
For anyone who can’t think of a queer book to request, here is a little list of some queer books that I think are underrated and might not be in circulation even at larger libraries:
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown
Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco
Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals by William Wright
The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley
God Themselves by Jae Nichelle
IRL by Tommy Pico
The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom
Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow
Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser
Queer Magic: Lgbt+ Spirituality and Culture from Around the World by Tomás Prower
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam
Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon
Hi Honey, I'm Homo! by Matt Baume
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
Homie: Poems by Danez Smith
The Secret Life of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
The Companion by E.E. Ottoman
Kapaemahu by Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu
Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun
Witching Moon by Poppy Woods
Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman
Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
Peaches and Honey by Imogen Markwell-Tweed
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color by Christopher Soto
#queer books#queer history#lgbt history#honestly#libraries are a massive resource in terms of preserving and uplifting marginalized narratives#and as a community#that has been so very excluded from both fictional and nonfictional narratives#this is a great way to reclaim and care for the stories that have been surpressed for so long
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Media Preservation Monday
Yeah, yeah, as of this original post it's actually only Wednesday but hey, take this as a sign to take some initiative, and keep to it each Monday at minimum if you're actively writing!
What's Media Preservation Monday, you may ask?
MPM is your reminder to back up your writing at least three ways at least once a week or whenever you make major changes to your document(s).
Here's some incredibly easy ways to back up your writing:
One your Master Document(s), put a date on the file name, and every day you make changes, "Save As" the Document and change the date. Do this every time or day you make major changes.
Example: You start writing your Novella November Story on November 1st.
You name your master document "Novnov Project 11-01-2024"
The next day, you write some more, and at the end of your writing session, you go to save your document, and instead of simply hitting "Save" you choose "Save As" and save the new copy of the Document as "Novnov Project 11-02-2024".
You now have two copies of your project, and if you keep this up throughout the whole month, you will have a live snapshot of your writing progress.
Each day or after each major writing session, open up the folder containing your document, and back it up. The Easiest and simplest way to do this is to simply email it to yourself, but you can also create multiple backups by:
Save a copy of your dated Master Document(s) to different locations on your Hard-drive, to an external hard-drive, to a thumbdrive, etc.
If you're writing offline on a writing program like Libreoffice, upload a copy of your Master Document(s) to your preffered Cloud-based Writing Program of your choice.
Vice Versa: if you write on a Cloud-based writing program, download it to various offline-based locations.
Download the base document as well as download it as various ebook formats and send them to your ebook library on your phone or kindle or nook or reading app.
Make a personal discord server and upload the document/epub form of your Master Document(s) there [this is also a good way of making a kind of personal journal / diary etc]
Whatever you do, do not be complacent and assume nothing can happen to your writing. Back it up. Preserve it.
Don't have all of your hard work go down the drain because of one tiny unforeseen accident.
When it comes time to clean up your hardrive, always assume you don't have it backed up. Before deleting anything always take the time to copy it over to another physical drive or a cloud drive.
#media preservation monday#writing tips#writing advice#novella november#writing events#community events#don't lose everything because you're a kid in school with a school laptop#and the tech support people tell your parent to factory reset the laptop without explaining that will wipe everything#don't lose everything because a cat jumped on your computer desk and knocked your desktop to the ground#don't lose everything because someone tripped and threw a bucket of water over your computer#don't lose everything because you totally thought you have it saved in two locations and delete it only to realize that was all of it#I'm trying to think of more scenarios#don't lose everything because your computer got a virus and ransomeware encrypted all your documents#If you had to leave your home tomorrow without your computer would you have access to your writing?#If not BACK IT UP#It should be in at least two places on the cloud at minimum and preferably multiple places offline#as many backups as you can get
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"Oh my god I love her so much! She's just the cutest war crimina-!"
And I stop reading.
It honestly kind of bothers me just how casually the term 'war criminal' is tossed around these days.
Just because they've killed people doesn't mean they're a war criminal.
Just because they're mean doesn't mean they're a war criminal.
Just because they've FOUGHT IN A WAR doesn't mean they're a war criminal.
I get that Tumblr is always looking for big, funny new phrases to chew on like dog toys, but maybe we should pick something other than the one that has extremely awful real-world implications.
War crimes are some of the most unspeakably evil things humans can do to each other, and using 'war criminal' as an ENDEARING term is just kind of pathetic. Stop. If you're going to use it, use it properly. Don't make 'war criminal'' become some stupid, cutesy, utterly meaningless term.
Because honestly, that's something TikTok would do.
#yes this is about the bg3 community#none of the companions are war criminals#i dont know why you would WANT THEM TO BE but theyre not#baldur's gate#baldur's gate 3#baldur's gate iii#lae'zel#bg3#minthara#minthara bg3#its important that words preserve their meanings#especially when theyre words with THAT MUCH meaning
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CANDLE SPELL - Self-Love, Anti Depression & Anti Suicide
(This spell may be performed for yourself or potentially for someone else who might be hurting, just be sure to tweak the wording and intentions when necessary. Be sure to write their name and birthday on the paper as well if you are performing it on behalf of another)
You will need:
1x pink candle (or white)
twine (optional, you can place the paper under the candle too)
salt
cinnamon
rain water or incense for cleansing
lily of the inca or rose petals, preferably red or pink but yellow is fine too
any pink crystals you have around, for mine i’m going to use pink opal, pink aragonite, and rose quartz
Spell Mantra:
“all anger and dismay,
may they be washed away,
all sorrow and despair,
may my mind and heart spare,
replace them with grace,
that i will find my own pace,
negativity will cease,
and i will rediscover my peace”
Directions:
Pour salt around your altar plate, write your name and a loving message onto a piece of paper and tie it around the candle with twine (or place underneath if you don’t have any). Place candle on plate. Sprinkle with cinnamon and lily/rose petals. Place crystals on altar nearby, cleanse with rainwater or incense for intention. Light the candle with supervision, focusing energy onto it and repeating the mantra until it burns out. Discard elements back to earth when finished.

#I know this isn’t the neatest#but i really hope this helps someone else#spellwork#spell#spells#candle spells#witchblr#witchcore#witchcraft#witch community#divination#mental health#eclectic witch#cosmic witch#hedge witch#green witch#sea witch#lunar witch#solar witch#celestial witch#kitchen witch#mental illness#self love#self preservation
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first meetings
#balors his no1 babysitter i dont know how else to explain it#hawthorne brings the town closer as a community bc everyone has to team up to keep his dumbass alive#fields of mistria#fom balor#fom farmer#hawthornessaltwaterfarm#my art#guy doesnt have any sense of self preservation idk
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The subtle cosmic horror underlying the entirety of Sweeth Tooth is. So so so good.
#sweet tooth netflix#the earth is a living thinking entity that can break all known rules of science in an act of self-preservation#and it communicates directly through deer
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Do you guys ever think about historical age regression? And no I don't mean in fiction I mean like how there's so many people that regressed. What was it like? Do you wonder if there was a regressor and their caregiver who lived in the 60s? Did any adults or teens in the early 1900s wish they had a rocking horse every time they saw one in a shop window? What about even further, in the 1800s? The 1600s even. Older?
We're not alone, maybe modern day is during a time where regression is more present because it's a perfect amount of certain factors, sure but it's not like someone in 2014 just decided to! I think it's really facinating and intimate to imagine all these people throughout the years going through what we go through. And I bet a good lot of them lived happily. And maybe quite a few found a good support system.
#its a nice thought#I JUST think about history a lot!#we're all people!#we've been people since forever!#we were people before we were human#and i think we're all so alike#yet so unique#shout out to Onfim I have no reason to believe you were a regressor just that you were a really creative kid#but thinking about his preserved drawings kicked this thought to the front of my brain again#literally been thinking about it for years. not sure if ive posted about it before#babbling#agere#sfw agere#age regression#sfw age regression#petre#this goes for pets too#animal regression#sfw petre#age regression community#sfw age regression community
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tbh it is the duty of any proprietor of a facility with gendered restroom to cut that shit out posthaste if they give any kind of shit about their queer patrons imo. we are past the point of well just whatever you identify as :). if your business/school/community space continues to tie basic human needs to criminalization by sex segregating toilets, it is not an inclusive space. i frankly don't give a shit about cis feelings about this anymore. they can keep choosing Stalls Only. we can put a decorative curtain around the (always uncivilized, tbh) gender free urinals. (and put some squat friendly ones in while we're at it!) but cis allies need to get their shit together Quickly about being actually for-real cool with sharing a goddamn restroom with a person who they think is Other instead of pretending that "whichever you identify as :)" is still sufficient
this is the only way to solve toilet inequality for cis people, too.
cis women, you ARE systemically discriminated against with restroom access too. this IS how to solve it.
#personally i don't identify as Piss In A Communal Trough#but that is secondary to preserving my right to the Trough
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Two men who were instrumental in creating a global seed vault designed to safeguard the world's agricultural diversity will be honoured as the 2024 World Food Prize laureates.

