Our government keeps force feeding us the antiquated 2nd amendment/“right” for everyone to bear and possess a firearm. It shouldn’t be a “right”, it should be a regulated privilege like driving a car and it shouldn’t include assault or automatic or semi-automatic weapons!
It’s a different time now… there are no more Redcoats a- comin’ and most people don’t need to go out and shoot their family’s dinner anymore. We need to change our laws to accommodate today’s society. Our government doesn’t want change because it’s hard and they’ll lose voters and betray the NRA. But if we don’t change we don’t adapt, if we don’t adapt we don’t evolve, if we don’t evolve we DIE!! We’re not changing and we are dying! Our children are dying!!
There is no reason any automatic or semi-automatic, high capacity, military grade weapon should be available to the public! I’d like to drive a tank down the street but that’s illegal for a reason. But I’m not allowed to have lawn darts in my yard yet my paranoid neighbor can own a room full of weapons that can take out a school before anyone can stop him? What the fuck?!
I’m embarrassed we let it get this far. I hope today’s children’s voices are heard and they can end this. I’m sorry for their pain, their outrage and their fear. We’ve failed them, but hopefully together we can make changes. I am so proud of Emma Gonzalez and the other students of Stoneman Douglas High School for standing up and making themselves heard! Much respect, much love, and we call bullshit!
french recipes: if you’re not making this in paris then what’s the point. fuck you
italian recipes: use the left leg meat of a pig from one of three farms in this specific area of tuscany, or from this day my grandmother will begin manifesting physically in your house
american recipes: buy these three cans of stuff and put them in a pan congrats you cooked
chinese recipes, as handed down from mother to child: season it with a pinch of this and some of that. you want to know the exact amount? feel it in your heart. ask the stars. yell into the void.
English recipes: boil and salt it. Okay that’s it enjoy
Greek recipes: You followed all the right steps but this isn’t quite right. I don’t know what to tell you.
Australia recipes: chuck it on the barbie
Latinx recipes: you will never make it better than your abuela, face the facts
Armenian recipes: spend eight days laboring over the stove. the food will be flavorful with the sacrifice of your sanity. no one will appreciate it.
Canadian recipes: It either needs more bacon, more maple syrup, more gravy, or an unholy combination of the three
Polish recipes: you have to toUCH THE DOUGH, FEEL THE PIEROGI IN YOUR HEART, TOUCH IT. LICK IT. SMELL IT.
Every time I see this post, I learn more about how different countries’ cuisines AND neuroses.
Indian recipes: there are 500 cuisines and that means 500 versions of this dish that has 500 spices so gl
ashki jewish recipes: no, no. no. more onion.
internet recipes: here is a heartwarming story about my baby sister’s third birthday that i completely made up, and a copypaste from alton brown.
Things that will suffer with the loss of Net Neutrality:
Schools
Trans/NB people looking for binders online
Suicidal people in need of support
People who have trouble socializing irl
Artists
YouTubers
Small business owners
You
Me
Everyone
Students
Pet owners
Abuse victims
LGBTQ+ people
Online shoppers
Hospitals
Victims of crimes
Kids living in abusive households
Stay at home parents
The poor
The drug addicted
The alcoholics
The victims of natural disasters
Tumblr users
Twitter users
Instagram users
YouTube users
Facebook users
Snapchat users
Gamers
Music lovers
Collectors of any kind
LITERALLY EVERYONE ON EARTH WITH INTERNET ACCESS
AND WITHOUT IT
PEOPLE WONT BE ABLE TO HELP POOR COUNTRIES IF THEY DONT KNOW THAT THEYRE POOR
EVERYONE WILL SUFFER WITH THE LOSS OF NET NEUTRALITY. WE CANNOT LET OURSELVES BE SILENCED. WE CANNOT LET THE NEEDY GROW POOR. WE CANNOT LET OUR WORLD PERRISH. WE CANNOT LET TEENS COMMIT SUICIDE. WE CANNOT LET CHILDREN GO WITHOUT AN EDUCATION.
WE CANNOT LET OUR NATION DIE. WE CANNOT LET OUR ENTIRE WORLD PERISH.
You (or your parents) pay approx $40-$100 or higher for internet.
So that you can all use youtube, google, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, etc. etc. etc. This isn’t limited to social media.
Net neutrality says, “Okay, since you already paid x amount of money for the month, you don’t have to pay for each asset individually. Enjoy your internet.”
NO net neutrality means that your service provider (comcast, at&t, verizon, whatever it may be) gets to say “ACTUALLY, it lines our pockets so give us an extra $5.99 for Youtube, Facebook and Twitter. Oh, but that doesn’t include Tumblr; that comes with our premium package. That’ll be $5.99 on its own as well. Now about your Google docs and email…
That’s why it’s important. That’s why I’m spamming Net Neutrality crap. If you’re using the internet, it’s YOUR problem.
-Email your congressman (text resist to 50409) It’s easy, you don’t have to talk to anyone.
You (or your parents) pay approx $40-$100 or higher for internet.
So that you can all use youtube, google, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, etc. etc. etc. This isn’t limited to social media.
Net neutrality says, “Okay, since you already paid x amount of money for the month, you don’t have to pay for each asset individually. Enjoy your internet.”
NO net neutrality means that your service provider (comcast, at&t, verizon, whatever it may be) gets to say “ACTUALLY, it lines our pockets so give us an extra $5.99 for Youtube, Facebook and Twitter. Oh, but that doesn’t include Tumblr; that comes with our premium package. That’ll be $5.99 on its own as well. Now about your Google docs and email…
That’s why it’s important. That’s why I’m spamming Net Neutrality crap. If you’re using the internet, it’s YOUR problem.
