#app amendment

[elegy-of-ashen-starfall]

making a quick post to acknowledge that dan heng's app amendment has been processed!

💫 mod sirius.

[elysiummfrp]

hi here's larkspurs updated (as of right now) app. sorry this is so late and last minute <3 I kept getting caught on the Fine Details and overthinking it and not actually writing what I want down so ANYWAY

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larkspur's app has been updated with everything! glad to see her back. hope she enjoys her new vast world of mad scientist experiments.

[mikeluciraphgabe]

Opened TikTok, saw the message, closed TikTok, opened TikTok again so I could react with people about, crumbled in realization that we are unable to group together anymore

[rachleahx]

Oh wow tiktok is back that’s great if only there were an app where I could talk about this with Jeremy Renner…

[wlwgang]

I know we all like to rag on TikTok but watching everyone on that app say goodbye and put together last messages of art and music as a swan song to the platform before censorship from the us government literally makes it go dark is fucking surreal

[eltristan]

For those wondering why the death of the 1st Amendment in America, the US TikTok ban, has not resulted in a surge here on Tumblr...

Our beloved Tumblr is banned in China.

Most TikTok users already tried Tumblr and didn't like it. (Look at how short their attention span is!)

Tumblr isn't great for 杀猪盘 or "pig butchering scam" -- hell, the Gaza scammers we do have can barely make a living off your broke-ass asses!

Let it be known:

*ahem*

Henceforth: my blog shall be crapping out queued posts for "Jan 19 anniversary of US TikTok ban day to all who celibrate" long after I'm dead and well into the next millennium...

[jakeperalta]

today i learned about library apps for scanning and categorising your book collection so you can imagine the fun i have been having all evening

[thanos-the-dad-titan]

Well the dumb motherfuckers in our Gov did it. Dumbasses.

[noses-in-winter]

i’m no fan of the us government and agree that the targeting of tiktok is likely a ploy to appeal to sinophobic boomers, but calling it fascist is extremely funny to me

cool. You "likely" haven't done much research in this area, so here's just a brief rundown of the direction this ban is taking us.

Fascist countries ban apps that connect people across the globe as a means of censorship. Has it already been long enough that we've forgotten that Russia banned it for the sole reason that Putin didn't want Russian citizens to see "misinformation" about their invasion of Ukraine? Or that the Afghan Taliban leadership wanted to stop their youth from being "misled" by other countries? With Project 2025 getting ready to go into full swing, the US government is taking away the means to communicate the struggles, fears, and suffering of those living in the United States.

Every other major app used in the US is owned by shitty billionaires with complete control over what is and is not acceptable to say. TikTok is the one that the US has zero authority over, which is why the only options provided were for the app to be sold to a US company (therefore allowing the US complete control over what can and cannot be said) or for the app to go completely dark. The "national security" reason they've provided is rich, considering that apps like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter have data breaches every 5 minutes--Data breaches that I fully believe are simply cases of said apps directly selling the information of their users, and crying "hackers!" to avoid consequence (but that's a theory for another day).

The Supreme Court isn't "likely" to ban an app that has allowed for 69% of reported small businesses to thrive, especially with the negative impact it's going to have on the economy, for the weak reason that you suggest. It's extremely funny to me that you think such a massive decision is "likely" made just to--[*checks notes*]--satisfy boomers who hate the Chinese? I guess? Thousands and thousands of people are going to be unable to afford their bills this months due to the ban. Even if you don't think that this move is an example of a devolving nation, you should at least care about the lives of your struggling fellow Americans. Be prepared for your favorite small businesses to close without the attention and revenue TikTok has provided them.

Historians, political scientists and fascism scholars have been agreeing for several years that the current trajectory of the United States points towards a fascist future. Those living here are seeing further and further examples of this. If you aren't concerned with the worsening state of your country, I either envy your place of heightened privilege that ensures none of this affects you, or your tender naiveté of what you're going to be facing in the future. Please take the time to educate yourself on what your friends, neighbors, and fellow Americans are preparing themselves for, if you won't do it for yourself.

Unless this ask wasn't from an American. I don't know anyone from another country with such little compassion for other human beings that they would laugh about someone expressing worry for the future of their nation, though, so I'm sure that's unlikely.

Please feel free to drop another ask if you would like resources for more information on this subject. I've done a significant amount of research on the downfall of democracy in the US, along with the effects it's already having on its citizens, over the past several years. I would be happy to share. There are also a handful of books I deeply recommend, but the most accessible for the moment is definitely The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Attwood. While this book is fictional, every atrocity featured by Attwood are real life examples of fascist terror on once-democratic nations. Just a few years ago, she penned a letter accusing the United States government of taking inspiration from her book in its apparent quest to bring democracy to a halt entirely.

I'll end this response with two quotes; One, from Veterans Fighting Fascism on the progression of a fascist government: "Fascists need to operate in a society where individualist thought is squelched and the fascist version of “truth” cannot be questioned." And the other, a much lighter but poignant line from ABBA's Waterloo: "The history book on the shelf is always repeating itself."

[elegy-of-ashen-starfall]

hi mods its garth can i please update oz's canon point to "post-main story 2"! thanks!

hi garp! the old man has been updated for you!!!

💫 mod sirius

[elysiummfrp]

fixing part of sebek's app

Powers & Abilities + Weapons & Inventory

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Howdy! I have fixed that up for Crane ! Thanks Mads <3

Now it’s your turn! 

~Thysto

[govtshutdown]

Senator Lee's Amendment to the House message of concurrence to the Senate Amendment to H.R. 2882

Senator Lee (R-UT) is trying to block an app used to schedule immigration court appointments. Vote now underway.

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[assiraphales]

so the house of representatives just passed a bill that will now move to the senate to BAN tik tok completely in the united states and they are expected to argue that “national security risks” outweigh the freedom of speech and first amendment rights. biden has already said that if it gets to him, he will sign it. whether or not you use the app…….this is something to be worried about

[anynews]

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[justaleafinthewind]

If any one of my posts is to break containment, make it this one.

Before January 2025, download your favorite fics, especially those with smut or queer content.

If Project 2025 goes into effect (which it very likely will now that we have three red branches of government in the US), they may attempt to restrict the use/sharing of media on sites like ao3.

This particularly applies to fics with smut or any type of queer content, because the official Project 2025 document states, "Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance... has no claim to First Amendment protection... Pornography should be outlawed."

Now, I don't expect ao3 to disappear or go anywhere without a fight, but it's best to be on the safe side these days.

To download your favorite fics:

Go to archiveofourown.org and open the fic you want to download.

At the top right corner, to the right of the 'subscribe' button, is a button that says 'download'. Click it.

A drop-down menu will give you the option to choose the format of your download. Choose your preferred format (.epub and .pdf are my personal favorites -- .epub lets you open a fic in the apple books app and .pdf is compatible with like every device and program out there).

When you click the button for your preferred format, a pop-up window appears confirming your choices. The title of the document will default to the title of the fic, so be aware of that and consider changing conspicuous titles to something ignorable, especially if you share the computer.

You're done! Now do this with all your favorite fics!

Stay safe out there, your favorite characters are rooting for you <3