#internet goverance

[master-jarrus]

They are still trying to pass KOSA

Please reblog so we can get this passed around

Remember they say it's for the kids but it isn't

[gamer2002]

“In 2020, the FCC secured a commitment from Starlink to offer high-speed Internet to 640,000 rural locations for $1,300 per location in federal support.

After revoking that award in 2023, the government is now spending in the ballpark & upwards of $100,000 per location in cases.”

The government is about wasting money on overpriced solutions to line the pockets of their friends

[skateboards-wheels]

every single time someone treats anime and manga as some sort of magical different "other" type of fiction in the precipise that its from japan and thus should not be held to basic writing standards due to that another bullet gets loaded into my revolver and once its fully cocked, i'm giving you the old yeller treatment.

[00venator]

Ferrets are legal but I think you need a permit?

Ok Google time

It’s different state to state. VIC: permit NSW: permit SA: permit TAS: permit

QLD: illegal WA: illegal

ACT: legal, no permit NT: legal, no permit

I’m in VIC and my dad used to ferret. Also knew someone who’s family kept them.

The reason why thery’re regulated is because they’re highly lickly to become an invasive species. They would affect our ecology and agriculture (they feed on eggs and are a Tb carrier).

And we’re not allowed hamsters and gerbils for the same reasons.

Hamsters baffle me. I don't think we keep them in Australia (I've never seen one in meatspace) and they make no sense to me as pets. Everything I've learned about them makes them seem like a shittier discount version of a pet rat.

[aingeal98]

Cass picking up TV and Internet slang and incorporating it into her vocabulary with zero irony: Wonderful, amazing, 10/10 no notes.

Babs spending so much time around Cass that she ends up accidentally using that same slang while in Oracle mode and never being able to live it down: Total global communications breakdown. She'd burn the entire Internet to the ground to make sure the footage of her whispering "bazinga" while using a drone to shoot out the tyres of a mob car following Black Canary never reaches human eyes or ears.

But no matter how much technology she destroys there's no going back. Helena has heard her mutter "gg you fuckin noobs" while bypassing goverment firewalls, and no amount of insisting that it's actually a different term with a different meaning among hackers is going to fool a teacher who deals with teenagers on a regular basis. Her reputation is in shambles. The Birds keep buying Cass free drinks as thanks and she has no idea why.

[shotofstress]

In August of 2024 I was without electricity, phone, and internet connection because huge storms with lightning, rain, and winds. We even have floods, the roof is full of holes so it rain inside every year as well floods, but now with the state of the weather things are much worst.  We had never have winds like that here. At this rate, in 4 years we will have tornadoes, a thing we have never ever have here. Nor our lands, infrastructures, and culture are prepared for this. Many haven't recovered from this nor any of past natural disasters.

Then spring and summer came, and bc all the destruction of our nature and the draught territories the little forests that are left of our native trees and plants caught fire with the pines throughout different regions a number of times.

Companies and its countries are stealing our water for mining, for avocados, strawberries and other native fruts and veggies that I can't buy to eat bc are sent to other countries, planting non-native pines to cut down and sell the wood to the world and have dried up the land, causing more and more fires, more and more deaths every year. On 13 February alone, there were forest fires in six municipalities in one region and 14 fires were burning. The emergency has left more than 20,800 hectares burned by the flames, as well as 44 victims and 28 houses destroyed in those days alone. There have been fires every week for months. The last few weeks it is almost every day somewhere in the country.

The goverment can't fix the country bc we still live under the dictatorship constitution and its politicians and families, and the president has being constantly attacked by the pro dictatorship groups from our country and others, fake news, terror campaings, etc, even the ensurance company group, the one that has Principal (AFP Cuprum), Metlife (AFP Provida), and Prudential (AFP Habitat) threatened my president this month because he and our chambers proposed and made slight improvements to the system because private companies of ensurance and pensions (that are from USA of course) have millions getting sick, disabled or dying because they can't afford medical care nor anything.