-Email your congressman (text resist to 50409) It’s easy, you don’t have to talk to anyone.
They’re ignoring those ones, calling them ‘scams’ and ‘fake’
Don’t send emails using bots to the FCC
They’re calling them ‘spam’ and ‘not made by real people’
Don’t customize the layouts. Write your own from scratch. It takes a long time, but don’t take someone else’s. The FCC will ignore it. Make yours with you own words. Use everyday speech. Don’t worry about formality, if you got your grammar right and your tone correct, you’re good.
Send them emails:
The 2 no votes:
Mignon.Clyburn@fcc.gov
Jessica.Rosenworcel@fcc.gov
The 2 yes votes:
Brendan.Carr@fcc.gov
Mike.O'Rielly@fcc.gov
The Chairman:
Ajit.Pai@fcc.gov
You can use your main email, a side email you might have, your parent’s email (if they allow that).
Remember to address THEIR stance on it - whether or not they support or reject keeping NN. Make sure you address YOUR stance and why you need it.
This isn’t a time to think about the fanfics and fanart. This isn’t a time to think about the fandoms, this is a time to think about the jobs. The schools. The hospitals. The ones in poverty, the ones hanging on the edge of the unemployment rate. The homeless, the jobless. The ones with needs, who can’t get out of the house and has to rely on the internet to order necessities like food, hygienics, clothing, and even medication.
It’s tempting to think of our fandoms. Without nn this blog goes dark, no more PJO posts other than what I manage to put in the queue (and even that will run out). No more Ponaa, MCGA, etc. But I can live without that - I can’t live without my school. NN being destroyed will destroy my future in education.
It’s time to take action if you haven’t. Send someone to them, if not for yourself than for the rest of the 320 million or so Americans.
Good, I’ve got your attention. I’ve heard about this net neutrality bullshit returning. I fought it when it started popping up a few years ago, and I’m going to fight it again. Guys, it’s BACK AGAIN and even worse theres a big chance it will END UP PASSING!
This could literally mean a shit ton of you wont be able to see me anymore if your provider decides that they want to regulate/censor, sayyy overly sexual content. You’ll also have to pay extra money to even use Tumblr!
Please guys, we defeated this shit once, we can do it again. They’re trying to do it now while people are distracted by the holidays and fucking Justice League. As of today, it seems as though there have only been 266,810 calls made to Congress. This is NOT good enough!! MILLIONS of people use the net, and if each one of them took 60 seconds to call and protect it, holy balls do you KNOW how much of a difference that would make??? But noooo, you’re busy streaming an ecchi anime that wont be available to you soon!!!!!
Heres a direct link to make a difference (theres also links to other sites of the same nature on here), and yes, YOU can make a fucking difference because this is YOUR internet at stake here. If you’re not going to make the call, share this and maybe SOMEONE fucking will!! This is important as shit and we cant afford to lose. Dec 14th is the deadline.
Let’s take a look at some screenshots of an article I was reading earlier today…
Keyword: was. They don’t support net neutrality anymore. Why you ask? well…
Tumblr is owned by Yahoo. Now that Verizon (a company that hates net neutrality) bought Yahoo, they have demanded that Tumblr must stop supporting net neutrality too. The Tumblr staff has stopped posting about net neutrality.
This site is being forced to hate net neutrality. (article link)
this is why all those net neutrality posts are disappearing from your feeds. don’t let it do so
Good, I’ve got your attention. I’ve heard about this net neutrality bullshit returning. I fought it when it started popping up a few years ago, and I’m going to fight it again. Guys, it’s BACK AGAIN and even worse theres a big chance it will END UP PASSING!
This could literally mean a shit ton of you wont be able to see me anymore if your provider decides that they want to regulate/censor, sayyy overly sexual content. You’ll also have to pay extra money to even use Tumblr!
Please guys, we defeated this shit once, we can do it again. They’re trying to do it now while people are distracted by the holidays and fucking Justice League. As of today, it seems as though there have only been 266,810 calls made to Congress. This is NOT good enough!! MILLIONS of people use the net, and if each one of them took 60 seconds to call and protect it, holy balls do you KNOW how much of a difference that would make??? But noooo, you’re busy streaming an ecchi anime that wont be available to you soon!!!!!
Heres a direct link to make a difference (theres also links to other sites of the same nature on here), and yes, YOU can make a fucking difference because this is YOUR internet at stake here. If you’re not going to make the call, share this and maybe SOMEONE fucking will!! This is important as shit and we cant afford to lose. Dec 14th is the deadline.
A chairman named pai wants to take our fan fictions and art away from us INCLUDING OUR INTERNET😡😡😡ALTOGETHER!!!
Please this is important!!!
If we don’t say no to this man being in power, we can say goodbye to Tumblr, YouTube, Netflix, Wattpad, archiveofourown, apps, games, and literally every other functionality of our electronic devices EVER!
But we can fight back.
Right now there is a petition to take pai out of power.
BUT WE NEED YOUR SIGNATURE!
I’m a fellow creator. And I’m doing this to protect us and our beloved community. So I strongly urge you to share this link with your followers and also sign it yourself. I’m tired of standing by while others fight my wars for me. Aren’t you.
Also, if you have any questions or just need some answers on what exactly is going on, PLEASE, feel free to contact me and even private message me if necessary. I’ll be more than happy to respond back. 💙
Allesia: I’ll leave here to let everyone know about this. We dunno if this is the same case for us, Europeans, as well.
