My Friends Who Have Never Experienced Flooding, And Who Are About To Deal With It From This Storm, Please

My friends who have never experienced flooding, and who are about to deal with it from this storm, please remember:

1. NO. YOU CANNOT MAKE IT THROUGH THAT WATER ON THE ROAD. I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU'RE DRIVING. TURN. AROUND.

2. DO NOT GO WADING THROUGH THE WATER. EVEN IF YOU JUST WANT TO SEE HOW DEEP IT IS. THAT. WATER. IS. CONTAMINATED.

3. IT IS CALLED FLASH FLOODING FOR A REASON. THE WATER RISES AND SURGES IN A FLASH. STAY. HOME.

4. If you're at risk of flooding, raise up any of your belongings now. Put the legs of tall things in buckets. Know where your important documents are.

5. Stay safe.

I'm either dying from suffocating by a chubby trans masc sitting on my face or I'm not dying

Urgent News.

One of the largest threats to queer safety, especially queer youth on the internet, is the KOSA bill. It is effectively a censorship bill that will make access to the internet for queers, nigh impossible and constantly monitored.

Now of course the council's concerns may lie within the queer, but the bill will also affect pro-Palestinian messages, activism, truthful information, etc. It will make it difficult to look for sexual health information, information on Palestine, Sudan, the Congo, climate change, queer history, queer info in general.

It is a bill that the USA is going to use to effectively stop all the criticism against them, all the information on the genocides committed in the name of capital, and block out safe spaces for queers in and out of the closet.

And it is being discussed whether to have it added to the FAA. What does that mean? The FAA was the same way the Tiktok ban was passed so easily, a way for the US to pass bills without much resistance. So you might be thinking:

What is to be done?

Well for one, if you are a member of the council reading this, you are obligated to reblog this and spread the message far and wide. And we mean it. Whether through posters, posts, shouting, protests, whatever you can do, you must do. Even if you aren't a council member, morally you should still do it.

As evidently the internet is in jeopardy.

Other than that, sign these petitions, spread these links and urge others to do so. Call your representatives, email them, mail them, fax them. And again, urge others to do the same.

You don't need to be American to spread this or sign these. And you should care still even if you aren't American, as this will be a global effect if KOSA passes.

stopkosa.com

Woodhull Freedom Foundation | Stop KOSA

change.org | Stop KOSA petition

EFF | KOSA Bill

EFF | Look for your representative sand contact them

We must do anything and everything to keep the internet safe. For all.

So do not fall into despair that we will fail, and do not become complacent thinking we will win. Become active and make sure we win.

For in the dark we endure, and in the light we fight for who you call impure.

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I do just want to say thank you for discussing the current transphobia in the UK, especially the Cass Review. I've seen very little discussion on here about it, and quite a bit of that discussion has involved "TERF island" jokes or people just seemingly only using it to joke about how the english are terrible people which um. Bad fucking taste to make those jokes in response to a report that's very much infantizing trans people and wants to stop teenagers and young adults from being allowed to transition at all, including social transition some-fucking-how.

I realised I was nonbinary at the age of 15, applied for transgender health care with the NHS shortly afterwards, and I'm now 21 and only just recently was I seen by them for the first time. I was told it would still be another year at least until I could receive any help transitioning. And now the politicians in this country think I'm "too young" to know my own mind and identity, that I need to wait until I'm 25 to receive any help or support. Will I actually receive that when I become 25? No. They'll keep making transgender healthcare more and more restricted until it's practically banned. The report states that people with depression and autism, like me, are most likely to be transgender, watch them soon say they need to restrict it for those people too "because they're unsure and ill!"

Essentially, what I'm saying is that people need to care about the people in the UK affected by it's rapidly increasing transphobia more than they care about shitting on the country and it's politicians. Yes, we all know it's pretty shit here! Joking about the TERFs in this country does not help your trans siblings there, no more than telling them just to leave the country does!

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