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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
babylonsfalling
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las-lus

btw this is laerte. She is 73 now! Making art and being happy! It's never too late to transition

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Anonymous asked:

im sorry if u didnt want any response to ur vent post but i just went through an autism screening and diagnosis (in sweden) and in my screening they also used the private stuff i'd told my therapist (which u have every right to feel wronged about it. it felt very violating to me as well) tho??? For me it seemed like me being trans/having gender dysphoria just made them more sure i had autism??? so i dunno what tf is going on with ur doctors. i hope u can get the help u want soon <33 have a good night

No need to apologize, anon

I feel like I should specify that my counselor never gave them the documentations of our meetings, and she was horrified when I sent her the message I received and found out they’d somehow gained access to it without her knowing. Long story short, I moved to a different region during the end of my contact with my counselor, and so she sent the screening we did to the people of my current region. I also recall her saying something similar regarding gender dysphoria and autism. Don’t remember exactly what she said but it can be boiled down to one does not cancel out the other. Like, yes I experience gender dysphoria at times, but that doesn’t mean I’m less likely to be autistic

And like, the way they wrote the message made it sound like they hadn’t even looked at the screening nor read the letter my counselor gave alongside the screening, just the documents. And I’m just ??? Hello ???

Anyways, thank you, anon, hope you have a lovely night <3<3

lowkey needed this tbh she's currently looking into things and trying to figure out what's going on so help is on it's way again thank you
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st-dionysus

It seems we are staring this new year the same we did last. With a Black trans man found dead in New York. And like last time, no one on social media is talking about it, because we don't talk about dead trans men.

Danny Siplin. Rest in Peace.ALT

Danny Siplin was 33-years-old, he was a community builder, a dedicated son that drove his mother to work every morning, and he loved the snow.

He was found dead near his car on a bridge in Rochester. Police have alleged there was no foul play involved in his death, but details of his death have not been released to the public. The media reporting his death misgendered him on TV and in articles. He was described by his mother as someone who "give the shirt off [his] back,".


Sam Nordquist's body was found almost a year ago, also in New York, also after he had gone missing. Sam Nordquist was de-gendered by the New York Times, which initially had correctly referred to him as a trans man before changing the language to "person". Sam, a 24-year-old Black trans man, had been tortured and raped for three months before he was killed and his buddy dumped and dedicated. The media also failed him, not just by misgendered and de-gendering him but also by using photos of him pre-transition. Something that his Wikipedia page has also done.

He was described by his mother as someone who "give the shirt off his back,".

Sam Nordquist. Rest in peace.ALT



It has also been almost two years since the murder of TK Hill, a 35-year-old Black publicly transgender man, who was shot and killed in front of his home at the start of 2024. TK had been a community organizer and an LGBT salon owner. TK Hill was also described as someone who would "give the shirt off his back,".

TK Hill. Rest in peace.ALT


As I mourn the death of Danny Siplin, I am still mourning the death of Sam Nordquist and TK Hill. I mourn the deaths of all trans men whose names go unspoken, whose names go erased, who have been defined as people who give and give and give - even when they had very little and faced such great and terrible adversity.

majachee
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Israel Announces Ethnic Cleansing and Permanent Occupation of Gaza


DOn 5 May, Israel's security cabinet unanimously approved a new plan to escalate operations in Gaza, including the "conquest" of the territory and the promotion of the "voluntary migration" of its population into Egypt's Sinai Desert.


Let's call this what it is: the annexation of Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of its citizens-all while we approach ten weeks of Israel blocking food and water to the population.


The approved plan includes several core elements: the military occupation of the Gaza Strip, full territorial control, and the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians to southern Gaza, nearer to the Rafah border crossing into Sinai.


Ethnic cleansing has never been incidental to Israel's project it has been a core objective from the very start. The creation of the state itself was rooted in this goal, and decades later, its policies remain consistent in advancing it.


This is the collapse of international law. Palestine has laid bare a global system that not only permits genocide-but protects it, funds it, and cloaks it in the language of human rights.


We are so far beyond words. Beyond condemnation. What we are witnessing is indefensible: the greatest crime against humanity in our time.

reconstructwriter

If you want to help, not just gape at the tragedy, here's some people who could use a donation or a reblog or both.

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YouTube is implementing an AI policy that tracks your watch history and determines your age with it. The only way to be able to continue watching the videos you want on YouTube if you've been falsley flagged as a minor by their AI is to give YouTube your government ID. This is being implemented in the US right now. It is essential to rage against this and put YouTube in the fucking ground if they continue with it—that may be the only way to make them backtrack. But damn isn't that hard to do when responding to this announcement with a polite but negative comment flags you for violating community guidelines and bans you from even posting it?

galacticmermaid

After I reblogged this, I did some looking, and found the policy update page that talks about the implementation of age verification.

It's called "Extending Protections to More US-Based Teens" and it goes into effect on August 13, 2025.

