I’m sure everyone knows about the big Net Neutrality stuff that’s going on. It can be confusing, but please know that it is so important to do our parts to keep things the way they are. To make it easier, I have made a copy/paste email that you can send directly to each member:
Subject: Oppose the Attempts to Roll Back Net Neutrality
Ajit.Pai@fcc.gov, Ajit Pai,
Hello. My name is [Name]. I am writing to express my objections to your attempts to roll back Net Neutrality.
A free and open internet is integral to our nation. It has helped small businesses develop, opened up access to information, and leveled the playing ground for so many, regardless of their financial circumstances.
Rolling back Net Neutrality would change all of this. I object to the rollback, and demand that you hold national hearings to gauge public opinion on his efforts.
[add additional comments here or continue using this script:] Rolling back Net Neutrality is not the answer we need or want. Many Americans oppose rolling back Net Neutrality. People who support Net Neutrality believe it will force leading internet providers and companies who control valuable internet assists to compete with each other which is supposed to lower prices.
This is not the case. Rolling back Net Neutrality would make the costs go higher and higher because nothing is stopping these companies from exploiting the middle class and lower class.
To close: I object to the rollback, and ask that you join me in opposing Chairman Pai’s attempts to roll back Net Neutrality.[end optional comments]
Sincerely,
[Name] [contact]
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Subject: Oppose the Attempts to Roll Back Net Neutrality
Mignon.Clyburn@fcc.gov, Mignon Clyburn,
Hello. My name is [name]. I am writing to express my objections to Chairman Pai’s attempts to roll back Net Neutrality.
A free and open internet is integral to our nation. It has helped small businesses develop, opened up access to information, and leveled the playing ground for so many, regardless of their financial circumstances.
Rolling back Net Neutrality would change all of this. I object to the rollback, and demand that Chairman Pai hold national hearings to gauge public opinion on his efforts.
[add additional comments here or continue using this script:] Rolling back Net Neutrality is not the answer we need or want. Many Americans oppose rolling back Net Neutrality. People who support Net Neutrality believe it will force leading internet providers and companies who control valuable internet assists to compete with each other which is supposed to lower prices.
This is not the case. Rolling back Net Neutrality would make the costs go higher and higher because nothing is stopping these companies from exploiting the middle class and lower class.
To close: I object to the rollback, and ask that you join me in opposing Chairman Pai’s attempts to roll back Net Neutrality.[end optional comments]
Sincerely,
[name] [contact]
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Subject: Oppose the Attempts to Roll Back Net Neutrality
Mike.O’Reily@fcc.gov, Michael O’Reilly,
Hello. My name is [name]. I am writing to express my objections to Chairman Pai’s attempts to roll back Net Neutrality.
A free and open internet is integral to our nation. It has helped small businesses develop, opened up access to information, and leveled the playing ground for so many, regardless of their financial circumstances.
Rolling back Net Neutrality would change all of this. I object to the rollback, and demand that Chairman Pai hold national hearings to gauge public opinion on his efforts.
[add additional comments here or continue using this script:] Rolling back Net Neutrality is not the answer we need or want. Many Americans oppose rolling back Net Neutrality. People who support Net Neutrality believe it will force leading internet providers and companies who control valuable internet assists to compete with each other which is supposed to lower prices.
This is not the case. Rolling back Net Neutrality would make the costs go higher and higher because nothing is stopping these companies from exploiting the middle class and lower class.
To close: I object to the rollback, and ask that you join me in opposing Chairman Pai’s attempts to roll back Net Neutrality.[end optional comments]
Sincerely,
[name] [contact]
~
Its super easy to do guys and every little bit helps.
Author: immortalwave
If you are giving your autistic child chlorine dioxide, YOU ARE A FUCKING ABUSER and you fail as a parent.
Chlorine dioxide is basically bleach that gets peddled as a cure for autism.
Parents give this to autistic kids either by mouth or as an enema.
They assume the distress, pain, and mucus being vomited or pooped out is “ropeworms” aka they assume it is the autism “leaving the child’s body.” This is actually the mucous membranes from the child’s digestive tract being burned off.
These awful, horrible, very bad people are destroying their child’s body and causing them immense pain and distress because they want to cure autism. The child learns that if they act autistic, they get hurt, so they stop acting autistic and the parent calls that “cured”.
Any parent who does this should be in prison for child abuse.
If you know of a parent who is doing this to their child, report them to the authorities immediately and get those children out of that abusive home.
9-Year-old with cancer wants cards for his last Christmas
“Nine-year-old Jacob Thompson is your average kid. His obsessions include Minecraft and Legos, and he’s a huge “Star Wars” fan.