Cary Fowler, the US special envoy for Global Food Security, and Geoffrey Hawtin, an agricultural scientist from the UK and executive board member at the Global Crop Diversity Trust, will be awarded the annual prize and split a $500,000 (€464,000) award. In 2004, Fowler and Hawtin led the effort to build a backup vault of the world's crop seeds in a place where it could be safe from political upheaval and environmental changes.

The facility was built into the side of a mountain on a Norwegian island in the Arctic Circle where temperatures could ensure seeds would be preserved.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault - also known as the 'Doomsday vault' - opened in 2008 and now holds 1.25 million seed samples from nearly every country in the world.
#solarpunk#solar punk#indigenous knowledge#community#reculture#seed vault#svalbard#global food prize#preserving the future
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Saintly 'destroyed by your own devotion', part 2. Angled photo and WIP below.


#hugin scribbles#gravity falls fanart#gravity falls#fiddleford fanart#gravity falls fiddleford#fiddleford hadron mcgucket#fiddleford mcgucket#fiddauthor#implied... as is billford#really like how the little bill ended up#anyways... oooops! your old college buddy you definitely didnt have a thing for called and you drop everything including your family to be#there with him except aliens and mythical beings are real and Threatening and you just saw your worst fear because your#definitely-not-a-crush has no sense of self preservation so you do what any sane person does. make a gun to erase your memory cause#godforbid you leave this man to go back to your family. im sure its fine! even though your crush is horrified when he found out but hey no#now he doesn't remember so its okay! also the thing im working on for him definitely is ominous. but hey its fine.#also totally started a community help group surrounded around the memory gun! i have strong convictions that my choices are the right ones#theres nothing to worry about. i dont even remember that there was something to worry about!#stanford pines fanart
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posting again bc i really need help! i’m getting bottom surgery may 10th, 2025. i need help paying for it! if you are able/willing to donate to my cashapp or venmo, that works best as go fund me takes a cut. here’s my gofundme link. if you want to know that i’m legitimate, i can direct you to several users here who can verify me. anything helps, even just $1. reblogs are appreciated!
btw, i’ve seen that posts tagged as “donation” or “fundraiser” tend to get shadowbanned, so if you could avoid tagging it as such that would be great!
cashapp: chamomileflowers
venmo: wisteria_flowers
gofundme:
#trans masc#queer#lgbtq#lgbtq community#bottom surgery#phallo#phalloplasty#vagina preserving phalloplasty#trans#dr chen#dr safa#san francisco#buncke#gurecon#travel
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2025 Garden line up 👨🌾
What are y'all growing this year?
I also impulse bought a ton of flax seed a while back with the plan of growing flax to spin but I dont think ill have the room for that this year...
#gardening#seeds#garden#gardencore#vegetables#veg#vegetable garden#vegetable gardening#organic gardening#permaculture#growing food#growing#seed saving#heritage#food#food forest#cottage core#community aid#community action#food preservation#organic garden#gardenblr#organic#organic vegetables#farming#garden plot#allotment
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sorry your post got to THAT crowd, i understand why you're not gonna bother engaging with them any further they're too entrenched in their cultish echo chamber mentality to have any productive discussions with. i have never seen a ship fanbase as bitter, insecure and as miserable as zutara shippers, i almost feel bad for them
Eh, i put it out on the internet people are allowed to interact with it. I've since talked a little with one of the people who reblogged it and come to a semi? Agreement.
Honestly it's not that I even hate Zutara. Frankly when I first entered the fandom I was ambivalent to mildly intrigued. But at this point I can't engage with the ship without thinking about a good chunk of the fandom around it and it's tiring.
Honestly I don't think they would be half bad if they weren't convinced that they were somehow robbed of their ship becoming canon. A ship being canon isn't the end all be all. Hell, I've built my entire online presence around a crackship with like 2 interactions. And yeah I have probably joked about weilin being the "superior bolin ship" or something but I can't imagine having the level of bitterness i often see in the atla fandom.
This isn't to say I have the moral highground here or anything. It's just like. Fandom etiquette in my eyes
#i just find it so weird that people who claim to be fans of katara sometimes seem like they'd rather just have toph wearing Katara's skin#instead of actual katara#like there's sp much focus on the hyper individualistic battle ready forced into repressession girl katara supposedly is#and that is toph#your “reject tradition embrace progress” girlboss who runs purely off her own moral compass is right there#shes just disabled and less sexualisable so maybe thats the catch#katara is communist who fought to preserve the culture she comes from despite recognising when alterations need to be made.#she prioritises her home family and loved ones multiple times across the show#yes she is a warrior for justice and fights for oppression. but he core traits are hopefulness and community mindedness#katara#anti zutara
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