This threat was issued by David Chavern, president and CEO of the American Council of Life Insurers in the form of a letter to the extent that it was made known to the public. I can't ignore that one of the groups that also has their ensurance company here is UnitedHealthcare that owns Banmédica, another criminal company. Yeah, UHG, the one that had its CEO executed by The Adjuster. Yes, all USA insurance companies in my country are affected by this little change made to try to help my people to stay alive and have a little more of money that still will not make us live with dignity and out of poverty. So, yeah, is easy to say that UHG is more than angry with my country and back then the 1973 coup has made, among other things, to install this evil ensurance system and this companies.

Even in the cities there are fires. This past week I saw 2 fires in just 3 days, with houses on fire just a couple of blocks away from me. Now it has began autumn and, if I take as reference past years, it will not be like it used to be, but just like a winter part 1 now. Is already getting cold in the night and early morning making my articulations hurt, while in the day the heat makes me tired and weak, causing fires.

Last year people helped me, was awesome, but sadly it wasn't enough. I cleaned by hand the black mold from the walls of the storage room where I live and painted a bit with the little anti mold paint I found in an old tin that was left in a closet. Looks better and smells better and made me happy, but the walls are still broken, one of the walls is still not a wall, and the people of the place is still horrible and abusive. I'm still unemployed even when I tried to sell my art works, get a job, sell second hand clothes, find remote work, and even sent a cultural project to the Ministry of Culture to try to get funding and thus have a wage. Nothing worked. I got rejected in all and honestly I can no longer work because of my disability.

My health is getting even worst. Chronic pain, chronic illnesses and long covid are worse and make me more and more disabled with each passing semester. Eating is hard bc gluten free and dairy free food is terribly expensive (I have celiac disease and lactose intolerance) so I keep being hungry every day, i haven't eaten a piece of bread in months, I cant even make my own bc the gas and electricity is expensive as well the flour that I can use. Being autistic and having c-PTSD as well depression and fibromyalgia doesn't help and the violence never ends.

As far as I'm concerned, I've been on my own all my life, my only support is my couple that also helps me as a caregiver sometimes, is the only family I have. We don't live together bc poverty, we can only be thogeter for a little time each year bc non of us has a job (we are both university graduates and are teachers), their roof rains down and floods their house, the food sold in the poorer area is in bad state and in their house quickly grows black mold and we have to eat it. Also has to take care of an abusive old mother that is poisoning him with black mold (that already gives them health problems like allergy, migraine and gut issues, and the father has already died), the neighbours are violent, and I make that the bills are bigger and more.

My couple fears that we end up in the streets, homeless. I fear that they died or that when the dictatorship is installed once again here the neighbours are gonna snitch on us just bc we belive in democracy and my couple is a teacher. Already members of a cult showed up 2 days ago only in this house. In the last big dictatorship people were taken from their houses and jobs (specially students, univeritaries, teachers and culture workers, for example) and some never returned. Others were tortured so much that they died or ended up disabled and traumatized for life.

If u want to help me to fix things, buy food, meds, pay the bills, and being warm this winter please check

my PayPal or MACH

and make a donation, even $1 helps. If u can't donate, please reblog bc thats the only way to make this post circulate thus receiving help.

I don't even want to be in my country bc we will have a dictatorship soon, but I have nowhere else to go nor money to migrate. I need $10.537 dollars or € 9.760,95 euros aprox to pay all the documents, the bank money I need to have to prove I deserve to migrate, the tickets, rent money I have to show, and all that. I have been really thinking in live somewhere else, but no money and countries are having even more restrictions to countries like mine and people like us than before.  Also the anti migration and other hate groups and gangs. There is a safe place?

I currently (date 14 April 2025) have $260 dollars donated (coz I spent some in food and meds this past months). We no longer able to pay for our meds and gas for cooking nor warm the place, I'm eating less bc we can't pay for food (I can't buy bread, flour, noodles, etc bc the gluten free lactose free products are really expensive, specially for us). My couple has been a year and a half without a job and there is no sight of one in the next months. Is winter and in the first rain that lasted a few minutes the place again had leaks. You can check the old post here and see a Meet the blogger here.

I thought that it was necessary to make an actualization and a using comprehensible single post, so that's why I made this.

Edit: Three pinochetist agents and a direct nazi descendant (both 3 belive in the nazi values) are running for president in the next presidential election this 2026 and one of them is gonna win. Please, we need to migrate so help me to not die with my couple. This is no longer only asking money to eat, this now is to not be tortured and disappeared. I have less than a year to find a country to migrate and leave. We can speak and read english even if not perfectly. If you know a country that allow political refugees and put less trouble to migrants, please comment.

