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sock/indigo • 25 • she/they • bi - perhaps living happy-go-lucky was a mistake, but its a decent way to learn. • find everything else i got @ https://sockdrawerdoodles.neocities.org/

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Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · 8h ago

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 · 8h 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.

punkitt ‼️🧣@punkitt.bsky.social · 22h ago

Very easy! I've already done this, and I'll do it again.

GothSavageBowserX, CΛS-MPSE (King of Logo/Titles,SFX/VO & Gamer)@gothsavagebowserx.bsky.social · yesterday

We need to stop both KOSA and SCREEN Act, like I said, "We fight, riot, protest, boycott & war until it's officially over, and get our freedom back." stopkosa.com badinternetbills.com fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop-the-screen-act actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-the-screen-act?nowrapper=true

Kurri ★@kurri.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is like 90% what the Nazis did with "degenerate art." Except they're wording it as "accountability" and denying student loans (which already restricts who can and cannot achieve higher education)

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d 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

ted!@corantus.bsky.social · 2d ago

tldr i got served an eviction notice this morning & my bank account is in the negatives right now. the past 2 months have been a nightmare and my situation just keeps going from bad to worse (more in-depth explanation in the 3rd pic) ko-fi.com/corantus/

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Kiba_Ru!@kibaru.bsky.social · 3d ago

To all the lgbt folks out there who say age verification doesn’t matter. Surprise surprise they intended to use it against us. Like this doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see. When they get to change the rules all of us are targets.

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · last wk.

The Missouri Attorney General is threatening librarians with arrest over an LGBTQ+ story hour for kids, suggesting that a picture book about gay dinosaur dads is "pornography." The Secretary of State says he'll pull funding if the event happens, citing the state's new age verification law.

Boone Regional Library in Columbia is hosting a “queer-led story time” directed to toddlers and preschoolers, with time to “meet new friends” afterwards. We’ve sent a notice to the library reminding them that providing pornography or sexual material to minors is against Missouri law.
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d ago

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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Suzanne ✨🌑@tendermiasma.com · 4d ago

The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

Lady Emily ☄️@ladyemily.nebula.tv · 5d ago

I've never played Super Mario Sunshine but if you bring up the game around someone who has they'll either go "omg I love Sunshine, it's my favorite game, easily the best 3D Mario" or they'll just stare at you like this

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Bobby Schroeder@ponett.dog · 5d ago

the whole article is well worth reading but here's a particularly grim excerpt from near the end, interviewing one of the creators of the three-cueing system so many kids were taught that ruined their ability to read

When I asked him what he makes of the cognitive science research, he told me he thinks scientists focus too much on word recognition. He still doesn't believe accurate word recognition is necessary for reading comprehension. "Word recognition is a preoccupation," he said. "I don't teach word recognition. I teach people to make sense of language. And learning the words is incidental to that." He brought up the example of a child who comes to the word "horse" and says "pony" instead. His argument is that a child will still understand the meaning of the story because horse and pony are the same concept. I pressed him on this. First of all, a pony isn't the same thing as a horse. Second, don't you want to make sure that when a child is learning to read, he understands that /p/ /o/ /n/ /y/ says "pony"? And different letters say "horse"? He dismissed my question. "The purpose is not to learn words," he said. "The purpose is to make sense."