PSA / virus

ask-the-skele-household:

arr-jim-lad:

today i got two different blogs messaging me about needing bitcoins, both blogs are normal blogs (aka not bots) and both have followed me for a long time.

if anyone gets a chat message like this from me, please don’t interact with it, as it’s probably some kinda virus going around and i don’t know how one gets infected.

be careful guys, don’t click suspicious links mkay?

* reblogging here to inform more people!!

Yea I got one of these messages today and instantly blocked the user. I don’t even know if they were a follower of mine or not since notes have died after the addition of “Best Stuff First”, but regardless.

Stay safe out there, folks.

Once more for old time’s sake

staff:

🔥 With your help, we passed Title II net neutrality protections. Now we need to defend it.🔥

On December 14 the FCC will vote on Commissioner Pai’s plan to repeal Title II rules. This week he tried to justify that decision with a “myth busting” explainer where he makes a lot of sweeping claims he doesn’t think you’ll fact check.

So let’s go through his big points:

❌ Mr. Pai claims ISPs won’t block access or throttle content

These are the real facts. Before Title II, the internet was so “free and open” that…

Comcast blocked P2P file sharing services (EFF).

AT&T blocked Skype from iPhones (Fortune) and, later, wanted FaceTime users to pay for a more expensive plan (Freepress).

MetroPCS blocked all streaming video except YouTube (Wired).

In today’s media market where the same huge companies make and deliver content, Commissioner Pai wants us to trust that corporations won’t use their dominance to bury competitive content or services.

❌ Mr. Pai claims Title II keeps ISPs from building new networks

Here’s another claim Commissioner Pai doesn’t want you to fact check, but:

AT&T’s own CEO told investors that the company would deploy more fiber optic networks in 2016 than 2015 when the FCC passed Title II protections (Investor call transcript).

Charter’s CEO said “Title II, it didn’t really hurt us; it hasn’t hurt us” (Ars Technica).

And Comcast actually increased investment in their network by 10% in Q1 of this year (Ars).

❌ Mr. Pai claims repealing Title II won’t hurt competition

As we mentioned above, ISPs tried to interfere with the services their customers could access and courts had to step in to stop them.

The FCC tried to craft net neutrality rules in 2010 called the Open Internet Order but the ISPs sued and won. The courts told the FCC that the only way to guarantee a free and open internet was using their Title II authority. Without those protections, any of these things would be legal:

Your ISP launches a streaming video service and starts throttling other streaming services until they’re unusable.

Your phone company cuts a deal with a popular music streaming service so it doesn’t count towards your data cap but lowers your overall data limit. If a better service comes along (or your favorite artist releases new tracks somewhere else) you can’t use it without incurring huge data fees.

A billionaire buys your ISP and blocks access to news sites that challenge their ideology.

Repealing Title II would be like letting a car company own the roads and banning a competitor from the highways.

❌ Mr. Pai claims there won’t be fast lanes and slow lanes

Let’s break this down: We won’t have fast lanes and slow lanes, we’ll have “priority access” and…non-priority access? Well gosh.

🚨 Please help us protect Title II one more time! 🚨

This week we co-signed a letter with more than 300 other companies—businesses Mr. Pai gleefully ignores—urging the FCC to retain the Title II internet protections. Now we need you.

Go to 👉 Battle For The Net 👈 to start a call with your representatives in Congress. Tell them to publicly support Title II protections.

The FCC votes on December 14.

We’re only powerful when we work together.

Oh, also: that post about automatically unfollowing the #net neutrality tag—it’s not true. It’s really not. That’s not who we are. Whatever happened, we haven’t been able to reproduce it. We tried. A lot.

But if it were true—which it’s not, we feel compelled to say again—THAT’S EXACTLY WHY YOU SHOULD CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES and demand a free, open, and neutral internet.

We can do this one more time, guys! ❤️

My Cat is sick :<

walkingmelonsaaa:

https://www.gofundme.com/help-treat-our-furbaby-setti

Hey so back in the summer My friend’s dog Jasper got sick? Well now MY Cat is really sick. DX

A week or less ago he suddenly started vomiting yellow goop, and has been acting very sick. Blood work is showing that it is mot likely Liver Failure which is lethal if not treated. This is super disheartening because my other cat smokey has terminal heart disease which we have known about for a while, as it isn’t curable. I knew that around this Christmas season that I was prepared to lose one cat… but not possibly another…

My sister started a GoFundMe page for Seti, (our cat) in attempt to try and help pay for medical bills because my mom is already in debt to the vet because of the medical bills our other cat with the heart disease has wracked up, so putting on another cat is just oh man. It’s just really tough.

I don’t want to ask this of you guys again, but if anyone wants to help us out, even if it’s $1 that would be wonderful. and if not (which I completely understand) if you could just spread the message of this post, and reblog it to pass it around, it would help us out a lot. I am thankful that me and Sam just got done with a Print Sale, so I can help my mom with payment for Seti’s medical bills, but I know it wouldn’t hurt to send this around as my mom is very strapped for cash.