Edit 2: the ppl with which I live are trying to involving me in their crimes so please help me to leave faster.

Edit 3: my mother in law I think is gonna make us end up on the streets or lie about us bc we are not letting her be abusive and I fear she try to frame us as abusers just bc she is emotionally abusive and can't deal with the fact that we say No and we told her she has to give basic human respect. I think she is lying to extended family as always and put herself as victim and try to damage us more, specially against my couple bc she has always treat them bad. This hell never ends

Help is welcomed, I am still here trying hard, I don't want to die.

[velvetvexations]

im on this teeny tiny little app thats exclusively for trans people (literally just "t4t" and i really do like it. after ive blocked all the idiots lol. very old internet feeling) and i made this post that got a lot more attention than my posts normally did. which means i got more people looking at my profile than i normally do. this is relevant bc it doesnt function like tumblr it functions like lex, so theres an endless feed filtered by distance and theres no following feature. so like, lot easier for me to see random strangers vagueposts about me.

several months ago i had made a post about voting as harm reduction -- and it's ok to me if people disagree with that general statement! i can understand if youd rather "harm reduction" remain used solely for drug use! i can understand that! that doesnt mean im stupid and dont know what the term means if i apply it in other ways!

and this random stranger that had never interacted w me ever before this had dug so deep into my profile they found this post to vague about it MONTHS LATER on the DAY OF TRUMPS INAUGURATION to say "everyone who voted for kamala should be embarrassed of themselves" like sorry first of all little late for that shit buddy how are you voteshaming on inauguration day. second of all... is that somehow MORE embarrassing than vaguing about a post made months ago? somehow more embarrassing than doing this on the day a trump takes office, already doing immense damage, reversing what good bidens administration has managed to do?

like im not harris' friend. i dont *like* her. and as president she would have always been inherently my enemy. but it is so hard for me to understand these peoples positions. like yea the american government is a cesspool and a mockery of democratism. yeah a fascist goverment is fascist no matter who sits at the head. all of this is true. but how. how on EARTH. can you not see our fight would have been easier with harris? how can you ignore that?

Remember, she would have been 99% Hitler. Basically no difference at all.

[punkitt-is-here]

hey i just wanted to ask U where do you watch my little pony?? i wanna rekindle my 2012 mlp phase and actually watch more than 1 and a half seasons.. but there's only 4 on netflix!!!! where do you go to watch it? is it a website like internet archive or sumfin?? okay thanx bai i luv ur silly comics (´･ω･`)

fim dot heartshine dot gay has all episodes with subtitles in many video qualities i got u govered :thumps up:

[keshetchai]

Petty, absurd things I was annoyed by on the internet (specifically the religion subreddit):

Someone (making a islam apologetics defense for the young age of Aisha's marriage and subsequent consummation with Muhammad, by way of trying to point out a cultural hypocrisy in what is or isn't seen as acceptable) pointing to a medieval European princess who got married at the age of six, without any understanding as to what that actually meant in reality to the society of that time. And without any awareness of the history in question. Which is that the six year old princess in question (Isabelle of Valois) was used to formalize and secure diplomatic relations, and then she was moved to a new castle where she was given a court of ladies, tutor, and governess to raise her because she was seen as a child. She didn't even live in the same place as her adult husband (Richard II), and only saw him on chaperoned visits because she was legally and socially not yet old enough for consummation under catholic canon law. Also her Kingly husband died by the time she was 11, he spent the last year of their marriage on a military campaign, and he died before they consummated anything. It was a political and diplomatic contract with no adult sexual or romantic interactions before he died. She remarried at 16, and died in childbirth at 19, which is still really young! But she was NOT being coerced as a 7 year old because that was illegal and would've been a diplomatic nightmare! There was literally no reason to do this. An adult King could (and likely would) be far more likely to avail himself of willing courtesans than he would be to spectacularly offend his newly cemented ally who gave him a queen. Terrible comparison. 0/10. No understanding of medieval European royal politics. Most European medieval royalty who married very young didn't have children until they were at least 18 or 19. Augh. Medievalist annoyances!!!

