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bad news at past me

editing bc I accidentally tagged someone 😭 so sorry about that !!

god i hope we get info on professor layton and the new world of steam in tomorrow's direct

#@ myself #professor layton

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god i hope we get info on professor layton and the new world of steam in tomorrow's direct

#professor layton #me rambling

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me omw to write an essay about how deep it is that when you're first going thru UF/LF it seems like one of the only things that makes layton act "out of character" is the supposed presence of another layton in future london

#idk if this makes sense #professor layton #hershel layton #unwound future #like he deviates from his gentleman persona in that game so much #tons of angst material #i could genuinely talk about layton's personality in uf/lf all day #like he acts different but it makes sense #my tumblr is lagging so hard so I'll probably continue this tirade later

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the day has arrived. the countdown begins

gonna learn to apply clown makeup so i can look the part for when i continue my tradition of saying "this is it guys i bet mcr is dropping new music this month" every june since 2019

#mcr #GUYS PLEASE DON'T PROVE ME WRONG FOR THE 4TH YEAR IN A ROW #COME ON DO IT FOR THE BIT

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my tumblr turned 1 year old and parts of the screen on the notifications tab have turned bright blue what the hell

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gonna learn to apply clown makeup so i can look the part for when i continue my tradition of saying "this is it guys i bet mcr is dropping new music this month" every june since 2019

#come on guys do it for the bit #appease us for pride month #mcr #mcr5 #my chemical romance

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gonna get political rq (tw: mentions of queerphobia in politics)

greg abbott wanting to nullify harris county (primarily blue) voting results proves that he sees democratic voters as a real threat. there's enough voters in the houston area (and other cities in texas) that he's worried that they will approve of laws he doesn't like. so i don't want to hear any of that "people in Southern states can go fuck themselves, they voted for this" rhetoric. that rhetoric is dismissive to the people endangered by the Southern state governments' terrible policies because they cannot move out.

I could go into this some more, but let me just use a quick example, given the recent surge of anti LGBTQ+ sentiment in the US... When we talk about anti-queer laws in Southern states... don't just go "fuck em." People are in danger. As long as there are queer people in those states, we cannot hold that same dismissive attitude. Same applies for other marginalized groups. This dismissiveness, while an apathetic attempt at comedy, can be crude at best and dangerous at worst.

Sorry for my rant, and I could probably go into this more at a later date, but yeah.

#texas #greg abbott #lgbtq #gay rights #trans rights #transgender

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some of these are just full-on moods now. wow

even more extraordinarily good cropped conservative images

#reblogged

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he's so extra. slay

don paolo is a interesting villain. He actively tries to kill layton by letting loose the ferris wheel, regardless of the destruction. only because he was in love with claire and layton got to her first.

#reblogged #professor layton #don paolo

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every time i see a redraw of this meme format i lose my marbles

yeah

#professor layton #luke triton #clive dove #flora reinhold #reblogged

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Mama, we all go to hell, mama, we all go to hell, I'm writing this letter, in pink glitter gel,

#mcr #mood #reblogged

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the reblogs on this post are unhinged i love them

POV you’re the king and i just made an inappropriate joke about your virility in front of the whole royal court and you want to punish me but you can’t react in anger lest the court think my joke is true

#reblogged

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these "think of the children" laws are getting out of hand. we can't let this go through

URGENT: 🚨🚨EARN IT ACT IS BACK IN THE SENATE 🚨🚨 tumblr's nsfw ban hitting the entire internet this spring 2022

February 1, 2022

I’m so so sorry for the long post but please please please pay attention and spread this

WHAT IS THE EARN IT ACT?

The EARN IT Act has been roundly condemned by nearly every major LGBTQ+ advocacy and human rights organization in the country. This is a bill that will make children less safe, undermine online safety and security, and trample free expression, because it carves out another exception to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA 230), which the ACLU describes as “foundational to modern online communications.” This has been the law that has let the internet grow into what it is today, we’ve had this law since the 90s. (For context, Trump wanted to get rid of this law because he knew it would lead to mass govt surveillance and censorship of minorities online.)

