THAT FABRIC IS NOT CALLING TO YOU! LEAVE IT ALONE!
boy it’s me the textiles speaking to you inside your head. you need the yarn. you need thread. your soul hungers to participate in the act of creation. you must feed it. you must buy so many beads.
[VD: A 23-second video featuring Tim Russ, who played Tuvok on Voyager. He is in costume but not in character, and he is speaking to another man. He points to himself and says, “I’m the star of the show, I’m the one that’s important. I get all the good stuff, and they get nothing.” The other man interrupts: “Hold on.” Tim asks, “Yeah?” “I didn’t hear you too well. (Crosstalk: “Yeah, like I said.”) Who’s the star of the show?”
Tim Russ affirms, “I’m the star of the show.” The man repeats, “You’re the star of the show.” Russ confirms, “That’s right.” The other man asks, “And what about all the other regular actors? The wonderful talent and their talent, you know-” Russ replies, “They… They, they have to be here, you know, because I need somebody to play off of.”
The other man: “Oh.” Russ: “That’s what it’s all about.” Other man: “Do they know that?” Russ: “I, I think they should be aware of that.” The other man: “Well, they’re gonna now!” Russ bursts into hearty laughter. End VD]
So I went to read the Kids Online Safety Act, thinking that it couldn’t possibly be as bad as what people are making it out to be, I mean I’m a lawyer and expert in statutory interpretation, it can’t be that bad, right?
Oh no. KOSA IS that bad. It will literally eradicate queer people online.
The bill says that a “covered platform” – broadly defined as “anything on the internet a minor might use” which is literally the entire fucking internet- has a “duty” to protect minors from anything that might harm them, including “sexual exploitation” and other undefined terms
It also gives state attorneys general the ability to sue to enforce it.
So here’s exactly what’s gonna happen:
Wacko republicans, as they’ve been doing with increasing force this year and last, are going to sue any and every website in existence, saying that the mere existence of LGBT people online constitutes sexual abuse of minors. And websites are gonna be so afraid of not doing the most that they’ll just axe all LGBT everything.
This bill is BAD bad. I’m appalled that democrats are lining up behind what is clearly a republican Trojan horse to eradicate LGBT people from the entire internet.
I’m going to miss these little daily summer harvests! It’s already nearly the end of blackberries, plums and elderberries. I’ll still have tomatoes and apples keeping me company in September, until the first frost. What I’m going to do with myself when I’m no longer harvesting & preparing & preserving fruit for hours on end, I don’t know.
(Impossible to take these pictures without at least 1 hen in the corner because they know eating the bad fruits is their prerogative, so they wait. Sitting at the table you just see their tail feathers like shark fins patiently circling the spot where fruit sometimes fall from the sky)