And THEN someone else tried to criticize the BITE model for identifying authoritarian and manipulative groups (destructive cults) but their criticism was entirely based on like....a) fundamentally failing to understand BITE model must be used in conjunction with the Influence Continuum and b) having zero reading comprehension or critical thinking skills whatsoever to the point where they were trying to say that the BITE model considers prayer in general to be a tactic of authoritarian control and is equivalently scored to outright murder. (It absolutely does not fucking say this!! That's devoid of any understanding of how prayer is even being evaluated specifically within the context of BITE!!!)

and then they tried to be like "people use chat gpt to prove how my religion is a cult and they're wrong, so I invite you to also use chat gpt and see how sports teams and schools could be considered cults!" CHAT GPT IS STUPID AND IM NOT GONNA USE THE BAD ARGUMENT MACHINE TO MAKE ANOTHER BAD ARGUMENT.

They tried to argue baseball teams could be considered cults under the bite model because they "restrict sleep" by having dawn exercise drills during training, and "restrict or control diet" by banning junk food or requiring protein shakes for players. Because fuck the part where we evaluate if there was INFORMED CONSENT regarding the restrictions and considering whether or not these requirements or limitations were outlined in a CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT FOR AN ATHLETE'S WELLBEING or if they were MISLED, MANIPULATED OR DECEIVED ABOUT THE RULES AND THEIR PURPOSE???

[that-satireguy]

Hi, I'm not exactly in the safest spot in my country. We can access the internet, but I'm worried that interacting with or consuming anti-government stuff will get me in trouble. What can I do to protect myself?

There are a number of things but the most important thing is to confuse them. Depending on your age/activities its highly unlikely that anyone will be tracking you specifically, or have any interest in you. As long as you don't have like 50 things linking you back to government conspiracies, theres likely no one who will give a shit.

Keep your anti-goverment stuff on a SEPARATE account, with a seperate VPN, under no circumstances do you want those accounts linked in ANY WAY. Preferably you do want a normal account, if you ever get in trouble in real life, they may look through your social media, and having none can be suspicious/raise flags you dont want raised. Again, this won't put you in particular danger because unless there are other problems they won't care to look further, but still, better to be safe then sorry and if you are in a dangerous spot its always better to go under the radar.

Ask around about cheap devices. I would typically avoid phones. Do your stuff on a laptop at home, no public wifi stuff. Depending on your country, I would either go to a local guy, who can usually get you a secure laptop without asking too many questions, or get a branded security one from a second/third hand seller (preferably not on a major website, and definitely don't go for first-hand, because those are really easy to track if need be.)

Generally this device should be different to the rest of your devices, if you can afford such. It should not have any kind of connction to you personally.

The most important thing is to have deniability.

If someone was to go 'hey, thsat so-and-so's computer' you want everyone to go, 'no, so and so doesnt have a computer' or 'so and so doesn't use those kind of devices'.

'Thats so and so's social media' 'No, so-and so's social media is ____'

'So and so did that' 'No it was someone from (country your vpn is set to)'

Again, this will likely no end up being too important, but better safe then sorry.

(Also, something that gets left out, do make it hard. Yes, use passwords, follow typical safety rules, avoid being hacked. Unless you're an actual threat/important, most people, especially members of the goverment won't bother actually doing work to snoop at your stuff.)

[anonymous-kotlc-thoughts]

if the elves got social media they would basically be like internet conspiracys cus they would act so weird.

Cus what if a bunch of groups appear and they act like goverment, da “black swan!?” “neverseen?!” “goody too shoes councillors?!”

and lets talk about other species later.

(Rnon)

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[rwby-encrusted-blog]

ythink penny misses some aspects of being a robot? she wouldnt trade hugs for the world, but it was still kinda nice to have nigh unlimited access to the internet and top secret goverment files at the blink of an eye

Yes, but she much prefers Living in the more traditional sense.

[kisiel-z-kosmosu]

Your goverment spy after watching you scroll internet for 6 hrs instead of sleeping:

!!! Guys remember internet hygine if not for yourself then for poor overworked cybercity darkners!!/hj top doomdles are actually cleaned up drawings I made in class to pass my agony onto someone else.