The EARN IT Act will lead to online censorship. Platforms will be incentivized to scan their users’ communications and censor all sex-related content, including sex education, literally anything lgbt, transgender or non-binary education and support systems, and sex worker communication according to the ACLU. All this in the name of “protecting kids” and “fighting CSEM”, both of which the bill does nothing of the sort. In fact it makes fighting CSEM even harder.

If this bill passes, we're going to see most, if not all, adult content and accounts removed from mainstream platforms, for fear of the liability that could come with ever accidentally hosting CSAM, as well as the erasure of end-to-end encryption on messaging platforms.

This is really not a drill. Anyone who makes or consume anything “adult” online has to be prepared to fight Sen. Blumenthal's EARN IT Act, brought back from the grave by a bipartisan consensus to destroy Section 230.

EARN IT will open the way for politicians to define the category of “pornography" as they — or the lobbies that fund them — please, (Right now, right wing organizers are catgorizing books about racism as ‘porn’ to ban them from schools) which is a cherished goal of organizations that seek to reintroduce obscenity prosecutions for content now protected by Free Speech jurisprudence. This will 1000000% be used to eradicate anything LGBT online.

What this bill says it does on the surface is make platforms liable for their users’ activity if that activity involves sex and minors. However, because of 230, platforms are not liable at all about their users' activity. This has allowed platforms to grow and thrive and many niches online to as well. The bill also creates an unelected commission to create “best practices” to combat online child sexual exploitation. While these recommendations are nominally voluntary (so Americans have no decision on who gets to be on it), platforms that refuse to comply will be liable for criminal prosecutions and lawsuits should the government decide any of their users is engaging in online child sexual exploitation.

This is already a nightmare enough. But the bill also DESTROYS ENCRYPTION, you know, the thing protecting literally anyone or any govt entity from going into your private messages and emails and anything on your devices and spying on you.

This bill is going to finish what FOSTA/SESTA started. And that should terrify you.

Senator Blumenthal (Same guy who said ‘Facebook should ban finsta’) pushed this bill all of 2020, literally every activist (There were more than half a million signatures on this site opposing this act!) pushed hard to stop this bill. Now he brings it back, doesn’t show the text of the bill until hours later, and it’s WORSE. Instead of fixing literally anything in the bill that might actually protect kids online, Bluemnthal is hoping to fast track this and shove it through, hoping to get little media attention other than propaganda of "protecting kids" to support this shitty legislation that will harm kids.

The entire EARN IT act is based on *multiple* misunderstandings of the law and reality. It's a really really really bad policy that will do serious harm. But because Senator Blumenthal wants headlines, he'll pretend that it "helps protect the children." It won't. It'll do real damage. It will make CSEM much much worse.

One of the many reasons this bill is so dangerous: It totally misunderstands how Section 230 works, and in doing so (as with FOSTA) it is likely to make the very real problem of CSAM worse, not better. Section 230 gives companies the flexibility to try different approaches to dealing with various content moderation challenges. It allows for greater and greater experimentation and adjustments as they learn what works -- without fear of liability for any "failure." Removing Section 230 protections does the opposite. It says if you do anything, you may face crippling legal liability. This actually makes companies less willing to do anything that involves trying to seek out, take down, and report CSAM because of the greatly increased liability that comes with admitting that there is CSAM on your platform to search for and deal with. This liability would allow anyone for any reason to sue any platform they want, suing smaller ones out of existence. Look at what is happening right now with book bans across the nation with far right groups. This is going to happen to the internet if this bill passes.

(Remember, the state department released a report in December 2021 recommending that the government crack down on "obscenity" as hard the Reagan Administration did. If this bill passes, it could easily go way beyond shit red states are currently trying. It is a goldmine for the fascist right that is currently in the middle of banning every book that talks about race and sexuality across the US.)

