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witchysylv's (free) divination services 🦇

hello! i'm offering free divination services, indefinitely. please read the ENTIRE post to find out how to book a free reading, as i only take readings during available booking times.

SERVICES OFFERED

OPEN for booking:

mercury package; a simple yes or no question, answered by pendulum.

mars; a basic natal chart reading based on your birth date, time, and location.

other services; see PAID SERVICES.

CLOSED for booking:

earth package; a one to three tarot card reading on question(s) of your choice.

venus package; a simple one card tarot reading, on any one question.

BOOKING OPTIONS

message me on tumblr with your package name, question, and initials.

send me an ask with your package name, question, and initials.

REGULATIONS

i do not to readings for medical or legal purposes. i get a lot of reading requests; if you message me while a package is closed, i will not read for you unless you plan to pay up front. i accept tips for all readings through nearly any payment option.

PAID OPTIONS

i offer the following services for payments. all payments are required upfront for these services.

same-day delivery of order; $3 USD

same-hour delivery of order; $20 USD

full natal chart reading; contact me

other services; please contact me if you want more cards added on or would like to request something different.

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sorry i've disappeared! i've been having medical issues but i'm back now!

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From ‘The ultimate book of spells’ by Pamela Ball.

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URGENT: 🚨🚨EARN IT ACT IS BACK IN THE SENATE 🚨🚨 TUMBLR’S NSFW BAN HITTING THE ENTIRE INTERNET THIS SUMMER 2023

April 28, 2023

I’m so sorry for the long post but please please please pay attention and spread this

What is the EARN IT Act?

The EARN IT Act (s. 1207) has been roundly condemned by nearly every major LGBTQ+ advocacy and human rights organization in the country.

This is the third time the Senate has been trying to force this through, and I talked about it last year. It is a bill that claims "protects children and victims against CSAM" by creating an unelected and politically appointed national commission of law enforcement specialists to dictate "best practices" that websites all across the nation will be forced to follow. (Keep in mind, most websites in the world are created in the US, so this has global ramifications). These "best practices" would include killing encryption so that any law enforcement can scan and see every single message, dm, photo, cloud storage, data, and any website you have every so much as glanced at. Contrary to popular belief, no they actually can't already do that. These "best practices" also create new laws for "removing CSAM" online, leading to mass censorship of non-CSAM content like what happened to tumblr. Keep in mind that groups like NCOSE, an anti-LGBT hate group, will be allowed on this commission. If websites don't follow these best practices, they lose their Section 230 protections, leading to mass censorship either way.

Section 230 is foundational to modern online communications. It's the entire reason social media exists. It grants legal protection to users and websites, and says that websites aren't responsible for what users upload online unless it's criminal. Without Section 230, websites are at the mercy of whatever bullshit regulatory laws any and every US state passes. Imagine if Texas and Florida were allowed to say what you can and can't publish and access online. That is what will happen if EARN IT passes. (For context, Trump wanted to get rid of Section 230 because he knew it would lead to mass govt surveillance and censorship of minorities online.)

This is really not a drill. Anyone who makes or consume anything “adult” and LGBT online has to be prepared to fight Sen. Blumenthal’s EARN IT Act, brought back from the grave by a bipartisan consensus to destroy Section 230. If this bill passes, we’re going to see most, if not all, adult content and accounts removed from mainstream platforms. This will include anything related to LGBT content, including SFW fanfiction, for example. Youtube, Twitter, Reddit, Tiktok, Tumblr, all of them will be completely gutted of anything related to LGBT content, abortion healthcare, resources for victims of any type of abuse, etc. It is a right-wing fascists wet dream, which is why NCOSE is behind this bill and why another name for this bill is named in reference to NCOSE.

NCOSE used to be named Morality in Media, and has rebranded into an "anti-trafficking" organization. They are a hate group that has made millions off of being "against trafficking" while helping almost no victims and pushing for homophobic laws globally. They have successfully pushing the idea that any form of sexual expression, including talking about HEALTH, leads to sex trafficking. That's how SESTA passed. Their goal is to eliminate all sex, anything gay, and everything that goes against their idea of ‘God’ from the internet and hyper disney-fy and sanitize it. This is a highly coordinated attack on multiple fronts.