[ilovemedia]

Just ignore me, I can't exspress my intrests anywhere outside of the internet:

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I LOVE CLASSIC DOCTOR WHO, ITS SO FUCKING COOL, LIKE OMG ITS ETHER AMAZING AND DEEP PLOTS OR SO BAD ITS FUNNY EPISODES. ITS ALSO SURPRISINGLY POLITICALLY CORRECT WITH IT SHOWING TOPICS LIKE CORRUPTION IN GOVERMENT, SEGREGATION, COLONISATION/THE MISTRETMENT OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, POLOTION, OVERPOPULATION, XENOPHOBIA AND SO MUCH FUCKING MORE

NOT TO MENTION HOW FUCKING GOOD THE 2ND DOCTOR IS, HE INTROUDUCED HALF OF THE INVENTIONS AND OTHER MONSTERS WE SEE IN DOCTOR WHO NOW, AND HES SO INTRESTING IN THE WAY HE PLAYES UP HIS CLOWNY PERSONALITY TO BE UNDERESTIMATED.

(Hes also really autistic codded)

Sorry about that

[evilminji]

Bear with me...

Blob ghosts in tiny outfits.

Social media AU? Because? What's a Popular And Gorgeous A Lister to DO!? When her Beloved Ghost Boy is being HUNTED? By Tacky Weirdos and the GOVERMENT?

It's not like she can fight them. Though, given half a chance, you BEST believe she would absolutely run them over in a heartbeat. Oops! *Innocent Cutie Face Number 5 with added teary lip wobble* Oh nooooo! She, like, TOTALLY didn't SEE them officer! She's so upset and traumatized! Boo hoo!

Sadly... they drive tanks. Like COWARDS.

So what is she to DO? How can she and her Besties HELP? Obviously, social media.

EVERYONE loves Cute Things. Memes. The occasional tasteful thirst trap. And THEY? Have the CUTEST things of all! Pookie and Blob ghosts! Pookie is SUCH the GOODEST of boys. A born star. Very small.

And best of all? Completely unafraid of his Blob Ghost playmates. He's their LEADER, in fact. It's adorable. They'll get startled by leaves and rush to hide behind him. Leaving Pookie to VALIANTLY defeat the Big Scary Leafy Threat. Follow him like ducklings.

Obviously the internet will LOVE them.

And? If the internet loves THEM? Then they'll be more willing to listen to Phantom! Instead of the crazy, tacky weirdo! It's the perfect plan. They need tiny hats. Baby outfits. Doggy Halloween costumes! Kwan, you pick the music! Dash, your officially dog manager and body guard! Like always. But this time bring bribes for pookie.

Paulina and Star will bring Pudding, Bubbles, and their make up kits! Kwan, bring over Rockmillion and Doomagedon. Operation: Everyone Loves Cute~♡ is a Gooooo!

[ofduskanddreams]

𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭, 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞

an Elucien Regency/Fantasy AU

◆ three chapters, 7.4k words total, rated: M

Summary:

An upstanding young woman from a disgraced family, Elain Archeron takes a position as a governess to avoid an unwelcome arranged marriage. She didn't know what to expect when she arrived at the Forest House but finds herself enchanted by both her pupil Charlotte Vanserra, the only child of Duke Eris Vanserra, and Charlotte's grandmother Serafina, the Dowager Duchess. Just as Elain begins to feel like she has a place in the world, everything changes.

Every summer, Lord Lucien Vanserra and his brothers return to their childhood home for holiday. You would not believe his surprise when he arrived early and found Elain Archeron, the girl he'd loved for half of his life, sitting in his chair at the breakfast table. When Lucien finally works up the nerve to speak to her again, a dangerous situation arises that binds the two in ways neither of them anticipated.

I wrote this for Elucien Week last year and forgot it existed on the internet until tonight so here, enjoy it just like I did! READ IT HERE.

tagging (a guesstimate so forgive me if you didn't want to be here or you did and are not): @ablogofbipanic @panicatthenightcourt @areyoudreaminof @kingofsummer93 @separatist-apologist @spell-cleavers @octobers-veryown @velidewrites @krem-does-stuff @moonpatroclus @vulpes-fennec