Iris of the Waking World

@wakingworld.neocities.org

[ Iris ] [ 29 ] [ She/Her ] My website: wakingworld.neocities.org I write stories about complicated relationships. I also play video games and design web pages. Who knows what I'll get into next. 🔞You must be 18 or older.🔞

"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."

Consumers Are Worried About the Loss of Physical Media Ownership. Libraries Are Leading the Conversation. — Association of Research Libraries

Sally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console game...

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If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.

404 Media@404media.co · yesterday

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

im seeing that the only friction between myself and the trans community is that i want to blow sonic the fuck up and some of them still seem cool with him. i don't want to look transphobic so i will compromise. instead of "blowing him the fuck up" I will "blow him the hell up"

JK Rowling funding her trans exterminationist campaigns by selling children's books to liberals 🤝 the NYT funding their trans exterminationist campaigns by selling puzzle games and recipes to liberals (and also for both, cis people will get really upset at trans people asking them not to)

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️@mady.cat · 6d ago

In other words, NYT is increasingly becoming a gaming and recipe company, with revenue from that business helping subsidize the higher costs of their journalism (which has been weaponized in favor of trans genocide). They depend on liberals not caring enough to boycott them.

News only subscriptions down, bundle and single product subscriptions going up