He’s
also a photographer, singer and comedian, according to his stepmother,
Tara Artinyan. And most of all, he really, really loves penguins.But
Jacob has Stage 4 high-risk neuroblastoma, and doctors told his family
in early October he probably only had a month to live.So they’ll
celebrate Christmas early this year, and Jacob wants people to celebrate
with him by sending him cards, his mother, Michelle Simard told CNN.“He
got some cards from this Halloween, and he opened up and saw them and
it was like getting a gift. He read it to us and had a big smile his
face and his nose scrunched,” Jacob’s father, Roger Guay, told CNN in a
phone interview. “He was excited to see what people had to say and it
just brightened his day.”Fighting a long battle
Jacob
was diagnosed with high-risk neuroblastoma when he was 5. According to
the American Cancer Society, only half of children diagnosed with the
disease reach the five-year survival mark.After Jacob was admitted to the Barbara Bush Children’s
Hospital on October 11, doctors discovered that the neuroblastoma had
spread to his head and was incurable, according to a GoFundMe page set
up by his mother.“People have called him an old soul and I
believe it because he has taught us so much about life and about
people,” said Guay. “He’s accomplished everything that he needed to do
by 9 years old, and a lot of people don’t accomplish that, ever.”An early Christmas
Artinyan said the family decided to “fast-forward” Christmas to give Jacob one last celebration.
And for him, that means a lot of snow, a decked-out tree, and of course, a real-life Santa Claus.
But
before his improvised Christmas celebration takes place in early
November, Jacob asked for cards from anyone around the world who wanted
to share his Christmas spirit.And only five days after he
announced his wish, he has already received more than 100 cards from
people all over the country – and even beyond.“We got over a
hundred, and they’re from all over the world. We have some from the
Netherlands, from Australia, from Denmark,” said Artinyan. “We’ve heard
from all over the world at this point. We’ve even heard from
Antarctica.”Antarctica – where Jacob’s favorite animals live.
“We’d
like people to live life like a penguin, and by that we mean dive into
life, find warmth among friends, stay cool and just give to others,”
said Artinyan, referring to Jacob’s favorite penguin poem, “Advice from a
Penguin.”Cards can be sent to Jacob here:
Jacob Thompson
c/o Maine Medical Center
22 Bramhall Street
Portland, ME 04102
USA
FOR JACOB
💜💙💜💙 FOR JACOB
PLEASE SEND CARDS!!!
Please donate! Also I’m still on a break. Sorry.
I jumped on the bandwagon. So. Hiya
self care is playing animal crossing for 32 consecutive hours
Imagine paying $40 extra a month for Tumblr
That’s what is going to happen if we let Ajit Pai, the FCC chairman, go through with repealing Title II (AKA Net Neutrality).
Simply put, without Net Neutrality, Internet Service Providers like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T will be able to “bundle” websites much like cable ON TOP OF paying for internet connection. “Want access to Netflix AND Tumblr? Get the Entertainment Package! $40 a month. What about Amazon and Ebay? Add an extra $20 a month to get the Shopping Package.”
Not only will they be able to bundle websites and charge more, they will also be able to censor and block websites that they don’t agree with entirely.
THIS WILL BE THE END OF INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT.
For business owners, it will be even worse. Ex: Comcast will ask Amazon to pay high fees to be available in a low-cost package, fees that websites like Poshmark or Etsy will not be able to pay. Therefore, only Fortune 500’s will be available to web users at a low cost. Say goodbye to Etsy (unless you’re willing to shell out $70 a month for the “All-Inclusive” package).
To learn about Net Neutrality, why it’s important, and/or want tools to help you fight for Net Neutrality, visit BattleForTheNet (https://www.battleforthenet.com)
There are five people deciding the future of the internet, three men (Rep) and two women (Dem). The two women have come out as No votes. We need only to convince ONE of the other members to flip to a NO vote to save Net Neutrality.
There are many ways you can help:
WHAT TO DO IF YOU’RE A LAZY TUMBLR USER WITH ANXIETY WHO TRIES TO HELP WITH JUST REBLOGS / LIKES:
Here are 2 petitions to sign, one international and one exclusively US.
International: https://www.savetheinternet.com/sti-home
US: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/do-not-repeal-net-neutrality
(After you sign make sure to verify via email, it may take up to 30 mins to receive the email).
Text “resist” to 504-09. It’s a bot that will send a formal email, fax, and letter to your representatives. It also finds your representatives for you. All you have to do is text it and it holds your hand the whole way.
HERE ARE MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE:
These are the emails of the 5 people on the FCC roster.
Blow up their inboxes!
Ajit Pai – Ajit.Pai@fcc.gov
Mignon Clyburn – Mignon.Clyburn@fcc.gov
Michael O’Rielly – Mike.O’Rielly@fcc.gov
Brendan Carr – Brendan.Carr@fcc.gov
Jessica Rosenworcel – Jessica.Rosenworcel@fcc.gov
You can support groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU and Free Press who are fighting to keep Net Neutrality:
• https://www.fightforthefuture.org/
• https://www.publicknowledge.org/
• https://www.demandprogress.org/
Set them as your charity on Amazon Smile here (https://smile.amazon.com/)
Write to your House Representative here
(http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/)
And Senators here: https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?OrderBy=state)
Write to the FCC here (https://www.fcc.gov/about/contact)
Add a comment to the repeal here (https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?proceedings_name=17-108&sort=date_disseminated,DESC)
Here’s an easier URL you can use thanks to John Oliver (http://www.gofccyourself.com)
Also check this out, which was made by the EFF and is a low transaction cost tool for writing all your reps in one fell swoop.
Most importantly, VOTE. This should not be something that is so clearly split between the political parties as it affects all Americans, but unfortunately it is.
This is so terrifying and important to pay attention to. Imagine an Internet where your provider controls the news headlines you see based on which ones can pay.
Autism Type #770
Many Questions Autistic? Is This Fine??? Autistic???????
To all of you who made it through thanksgiving with unsupportive families: I’m so proud of you and I’m so sorry your family is unsupportive.
To all of you who couldn’t make it through thanksgiving without breaking at least once: I’m so proud of you, and I’m so sorry you had to go through this.
To all of you who couldn’t or didn’t go to thanksgiving: I’m so proud of you. Take care of yourself.
To all of you who went to thanksgiving and had to answer to a different name or pronoun; had to be a different person: I’m so sorry that it has to be like that, and I’m so proud of you for putting up with it.
When you die, you appear in a cinema with a number of other people who look like you. You find out that they are your previous reincarnations, and soon you all begin watching your next life on the big screen.
If I shared anything with my reincarnations, it was in our belief in fate. Though each previous version of me held a very different perspective of it. The me that had died in the Great Depression thought it a terrible thing, wicked and omnipotent. The me that had lived as king in the middle ages thought it a gift presented by God. Me, I believed it a promise.
My next reincarnation was a baby with deep blue eyes and pink skin named George. He started his life alone. George cried so much that they had to put him in a separate room, devoid of the other infants. A nurse checked in on him every few hours. Nobody blamed her. She had more pressing matters to attend to, such as George’s mother, whose heart rate was steadily growing out of control and her breathing stuttered.
When the young lady died, she did so whispering her son’s name. I wasn’t sure if she ever even got a look at him. In that hospital room, with the flat-line beep of a heart rate monitor, the nurse checking on George stood, lips quivering and fists clenched.
In this world, children were supposed to be loved by their parents. If not the mother, who else would? For George, it was nobody, not even himself.
The orphanage boasted posters of smiling blonde-haired boys and girls with deep blue eyes. George could’ve been a literal poster boy if he ever smiled. But no matter how many stuffed animals they threw his way, how many hugs and smiles they offered him, they could never get those lip-locked edges to curve up.
By the time he had hit thirteen, he had already smoked his first cigarette and drank his first beer. Nobody wanted to tell him, but everybody knew. Nobody adopted teenagers. He would be a lifer, an unwanted child turned into an unwanted adult.
And on his seventeenth birthday, he bought a gun.
None of us watching were worried at all for other people. Despite everything that happened, George was a gentle boy and that was his problem. Nobody could reach him through his overpowering politeness. It took a mother’s love to chip away at the boy and all he had was an old photo of a ghost who once loved him.
He snuck out when the moon had hit its apex, left all the money he had in a small package with a letter. It read: Thanks for taking care of me. And that was it. He didn’t sign it, didn’t address it to anyone, he wrote it all in a cheap pen and stuffed it inside with twelve-hundred dollars cash.
The spot he chose was out of the way. Nobody was nearby to be disturbed. No runners would come this way to be scared. The only selfishness he allowed himself was that it was by a river, a black canvas of glittering moonlight.
“I was never meant to live,” he told himself and us. “This is fate.”
Some of us nodded with him. Others shook their heads. I stared, my neck stiff, eyes unblinking as he put the gun to his temple.
“No,” I whispered. “Don’t do it.”
Some of us, the more boisterous ones, cheered along, egging the boy to pull the trigger. They had seen a thousand lives and would see a thousand more until all of mankind vanished. A single life in a single point of time meant nothing to them. But for me, this was my first.
“No,” I said and stood from my seat. “Please.”
The screen flickered to the tremble of his finger. Soon, it would go completely black. He would fulfill his fate.
“No!” I screamed. “This isn’t how it should go!”
The boisterous ones were no longer laughing. The others around me turned away their eyes. At one point in time, they had all been me. They had thought that life mattered, that our pain had meaning. But after a thousand shows of a thousand lives, most of them only slept through the show.
I clenched my fists, the words swelling in my lungs. Then, I took the breath to give them life and I prayed, that somehow, I wasn’t just a dead man with a loud mouth.
“Don’t pull,” I yelled, tears pouring down my cheeks and snot from my nose. “Not until you have a chance. Maybe you never will, maybe this will be how it always is, maybe I’m wrong about everything, but there’s meaning in your pain! I can’t tell you if I’m right or if I’m certain.” My voice dropped low. “I can only promise.”
George closed his eyes. He hadn’t heard me, of course he wouldn’t.
I held my breath.
Then, George broke down, the gun still pressed to his head. “So cruel,” he whispered to nobody. “After all this, all I have is a promise. That’s all my fate has to offer.”
My eyes went wide. My jaw dropped. “And that’s enough,” I said, my voice too low even for myself to hear.
There, George stood, the gun rigid in his hand. And when his tears fell, so too did his gun.
ImmortalWave 