The EARN IT Act will lead to mass online censorship and surveillance. Platforms will be forced to scan their users’ communications and censor all sex-related content, including sex education, literally anything lgbt, transgender or non-binary education and support systems, aything related to abortion, and sex worker communication according to the ACLU. All this in the name of “protecting kids” and “fighting CSAM”, both of which the bill does nothing of the sort. In fact it makes fighting CSEM even harder.

EARN IT will open the way for politicians to define the category of “pornography" as they — or the lobbies that fund them — please. The same way that right-wing groups have successfully banned books about race and LGBT, are banning trans people from existing, all under the guise of protecting children from "grooming and exploitation", is how they will successfully censor the internet.

As long as state legislatures can tie in "fighting CSAM" to their bullshit laws, they can use EARN IT to censor and surveill whatever they want.

This is already a nightmare enough. But the bill also DESTROYS ENCRYPTION, you know, the thing protecting literally anyone or any govt entity from going into your private messages and emails and anything on your devices and spying on you.

This bill is going to finish what FOSTA/SESTA started. And that should terrify you.

Senator Blumenthal (Same guy who said ‘Facebook should ban finsta’) pushed this bill all of 2020, literally every activist (There were more than half a million signatures on this site opposing this act!) pushed hard to stop this bill. Now he brings it back, doesn’t show the text of the bill until hours later, and it’s WORSE. Instead of fixing literally anything in the bill that might actually protect kids online, Bluemnthal is hoping to fast track this and shove it through, hoping to get little media attention other than propaganda of “protecting kids” to support this shitty legislation that will harm kids. Blumental doesn't care about protecting anyone, and only wants his name in headlines.

It will make CSAM much much worse.

One of the many reasons this bill is so dangerous: It totally misunderstands how Section 230 works, and in doing so (as with FOSTA) it is likely to make the very real problem of CSAM worse, not better. Section 230 gives companies the flexibility to try different approaches to dealing with various content moderation challenges. It allows for greater and greater experimentation and adjustments as they learn what works – without fear of liability for any “failure.” Removing Section 230 protections does the opposite. It says if you do anything, you may face crippling legal liability. This actually makes companies less willing to do anything that involves trying to seek out, take down, and report CSAM because of the greatly increased liability that comes with admitting that there is CSAM on your platform to search for and deal with. This liability would allow anyone for any reason to sue any platform they want, suing smaller ones out of existence. Look at what is happening right now with book bans across the nation with far right groups. This is going to happen to the internet if this bill passes.

(Remember, the state department released a report in December 2021 recommending that the government crack down on “obscenity” as hard the Reagan Administration did. If this bill passes, it could easily go way beyond shit red states are currently trying. It is a goldmine for the fascist right that is currently in the middle of banning every book that talks about race and sexuality across the US.)

The reason these bills keep showing up is because there is this false lie spread by organizations like NCOSE that platforms do nothing about CSEM online. However, platforms are already liable for child sexual exploitation under federal law. Tech companies sent more than 45 million+ instances of CSAM to the DOJ in 2019 alone, most of which they declined to investigate. This shows that platforms are actually doing everything in their power already to stop CSEM by following already existing laws. The Earn It Act includes zero resources for proven investigation or prevention programs. If Senator Bluementhal actually cared about protecting youth, why wouldn’t he include anything to actually protect them in his shitty horrible bill? EARN IT is actually likely to make prosecuting child molesters more difficult since evidence collected this way likely violates the Fourth Amendment and would be inadmissible in court.

I don’t know why so many Senators are eager to cosponsor the “make child pornography worse” bill, but here we are.

HOW TO FIGHT BACK

EARN IT Act was introduced just two weeks ago and is already being fast-tracked. It will be marked up the week of May 1st and head to the Senate floor immediately after. If there is no loud and consistent opposition, it will be law by JUNE! Most bills never go to markup, so this means they are putting pressure to move this through. There are already 20 co-sponsors, a fifth of the entire Senate. This is an uphill battle and it is very much all hands on deck.

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES.

This website takes you to your Senator / House members contact info. EMAIL, MESSAGE, SEND LETTERS, CALL CALL CALL CALL CALL. Calling is the BEST way to get a message through. Get your family and friends to send calls too. This is literally the end of free speech online.

