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by crowfooted

staff:

🚨 The internet needs you 🚨

You’re up again, Tumblr. 

Back in 2015 you demanded that the FCC adopt strict net neutrality rules and establish a free and open internet. And you won. 

That should’ve been the end of it. But apparently not.

The new head of the FCC wants to undo the net neutrality protections you fought so hard for.

His proposed changes open the door to your web traffic being slowed down, or even blocked altogether. You could be forced to pay extra to use your favorite apps. You could even be prevented from getting news from the sources you trust.

Title II protects consumers and democracy by ensuring all voices can be heard.

You know the drill. Here’s what to do:

The FCC is taking comments from the public, and dearfcc.org is making it as simple as possible for you to make your voice heard.

Go there now 👉 dearfcc.org ✌️

You’ll just need to provide a name, an address, and then say a little bit about why rolling back Title II protections is a bad idea. If you’re not quite sure what to write, here’s something to get you started:

I’m writing to urge you to keep our Open Internet rules based on Title II in place. Without them, we could lose the internet as we know it.

The proposed changes to FCC rules would allow fast lanes for sites that pay, and force everyone else into slow lanes. We’ve already seen access to streaming services like Netflix, popular games like League of Legends, and communication platforms like FaceTime slowed down, or even blocked. Conditions like this hurt businesses large and small, and penalize the users who patronize them. 

The changes also open the door to unfair taxes on internet users, and could also make it harder for blogs, nonprofits, artists, and others who can’t pay up to have their voices heard.

Please leave the existing net neutrality rules based on Title II in place.

Thank you!

If you need more ammo, feel free to quote these experts from our net neutrality Issue Time. TechCrunch and Battle for the Net also have some good starters.

Everyone is counting on everyone else here. Do your part and tell the FCC to keep a free and open internet under Title II. 

by crowfooted

theinkstainsblog:

poetsandwriters:

“There are studies that show that fiction in particular builds empathy—that when you read about characters who don’t look or live like you, you begin to understand them a little bit better. You understand what makes you similar and how vast the differences are, and it helps you to be a little bit more compassionate toward people who are different from you. Right now it seems like—not just in America, but around the world—we need a little more empathy.”

—Gene Luen Yang, in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine (2017)

When people ask why representation is important…

by crowfooted

whileyoustillcan:

kamikazesoundsociety:

Gossamer – KamikazeSoundSociety

(For @whileyoustillcan)

He’s been feeling funny all week. Slightly sick, a little
nauseated, his hands shaky. He keeps dropping things. When Papa came home last
night Credence was fast asleep on the sofa, all the lights out, dinner still
out on the counter. He barely remembers being picked up and carried to his bed,
fingers knotted into his Papa’s cable knit sweater, nuzzling his cheek into the
soft wool, breathing in warmth and safety.

“Are you unwell, Credence?” his father asks him in the morning,
the back of his cool hand pressed against Credence’s cheek. His fingers span
the length from his lips to his ear and Credence shivers, eyelashes fluttering
down over his cheekbones. “You’re a little warm,” Papa says, concern turning
his mouth down and forming a fine line between his heavy brows. “Why don’t you
stay home from school today?”

“Oh – okay, Papa,” Credence says obediently. His hand falls from
Credence’s face and his stomach drops. He doesn’t know why – he wants Papa to
keep touching him, keep his lovely cool hand soft against Credence’s face. In
the wake of its loss he feels hotter and sicker than ever, feverish and
trembling.

OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS ENTIRE DAMN FIC YOU NEED TO READ IT IT’S SO PERFECT THE IMAGERY AND CREDENCE AND GRAVES AND THE SEX AND AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH