Cinder

@cindercharr.bsky.social

Soul as black as my coffee. Big charr lover, Board-, video- and cardgame geek, general IT nerd with bursts of culinary creativity.

informative thread i made for instagram but i thought i'd share it here too 🆘🆘🆘PLEASE REPOST IF YOU CAN'T DONATE!!! we are DESPERATELY trying to get more people to talk about this!! venezuelans, please share useful links in the replies ⬇️

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just one minute, please.
i’m begging you. i’m serious.


VENEZUELA NEEDS URGENT HELP AFTER BACK-TO-BACK 7.2+7.5 EARTHQUAKES, AND YOU CAN HELP US.

1. Just to be clear, the KIDS Act contains #KOSA 2. KOSA has a rider that nullifies state AI regulations & puts a moratorium on future ones, which is not only bad in itself but also means this alleged "child safety" legislation SHIELDS AI NUDIFIER APPS - the same ones used on kids' & teens' pictures

Eromancer@eromancer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Please follow the instructions to contact your representative and tell them to vote NO on the KIDS Act. The US House will vote on it at 6:30 PM on Monday. There is no time to waste. The free internet is at stake. See replies for how to look up your representative.

The current count of missing people in Venezuela is currently over 20 thousand. Yesterday's earthquake is the worst Venezuela has seen in recorded history. 250 Buildings collapsed, it was a holiday and raining. Many were indoors. Inflation, corruption and foreigners stealing. Our worst year yet.

I think the biggest damage to the art community was the obsolescence of gallery sites (y!, deviantart, etc) and the rise of scroll-by social media, like twitter and even tumblr. Art is not ''content'', you shouldnt need to post art every day (or every month!) to be relevant. This mindset sucks.

What you say is true Keke, but the problem is when people in power begin to demonize and make completely tame things illegal as well, giving these other sensationalist people the means to point fingers indiscriminately, not aware they are also on the list of things to demonize.

"Censorship is good, that way I won't have to see people making the icky stuff I don't like. Only my kinks are morally okay and sanitized." It's because of people like you that we are where we are. You forget they are also coming for you, you're just too self centered and stupid to see it.

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks. "So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

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