It passed the Commerce Committee markup with a unaminous vote. But this shit is far from over.
Keep calling your senators and representatives, email them, and POST about the KOSA bill and its dangers everyday until this tomfuckery is shutdown!
KOSA is dangerous as it now threatens end to end encryption, which means EVERYTHING we have internet is in threat of being compromised. We NEED to do something about it and even if you have anxiety, you can do something about. I did, and I felt like I was going to die as I was doing it, but I did it!
If you’re not comfortable with calling, email them, sign petitions, post about it on social media. Blow KOSA up, it worked last time and that’s why it didn’t pass. So let’s do it again!
We need action, our privacy and our safety is at stake! This goes beyond violating our 1st and 4th amendments!
STOP KOSA
STOP EARN IT ACT
STOP RESTRICT ACT
STOP CSAM
STOP COOPER DAVIS
These bills are a threat to kids AND adults and they need to be stopped! Keep calling, keep emailing, keep being a pain in their ass!
Edit: If this passes, it won’t just affect Americans, this will affect everything and everyone worldwide. So even if you aren’t American you can help us fight! You can call, email, and sign petitions!
Edit 2: No further moves are going to be made on KOSA until after August as Congress is on recess, but it WILL come back in September. So we need to keep pushing, we need to be loud! Keep calling and email your representatives and senators!
It breaks my heart to see how underrated pigeons are. The fact that we had literally domesticated them, making them absolutely dependent on us and now that we’ve abandoned them, we treat them poorly when they try to coexist with us. It’s our responsibility for how they have adapted, how they can’t build nests and how they try to find food wherever we are. Please be nice to pigeons
Seriously though, modern fandom, y’all need to remember that you can, like, ship multiple ships.
Like I can ship two ships that are diametrically opposed, at the same time, because I like both ideas. You don’t have to choose one or the other.
Like I can ship, for example, Sam/Frodo, and also Sam/Rosie, both AT THE SAME TIME. I don’t have to pick ONE couple and denounce all others, and tell everyone else that their ships are WRONG and BAD and mine is the only TRUE AND CORRECT ship.
Related: You don’t have to sink other ships to sail yours.
Exactly! You can have more than one ship. You can have an ARMADA!!!
Ship everything and ship it so hard you end up sideways in the Suez.
I bet if a mushroom could lap water out of your hand with a tongue that a gently drinking mushroom tongue on your hand would be the softest and gentlest thing.
jesus christ, i experienced brief but severe grief over not actually being able to experience this.
I think it would feel like a lizard tongue but I’ve never had a lizard drink out of my hand either, and thus the whole thing remains conceptually elusive.
this put such a vivid image in my head i needed to make it real as soon as i got home
Had a dream that tumblr came up with a new creature called Greachur and it looked like this
brother of the alot
upon further research:
i had a dream a while ago of a very tall, long-legged creature with a thin, grey fur coat. it didn’t have any horns and it was like double the height of a semi, but this post reminded me of that
like this?
Posts from a split second in the future
Drew the things
300000000% what it feels like walking around with my sibling
Had a dream that tumblr came up with a new creature called Greachur and it looked like this
brother of the alot
upon further research:
i had a dream a while ago of a very tall, long-legged creature with a thin, grey fur coat. it didn’t have any horns and it was like double the height of a semi, but this post reminded me of that
like this?
Posts from a split second in the future
Drew the things
300000000% what it feels like walking around with my sibling
One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play’s dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It’s one of my favourites for two reasons:
It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and
Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn’t catch you.
people say the animorphs covers are *creepy* but the actual in book transformations are all like ‘then her face cracked in two, her organs melted, her bones all snapped and reformed backwards, and her fingers and toes fused together. she couldnt cry because her tear ducts didnt fucking exist anymore. everyone looked at the ground so they wouldnt throw up looking at this’
new art challenge: Re-draw Animorphs covers based of the books description.
gender is a coin that everyone said was gonna land on heads or tails but i turned mine into one of those pressed pennies from the museum. it’s got a dinosaur on it
the whole guilt-tripping language in posts about important topics paired with how I’m still getting bitches in my notes talking about why it’s actually good to tell “bad” people to kill themselves continues to prove to me that a lot of people have absolutely no concept of social justice or activism outside of assuming the worst of and then viciously attacking strangers on the internet
Another piece I did for The Nib back in 2015! Gonna keep posting these until they shut down at the end of the summer. It was such a treat to hear that Matt and the whole editorial team just won an Eisner for their work on the magazine and website. Much-deserved.
