SCREEN ACT DIED IN COMMITTEE HELL YEAH Unfortunately KOSA -did- pass the Senate Committee, however we still have a few chances to make our voices heard to prevent it from passing. It will have to be voted in the Senate, and re-voted in the House due to the changes done to it. Its far from over.

Alison Boden@alisonboden.bsky.social · 13h ago

The SCREEN Act just failed to pass in the Senate Commerce Committee! 🎉 Enormous thanks to the thousands (!!) of you who told your Senators to vote no! Your voice matters and you should feel good that you made a difference. Obviously, the fight isn't over, but this was an important victory.

The SCREEN Act just failed to pass in the Senate Commerce Committee! 🎉 Enormous thanks to the thousands (!!) of you who told your Senators to vote no! Your voice matters and you should feel good that you made a difference. Obviously, the fight isn't over, but this was an important victory.

SCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!

Alison Boden@alisonboden.bsky.social · 13h ago

The SCREEN Act just failed to pass in the Senate Commerce Committee! 🎉 Enormous thanks to the thousands (!!) of you who told your Senators to vote no! Your voice matters and you should feel good that you made a difference. Obviously, the fight isn't over, but this was an important victory.

This has been studied quite a bit, the solar panels create a sort of greenhouse effect for the plants underneath them while also generating energy which feels like it should be cheating but is real and literally only has upsides.

Dr Earhart Sampson PhD 🌎 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇺🇦@earhart.bsky.social · 3d ago

Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming - The Economic Times share.google/GDGqQBgisqhG...

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Also for this one specifically its going up to be voted on Wednesday, the 5th. Call them tomorrow, or now. Do something. www.defendonlineprivacy.com/screen/

Defend Online Privacy: Stop the SCREEN Act!

The Senate Commerce Committee will vote on the SCREEN Act on August 5. ACT NOW to stop it!

defendonlineprivacy.com

ela'kar!@picklelow.bsky.social · 2d ago

we cannot let this pass. it will not just effect internet in the US, but the Internet in its entirety. we can't just let ourselves doompost when we can still try and have our voices heard. here is the 5call post including the SCREEN act 5calls.org/issue/age-ve...

Also for this one specifically its going up to be voted on Wednesday, the 5th. Call them tomorrow, or now. Do something. www.defendonlineprivacy.com/screen/

Defend Online Privacy: Stop the SCREEN Act!

The Senate Commerce Committee will vote on the SCREEN Act on August 5. ACT NOW to stop it!

defendonlineprivacy.com

ela'kar!@picklelow.bsky.social · 2d ago

we cannot let this pass. it will not just effect internet in the US, but the Internet in its entirety. we can't just let ourselves doompost when we can still try and have our voices heard. here is the 5call post including the SCREEN act 5calls.org/issue/age-ve...

It's me. He's trying to stop me. The religious studies major who paid off his loans working in the porn mines.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

QRP with your mosy popular piece on Bluesky Its Zoot Suit Samus and its not even close lol

Grinda 🏳️‍⚧️🔞@grindagoat.bsky.social · 3d ago

QRP with your most popular piece on Bluesky that's right the 5 minute shitpost is the most popular post by a country mile!

im not going to lie, i dont know what I will do if this passes. So much of the stuff keeping me sane has been talking to me weird furry friends. to have it be torn away and having to dox myself to predators who paint me as the "real threat to society" is unbelievable.

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 2d ago

The SCREEN Act is not just another age-verification bill — it goes much further than anything passed at the state-level or in other countries. 1. The bill doesn't just target porn sites. It goes after *any* site that allows material "harmful" to minors. You'd have to scan your face to use Google.

im not going to lie, i dont know what I will do if this passes. So much of the stuff keeping me sane has been talking to me weird furry friends. to have it be torn away and having to dox myself to predators who paint me as the "real threat to society" is unbelievable.

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 2d ago

The SCREEN Act is not just another age-verification bill — it goes much further than anything passed at the state-level or in other countries. 1. The bill doesn't just target porn sites. It goes after *any* site that allows material "harmful" to minors. You'd have to scan your face to use Google.

The SCREEN Act is not just another age-verification bill — it goes much further than anything passed at the state-level or in other countries. 1. The bill doesn't just target porn sites. It goes after *any* site that allows material "harmful" to minors. You'd have to scan your face to use Google.

I don’t think anyone needs to come out and justify reading an NYT article here or there but I do think it’s an ethical responsibility for cis people to show up for trans people *somehow.* And many do! They’re good examples!

In other words it’s less about the precise moral calculus of playing Wordle or reading HP and more about the general problem that trans people are tired of asking for solidarity and support and getting so little of it, even while we’re under systematic attack.

This is also why cis people still consuming Harry Potter feels like such a line in the sand. Asking people not to support one of the most well-known transphobes in the world wasn’t that big an ask but for a lot of cis people it’s still asking too much.

Things like seemingly harmless NYT consumption are big deals to trans people because transphobia, despite being intense and escalating these days, is an oppression often rendered invisible. Trans people are used to being abandoned by cis people, so even small abandonments have an impact.

In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

imagine gaster shows up in deltarune and his design is completely different from the undertale mystery man and people have spent like twelve years cosplaying some random uboa homage toby thought would be funny

"this stuff actually IS valuable. if it wasn't, people wouldn't be stealing it. rewatching hbomberguy's plagiarism video and just having to pause at the obvious but easily forgotten point that I needed to feel with my whole soul at this moment.

"He kill all them then eat a whole pie!" "Me not like the way he looking at us"

// DELTARUNE CH5 SPOILERS . . . . That episode was pretty crazy, huh? #deltarune #deltarunespoilers

pastelocaris for pastelaris on artfight!

The last time I researched this, I discovered the timeline "sport is open to all; woman wins; sport is immediately closed off to women; women's league is eventually formed years later" is almost universal. Women's leagues were overwhelmingly created *strictly* to protect the egos of men.

nude antifa goat@goat.sex · 2w ago

the whole "women's sports exist to protect women from men" framing is hilarious, given that a lot of these divisions were initially formed because men were deeply embarrassed any time a woman beat them at a sport olympic shooting was mixed gender right up until a woman won the gold

It's taken me a long time to stop prematurely rushing to have a public opinion on controversies that are still unfolding. I think what really helped was being a part of a couple, and watching people immediately make judgements of me/my team based off of lies/incomplete information.

I hate A.I. far more than the average person, but I expected from the beginning that whoever put this together was *not* representative of the creative team behind the movie. Some of us have *got* to stop rushing to judgment. It's not fair to the artists doing their best.

I have no idea what's being announced for FFXIV because I barely played it but seeing as people are posting Final Fantasy opinions, here is mine; Dancing Mad is better than One Winged Angel. It has sections, it has motifs, it has SO MUCH crammed into it. Both are good, but Dancing Mad is better IMO

#odyssey