#30th July 2023

[mimeticpolyalloy1000]

Happy International Friendship Day to all my mutuals 🥰🥰💞💖💕

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was a Pokemon trainer and my only Pokemon was Benadryl (the pill but with anime eyes).

[honey-bri-books]

[royalchildreneurope]

King Philippe of Belgium, Princess Eléonore of Belgium and Queen Sofía of Spain attend a commemorative event for the 30th anniversary of the death of King Baudouin of Belgium, in Motril, Spain -July 31st 2023.

[jreed1703]

[madscientiststoybox]

ITS ALMOST TIME

[am-3w]

How do you nest while high risk? How do you nest with debilitating hip/pelvic pain? Like when I've taken tylenol I feel okay for a few hours at a time when I dont move too much. But how do I prepare for baby when I'm scared to move too much? Like if i nest and push myself when im feeling good, im definitely going to be in more pain later. So wtf do I do??? 😩

[songspiral]

"Lover, You Should've Come Over" by Jeff Buckley

[letusrollon]

Tuned in to some shit fucking news 😭 STUART WHAT THE HELL MAN

I'm reeling. Fucking stumped.

[bunnie-the-idiot]

the kids online safety act passed the u.s. senate.

long story short (for anyone who hadn't heard of this before) the kids online safety act, aka kosa, is a bill that will censor online content and resources for lgbtq+ matters, reproductive healthcare, activism (INCLUDING PALESTINE AND LIKELY OTHER CRISES GOING ON LIKE IN CONGO OR SUDAN), mental health, etc. everywhere--its effects likely won't be contained to just america.

today, july 30th, 2024, the senate passed it 91-3. it has officially moved to the house of representatives.

is this a pretty massive setback? yes. do you have every right to be scared, sad, angry, or whatever else about this happening? absolutely. but should you give up hope completely? NO!

even though kosa passed the senate, the house is on break/august recess at the moment. we have around an entire month to get emails, calls, and faxes in to house reps, maybe more depending on when they decide to vote on it.

should it pass the house and get signed into law, we still have a whole 18 months before it actually goes into effect. this is plenty of time for digital rights orgs (e.g. fight for the future, the electronic frontier foundation) and other groups that oppose it to file a lawsuit against it. even if, worst-case scenario, it flies through the house immediately after the recess ends, we can still fight this up to march 2026.

so, yes, remember what's at stake here, but also remember that it's not over yet. we lost a battle, not the war.

below are some resources to learn more about kosa and how to contact your reps (first link) + a page that lets you directly contact progressive house reps, sign an open letter opposing the bill, and view others' testimonies against it (second link):

FIGHT. FIGHT. FIGHT.

[irecordmywordle]

771

3/6

bathe

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was trapped in a Minecraft world with Kermit the Frog. The world border was extremely small, so we ran into each other almost right away. When we finally escaped, we sang Rainbow Connection together.

[sk3l3t0n444]

2024 please be nice to me im begging you

[royalchildreneurope]

King Philippe of Belgium, Princess Eléonore of Belgium and Queen Sofía of Spain attend a commemorative event for the 30th anniversary of the death of King Baudouin of Belgium, in Motril, Spain -July 31st 2023.

[inconsistently--consistent]

July 30th, 2023

I droped one of my summer courses. I just wasn't able to keep up with the workload. This is gonna make it impossible to graduate on time but I can't afford another D. I've never dropped a class before I feel like such a failure.

I also feel so much less stressed.

Watched the Barbie movie LOVED IT. Thinking about petitioning mattel for an electrical engineering barbie because I swear I remember that being a thing in the barbie life in the dreamhouse show but I couldn't find it on wiki or mattel's site.

[1984-daily]

It was too great a coincidence. Whether she was really an agent of the Thought Police, or simply an amateur spy actuated by officiousness, hardly mattered. It was enough that she was watching him. Probably she had seen him go into the pub as well.

It was an effort to walk. The lump of glass in his pocket banged against his thigh at each step, and he was half-minded to take it out and throw it away. The worst thing was the pain in his belly. For a couple of minutes, he had the feeling that he would die if he did not reach a lavatory soon. But there would be no public lavatories in a quarter like this. Then the spasm passed, leaving a dull ache behind.

The street was a blind alley. Winston halted, stood for several seconds wondering vaguely what to do, then turned round and began to retrace his steps.