(202) 224-3121 connects you to the congressional hotline. Here is a call script if you don't know what to say. Call them every day. Even on the weekends, leaving voicemails are fine.

2. Sign these petitions!

Link to Petition 1

Link to Petition 2

3. SPREAD THE WORD ONLINE

If you have any social media, spread this online. One of the best ways we fought back against this last year was MASSIVE spread online. Tiktok, reddit, twitter, discord, whatever means you have at least mention it. We could see most social media die out by this fall if we don't fight back.

Here is a linktree with more information on this bill including a masterpost of articles, the links to petitions, and the call script.

DISCORD LINK IF YOU WANT TO HELP FIGHT IT

TLDR: The EARN IT Act will lead to online censorship of any and all adult & lgbt content across the entire internet, open the floodgates to mass surveillance the likes which we haven’t seen before, lead to much more CSEM being distributed online, and destroy encryption. Call 202-224-3121 to connect to your house and senate representative and tell them to VOTE NO on this bill that does not protect anyone and harms everyone.

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discord based coven!

hello! i run a discord based coven that is open for applications. if you're interested, please read below!

This coven is dedicated to creating a family-like environment for witches to bond, thrive, and share information. As a coven, we believe anyone can be a witch regardless of race, gender, sexuality, or any other factor. We believe magic is divided into the right and left-hand paths (as opposed to black vs white), that no witch should abuse their abilities, and that everyone contributes something rare to our group.

We also believe in forging your own path, overcoming adversity, and finding the light in the darkness. As a coven, most of us are practitioners of the left-hand path, though you absolutely don’t have to practice the LHP to apply! We have no standard belief, practice, or religion that our members must follow beyond this.

Our most important rules for you to know before applying are as follows:

You must be willing to respect everyone and their privacy, and to not share coven issues outside of the coven.

You must be willing to follow common sense rules about server interaction.

No bigots or exclusionists. We support many groups of people including neo-pronoun users and systems.

If you fail to fill out the entire application you will not be considered.

You must be at least 16 years old to apply, and at most 26 years old. If you would like to request an age exemption, please reach out to me.

You must have at least 6 months of experience.

If you're interested in applying, DM me! We ARE a serious, non-denominational coven, but we don't bite. We love making friends! Most of us have been together for close to four years.

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if i still owe you a reading i'm super sorry! it's gotten buried in my dm's, please message me to push it to the top <3

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New Age is a poisoned chalice.

MASSIVE CW for racism and genocide up ahead. So, New Age ultimately goes back to Theosophy, which was primarily founded by Helena Blavatsky. Here's a paragraph Blavatsky wrote herself in her own book The Secret Doctrine: Mankind is obviously divided into God-informed men and lower human creatures. The intellectual difference between the Âryan and other civilized nations and such savages as the South Sea Islanders, is inexplicable on any other grounds. No amount of culture, no generations of training amid civilization, could raise such human specimens as the Bushmen, the Veddhas of Ceylon, and some African tribes, to the same intellectual level as the Âryans, the Semites, and the Turanians so-called. The “Sacred Spark” is missing in them, and it is they who are the only inferior races on the Globe, now happily— owing to the wise adjustment of Nature which ever works in that direction—fast dying out. Verily mankind is “of one blood,” but not of the same essence . We are the hot-house, artificially quickened plants in Nature, having in us a spark, which in them is latent. This is the kind of sentiment the New Age movement came out of, and it's not any better today - New Agers are still simping for genocide, whether they're looking forward to people dying from climate change or eagerly awaiting the day Trump and his loyalists enact a second Holocaust. You don't have to dig very far at all to find videos and blogs expressing these very sentiments. New Agers, by the way, are the people pushing things like: -Soulmates and twin flames -The Law of Attraction/Law of Assumption/Manifestation -"Low vibrational frequency" vs. "high vibrational frequency" -Karmic debt -DNA upgrades/DNA activation/light code activation -Ascension to 5D -The existence of Atlantis, Lemuria, and Mu -Ancient aliens -Starseeds So yeah, watch out for this stuff (it's unfortunately all too common on witchblr and WitchTok), and be aware that though it might look harmless on the surface, it's all rotten underneath.

