Author: kirkwallhellmouth

vaspider:

Click here to support Help Repair Mandy’s Chair and Car! organized by Etienne Perrier

So… my wheelchair can’t be repaired & Medicaid won’t pay for a new one bc I’m ambulatory. Pretty much if you can walk at all, they won’t help. So. Yeah.

If you can help, that’s great. Boosting is also very helpful. Thanks. 💜

Why Isn’t Tumblr Freaking Out?!?!

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Guys. Article 13 just got passed.

Article 13 just got passed.

Article 13 just got passed!!!!

Article 13 just got passed.

Article 13 just got passed.

Article 13 just got passed!

  • Article 13 just got passed.
  1. Article 13 just got passed.

I don’t know if I’ve said it enough. So…

ARTICLE 13 JUST GOT PASSED!!!!

I have been on tumblr all morning and haven’t seen one post about it yet! I don’t understand how!

ARTICLE 13 JUST GOT PASSED!!!!

It was a 438 to 226 fucking landslide vote too. (https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17849868/eu-internet-copyright-reform-article-11-13-approved)

They’re voting on it one last time in January 2019, but that’s barely any time to change anything!!!!

You still have time to call your MEPs so PLEASE!!! Do so.

If you’re outside of the EU, sign this petition: https://www.change.org/p/axel-voss-save-the-internet-reject-article-13-and-11?recruiter=839558037&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition

If you don’t know what this means, it’s basically then end of how the internet currently is in Europe. Memes? Nope. Youtubers? Bye!

You’d need a license for everything!!!!

And my fellow Americans my be all like, well, what’s the big deal for us? It’s a Europe deal.

No, because the Youtubers there that you love so much? This effects them too! I’m freaking out because Jack, the person who helps my depression go away, may no longer be able to do what he does!

Guys, we need to stop this somehow. Please.

Call your MEPs. Sign petitions. Protest (Peacefully please. Don’t get hurt).

I’m sorry for tagging you guys if you don’t want to be or already know, I just want as many people to know as possible!

I can’t tag everyone, but if you see this, please reblog it. Spread the news. Sign the petition. Call your MEPs. Do what you can to help stop this from passing in January.

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I don’t live in Europe but this needs to be spread

I’m spreading this because this is greatly unsettling to me. I live in europe and really can’t imagine how the future would look like.

I don’t live in Europe but I signed the petition and am signal boosting for all my EU pals. Call your MEPs!

Because they still have to vote for it two more times.. maybe .. that’s why?

All you Americans who are saying “I dont live in europe, but…”

You do understand how the internet *works*, right? You *WILL* feel the backlash from this if things go through the way they are going now.

this needs to be spread. article 13 will effect the world.

The internet could change next week, and not in a good way

arawynn:

staff:

You may have heard about the efforts in Europe to reform copyright law. The debate has been ongoing in the European Parliament for months. If approved next week, these new regulations would require us to automatically filter and block content that you upload without meaningful consideration of your right to free expression. 

We respect the copyrights and trademarks of others, and we take all reports seriously to ensure that your creative expression is protected. We make this clear in our Community Guidelines. There’s already a legal framework that works and is fair: Today we take down posts and media that contain allegedly infringing content when we receive a valid DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown request. We also provide clear-cut ways for people to fight back if they believe their removed content was not a true violation. These instances are monitored and reported and live in our biannual transparency report. 

The suggestion to use automated filters for issues of copyright is short-sighted at best and harmful at worst. Automated filters are unable to determine whether a use should be considered “fair use” under the law and are unable to determine whether a use is authorized by a license agreement. They are unable to distinguish legitimate parody, satire, or even your own personal pictures that could be matched with similar photographs that have been protected by someone else. We don’t believe that technology should replace human judgment.

Tumblr is and always has been a place for creative expression, and these new regulations would only make it harder for you to express yourself with the freedom and clarity you do so now. 

If you access Tumblr from Europe and want to act, you can find more information on saveyourinternet.eu. 

Please reblog this as much as you reblogged the posts about Net Neutrality. 

If Article 13 is approved, European People might be basically banned from uploading any fan content. 

You won’t get new fanfics from people in Europe.

You won’t get new gifs from people in Europe.

You won’t get new fanart from people in Europe.

Because they’ll be automatically filtered and blocked!

We might leave Tumblr and other fandom pages.

And if we’re getting all our content blocked? 

You might lose some of your favourite followers/mutuals.

You might not get to read the rest of that fic you’re dying to read – simply because the writer lives in the wrong country.

So do whatever you can to help us stop this.

Reblog this.

CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES TO TELL THEM YOU DON’T WANT ARTICLE 13 TO BE APPROVED IF YOU’RE EUROPEAN! DO IT VIA THE HOMEPAGE

So here is a breakdown for the current form of the patch vest, along with where I got the patches. The vest I got as a jacket from the “men’s” section in Walmart for a bout $20 and cut the sleeves off. Target also had some denim jackets…but those were $40-something and I was not about to cut sleeves off a $40 jacket. Sticking it under a read more because very picture heavy post.

Left side: “she/her” pronoun patch, “RESIST” patch (NerdieKeppie.com); Star Wars Rebel Alliance Symbol (…probably Walmart); rainbow-y arrow (Joann Fabric and Crafts); “NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US”, “SO SAY WE ALL” (NerdieKeppie.com); BSG patch (I got it at a local con, but also available at scifigeeks.com)

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Right side: “HELLO my name is: Inigo Montoya (Books-a-Million); rainbow-y arrow (Joann F&C); “Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters” X-Men patch (Hot Topic); Captain America shield (Walmart); Hufflepuff crest (Hot Topic, probably).

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Collar: BSG captain rank insignia (scifigeeks.com)

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Right side: Red roses and red star (Joann F&C; rose was clearance :3 )

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Left side: White roses and red star (Joann F&C; roses on clearance)

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Back, top: Red stars (Joann F&C); “NEURODIVERSE” (NerdieKeppie.com); Mr. Rogers scouting type badge (Amazon, but the maker’s website is patchtown.com and has neat stuff for better than Amazon prices); AMES with ace pride colors (big box of stick on then iron on letters from Walmart; thread from idk); Type 1 Diabetic Insulin-Dependent patch (Amazon).

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Back, rest of: Big Captain America Shield (Walmart?); laurel-y things (Joann F&C), shiny sequined dragon (Joann F&C, ON CLEARANCE after I’d been eyeing it for a while. lol)

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So. Full front:

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Full back:

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All hand stitched on, occasionally with the help of fabric glue on the big ones.

Guinness’ 200th Anniversary Export Stout is very, very nice.

Unfortunately my brain had to go and be an asshole and distract me from my lovely beer with all sorts of Decidedly Not Lovely Things. Which I won’t talk about right now, but i will talk about something else.

My psychologist understandably wants me to find things I enjoy that involve getting me out of the house and interacting with bearable numbers of peoples. Unfortunately, there’s not a lot to do when you’re over 30 in a college town and have no income. Not a lot of the stuff that would be cool to do that is available to me is free, and even if my parents would probably be happy to give me some money for a thing or two, I don’t want to make myself feel like more of a mooch than I already do.

But there are so many free things our public library has for 11 to 17 year olds now that I wish they’d had when I was that age! Movie nights, game nights, discussions of books/comics versus film versions–all sorts of nerdy wonderful stuff. And it kind of makes being 32 feel really…sucktastic.