NCOSE, the far right anti-LGBT hate group behind the global anti-sex legislations, is pushing the idea that any form of sexual expression, including talking about HEALTH, leads to sex trafficking. Their goal is to eliminate all sex, anything gay, and everything that goes against their idea of ‘God’ from the internet and hyper disney-fy and sanitize it. This is a highly coordinated attack on multiple fronts.

The reason these bills keep showing up is because there is this false lie spread by organizations like NCOSE that platforms do nothing about CSEM online. However, platforms are already liable for child sexual exploitation under federal law. Tech companies sent more than 45 million+ instances of CSAM to the DOJ in 2019 alone, most of which they declined to investigate. This shows that platforms are actually doing everything in their power already to stop CSEM by following already existing laws. The Earn It Act includes zero resources for proven investigation or prevention programs. If Senator Bluementhal actually cared about protecting youth, why wouldn’t he include anything to actually protect them in his shitty horrible bill?

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) along with a coalition of 26 civil society organizations urged the United States Senate to reject the EARN IT Act. Groups on the left and right, including the ACLU, Fight for the Future, EFF, and Hacking // Hustling oppose it. Because it threatens free expression online and will threaten marginalized people’s safety while being totally unnecessary and failing to fix the problem it claims to address. The EARN IT Act empowers states to give law enforcement access to users’ private conversations and force companies to create encryption backdoors for law enforcement. This is totally unnecessary. Platforms are already handing over CSAM to the federal government. It’s actually likely to make prosecuting child molesters more difficult since evidence collected this way likely violates the Fourth Amendment and would be inadmissible in court.

I don't know why so many Senators are eager to cosponsor the "make child pornography worse" bill, but here we are.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

EARN IT Act was introduced yesterday! And it’s already scheduled to get marked up, which is the first step post-introduction. Most bills never go to markup, so this means they are putting pressure to move this through. IF YOU LIVE IN THESE STATES (IL, VT, CA, RI, MN, DE, CT, HI, NJ, and GA), CONTACT YOUR SENATOR AND HOUSE MEMBERS NOW. THIS IS URGENT. This is who gets first crack, and folks in all have Senators who are on the Judiciary committee.

I'm guessing this month or March is when the bill would be passed if there is no opposition 😭 The bill was re-introduced yesterday, already set for markup this Thursday. This feels like an attempt to fast track it this month. Additionally the current makeup of Congress favors those who want it passed. Back in 2020 it was mostly Senate republicans and democrats who are basically republicans (just like now, check the sponsors) pushing it with Ron Wyden using the filibuster to stop their efforts. The house dems didn't want to give Trump a win and needed to appear as pro-privacy/free speech for the 2020 election. Now the dems have the presidency, both chambers of Congress and if you've noticed have spent a few years repeatedly demanding social media censorship and desperately want to give Biden victories. biden isn't like obama who opposed sopa/pipa to appeal to younger voters. This is similar to how FOSTA passed with the group who made it happen last time back again. Far as I'm aware Wyden hasn't spoken about new earn it yet but even if he does oppose it, it's very possible there will be enough Senate democrats to join the republicans in passing it beating a filibuster. Then pelosi's band of house idiots pass it and we have to choose between breaking the law because they can't stop us from using encryption or being obedient sheep to a group who consider themselves above laws.

It already has a fifth of the Senate cosponsoring it. There is a very very very real chance this bill becomes law. This is an uphill battle that's going to happen fast and quick. PLEASE, FIGHT NOW.

202-224-3121 connects you to the congressional hotline.

This website takes you to your Senator / House members contact info. EMAIL, MESSAGE, SEND LETTERS, CALL CALL CALL CALL CALL. Calling is the BEST way to get a message through. Get your family and friends to send calls too. This is literally the end of free speech online.

More sources to read about this bill:

https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/the-earn-it-act-is-anti-evidence

Fight for the Future’s Statement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=678EW8v09z8&t=1s

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220131/22423648395/senates-new-earn-it-bill-will-make-child-exploitation-problem-worse-not-better-still-attacks-encryption.shtml

EARN IT Act treats Myths as Facts.

https://surviveearnit.com/what-is-the-earn-it-act/ From 2020, but little has changed about the bill.

https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/earn-it-act-back

Center for Democracy and Technology’s Statement

DISCORD LINK IF YOU WANT TO HELP FIGHT IT

TLDR: The EARN IT Act will lead to online censorship of any and all adult & lgbt content across the entire internet, open the floodgates to mass surveillance the likes which we haven't seen before, lead to much more CSEM being distributed online, and destroy encryption. Call 202-224-3121 to connect to your house and senate representative and tell them to VOTE NO on this bill that does not protect anyone and harms everyone.

#serious #reblogged

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was gonna write this in the replies but i ran out of room lol so here we go

I can't really answer the other questions, but I can try my hand at the 5th one. Personally, I think the hat represents Layton's memory of Claire, something that he's been holding on to for a long time. He hasn't yet fully processed his feelings yet imo, so he refuses to take it off, feeling as though it would be disrespectful to her memory. However, in the scene where he and Claire say their goodbyes, it's the beginning of his journey of starting to heal from what happened (with Claire's encouragement to stay strong and let go). So he takes the hat off (a common sign of respect - turns out, it's not "disrespectful" at all), but he still holds it close to him. I personally interpret this as him finally starting to move on, but still allowing himself to keep Claire close to him (but at a healthier extent). As for when he's working, I personally see this as not having to constantly have someone on your mind for you to still care for them, if that makes sense. He no longer has to wear the hat 24/7 because now he recognizes it was the sign of a broader issue he had with letting go of trauma, and he knows that the hat wasn't what was keeping Claire's memory alive - it was him as a person.

I don't think this is the full meaning/symbolism because I did see another really good theory in the replies (which is honestly better and represents a broader 'flaw' of Layton's character that spans through the whole series)

sorry if this doesn't make sense, i feel like it could've been written better but :)

Okay, I just finished playing Unwound Future for myself today. I enjoyed the game, but I have several questions

**Major Spoilers for Unwound Future**

1. Dimitri was literally using the ****very public, tv broadcasted**** demonstration to kidnap the Prime Minister and London's greatest physicists. He even invited the police. ...Why? That was extremely risky.

2. How did he manage to kidnap all those physicists in broad daylight without getting caught?

3. Here's the biggest one: We know how Dimitri got the physicists to work on the time machine: They genuinely believed they were 10 years in the future and that building a time machine to go back 10 years was their only way home. Here's the problem, though: It's revealed that most of them weren't actually working on the time machine, they were working on Clive's mass destruction fortress. How'd Clive get them to do that?

4. So Claire died, 9 other people in nearby apartments died. How did Bill Hawks survive, much less fully recover from his injuries

5. This is much more of an Englishly/literature kind of question than a logical one: Is there any literary/symbolic significance behind Layton taking off his hat after Claire's death, and then in the final scene when he's just working, he also isn't wearing his hat?

#professor layton #reblogged

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happy birthday to kellin quinn my favorite emo high E string. your voice will always be blue to me /pos

#kellin quinn #an amazing post /j

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So Arizona launched an “education hotline” that allows “concerned parents” to report “””critical race theory””” and other things like ~gender identity~ being taught in the classroom

It would be a shame if the number and email were spread to bad actors looking to prank call the AZ Department of Education

602-771-3500 or empower @ azed .gov 🤡

#reblogged #we do a little trolling

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I'm not sure if anyone's said this before, but "I mean this, I'm okay! (Trust me)" is the emo version of that Character A/Character B "I'm too hot! (hot damn)" writing prompt

#mcr #my chemical romance #i'm not okay (i promise) #my chem