river-shards

[river-shards]

[river-shards]

[river-shards]

they are barring wikipedia. they are barring spotify. they are barring important news - both national news and world news. they are barring mental health forums and LGBTQ related things and so much more. this is not about protecting children, it has never been about protecting children.

the online safety act is an insane privacy breach, and if that does not scare you then you need to think harder about it. it is going to end up in a massive data leak - all the information is getting collected by random third party systems. can we trust them? no. can we even hold them accountable? no. because the government couldn’t even make their own system to do these age checks.

and i hear you - it is important that kids don’t see porn. but even if all this was about protecting kids, it’s sloppy and useless. it’s easy (for now) to get around with a vpn and the only thing the act doing is censoring things that it shouldnt. if the government wanted to protect kids, they would do something concrete about it - they would be putting more funding into education, for example.

of course the policy isnt called “national surveillance”. they’re not going to call it that. everything will be hidden behind things that people want.

so email your MP, and tell other people that this is WAY more than blocking porn from children - this is the first step towards national surveillance.

[river-shards]

Reblog if your art project has not, does not, and never will make use of generative ai at any point in your creative process.

[river-shards]

The last moments 😮‍💨

[river-shards]

tumblr mutual to discord friend pipeline is one of the most beautiful things out there

[river-shards]

@fujii-dlc

[river-shards]

From Vulture’s Oral History of Lilo and Stitch, here’s stories of what Michael Eisner was like in sweatbox screenings of 90s DIsney classics.

Completely fucking clueless. The incarnation of Defunctland’s jokes about him. Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois just hid Lilo and Stitch from him until it was done, absolute legends.

[river-shards]

Most of those iPad babies you're seeing are probably sick of that fucking tablet too.

[river-shards]

“hes a woman to me” IS HE? or are you equating women with submissive character traits you've arbitrarily put on a random man

[river-shards]

emily gwen, the creator of the sunset lesbian flag that we’ve come to commonly use, still continues to live in poverty.

multi-billion dollar companies have used their design and made profit from it, and yet they have not seen a cent for their creation.

i’ve been friends with emily for years, and i have not once seen them be financially stable the entire time. i’ve seen them homeless, unemployed, starving. right now, they need our help more than ever.

please consider donating to emily’s ko-fi, especially if you’ve used their design to create something and profited from it.

[river-shards]

Wanted to draw something with their redesigns…. I actually really like how this turned out…

(Unshaded so you can see the color scheme :3)

[river-shards]

here's my cat for your dash btw. if you even care