Thank you guys. Here’s the Go Fundmepage here.

https://www.gofundme.com/help-treat-our-furbaby-setti

thoughtremixer:

thoughtremixer:

Net Neutrality is in DEEP Trouble

Reposted from Facebook’s PBS Newshour.

Now that I got your attention with this video…

The FCC decided to go ahead with the vote to remove the Net Neutrality rules that the Obama administration set up.

As you can see, this is what the major ISPs wants to do if they have their way. This can do a few things:

Stiff new innovations, making it harder for smaller companies to compete.

Silence independent voices.

Potentially putting up a “walled garden” on a wide scale.

Make distribution of information harder for low-income people.

Imagine this website, if you will, only working on Verizon networks while AT&T customers are charged a little extra, or have slower access to the same information.

Remember, your ISP owns content providers and may give top-shelf, VIP treatment to their own things while stiffing everyone else. We need to address this.

Now, some of you may recall earlier this year that John Oliver and a lot of other people, companies (and yours truly) did a rallying cry to tell the FCC to back off the Net Neutrality rules, which resulted in millions of comments on their proposal.

However, there’s been a few problems… in short, it seems that the FCC chose to not listen due to “inconsistancies”.

Sidenote: Tumblr isn’t the best place to talk “long-form” so if you’re interested in looking at these notes, here are some places to go to.

https://medium.com/@AGSchneiderman/an-open-letter-to-the-fcc-b867a763850a – “ Specifically, for six months my office has been investigating who perpetrated a massive scheme to corrupt the FCC’s notice and comment process through the misuse of enormous numbers of real New Yorkers’ and other Americans’ identities. Such conduct likely violates state law — yet the FCC has refused multiple requests for crucial evidence in its sole possession that is vital to permit that law enforcement investigation to proceed.”

https://twitter.com/BanditRandom/status/933066570741383169 – A twitter thread about how the Wall Street Journal collected someone’s information to sign in FAVOR of Net Neutrality.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/fake-net-neutrality-comments-at-heart-of-lawsuit-filed-against-fcc/ – “Fake” net neutrality comments at heart of lawsuit filed against FCC

So, what can we do about this?

There are a few things you can do to help slow down this nightmare situation.

You can’t just “like” this note, you have to reblog to spread, but more importantly, you have to TAKE action!

1) Make calls to your representatives – https://5calls.org/issue/defend-fcc-net-neutrality – this website will tell you who to call and an easy-to-follow script so that you know exactly what to say.

2) You can support groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU and Free Press who are fighting to keep Net Neutrality:

https://www.eff.org/

https://www.aclu.org/

https://www.freepress.net/

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/

https://www.publicknowledge.org/

https://www.demandprogress.org/

3) You can add a comment to the proposal using John Oliver’s URL at http://www.gofccyourself.com

4) Write a letter to your representative. Not an email, an actual, snail mail letter.

Let’s all band together and do something about this. Our future of sharing information, building innovation, nurturing voices and creativity depends on your actions now!

I know it may sound hopeless. Look at when they announced this (you probably didn’t know they announced this on Monday when you’re busy getting ready to for the holiday!). But if we say it with one voice to BACK OFF THE NET, we maybe able to make a difference.

Hi.

I’m the Original Poster and I did my best to keep this brief with sources you can see for yourself.

However, with misinformation being a thing, I decided to amend to this to give you some extra pointers as to why I was specific about these steps and not recommend things like strictly writing to the FCC.

1) Calling your reps and writing them is more effective than doing it via email. It’s been stated over, and over, and over again. Sadly, letters and phone calls are more effective.

2) Signing a petition can help, but without a way to verify you, it can be just as useful as shouting on Twitter (and will they look at Twitter? Nope.) It’s not totally useless, but it will not totally do the job.

See, if the FCC can use “bots” as an excuse (look at the sources in the original post), what makes you think a senator and representatives won’t? This is why “calling your rep” is the first action step and “writing your reps” is the last.

3) Regardless, the non-profit organizations’ job (the one I posted about) is to spread awareness BEYOND YOUR NETWORK. Think of them as a private army you’re recruiting for this one mission. You can only tell so many people and some of you don’t live in the United States, which makes it even harder!

4) BTW, you’re not just talking about this on Tumblr, are you? You have to talk to people on your other social networks as well. They are affected by things as well. Don’t want to talk? Post a link to here and let me do the talking for you.

5) While I have done the research for you, please do your own in conjunction with this. That way, you can be better informed, especially when talking about this to other people.

6) Oh and one more thing since I did neglect this in my last post. I forgot to post the “deadline” – the actual day they will vote. Well…

We have until December 14, 2017!

So, let’s mobilize! Organize! Transform and roll out!

Okay, maybe not the last one…

But make the calls to your reps! Scroll up and do your part, no matter which side you’re on!

P.S. – I also posted examples of how Net Neutrality is helping us in the United States.

Here we are. A post with everything you’d need to deal with this. Many thanks to the OP for doing this.