Anyway: this is a parody and isn’t representative of every screenwriter’s experience, but it certainly feels relevant with all the strikes rolling out right now. Did you know what kind of credit you get on a film directly impacts how much you’re paid? For writers you’ll see “created by,” “written by,” “story by,” and all sorts of other things, all of which translate to different levels of compensation! (Highlander, for example, has Story by Gregory Widen and Screenplay by my dad and his writing partner, Larry Ferguson.) The Writer’s Guild is often responsible for arbitrating those decisions. They have a whole MANUAL to help writers understand the process. It rules.
Thanks, WGA. Thanks, The Nib. (And you can always make more of these comics possible on Patreon.)
April fool’s? ⁉️ Only for April 1st? ⁉️ That’s a weak mindset. That’s low perfomance 📉 👎👎 I am a fool every day 🗓 The grind 💪💪💪📈 never stops ❌ ⛔️ I am in it for the long run 🔛🏃♀️ No quitter mindset here 🚫🔝 🏆
There’s a lot going on in that little critter’s head right now.
1. Power move.
2. Why do people whisked away to magical worlds just automatically believe the first creature that tells them what side the person needs to help? Where’s my isekai where the MC slowly finds out they got in with like the deranged zealots and are part of the evil faction, and not the plucky rebels?
I think about this comic once per week. It’s funnier then anything I can conceive of. Mastery.
…Yes? It’s… my job, they pay me. This is how OSHA works.
I’ve been working here for almost 2 years and I haven’t been paid a cent. How did you get your money.
Oh. Right. Yeah. Sorry, I’ve been collecting it for you and forgot to pass it over 😅
What the hell man.
Sorry 😞
GET OUT
I made you mad??
I AM GOING TO THROW YOU INTO THE SUN GET OUT OF MY SIGHT
Darling, I AM the sun
THOU ART BUT A PLAGUE UPON THIS EARTH, DESERVING OF ONLY THE SLOWEST OF DEMISES, NOT WORTH THE PITY OF EVEN THE LOWEST WORMS
Heh, the worms wouldn’t be worthy of pitying one such as I for they are but a meager part of my breakfast.
AND YET YOU FEAST NOT UPON WORMS, BUT ON THE DEBT YOU FESTER IN
What debt?
TAUNT ME NOT WITH FALSE RICHES, O BROKEN ANGEL, FOR THY TREASURE IS AS THE GOLD OF A FAIRY, ILLUSIONS OF WEALTH WITHOUT A TRUTH
ALL THE CRYSTALS YOU COULD EVER OFFER ME COULD NOT REPAY THOSE TEN BUCKS
If to you a fairy I am, then to you a fairy I shall be. Here, m'lady, are your ten sought after bucks
*spawns ten male deer in your office*
okay there’s a joke i could make here but it is far too foul.
you know what i meant tho. also wait hey asshole that’s what genies do! get your mythical creatures together cmon now we run a tight shop here
Actually, I believe that was the doing of the monkey’s paw. So I believe you are the one who needs to brush up on your fairytale knowledge.
The monkey’s paw gives you what you wanted, with an ironic twist - it is simply a wish with a downside. A genie, on the other hand, actively seeks out the most spitefully ‘technically correct’ way to answer a wish - if you wish for 100 raspberry crowns, a monkey’s paw would give you poisoned pastry, while a genie would give you hornets.
You wished for ten bucks. You did not specify which kind.
Ruling: Innocent
And who appointed you the jury and judge, o fellest of beasts? Who granted thee power to bring forth thy own salvation from damnation, that it may be a true might? Indeed, it was none but thyself - acting as if thy word is law as I am forced to throw these deer out the window
Firstly, please do not sacrifice the deer, they did nothing wrong. Secondly, I consulted the counsel for this. I am not part of this counsel and they are proven to be unbiased.
Deer bounce, it’s fine, they like being defenestrated, anyways who the hell are the council
That’s for me to know.
unless you want to follow the deer out the window it’s also for me to know
Eh
alright then. exeunt [she. kinda just picks up Duo and chucks the fucker out the window. considering that Duo is a bird, it’s unclear what this is meant to accomplish]
*thud*
*muffled* You forgot to open the window
*squealing of glass as I slide down*
…Fuck. uhhh. hold up let me just. [yknow that’s probably not how windows usually open but like who cares am i right] allright out ya go. take two [Chucking of duo! 2!!!!]
Ooooo I’m in the air!! :D
*bounces on the sidewalk*
*floats back up through the window*
*lands of you*
yknow now that i think about it i could really go for some sauteed owl right now
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