  • Google states that on that date, they'll begin rolling out "an age estimation model to determine if a US-based user is under the age of 18." No way AI can fuck that up, right?
  • This will occur "regardless of the birthdate you entered when creating your account." So, a 33-year-old like myself, despite putting my accurate birthdate, will still be subjected to this AI model and cannot opt out. Great.
  • And then they'll use the model to market shit to teenagers, because that's always gone well--wait, I'm sorry, they'll use it to "extend age-appropriate product experiences and protections to more teens (like enabling digital wellbeing tools and only showing non-personalized ads)." Right.
  • Google claims they've used this model elsewhere and it's worked well. (I'm assuming they're referring to the age verification roll out in response to the UK’s Online Safety Act.)
  • The model in question uses "a variety of signals" like "YouTube activity and longevity of the account." Well that's not vague at all.
  • When ZDNet reached out, "a YouTube representative stressed that the age-estimation model 'does not collect any new information not already associated with the account'"--which is true... unless your account is anonymous. To revert an account wrongfully flagged as underage, you have to upload a government issued ID, selfie, or credit card. Which defeats the purpose of an anonymous account.

Like the op, I tried to voice my displeasure at the further encroachment of artificial intelligence onto internet platforms. And like op, my reply "failed to post."

What I want to know is what about the above reply or mine

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violates community policy? Or does Google just have AI content filters set up to ping key phrases? This is particularly grating when community policy specifically prohibits spam comments and shit like this

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makes it through but comments that disagree with policy decisions are automatically flagged as inappropriate.

Regardless, this is fucking bunk, on three levels.

Firstly, what a child consumes on the internet is not the responsibility of the internet--or its users. It is the responsibility of the parent of that child.

Parental controls exist not just on televisions, but on phones and computers as well. Not only is it available via the hardware we're using to access the platform, it's also already available on the fucking platform.

Secondly, with this AI age verification rollout, Google is telling its consumers that they get to decide what we consume. That we as consumers are not in control of our experience and that we clearly do not know what is in our own best interests.

This is a violation of the concept of consumer sovereignty.

Thirdly, this model is more or less the implementation of Google's own privatized version of KOSA. Which, as we've discussed ad nauseam here on Tumblr and on the internet at-large, is largely the first step toward internet censorship.

I don't think I need to remind anyone that censorship is bad. For lots of reasons.

And look, I know we're all tired. There are Things Happening and they just keep fucking happening. I know it's a lot.

But you and me? We're the boss in this situation. No company should ever feel comfortable enough to dictate what its consumers can and cannot access. Companies work for us. Without consumers, companies cease to exist. So we have a lot more power than it feels like we do in this situation.

For better or worse, Google and YouTube are part of the ecosystem of information on the internet. And access to information is important. The freedom to access information is a right that we must protect at all costs, regardless of the age of the person accessing that information.

So take a deep breath. And keep yelling at them about this.

You can:

  • Spam their social media.
  • Call their customer service line (1-650-253-0000).
  • File a complaint with the Better Business Bureau.
  • (Politely) Yell at your local news media--if local news covers it, there's a chance that national news might.
  • Sign this petition (or another like it).

And if you're sick of Google's bullshit, you can also just... stop. Stop using their services. And let them know that's why you're leaving.

There are alternatives to Google services:

  • Proton has a VPN, email service, and also has a drive, similar to Google's, as well as a docs feature similar to Google docs.
  • Ellipsus is an alternative to Google docs.
  • Obsidian is another.
  • There's also Dropbox Paper.
  • LibreOffice is an alternative to the Google suite/Microsoft Office suite and storage is local to your device rather than the cloud.
  • DuckDuckGo is a great alternative to Google search, with an easy opt-out for AI features.
  • Firefox is a good alternative browser for Chrome.
  • Twitch, Vimeo and DailyMotion, are viable alternatives for YouTube, depending on what you use it for.

There is, unfortunately, no perfect solution. Google has a monopoly on many of the services it offers, including video-sharing.

But that's another great reason to contact your reps! If you want to keep using YouTube and other Google products, or you don't want other companies to follow Google's lead, go yell at your representatives about it. They have the power to demand action on a state and federal level to protect their constituents.

Call and demand they protect their constituents from predatory business practices (which demanding an ID or credit card, when they have a history of data breaches, most certainly is). Tell your reps that it's against your freedom as a consumer for Google to decide what is and is not appropriate for its consumers to consume, and nowhere in the Constitution does it say that Google is arbiter of our access to information. And let them know that their action or lack thereof will directly impact your voting decisions during the next election.

The only way we can get companies like Google to stop doing stupid shit like this is to get loud about it and to stop using their services.

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For the curious, here are the links I used in my attempted reply:

This one is from 2021, when they were sued for allegedly selling user data to third parties: https://www.tampabay.com/news/2021/05/07/google-selling-users-personal-data-despite-promise-federal-court-lawsuit-claims/

This is from today (08/08/25) about user data being compromised, and has been confirmed by Google itself: https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/08/08/google-confirms-it-has-been-hacked---user-data-stolen/

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