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Hi, I'm a baby witch (in broom closet) who currently works in sigils,

I want to give my parents protection sigils (hidden in little doodles or neckleces/bracelets, since I'm always makeing them art & jewlery) and I want to know if I should, make them only activate if the receiver gives consent? ( like a "if the recever gives concent protection them from harm" kind of deal)

Or should I just give them the hidden sigils?

hi dear,

i personally don't feel like protection spells require consent especially if it's a family member and you're engaging in magic. i feel like sometimes protectionist magic has to be performed without consent to keep yourself and your loved ones safe--especially considering you're in the broom closet for a reason. i'm not sure how other witches would answer this, but personally i wouldn't mind if someone gave me a protection spell in good faith without telling me, and therefore i believe you can skip that. however, if you're more comfortable requiring consent, you can by all means do so! it's up to you, and i wouldn't say either is a bad idea.

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witchysylv's (free) divination services 🦇

hello! i'm offering free divination services, indefinitely. please read the ENTIRE post to find out how to book a free reading, as i only take readings during available booking times.

SERVICES OFFERED

OPEN for booking:

mercury package; a simple yes or no question, answered by pendulum.

venus package; a simple one card tarot reading, on any one question.

mars; a basic natal chart reading based on your birth date, time, and location.

other services; see PAID SERVICES.

CLOSED for booking:

earth package; a one to three tarot card reading on question(s) of your choice.

BOOKING OPTIONS

message me on tumblr with your package name, question, and initials.

send me an ask with your package name, question, and initials.

REGULATIONS

i do not to readings for medical or legal purposes. i get a lot of reading requests; if you message me while a package is closed, i will not read for you unless you plan to pay up front. i accept tips for all readings through nearly any payment option.

PAID OPTIONS

i offer the following services for payments. all payments are required upfront for these services.

same-day delivery of order; $3 USD

same-hour delivery of order; $20 USD

full natal chart reading; contact me

other services; please contact me if you want more cards added on or would like to request something different.

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Purple like lavender

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witchysylv's (free) divination services 🦇

hello! i'm offering free divination services, indefinitely. please read the ENTIRE post to find out how to book a free reading, as i only take readings during available booking times.

SERVICES OFFERED

OPEN for booking:

mercury package; a simple yes or no question, answered by pendulum.

venus package; a simple one card tarot reading, on any one question.

mars; a basic natal chart reading based on your birth date, time, and location.

other services; see PAID SERVICES.

CLOSED for booking:

earth package; a one to three tarot card reading on question(s) of your choice.

BOOKING OPTIONS

message me on tumblr with your package name, question, and initials.

send me an ask with your package name, question, and initials.

REGULATIONS

i do not to readings for medical or legal purposes. i get a lot of reading requests; if you message me while a package is closed, i will not read for you unless you plan to pay up front. i accept tips for all readings through nearly any payment option.

PAID OPTIONS

i offer the following services for payments. all payments are required upfront for these services.

same-day delivery of order; $3 USD

same-hour delivery of order; $20 USD

full natal chart reading; contact me

other services; please contact me if you want more cards added on or would like to request something different.

[witchysylv]

witchysylv's (free) divination services 🦇

hello! i'm offering free divination services, indefinitely. please read the ENTIRE post to find out how to book a free reading, as i only take readings during available booking times.

SERVICES OFFERED

OPEN for booking:

mercury package; a simple yes or no question, answered by pendulum.

mars; a basic natal chart reading based on your birth date, time, and location.

other services; see PAID SERVICES.

CLOSED for booking:

earth package; a one to three tarot card reading on question(s) of your choice.

venus package; a simple one card tarot reading, on any one question.

BOOKING OPTIONS

message me on tumblr with your package name, question, and initials.

send me an ask with your package name, question, and initials.

REGULATIONS

i do not to readings for medical or legal purposes. i get a lot of reading requests; if you message me while a package is closed, i will not read for you unless you plan to pay up front. i accept tips for all readings through nearly any payment option.

PAID OPTIONS

i offer the following services for payments. all payments are required upfront for these services.

same-day delivery of order; $3 USD

same-hour delivery of order; $20 USD

full natal chart reading; contact me

other services; please contact me if you want more cards added on or would like to request something different.

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if anyone needs the validation today, my craft started with one notebook, a candle, and some gas station incense. my altar was the back corner of my desk. your practice is valid