Mun here, I have been struggling for a while now on drawing hands. May I ask, how do you tackle this issue other then “practice”? (what methods do you use??)

jakei95:

I used to see hand poses from anime or manga, when I didn’t find the pose I wanted, just took some photos of my hand, then I traced them until I learned how hand’s anatomy worked :3

Tracing!! Is good!! For learning!! Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise!!

Just don’t make a career of it ‘cause that’s pretty bad.

fuckingradfems:

notsocolourblind:

hello-imaliveandwandwell:

hiroshimalated:

Please keep this circulating. Cops are getting more and more brazen, know your rights!

good to know

Reblogging every time this goes past

I had to learn my rights the hard way…read this, study it, memorize it, this is insanely valuable information.

loverofpiggies:

Actually I should have posted this earlier, in relation to my ‘Something Important’ post. But its sitting in my head, so I gotta get it out.

I know the tempting thing, with dealing people like that, is to talk to them or yell at them or snap at them wanting to change.

But when you see them post again, and again, and AGAIN, the moment attention dies down, to make another surge of attention on them?

You’re giving them what they want. Bad attention, good attention…. people like this just CRAVE attention and they want everyone to pity them and the ‘woe is me!’ mentality.

But you can tell them until you’re blue in the face how unhealthy their mentality is, and the simple truth is, they will just. Not listen. And it does nothing good for you, either. Its just an awful cycle.

So the best thing you can do. The honest to goodness best thing you can do, is IGNORE them.

They want you to focus at them. They want you to drag new people to their page, bad attention or good attention it literally doesn’t matter.

These people just want ATTENTION, and will do anything to get that attention.

My last post was quite vague, and for a good reason, because it applies to many situations that I see when people put on rose-colored glasses for someone they admire.

But seriously. Don’t reblog their ‘victim mentality’ posts. Because that’s exactly what they want, and you play into their hands.

I’m not saying not to call them out when they do something genuinely awful. But I am saying, if you just sort of let them fade out of your life, or just ignore their victim bullshit, they have no ammo anymore. They stop having any power, because no one cares. They stop getting all that attention they crave, because you don’t play into their hands anymore.

This will be the very last post I make about this. Because tbh, this is the first and last time I give any energy to this. And, I ain’t gonna give anymore attention to this subject to someone who doesn’t really deserve my time.

Peace, guys

Another good post, OP.

Something rather important.

loverofpiggies:

Some people might think this is coming out of the blue. But I need to explain something.

You can admire someone’s creative work. Maybe books, or music, or comics, or art, whatever you like. You can admire someones talent.

But admiring a person’s talent, should not blind you to their faults. Especially when their faults could be very serious.

Admiring someone’s work, does not mean you should shield your eyes from awful things that someone might do. You should not believe that, because someone is talented, that this automatically assumes they are a ‘good person’. The two are completely unrelated.

A person is a good person, if they do their best to treat others with care and respect. Talent, or lackthereof, is not what permits what a ‘good person’ is.

Talent does not make someone a good person.

Fans, or followers, don’t make someone a good person.

Being ‘famous’ or popular, does not someone a good person.

What makes someone a good person, is how they treat others.

I need to point this out. Sometimes you need to look critically, at someone you admire. Do they seem to have an unusual amount of drama around them? Do they constantly blame everyone else as the ‘problem’ or that the world ‘hates them’? Are they always the ‘victim’? Do they seem desperate for attention, and keep saying or doing things that come out of the blue, just for people to feel ‘sorry’ for them? Do they lash out at the slightest criticisms? Do they seem to flip/flop very quickly?

This mentality is potentially very dangerous. You can be a fan of this person all you want, and watch their drama unfold, but say one wrong word…

And now you become the target, of this person’s anger. Or your friend, becomes the target of this person’s anger. This hurts people. This can be devastating. This can be disastrous.

This is extremely manipulative, can be very abusive, and very dangerous. And it is important that you recognize these behaviors, and SEPARATE a person’s talent from their behaviors.

Don’t let your admiration for someone, blind you from very, VERY serious faults in their character.

For your own sake.

Good post OP.

I like this post a lot.

Tag: important

PSA / virus

if anyone gets a chat message like this from me, please don’t interact with it, as it’s probably some kinda virus going around and i don’t know how one gets infected.

Once more for old time’s sake

🔥 With your help, we passed Title II net neutrality protections. Now we need to defend it.🔥

❌ Mr. Pai claims ISPs won’t block access or throttle content

❌ Mr. Pai claims Title II keeps ISPs from building new networks

❌ Mr. Pai claims repealing Title II won’t hurt competition

❌ Mr. Pai claims there won’t be fast lanes and slow lanes

🚨 Please help us protect Title II one more time! 🚨

Go to 👉 Battle For The Net 👈 to start a call with your representatives in Congress. Tell them to publicly support Title II protections.

The FCC votes on December 14.

We’re only powerful when we work together.

We can do this one more time, guys! ❤️