I Don’t Want To Disappear Without A Forewarning.

I don’t want to disappear without a forewarning.

As of July 4th 2018, the Internet as we know it might be dead for good.

The European Parliament is passing a new Copyright Directive. Article 13 #CensorshipMachine will impose widespread censorship of all the content we share online. Art, fanfiction, parodies, remixes, mashups, memes, etc.. Anything that you do not hold the rights over will be taken down.

Article 13 would force all online platforms to police and prevent the uploading of copyrighted content, or make people seek the correct licenses to post that content. Internet platforms hosting large amounts of user-uploaded content must monitor user behaviour and filter their contributions to identify and prevent copyright infringement.

Such filters will be mandatory for platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit and Instagram, but also much smaller websites.

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This doesn’t just affect Europe. The content creators you love are going to be in hot water for sharing their art and writing with you online. Any and all content that doesn’t belong to us will be filtered. Even memes are at risk, as the person who took the original photo may want to file complaints against any platform that allows it to be used without permission. But it goes even further than that.

Last Tuesday (19th June 2018) a group of more than 70 people who have played important roles in building the internet and developing it (Tim Berners-Lee, Vincent Cerf, Jimmy Wales, Mitchell Baker…) into what it is today addressed an open letter to the members of the European Parliament:

“As creators ourselves, we share the concern that there should be a fair distribution of revenues from the online use of copyright works, that benefits creators, publishers, and platforms alike.

But Article 13 is not the right way to achieve this. By requiring Internet platforms to perform automatic filtering all of the content that their users upload, Article 13 takes an unprecedented step towards the transformation of the Internet from an open platform for sharing and innovation, into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users. […] The damage that this may do to the free and open Internet as we know it is hard to predict, but in our opinions could be substantial.”

Here is the original Article 13. It’s even scarier. / Link 2

Here is how to contact your MEPs.

Here is a full list of everything that will be affected.

Europe is facing a huge problem, and unlike with Net Neutrality, the world doesn’t seem to care.

Diamoric Terms (a better worded post, finally)

Hello! About several months back, I posted two seperate posts about Diamoric specific community terms. They weren’t exactly the best worded, so here’s a brand new post for people!

Sapphic communities have butch and fem, (with tomcat and doe being seen used by bi and pan ladies,) Achillean communities have bear and twink (and about a hundred other lovely terms,) so in the spirit of things, I coined peacock, crow, and kiwi.

But Hatch, what do those mean?

The Avian Spectrum, as we can call it, isn’t about body type or masc/fem presentation, its about style presentation. A peacock diamoric would be flashy (bright makeup and haircolors, colorful clothes, or anything flamboyant) and a kiwi diamoric would seem like a librarian (neutral earthy tones, simple and nice clothes, simple.) Crow is in the middle of that, and if you’re really wanting some in-the-middle terms, pigeon is between peacock and crow, and falcon is between crow and kiwi!

Examples:

Peacock!

X | X | X

Crow!

X | X | X

Kiwi!

X | X | X

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fearfulsapphic

9 years ago

The signs as inspirational life mottos

aries: fuck the fucking fuckers before the fucking fuckers fuck you.

taurus: I just don't want to look back and think "I could have eaten that".

gemini: don't do meth, do math. it'll fuck you up twice as much.

cancer: never put off til tomorrow what you can straight up cancel.

leo: don't let anyone with bad eyebrows tell you shit about life.

virgo: why say something in 10 words when you can say it in 1000.

libra: everything happens for a reason. but sometimes the reason is that you're stupid and make bad decisions.

scorpio: why wrestle your demons when you can use them to kill your enemies.

sagittarius: if no one comes from the future to stop you from doing it then how bad of a decision can it really be.

capricorn: sarcasm, because beating the shit out of people is illegal.

aquarius: maturity is like a light switch. you only turn it on when needed.

pisces: today i will live in the moment unless it's unpleasant in which case i will eat a cookie.

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fearfulsapphic

8 years ago

I’M HAVING WAY TOO MUCH FUN WITH THIS

Everything is going really well! I just got done checking the scripts so if I’m lucky this game should be available for download within the next couple of days c: